Social media with a plan behind it, not just a stream of posts
Posting regularly is not the same as having a plan. Get Ahead’s social media support starts with a simpler question: what should social media actually be doing for your business, and who is it trying to reach? Once that’s answered, the posting itself is the easy part.
Wherever you’re starting from, an honest look at what’s working now, a proper strategy for the first time, consistent execution of a plan you already have, or social fully integrated with the rest of your marketing, there’s a level of support that matches it. Explore the four services below to find the right starting point.
The Get Ahead difference
What makes our approach different is the order we do things in.
Most social media support starts with execution, more posts, more frequency, and hopes a strategy catches up later.
We start the other way round.
Our Team have run social media commercially themselves, not just studied it, and every level of support begins with clarity about what your business needs before a single post goes out. Businesses that start with us rarely end up wondering whether social media is working, because what “working” means was agreed before they started.
Social media support services
Social media support
Social media only earns its place in your marketing when it’s working toward something specific, not simply because every business is expected to have a presence. That’s the starting point for every level of support we offer.
It’s easy to lose an afternoon to LinkedIn or Instagram once you’re in there, and just as easy to let weeks slip by without posting at all when time is short. Both are symptoms of the same problem: no plan, and no one accountable for keeping to it.
Your Regional Director works with you to close that gap. It starts with an honest assessment of what’s working now, then the plan itself, and where needed, the ongoing execution: content, scheduling and monitoring, so it happens consistently rather than depending on you finding time.
Because Regional Directors sit within the wider Get Ahead team, your social media doesn’t work in isolation. It can draw on the same Virtual Experts supporting your blog and graphic design, and stays aligned with the rest of your marketing rather than running as a separate effort.
Unlike agencies offering social media alone, Get Ahead’s Regional Directors can call on the wider team, from analytics and reporting to marketing strategy. And because there’s a team behind every Region, cover continues even when one person is away.
Common Questions About Working With Get Ahead
It depends where you’re starting from. If you’re not sure whether your current social media is working, start with the Health Check. If you’ve never had a proper plan, Strategy is the place to begin. If you already have a strategy, yours or ours, and want it executed consistently, that’s Build. If you want social media fully integrated with your wider marketing and tracked against real pipeline results, that’s Run. Your Regional Director can help you work out which one fits.
No. It’s a useful starting point if you’re not sure where you stand, but it isn’t a required first step. If you already know you want ongoing execution, you can start directly with Build or Run.
You can ask us about that, but content created without a plan behind it is hard to tie back to results. Build assumes a strategy is already in place, yours or ours, and focuses purely on consistent execution, so it’s often closer to what businesses are actually after than a posts-only arrangement.
Yes. Each level builds on the one before it, so moving from Health Check to Strategy, or from Build to Run, is a natural next step rather than starting again from scratch.
We don’t assume you need to be on all of them. Part of the value is recommending the one or two platforms that are actually worth your time, rather than spreading effort thinly across every channel.
Pricing depends on your business and the level of support you need, so it sits with a conversation rather than a published rate. Get in touch and your Regional Director will talk through the right option and cost for you.
