Research first. Strategy before content. Growth you can trace, not just feel. Based in Germany, working with businesses that deserve more than generic posting.
They post when they remember, write captions that describe the product instead of selling it, and wonder why followers don't become customers.
My process starts with the business. What is actually being sold, who is actually buying it, and what is quietly stopping more people from converting, before a single post gets made. Then I build the strategy around that.
Concept audits built to show process and thinking, not paid client work.
Content pillar strategy, 7-day posting rhythm, and 90-day projection for a skincare brand running entirely on referral.
Read case studyRebuilt content rhythm and ordering funnel for a meal delivery brand with loyal customers but near-zero social visibility.
Read case study"A brand competing on price has nowhere to charge more. A brand known for one thing does."
Mariam Kamara, Social Media Manager & Brand Strategist
Two focused service tracks. Both grounded in research. Both built to produce results you can measure and explain to a client, a boss, or yourself.
End-to-end management of your social presence. I handle strategy, execution, scheduling, and reporting under one consistent system built around how your brand actually thinks, not how a template says it should sound.
A deep read of where your brand sits today against your market, followed by a concrete 90-day plan to move it forward. Research-led, numbers-backed, and built so you can actually execute it without needing to decode strategy jargon.
Built for businesses that want consistent, strategic content running every week without the owner having to think about it daily. The deliverable is not just posts, it is a system that runs and improves over time.
Built around 3 fixed pillars per brand: educate, prove, connect. Not a random idea board. A structured plan every post fits into, so content decisions stop being guesswork.
Designed, written, and scheduled. Every post comes with a caption, a visual direction brief, and a call to action tied to a specific goal for that piece of content.
What moved, what didn't, what changes next month and why. Numbers with context, not a screenshot of an Instagram insights tab.
Optional. For brands that want a fully managed presence where every inquiry and comment gets a timely, on-brand response.
Most businesses skip the audit and go straight to content. The result is a lot of consistent posting that doesn't actually move sales. This service puts the thinking back before the execution.
A read of the current page, content quality, posting frequency, engagement patterns, and how the brand is coming across to a first-time visitor who has never heard of the business before.
Where the brand sits in its market relative to competitors in the same niche, at a similar price point, reaching a similar audience. What they're doing well, what gap exists to occupy.
Concrete targets for follower growth, engagement rate, reach, and inquiry volume, with the specific content and strategy levers that will move each one. Not vague advice.
Three brand-specific content pillars that make every future post decision simple. What to post, why to post it, and how it connects back to the business goal.
What's already there, what's working quietly, and what's visibly hurting the brand's ability to convert browsers into buyers.
Who the content is actually for, what makes this brand different from the next one selling the same thing, and where the pricing sits relative to the market.
Content pillars, posting calendar, captions that sound like a real person running a real business, not a brand handbook written by a committee.
Nothing stays the same after week two. What gets attention stays. What doesn't gets cut or reworked. Monthly reporting drives every change.
The audit is the right first step for most brands. It takes one week and gives you a complete picture of where to focus.
Book a Discovery CallEach brand had a different problem. Each strategy was built from scratch. Same research-led approach every time, different execution based on what the business actually needed.
A Lagos skincare label with a genuinely good product and almost no social media presence to match. The brand was surviving on referrals. The page was not doing any of the convincing work it could be doing. Engagement sat at 1.2%, well below the skincare industry benchmark of 2.5% to 4%.
The product was earning trust offline but the page wasn't earning it online. 80% of sales came from referrals, which meant the social presence was essentially invisible as a sales channel.
Content was almost entirely product photos with no education, no customer proof, and no personality. Engagement at 1.2% on a skincare page in this market is low. Healthy accounts in this niche sit between 2.5% and 4%, which means people were seeing the posts and scrolling past them.
The ordering process was buried. No clear link, no clear next step, no urgency. Someone who wanted to buy had to work to find out how.
Three content pillars locked in: Product Education, Real Skin Results, and Behind the Brand. Every post slots into one of these, so the content mix stays balanced automatically.
