About This Automation
Social promotion for a bar or pub involves planning weekly themes, writing copy, designing graphics, and coordinating approval before anything goes live. Doing this by hand means juggling design tools, chat threads, and scheduling queues while waiting on sign-off from a manager.
An automated version drafts content from a standing calendar, resizes and queues approved posts automatically, and tracks comments and messages so replies happen faster. The result is a consistent weekly posting rhythm with far less manual coordination.
Top friction points when done manually
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Automation readiness
How well-suited this process is for automation
How The Automation Works
The full workflow, from trigger to completion.
A new entry in the content calendar kicks off the workflow every Monday morning.
The Content Calendar & Copy pulls this week's theme and drafts post copy and captions.
Auto-populates the venue's templates with the drafted copy and this week's photos.
If the manager rejects a draft, the marketing coordinator makes the requested edits directly.
The Scheduling & Publishing resizes the approved creative for each platform and loads it into the queue.
Publishes the queued posts at their scheduled times across all connected platforms.
The Engagement Monitoring scans comments and DMs, drafts suggested replies, and flags anything urgent.
Receives the compiled engagement numbers and the list of flagged items needing a human reply.
Most popular tool stack used
— the complete tool combinations companies use
Google Sheets
Canva
Buffer
Instagram
Slack
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Microsoft OutlookWhat you get when you map this process
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ROI and business case
What this process costs today and what changes once it's automated.
Launch schedule
What gets built, in what order, and what success looks like once it's live.
Process runbook
How the automation runs day to day, including exceptions and human decision points.
Developer handover pack
Full build spec, logic, and configuration — ready to hand off without a briefing call.
Integration and connections guide
Every tool connection, credential, and data mapping the build needs.
Test and QA plan
Every scenario checked and signed off before the automation goes live.
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