Social Media Content Calendar Template
The social media calendar is a necessary tool to streamline your team’s content creation process. It helps you plan when and which content will be shared, manage campaigns, and track deadlines.
- Create a plan to consistently share social media content your target audience wants to see.
- Eliminate confusion across departments and streamline content creation.
- Easily analyze your past posts to track high-level KPIs related to larger marketing initiatives.
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The social media calendar is a necessary tool to streamline your team’s content creation process. It helps you plan when and which content will be shared, manage campaigns, and track deadlines.
- Create a plan to consistently share social media content your target audience wants to see.
- Eliminate confusion across departments and streamline content creation.
- Easily analyze your past posts to track high-level KPIs related to larger marketing initiatives.
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How to create a social media content calendar with Xtensio
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Follow along with the instructional social media calendar details. Add charts, graphs, images, and videos to customize the social media content calendar template and make it your own. Drag & drop. Resize. It’s the easiest editor ever.
- Customize everything in the social media calendar template to match your brand.
Define your style guide. Add your (or your client’s) brand fonts and colors. You can even pull colors directly from a website to easily brand your social media content calendar and more.
- Work on the social media calendar together on the cloud.
Add colleagues (or clients) to collaborate on the social media calendar template. Changes automatically save and sync across all devices, in real-time.
- Share a link. Present a slideshow. Embed. Download a PDF/PNG.
The social media calendar template seamlessly adapts to your workflow. No more jumping from tool-to-tool to design different types of deliverables.
- Reuse and repurpose.
Save your own content calendar templates. Or copy and reuse in other documents.
What is a social media content calendar?
An ongoing social content calendar will help streamline your digital marketing efforts across the entire organization and help build a strong brand for your company. The goal of this exercise is to create an ongoing weekly calendar to maximize your social media marketing efforts by consistently creating high-quality content.
How do I create a social media content calendar?
Whether you’re just getting started building your organization’s social media strategy or you’re refining what’s already in place, it can be an overwhelming task to come up with ideas to fill your social content calendar. But it’s a necessary task in order to help you set realistic goals for your social strategy.
Here are some steps you can take to determine the type of content that will resonate with your audience:
- Conduct a social media audit.
- Decide on topics and keywords.
- Choose a mix of content types.
- Determine how often and when to post.
- Create a social media content repository.
- Define a collaborative content creation and review process.
- Schedule and publish your social media content.
- Track and measure your success.
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The goal of this exercise is to create an ongoing weekly calendar to maximize your social media marketing efforts by consistently creating high-quality content. Content calendars are also used to plan when and which content will be shared, manage campaigns, and track deadlines.
You should include any and all information that will make your social media marketing efforts successful. This includes adding the post title, content, image or video, link, time you’ll be posting, hashtags/keywords you’ll be using and specific goals for each post.
The living social media content calendar allows you to instantly sync your entire team on your content creation and planning. The document evolves as your content creation does. You can add collaborators to work in real-time. And you can share the customizable link to keep internal and external colleagues up-to-date as the project progresses.
Yes! You can invite as many people as you’d like to collaborate on your social content calendar and more. As a platform, Xtensio helps improve the way your team works.
Choose your file format. Present it as a full-screen digital slideshow, share it as a responsive web link or export it as a PDF (customize the PDF size) or PNG.
We do! There are a number of different templates, examples and resources to guide you through organizing projects and syncing your team. Check out our Social Media Marketing toolbox and our Operations toolbox to find more tools and resources.
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