9 Social Media Templates to Save You Hours of Work
Here are nine social media templates to save you a ton of time and effort. There’s one for every stage of your journey—from planning and creating content, to publishing posts and measuring results.
Here are nine social media templates to save you a ton of time and effort. There’s one for every stage of your journey—from planning and creating content, to publishing posts and measuring results.
These social media templates cover every stage of the social marketing journey. From planning and creating content, to publishing posts and measuring results.
Fill them, customize them, and save yourself a ton of time. It’s that simple.
You’ll see results, too.
Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to improve your current social marketing strategy, you need this essential resource.
The template makes it easy to:
Bonus: Get a free social media strategy template to quickly and easily plan your own strategy. Also use it to track results and present the plan to your boss, teammates, and clients.
This template will show what is and isn’t working on social media—and what to do next. It’s also handy for identifying impostor accounts, out-of-date profiles, and new opportunities to engage your audience.
Gathering these insights will help you get the most out of your social marketing budget and resources.
Bonus: Our guide to conducting a social media audit will walk you through each step of the process.
This is one of the most important tools to include in your social media toolkit.
A social media content calendar lets you plan and schedule all your social content in advance for maximum impact.
It will also help you:
If you need help customizing the template, or you’re looking for more content calendar examples, check out our guide to creating your own social media content calendar.
Another type of calendar favored by social media pros is the editorial content calendar.
It compiles all your content projects into one document to help you plan and schedule each release.
The easiest way to organize a content calendar is by using a separate tab for each month within Google Sheets or an Excel spreadsheet. Activities can be broken down by day or hour, depending on the volume and cadence of your publishing schedule.
Your editorial calendar should include basic information about each of these projects:
Recording and analyzing social media performance is key to proving the value of your efforts.
Bonus: Get a free social media strategy template to quickly and easily plan your own strategy. Also use it to track results and present the plan to your boss, teammates, and clients.
Get the template now!But where to begin?
We’ve created a template with tabs to keep track of key metrics for different social networks, including…
But every strategy is different, so feel free to replace the example metrics with the ones that matter to your brand.
If you’re new to performance tracking, be sure to read our beginner’s guide to using social media analytics. The article includes a list of analytics tools that make reporting even easier.
The social media report template is for presenting results to your boss, clients, teammates, or any other stakeholder.
Yes, it will include hard data captured in the analytics report template. But, it also includes space for context and analysis. Both are important to include when presenting to people who aren’t as close to social media as you are.
Use this template to make recommendations, share lessons learned, and make recommendations for future tactics.
Read our step-by-step guide on how to report your social media results for maximum impact.
Okay, calling this a template might be a bit of a stretch, but it will save you time on social.
The quick-reference cheat sheet has all the recommended image dimensions for every network. Profiles photos, header images, ads—everything.
You need to get these right. Compelling images help you grab people’s attention and make a good first impression.
Your bio plays a big role when it comes to compelling people to follow and engage with your brand on social media.
A bio on any network should address five key pieces of information:
To make sure you cover your bases, we’ve created easy-to-use templates from bios of top brands on social media so you can create your own in no time.
Simply fill in the blanks and copy and paste the final product into your profile.
Bonus: read our guide to writing the perfect social media bio for every network.
Publishing or scheduling social media posts across multiple networks one-by-one can be a big drain on your most precious resource: time.
But if you use Hootsuite’s social media management tool you can upload up to 350 social media messages at once across multiple networks.
Check out this short how-to video, or read on for the step-by-step instructions and get the template.
Here are the instructions in text format…
Create a .CSV file of all the social messages you’d like to upload, placed in a specific format:
Unfortunately Excel often causes formatting issues, so we don’t recommend using it to build your spreadsheet. We prefer using Google Sheets for creating CSV files. You can also use TextEdit (1.7+) or TextWrangler.
Note: If you decide to use Excel, you’ll need to tell Excel that that data in column is text and not to be changed or it will try to convert your dates into a different display that will fail your upload.
Want to get even more out of your social strategy? Here are four more essential resources:
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