Question 1

Does Repurposing and Scheduling Content Hurt My Views?

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Question: I’m trying to grow the social media accounts for my platforms, but I’ve heard that using scheduling/3rd party tools can cause low engagement and reach. Is this true?

The short answer is: the data says no. Consistency is more likely to raise your reach and audience engagement — which is the primary service offered by third-party scheduling/repurposing tools. However, this myth will always persist based on who you ask.

How do we know scheduling tools are not likely the culprit of low engagement?

Organic reach is the number of eyes on your content without you paying to reach a specific audience. Unlike ads, organic posts aren’t targeted to specific audiences, so they rely on the social network’s algorithm.

While we don’t know all the details of how algorithms work (each platform is drastically different), we do know that one of the main goals is to keep people scrolling on the platform so that they see more ads. The formula is more ads seen = more money for the platform you are posting on.

What does this mean for you?

The algorithm rewards high engagement, which is directly linked to consistency for many social media users. This means that the more active you are, the more your engagement and reach increase. While the algorithm considers multiple factors, it doesn’t seem to disfavor third-party posts.

What does cause low engagement?

High-quality and engaging content will perform well on social media, whether posted via an app or natively through a

Question 2

Calendar View

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Fill Your Content Calendar Using The Calendar View!

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Calendar Feature Overview

Inside the Repurpose.io dashboard, you will notice a new icon called CALENDAR on the left.

Just click on that. In a few moments, the calendar will be on the screen. Inside the calendar, you'll see all your already published content plus your scheduled content.

There are different ways to view your scheduled content. You can look at it on a monthly view. You can also check it out on a weekly view, and you do need to move forward or backward to the week. And also you can check it by the day.

Quickly View Published and Scheduled Content

Your calendar will display your already published and scheduled content from all your workflows (such as YouTube to Facebook, TikTok to YouTube Shorts, TikTok to Instagram Reels, etc) with the icons. When you hover your mouse over one of these scheduled items, it gives you a glimpse of what that content is.

Edit and Reschedule Your Content

If you click one, it will show you the “schedule settings.” You can update the post title and description, preview the video, and even update the scheduled date.

Easily Schedule New Content

Now when you schedule new content from inside your the View Content page, you'll also see a calendar view showing you what is already scheduled and published so you can make a choose the perfect day and

Question 3

Release Notes (January 03, 2023)

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Changes made during the release of January 10, 2023:

New: Calendar view is here! Now you can view published content, edit scheduled, and schedule new content in a calendar view.
New: Affiliate area now includes a referral list and updated resources to help you promote, track, and earn even more commission.
New: Option that allows you to auto-trim your video when it exceeds the duration of the Destination platform.
New: Setting to automatically use Source Hashtags as YouTube Tags when publishing to YouTube.
New: Smart logic that detects end of sentences when setting the Title field for videos published to YouTube and Pinterest.
Fix: Subheadline text field was missing on Podcast workflows.
Fix: Improved support for emojis.
Fix: In some scenarios displaying the time from YouTube videos was wrong.
Fix: Previously you couldn't delete, rename or edit details settings on Auto workflows
Fix: There was an issue with YouTube when uploading your own thumbnail.
Fix: Improved the logic for the Headline element of Custom Templates.

Many more bug fixes, tweaks, and improvements

Question 4

Choosing a Style for your Videos, Live Stream, and Audio Podcasts (Audiograms)

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There are two types of content you can repurpose.

1. **Videos / Live streams:

can be converted into vertical or square clips with a headline, progress bar, and captions burned in
click here to learn how to customize these types of videos.

Repurposing a YouTube Live into a square clip to share on social media

2. **Audio podcasts

can be transformed into videos (audiograms)
click here to learn how to customize these types of videos.

Creating an Audiogram by converting an audio podcast into a video to share on social media

Question 5

Design Your Own Video Custom Templates In Repurpose

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| You can now design fully customizable templates for Audio to Video workflows. Learn more here.

Major features include:

Ability to place the location of the Headline, Subheadline, Static text, Captions and Progress bar
Design and import background images directly from Canva
Preview and edit the design of the Custom Template before publishing individual videos

Pre-defined Templates

When designing a new template, you can choose one of our 'Predefined Templates' and modify it to your liking
Alternatively, if you don't want to design your own templates, you can choose one of our 'Predefined Templates' inside the workflow settings and make last minute design edits when you click the Publish button

If you're looking for inspiration when creating your custom templates, make sure to check out our Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter pages. We use this feature to repurpose our live streams into snippets.

Question 6

Connecting your Instagram

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||| Your IG Account needs be a Professional account and linked to one of your Facebook Pages (learn more) ||| You need an IG Creator or Business Account in order to use Instagram as a Source as this is *required by Instagram (learn more) ||| You need an *IG Business Account* in order to use Instagram as a Destination as this is required by Instagram (learn more) || You can still use trending sounds on your IG Business Account by simply changing your "Category" to "Entrepreneur " from this page using your web browser

In this video you'll learn how to connect your Instagram account to Repurpose.io

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Here's what you can do with your Instagram Account.

Publish content to IG Reels. Learn more here.
Repurpose content from IG Reels. Learn more here
Publish content to IG Feed. Learn more here
Repurpose content from IG Feed / IGTV / IG Lives. Learn more here

Troubleshooting

If you get an publishing error "(#10) The user is not an Instagram Business", then

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