If you could automate one part of social media marketing, what would it be?

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Social media marketing has so many moving parts. Creating posts, scheduling them, replying to comments, tracking performance. If you could automate just one of these to save yourself some time, what would it be? I’m curious to hear what everyone struggles with the most!

Carl Strempel · Accepted Answer

I agree, responding to the comments is a critical part but probably the most time consuming because of the need for it to be specific and genuine.

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For me, automating analytics reporting would free up so much time for brainstorming new ideas

Oksana Chyketa · Answer

If I could automate just one part of social media marketing, it’d be replying to comments. It's such a time-consuming task but super important for engagement. Having a smart tool to handle basic responses while still sounding genuine would be a game-changer.

Daniel James Harris · Answer

I'd automate generating relevant hashtags for each post. It's tedious trying to come up with trending tags for every piece of content to maximize reach. An AI tool that could analyze the post and spit out the top hashtags would save so much time and effort!

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I’d love to automate the data analysis part of social media. So I can focus more on strayegy

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If I could automate the brainstorming and scheduling part, I’d have more time to focus on interaction with community.

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Scheduling posts across multiple platforms is something I'd like to see fully automated. It's repetitive but crucial.

Praveen Simon · Answer

This sounds practical, @oksana_ch. Fully automating the commenting process might not be idea (as @to_be_designed mentioned, we'll lose the human touch)l, but, we can definitely streamline it by auto-replying to frequently asked questions with pre-set responses

Praveen Simon · Answer

Clever, @toby_rowland! As you mentioned, a great use case would be targeting a specific ICP (like SaaS founders who recently secured funding) and then following them and engaging meaningfully with their recent posts.

Ali Naqi Shaheen · Answer

Leveraging AI to analyze audience behavior in real time and automatically adjust strategies—such as content type, hashtags, or even targeting parameters—would help consistently improve performance and drive better results.

Hassan Sajjad · Answer

If there was a way to automate performance tracking, I’d definitely be into it. Doing it manually always feels like it take longer time then it should take.

TJ Larkin · Answer

My dream automation would handle the endless comment moderation and engagement. Lost count of how many spam comments I've deleted while trying to find the real conversations worth jumping into.

Jordan bulk · Answer

I’d automate tracking performance getting reports automatically would be a big help. It can be a bit of a drag to put all that data together manually.

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I totally agree, Keeping up with every comment can be a challenge. Automating replies would definitely save a lot of time and make things way more manageable.

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If you could automate one part of social media marketing, what would it be?

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