 Now what is automation? It means that there are a lot of softwares out there that you can use to help you automate your posts every month. So then that way you don't need to be on your phone every single day worrying about what to post, figuring out the hashtag groups, figuring out about your captions every single day. Doesn't work like that, right? That's the reason why you want to automate this so then that way you can set it up and you can forget about it for the whole month. Some of the very free and easy scheduling tools include later.com, Sprout, Social and Buffer. These are the three that we have used, but we recommend using later. You can actually sign up for a free account with more than 30 posts per month. Now these tools, what do they allow you to do? It allows you to actually publish on Instagram automatically. You can actually schedule your first comment. That means that even after your post goes live, you can actually automatically type in your first comment, whether it's hashtags or whether it's like, hey, you guys check out my link in bio or something like that. You can actually schedule that first comment, which is a very useful tool as you become more and more savvy in Instagram. Also it allows you to preview your Instagram feed. If you want to make your feed much more aesthetically pleasing, you can actually put in your first 15 posts and you can kind of play around with which picture goes where. Sometimes you want to want to put quotes. Sometimes you want to put in a block text, testimonials. This is a great way to play around with your Instagram feed. So then that way you can create something that looks beautiful. And then you can also save all the hashtag groups that you created in the previous lesson into this and you can automatically click a button and automatically all those hashtag groups will be added to your post. And also you can schedule your photos, your videos and even stories to be posted on your Instagram. There's so much more that you can use with this and I'm just listing out the tools that we personally use and we find it super helpful. Now, why is it important for you to have an Instagram automation tool? Because it just frees up so much more of your time. I don't know about you, but I really enjoy spending time with my friends and family. So if there's anything that can really take me out of my work life, I would definitely invest in that. And plus this tool is free. That's the reason why I do all the work all within that month. We batch all the month of content to work on it in one day instead of doing it every single day. It just saves you so much more time. And on top of that, you can actually work more on your operations of your business, whether you would be working on a nine to five or if you're working on the logistics, you can forget about your social media. You can just create this and forget about it. It also builds the consistency within your post. What does that mean? That means that you can create something that's beautiful. And on top of that, when you create content on a regular basis, there's a schedule that people actually see your posts more and the more touch points that people see your stuff and more of the fact that you're staying top of mind, the more that they will buy from you. Simple as that. The best reason and the most exciting reason of why I like these platforms is because it allows me to track the performance of each post. Are people liking it? Are people engaging with it? Are people sharing it? Are people saving it? All these type of insights are in these Instagram, um, this platform later.com. Why is it important for me to know that? Because we want to know what types of content that our customers are preferring because at the end of the day, everything that we post, we don't even know if the market is liking it or they're engaging with it or they're just scrolling off because they have no interest in it. Whereas if we created posts and we create a content that's engaging that people are saving, that people are liking, that means that's the type of content I want to create more of in the future. Give you an example. If I took a picture of my bubble tea kit in a box format and no one likes it because it's boring, it looks ugly, the picture is just not aesthetically pleasing and they scroll past it, then that means that it's not doing its job. Whereas if people are liking sharing the posts of us pouring bubble tea into a Mason jar and a lot of people are liking it, sharing it and engaging with this post, then that means people are liking more of content of more action type and aesthetically pleasing content and that's why I would do more of that. So this tool allows you to actually see the analytics so then that way you can increase your chances of getting seen and once again, this will help you increase your sales slowly but surely. Now, the four simple steps to get started. First up, go to later.com, create an account. Second, choose the plan. Free is completely fine. I started with free for a whole year before we upgraded to a paid one. Go through the onboarding tutorial and this is a link to do so. Once again, it's in the resource tab down below and actually go and learn the platform. Learn the platform, learn how to use it properly and then start scheduling the content that you have created from your photo shoot, from the content that we have taught you, the eight different types of content and the hashtag groups that you have created. We covered this in lesson 6.3 all the way to 6.5. So you should have everything already created and all you do in this step is just take all the pieces and ingredients that you have created. Now plug it in, right? That's why we're doing this whole module in this sequence is for you to make it. So it's like super, super simple for you to create content. Now, a pro tip is that you can utilize this feature, this specific feature so then that way you can actually easily and quickly add your hashtag groups into your caption. You can add a click of a button. You can actually add all those hashtags into your post. Once again, link is right below. Now it is your turn schedule your first 15 posts. I can't wait to see how this works out for you. Once you're done, definitely show it to us. Tag us, post it into the group.