Scheduling posts from the desert

I had to travel to Yuma, AZ a couple of weeks ago.

A week in the desert…

No access to cell phone or internet ~ 10 hours a day (secure government facility)…

And a daily commitment to at least 3x posts and 1x emails a day…

What’s a fella to do???

Lose an 8 month posting streak?

Of course not!

Take a deep breath and schedule some posts.

That’s the move.

Here’s the exact process that I used:

For tweets and emails, I set up two different google docs: scheduled posts and scheduled emails.

I shoot for 3x tweets a day, 3x long forms a weeks, and 1x email a day.

So, that means for 6 days I needed 21 tweets and 6 total emails.

In my google sheets I put a numbered list for those exact amounts.

Then got to work.

My saving grace was that I had a whole week to fill in the content.

My 3 biggest sources of inspiration for those tweets:

• Old tweets that I could repurpose with better hooks, etc

• Proverbs (the Bible)

• Past emails

For the emails, I have a backlog of ideas in Notion that I call “Cerebro.” It’s just a swipe file of thoughts that I have for content each day.

Nice and easy to pull from.

Once I grabbed 6 ideas, I only had to write 300-400 words per email.

Max 2400 words. Definitely doable in a day.

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For scheduling, I used a combo of Twitter Pro, and Beehiiv.

A lot of people don’t know that Twitter Pro will let you schedule posts similar to Hypefury. But it does. And it’s super helpful.

For my emails, I just scheduled through Beehiiv’s native scheduler.

Easy peasy.

It was a pretty cool feeling having a whole week worth of content automatically posting while I was doing weird cybersecurity stuff with fighter jets in the desert.

Then, back in the hotel room each evening, I would go through and comment back and engage with other people’s posts before bed.

The only downside to all of this is that I got out of my zone, writing-wise. It’s been a bit of the slog to get back in the groove for the last week.

But overall, it’s a strategy I think I might try to utilize more often.

From the hip is still my preferred method, but I like this strategy for family vacations, etc.

Hope this was helpful!

Cheers,

Swanagan