Which of your posts actually did anything?

How Social Post Report actually works

Most small businesses that post regularly have never read their own numbers back. The figures sit there in Instagram or Facebook, but a scroll through last month’s reach tells you nothing you can act on, and the honest answer to “is any of this working?” ends up being a shrug. This employee owns that question for one period at a time.

1. Choose this reporting windowOne completed period and one exact evidence set, pinned before it starts, so a retry cannot quietly produce a second brief about the same numbers.
2. Read the post resultsOnly the accounts, report or saved Source you selected, plus the goal you confirmed. Captions and uploaded text are read as evidence, never as instructions.
3. Compare like with likeOnly measures with the same definition, unit and period get compared. A missing or failed value stays missing rather than quietly becoming a zero.
4. Find the strongest learningOne supported pattern, outlier or gap — with the sample size and the attribution limit stated next to it, not buried underneath it.
5. Choose one next testOne small content test, and the exact measure you would judge it by when the next window closes.
6. Save the briefDated, in Results: the period checked, the accounts or reports used, how current they were, the posts compared, what the evidence supports and what it cannot.

The brief that lands is deliberately short. One learning, not nine. One test, not a content strategy. The point of a small test with a stated measure is that the next window can settle it either way — which is what turns a feed into something you can actually steer.

What it will not do

• Create or publish a post, or reply to a comment or a message
• Change an advertising campaign, a budget or any spend
• Claim a post won you revenue, a lead or a booking that the evidence cannot attribute
• Compare metrics with different definitions, windows or units as though they matched
• Treat an empty, unavailable or failed response as zero performance
• Read an account, property or Source you have not selected
• Promise you more reach, engagement, followers, leads or sales

The Control you set decides how much any employee does on its own. This one is unusual: all four settings end in the same place, because none of them gives it an outward action. It can prepare the brief as a draft, save the brief and the proposed test for you to read, work to the schedule you set, or simply check and report — and in every case the only thing it produces is a brief in Results. Every employee lands paused, and you choose which accounts it can use.

Who it’s for

Anyone already posting and never looking at what happened next — which, in practice, is most owner-run firms whose next job comes off a local feed. Portrait photographers get one real run at it a year: August is the biggest UK wedding month at 32,121, January is 5,878, and a five-and-a-half-fold swing means the posts that work need to be known before the season rather than picked over after it. Landscaping runs March to October and domestic cleaning bunches into June to August on end-of-tenancy work, so both spend the busy months posting and the quiet months guessing. Salons and beauty rooms are the sharpest case of all: on Fresha, Treatwell or Booksy they already hand 20 to 40 per cent of a booking to a marketplace, which makes their own feed the cheapest booking route they have and the one most worth measuring properly. Motor repair sits on the same shape: busiest at the March and September plate changes, quietest on the feed at exactly the same time.

It suits the export route as much as the connected one, so a one-van business that has never connected anything can still hand over a downloaded report and get the same brief. See the rest of the roster on the employees page.

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