Ever feel like you’re always repeating yourself when answering Facebook comments?

Or have you had a quick spark of inspiration for your next Facebook post and regretted not being able to capture it?

Prepare to be delighted. There’s a powerful tool that lets you quickly capture your Facebook post ideas on-the-go. For free.

What is this free note-taking tool? It’s the trusty Google Keep.

What are the key benefits of using Google Keep?

Your days can get hectic to the point where you barely have time to site to gather your thoughts and ideas. If that’s true for you, then you would love Google Keep because of these reasons:

All your thoughts and ideas in one portable place

You can install Google Keep on your phone and jot down your thoughts wherever you go. When you switch devices, your notes are synced as long as you save them on the same Google account.

There’s a minimal learning curve with Google Keep. You’re practically up and running within a few minutes of tinkering.

Uncomplicated interface with an easy-to-organize tagging system

Google Keep is quite literally your digital post-its, but with the added functionality of pinning, labeling, and searching your notes (you are also paperless with Google Keep, which is a plus for the environment!).

Save different kinds of media: photo, voice, links, and notes in one place

Inspirations and ideas don’t come from just one place. Google Keep keeps up with that and lets you store, classify, and organize your thoughts and inspirations may it be an article, a quote, a photo, or a brilliant line that just came to you.

Share your note

You can share post ideas, to-do lists, and commonly used information or message to other collaborators using this free tool.

Set reminders on your notes

Being able to remind yourself of a note when you need it is a great way to simplify your work process. This Google Keep functionality allows you to virtually ‘set it and forget it’… until you need to be reminded of it, of course!

Here are other features of Google Keep that you could take advantage of for managing your small business:

• Create To-Do Lists
• Save (bookmark) links and categorize the links per topic through labels
• Pin notes to have it always appear on top
• Color-code your notes as a way to categorize

Google Keep Application: How to use Google Keep to organize your Facebook post ideas

1. Identify what type of Facebook posts and customer messages your business sends out.

Before you start using Google Keep, think about what types of content you want to share with your Facebook followers.

For a food delivery business, the type of regular content you may have could be the following:

• Facebook posts about the menu of the day or week
• Facebook posts highlighting a dish or ingredient
• Facebook posts showing customer reviews and images

In addition to that, you may also have messages that you send out to your customers, which could be:

• Menu
• Special offers

Once you have an idea of what you usually post and what kind of messages you send, this will help you identify the types of tags and notes you want in your Google Keep.

2. Use Google Keep to streamline your Facebook page posting and Messaging process.

Have you ever spent so much time retyping the same call-to-action on your Facebook post or retyping the same answer to a similar question?

It’s frustrating, isn’t it?

That’s why you’ll love Google Keep.

It reduces the time you spend each day retyping the same things over and over. Once you create a label called FAQ, you can simply populate it and copy and paste as needed:

• Get asked a lot about payment methods? Save that information on your Google Keep.
• Need to inform customers always about which numbers to call? Make that readily available on Google Keep.
• Have people always asking in the comment section about pickup location and delivery coverage? Save that on your Google Keep.

Other than a one-stop storage space for your FAQ, you can also create labels on Google Keep around these subjects:

• Call-to-actions
• Opening lines that inspired you that you can use for future posts
• A selection of hashtags you can use on your daily posts
• A thematic grouping of hashtags based on topic (e.g., food hashtags, travel hashtags)

Here’s how you can organize the labels on your Google Keep for Facebook page posting:

 

When you have all this plug-and-play information in one place, you save yourself a great deal of trouble remembering and retyping. It also speeds up your work and response time, which helps you catch an interested customer early and prevent a prospective buyer from looking elsewhere.

By streamlining your Facebook page posting and page management process with Google Keep’s help, you can be faster, more efficient, and have more time to keep the post ideas flowing.

3. Use Google Keep to collaborate with other members of your team

Share specific notes to your team members with Google Keep by adding a collaborator on the note. This saves you time because giving access to commonly shared information about your business makes messaging easier and consistent. Using a single source where essential information about your business is kept makes messaging less-prone to errors and typos, so your business consistently comes across as professional.

Conclusion

Managing your own business entails that you are on top of most, if not all, aspects of running it. You want to make sure you save as much time as possible and use reliable methods to keep your workflow as well-oiled as possible.

Try out Google Keep and reap the benefits of saving time and collaborating with your team, so you deliver messages that are consistent, helpful, and quick.

Download Google Keep on your phone, access your synced notes from any device, and enjoy hassle-free access to business information that you can quickly share with your customers.