Purpose
1. Automate the scheduling, posting, and tracking of Lexus promotional campaigns on all corporate social media channels, reducing manual effort and ensuring posts are reliably published at optimal times.
2. Centralized automation of campaign assets, captions, and hashtags for Lexus dealer marketing to maintain brand consistency.
3. Automates the approval workflow for social posts, notifications to the marketing team, and aggregating metrics for campaign performance analysis.
4. Automatedly ensures multi-channel reach and coordinated cross-network Lexus branding efforts.
5. Enables automating campaign calendar planning, holiday campaign launches, and last-minute inventory update posts.
Trigger Conditions
1. Marketing calendar milestone reached, e.g., campaign launch date arrives.
2. Automated trigger on final post approval status is set.
3. Initiate automation based on new vehicle release date or dealership event calendar update.
4. Automate upon content upload to the campaign asset repository or scheduled via web form.
5. Automated trigger when trending hashtag/keyword signals detected via social listening APIs.
Platform Variants
1. Facebook Graph API
- Feature/Setting: Configure "publish_to_groups" and "Scheduled Posts" endpoint for automating scheduled dealer and campaign posts.
2. Instagram Graph API
- Feature/Setting: Automate "Content Publishing" API to schedule Lexus posts and stories linked to events or campaigns.
3. Twitter/X API v2
- Feature/Setting: Use "POST /tweets" with scheduled_time for automating tweet campaigns.
4. LinkedIn Marketing Developer Platform
- Feature/Setting: Automate "ugcPosts" with scheduling for Lexus dealership corporate pages.
5. Hootsuite
- Feature/Setting: Automate queueing via the "Message Scheduling" API for multi-account Lexus campaign automation.
6. Buffer
- Feature/Setting: Configure "Schedules Endpoint" for automated, time-based publishing workflows.
7. Sprout Social API
- Feature/Setting: Use "Messages Scheduler" automator for automating Lexus dealership campaigns.
8. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled publishing automates dealer post timetabling across networks.
9. Zoho Social
- Feature/Setting: “Bulk Scheduler” for automated campaign post uploads and calendar sync.
10. HubSpot Social Media API
- Feature/Setting: “Schedule Social Posts” automates publishing from the marketing workspace.
11. Google My Business API
- Feature/Setting: Automate "createLocalPost" for Lexus offers and updates automatedly.
12. Pinterest API
- Feature/Setting: "pins:insert" endpoint scheduled for campaign boards or moments.
13. TikTok for Business API
- Feature/Setting: Automate "Video Upload & Publish" with scheduler hooks for Lexus promos.
14. Later.com
- Feature/Setting: Automate with “Auto Publish” to schedule and automate Instagram, Facebook content.
15. Monday.com
- Feature/Setting: Automation for deadline-based post scheduling using “Integrations” and “Automations”.
16. ContentCal (now Adobe Express Content Scheduler)
- Feature/Setting: Automated patrol calendar posting and approval flows for Lexus teams.
17. SEMrush Social Media Poster
- Feature/Setting: Configure “Scheduled Posting” automation for orchestrated publishing.
18. Agorapulse
- Feature/Setting: Use “Bulk Publishing API” to automate campaign rollout for all Lexus pages.
19. Sendible
- Feature/Setting: Automates “Smart Queues” for Lexus dealer promotions and campaigns.
20. SocialBee
- Feature/Setting: “Schedule Posts” automator for time/queue-based campaign automation.
21. Planable
- Feature/Setting: Automate collaboration, approval, and scheduled posts for Lexus teams.
22. Zoho Flow
- Feature/Setting: Automator for post-scheduling workflow, triggering posts across platforms on event.
Benefits
1. Automates repetitive social media tasks, freeing up marketing resources.
2. Reduces human error by automating scheduling and consistency checks for Lexus campaigns.
3. Accelerates Lexus dealer campaign speed to market through automated workflows.
4. Provides audit trails and automated logs for campaign compliance and reporting.
5. Supports automatable scaling to new Lexus dealership locations or sub-brands.
6. Enables automated multi-lingual campaign options via API-based content localization.
7. Ensure posts are automatedly live at optimal times for maximum reach and engagement.
8. Delivers real-time campaign performance visibility using automated metric aggregation.
9. Automates approval notifications and reminders, speeding up campaign go-lives.
10. Assures automated content compliance with Lexus corporate and regulatory guidelines.