Welcome to a super productive session where we dive into the art of batching your social media content! I know how overwhelming it can be to batch content, but this guided audio session is designed to help you produce multiple posts in just 45 minutes. You'll braindump, craft captions, and design visuals, all while keeping the process efficient. Whether you’re looking to create two posts or ten, I’ll provide the prompts and check-ins to keep you motivated and on track. So grab your favorite tools, set your goals, and let’s make social media a breeze!
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Welcome to Holistic productivity with Miranda Merten, the podcast for Gen X women that blends nostalgic nineties vibes with modern strategies to help you create solid routines, align your goals, and simplify your life. Get ready to make productivity personal, practical, and oh so powerful.
Hey guys, this episode is a get productive with me session where you can co work with me through guided audio.
If these sessions help you focus and you're looking for more versions of this, I've got some other versions, including deep work sessions or administrative organizing. Or maybe you even just need to organize your email.
You can find more of these in my weekend productivity retreat kit where you can mix and match lessons that are going to help you create the ultimate productive weekend. The link is below in the show notes, or you can visit holisticproductivity Dot co retreat welcome to your social media content batching session.
In this session, we are dedicating the next 35 minutes to creating and scheduling your social media content. So for me, social media is literally the bane of my existence. Creating content. It takes me forever on the outside.
Looking in, it doesn't seem like it should take me too long, but for some reason, batching the content either takes me forever or I never get it done and I put it off. So this session will help you create multiple pieces of contents at once.
So what I found is that sitting down for dedicated sessions and blocks of time, doing very specific and strategic batching or content creation is really helpful. So this session is going to help you produce multiple pieces of content.
And before you get ready for this session, I want you to set up your space by opening any apps or tools that you're going to be using. This includes your design software like Canva or Adobe, your planning tools like Tailwind or meta business suite.
If you're using Facebook or Instagram or third party tools like plan or later, get all of those ready and opened up so that you can be as organized as possible. And I want you to think about your content themes that you want to focus on today and set a goal for how many posts you'd like to create.
If this is your first session, maybe you're just going for two or three posts to kind of get into the groove. If you've done this multiple times, maybe you are up to really cranking them out and batching them pretty well.
So you're up to five or ten posts at a time. So whatever that is, go ahead and get that number in your mind so you can have something to focus on during the session.
I will give you some guided prompts with suggestions of what we should be working on, and then I'll pop in with different time intervals with check ins to help keep you moving right along. Let's begin by brainstorming for ten minutes.
Think about what you would like to share this week, either tips or motivational quotes, behind the scenes content, promotional posts go ahead and jot down your ideas very quickly. Don't overthink it.
You can use this as a brain dump session if that helps you out, or if you kind of know what you wanted to post, go ahead and write those all down as well. You want to come up with at least five post ideas. If this is your very first time, maybe shoot for three. That would be a good number.
And you might or might not get through everything during this one session, but that's totally fine. You're going to go at your own pace, and then whatever you want to create during this time, that is completely up to you.
Miranda Merten:
Okay, coming in for a check in. How's your list coming along?
So if you are stuck, think about what questions your audience frequently asks or maybe a recent personal experience that could make a good story.
Miranda Merten:
Okay, checking in again. Now that you've got your lists of posts, we're going to start working on the captions for each post.
We'll work on this caption writing for about the next ten minutes.
Miranda Merten:
Okay, great job. Now let's switch gears and work on the visuals. This could mean that you have to find relevant photos.
Now this is going to depend on what kind of photos you usually post on social media. If you have personal photos or business photos, you should have a folder that you've been collecting, some things that you can easily pull from.
Or if you use other photos that you find on sites like unsplash or other stock photo sites, then you can definitely have those pulled out as well. Or you can use some keywords to find some relevant photos that are going to match your graphics. So we're going to design some graphics.
You can pull some video clips if you have a b roll folder as well. And when I say b roll, that just means short videos of you doing regular things in your day to day.
I want you to focus on content that aligns with the themes that you have jotted down and then again aim to create visuals for at least three to five posts.
And then when you've got all of your visuals, then keep these as templates and then your visual creation going forward will be a lot quicker as you do this for future sessions.
Miranda Merten:
Alright. Quick check in. Are you on track with your visuals? If you finished one already, keep on moving to the next.
We're just gonna keep moving and keep your design simple and consistent so that they're easy to edit and create.
Miranda Merten:
All right, we are done with the visuals section. We are going into the final eight minutes and we are scheduling our posts. So use these last eight minutes to schedule your posts for the week.
Upload your images and add your captions and hashtags. And if you don't get all of them done during this session, that's totally okay. Focus on getting at least a few posts scheduled.
And then again, this will go faster the next time you do it. So you are going to be scheduling in either meta business suite or plan or later.
Or you can actually, if you're only using one social media platform, you can schedule directly into that one. A lot of tools actually let you schedule in multiple things. You can actually schedule right from canva as well, or tailwind.
So definitely look at all of your tools and figure out the best one that you want to use or scheduling. All right, so we're going to keep the timer going and for the next eight minutes, work on your scheduling.
Miranda Merten:
Okay, this is your final check in for this session. If there are any unfinished tasks, note them down for the next session and wrap everything up. Alright? Great job.
You have just completed your 45 minutes social media content batching session, so hopefully you have three to five posts ready to go and scheduled. Maybe more if you were on a roll, maybe less if you're just jumping in and figuring everything out.
But I want you to take a moment, review all of your hard work and give yourself a pat on the back. Great job. And also go ahead and add your next batching session to your calendar and I will see you next time.
