What to Vet Differently When Hiring a Paid Social Agency
Paid social hands an agency your live ad budget, not just your content calendar. Here is what to check before you do, and what the good answers sound like.
Paid social hands an agency your live ad budget, not just your content calendar. Here is what to check before you do, and what the good answers sound like.
Leaving a social media agency starts an access countdown. This is the order to secure admin rights, creative files, reporting data, and rights paperwork.
Content calendars and reporting cadence don’t tell you what matters here: network access, creator vetting, and disclosure compliance. Here’s what to check.
A small team and a long client list is not a red flag by itself. Here is the disclosure question that tells you whether it is a problem.
Retainer, percentage of spend, and performance fees reward different things. See what each incentivizes so you can compare two agency proposals fairly.
Three factors decide whether you need an agency, an in-house hire, or both: output volume, paid-media specialization, and your bandwidth to manage a vendor.
The senior team that wins your pitch often is not the team that runs your account. Here is the exact contract clause that stops the surprise before you sign.
A twelve month retainer with thirty day notice puts all the risk on you in the months an agency is slowest. How to structure and price a paid pilot instead.
Deliverable counts tell you almost nothing. Learn to read a social media agency scope of work by its exclusions, its revision limits, and its rescope clause.
Month one with a new social media agency stalls or ships on your side of the table. What to hand over, who decides, and what access to grant in week one.