Most company accounts fail for a reason that has nothing to do with content: every post has its own layout. Six different visuals in a feed read as six advertisers, and the accumulation effect, the only mechanism that genuinely works on these platforms, never happens. So we fix a template and stick to it: same over-title height, same position for the mark, same colour family.
The second trap is treating the platforms as one channel. The same message does not take the same form on LinkedIn, where people read, and on Instagram, where they look. Crop zones differ too: the page logo covers four hundred and sixty pixels on the left on LinkedIn, the avatar eats the bottom-left corner on X, mobile shows only the central band on Facebook. Composing without knowing that means publishing amputated visuals.
Finally, a community is not an audience. An audience watches, a community replies, and the difference plays out in comments and private messages, not in follower counts. We answer everything, including criticism, and above all the fair kind. An account with three thousand followers that converses beats one with thirty thousand that broadcasts, and it costs less to hold.