Multi-location social posting
With Multi-location Business Hub’s social posting, you can:
- Post to multiple Facebook, Instagram or Google Business Profile pages in one go
- Customize posts for each individual location through dynamic content and allow the individual locations to customize multi-location posts in their own Social Marketing app.
- Review and monitor brand performance and drill down on individual locations in one view
How does it work?
Before you begin, make sure you have Actonia’s Multi-location Business Hub set up and that each location has Social Marketing Standard or Pro.
For best results, each location should be set up as an individual account with a Facebook, Instagram, and Google Business Profile connected to its own Social Marketing app.
Creating a post
Go to Multi-Location Business Hub > Social > Overview. Here you will see the overview of your Brand’s social performance with details for each location. Click on the Compose Post button to open the Composer.
Note: Posting to Instagram and using the AI feature is a Pro functionality.
Step 2 – Google Business Events and Call To Actions are also included while composing a post.
Step 3 – Refine Locations
By default, all locations are selected. Click Refine Locations to select locations by Group, Geography, or Location.
- Group – select a group that you’ve previously created. You can create groups according to however you want to classify your locations. (Example: franchises, corporate-owned branches, etc.)
- Geography – select locations by country or by state/province
- Location – select specific locations that you want to include in your post
Step 4 – Recent, scheduled will have posts mentioned as one for Facebook and Google Business Profile. Click on all locations to see the accounts where the post was made. Click on all locations to see the accounts where the post was made.
Click on the individual account name to go to a single location.
Dynamic content
Once you’ve refined the locations, you can proceed with creating your post. Using dynamic content, you can customize your post for each location. Simply click on the dynamic content icon 
to add any of the following information:
- Business name
- City
- Phone number
Dynamic content automatically pulls each location’s details. You can see what your post looks like in the preview pane of the composer.
Once you’re done with your post, you can choose to either publish it immediately or schedule it for a specific date and time.
Easy customization
Each location can customize a scheduled multi-location post through Social Marketing in its own Business Hub. They can edit the post as they would with any regular post: change the date and time of posting, edit copy, change images, add hashtags, etc.
Simply go to Business Hub > Social Marketing > My Posts > Scheduled Posts or click View More on the Scheduled Posts section on the Overview page. You will see the scheduled multi-location post and will be able to edit it.
NOTE: Editing a multi-location post for a single location will prevent you from making bulk edits to this location’s post through the Multi-location Business Hub.
If you try to make changes to your multi-location Scheduled Posts, you will also see a notice through Multi-location Business Hub > Social > Managed Posts > Scheduled Posts.
Manage Posts
Clicking on Multi-location Business Hub > Social > Managed Posts will allow you to view Recent Posts. You can also view and edit Scheduled Posts, as well as retry any posts that may have failed. You can also see which locations are included in each post by clicking the locations link.
After opening Social Marketing using Multi-location Business Hub, users will see “Manage Posts” which will allow having a birds-eye view of Recent, Scheduled, and Failed posts:
Note there is also an empty state with “compose a post” to direct users to write a new post. Recent posts will appear here or there will be an empty state:
Scheduled posts will appear here or there will be an empty state:
Failed posts will appear here or there will be an empty state:
Overview
Finally, through the Overview page, you can see how your overall brand is doing and compare performance among your different locations.
Clicking a location will open a side panel with more details specific to the location. Through this panel, you can launch this location’s Business Hub, Social Marketing app, or Executive Report in a separate tab.