Social Media Management in Sarasota
Strategy, on-site filming, editing, and posting from one local team, in one monthly package, from $799 a month. We plan it, film it at your business, and post it. You go back to running the business.
What Are Social Media Management Services?
Social media management services are the ongoing work of running a business’s social accounts: planning what to post, creating the content, publishing it on a schedule, replying to comments and messages, and reporting on what happened. For Sarasota businesses, social media management mostly means short-form video on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.
Here is the question to ask any social media management agency before you sign: where does the content come from?
At most agencies, it comes from you. They send a shot list, you film on your phone between customers, and they schedule what you send. The account is “managed.” The hardest part is still yours.
Every one of our packages includes the content. We come to your business, film you, coach you through it, and edit it before anything goes out. Management is one piece of Sarasota social media marketing; the rest of this page covers what is in it and what it costs.
What Our Social Media Management Includes
Everything below comes with every package; the tiers change the volume. Two things, engagement and ads, are add-ons. The front half, audit through edit, goes deeper under social media content creation in Sarasota; the back half turns content into growth. Same people for both.
Social Media Audit & Account Setup
Before we post anything, we audit your platforms, your competitors, and what your customers already engage with. We fix the basics that make a new visitor bounce: bios, links, highlights, business categories. You get a written read on where you stand.
Custom Strategy & Content Pillars
Then we build the plan around you and your business: which platforms, which formats, how often, and the content pillars everything hangs on. Same thinking as our social media strategy work, approved by you before we shoot.
Monthly Content Calendar
Every month you see the calendar before it runs: which posts, which day, which platform, what each one is for. Approve it, change it, or veto it. The calendar also tells us what to capture on shoot day.
Scripts & Hooks Written For You
Short-form video lives or dies in the first two seconds. We write the hooks, the talking points, and the on-screen text before shoot day. You will not read a script to camera; you talk, and the opening already earns the watch.
On-Site Video Filming in Sarasota
Our team comes to your restaurant, showroom, office, or job site and films video and photos in one visit, about eight finished videos per shoot day: every other month on Essential, monthly on Growth, twice a month on VIRAL. Same crew as our Sarasota video production service, included, not billed separately.
Owner Coaching on Camera
Most owners dislike being on camera until someone directs them well. We tell you where to look, when to start, and when a take felt stiff, and we try another way on the spot. Shy people come out of their shell; sounding like yourself is coachable.
Short-Form Video Editing
Every clip is cut for the platform it runs on: hook first (the opening line earns the watch), captions burned in, pacing that fits a Reel versus a TikTok. Graphic and story posts get built alongside, one round of revisions included. Our social media video editing team is in-house, the same people who were at the shoot.
Posting on Your Platforms
We publish on the cadence your tier sets: a video and a carousel or image each week plus stories on Essential, every other day on Instagram and Facebook on Growth, every day on four platforms on VIRAL. Captions are written per platform, and posts go out when your audience is online.
Community Management & Engagement (Add-On)
Want the comments and messages answered too? Add comment and DM engagement to any tier for $100 a month: we reply in your voice and flag anything that needs you personally. On VIRAL, ManyChat auto-DM (comment a keyword, get the link by DM automatically) is built in.
Boosted Posts & Social Media Ads (Add-On)
When a post is already working, we can put budget behind it. Ad campaign management is a $299-a-month add-on, and we say plainly when a paid campaign makes sense and when it is money burned. You pay the platform directly; no markup, no percentage. Social media advertising in Sarasota only pays off when the organic post underneath already does.
Transparent Monthly Reporting
Once a month you get a report: what we posted, what each piece reached, which videos performed, what drove growth. We use it to plan the next month. If something did not work, the report says so, and what changes.
Our management clients are mostly restaurants, real estate, retail, and service businesses; Lucky 8 SRQ, Hanami Sushi, and Tsunami Sushi in Lakewood Ranch are three of them. Two industries get their own pages: restaurant social media marketing and real estate social media marketing.
Want this handled for you? Book a free strategy call. We tell you which tier you actually need.
Our Social Media Management Process
If you have never hired a social media management firm before, here is what happens after you say yes. Five steps, then it repeats every month.
Audit & Kickoff
You meet the people who will work on your account, the same team on every tier, not a salesperson who hands you off. We walk through what the audit found, agree on goals, and collect logins, brand assets, and what to avoid.
