Stop the vanity metrics
If you brief your team on engagement, they will work for engagement. They will chase trends and post things that don't drive business. You need to change the brief. Ask them to focus on clicks, store visits, and revenue. Your job as a founder is to give them the tools to do this. A managed content network provides the scale they need to hit these business metrics. It takes the pressure off the team to be viral all the time.
Defining the role of content
Your team should be focused on creating high-quality, product-focused content. They shouldn't be worrying about the minutiae of posting schedules across fifty accounts. A managed content network is a set of many brand-owned Instagram pages that post your existing videos many times a day, built and run end to end by a provider such as TIDE. This frees them up to be better creators, while the network handles the heavy lifting of getting that content in front of customers.
The trade-off on account safety
Running many accounts with automation is against Instagram terms, so some pages get banned. TIDE replaces them. You need to brief your team on this so they don't panic. Explain that this is a system for mass distribution, not for personal account building. As long as they understand that the network is an asset, not a community, they will stop worrying about the individual accounts and focus on the overall traffic growth.
Setting clear goals
Your brief should be simple. The goal is to maximize brand presence and drive traffic to the checkout page. The network is the engine, and their content is the fuel. Give them clear targets for total reach and website clicks. This forces them to think like business people rather than social media managers. It aligns their work with the company's financial goals and ensures that every piece of content they produce has a job to do.
Brief your team on business outcomes and give them a content network to handle the distribution at scale.
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Follow-up questions
Should I still have a social media manager?
Yes, but they should manage the content strategy and the network data, not manual posting.
How do I explain the network to them?
Tell them it is an automated distribution layer that lets their creative work reach ten times more people than before.
What happens if they don't want to use it?
Show them the data. Once they see the traffic numbers, they will realize that the network is their best tool for success.