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Social Media & Content22 May 2023 · 2 min read

Why Just Showing Up Puts You in the Top 1% on Social

Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt
Founder and Head of Growth, White Label Comedy

If you feel behind the curve on social media, here is some good news: it has never been easier to win, because almost nobody actually shows up. Most accounts post rarely, if at all, so simply turning up with any consistency already lifts you into a tiny minority. You do not need to be brilliant to get ahead. You mostly need to be there, regularly, while everyone else is not.

The competition is barely trying

The numbers are almost comical. On the big professional platform, only around 1% of users ever post anything at all. The rest just scroll. So posting anything, with any consistency, drops you straight into the top 1% by default.

Video is the same story. The overwhelming majority of channels have only a handful of videos total. Publish one short video a week for a couple of months and you have already out-produced almost everyone. The bar for "consistent" is set astonishingly low, which is brilliant news for anyone willing to clear it.

Meanwhile, the audience is enormous

While hardly anyone is creating, almost everyone is watching. People spend hours every single day in the feed, scrolling through content. That is a vast, attentive audience showing up daily.

So you have the rare combination of huge demand and tiny supply: millions of people consuming content, and very few people consistently making it. All you have to do to capture some of that attention is be one of the few who reliably turns up.

Consistency first, brilliance later

None of this means quality does not matter, it means you should not let the pursuit of perfect stop you from being present. The account that posts good-enough content every week beats the one waiting to post something perfect next quarter.

Start with consistency and you are already in the top 1%. From there you can climb higher by studying what the very best accounts do: the specific types of posts they make and the ways they promote them. But that is the next step. The first step, the one that beats most of your competitors on its own, is simply to show up.

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Adam Hunt
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Founder and Head of Growth at White Label Comedy. He spends his days convincing serious brands that funny is the most profitable thing they're not doing.

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