Strategy & Calendar
We turn the audit into a written strategy and your first monthly calendar; you see both, mark them up, and approve them. We lock the first shoot date here too. Your first posts go live about a week after you sign.
Shoot Day (With Coaching)
We arrive at your Sarasota business with the gear and a shot list built from the calendar. You get directed the whole time. If a line feels wrong we drop it and try another; if something interesting happens, we film that instead.
Edit & Approve
The footage comes back as short-form videos, graphics, and stories, captions attached, in your approval queue, usually within two or three days, same day when time-sensitive. One round of revisions is included. Nothing goes live until you have seen it.
Post, Report & Grow
We schedule and publish on your tier’s cadence, watch what performs, and carry the lessons into next month’s calendar and shoot day. If you added engagement, comments and messages get answered along the way. At month’s end, the report. Then we do it again.
Your Content Is Filmed Here, Not Outsourced
Read a few management packages and you will find the same line: “client provides content.” The agency schedules; you shoot. If you fall behind, the feed goes quiet, and somehow that is on you.
Ours is built the other way. Filming is inside every package. Our team drives to your business with the cameras and the plan, films you and your staff doing what you do, and coaches you through every take.
The footage stays with us: the same people who filmed it edit it, and it goes out on the schedule we agreed. And everything we make is yours: you own the video and photos created during the partnership.
That is what makes us a different kind of Sarasota social media management company: you never provide content. You show up, talk about your work, and approve what we made.
Social Media Management Packages & Pricing
Essential
Consistent, professional, handled. The floor for a business that is done posting on its own.
- 1 video / week
- 1 carousel or image post / week
- Stories 2 days / week
- 2 platforms managed
- On-site filming + photoshoot every other month
For a consistent presence without the overhead
Start with Essential →Growth
Management plus content creation, posting every other day on Instagram and Facebook. Enough volume to grow an audience, not just keep one.
- 2 videos / week
- 2 carousel or image posts / week
- Stories 4 days / week
- 2 platforms managed
- Social media brand templates
- On-site filming + photoshoot every month
For the restaurant or service brand ready to grow
Start with Growth →VIRAL
Video-first content plus management, posting every day on four platforms. For owning your category on social.
- 4 videos / week
- 3 social feature posts / week (photo sets, carousels or graphics)
- Unlimited stories
- 4 platforms managed
- ManyChat auto-DM (comment a keyword, get the link by DM automatically)
- 2 on-site shoots / month
For brands that want to be everywhere, daily
Start with VIRAL →Included in every plan.Every package, whichever pace you pick.
- ✓ Founder-led creative strategy
- ✓ Full-service posting
- ✓ Profile optimization
- ✓ SEO-optimized captions for Google indexing
- ✓ Voice captions + trending audio
- ✓ Onboarding audit of all platforms
- ✓ Editing done by us, in-house, not a 3rd party in another country
- ✓ Social media content calendar
- ✓ Monthly reporting and analytics
- ✓ One round of revisions
Three-month initial term, then month to month; after that, either of us can end it with 30 days’ notice. No setup fee, no overage, no travel surcharge. Billed monthly, in advance, by invoice. Nothing is charged when you click: you book a call with the tier pre-selected and we confirm it together.
Not sure which one fits? Book the free strategy call and we will tell you which tier we would actually put you on, including the smaller one if that is the honest answer. Need something the cards do not cover? Ask for a custom quote.
From Roughly 3,000 Followers to 1M+ Across 4 Platforms in 3 Years
Todd Alan Gallery is a Sarasota jeweler. When the accounts came to us they had roughly 3,000 followers across three platforms and no TikTok; in Todd’s own words, from his public Google review, “almost no followers and very little momentum.” Three years later they are past a million across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.
The part of that story that matters here is the management, not any one video: a calendar every month, filming on a schedule, edits built around what the last batch taught us, posting across all four platforms, and answering the people who showed up. None of it is glamorous. All of it is what a management package carries, month after month, past the point where an owner alone would have stopped.
One of those videos, a short explainer on whether diamonds are really that rare, has 20.8 million views and more than a million likes as of August 2026. It is public; check it yourself.
The reel’s public Instagram counter, July 3, 2026: 1M likes · 7,211 comments · 381K shares. Tap the picture to open the reel.
