What the Heck Can I Accomplish With CoSchedule?

CoSchedule Overview

What is This Guide? This guide is your first step to getting started with CoSchedule. Who’s This Guide For? This guide is specifically designed to help bloggers, solopreneurs and small businesses who are new to CoSchedule. Why Should You Read This guide? This guide will give you a high level understanding of what CoSchedule is and what it can help you accomplish. What is CoSchedule?  CoSchedule is editorial calendar software for bloggers, solopreneurs, and startups looking to organize their blog and social media in one place. Why Do You Need CoSchedule?  Being proactive, publishing regularly, and growing your audience is hard work. CoSchedule makes it easier to publish blog posts consistently, schedule social media posts, and drive traffic to your site – all in one tool.

What You Can Accomplish With CoSchedule

1. Schedule Your Social Messages

Social media typically involves crazy workarounds, multiple tools, copy/pasting, and logging in and out of all your social media accounts. Yuck. It’s easy to keep your social channels active by scheduling all your social messages with CoSchedule. From blog promo to content curation and everything in between, simply add a social message to your CoSchedule calendar, and we’ll push it live when it’s time.

Social Messages in CoSchedule: A Real-Life Example

Here’s what your future CoSchedule calendar could look like when you’ve scheduled some social messages… Some ideas of social messages you can add to your calendar include:

• Content curation messages - Share content from external sources to raise engagement.
• Timely news messages - See a relevant topic for your business trending on Twitter? Add a few social messages about it to your CoSchedule calendar.
• General business promo messages - Drive traffic to your website by creating some posts that promote your business.
• Blog promo messages - Build your audience by sharing your content with regular social media posts to promote your content.

2. Manage your WordPress Blog

WordPress is great… except it’s impossible to see a schedule of what you want to post and when. That makes publishing blog posts a tedious and way more manual process than it should be. Organize all of your WordPress posts on a unified editorial calendar with CoSchedule. If it’s your dream to publish content more regularly, your editorial calendar makes it easy to write, publish, and promote all your WordPress posts in CoSchedule. You can also save time by scheduling social messages as you write blog posts right in WordPress. CoSchedule is a standalone, approved app that syncs with WordPress and won’t slow your install down or wreak havoc on your other plugins.

WordPress Blog Management in CoSchedule: A Real-Life Example

Here’s what your future CoSchedule calendar could look like when you manage your blog with CoSchedule… Your blog post living side-by-side next to all the relevant social messages that help promote it.

3. Plan Your Content

Planning content is hard work. In the past, you’d schedule your blog post and social media separately, but when things inevitably need to change… it's impossible to reschedule everything without wasting a half-day on hundreds of clicks to make it right. But it can be a lot easier and less time consuming with CoSchedule. CoSchedule’s drag-and-drop calendar makes rescheduling easy. Simply drag and drop a blog post, and all of your related social messages will automatically adjust without tedious, manual rescheduling.

Content Planning in CoSchedule: A Real-Life Example

Here’s what your future CoSchedule calendar could look like when you plan your content in CoSchedule…   You’ll see all your upcoming blog posts so that you can publish more and hold yourself accountable for reaching your goals.

4. Automate Social Sharing with ReQueue

Sharing enough content on social media is hard… and not sharing enough means missed opportunities to increase your traffic… until you implement ReQueue. Create a social message, add it to ReQueue, and CoSchedule will automatically publish the message at the best times so you can increase traffic to your blog with no extra effort on your part. The best part? ReQueue takes into account your entire social schedule, so you’ll never post duplicate content or push too many messages out at once.

Power Up with ReQueue

To enable ReQueue, select your name in the hamburger menu and click on Calendar Settings. Select Power Ups in the left-hand menu, and then click on Enable ReQueue.

ReQueue Automation in CoSchedule: A Real-Life Example

Once you enable ReQueue, here’s what your CoSchedule Calendar could look like. You’ll see green social messages appear, which means ReQueue is hard at work promoting your content and growing your traffic.

5. Templatize your Social Campaigns

CoSchedule is the only social media tool that has customizable social sharing templates. You know how every time you write a blog post, you have to re-create a social sharing schedule to promote it? Doesn’t that feel really repetitive and time-consuming? With Social Templates in CoSchedule, you create your perfect social sharing schedule and apply it to every blog post so that you’ll never have to think about what channels to share your blog post on again. Added bonus… you’ll also maximize the traffic to your posts since you’ll consistently be sharing your blog posts on social media multiple times.

Social Templates in CoSchedule: A Real-Life Example

Here’s what applying a social template to your campaign in CoSchedule could look like.

What’s Next?

Ready to take a deeper dive into getting started with CoSchedule? Check out the next chapter. It will walk you through 5 must-do steps to help you discover the light-bulb moment in CoSchedule.