Posting moves from 2 inconsistent times a week to 4 fixed times a week. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, each with a specific content type per day.
Reels become the main growth lever. Reach on static posts for small accounts has flattened. The cooking process, skin transformations, and founder moments all go on Reels.
DMs and comments answered within the same day. Slow replies are quietly killing conversion. This brand earns trust through the product. The page needs to earn it through responsiveness.
Link stays in one obvious place and does not move. No hunting through old posts to find it.
A home-cooked meal delivery brand with 30% repeat customers, which is a strong signal for product quality, but with an engagement rate of just 0.9% and 25 orders a week coming almost entirely from people who already knew the brand. The social page wasn't creating any new customers on its own.
The food is clearly good enough for people to come back. But the page wasn't giving new people any reason to order today instead of someday. No clear ordering link, no consistent menu posting, no urgency or social proof visible to a first-time visitor.
Faceless food pages all look the same. A real kitchen, a real cook, and a real process are this brand's strongest assets and none of them were showing up in the content.
Daily menu post by 11am with one specific line about what makes today's pot different. Not just a food photo. A reason to order today specifically.
Weekly process Reel showing the actual cooking. Real kitchen, real sounds, real person. This is what no other food page in this space is doing consistently.
Ordering link fixed in one place across every single post. No hunting. Click, order, done.
Customer photos and voice notes turned into real posts. Word of mouth already works for this brand offline. The plan makes it visible online.
A contemporary ready-to-wear label with 5,200 followers and an engagement rate of 1.5%, competing against at least 10 similar brands in Lagos at the same price point. The product is good. But the brand looks interchangeable with everyone around it, which means price is the only differentiator and that is a ceiling on how much she can ever charge.
5,200 followers but low conversion to DMs means people are seeing the page and leaving without acting. That usually means the brand looks like everything else and gives no reason to choose it.
The brand has no single thing it's known for yet. Without a claimed identity, price has nowhere to anchor except "about the same as everyone else." A 33% price increase from ₦12K to ₦16K is not possible on the same old presentation.
Pick one ownable angle and build everything around it. Not trying to be good at everything. One specific cut, print, or detail the brand is known for.
Replace flat product shots with styled, lived-in content. People buying clothes are buying a version of themselves, not fabric.
Lock one visual identity across the grid, captions, and packaging so the brand reads as intentional from the first post to the last.
Raise price in one deliberate step once the identity is doing the work, backed by presentation and story, not just a price update in the bio.
A small personal training studio priced at ₦15,000 per month, the same range as larger commercial gyms in the area. New sign-ups were 8 per month and most members left within two months. The studio had no scale advantage and no visibility advantage over the bigger gyms it was competing with on price.
The studio is priced like the big gyms but has none of their visibility. All the content is acquisition-focused, equipment shots and before-and-after promises, with nothing that makes an existing member feel seen enough to stay past month two.
Nobody chooses a personal trainer based on a treadmill photo. They choose a person who knows their name and their goal. That was the story the brand wasn't telling.
Shift content from gym equipment to real members. Real names, real goals, real progress. That's what no commercial gym can offer and what this studio can own completely.
Build retention content alongside acquisition content. Member milestones, small wins, check-ins. Something that makes an existing member feel the brand sees them after they've signed up.
Position against the big gyms on the one thing they cannot match: a real person who knows your name, your injury history, and your specific goal.
Hold price where it is for now. Make the case for it loudly through community visibility and personal attention before adjusting.
Anyone can screenshot a graph from Instagram Insights. Understanding why the number moved, what formula produced it, and how to benchmark it against an industry standard is where strategy actually lives.
The dashboard on the left is a complete Month 1 metrics calculation sheet for Ola's Naturals. Every key metric is shown with the raw input numbers, the worked formula, and a benchmark comparison explaining what the result means in context.
This is what reporting looks like when the goal is to actually understand performance rather than just document it. The formulas are visible. The inputs are traceable. The benchmarks are sourced from industry data, not made up.
