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Close to a million orders through Legiit. 8 years running it. The frequency I post at on every channel I take seriously would horrify most people who teach "sustainable" content schedules. That's the point.
The frequency that kills you is the frequency that built every brand you respect.
There's no shortcut to being seen.
Here's how to actually run it.
Most business owners post when they feel like it.
A few times a week. Sometimes daily for a stretch. Then a quiet month because they got busy. Then back at it because somebody on a podcast said consistency matters.
That's not a content strategy. That's a hobby with a logo.
The actual brands you respect, the ones you assume "made it" somehow, are running volumes that look insane from the outside.
Hormozi posts more than full-time creators.
Cardone has been emailing his list every single day for over a decade.
Beast posts videos that took 6 months to make and never misses upload day.
Every brand you compare yourself to is operating at a frequency you'd burn out trying to match.
You don't burn out trying to match it because it looks unrealistic.
It is unrealistic. That's why almost nobody does it.
That's also why it works.
Here's the math nobody wants to hear.
Your audience doesn't see most of your content.
LinkedIn shows your post to 5% of your network. Instagram shows it to 4% of your followers. Email opens at 25% on a good day. YouTube serves you to maybe 10% of your subscribers, depending on the algorithm's mood that week.
If you post once a week, the same person sees you maybe twice a month. Maybe.
You're not in their head. You're a stranger they sort of recognize.
Now post 3x a day on the right channel for 12 months. Same person sees you a few hundred times. Now you're in their head. Now when they need what you sell, your name is the one that shows up.
That's the entire game.
Here's how to actually run it without dying.
Pick one channel and overload it before you add a second. The biggest mistake people make is going wide before they've gone deep on one. Pick the channel your buyer is on, post 2-3x daily on it for 6 months, and ignore the rest. After it's working, then add channel two.
Front-load the year. Sit down for 2-3 days and produce 90 days of content in a batch. Filming, writing, recording, all of it. Now you have runway. Now a bad week or a busy quarter doesn't kill the schedule. The people who post daily for years are not coming up with daily content daily. They batched it.
Reuse the same idea 10 different ways. The same idea works as a long post, a short post, a carousel, a video, an email, a podcast clip, a tweet thread, a newsletter section, a TikTok, a LinkedIn poll. Stop thinking you need 100 ideas. You need 10 ideas and 10 formats.
Set the schedule once and stop deciding. The decision to post is what kills you. "Should I post today, what should I post, is this good enough." If you decide every day, you'll quit in 90. Set the schedule. Days, times, formats. Hand it to a calendar and stop negotiating with yourself.
Post when you don't feel like it. Especially when you don't feel like it. Mood is the worst possible input to a long-term schedule. The days you don't want to show up are the days that separate you from the 95% who quit by year one.
Stop watching the metrics for the first 12 months. The numbers will lie to you. Likes go up and down. Posts that should've hit don't. Posts you hated will go viral. The metric that matters at the start is "did I hit my schedule this week." That's it. Numbers come later, and they only come if you posted long enough to earn them.
Get help before you need it. The day you can afford an editor, a writer, a producer, or a VA, hire one. Not later. The bottleneck on volume is always you. The brands you compare yourself to figured out year three what you're trying to figure out year one. Get there faster.
Run the schedule for 24 months before you decide if it works. Most quitting happens between month 6 and month 14. The reason: the work hasn't paid off yet, and you can feel it. The math hasn't compounded. By month 18, the same effort starts producing results that look exponential. By month 24, you've passed almost everyone in your space because almost everyone in your space quit at month 11.
I've watched people in this space outwork me. I've watched a lot more people not. The ones outworking me are running schedules that look unsustainable. They've been running them for years.
I've also caught myself slacking on schedules I set. Every single time, the slack period costs me 6 months of momentum to rebuild.
You don't need to be smarter. You need to be more frequent than feels reasonable, for longer than feels reasonable, on fewer channels than feels reasonable.
The frequency that kills you is the frequency that built every brand you respect.
Pick the channel. Set the schedule. Run it for 2 years before you talk to me about whether it works.
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