5 Free Tools for DIY Social Media
5 Free Tools for DIY Social Media
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed with handling your own social media, here are a few tools that can make your task much easier and save you time!
1. Canva
Canva is your answer to HOW to design your social media posts. This free service provides templates, graphic elements, and a design-builder to assist in the creation of your posts. This online tool will save your designs on your account and allow you to download them anytime, anywhere.
The design-builder allows you to choose from many pre-made posts or create your own from scratch. You can then adjust all the elements of the post including text, background, filters, etc.
2. Pexels
Pexels is an incredible free resource for finding stock photos. This online resource allows you to search their database of photos – based on keywords – and download the photos at your choice of sizes. This tool can easily be paired with Canva in creating your social media posts.
3. Buffer
4. Bitly Link Shortener
Bitly Link Shortener is a tool that allows you to trim down the length of the URLs you want to include in your social media posts. This tool is similar to other URL shorteners, but give you the added feature of tracking the effectiveness of your post by seeing how many times your shortened URL was used.
5. IFTTT
IFTTT is an incredible tool for automating many of your services, including your social media. IFTTT stands for If This Than That. This service allows you to set triggers between your services in order to take the work out of many tasks. For example, you can set a task in IFTTT (or applet as they call it) to automatically post to your social media everytime you publish a new blog post on your website. There are infinite uses for IFTTT with new services being added all the time.
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NEWLEAF TAKEAWAYS (TLDR):
- Canva is your answer to HOW to design your social media posts.
- Pexels is an incredible free resource for finding stock photos.
- Buffer is a tool for scheduling your posts to drop when you want or when they will receive the best engagement.
- Bitly URL Shortener is a tool that allows you to trim down the length of the URLs you want to include in your social media posts.
- IFTTT is an incredible tool for automating many of your services.
NEWLEAF TAKEAWAYS (TLDR):
- Canva is your answer to HOW to design your social media posts.
- Pexels is an incredible free resource for finding stock photos.
- Buffer is a tool for scheduling your posts to drop when you want or when they will receive the best engagement.
- Bitly URL Shortener is a tool that allows you to trim down the length of the URLs you want to include in your social media posts.
- IFTTT is an incredible tool for automating many of your services.
