Scheduled Campaigns

Introduction

The third type of campaign that you can use in SM Tasker is the Scheduled Campaign. Scheduled Campaigns are a great way to automate your social media marketing in a way that they allow you to schedule posts in advance, including special occasion posts, with customized scheduling options for each post. This feature is perfect for publishing future posts and allows you to select how often they will be repeated.

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When to use a Scheduled Campaign?

If you have posts that are meant for recurrent events, or you have items to be published for dedicated dates, then the scheduled campaign is your perfect match!

With this type of campaign, you can set different timers for each post and you can select how often they will be repeated—could be daily, every X days, X weeks, or X months.

📌 On a Scheduled Campaign, you will need to set a timer for each post hence it does not have a “When to Publish” tab, unlike a Standard and Volume Campaign. All other tabs for the campaign are similar to that of the Standard Campaign:

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• Campaign Overview
• What to Publish
• Where to Publish
• Drafts
• Posts List
• History

📌 One of the most important options in the “When to Publish” tab is ‘wait around xx seconds before publishing the same post list item on a new destination’ and since this campaign does not have that tab, that option can be found instead on the “Overview” tab.
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How to create a post in Scheduled Campaign – Quick Guide

1. Go to the “What to Publish” tab and you’ll see three sub-tabs: Add Posts, Clickable Image Posts, and Share Posts.
2. Select the method you want for creating your post.  For this guide, we will just choose to manually create our post via the “Add Posts” tab.
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3. Simply add your post text in the provided message box, and add an image or video by clicking the camera or video icon below the message box.
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4. Click the ‘Add Timer’ action link and set it when you want the post to get published.
5. Once your post is all set, click the ‘Add to Posts List’ button
6. Pick the destination/s of the campaign via the “Where To Publish” tab
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7. Finally, go back to the “Overview” tab and start the campaign.
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Adding a timer to your post

1. Click on ‘Add Timer’ to schedule the post
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   Once clicked, a small window will pop up and you will be able to set it to either:
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2. Select the days when you want the same post to get published again.
3. This will let you repeat the publishing of the same post every X days
4. Use this option when you want to publish the same post every X weeks and the campaign will post it on the same day of the week every time.
5. You can set it to repeat every X months and the post will get published on the same day of the month every time.
6. There’s also an action button to ‘Publish Now’ if you want the item to be published immediately instead—the time and date that will show is the current time and date as of adding the post.

💡 More information about post timers:

• From the Edit Posting Timer window,  you will also notice the Start date.  From there, can choose to specify when you want that scheduled post to start publishing.

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• You can add multiple timers to each post, that way, you can set it to repeat every X months and every X weeks for example.
• After setting up the What To Publish tab with the corresponding timers, you can go ahead and click ‘Add to Post List’, this will send your post to the “Posts List”’ tab for publishing. From there, you can edit your posts, add/edit/remove timers, Publish Now, or Send to Drafts if you are not ready to Publish your posts yet.

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• There is also a Calendar View on the Post List tab wherein you can click on the calendar items and also edit the post and its timers.

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Conclusion

The Scheduled Campaign allows users to easily schedule posts in advance and set recurring intervals, making it a convenient tool for managing regular reminders or special occasion posts. With the ability to set multiple timers for each post and the calendar view on the Post List tab, users can easily manage and edit their planned posts.