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Social media platform selection criteria that hold up

The seven criteria that decide whether a social media platform is worth your hours, scored, weighted and applied to a real UK example.

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How to find where your customers are on social media

Six free ways to work out which social media platforms your customers actually use, including the 10-question method that beats any demographic chart.

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How many social media platforms should a business use?

Two, in almost every case. The hours maths behind the answer, when three is defensible, and what happens to output quality at four channels.

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UK social media demographics and what they mean for you

How to read UK social media demographic data without being misled by it, which segments each platform genuinely reaches, and when to ignore the charts.

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Match the social media platform to your business goal

Awareness, enquiries, sales, recruitment or retention: each goal points to a different platform. The mapping, with the metric each one should be judged on.

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B2B vs B2C social media platforms: what actually differs

The real differences between B2B and B2C platform choice, why the usual advice is half wrong, and what to do when you sell to both.

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How much time each social media platform really takes

Honest weekly hour ranges for every major platform, what the hours are actually spent on, and the three costs most plans forget to budget.

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The platform fit scorecard for choosing social channels

A one-page scorecard that turns social media platform choice into a repeatable decision your team can agree on in under an hour.

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Primary and secondary social channels: how to split them

What a primary social channel owes you, what a secondary one is actually for, and the effort split that stops both drifting into mediocrity.

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Should you use the same social platforms as competitors?

When competitor channel choice is a useful signal, when it is simply inherited error, and the four checks to run before copying anyone.

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Instagram vs Facebook for business: which to pick first

Instagram or Facebook for a UK small business: who each one reaches, what they cost in hours, and the sectors where the answer is not the obvious one.

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LinkedIn vs Facebook for B2B: which one wins enquiries

LinkedIn or Facebook for UK B2B: where formal procurement buyers live, where owner-managers actually are, and why the answer splits by deal size.

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