Calendar
A 30-day content calendar you can actually finish
8 min read · Reviewed September 2026
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The reason most small business content plans fail is that they ask you to be creative on a Tuesday. This one does not. Every entry is a specific instruction, and the whole month can be photographed in one two-hour block if you want. Three posts a week is the honest target for a business where posting is nobody's actual job. Three consistent beats seven then nothing.
How to use it
- Read the whole list once and pick the twelve that fit your business. Ignore the rest without guilt.
- Shoot everything you can in one session. Most of these are photos you already could have taken today.
- Write the captions in one sitting, all twelve, while you have momentum.
- Schedule them. Meta Business Suite is free and will post to Instagram and Facebook for you.
- Leave two slots a week empty for whatever actually happens. That is where the good stuff comes from.
Week one: who you are
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Tick as you go. Your progress is kept in this browser only, so you can close the tab and come back to it.
Week two: how it works
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Week three: proof
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Week four: now
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Bank of extras, when a slot opens up
- The view from your workspace at opening time.
- A hand-written sign, a chalkboard, the daily list.
- Someone on your team, named, and one thing they are good at.
- A local business you like, tagged. They will often return it.
- The delivery arriving. New stock, new equipment, the truck.
- A stack, a row, a grid of the thing you sell. Repetition photographs well.
- A slow pan of the empty space before opening.
- What you are listening to while you work.
- A question to the audience you will actually reply to.
- The oldest photo you have of the business.
What not to post
- Stock images with quotes on them.
- National holidays that have nothing to do with you.
- Anything political, unless it is the actual point of your business.
- Reposted memes from a page with a different logo in the corner.
- A photo so dark you cannot tell what it is. If it is bad, do not post it. A missed day costs you nothing; a bad post costs you a little.
Consistency beats quality beats quantity, in that order. Three posts a week for a year is worth more than a brilliant month followed by silence.
Take it with you
Content retainers start at $1,500 a month: one shoot day, 12 to 16 assets, photo and vertical video.