Metrics covered: Engagement Rate by Reach, Reach Rate, Frequency, Link Click-Through Rate, Click-to-Inquiry Conversion Rate, and Month-over-Month Follower Growth Rate.
A professional resume and four 14-day content calendars, both available to download. Built to show credentials and execution capability side by side.
The resume covers her positioning, core skills, selected concept projects from the work section, and her certification from Skillincome Academy. ATS-ready, single page, formatted for both online applications and email attachments.
Detail-oriented Social Media Manager and Brand Strategist with a strong foundation in content strategy, brand positioning, and audience research. Skilled at auditing a brand's current presence and building a clear, metrics-driven plan for growth. Experienced in content calendar development, competitor and pricing analysis, and translating business goals into a consistent social media voice.
Not a content idea list. A real execution roadmap with a pillar tag, content format, hook direction, production notes, and a CTA for every single day across four different brands. 56 days of content planning total, each built to match the brand's specific strategy and audience.
Every tool on this page earns its place in an actual client workflow. Not a wishlist, not a badge collection. This is what runs behind the scenes on every audit, every calendar, and every report I send.
Nothing goes to a client straight out of a tool. I use these to move faster through research and first drafts, then I rewrite everything in the brand's actual voice before it goes anywhere near a caption.
First-pass caption drafts and fast research when I'm auditing a niche for the first time.
Longer strategy documents, competitor breakdowns, and anything that needs a slower, more careful pass.
Quick, sourced research when I need a fact or a market stat I can actually stand behind.
Final proofing on every caption, proposal, and report before it leaves my inbox.
This is the production stage. Static graphics, carousels, and short-form video all get built here, matched to whatever visual direction a brand needs that month.
Main design tool for carousels, quote graphics, and templated content that keeps a feed consistent.
Quick-turnaround graphics and Stories when a client needs something same-day.
Reels and TikToks, from rough cut through captions to final export.
Fast mobile edits when I'm capturing content on location and need a quick turnaround.
Everything gets queued in advance, never posted live in the moment. This keeps posting consistent and gives me a clean record of what went out and when for every client.
Scheduling and publishing across smaller client accounts, so posting never depends on me being online at the right hour.
Visual queue and scheduling for accounts that lean heavily on carousels and Reels.
Multi-platform scheduling for clients running more than two or three social channels at once.
Full-scale publishing and engagement for larger accounts with more moving parts than one dashboard can casually hold.
Every decision after week one comes from here. These feed directly into the monthly report, and they're where I catch what's working before a client has to ask.
Tracking how social traffic behaves once it lands on a client's website or shop.
Deeper social performance data, best-performing post types, and audience activity windows.
Cross-platform reporting in one place, so a monthly report pulls from a single source instead of five apps.
Combined publishing and reporting for accounts that need engagement data and content history in one view.
Tracking what's being said about a brand outside its own page, so a report reflects the full picture, not just owned content.
The single link most platforms allow has to carry real weight. Which tool I set up depends on whether a brand needs a simple hub, a small storefront, or a full mini-site.
A simple, fast link hub for brands that mainly need to route traffic to one or two places.
Built-in storefront and lead capture for brands selling directly through their bio link.
A mobile-built mini website for brands that want their bio link to feel like a full landing page, not just a list.
Every deliverable, deadline, and asset has a home. This is how a client always knows exactly where their content stands, without having to ask me directly.
Task tracking and deadlines across every active client account.
Visual content boards for clients who like to see the pipeline at a glance.
Brand bibles, strategy docs, and onboarding notes, kept in one workspace per client.
Fast note capture during calls and audits, structured well enough to turn straight into an action list.
Central storage for every raw asset, caption doc, and report I hand off.
The tools change depending on the brand. What stays the same is the discipline behind them: nothing gets used just because it exists, it gets used because it moves a client's numbers forward.
Start a ProjectThe form on the right takes about 3 minutes. No obligation, no hard sell on the call. Just a real conversation about whether we're the right fit for each other.
Your intake has been submitted. Mariam will review your answers and be in touch within 48 hours to schedule a call.