IMMI / AUG 2023–MAR 2025Content Strategy
Led immi’s organic social from August 2023–March 2025, helping grow Instagram from 109K to 215K followers (97% increase).
Instagram Followers
Aug 2023–Mar 2025109K → 215K
Follower Growth
Aug 2023–Mar 2025+97%
Avg monthly views
July 2024–Feb 20252.2M
My role
I managed an agency before taking ownership of organic social in August 2023. I led strategy, ideation, the writers’ room, and the content workflow, working with designers, creators, and a virtual assistant. The virtual assistant helped maintain our Notion kanban board and supported manual community operations.
01The challenge
immi needed a clearer voice and a more consistent flow of ideas. We planned almost all content several weeks ahead, which meant missing timely trends and cultural moments. Without a guiding document, the content didn’t always reflect the brand’s personality.
Bringing social in-house gave us a chance to draw on the team’s cultural insights, product launches, and customer conversations.
02My approach
Give the brand a point of view
I defined a playful, culturally plugged-in Asian American persona to guide our humor, references, visuals, and tone. I also documented three content pillars to keep ideas focused:
- Recipes: ramen ideas, trending combinations, and collaborations.
- Asian/American pop culture: food, music, nostalgia, and shared cultural experiences.
- Business journey: launches, milestones, team stories, founder content, and behind-the-scenes moments.
Build a writers’ room
Inspired by the South Park writers’ room, I brought social, design, and brand teammates together every week for a one-hour session.
Each session followed four steps:
- Trade trends: Spend 10 minutes sharing what was showing up on everyone’s feeds.
- Think independently: Spend 10 minutes quietly developing concepts around business themes I shared earlier in the week, such as the Whole Foods launch or Valentine’s Day, or trends that caught our attention.
- Build on each other’s ideas: Share concepts, discuss how immi could join the conversation, and use feedback to develop them. Often, our best ideas came out of these discussions.
- Turn ideas into a plan: Document the strongest concepts on our social planning kanban, prioritize the next two weeks, and develop the briefs.
03Outcome
- 106K net new Instagram followers during my ownership, growing the account from 109K to 215K (+97%).
- 2.2M average monthly owned Instagram views during July 2024–February 2025, the period covered by available reporting.
Behind those results, the writers’ room generated 15+ posts on a rolling 1–2-month idea pipeline, with room to add culturally relevant content. We also moved from agency support to in-house publishing without a gap in posting.
04What I learned
The best ideas were already in the room. Teammates noticed different trends and brought different perspectives. A dedicated space to share them made the content stronger.
Clear direction made collaboration easier. A shared persona and content pillars helped us choose ideas and give useful feedback.
A good process leaves room to react. A bank of planned ideas kept publishing moving while giving us space for timely cultural moments, which often became our best-performing content.
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