Social Strategy
Use to set a brand's overall social media strategy — which channels to focus on (and which to ignore), what to achieve, the angle to win, and a rea…
By Frank Heijdenrijk, MIT licence. Shared here with credit.
Social Strategy
This is the top-level plan: which channels, what for, how to win, and at what cadence. It sits
above content-pillars (what themes) and batch-content-plan (what posts) and tells them where
to point. Everything downstream inherits the choices made here.
The core idea, and what separates strategy from a to-do list:
Strategy is choices and trade-offs — above all, what not to do. "Be on every platform, post consistently, engage your audience" is not a strategy; it's a list of platitudes that spreads a brand thin and wins nowhere. A real strategy picks the few channels where the audience is and the brand can win, deliberately drops the rest, and commits to one clear objective and a differentiated angle.