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Praveen Simon

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!

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Ali Naqi Shaheen
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.
Praveen Simon
Love this idea, @ali_shaheen. Do you think AI could replace the human touch in strategy?
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.
Sumal Jamil
@oksana_ch do you you'll still be able to manage relationship building if commenting were automated?
Praveen Simon
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
Carl Strempel
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.
Sumal Jamil
@qcs true but also doesn’t it help with building your brand community by genuinely engaging with your audience?
Praveen Simon
Totally, @qcs! For businesses with smaller teams, keeping up with comment replies can feel like an endless task
TJ Larkin
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.
Toby Rowland
Main issue with engagement is spreading it too thinly. Replies are like any form of marketing, you need to reach the same people multiple times to have them notice you, so I think the most interesting area for automation is the identification of target ICPs, and then the organisation of engagement with those ICPs
Praveen Simon
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.
xucian
turning landscape vids to portrait in a meaningful way I already have an 80-20 idea, might approach it at some point base trick is to use an "attention" head to zoom in selectively as if a human would edit it
Olivia Jane Mitchell
I'd automate the tedious parts of social media like scheduling posts, finding trending hashtags, and basic analytics. An AI tool that could handle that grunt work and learn what works best would be 🔥. Then I could focus my time on the fun creative stuff and engaging with my audience.