Course Curriculum

Social Media Automation

10sections
28lectures
2h 41mtotal

What you’ll learn

  • Create your own social media automation strategy (with tool set)

  • Start saving hours on social media marketing channels

  • Identify what to automate and what not to automate on social media

01

Welcome to social media automation course

2 lectures • 7min

  • Introduction to social media automation

    Schedule content weeks in advance and publish blogs across channels, even remotely. Explore tools through demos, learn what to automate, and apply a content curation automation template.

    4:15

  • Before your get started

    Prepare for social media automation by understanding Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and mastering posting, tweeting, retweeting, liking, and sharing. Use scheduling tools like Sprout Social and Post Planner; complete homework.

    2:34
02

Why social media automation

2 lectures • 8min

  • Key benefits of social media automation

    Learn how social media automation uses software to optimize, automate, and measure posting, messaging, and content curation. Save time, increase effectiveness, post consistently at optimal times, and reduce mistakes.

    4:00

  • DO's and Don'ts of social media automation

    Learn the do's and don'ts of social media automation, including scheduling, repurposing content, maintaining a human voice, avoiding engagement automation during sensitive times, and testing tools for optimization.

    3:55
03

Social media automation examples

1 lecture • 4min

  • Good and bad examples of automation

    Explore good and bad social media automation examples, from generic brand replies to thoughtful follower thanks, and learn to test tools, avoid automated engagement, and post at different times.

    4:24

  • When to do social media automation

    Activity
04

Creating social media automation strategy

2 lectures • 6min

  • Lets create a social media automation strategy

    Design your own social media automation strategy by answering four questions about channels, activities, automation choices, and tools, using a practical template and live tool demos.

    5:19

  • Strategy Template - Social media automation

    1:00
05

Automation tools: For scheduling & sharing content

6 lectures • 1hr

  • How to use Buffer for advanced scheduling - Part1

    Learn how Buffer enables advanced scheduling across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Plus, and Pinterest, with browser extensions and bulk scheduling for automated posting.

    11:16

  • How to use Buffer for advanced scheduling - Part2

    Upload your messages with bulkbuffer, connect your buffer accounts, and schedule posts across Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook, and LinkedIn for weeks or a month in advance, within your plan limits.

    3:58

  • How to auto schedule and automate content using Hootsuite

    Explore how to auto schedule and bulk upload posts across Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn, and Instagram with Hootsuite, and use RSS feeds for automated publishing.

    13:02

  • Use this tool to auto schedule & automate content even in your sleep

    Explore the social tool for auto scheduling and bulk uploads across Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, including evergreen content queues, recurring posts, and auto follow or DMs.

    12:31

  • Use this tool to find viral content and automate posting

    Discover viral content with Post Planner, schedule posts for Twitter and Facebook, and leverage data-driven content suggestions to boost engagement, use a queue and bulk upload.

    12:12

  • Use this tool to automate Wordpress blog scheduling on social media

    Automate WordPress blog sharing across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tumblr with the revive old post plugin. Set post timing, frequency, and exclusions to keep evergreen posts circulating on social channels.

    6:40
06

Automation tools: Connect social media channels

3 lectures • 16min

  • Use this tool to connect social media apps and automate sharing

    Learn how IFTTT connects social media apps and web services through triggers and actions to automate sharing, using recipes that sync Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

    8:33

  • Another tool to connect social media apps for automation

    Explore and create zaps to automate social media tasks by connecting apps like Twitter, Gmail, and Facebook, using triggers and actions to post, respond, and streamline your social media workflow.

    6:40

  • Homework - create your automation recipe

    1:00
07

Automation tools: For Twitter growth

4 lectures • 23min

  • Use this tool to schedule Tweets months in advance

    Explore how to automate Twitter posting with tweet jukebox, scheduling and queuing tweets, using reusable jukebox templates and community libraries to maintain a steady content cadence.

    7:15

  • Use this tool to auto post RSS feeds on Twitter with Images

    Automate posting rss feeds to Twitter with images, turning feeds into visually engaging tweets. Create feeds, set scheduling, apply keywords and filters, and grow followers through content curation.

    7:52

  • Use this tool for auto follow and unfollow (semi automation)

    Use a Twitter tool for auto follow and unfollow to discover influencer accounts and manage followers with data filters and geolocation searches on a dashboard.

    4:17

  • Use this tool to automate Twitter direct messaging

    Learn how the CrowdFire app automates Twitter direct messages, grows your audience with keyword and hashtag searches, copies followers, and uses whitelist and blacklist controls.

    4:01
08

Automation tools: RSS feed sharing to social media channels

2 lectures • 14min

  • Use this tool to automatically share RSS feeds on social media channels

    Automate your social media publishing by using a Twitter feed tool to auto publish RSS feeds to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, with real-time stats and keyword filters.

    6:50

  • Another tool to automatically share RSS feeds on social media channels

    Discover how deliver it automates RSS feed publishing to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn, with easy source and destination setup, scheduling, and basic filters; compare with Twitter feed.

    6:59
09

Automation tools: Content curation made simple

3 lectures • 17min

  • Use this tool to automate your content curation from reliable sources

    Automate your content curation with Feedly, creating collections from diverse sources and sharing to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Buffer, while organizing influencers and news sources and enabling IFTTT integrations.

    7:54

  • Use this tool for content curation and online news paper publishing

    Automate content discovery and curate it into an online newspaper, then publish and promote it across social media channels using diverse sources, rss feeds, and scheduling.

    7:54

  • Homework - redo your social media automation strategy and add tools

    1:00
10

Conclusion & the BONUS

3 lectures • 6min

  • Thank you and the next steps

    This course explains why social media automation matters and how to build an effective strategy, with tool demos for scheduling, Twitter automation, RSS feeds, and content curation.

    2:42

  • All resources and links from this course

    1:00

  • BONUS - Crazy specials on Ali's TOP courses

    2:04