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Boost Your Best-Performing Post

Your organic numbers already point to which post and platform deserve a paid boost.

You’ve been posting to every connected platform (see Post to Everything at Once). Now check the numbers: open Analyze → Organic Social and revisit The 4 Numbers Worth Tracking to see which platform and which post is already resonating.

That top post is your cheapest, lowest-risk way to test paid ads. Instead of designing a cold ad from nothing, connect an ads account for that platform and boost the post that already proved it works. You’re not guessing: you’re putting a small amount of real money behind something your audience already told you they liked.

Why It Matters

Boosting a proven organic post is a far lower-risk test than building a paid campaign from a blank page. It tells you whether people will act, not just react, on something you already know gets attention; that is the real question before you commit a bigger ad budget.

What To Do

  1. Open Analyze → Organic Social and sort by engagement to find your top post and the platform it lives on.
  2. Revisit The 4 Numbers Worth Tracking for the bigger picture before you spend anything.
  3. Connect an ads account for that platform (Meta, Google, or TikTok).
  4. Boost that specific post with a small, defined budget and duration.
  5. Compare the boosted results to its organic reach: did paid amplify something that already worked?

Copy / Template You Can Steal

First boost test worksheet:

Platform: _______________
Top organic post (link): _______________
Organic engagement so far: _______________
Boost budget: $_______ for _______ days
Goal: clicks / engagement / conversions?
Result vs. organic: _______________

Do It In Get Shouting

  1. Analyze → Organic Social: sort by engagement to find your top post
  2. Account → Social & Brand Settings → Paid Ad Settings: connect Meta, Google, or TikTok
  3. Open that post and choose Boost on Meta or Boost on TikTok
  4. Set a small budget and duration, then launch
  5. Analyze → Paid Social: review ROAS and cost once results come in

Keep In Mind

  • Boosting an existing winner is lower-risk than building a cold ad from nothing.
  • Read Should You Run Ads Yet? and How Paid Ads Work before scaling spend beyond this first test.
  • Revisit The 4 Numbers Worth Tracking monthly once ROAS is live.

Free In-App Guide

Implement as you go in the app. Sign in, open Account → Personal → Marketing Academy and turn on Marketing Academy for the Ecommerce or General track. Email and in-app reminders will walk you through each step. See Use the In-App Marketing Academy.

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