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Buyers hire a person, not a letterhead

Nobody instructs a firm because its company page posted a legal update. They instruct the partner whose thinking they have been reading for eight months.

What's different here

Professional-services social is almost always run from the firm account, which reaches close to nobody organically and says nothing a buyer could not get from any competitor. The asset is the individual practitioner — their judgement, their read on a change in the rules, their willingness to say what they would actually advise. That is uncopyable, it is what buyers are selecting for, and it sits unused because publishing it feels like personal promotion rather than firm business.

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Professional Services clients

NorthwindLumen LabsHarborlineVerdantAtlas FoodsPoka HealthBrightsideCobalt BankMeridianArdentFoundryKestrel
Vertical-specific tactics

What social media looks like for professional services firms.

These are the plays that wouldn't appear on a generic social media page — they only make sense in professional services.

01

Publish from partners, keep the firm page for credentials

Personal accounts reach the buying committee; company pages reach almost nobody. The firm page is genuinely useful for credibility checks and recruitment, which is what it should be built for rather than being fed a content calendar it cannot distribute.

02

React to changes faster than anyone publishes analysis

When a rule, rate or threshold changes, the useful post is a partner saying what it means for a specific client situation, within a day. The considered firm-wide briefing arrives three weeks later and competes with every other firm's identical briefing.

03

Write to the advertising rules from the first draft

Outcome claims, comparative superlatives and anything implying a guaranteed result carry professional-conduct risk. Writing to that constraint from the start avoids the review cycle that kills most partner publishing programmes after two months.

04

Ghostwrite from interviews, never ask partners to type

Billable time is worth more than typing and every programme that requires partners to write has died. A recorded thirty-minute conversation yields several weeks of posts, edited elsewhere and approved in minutes rather than drafted in hours.

The constraints

What holds professional services firms back

01

You're invisible at the moment of need

Clients search when a problem becomes urgent. If you're not in the map pack or the top three results that week, you don't exist to them.

02

Referrals aren't scalable

Referral-led firms have a hard growth ceiling and no control over timing or volume. One retiring referrer can dent a whole quarter.

03

Multi-office sites compete with themselves

Near-identical location pages get treated as duplicates and cannibalize each other's rankings — a problem most firms never diagnose.

04

Your expertise isn't visible online

Partners with genuine authority publish nothing. Meanwhile competitors with thinner credentials own the search results.

What's included

The full scope.

Everything in a social media engagement, applied to professional services.

01

Content strategy & pillars

A defined point of view, 4–6 content pillars, and repeatable formats your audience learns to recognize and expect.

02

Full content production

Static graphics, carousels, short-form video, and copy — produced, scheduled, and published for you.

03

Platform-native adaptation

Each platform gets content built for its behavior, not one asset resized five ways.

04

Community management

Comment and DM response within business hours, with escalation paths for support and sales conversations.

05

Creator & influencer partnerships

Sourcing, negotiation, briefing, and performance tracking for creator collaborations.

06

Social listening

Brand mention monitoring, competitor tracking, and trend identification feeding back into the content calendar.

07

Owned-audience funnels

Lead magnets, link-in-bio funnels, and email capture that convert social attention into a list you actually control.

08

Monthly performance reporting

Engagement, growth, and social-attributed revenue — plus what we learned and what changes next month.

The process

How this runs.

  1. Audit & positioning

    Weeks 1–2

    Analyze your current social, your competitors, and your audience. Define the point of view that will make you distinctive.

  2. Build the system

    Weeks 2–3

    Content pillars, format templates, brand kit, and a 90-day calendar mapped to business goals.

  3. Produce & publish

    Ongoing

    Batch production, approval workflow, and consistent publishing across every managed platform.

  4. Engage & grow

    Daily

    Active community management, proactive engagement in your niche, and creator partnerships.

  5. Analyze & double down

    Monthly

    Monthly review of what resonated, then reallocating production toward the formats that are working.

Investment

Scoped like the core service, no surcharge.

Every engagement is quoted from your actual brief. There's no vertical surcharge for this combination — request a quote and we'll scope it properly.

Presence

Brands needing consistent, quality output.

Scoped to your brief

  • 2 platforms managed
  • 16 posts/month
  • Content calendar & scheduling
  • Basic community management
  • Monthly reporting
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Growth

Brands treating social as a real acquisition channel.

Scoped to your brief

  • 4 platforms managed
  • 40 posts/month incl. short-form video
  • Daily community management
  • Creator partnerships (2/mo)
  • Social listening & trend response
  • Lead magnet & funnel build
  • Dedicated social strategist
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Authority

Category leaders and executive brand building.

Scoped to your brief

  • Unlimited platforms
  • Daily publishing cadence
  • Executive / founder brand program
  • Full creator program management
  • Crisis & reputation monitoring
  • Dedicated content squad
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All engagements start with a free audit. Prices exclude media spend, which you pay directly to the platforms on accounts you own.

Questions

Professional Services questions, answered straight.

That risk is real and worth naming rather than dismissing — audiences do follow people, and people do move. What makes it manageable is doing it across several partners rather than one, so the firm's presence does not rest on any individual, and building the resulting audience into channels the firm owns, principally an email list. What is not a solution is routing everything through the firm account, because that reaches nobody and leaves you with neither the risk nor the return.

Social Media × Professional Services

Let's talk about your growth constraint.

Nobody instructs a firm because its company page posted a legal update. They instruct the partner whose thinking they have been reading for eight months.

Our commitment: First month is scoped as a paid pilot. If you're not happy with the content quality, we refund it in full.