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title: Publish your first post
description: The short setup after you sign up — tell us about you, connect LinkedIn, and publish your first post in about two minutes.
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# Publish your first post

When you sign up with email, Schedule & Chill opens a short setup called **Get started**. It has four steps. You can skip any of them and finish later from the **Finish setting up** bar on your Dashboard.

## Step 1 — Tell us about you

Answer two optional questions: **Which sounds most like you?** and **How do you want to post?** Click **Continue**, or **Skip these**.

## Step 2 — Connect your account

1. Click **Connect LinkedIn**.
2. LinkedIn opens and asks you to allow Schedule & Chill to post for you. Allow it.
3. You come back to the setup.

We never read your feed, your messages or your connections. Nothing is published until you write it and press publish yourself.

Want a different platform first? Click **I'll connect later**, then follow [Connect a social channel](/help/channels/connect).

## Step 3 — Create your first post

1. The text box already has a short starter post. Change it however you like.
2. Optional: click **Add photos, a video or a PDF**.
3. Click **Publish now**.

It usually takes a few seconds. Stay on the page while it says **Publishing to LinkedIn…**.

Prefer to post later? Click **Schedule it for later instead**. This opens the full composer, where you can pick a date and time. First set your time zone — see [Profile and time zone](/help/account/profile-timezone).

You can also switch to **Use my AI tool** to create the post from Claude, ChatGPT or another AI tool. See [Connect your AI tool](/help/ai-tools/connect-ai-tool).

## Step 4 — You're live

You see **That's live on LinkedIn** and a **View your post on LinkedIn** link. Click **Go to my dashboard** to finish.

## If the post doesn't go out

You see **That post didn't go out**. Your text is safe and nothing was posted. The red box shows what LinkedIn said.

- Click **Try again**, or
- Click **Check my connection** and reconnect LinkedIn.

For more causes, see [When a post fails](/help/manage/failed-posts).

## What next

- [Write and publish a post](/help/posts/write-a-post)
- [Choose when a post goes out](/help/posts/when-to-publish)
- [Connect your AI tool](/help/ai-tools/connect-ai-tool)