Social media for local businesses

Social media that actually gets made.

We plan every video around your business, show you each shot before anyone films, and post it when it is ready. Your part takes a few taps on your phone.

  • Start free: a session, ideas and a storyboard
  • You approve every idea
  • Film on your phone, or we come to you
A phone on a small tripod filming a barista pouring latte art
A storyboard frame in the Simply Better Social app
The usual way

Most small business accounts stall for the same few reasons.

How it usually goes

  • Ideas come from whoever has five spare minutes on a Friday.
  • Filming feels awkward, so it keeps getting pushed to next week.
  • An agency posts something generic that could be any business in town.
  • Feedback lives in texts, emails and voicemails, and something always gets missed.
  • A month goes by without a post, and the account looks closed.

How it goes with us

  • Ideas are written for your business, from what you told us, each with the reason it should work.
  • You see a storyboard of every video before it is made, so there are no surprises.
  • You get a shot list that says exactly how to film each shot, or we come and film it.
  • Approvals, notes, uploads and shoots all happen in one app, with a text when it is your turn.
  • Videos go out on a schedule, so the account keeps moving.
How it works

How a video gets made.

These are the real screens you use. Each step lands on your phone as a notification, and most of them take a single tap.

  1. Strategy sessionFree

    It starts with a conversation

    A video call with our team about your business, your customers and what you want more of. The first one is free. Once you subscribe, you get one every month to look at what landed and plan what comes next.

    Pick a time below. It takes 45 minutes.

    It starts with a conversation, in the app
  2. BriefFree

    We learn your business

    A short set of questions, mostly taps. Who your customers are, who can be on camera and what is off limits. Every idea we write starts from your answers and from what you told us on the call.

    Takes about five minutes, once.

    We learn your business, in the app
  3. IdeaFree

    You choose what gets made

    Ideas arrive as a plain description of the video, with the reason we think it will work for you. Approve it, ask for a change, or pass. Nothing moves until you say yes.

    You choose what gets made, in the app
  4. StoryboardFree

    You see the video before it exists

    Walk through it frame by frame on your phone: what is on screen, what gets said, how long each shot runs. Approve it or leave a note. Nobody picks up a camera until you have seen the plan.

    Your first storyboard is free. Subscribe when you want it made.

    You see the video before it exists, in the app
  5. AssetsWith a plan

    You know exactly what to film

    Your shot list tells you where to stand, where the light should come from and the one mistake to avoid, with a diagram for every setup. Upload straight from your phone. Anything you would rather not shoot, book our crew for it right there.

    You know exactly what to film, in the app
  6. EditingWith a plan

    We cut it to the plan

    Our editors work from a shot by shot cut sheet built from the storyboard you approved: every clip, every line of on screen text, what the audio does and when. The video you get is the one you signed off on.

    We cut it to the plan, in the app
    A page of the editor's cut sheet, listing each cut with its timing, source clip, on screen text and audio
    The cut sheet your editor works from
  7. LiveWith a plan

    You approve it, we post it

    Watch the finished video on your phone, then approve it or ask for a change. We post it on the day it is scheduled, or hand it over if you would rather post it yourself.

    You approve it, we post it, in the app
Start free

Your first storyboard is on us.

See how we would plan for your business before you spend a dollar. When you want a storyboard made into a video, that is when you subscribe.

Free

A strategy session

45 minutes on a video call. Your business, your customers and what you want more of.

Free

A batch of ideas

Short videos written for your goal, each with the reason we think it will work.

Free

A full storyboard

Pick the idea you like and see it planned frame by frame, with the shot list.

With a plan

We make it, every month.

Subscribe in the app and your storyboard goes straight into production. From then on you get new videos every month and a strategy session with the team to plan them.

  • Videos planned, filmed and edited with you
  • A strategy session every month
  • Shoots booked right in the app
Book your free session No card needed to start.
Why it works

Planned to be watched.

Posting often only helps if people stop scrolling. Every idea and every storyboard we make is checked against the same rules before it reaches you.

0:00-0:02

The first two seconds do the work

We open on movement, or on something worth a second look. Never a logo, never a slow pan across the shop front, never someone saying hello.

One idea

One video, one point

A video about three things is a video about nothing. Each one makes a single point, then stops.

Specific

Real beats polished

A named drink, a real regular, the actual time on the clock. Phone footage of something specific holds people longer than a glossy ad about something general.