It works from zero too: Hanami Sushi opened with its accounts in our hands and, as of August 2026, sits at 5,829 followers with 194.4K views in the last 30 days. Same machine, earlier on the curve.
A Local Social Media Manager Near You in Sarasota
If you searched for a social media manager near me, here is where we are: 1343 Main St, Suite 705, downtown Sarasota, an office you can walk into. Local is the whole model: we film at your business on a schedule, so a Sarasota social media manager needs to be close enough to drive over. And we are a small, all-local team: when you call, one of us picks up, and check-ins tend to be coffee at your business, not a monthly Zoom with a rotating overseas account manager.
We handle social media management in Sarasota, FL and the towns around it: Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Venice, Ellenton, and North Port. Bradenton has its own page: social media marketing in Bradenton.
1343 Main St, Suite 705, Sarasota, FL 34236
Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm
5.0-star Google rating from 20 reviews.
It’s a huge weight off of our shoulders to have Siesta Media Marketing Agency managing our social media. They have helped grow our social media following in ways we could not have imagined.
…the strategies they came up with for our online content have led to us going viral on multiple occasions and helps us grow organically in a way we never thought possible.
What sets Siesta Media apart is their ability to take our ideas and bring them to life while also offering thoughtful recommendations backed by social media trends and marketing insights.
Social Media Management FAQs
What are social media management services? +
Social media management services cover the day-to-day running of a business’s social accounts: planning the content, creating it, posting it, replying to comments and messages, and reporting on results. Ours also include filming that content at your business, which most packages leave to you.
What does social media management cost? +
Three monthly tiers, published: Essential is $799 a month, Growth $1,599, VIRAL $3,199. The difference is platforms, shoot frequency, and weekly volume. The full breakdown, add-ons included, is on the social media management packages page; need something the tiers do not cover? Ask for a custom quote.
Am I locked into a long contract? +
Three months to start, then month to month; after that either of us can end it with 30 days’ notice. Three months is roughly when organic social starts to pay off; that is why the term is not a year.
Are there any hidden fees? +
No setup fee, no overage if a shoot day runs long, no travel surcharge. You pay the monthly price, invoiced in advance. If you run ads, you pay the platform directly; no markup, no percentage.
Can I pause? +
Yes. Need to pause a month for a vacation, or run a seasonal business and want to pause the slow months? Tell us 30 days ahead and we start again when you are ready.
Who will be working on my account? +
A small, all-local team, the same people on every tier. The ones who film you also edit and post, and you meet them at kickoff. You can reach us anytime.
Do I have to provide you with content? +
No. Filming is part of every package: we come to your business, film you and your team, and edit it ourselves. Send anything good you catch on your phone; nothing depends on it.
How will you create content that fits my business? +
We audit your accounts and competitors, then build the strategy around you, your customers, and what you want to sell. Everything is filmed at your place, and you approve the calendar and the edits before anything goes live.
Do I own the videos and photos? +
You do. Every video and photo we create during the partnership belongs to you. We keep the right to show the work in our case studies unless you ask us not to.
How many new followers can I expect each month? +
We do not promise a number; be wary of anyone who does. What we can show is what steady, managed short-form video did for one client: roughly 3,000 followers across three platforms and no TikTok to more than 1M across four platforms in three years. Your curve depends on your business and how good you get on camera.
When do results start showing up? +
Your first posts go live about a week after you sign. Reach and comments usually move before follower counts, and follower counts move before phone calls. You see the numbers from month one.
Do you monitor the pages for comments, messages & reviews? +
Yes, as an add-on: comment and DM engagement is $100 a month on any tier. Comments and messages get answered in your voice, reviews on those platforms get a reply, and we flag anything that needs you personally.
Is there a social media manager near me in Sarasota? +
Yes. Our office is at 1343 Main St, Suite 705, in downtown Sarasota, and we film on-site across Sarasota, Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Venice, Ellenton, and North Port. Call (941) 208-3033 or book a free strategy call.
What if something important comes up between shoot days? +
Tell us early and we put a visit on the calendar. We have filmed weddings for Tamiami Trail Catering as short-form reels; a chef’s dinner, a launch, or an opening is well inside what we do.
Ready to Hand Off Your Social Media?
Book a free 30-minute strategy call. It is a live brainstorming session, not a pitch: we break down your current strategy, or the lack of one, ideate a vision and identity for your accounts, and identify a custom video framework to grow them. Then we tell you which package we would put you on and why.