{"id":6273,"date":"2021-06-27T06:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colourpopstudio.com.au\/?p=6273"},"modified":"2021-06-15T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T07:14:19","slug":"best-tools-for-planning-instagram-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colourpopstudio.com.au\/2021\/06\/27\/best-tools-for-planning-instagram-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Tools for Planning Instagram Content"},"content":{"rendered":"
Have you ever heard the saying “if you fail to plan,\u00a0 you plan to fail?” Showing up, planning content and being consistent on Instagram takes a LOT of effort.<\/p>\n
Not to mention, Stories, Reels, IGTV, Lives, Guides and the never-ending task of actually ENGAGING with other accounts! – phew, it’s a full-time job in itself sometimes!<\/p>\n
I thought I’d share some of my favourite tools and tricks for staying consistent and organized on the Gram! Ready?<\/p>\n
Let’s go!<\/p>\n
You can’t start anywhere unless you have ideas of what you’re going to share.<\/p>\n
I often spend time on the gram, saving posts that inspire me, get me to comment, or that I feel drawn to.<\/p>\n
I keep a notes folder on my phone of a bunch of things such as:<\/p>\n
On days where I’m totally stuck for content, I’ll go and look at my saved “content ideas” folder on Instagram and feel all sorts of inspired.<\/p>\n
Let me add here that, it’s it TOTALLY okay to be inspired by others on Instagram.<\/p>\n
It is NOT OKAY to blatantly copy and steal other peoples content and ideas.<\/p>\n
Find what you like, add your own spin, make it uniquely yours and you are good to go.<\/p>\n
I LOVE Trello!<\/a> I use it daily to organize all my thoughts and ideas.<\/p>\n I created a board called “content marketing” and on that board, I have a bunch of lists for planning content, including:<\/p>\n On each of these lists, I create a card for each idea I have eg:<\/p>\n Instagram Posts > what to do when creating content is difficult \/ 5 way to repurpose your product photography etc<\/p>\n Within those cards, I’ll write down caption ideas, call to actions and create a to-do list such as<\/p>\n My favourite feature in Trello is the Calendar Power-Up.<\/p>\n I can drag and drop all of my posts onto the calendar and easily plan out my next week or month of content.<\/p>\n If you aren’t using Canva yet, stop reading, create an account and GET ONBOARD!<\/a><\/p>\n It is every small business owners BEST FRIEND when it comes to creating graphics.<\/p>\n I use Canva to create graphics for:<\/p>\n It saves me SO MUCH TIME! I honestly couldn’t live without it!<\/p>\n Now that I’ve spent time planning content, and I know WHAT I want to post, it’s time to put it all together.<\/p>\n Once I’ve sourced my image, drafted a caption, call to action and jotted out which posts are going to be shared on what days I head over to Preview App.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n I love both their desktop and mobile versions.<\/p>\n My basic workflow goes like this:<\/p>\n Some other features of Preview that I LOVE include:<\/p>\n I like to set it to give me a reminder to post my post because I prefer to engage a bit on Instagram BEFORE I post, and then some more AFTER.<\/p>\n I find it I auto-schedule it, I set and forget which means I post and ghost – and that is a big no no.<\/p>\n I hope this post gives you some insight into how I plan my content and stick to posting regularly on Instagram.<\/p>\n\n
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[3] CREATING GRAPHICS \/\/ Canva<\/h2>\n
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[4] PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER \/\/ Preview App<\/h2>\n
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