Welcome to lesson on create content and social media calendars. In this lesson I will show you how to create a content calendar for the year and also how to create your social media calendars. So let's get started. Back on our homepage, I've actually uploaded a sample of a calendar that I'd like to show you. So I'm gonna go to more and photos and I'm going to open up my March album, clicking on March, and here I have our content calendar. Basically what a content calendar is is it's taking the 12 months of the year and you're dividing them monthly into what you're wanting to produce for content for those months. We start out by having a yearly goal, so basically what's gonna be our main goals for the year? Then we're gonna break that down into quarterly, then we break it down into monthly. And what we do is basically for these calendars, for each month, we're going to want to put in the content that we're going to focus on for writing articles, or writing E-books, or any promotions that we have, any course offerings we're going to have, or any special events that we may have, and anything else that we're going to want to focus on for that month. So for example, in March we focus on something called VIP days and so a lot of our marketing is going to be around what those VIP days are, what they consist of, and giving people more information about them. So again our content calendar is broken down monthly and within each month is going to be what you focus on. We always run a search for obviously the holidays, so we put that in there, like the holidays each month, and we also allow for any special days like a National Cookie Day, just different days like that that we would allow as well to go ahead and know that that's going to be part of our content. Again, this is just a calendar template that we've created, we try to do this starting around October or November of the previous year, we start working on these so that we try to have them ready to go for the first of the year. We also do an email content calendar and I'm just giving you an example of this to show you that what we will do is we try to link this in as well with our marketing on our social media. So if we're sending out emails, we will send links to Facebook posts, we'll send links to our Facebook store if we have one set up, we'll send links to our Facebook post or any events, anything that we're trying to cross promote between Facebook and our website and our email marketing. Next we'll take a look at our social media marketing calendar. We create these in Excel and basically we just set up, again, like a calendar with the dates, set it up for the month. And we go in and this is where we're going to put in those dates that we searched for earlier, like December 4th is National Cookie Day, December 10th, Human Rights Day, those type of things. And you do wanna stay current with that because those are current trends in Facebook and social media and a lot of people do actually pay attention to those, so this is where you might put in, for example, on 12/4 we might put in like #nationalcookieday so that we get pulled into those searches from people. So we basically have a topic a day and from this, what we do, is we go ahead and create our posts that we're going to put on these days, whether it be a standard post, a promotional post, inspirational post, whether it's a Facebook live, whatever we're going to promote for that day. And we gather these up and do these ahead of time, we try to do these quarterly again. We try to gather the media that we need, we use an application called Canva where we can go ahead and create posts, you can Facebook posts, Instagram posts. So we create the content and the media and we have it ready to go and we pre-schedule. So we try to schedule out at least two to three weeks in advance, it's better if we schedule a month, but we try to at least stay two to three weeks in advance scheduling for social media. The other thing you can use applications like Placeit and again, you know how to schedule your posts in Facebook, so you can pre-schedule and have these ready to go so that you can sit down or have whoever's managing your account just do it in an afternoon. Again, it's good to try to create these at least quarterly, if not definitely try to be at least on top of them monthly. Thanks for watching, stay tuned for our next lesson where we will discuss insights, so let's go check it out.