I have found a couple of new services that I use.

Bookbrush – I love this site. Creating content for your books is easy, and I can even develop covers, box sets, and trailers. I got the platinum plan. Totally worth it! There is a free option with fewer services available.

Later – a content calendar service with a focus on analytics. The one thing I liked about Later is that I could use one graphic to create a post for multiple social media types. The program would check and see if the graphic needed to be cropped automatically and let you crop it to make sure it would look right (sometimes I would have to remake the graphic to fit, but most times, it was fine).

Canva – When my friend ( Thank you @itjustmakesbeautifulscents) introduced me to Canva, I was skeptical because I was currently using a program called Later to schedule my posts ( it was easy to schedule posts). I took a closer look at Canva a few months later(before my Later subscription was up in Later and found Canva’s setup worked better for me.

Canva VS Later

Disclaimer:  I tested out both programs (I had bought a year of Later before I found out Canva and did a thirty-day trial of Canva.

With Later, I would spend a ton of time creating graphics (which I do enjoy but not all the time). Canva has several templates to make things easy to create social media posts and even swag, along with a content calendar to make scheduling your commands easier. The one thing I didn’t like about Canva was that I needed to make a separate graphic for each type of post. This is both good and bad. The sizes of the graphics were better, but you need to resize the graphic for each one, but this is available in the program.

Pros and Cons: Later was focuses on analytics and can make many posts immediately from one graphic. I enjoyed the program for the year I had it. The yearly cost of the program was 150.00 for the year or 12.50 a month. They have monthly plans available too.

Canva focuses on content creation, and you have to make separate graphics for each post. Canva is 119.99 per year with monthly options available.