How do I keep posting on social media when I am too busy?
When working long hours with clients, there is simply not enough time to handle captions, editing, posting, and strategy all alone. This leads to months of total inactivity, sporadic posting, and eventual burnout from trying to do everything yourself.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Posting sporadically during active periods
- 2Making social media a priority for a short time
- 3Posting daily stories and 1-2 posts per week featuring reviews, testimonials, and behind-the-scenes content
- 4Using AI for generating first drafts, ideas, and captions
- 5Feeding AI raw material and real facts rather than asking it to invent content from scratch
- 6Tweak AI-generated text manually to fit brand voice
- 7Hiring a social media manager (SMM)
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“During all this, I have been inconsistent with content and the whole social media side of things.”source ↗
“Posting sporadically when “active” in the past, and then in my super busy periods, just not posting for months straight as I didn’t make it a priority.”source ↗
“I am one person and can’t do all the things at once.”source ↗
“i still spend time tweaking them to fit my brand voice. it helps speed up the initial process, but i find I can't just copy-paste what it generates.”source ↗
“it usually needs reworking to sound less robotic. Honestly a lot of small business owners burn out trying to do everything themselves; captions, editing, posting, strategy”source ↗
Where this came up
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