Hi all -I’d love to get some participating in this week’s experiment.  There have been some questions around Scheduled posts vs. Live posts and if they get less visibility.  I think we have had people say in general that they don’t see a drop.  But I’d love to get some measurements.  

Let’s pick 3 posts to schedule this week, and 3 posts to do live.  Try and make them very similar if possible.  Do one post that includes a picture in the scheduled and one post with a picture live.  Then choose the other two in each category based on the type of content you usually post.  Let us know the interaction – Reach, shares, likes comments for each set.  I will be doing this too!  

I’m in……….. have seen mixed reviews about this as well. Will let you know my results. Will do on a fairly new page and an older one with a lot more fans.

@lorithueme @kc_kreative  Yes I am talking about using the Facebook Scheduler.  But if you are currently using another tool, that may be some interesting data too!

@andrea-vahl I can’t believe that FB scheduler or live makes much of a difference. I haven’t really seen one. My scheduled Labor Day posts had better views than some of my weekly posts Still I’m interested to see what the results might show…

@andrea-vahl just a thought but wont the results be a bit biased, if you don’t post your updates on optimum days and at the optimum time, you may not get any responses. But I am willing to give it a shot.

@andrea-vahl Have used both and noticed more engagement with the FB scheduler.  Was very glad when I found about it for my FB group.

I will test during the course of the week.
Looking forward to the results.

I use the FB scheduler and I don’t notice much of a difference. I think there are still some “peak times” that our FB community members go on and see our post. I have used a 3rd party app to schedule as well, but I do like the fact that FB has their own scheduler now!

So sorry I didn’t post about the results, @kathyweir!  It’s been a little crazy for me lately.  

SO my results were basically that there wasn’t any difference between a scheduled post and a non-scheduled post.  I did this on a page where my reach usually averages around 200-250 people.  

Scheduled              Reach
Picture post             196   
Video post               237
Status update           201

Posted Live             Reach
Picture Post              204
Video post                 224
Status update            181

So there is really nothing I could see that changed.  Anyone else have any data to share? 

One other interesting thing that I saw, @kathyweir
I did a post with Social RSS and NetworkedBlogs on my Grandma Mary page,  which are the third party apps obviously and I normally get between 700-900 in reach and with the Social RSS I had 951 and with NetworkedBlogs I had 929.  So that didn’t show any diminished reach.