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One Big Reason To Use HootSuite Pro

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Many people have praised HootSuite as the #1 free Twitter tool. I have used HootSuite for over a year now, but I decided that now was the time to go pro. The 30 day free trial got me interested, but I was also able to take an advantage of a 30 day free coupon, so I ended up getting a 2 month free trial. While there are many features for HootSuite Pro members, I recently became a HootSuite Pro member. In the future, I will write a longer blog post about multiple reasons to use HootSuite Pro, but for now, I am going to share with you the big feature.

The big feature is the Bulk Scheduler. Since I send out 48 tweets every day with links to my blog posts, I tweet the same blog posts twice (actually more than that, but identical tweets get separated by a week). I found a way to make the process faster by having all of my tweets in a document on my computer, and then I would copy and paste them all one by one. This took a large amount of time.

Then came HootSuite Pro and the Bulk Scheduler. All I do now is put all of my tweets in multiple CSV files, I send them to HootSuite, and they do the rest. Although it took me a day to get used to how the CSV files work, they now save me an enormous amount of time. Within 10 clicks, my tweets are scheduled for an entire day. With the free version of HootSuite, it would take much more than 10 clicks to schedule half of a day’s worth of tweets.

If you tweet links to your blog posts and bring your old blog posts back from the dead, the Bulk Scheduler alone is the reason why you should get HootSuite Pro. If you like the Bulk Scheduler, there are several other features that HootSuite Pro users get, and when I get more time to take a look, I will write another lengthy blog post about it.

What are your thoughts about HootSuite Pro? Are you thinking about HootSuite Pro, do you have HootSuite Pro, or did you discover that HootSuite Pro is not for you? Please share what you think about HootSuite Pro below.

 

How To Schedule Tweets Five Times Faster

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When I decided to tweet every 30 minutes, that meant more engagement for my tweets. However, tweeting every 30 minutes also meant putting in twice as much time to schedule tweets. On some days, I would spend hours scheduling tweets, and scheduling tweets for hours had an impact on my writing. I was still able to write quality content, but I was not able to write as much as I had in the past.

When I was tweeting every hour, writing 20 blog posts every week did not seem like a challenge. However, when I started to tweet every 30 minutes, writing 20 blog posts every week got progressively harder. To top it all off, I do other things such as videos, homework, and reading. I knew this was going to drive me crazy so I decided to search for a solution.

The funny thing is that the solution was in front of me the entire time. I use HootSuite to schedule my tweets. I had been using the free version of HootSuite for years, but ever since I started tweeting every 30 minutes, I noticed more of my time was getting gobbled up from scheduling tweets. The solution was HootSuite Pro.

HootSuite Pro has many features, but the only one I cared about at the time was the bulk scheduler. HootSuite gives you a file where you can write in all of the tweet you want to send out with the times and dates for those tweets (maximum of 350 tweets per file). Using the bulk scheduler is much faster than using the free version where you manually schedule one tweet at a time, change the dates, change the time, and change the AM and PM.

Now that I am able to schedule tweets 5 times faster, I am also able to write more blog posts. I now have enough time to write 20 blog posts every week and have time left over to write a book. If you are panicking and stressing about the workload of scheduling a lot of tweets and having it take up a lot of your time, I highly recommend paying $9.99 a month for HootSuite Pro. It is worth every penny and saves me at least 10 hours a week.