Digital + printable social media planner for authors
The Ultimate Author Social Media Planner
Plan a month of posts and videos without living on your phone
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 18-page digital planner with clickable tabs, contents and back links
- Two designs: Classic and the colourful Pop design
- Printable US Letter versions of both designs
- Recommended Resources for Authors PDF
A hyperlinked PDF for Goodnotes, Notability, Noteshelf and other PDF note apps on iPad or Android tablets. Tap the tabs and contents to jump between pages.
About this planner
Plan a month of posts and videos without living on your phone. The Author Social Media Planner has 4 sections: strategy, ideas, schedule and results.
It comes as Goodnotes & PDF, Microsoft Word, Notion template and E-ink edition, or as a printed, spiral-bound planner, so you can plan in the app you already use.
Sample pages
Take a look inside
Real pages from the Author Social Media Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
4 sections, 18 pages in the PDF
Strategy2 pages
- Platform choice
- Content pillars
- One or two platforms, done well
Ideas4 pages
- 12 content idea cards
- Video planner
- Hashtag & keyword bank
Schedule2 pages
- Monthly content calendar
- Batch session planner
- A focus for each month
Results2 pages
- Monthly analytics
- Collaborations
- Followers, reach & clicks
Section and page counts are for the Goodnotes & PDF edition; the other formats hold the same planning pages, arranged to suit each app.
Highlights
Inside the Author Social Media Planner
Post where readers are
- Choose the one or two platforms your readers actually use
- Write down your main platform and why it earns your time
- Four to six content pillars to rotate
- A feed that stays varied but consistent
Hooks that stop the scroll
- 12 idea cards, each with its pillar and its hook
- Plan short videos shot by shot
- End every video with a reason to find the book
- A bank of hashtags and keywords for your genre
A month of posts, batched
- A Monday-to-Sunday calendar for the month's posts and videos
- Set one focus for the month
- Film or design several posts in a single session
- Track each post's pillar, status and scheduled date
See what sells books
- Track followers, reach and clicks each month
- Note your best post and whether sales spiked
- Keep a record of authors and creators you've worked with
- Use the results to rethink your content pillars
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