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You're Posting 5x/Week and Getting Nothing. Here's What's Actually Wrong.

The 6-category audit that separates social media activity from social media results in 20 minutes

Steve Burk·Co-Founder·8 min read

What You'll Learn

  • A 6-category audit that diagnoses whether your social media drives revenue or just burns hours
  • The metric 90% of businesses track that tells you absolutely nothing about social ROI
  • The 80/20 content mix rule — and why most businesses have it completely backwards
  • A traffic-light scoring system: Green (driving value), Yellow (fixable), Red (burning time)

Business owners and marketing managers spending 10+ hours/week on social media with flat engagement and no measurable pipeline. At 10 hours/week × $30/hour, that's $15,600/year. If social isn't generating trackable revenue, that's the annual cost of activity without strategy.

10 Hours a Week. Zero Measurable Revenue. Sound Familiar?

Imagine knowing exactly which social media efforts are driving revenue — and which ones are just 'being active.' Not guessing. Not hoping the algorithm favors you this week. A clear, scored audit that tells you: these 3 things are working, these 2 things are wasting time, and here's the one change that would 3X your social ROI.

That's what this audit does. In 20 minutes, you'll have a complete diagnosis of your social media strategy — or, more likely, your lack of one. Because the problem with most social media programs isn't the content. It's that there's no strategy connecting the content to business outcomes.

10 hours/week × 52 weeks × $30/hour = $15,600/year. That's the minimum cost of 'being active' on social media. If you can't attribute a single dollar of revenue to that investment, it's not a strategy — it's a habit.

The 6 Audit Categories

  1. Profile Optimization — the 30-second first impression
  2. Content Mix — the 80/20 rule most businesses get backwards
  3. Engagement Quality — comments vs. likes (one matters, one doesn't)
  4. Conversion Paths — can a follower become a lead?
  5. Competitor Benchmarking — what's working for them that you're not doing?
  6. ROI Tracking — can you attribute any revenue to social?

Each category gets a traffic-light score: Green (driving value), Yellow (potential with fixes), Red (burning time). Here's the audit, starting with the metric 90% of businesses track that tells you absolutely nothing...

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