Here's the answer: you give every channel a job, because a channel with a job description can be managed and a channel without one can only be fed. There are four jobs. Discovery channels like TikTok and Pinterest bring cold reach at scale. Community channels like Instagram hold conversation and closeness. Authority channels like YouTube and LinkedIn carry the depth that prices you. Commerce channels turn attention into invoices. A channel judged against another role's metrics always looks broken. Assigned its own, it can be operated.
And almost nobody should run every platform at full depth. The working allocation is about five: two discovery channels at full cadence, one community channel worked daily, one authority channel on a weekly cycle, one commerce channel, and everything else fed automatically with repurposed content and zero native effort. One weekly pillar piece cascades into every channel's dialect, so you think once and publish everywhere.
Two rules keep the whole thing sane. First, automate the mechanics, never the relationships. Machines schedule, repurpose, and answer the same question the thousandth time. Humans hold every conversation that builds trust. Second, everything reports upward to assets you own. Algorithms change and platforms die, but your email list and your customer file survive all of it, so every rented audience should be feeding an owned one.
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Machines schedule. Humans hold the conversations.