I finally ditched my fancy expensive social media scheduler last week

I was sitting in a coffee shop in Austin trying to post to Instagram at 2 PM on a Wednesday, and my fancy Hootsuite clone just refused to publish. It kept spinning and spinning, and I missed my entire lunchtime window. I finally just manually posted from my phone, and that got way more engagement than anything I'd scheduled all month. So I cancelled my $49 monthly subscription right there at the table. Now I'm using a simple free Google Sheets list and a timer on my phone to remind me when to post. Has anyone else found that manual posting actually works better than these so-called smart tools?

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the_elizabeth23h ago

Used to think schedulers were the only way to keep up but you just changed my mind completely. That manual post getting way better engagement is something I keep seeing, and @mila_murphy21 nailed it with that spinning wheel of doom comment. Kinda makes you wonder if these tools are just selling us convenience that actually messes up our results.

mila_murphy211d ago

Spinning wheel of doom strikes again. Classic.