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How to schedule repeating posts in Facebook groups

This posts shows you how to schedule repeating posts in Facebook groups.

Many Facebook group admins often have themed posts for each day of the week, where group members are supposed to engage with the post based on the theme. Some of the ones I have seen are:

Share Your Blog Monday
Tell Me A Story Tuesday
What Are You Working On Wednesday
Throwback Thursday
Follow Friday

In most groups like this, the admin’s goal is to get participation and engagement, but keep everything neatly in the comments thread of each particular post.

Most admins who run a Facebook group schedule the same post for the same day of the week, again, and again, and again.

I will show you how you can automate those posts so that you just set your posts to repeat weekly once, and they automatically post on the same day of the week moving forward.

How to schedule repeating posts in Facebook Groups

Connect your Facebook Group(s)
Click “Schedule a post” from the menu
Select your Facebook Group(s)
Create your post
Select how often you want your Facebook post to repeat
Choose to post it now, or schedule it for the future

Here are those steps with screenshots:

OneUp is a Facebook-approved social media scheduling tool that allows you to repeat posts at set intervals.

To use OneUp with a Facebook group, you MUST be one of the group admins. Facebook does not allow scheduling tools to post to groups unless you are an admin.

Using OneUp you can click the Facebook button to connect your Pages and Groups.

Then you are set to schedule a post.

Once you select your Facebook group, you can choose to post as either your personal profile OR as a Facebook Page (however your Page must be an Admin of the Group).

OneUp allows you to schedule your posts to repeat on the same day and time every week. You can have it repeat indefinitely, or you can set it to expire after posting a certain number of times.

You can also add images to the post if you want.

Once this is set, you just choose when you want it scheduled.

For example: If you have a post scheduled for 9:30 AM on Friday, set to repeat weekly, it means that post will re-post every Friday moving forward at that same time.

The very first time, you will need to add OneUp to your Facebook groups apps. You only have to do this once for each Facebook group. To do so, go to your group’s settings in Facebook.

Then click “Add Apps”.

Do a search for OneUp, and add it.

OneUp makes it easy to schedule repeating posts in Facebook groups, making an admin’s job much easier. Check it out at:

www.oneupapp.io

OneUp works with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google My Business.

OneUp is a cheap alternative to Meet Edgar

This post goes over a cheap alternative to Meet Edgar.

For anyone that wants to schedule pieces of repeated content to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, Meet Edgar is a great solution. Additionally, the ability to automatically recycle your evergreen content makes Meet Edgar ever more appealing.

However, with a price tag of $49 per month, Meet Edgar is not a realistic solution for most small business owners, bloggers, podcasters, or YouTubers.

So what options are there for those that would like to add content, create a posting schedule for specific times and dates, import RSS feeds, and schedule evergreen posts to be shared multiple times — all at an affordable price?

OneUp is a cheap alternative to Meet Edgar that works with the following social media platforms: Facebook Pages, Twitter accounts, LinkedIn profiles, LinkedIn Pages, Pinterest, and Google My Business. Similar to Meet Edgar, OneUp helps you get more social media traffic by automatically recycling your evergreen blogs, videos, or podcasts.

Let’s take a look at Meet Edgar vs. OneUp:

Price

OneUp — $12/month

Meet Edgar — $49/month

Meet Edgar provides only one pricing tier: $49/month. This price works if you bring in a ton of revenue, but that is not the case for most businesses. If you are like most people, $49 per month is a steep price to pay.

OneUp starts at $12/month, making it a cheap alternative to Meet Edgar, and a realistic solution for anyone that is managing multiple social media pages.

Social Networks

OneUp — Works with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google My Business.

Meet Edgar — Works only with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and it does not let you reshare content on Twitter.

Meet Edgar does not work with Pinterest or Google My Business. In addition, Meet Edgar does not allow you to automatically reshare your evergreen content on Twitter. This is Meet Edgar’s core feature, yet you can only reshare your posts on two social networks: Facebook and LinkedIn.

OneUp allows you to schedule both one-time and evergreen posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google My Business, making it a more robust alternative to Meet Edgar.

Scheduling content

OneUp — If you want a simple way to schedule social media posts, OneUp is for you. You can select how many times you would like your evergreen posts to be recycled, and at what intervals, all with just a couple clicks.

For example, if you want to share your latest blog post once every 3 months and 5 times total, you can do that in about 10 seconds.

Meet Edgar — Like OneUp, Meet Edgar allows you to recycle your evergreen content, but it requires that you upload posts to a queue. The more content you add to your queue, the less frequently your posts will resurface. Depending on what you’re looking for, Meet Edgar could be a great solution.

However, many people just want their evergreen posts to be recycled at a set interval, like “once a month for the next 3 months”, without having to do the mental calendar math:

If I have 56 posts in my queue and I add my blog post, how often will it be republished if I am sharing 3 posts a day, but adding 2–5 more each week?

Content Calendar

OneUp — With OneUp, you can view your individual posts, sort by social account or category, drag and drop posts to change the date, or click on the post to edit the content and time.

Meet Edgar — Meet Edgar provides a weekly recurring calendar, with time slots showing category only, not individual scheduled posts. You cannot drag and drop to adjust your schedule.

