What's your social media marketing pet peeve?

Mine is when your colleagues demand posts out of you without respecting the content creation process. No, I can’t just put together a “quick video” for you by EOD tomorrow, we have a checklist to follow and a content plan to stick to! However, I do love the new ideas these people bring to the table, even if we can’t implement them right away. 

My social media pet peeve is businesses hiring social media managers for their skills and perspective, but not being willing and open to trying new things and thinking outside of the box because they want everything to be their way. Social media is always evolving so being able to evolve with it is essential. Plus, if you hire someone, why micromanage them and deny all of their ideas that could benefit your business?

Broken up hashtags like #Social #Media LOL

My social media pet peeve is when brands regularly create challenges/contests asking you to follow 5+ companies and tag all your friends. I understand that if done sparingly and strategically, it can be beneficial and lead to an increased audience (even if temporary). Still, so many of them seem like a superficial way to gain followers quickly and detract from engagement.

“Post this now and do it like that.”

That’s a recipe for poor results.

Clients adding in extra tasks that aren't part of your agreed upon services...“can you send out this email for me?”, “can you update my website?”

My pet peeve is definitely the thousands of self-proclaimed “social media experts” on TikTok and Instagram that just regurgitate information and don’t actually have experience managing social channels.

Meta Business Suite… enough said.

When a client prefers improper grammar in their captions. Example: Doesn’t want to use the Oxford comma. 

“Link in bio” I just wish IG would just let links be clickable already! TicTok comment links too! Just let people follow the links even if it takes them off your app.