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What a Month of Social Media Posts Actually Looks Like

A month of done-for-you social media should arrive as a queue of finished posts, not a strategy document and not a blank calendar.

On a Boomp Core plan at $39 a month, that queue holds 20 written posts with images, one carousel and one short video, all prepared from your own website.

You read each one and approve it or reject it.

Boomp publishes the approved posts to the channels you connected, and publishes nothing you have not said yes to.

The part that surprises most people is how small the remaining job is.

Reviewing a month of prepared posts takes about ten minutes a week, because judging a finished draft is a different task from producing one.

What arrives, by plan

Who does the work is the real difference between these options.

Price is the second question, not the first.

What you are choosingWho writes itWho approves itWho publishes itWhat a month holds
Doing it yourselfYouYouYouWhatever you got to
A schedulerYouYouThe toolWhatever you wrote
Boomp Packs, $9 a monthBoompYouYou, by handTen finished posts, sent by email link, nothing connected
Boomp Core, $39 a monthBoompYou, in the appBoomp20 posts, one carousel, one short video
Boomp done-for-you, $275 a monthBoompKathleen, Boomp's founderBoompThe same content, and you never open the app
An agencyThe agencyYouThe agencyVaries, usually with ads, replies and calls attached

Pro and Max prepare more of each format for businesses running more channels or more locations.

The plan page lists what each one includes.

What a single post looks like

The examples below are real.

They were published through Boomp by one paying customer, a listing agent on the West Michigan lakeshore, between June and September 2026.

They are shown without her name, and every image was checked for a name, a logo or a face before it went on this page.

Six posts over four months is not a full month of output.

It is a sample of what individual posts look like when the source material is a real business website rather than a prompt.


A wooden dock with a chair and a blanket, looking out over a lake.
June 4, 2026. The job of this post: explain a costly local distinction.

In Saugatuck, lakefront and waterfront are not the same thing.

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The difference is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, so you have to know which one you're actually looking at.

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Lakefront means the property line hits the water.

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Waterfront is a much looser term.

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Before you fall for a photo, check the survey.


Two similar houses side by side, one freshly kept and one tired, both for sale.
August 2, 2026. The job of this post: explain why one home sells and one sits.

Ever wonder why two nearly identical Saugatuck homes sell for wildly different prices?

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Same square footage, same bedrooms, same street.

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One sells in a week over asking; the other sits for two months.

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If you list high just to leave room to negotiate, you kill the momentum of those first fourteen days.

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Prep and pricing aren't just details. They are the strategy.


A bright, cleared entryway and living room with the front door open.
September 1, 2026. The job of this post: give sellers a weekend fix.

If buyers are walking out of your house in under five minutes, it's almost always smell, light, or clutter.

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You can't trust your own nose on the first one.

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Light is the easiest fix. Open the blinds, swap the dim bulbs, and actually wash the windows.

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A weekend spent on these three things is the difference between an offer on Monday and a price drop conversation next month.

Notice what none of these are.

None is a quote card.

None is a national holiday.

None could be moved to a competitor's account by swapping the name, which is the fastest test of whether content is about a business or merely near it.

Each one takes a thing this agent knows and says it plainly to somebody deciding.

Why the mix has three formats

A month made only of written posts reads as a newsletter nobody subscribed to.

A month made only of video is a production schedule, which is the job you were trying to hand off.

The mix exists so that a profile looks like a business that is running rather than an account being fed.

Written posts carry the explanations, which is most of what a potential customer needs.

The carousel carries a thing with steps, like a checklist or a comparison, where one image cannot hold it.

The short video carries the thing that is easier watched than read.

What stays with you

This part is not a disclaimer.

It is the actual boundary of the service, and knowing it is how you decide whether the plan fits.

Perishable facts stay with you.

Boomp reads your public website, so it knows what you published, not what changed this morning.

Prices, hours, availability, staffing and current offers are yours to check on the post in front of you.

Permission stays with you.

A customer photo, a named result, a review used as proof or a recognizable location needs someone who knows what was agreed, and that person is you.

Professional boundaries stay with you.

Medical, legal, financial and fair housing claims carry rules that a draft cannot judge on your behalf.

Replies stay with you.

No Boomp plan answers comments or direct messages, and a post that asks a question will get some.

The approval itself stays with you.

That is the point rather than a limitation: the preparation moves off your desk and the judgment does not.

How to tell whether a month of this would work for you

Look at your own profile the way a stranger would, and find the date of the most recent post.

If the answer is more than a few weeks ago, the problem is almost never that you lack ideas about your own work.

The problem is that preparing a post is a job with nobody in the seat, and it loses every week to the work that pays.

A month of prepared posts fixes exactly that and nothing else.

It does not make you post-famous, it does not replace a referral network, and it will not rescue a website that does not explain what you sell.

What it does is make sure that the next person who checks you out before calling can tell how you help.

Three ways to get a month

Packs, $9 a month, sends you ten finished posts by email link and connects nothing.

Core, $39 a month, prepares 20 posts, one carousel and one short video, and publishes the ones you approve to your connected channels.

Done-for-you, $275 a month, is the same content with Kathleen approving every post, so you never open the app.

There is no contract on any of them.

Before any of that, you can see the kind of thing Boomp would say about your business for nothing.

Get ten finished posts made from your website, free, before any email, account or card.

Related decisions

Frequently asked questions

How many social media posts should a small business get in a month?

Enough that a visitor checking your profile sees recent activity, which for most local businesses means somewhere between eight and twenty posts a month. The number matters less than whether every post is true, specific to you, and approved before it publishes. A Boomp Core plan prepares 20 posts, one carousel and one short video each month.

What do you actually get with a done-for-you social media service?

With Boomp Core you get 20 written posts with images, one carousel and one short video, prepared from your own website and waiting in an approval queue. You approve each one, and Boomp publishes the approved posts to the channels you connected. You do not get ads, comment replies, photo shoots or strategy calls.

Do I have to approve every social media post before it goes out?

Yes, by default. Nothing publishes until you have read it and said yes. That is the whole design: the preparation moves off your desk, the judgment stays on it. Approving a prepared month takes most customers about ten minutes a week, because reviewing a finished draft is far faster than writing one.

What happens if a post is wrong or I do not like it?

You reject it and it does not publish. Facts that change, such as prices, hours, availability and current offers, are always yours to check, because Boomp reads your public website and cannot know what changed this morning. The same applies to anything requiring permission, like a customer photo or a named result.

Can I get the posts without connecting my social accounts?

Yes. Packs at $9 a month sends ten finished posts to you by email link, and you publish them yourself wherever you want. Nothing is connected and nothing publishes automatically. It suits a business that wants the writing handled but is not ready to give a tool access to its accounts.

How long does it take before there is a month of posts to look at?

Boomp prepares the month from your website, and you can see the kind of thing it writes before any of that by getting ten finished posts free. There is no speed promise on the free ten, because the writing and the images are genuinely generated rather than pulled from a template library.

Try it with your business

Get a finished post, carousel, or short video from your website. Keep the file and copy the caption. Your first sample needs no email, account, or card.

Rather not do this yourself? Start with what done-for-you social media should handle or alternatives to hiring a social media manager.

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What a Month of Social Media Posts Actually Looks Like
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Written by Kathleen Celmins

Founder of Boomp. Helping local businesses stay visible on social media without doing the work themselves.