Your Audience Is Not a Neighbourhood. It Is a Timetable.
In most towns the people who buy from you live near you, and posting to a local audience means something. In London the people at your counter at one o’clock work two streets away and live forty minutes off; the people at seven are heading home past you; the people on Saturday came from four miles in the other direction. That is three different audiences at one address, and most accounts here post to a single imaginary local one that does not exist.
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Six audiences that share your postcode and nothing else
Each of these is a different person with a different reason to be near you, and they are not reachable by the same post at the same hour.
- The lunchtime crowdWorks nearby · lives nowhere near
- The commuter at sevenPassing · deciding in ninety seconds
- The Saturday visitorTravelled deliberately, from further out
- The person who actually lives hereA minority, and often the smallest one
- Somebody visiting the citySearching before they leave the hotel
- The person who moved awayStill follows you · will not return
The last row is the quiet problem with a London follower count. People move borough, move out, and change jobs constantly, and every one of those takes them out of your catchment while leaving them following you. An account here decays faster than the number suggests, which is why the follower total is a particularly poor measure in this city and why we do not report against it.
The same content at the wrong hour reaches a different business
Once you accept that the audience arrives in shifts, the posting schedule stops being a convenience and becomes the strategy. A post at eleven reaches people deciding where to have lunch. The same post at six reaches people deciding whether to stop on the way to a station. At ten on a Friday it reaches somebody planning a Saturday. Those are three separate propositions and treating them as one calendar entry is how a London account produces steady output and no result.
It also changes what is worth saying. The lunchtime audience needs speed and certainty: what is on today, how long the queue is, whether you take cards. The Saturday audience is deciding whether the journey is worth making, which is a completely different argument and needs proof rather than convenience. Writing for both in one post produces something that persuades neither.
Location tags and city-level targeting are close to useless at this scale, and it is worth saying plainly because they are the first thing most agencies reach for. Targeting London reaches a population larger than several of the countries we work in. What is actually useful is a tight radius, a specific postcode set, or the honest admission that your reach is a walk and a bus route rather than a city.
And the competition in the same feed is not who you think. A local business here is scrolled past between two national brands with production budgets you cannot match, both of which are also physically present in your area and advertising to the same postcodes. Competing on polish is a game you lose by entering. What you have instead is being specifically, verifiably real about a place they are describing generically.
- ✓The schedule is the strategy — Eleven, six and Friday night are three different propositions.
- ✓Lunch wants speed, Saturday wants proof — One post cannot carry both arguments.
- ✓City targeting is not local targeting — London is bigger than several markets we work in.
- ✓Follower counts decay faster here — People move borough, move out, change jobs. Constantly.
- ✓Do not compete on polish — National brands are in the same feed and the same postcodes.
Three audiences share your postcode and nothing else. Most London accounts post to a fourth one that does not exist.
What we run for a London business
Six things, and the first one is a clock rather than a calendar.
A Schedule Built From Footfall
Your own busy and quiet hours turned into a posting clock, because the same content at eleven and at six reaches two different businesses’ worth of people.
Written for Three Audiences
Speed and certainty for the lunchtime crowd, proof and reason for the Saturday visitor. Separate posts, because one that serves both persuades neither.
Radius, Not City
Tight postcode sets and walking-distance targeting rather than a London tag that reaches a population bigger than several of our markets. It costs less and works better.
Made on a Phone, on Site
What is actually happening today, filmed where it happens. It is the one thing a national brand in the same feed structurally cannot produce about your street.
Answered While They Are Nearby
A question about opening hours from somebody two streets away is a decision being made now. Covered hours matched to when people are actually deciding.
Measured on Arrivals, Not Followers
Bookings, calls, people who mention seeing it. Follower counts are a poor measure everywhere and a worse one here, where the audience keeps physically leaving.
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— Our Proprietary Methodology —
The Visibility Framework™, applied in London
The method doesn’t change by market. What it’s pointed at does.
Audit & Listen
Existing accounts, competitor feeds, audience demographics and every comment and review already written about you. Ends with a recommendation on which platforms to keep.
Position & Plan
Content pillars, brand voice, visual direction and a first calendar — agreed with you before a single post is produced.
Produce & Publish
Shooting, editing, writing, scheduling and replying. The part that has to happen every week without fail, which is where most in-house efforts quietly stop.
Amplify & Refine
Budget behind proven pieces, formats that underperform dropped, and the calendar rewritten monthly around what the data actually said.
Honest, No-Nonsense Commitment
Nobody controls a platform’s algorithm, so we will never promise you a viral post or a follower number. What we do commit to: the agreed content volume ships every month, every comment and DM is answered inside the agreed window, and if we miss either, that month is on us.
Social Media Management pricing for London, in GBP
Quoted in pounds, on UK working hours. Where paid is part of it, ad spend is billed separately and paid straight to the platform — and in this city a tight radius is usually cheaper as well as better than anything targeted at London as a whole.
Local
One site, one platform, done to a clock.
- Posting schedule built from your own footfall
- Written separately for lunch and weekend
- Messages answered when people are nearby
Growth
The usual one. Two platforms, plus video.
- Everything in Local, across two platforms
- Filmed on site, monthly
- Radius-targeted paid on posts that already worked
- Optional: bundle in SEO or Website Development
Multi-Site
Several London locations.
- Per-location schedules and radius sets
- Shared production, local content per site
- Reported on arrivals per location
- Optional: combine all 4 services for full-funnel growth
Every plan is scoped around your market — get a free audit and we’ll recommend what fits, priced in GBP.
What you’re actually committing to
Most agencies keep this in a contract you only see after the sales call. We would rather you knew now, because it is the question everyone asks second — right after the price.
- A 3-month initial term, then month to monthThree months is the shortest period in which a content approach can be judged honestly — month one is mostly setup and production. The wider industry standard is 6 to 12 months.
- 30 days’ notice to stopNo exit fee and no buy-out of the months you haven’t used. You leave when you decide to, not when the contract lets you.
- No setup or onboarding feeThe audit is free, and month one costs exactly what month two costs. Nothing is front-loaded.
- You own everythingAccounts, page roles, ad accounts, raw footage and every finished asset — in your name from day one, and still yours if we part ways.
- Ad spend never touches our invoiceYou pay the platform directly and keep the billing under your own control. Our fee is our fee.
- An agreed response windowThe time we commit to replying to comments and DMs is written into your agreement, not left to goodwill.
These are the terms as they appear in the agreement itself — nothing here is softened for the website. The full wording lives in our terms and conditions, and you get the agreement to read before anything is signed or invoiced.
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