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Still doing all things manually in your business? You're probably spending hours you don't need to on the most simple of tasks.

Automations can help you...

Save time
Get organized
Create processes
Make outsourcing or delegating a breeze

In the world of AI, it would be a crime not to use it to help us save time, in all the right ways, of course! Because who doesn't want to catch lunch with a friend or take a mid-day pilates class instead of overthinking an email for an hour? You're a freelancer, you should feel FREE. And that all starts with how you're using your time and leveraging your tools to help you.

Let's talk about three things you should automate right now as a social media manager.

3 Things Every Social Media Manager Should Automate This Month

Client Approvals

Stop chasing clients down for feedback. Instead of sending PDFs or screenshots via email, use tools that let clients review, comment, and approve content in one place, like a project management tool. Project management tools that you can set up content calendars with and have clients approve content — use statuses in Notion, ClickUp, or Asana. When you assign it over to them, they will get a notification, too, which takes out another part of the process for you.

Weekly/Monthly Reports

Stop building them from scratch! Use templates, and bonus points if it's pulling from the tool you're using. If you're using a scheduler like Metricool, they do a performance report that you can use. Or, you could pull together a Google Data Studio that pulls data directly from a Google sheet, but automate weekly reports or monthly reports. You can also use a tool like ChatGPT to analyze the data for you. It's a great way to leverage it to analyze data, just to find patterns and pull out key things for you.

Social Media Analytics Template

From audience behavior to engagement trends, analytics help us track key KPIs and measure the success of our content strategy. Not only that, but reporting analytics can be key to proving your ROI to clients, keeping them updated, and making them stick.
This editable Canva template includes eight pages:
Report Welcome Page
Social Wins Page
Social Media Snapshot Page
Platform Pages
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Task Reminders

Automate recurring tasks in your project management system or on your calendar. Whether it's posting reminders, client check-ins, review days, to creating a system to help you stay on track, it's going to save you so much time in the long run. You can create canned responses and templates to get back time in your day as a social media manager. Let's face it, we all need a little bit of time back in our days; there are just not enough hours.

Which of these are you starting with?