Do you ever feel like managing social media for your blog or business is eating up too much of your day?
You start early, thinking you’ll just check a few things, but suddenly it’s lunchtime. Before you know it, the evening is gone, and it’s bedtime.
You bounce from task to task—posting, replying to comments, planning, scheduling—and the list seems endless.
Have you ever stopped to think about how much time you’re really spending on social media each day? On days when I’m not creating content, I’ve noticed that it can add up to hours—not just minutes.
That all changed for me once I started using tools to streamline these repetitive social media tasks. Here are some ways you can save time too:
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Learn 9 Ways to Save Time
There are great tools out there to help you like Agorapulse, Buffer, MissingerLttr, or Hootsuite. These tools can help you save time but how about keeping yourself better organized, too?
Social media marketing is complex today. Not only do we need to schedule social shares but also produce content, do research, and do analytics for ourselves and clients.
Here’s a great quote I got from Robert Caruso of the former Bundle Post:
You have to have enough relevant, valuable, curated content in your streams every day. You can spend hours a day doing that one post at a time using readers, browser plugins and other clunky tools, or you can spend your time on the things that actually get results like engagement.
The 9 Ways to Save You Time Managing Social Media Include:
1. Use AI to help you create social media content
AI tools like Creator Buddy for X and The Right Blogger for several social media channels can make social media content creation faster and easier. These tools generate captions, suggest hashtags, and even provide content ideas.
They save time by handling repetitive tasks, so you can focus on connecting with your audience. Instead of starting posts from scratch, you’ll have a creative foundation to tweak and personalize.
AI won’t replace your vision but acts as a practical assistant. Give it a try, and focus your energy on what matters—engaging and growing your community.
2. Responding to mentions and questions
How often do you check and respond to these? I used to check notifications as they came. Now I try to only check-in at certain times of the day.
Of course, it depends on what business you are in. Some businesses need to have a full-time person or an online bot to answer questions asap.
Oftentimes, you will interrupt other activities you have going on and quickly get off track. This is NOT an easy one to do.
However, engagement is a key factor today for social media marketing. Engagement can help your content be seen higher in most of the social media algorithms out there.
Today I use Agorapulse to help me manage all these notifications and responses on one dashboard. If I go away I have someone who can fill in for me during vacation time.
3. Sharing from third-party apps to save time on social media marketing
How many shares do you do from third-party apps? Hence, you could set a certain amount of them that you will do.
Otherwise, you could spend hours doing this depending on which tools you are using. These apps could also help you post the best time to market on social media.
It may also make you less productive overall as you go from one thing to another and not stay focused on your social media marketing. Been there and done that for years!
4. Commenting on blogs
How many comments do you leave on blog posts? Therefore, you should set a goal for how many to do per day and a limit as well.
You could get lost going from blog to blog leaving comments. Been there and done that!
Not only that but you will want to respond to comments on your own blogs as well. Readers have taken the time to leave them so you should respond in a timely manner to them.
Even my dear blogging friend Ryan from Blogging from Paradise recently opened his comments back up on the blog. Interacting with your readers is important to know what they are consuming and what questions they may have.
It will help YOU produce more relevant content. However in 2025, it is not as important as many have left commenting to social media networks.
5. Following new folks
How many people do you follow each week? This is something you could check out once per week. Find new people in your niche to start following and engaging with.
This will expand your network and they may follow YOU back. You can use a tool Fedica for X Twitter or Agorapulse for your other social media accounts (and Twitter as well if you want to keep it simple!)
Do note that Agorapulse charges more for the X Twitter usage since the API costs went up 2 years ago.
6. Producing new content
This one is the most important. It is not easy to stick to a schedule either as life can get in the way and boy has it for me this year!
It’s also good to try to have a couple of posts in the “bank” for when needed. An evergreen type of post would be perfect for that time when you haven’t anything to publish.
Now, you can use a tool like The Right Blogger AI Suite to help you create content quicker than ever before. They have 87 tools to date for all your content needs.
However, if your blog content is getting old, refreshing old content will do wonders for your SEO efforts on the website. Not only that but it will give readers newer, fresh content to consume and link to.
7. Check your analytics for social media marketing
Checking results via your analytics – You must know how everything is working for you. This will help you to post at optimal times on social networks.
The only way is to check your stats and how folks are coming to you is to check your Google analytics, stats, your social media network analytics, etc. Otherwise, it is like you are working in the dark!
Recently Agorapulse added more reporting tools so you can do these social media management tasks right from their dashboard. You can even send your clients a white-glove social media management report with your logo on it.
8. Trim and prune your followers on various social networks
Why continue to follow folks who unfollowed you on Twitter X? I like using Fedica to see who is following on Twitter or not. You can also see who are your ambassadors on the network.
It is easy to go in for 5 minutes per week and check who does not follow you. Of course, you can always use your Twitter X lists – my favorite timesaver!
9. Research for content
Last but not least, research for new content, ideas, etc. You can’t produce new social media promotional content if you are not doing your research!
I love using Grok AI, Quora or Answer the Public for this. And then enter ideas into the RIght Blogger to get started.
Furthermore, this research could include gathering info on new topics and finding graphics for your posts. You could also make a YouTube video or SlideShare, etc. by AI to write faster and better content.
In Conclusion: Saving Time on Social Media Marketing
In conclusion, managing social media marketing doesn’t have to take over your entire day. These nine strategies help you work smarter, not harder. From scheduling posts with tools like Creator Buddy to tracking performance with the Right Blogger, the goal is to streamline tasks while still delivering value to your audience.
Automate repetitive actions, stay consistent with a content calendar, and focus on strategies that give measurable results. The right approach saves time without sacrificing quality, leaving you more bandwidth to focus on growth and engagement.
Give these tips a try and watch the hours you save add up. These tools have saved me a lot of time in the past several months managing social media.