In Lebanon, your Instagram page IS your storefront. Customers check it before they visit, order from it directly, and judge your professionalism by your last reel. Which is why social media management has become the single most hired freelance service in the country, and also the one with the widest quality range. Here is how to buy it intelligently.
The price tiers and what belongs in each
Monthly management in Lebanon lands in three broad tiers:
- $250-400: 8-12 posts per month, stories, captions in Arabic and English, basic scheduling and community replies
- $400-700: everything above plus reels production, monthly content strategy, competitor tracking, and performance reports
- $700+: full content production with photo/video shoots, ad campaign management, and influencer coordination
What separates good managers from posters
Anyone can schedule twelve posts. A real social media manager asks about your sales goals before your aesthetic, writes captions that sound like your brand rather than a template, understands Lebanese trends and humor natively, and reports numbers that matter: reach, saves, messages received, and orders attributed, not just follower count.
Follower growth is the vanity metric of the industry. A café with 3,000 engaged local followers outsells one with 30,000 bought ones every single week.
Questions to ask before hiring
Five minutes of questions saves three months of disappointment:
- "Which accounts have you grown, and what changed in their numbers?" Ask for before/after specifics.
- "Who creates the visual content, and is it included?" Design and filming are sometimes billed separately.
- "How many revisions per post, and how fast do you reply to comments?"
- "What happens to the account passwords when we stop working together?" You must own all logins.
- "What does month one look like?" Good answer: audit, strategy, content calendar. Bad answer: "we start posting."
Run it as a monthly escrow order
Month-to-month beats long contracts when you are starting with someone new: fund one month in escrow, judge the delivered calendar and report, then renew. The manager gets guaranteed payment; you get a guaranteed exit if quality drops.
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