

For the photo URL, select the card’s attachment (cover).ġ5.

The activity will be “Attachment added to the card.” (you don’t want Zapier to share your posts as soon as you create a new card in Trello because they’re not ready yet, right? You need to fill the card with an actual content first!).ġ4. Now choose “New activity” from the actions list. Connect and test it if you’ve never used the integration before.ģ. Hit the “Create a Zap” button in Zapier.Ģ. Now that you have your editorial calendar created in Trello, let’s go to Zapier and create a zap to automate your social media posts.ġ. How cool is that?! No more adding to your queue manually, baby! Setting up your zap’s trigger That’s it – Zapier will then share it for you. Choose the due date and add an image attachment you want to share. Step 2: Automating Your Editorial Calendar with ZapierĪdd drafts of social media posts to your editorial calendar on Trello by writing text and adding links in the description.
Trello calendar download#
You can either create your own Trello board, or download the one I created for you here.
Trello calendar how to#
I’ve seen people using Google Sheets to plan their content and social media posts, but I’m going to show you how to use Trello to create a visual and easy to use calendar.
Trello calendar pro#
Step 1: Setting Up Your Social Media CalendarĪs a pro marketer, you surely understand the need to plan your stuff, so I don’t have to persuade you you need an editorial calendar. Today, I’m going to teach you how to create a social media editorial calendar in Trello and connect it to Buffer so you can automate your social media posting! I thought to myself: “There must be a smarter way!” And of course, there was! Zapier, as always, has proven to be amazing! I set this up for myself 2 months ago when I was so tired of wasting my time doing the same thing over and over again. Now, that I think about it, it was the biggest time suck ever (apart from my inbox and over 300 unopened emails).īut I found a secret weapon, and today I want to share it with you.ĭid you know you can actually automate your whole social media editorial calendar thing, and focus your energy on creating awesome content by letting Zapier and Buffer do the work for you? I used to spend hours simply promoting my blog posts on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter, preparing my Instagram posts and adding them to the Buffer queue manually, writing blog posts drafts and then scheduling them separately… We all know how important it is to get high quality, on brand content out there regularly.Īnd that we need to then promote those blog posts on social media, keep being active on social media, and sending those newsletters out.
