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GDPR and social media marketing in the UK

What UK GDPR and PECR mean for social media marketing in a small business: photos of people, custom audiences, messaging lists, and consent records.

07 Aug 20268 min read

Social media policy for UK small businesses

What a social media policy should cover in a UK small business: employee use, brand accounts, confidentiality, and what you can and cannot control.

05 Aug 20267 min read

Social media audit checklist for small businesses

A social media audit checklist UK small businesses can run in two hours, covering profiles, access, content performance, conversion paths and compliance.

03 Aug 20268 min read

Social media scheduling tools for UK small businesses

How to choose a social media scheduling tool for a UK small business, what to check before paying, and when a spreadsheet is still the better option.

01 Aug 20266 min read

Social media analytics tools: what a small business needs

Which social media analytics tools a UK small business actually needs, what the free native tools already cover, and when paying for one is justified.

30 Jul 20266 min read

UTM tracking for social media, set up in 20 minutes

How to set up UTM tracking for social media links so you can see which posts produce enquiries, with a naming convention that stays readable at scale.

28 Jul 20266 min read

A social media reporting dashboard with three numbers

How to build a social media report a business owner will actually read: three headline numbers, four diagnostics, and a decision at the end of every page.

26 Jul 20267 min read

How to measure social media ROI for a small business

A practical method for measuring social media ROI in a UK small business, including what to count as cost, how to attribute revenue, and honest limits.

24 Jul 20268 min read

Social commerce for UK small businesses: is it worth it?

How social commerce works for UK small businesses, which products sell in-feed, the fees and returns reality, and when to keep checkout on your own site.

22 Jul 20267 min read

Social media lead generation for UK small businesses

How to turn social media attention into enquiries: the three conversion paths, what to put in the bio, and why the destination matters more than the post.

20 Jul 20268 min read

Facebook ads versus boosted posts: which should you use?

The difference between boosting a post and running a Facebook ad, when boosting is genuinely the right call, and what small businesses lose by only boosting.

18 Jul 20267 min read

Paid social budgets for UK small businesses

What a UK small business should spend on paid social, how to structure a £500 monthly budget, and the three tests to run before you scale anything.

16 Jul 20268 min read

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