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Social media scheduler or done-for-you posts? Compared

A fair look at the five ways small businesses usually get posts written, including the cases where we are not the right choice.

The options

Option	Price signal	Best when	Trade-off
Do it yourself	Your time	You enjoy it and have an hour a day	Posting stops when work gets busy
Scheduler (Buffer etc.)	Buffer lists free up to 3 channels, $5 per channel a month for Essentials	You have content and want to schedule it	It does not write or design for you
Design tool plus AI captions	Varies by plan	You want control and have time	You prompt, edit and design each post
Freelancer	Guides cite about $500 to $2,500 a month	You want a person who knows you	Cost and availability
Agency	Guides cite $2,000 to $5,000 a month for full service	You want strategy, ads, reports	Price; overkill for just posts
MyClawn Posts	$49 or $149 a month	You need a month of posts planned and written	No posting, no engagement, no ads

Price ranges come from published guides by agencies and software vendors; use them as indicative.

When an agency or freelancer is better

If you want someone to answer comments, shoot photos, run ads, or tell you what the numbers say, hire a person. A person also knows things not on your website. We read your site and your notes, so a business whose real story is not written down gets generic results.

Paste your website. Starter $49/mo · Pro $149/mo. Refund within 14 days if it misses.

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When DIY AI tools are enough

If you enjoy writing and only need a nudge, a caption generator or a design tool with templates may do. The cost is your time: prompting, editing for your voice, resizing for three platforms, building a calendar. The value of a done-for-you month is that this is done and arrives as files.

What we do differently

Starts from your website: your wording, services and location.
Three platform captions per post: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn.
A photo or image direction for every post: a photo from your site or upload when one fits, otherwise a one-line direction for what to photograph or design. No stock people, no generated faces.
A Check list of anything unverified, so we do not invent prices, awards or reviews.
You stay in control: nothing goes live until you post it.

Details: how it works, pricing, or paste your site.

What to ask any provider

Will you post on my accounts, and what access do you need?
Where do the facts in the posts come from?
Whose faces are in the images?
What happens if a post is wrong: how many changes, and is there a refund?
What exactly do I get, as files, and can I take it elsewhere?

Our answers: you post, we never ask for logins; facts come from your site and notes with unverified items listed; no people in images; two rounds of changes and a 14-day refund; files you keep.

A realistic split

Many small businesses end up combining: a done-for-you month of posts for the baseline, plus their own photos and quick updates when something happens, plus a scheduler. If you later hire an agency, the calendar and captions are a useful brief.

Schedulers solve posting, not writing

A scheduler lets you plan posts on a calendar and publish them at set times across networks. Buffer's own pricing page lists a free plan for up to 3 channels, $5 per channel a month for Essentials and $10 per channel for Team. Roundups of schedulers also report entry plans around $18 to $20 a month for Later and Metricool and about $79 per seat for Sprout Social, though those are second-hand figures to check before relying on them. All of them assume you arrive with finished content. If your bottleneck is the content, a scheduler does not fix it. If the bottleneck is remembering to post, it does.

The two fit together: our output includes schedule.csv, one row per post per platform with Date, Time, Time zone, Platform, Caption, Image URL and Link, so a month of content can be loaded into a scheduler you already pay for. We have not verified every tool's import format, so check yours; add images by hand if needed.

Questions

Can I use a scheduler with this?

Yes. schedule.csv is built for loading into a scheduler such as Buffer or Meta Business Suite. Check your tool's import format, and add images by hand if it does not take image links.