GIFs

OneUp — Allows you to schedule GIFs on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+.

Meet Edgar — Only allows you to post GIFs to Twitter.

Summary

For businesses with a higher budget, managing between 20–25 social media accounts, MeetEdgar might be the right social media management tool. They offer a useful product and great customer support for larger businesses that want to recycle their evergreen content.

For small business owners, podcasters, bloggers, YouTubers, and social media marketers that need a cheaper alternative to Meet Edgar, OneUp provides an affordable solution for scheduling and automatically resharing your evergreen content — as well as world class customer support. OneUp works with Facebook pages and groups, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn Profiles, LinkedIn Pages, Pinterest, and Google My Business.

Try it free at oneupapp.io

Does Buffer support Google My Business posts?

Yes, Buffer supports Google My Business.

However, if you need an alternative OneUp supports GMB, in addition to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, TikTok, and LinkedIn.

Google My Business is an easy way for businesses to stand out in local SEO, and posts on GMB have been shown to increase traffic and improve search rankings.

However, the fact that your Google My Business posts expire after 7 days means that you have to constantly go back into GMB and post something week after week, again and again.

The solution: schedule out your Google My Business posts weeks or even months ahead of time.

The issue, however, is that very few social media schedulers work with Google My Business, and the ones that do work charge upwards of $50/month, which is a big hit to take for many businesses. As mentioned, Buffer doesn’t support Google My Business.

OneUp

Using OneUp, you can schedule posts to Google My Business.

The process is simple. Just connect your Google My Business account on the Accounts page.

Then schedule your GMB post, optionally adding any link or image to the post.

Then add your Call-To-Action button and a link.

In addition to just scheduling posts, OneUp allows you to set GMB posts to automatically repeat at set intervals — such as once a week or once a month.

This allows you to reap the benefits of being active on Google My Business, without the hassle of constantly going back in every week to manually post something once your post expires.

Then choose to post it now, or schedule it for a date in the future.

Here is what the post looks like inside your Google My Business account:

And here is what the post looks like on the Google search results page:

OneUp has a 7–day free trial

How to automatically post RSS feed to Google My Business with CTA buttons

Yes, you can automatically post an RSS feed to Google My Business.

The easiest way to post to Google My Business via RSS feeds is with OneUp.

The process is simple. Just connect your Google My Business account on the Accounts page.

Click “Add new feed” on the RSS page.

Then add your RSS feed URL and select which Google My Business account you want to post to.

You can choose to post the RSS feed to multiple GMB accounts at once, and you can also choose to post the same RSS feed to Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook pages, or Facebook groups.

You can specify a URL that will be used as the CTA link in every post from this RSS feed, OR you can have the CTA link automatically populated with the URL from each post from your feed.

Once added, OneUp will schedule the 10 most recent posts from that RSS feed at the minimum interval you set. Moving forward, it will periodically check that RSS feed and automatically post to Google My Business whenever there is something new.

In addition to posting to Google My Business from an RSS feed, you can also schedule and automatically repeat GMB posts using OneUp.

To start, click schedule a post and type what you want in your Google My Business post, optionally adding any link or image to the post.

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Then add your Call-To-Action button and a link.

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In addition to just scheduling posts, OneUp allows you to set GMB posts to automatically repeat at set intervals — such as once a week or once a month.

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This allows you to reap the benefits of being active on Google My Business, without the hassle of constantly going back in every week to manually post something once your post expires.

Then choose to post it now, or schedule it for a date in the future.

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Here is what the post looks like inside your Google My Business account:

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And here is what the post looks like on the Google search results page:

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OneUp has a free 7-day trial.

Watch how to auto-post RSS feeds to Google My Business with CTA buttons in this short video:

Cheap Buffer alternative for scheduling repeating posts? [Visual Guide]

This post goes over a cheap Buffer alternative for scheduling repeating posts.

Buffer has long been one of the easiest ways to schedule and spread out your posts on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Google Plus.

However, Buffer lacks some core features like repeating posts, and gets pretty expensive ($99 per month) as soon as you go over 100 scheduled posts, or need more than 1 team member connected to the same account.

If you are looking for a more affordable way to manage your social media accounts, OneUp is a cheap buffer alternative.. We’ll take a look at the similarities and differences between OneUp and Buffer:

Repeating posts

OneUp — With OneUp, you can easily schedule social media posts to repeat for a specific number of times, at set intervals. More engagement, more traffic, more business.

For example, if I want to share my latest blog post once a month for the next 4 months, I can do that in about 10 seconds.

Buffer — While it is a great tool for spreading out your posts, Buffer does NOT allow you to repeat your social media posts. For example, if you wanted to repeat the same Facebook post every month, you would have to manually re-queue it every 30 days.

Social Networks

OneUp — Works with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google My Business on all tiers. For Instagram posts, OneUp has direct scheduling, so no push notification is necessary.

Buffer — Works with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google Plus. However, Pinterest is only included in the $15/month and higher tiers. For Instagram posts, Buffer allows you to schedule a post, but will send you a push notification at that scheduled time to post it manually.