How To Schedule A LinkedIn Post

-Clarissa Burrows

Using LinkedIn as one of your business social networks is a great idea if you’re in a knowledge sharing industry. LinkedIn has always been considered a corporate adjacent platform, on which you need to be very professional, this is, however, changing.

Due to the influx of users migrating from Twitter to LinkedIn, the style of content appropriate for use on LinkedIn has changed somewhat. Now, more casual content is perfectly acceptable to post on LinkedIn. But enough about that, how do you ensure you’re posting regularly enough on LinkedIn?

Our rule of thumb is three times a week on all your platforms and the same is true with LinkedIn, though it’s more apt to say that you should only post when you have something to say.

Posting regularly can be time consuming though. A good way to organise this is to compile all your LinkedIn content for the month all at once and then schedule it on the platform so that it’s done and you’re certain that posts are going out regularly.

You can schedule posts on LinkedIn! This is how.

Step 1.

Navigate to your business page on LinkedIn, if you have more than one page linked to your account, you’ll find it here:

Step 2.

Select the business page you’re looking for and you’ll end up on that business’s home page ready to post what you have prepared. Click right here to start your post.

Step 3.

This textbox is where you pop the post you’ve prepared. Don’t forget to link to your business’ website and use relevant hashtags.

The arrow on the left shows where you can add an image, video, document, etc. The arrow on the right is where things get good. Click it!

Step 4.

Here we get to where you can schedule your posts. You’ll see you can select the date you’d like the post to go out, and the time.

Step 5.

Here’s your choice of dates

Step 6.

Here’s your choice of times.

Step 7.

Now that you’ve selected your time and date, the arrow at the top is where you’ll see what date and time your post is scheduled for and the one at the bottom is where you click to lock it in!

Now your post is scheduled!

But how do you check what posts have been scheduled?

Step 1.

A little notification will pop up at the bottom of your screen where you can view your scheduled posts. OR, if that’s no longer there, or it’s the next day and you’ve forgotten…

Step 2.

Click on where it says “Start a Post” and click on the little clock.

Step 3.

Click on “View Scheduled Posts”.

Step 4.

All your scheduled posts will pop up! Ta da! Done!

Now you’ve scheduled your posts, you will save time and energy every day and you’ll rest easy knowing your posts definitely went out. Also, just so you know, scheduled posts can’t be edited, they can only be rescheduled or deleted which is a little annoying. But stopping to focus on the task at hand will help you avoid silly mistakes.

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Anyway! Now you know how to schedule a post on LinkedIn!