Services that automate the work of an SMM manager allow you to take more projects to work or scale existing ones. That is, earn more in the same time. Either they free the window in order to spend an extra hour with the family or to take care of personal affairs – for whom what is relevant.
A recent study by SMMplanner found that one of the most indispensable SMM tools is delayed posting services. This was the answer of 49.5% of the respondents.
In the article, we figured out why this is so.
Required in vacancies
Employers – business owners, various companies and agencies – often indicate in the requirements for a candidate the mandatory ability to use SMMplanner.
No wonder – usually a job is offered on a rate, and the employer wants to be sure that the contractor makes the most of the working time.
An SMM person can have many different things to do:
- study the audience, based on this and the goals of the company – to draw up a content plan;
- set up and launch an advertising campaign;
- analyze the effectiveness of an advertising campaign;
- design creative publications;
- lead the community: answer questions, ask your own, communicate and ban inadequate;
- increase the target audience in all possible ways.
Most often, the company is present in several social networks – then all work is multiplied by two, by three. What if there is more than one project and you need to plan and publish content everywhere?
Publishing content on several social networks every day takes a considerable part of the time, which is better spent on generating post ideas, looking for new audiences, analytics or community management. This is how an employer who understands the specifics of SMM argues – well, what is he wrong about?
Let’s see how SMMplanner specifically helps business promotion specialists in social networks.
Saves time
Time is the most important resource that is always in short supply. Content creation requires focus and effort every day, not just for inspiration or at 11:00 pm when other worries are behind us.
A content plan will help you organize your work and avoid multitasking. It will give you the assurance that you don’t have to desperately scan through general inspirational quotes anytime soon in the hope of grabbing an idea for publication.
SMMplanner suggests using the “Post Idea Generator” – a tool that will help you come up with content topics a month in advance. The list of ideas is constantly updated by the SMMplanner team – now there are seven headings and about 80 cards with examples and instructions.
After the content plan is thought out, and the posts are written with a margin, it is easy to schedule publications in the SMMplanner service. The publication output can be configured in the service’s calendar by months, days of the week, and the posting time can be set up to a minute.
Starting with the “Initial” plan, which is activated after registration, unlimited planning is available – for a year in advance, if necessary.
Planning will become available after a simple registration and connection of one or more accounts. Read more in the article “Auto-posting in social networks: services, settings, features”.
Starting with the “Professional” tariff, you can connect your Instagram account with automatic acceptance of subscription requests. So the SMM will not have to constantly be distracted in order to quickly respond to a request, and new users will definitely like this efficiency.
Scheduled posting is only a small part of SMMplanner’s capabilities. To create content, you need different tools, for example, a photo editor, a spell checker or a Story builder for Instagram.
These and other tools are in SMMplanner. With it, you don’t have to keep a bunch of open tabs for the sake of one post, which adds comfort to the work of an SMM-boxer.
Facilitates work
SMMplanner has many tools that will help a specialist work without leaving the service.
Simultaneous work with different social networks… In the service, you can connect Facebook, Viber, Telegram, VKontakte, Twitter, Odnoklassniki and Instagram accounts.
Instagram is not very loyal to third-party services, but it can be connected through the official API, which makes it safe to work on the social network. Or through the extended API SMMplanner – this is also safe if you follow the recommendations of the service.
I connected two accounts via the SMMplanner API, personal and work, due to the fact that there are more opportunities than in the native Insta editor. I did not find any problems.
Projects creation… If you are working on several projects for different companies, it is better to combine accounts into groups. For each group, you can set your own settings:
- schedule of publications in the calendar;
- adjusting the aspect ratio for posts in the feed, Stories or IGTV;
- content protection watermarks that can be created without leaving the service;
- templates for publications – hashtags, comments, signatures;
- UTM tags, thanks to which you can understand which post provoked the most hits or transitions to the site;
- link shortener in two versions – Bitly service or SMMplanner link shortener.
Creation of teams with members… Any project can be transferred to the work of invited assistants by email, defining their roles in the team – Observer, Manager or Editor. An observer can be, for example, an employer, if you want to view scheduled posts for approval. The Editor can only work with posts, while the Manager has full access to project management.
In the “Projects” column, you need to select the command mode for the desired set of communities, then the team members will see it in their list.
Posting conditions depend on the tariff of the team owner. There is no need for invited participants to choose and pay for the tariff.
Printer… The built-in tool will automatically place the correct herringbone quotes, indicate errors and worry about the paragraphing, which is important. For example, if you insert a large formatted text on Instagram, the social network can act barbarously with it. As a result, the lines crawl, there are torn indents all around, in general – chaos. The typographer will not allow this, everything will be beautiful.
Plus will warn you about the allowed number of characters and hashtags for each social network.
Canva… In the new post planning window, you can create an image for any of the social networks. There are thousands of Canva templates to help you do just that.
Video editor… In a video file, you can:
- set the beginning, end of the video and cut off excess;
- add a cover;
- adjust the scale for horizontal or vertical playback;
- choose stickers from the proposed ones or add your own;
- see what happened.
These are not all of the posting features in SMMplanner. Here you can add a poll on Instagram, publish posts only for VKontakte donors – paid subscribers – and set the period when the post will be available to everyone, publish the first comment, and much more.
Let me focus on the most interesting.
Offers unique opportunities
Parser of the VKontakte and Instagram audience… In the “Promo Pages” section, the Pepper.Ninja audience parser is available – it’s free for users of the “Beginner” plan and above. The service will find its target audience in the Instagram and VKontakte communities, ignoring bots and focusing only on active members.
If an Instagram user has a VKontakte account, Pepper.Ninja will pull out information that cannot be found on Insta. These are interests, place of residence, age, gender, birthday and dozens of other characteristics. It will also find similar communities in which subscribers intersect.
As a result, a clear base of the target audience is collected with phone numbers and usernames. In fact, in five clicks, you can upload a ready-made filtered audience to an advertising office.
Service for automatic creation of reports DataFan. The creation of a report on the work in the social network takes exactly as long as it takes to enter the service. You can easily send data to your employer every hour if needed.
Of course, after the data sources are connected: Facebook, Instagram, Odnoklassniki, VKontakte, VK business, Facebook Business Manager or MyTarget. After that, DataFan automatically updates the data, once a day or every hour – depending on the selected tariff.
The service will show:
- account statistics – gender, age, countries, cities of subscribers;
- statistics of posts and stories – the number of posts, likes, comments, bookmarks, views;
- engagement index – ER reach and ER view.
Visualization of reports is available using integration with Google Data Studio or its own set of service templates. If none of the many standard templates meets all business requirements, it is possible to order an individual template from DataFan specialists, taking into account all your wishes.
The service is easy to understand thanks to the intuitive interface, pop-up video tutorials and quick tech. support.
There is still a lot of good stuff in SMMplanner – for example, a blog, where you can find almost any information about the work of an SMM specialist, or SMP Friends in Discord, where you can talk every day with the service team and the same users – practicing SMM specialists.
Just in case, I’ll leave a link – “SMMplanner rates have become easier.”