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Social posts

Writing and scheduling social media posts. Typical: about 2 hours a person a week. AI could take roughly 50% (illustrative).

5 steps

  1. 1

    Pick 3 post types you repeat (tips, jobs done, offers).

  2. 2

    Ask AI to draft a month at once from your notes.

  3. 3

    Edit so it sounds like you.

  4. 4

    Schedule them in one sitting.

  5. 5

    Reply to comments yourself.

🧰 Tools that can do this

Meta Business Suite, Buffer, Canva, ChatGPT or Gemini.

🆓 Do it free

Postiz or Mixpost. See free tools and StackSwitcher for switching guides.

🔒 Keep it safe

Do not paste personal, staff or client details into public AI tools. A person checks the output before it counts.

🆓 Option 1: Do it free

Open source tools you can run yourself, no licence fees. You will need someone handy to set them up and keep them updated.

No single open source tool nails this one, but there are plenty of handy free options.

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📦 Option 2: Get the click by click pack

Plain guides and prompts in a ZIP. Pay once, no subscription. It is a set of guides, not software. This job (Social posts) has its own click by click setup in the Full pack.

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Last checked 4 Nov 2026. Menus change, so check the tool's own help pages.