Welcome to episode 307 of "Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris.
All right guys, 307, and we are doing another tool review. I love social media tools, I think they're super fun to play with but here's the deal. There are a ton of them, a ton of them, we've reviewed a bunch of them before. I talked about this last week. The one that's going to work is the one you use. For some of you that might be CoSchedule, and CoSchedule's what we're going to talk about today. I'm going to show you the three things you need to know about CoSchedule and I really want you to pay attention. If you are somebody who uses Wordpress.org, as in it's self-hosted, because on .com you can't have plug-ins. If you use Wordpress.org and you need help managing not just your social content but helping with your overall content strategy, and scheduling, and editorial calendar and stuff like that, this is going to be worth listening to because I'm going to break down why this might be the tool for you.
Again ... 100% again, there is not one tool to rule them all, that's uniform for everybody. There is however maybe one tool to rule them all for you, and this might be it. Again ... Again, again, again, it's about the tool you will use. Check out CoSchedule if you listen to this and you think, "Hmm, that sounds really fantastical," then great, check it out. However, if you listen to this and you're like, "I'm happy with the tool I've got, it seems like everything ..." Then stay with the tool you've got. This is not me saying everybody needs to use CoSchedule. Full disclosure, I don't use CoSchedule. I used it for the purposes of telling you guys about it today but I'm going back to my tool, eClincher, because that's the tool that rules them all for me.
Again, everybody's different and there's no wrong choice here, just do something. Cool? All right, now I will get off my soapbox on that one, put it away for now, and let's dive in to the three things you must know about CoSchedule.
Number one, CoSchedule, not just a social media management tool.
That's right. What's cool about CoSchedule is it really does a great job of bringing together ... I'm actually pulling up the website in front of me so that I can tell you guys some specific features that I really loved. It actually does a really good job of bringing your content marketing plan into one place. What's cool is it will actually live inside of your Wordpress site. When you pull up a post you can see your scheduling stuff. You can pull up your CoSchedule calendar so you can schedule from there.
What I really loved about this tool is, again, if you're looking for a one stop shop kind of vibe and you want to be able to jump in, get it done, rock out your content, rock out some social and be out of there, this very well might be the tool for you because this makes that super, super simple. What you'll see once you install the plug-in is on each of your posts down at the bottom you'll actually see your calendar. You can connect your social profiles there and then you can set up your shares to go to the different places. It really allows you to do it right inside of your actual site. You don't have to take your link and go to another site, figure it out there, and so on and so forth, keeping jumping through the tasks.
What's cool is there's two levels, there's a team level and a solo level. If you've got a marketing team in place, maybe you've got a VA that helps you with your
