How to Schedule Carousel posts and Stories to Auto-Publish on Instagram
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If you are a social media manager or a business owner trying to manage your Instagram accounts while, you know, having a life, first, how dare you?
Second, I have good news for you: your life can be easier!
You can use Facebook Business Manager to schedule all your posts, even Carousels and Instagram Stories to Facebook and Instagram!
If you use Instagram for business,
this should make
you jump for joy
This means you can still have stories going out through the day without having to go to the Instagram app back and forth all day long — not to mention getting sucked into the endless scroll.
And the best part of that the Facebook Business Suite is completely free (but no need to feel guilty, we are pre-paying Facebook with our souls).
But let’s get to it, because although it’s a simple and intuitive tool, there are a few things you could easily miss.
How to Schedule Carousel posts and Instagram Stories to Auto-Publish with Facebook Business Suite
To find your Facebook Business Suite, go to business.facebook.com, click the menu and select Business Suite.
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When you open the Facebook Business Suite, you will be able to:
create a post with up to 10 images if you’re posting a carousel
create a post with a video (only one video at a time)
upload a Story that can be a static image or a video (up to 10 at a time)
schedule posts, image-only carousel posts (no videos, GIFs or animations in it) and Stories for auto-publish
save your content as drafts
tweak the caption for Facebook
tag people, location and add products links (it even detects your product automatically)
preview how the post will look on Instagram, Facebook mobile and Facebook desktop
preview how stories will look for Instagram and Facebook
swap the order of your images in your carousels
crop and add filters to your posts and Stories
Check out this 3-minute video where I show you how to do all this, including where to find the sneaky “Add a Location” option.
Pretty cool, huh?
As expected, since it’s coming from the mothership and all, it’s a very detailed tool and 100% work using, although it doesn’t have a feed preview where you can see your posts in your Instagram grid before you post them.
It also currently doesn’t have any way to schedule Reels, but hopefully this will be coming soon.
That’s it, my dears! I hope this will allow you not to do manual work on weekends, or at least drastically improve your ability to disconnect.
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Manu Muraro is the founder of Your Social Team, an Instagram training membership and content shop to help social media managers and Instagram savvy women entrepreneurs to beat the algorithm and grow their organic engagement (yes, even in 2021). This year she also launched Your Template Club, a Canva Template subscription to provide social media managers and Instagram savvy business owners with content template designed for engagement in their inbox.
Born and raised in Brazil, Manu moved to the U.S. in 2000 right out of college to work for Cartoon Network, where she made an award winning career in creative and strategy. In 2017, Manu started Your Social Team with the mission of helping women entrepreneur and social media managers grow engagement and sales through Instagram without the overwhelm.