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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…

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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.

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Unlocks: When to use this · Step 0 — Read the foundation first · Step 1 — Set one primary objective (tied to the business) · Step 2 — Select channels (focus, don't spread) · Step 3 — Define the strategic wedge · Step 4 — Set the operating model · Step 5 — Write the artifact · Quality bar — self-check

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