Schedule Social Media Posts While You Sleep: Canva Pro Scheduler Tutorial

About this video

RJ gives a step-by-step tutorial on scheduling social media posts with Canva’s Content Planner (a Canva Pro feature). From Apps > Content Planner, he shows a calendar that flags upcoming occasions — his example date is July 27, with International Day of Friendship coming up — and offers template inspiration for posts around them. He explains you must connect your channels first (Instagram business, Facebook page or group, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Slack, Tumblr) via Select Channel. For his demo post promoting a YouTube video, he uses ChatGPT to draft the caption and hashtags from the video title, pastes in the video link, picks the channel, sets a date and time in his time zone (e.g. 12 p.m.), and hits Save and Schedule. He also shows the second route: create a design, go to Share > schedule to social media, pick date/time and channel. Key limitation he flags: at the time of recording you cannot schedule to multiple platforms at once — each platform must be done separately. He also demos Canva’s resize feature to turn a 1280x720 YouTube thumbnail into a Pinterest pin or other formats, and his bonus tip is to work a month ahead, filling the calendar at whatever posting cadence fits your goals, and to delete, copy, or reschedule planned posts as needed.

Key takeaways

• Canva’s Content Planner (under Apps) shows a calendar with upcoming holidays/occasions and template ideas you can build posts around.
• You must connect each social channel first; supported options he lists include Instagram, Facebook pages/groups, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Slack, and Tumblr.
• He uses ChatGPT to write the post caption and hashtags from a video title, then pastes in the link before scheduling inside Canva.
• Limitation he states: you cannot schedule one post to multiple platforms at once — each platform has to be scheduled separately.
• His workflow advice is to get a month ahead on content, and to use Canva’s copy-and-resize to repurpose one design (e.g. a YouTube thumbnail) into Pinterest, Instagram, or Facebook formats.

Episode details: published August 3, 2023 · 13:21 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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