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Social Media Strategy

We build a full game plan for your social media that matches your goals and the people you want to reach. It's like a coach drawing up plays before the season instead of just winging each game.

Starting at
$7,497
Nationwide
U.S. coverage + 5 countries
5.0★
112+ reviews
29
Years in business
600+
Sites built & hosted
A+
BBB accredited

The Challenge

Ann Arbor companies post to social media without clear strategies, resulting in inconsistent presence, random content, and inability to measure business impact.

Our Solution

AppWT develops social strategies that connect daily activities to business goals. Your social presence becomes a measurable marketing channel instead of directionless posting.

About Our Social Media Strategy Services

Social media strategy transforms random posting into business results. AppWT develops roadmaps defining goals, target audiences, platform selection, content themes, posting frequencies, and success metrics. We analyze competitor presence, identify audience demographics, and select platforms where your customers actively engage. Strategies include content pillars that balance promotional, educational, and entertaining content. We define brand voice guidelines, visual standards, and engagement protocols that maintain consistency. Community growth tactics, influencer partnership approaches, and paid promotion strategies accelerate results. Grand Rapids businesses generate measurable ROI from social media through strategic approaches that connect platform activities to revenue outcomes.

What's Included

✓ Objectives defined before any channel is chosen
✓ Audience research grounded in real platform data
✓ Content pillars with a defined mix
✓ Cadence set to what you can genuinely sustain
✓ Competitor activity reviewed from public sources
✓ Measurement plan agreed before execution begins

Technical Details

Social media strategy development represents a foundational consulting engagement that establishes the architectural framework for all subsequent social media activities, encompassing audience intelligence, competitive positioning, content ecosystems, resource allocation, and measurement frameworks. Comprehensive strategy projects ($2,000-$25,000 depending on scope and consultant seniority) typically span 4-8 weeks and produce deliverables including situational analysis (SWOT assessment, competitive audit analyzing 3-10 competitor social presences, industry benchmarking against vertical-specific metrics), audience persona development (3-5 detailed personas incorporating demographic, psychographic, and behavioral attributes sourced from CRM data, social listening insights, and primary research), platform prioritization matrix (evaluating each platform against audience presence, content-market fit, resource requirements, and competitive density), content strategy framework (pillar/cluster topic architecture, content mix ratios, voice and tone guidelines, visual identity standards), and KPI framework (establishing primary, secondary, and diagnostic metrics aligned with business objectives across awareness, consideration, and conversion stages). Advanced strategic frameworks incorporate customer journey mapping aligned with social touchpoints, identifying optimal content interventions at each awareness, consideration, decision, and advocacy stage. Attribution modeling recommendations address the inherent complexity of social media measurement, with multi-touch attribution models accounting for social's predominantly top-of-funnel role while establishing view-through and assisted conversion tracking protocols. Strategic retainer engagements ($1,500-$15,000/month) provide ongoing strategic oversight including monthly performance reviews, quarterly strategy refinements, competitive intelligence briefings, platform algorithm update assessments, and crisis communication protocol maintenance.
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Service Area

Social Media Strategy Across Metro Detroit & Beyond

Our headquarters sits at Five Mile and Farmington in Livonia. We have served Michigan businesses since 1997 — 29+ years from one home base, now serving clients nationwide across the United States and in five more countries.

Livonia Home Base

Objectives before channels. Nothing is chosen at Five Mile and Farmington until there is a stated business outcome the activity is supposed to produce.

Wayne County Corridor

Cadence you can actually sustain. Plans for Westland, Garden City, Plymouth, Canton and Dearborn businesses are sized to the staff who will run them, not to an ideal.

Oakland County

Competitor activity is read from public posting, not guessed. Farmington Hills, Novi, Southfield, Birmingham and Troy firms get what is observable, stated as observation.

Beyond Metro Detroit

The measurement plan is agreed first. Flint, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Grand Rapids and 21-state clients fix the definitions before execution, so success cannot be redefined afterwards.

Not in Metro Detroit? We work remotely with clients nationwide. Reach out for a free consult.

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