The Ultimate Cheat Sheet On How To Use Hootsuite To Broadcast On Social Networks

To Broadcast a Single Message

Across Mult iple Social Networks

H O W T O U S E

HOOTSUITE

Social Media is an important part of any business’s digital marketing strategy.

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Through the various social media platforms

you can:

Expand your audience and find new customers

Drive traffic to your website

Share new content quickly

Create meaningful relationships with and gain

insights from your customers

5 Receive valuable feedback

However, managing several social media accounts at once can often put a strain on

resources.

Thankfully, there are social media

management tools out there to make it easier.

The most widely used of these is Hootsuite, with over 10 million

users around the world.

What is Hootsuite?

Hootsuite is a web based application to

manage, track, analyze, broadcast and schedule

your social network media campaigns.

It enables you to monitor multiple social media accounts in one

place.

It automatically posts

all your scheduled

contents across your

social media network.

And it allows you to

schedule your posts

and/or content ahead

of time.

Hootsuite offers a free

account to which you

can only connect 3 of

your social media

networks.

Let’s get started!

In this tutorial, you will

learn:

• How to Sign-Up to Get Your

Free Hootsuite Account

• How to Connect Your Social

Media Accounts

• How to Add Streams

• How to Schedule and

Broadcast Your First Social

Media Post

• How to Use the Analytics

Report

{ } How to Sign Up to Get

Your Free Hootsuite Account

Open your web browser

Google Chrome

browser is used in this

tutorial.

Type hootsuite.com in the

address bar and hit enter

Hootsuite homepage

will appear

Click on Sign Up

You have 3 plans to

choose from, namely:

• Free

• Pro

• Enterprise

Let s hoose the Free

Click on Get Started Now

Enter the following

information on the Sign

Up page

Your Email Address

Your Name

Your Password

Your Timezone

Click Create Account

No , let s add our so ial networks

Notice the impressive

time-saving statistics on

the right of the page!

Hootsuite is now giving

you the option of linking

your Twitter, Facebook,

LinkedIn and Google+

accounts to the

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{ } How to Connect your

Social Media Accounts

NOTE that for a FREE

account, you can only

connect up to 3 social

networks.

Hootsuite is now giving

you the option of linking

your Twitter, Facebook,

LinkedIn and Google+

accounts to the

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Back on the Hootsuite set

up page, click on the icon

of the social media

account you would like to

Click on Twitter

A pop-up window will

appear asking you to

authorize Hootsuite to

use the Twitter account.

Click on Twitter

Enter your Phone, Email

or Username

Enter your Password

Click Authorize App

Click Authorize App one

more time

Wait for the process to

finish

Twitter account has been

successfully added

Click Continue

Click Done adding social

networks

A Welcome to Hootsuite

appears

Welcome to your

Hootsuite dashboard

Let s add a other so ial media network from

your dashboard.

Click Add Social Network

Choose your social

network

Click Connect with

Facebook

A pop-up window appears

Enter your Password

Click Continue

Click Okay

Click Okay one more time

Facebook account now

connected

Choose a Facebook Page

you want to manage

Facebook page now

connected

Click on Finished

Importing

By clicking on the

dropdown arrow from

your Networks tab will

show your added social

network.

Ne t, let s add our network streams

{ } 3 How to Add Your

Streams

To break it down: Each

social media account has

its own tab, and you can

choose to view a number

of streams for each tab.

Now you need to

populate your

dashboard. From there,

let s re a e our first tab.

Double click on the tab

You can rename your tab

however you like

Let s t pe Fa e ook

Press Enter

From the dropdown

menu, choose a social

network by clicking on it.

Here is where you select which social network you would like

to add

Let s li k on Facebook Page

Each icon represents the

tabs in your Facebook

Page including your

unpublished posts

Click on the Timeline icon

You can now monitor

your Facebook Page

timeline from your

Hootsuite dashboard.

As you add streams, your

tab will fill up with a

column for each of the

streams you have selected.

You can always go back

and add or remove

Let s add strea for our Twitter account. To do

that, you need to Add a

Cli k the + sig

Create a name for this tab

Let s Add “trea for T itter

Here s the T itter strea s we just added

Cli k the + sig

{ } How to Schedule & Broadcast

Your First Social Media Post 4

One of Hootsuite s ost useful functions is the

ability to schedule posts

to go out on all of the

social networks you have

This is where Hootsuite

can really SAVE you time.

To schedule a post, use

the boxes at the very top

of the dashboard

The left-hand box is a

drop-down menu, from

which you select the

social media account you

want to schedule a post

Choose the social

network where you want

to post

Let s sele t T itter a d Facebook

The right-hand box is

where you compose your

You have the option to

include a link, which

Hootsuite ill “hri k for you, as well as attach an

image or file.

Click the paper clip icon

to attach an image

Then select the file to

upload

Next, click the Calendar

icon to schedule post

Select a date from the

Calendar

Enter the date and time

to broadcast the post

Click Schedule

To review your scheduled

posts or edit them, click

o the Pu lisher arro icon on the tool-bar on

the left on the screen.

Here s our s heduled post

5 How to Use the

Analytics Report

Hootsuite also provides

its own Analytics reports.

To access these, click on

the A al ti s graph i o on the tool-bar on the

left of the screen.

There are only three

report templates

available to you as a free

Twitter Profile Overview

Facebook Page Overview

Ow.ly Click Summary

These free report

templates will provide

you with basic

information on your

accounts

Such as follower growth,

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