Payoff

A reason to stay to the end

Each video holds something back, a result or a reveal, and pays it off in the last few seconds. That is what earns the rewatch.

Sound on or off

Works either way

Real sound from your space carries it for people listening. The promise is on screen for everyone scrolling with the sound off.

One visit

Filmable in one go

Every idea is something you can shoot with a phone, in your space, with your people, in one visit. No studio, no actors, no script to memorize.

Why it is easier

Your part is small on purpose.

You know your business better than anyone. We ask you for that, and take care of the rest.

Your part

A few minutes a week

  • A strategy session with us once a month
  • Answer a few questions about your business, once
  • Approve the ideas you like
  • Walk through each storyboard
  • Film a few shots with our instructions, or book us
  • Approve the finished video
Our part

Everything else

  • A monthly strategy session to plan what is next
  • Ideas, and the reasoning behind each one
  • Storyboards for every video
  • Shot lists with instructions and diagrams
  • Filming, whenever you want us there
  • Editing, text, music and captions
  • Hashtags and post copy in your voice
  • Scheduling and posting
  • Keeping the whole thing on schedule
Filming

Film it yourself, or we come to you.

Hands filming a bouquet on a florist's table with a phone
On your phone

Simple setups, clear instructions

Most shots take a few minutes. The shot list shows you where to stand and where the light should be, and you upload straight from your phone.

A camera on a gimbal and a soft light set up inside a bakery
With our crew

Book us from the shot list

For interviews, bigger scenes or anything you would rather not do, book a shoot in the app. Pick a time that suits you and we turn up ready.

Who it is for

Made for local businesses.

Cafés, salons, gyms, practices, trades and shops. If you have a space, a product or a skill worth showing, there is a video in it.

A chef placing a plated dish on a table
Restaurants and cafés
A stylist sectioning hair with a comb
Salons and spas
Chalked hands gripping a kettlebell
Gyms and studios
A bright, calm dental treatment room
Health practices
Gloved hands measuring new cedar decking
Trades and home services
A hand folding a sweater on a display table
Shops and boutiques
The app

Everything in one place.

It lives on your home screen like any other app. No app store, no passwords to share, no email threads to dig through.

  • A text when it is your turnOr an email, or a notification. You choose, and you only hear from us when something needs you.
  • Every video, ready to downloadYour whole library in one place, sorted by new, scheduled and posted.
  • Notes on the exact secondTap to leave a note at the moment in the video you mean.
  • Book sessions and shootsSee real availability, pick a time, and get a reminder the day before.
Questions

Good questions, straight answers.

Do I have to be on camera?

No. When you sign up you tell us who and what can be on camera, and every idea respects it. Plenty of great videos never show a face.

I have no time to film. Does this still work?

Yes. Book our crew for any shot on your list, or for all of them. Most of the setups on a shot list are quick with a phone, though, and the instructions and diagrams make them easy to get right.

Do I need any equipment?

The phone you already have is enough for the shots we ask you to film. When a shot needs more than that, we bring it.

Which platforms do you post to?

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook. You pick the ones that matter to you when you sign up.

Do you post for me, or do I post?

Your choice. We can schedule and post everything once you approve it, or hand you the finished files to post yourself.

Can I change things before it goes out?

Always. You approve the idea, the storyboard and the finished video, and you can ask for changes at each step. Nothing is posted without your sign off.

What do I get for free?

A strategy session with our team, a batch of ideas written for your business and one full storyboard of the idea you like best. You see how we plan for you before you pay anything.

When do I start paying?

When you want that storyboard made into a video. You subscribe in the app and it goes straight into production. If you would rather stop at the storyboard, that is fine too.

How much does it cost?

It depends on how many videos you want each month and how much of the filming we do for you. We go through the options in your strategy session and give you a clear monthly price.

Do we keep meeting?

Yes. Every month you get a strategy session with the team, booked in the app at a time that suits you. We look at how the last videos did and plan the next ones around what is coming up for you.

How do we start?

Pick a time for your free strategy session below. After the call we set up your account, you answer your brief, and your first ideas land in the app shortly after.

Free strategy session

Let's talk about your business.

Pick a time that suits you. It is a 45 minute video call with our team, and it is free.

  • We look at what you are posting now
  • We talk through what you want more of
  • You get ideas and a full storyboard afterwards, free
Pick a time for your call

Checking the team calendar…

What kind of business?
What do you want more of?
How is social going right now?

The call link and a calendar invite go to your email. Your details stay with us.

Book a free strategy session