Classic examples we have all seen:

  • “Post more.”
  • “Go viral.”
  • “Do a TikTok.”
  • “Do whatever the competitor did on Tuesday.”

These are wishes. In our experience a strategy that works fits on a sticky note:

  1. Who you are talking to (a role or situation, not “everyone”)
  2. What you help them with
  3. A rhythm you can keep for a year with the people you have

Everything else, formats, networks, hooks, comes after those three lines. Without them every planning meeting starts from zero and the account posts a lot while saying very little.

Curious what the community has run into. What was the vaguest brief you got for social, and how did you turn it into something workable?