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This article is part of a series, Facebook Tips for Independent Artists.  Check out my other articles in this series here:

10 Easy Social Media Contest Ideas to Make Your Fans Engage
The Quick & Dirty Way to Boost Facebook Likes
How to Share your Music Page with a Like Button
3 Powerful Features to Use on your Facebook Fan Page
How to Stop Losing Visibility on Facebook
Are you Cool? How to be Popular on Facebook
7 Mistakes that will Kill Your Facebook Efforts
My Most Popular Posts on Facebook

As an independent artist, social media activity can take quite a chunk of time out of my day.  Hunting for exciting content or trying to come up with new material every day to post on my social media pages can be difficult.  To be honest, before coming up with a strategy, I had a hard time thinking of things to say. I had a hard time posting consistently and staying relevant.  So I sat down for hours one day and put together a list of every content idea I can think of, perused around on other musician Facebook pages and came up with a full content calendar that makes my life so much easier.

MY NEW CONTENT CALENDAR HELPS ME TO:

– Post fresh content to social media every day
– Save time by not having to reinvent the wheel every time I look at my social media pages
– Establish a great rapport with my fans by being consistent
– Not be an annoying self-promoting artist

I created this Social Media Content Calendar to tell me what to write about and to keep up with my daily content posting.  It’s simple and easy to use.  This has been such a huge help and time-saver to me!  I hope it will be the same for you.

Here’s a breakdown of what the spreadsheet includes:

• 3 Full Months of Plug-and-Play Content Ideas for every day of the week including Sundays
• Ideas to help keep your fans engaged
• A complete list of hashtag theme days
• Links to resources for other promotions ideas

Content ideas are already separated by day for you.  Each idea is fully customizable and every artist will have a twist on how they post, but the idea is to keep it consistent.  Since the calendar is only 3 months worth of material, you can separate the year into quarters and recycle the ideas every three months with newer content. This way you can use the calendar the entire year.

After using this calendar, I found that my fan engagement increased! Everyone loved the material and I was able to start engaging new fans right away because my content remained fresh. I spent time trying to come up with engaging ideas that will help you relate more with your fans. I’m offering it to you with no strings attached.  It’s hard for people to become fans of our pages, when they know all we’re going to do is promote our stuff and not post meaningful content.  It just looks bad for all of us.  In fact, I wrote a post challenging other independent artists to revamp their social media strategy, showing why it’s important and how to do it.  Check it out here.

All in all, doing social media the way it was intended will reap benefits for independent artists.  People are looking to connect and this calendar will make it easy to do just that!

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This social media calendar is a Google Spreadsheet. Copy into your google drive, or download it onto your computer as an Excel spreadsheet and get to work.

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