Playbook: A Month of Social Media for a Small Team
PLAYBOOK

Playbook: how a small team runs 30 days of social in PQZ

A walkthrough using Northwind Studio, the example workspace in the PQZ app: a furniture maker that also runs weekend woodworking workshops.

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PQZ · Dashboard
Dashboard

This playbook follows the workflow a small team would use, screen by screen. It uses the example data that ships with the app, so every screen here is one you will see yourself.

1. Build the Brand Kit

The team scans northwindstudio.com. The Brand Kit picks up the logo, the dark green and lime colours, the fonts, the products and the workshop dates. They approve the facts they want posts to use and reject one that was out of date.

PQZ · Set up › Brand Kit
Northwind Studio Brand Kit

2. Set the month in Content Autopilot

They set the goal to sales and bookings, pick four topics (products, workshops, behind the scenes and care tips) and a mix of single images, carousels and a short UGC video each week. Content Autopilot shows 48 posts across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest and the credits the month will use.

PQZ · Content Autopilot
Content Autopilot with 48 posts, 10 a week, 8 channels

3. Make the images

For the new side table, one phone photo becomes a studio shot, a lifestyle scene and a sale poster in Create Image. Each result goes straight into a post.

4. Approve the month

One person reads the month in Approvals, sends two posts back with notes, and approves the rest with Approve and schedule month.

PQZ · Content › Approvals
Approvals for September with posts waiting and approved

5. Publish, reply and review

PQZ publishes at the scheduled times. Questions about workshop dates arrive in Social Inbox with suggested replies drawn from the approved facts. At the end of the month the team checks top posts in Social Analytics and adjusts the plan.

What to copy for your own team

  • Approve facts carefully once; every draft depends on them.
  • Read the month as a whole before reading captions.
  • Keep one person responsible for final approval.
  • Spend ten minutes a week in Social Inbox.
IN THE APP

The screens in this playbook

REVIEW THE MONTH

Read the whole month before a single post goes live

30-day preview, then approve

Step seven shows every drafted post in order. Swap a topic, move a date, rewrite a caption or regenerate an image. When the month looks right, approve it in one pass and PQZ schedules everything.

✓30-day preview in calendar or list view
✓Edit or regenerate any single post
✓Approve and schedule the month at once
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Northwind StudioInstagram · Oct 20 · 20:00
Post image

A calm bedroom starts with fewer, better pieces. Our oak bed frame, made to order.

Status
✓Drafted by Autopilot
2Needs approval
3Scheduled
Tom

Swap this to Oct 21, the 20th is a holiday post.

ApproveSend back
ON BRAND BY DEFAULT

Every size and every channel from one brief

Your Brand Kit does the formatting

Pick a size, write the headline and the button, and choose a photo. PQZ applies your logo, colours and fonts, then gives you several options to pick from. Resize for every feed turns one finished design into 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 and 16:9 in a single run.

✓Logo, colours and fonts pulled from your Brand Kit
✓Headline and button text you can edit on every option
✓One design resized for every feed in one run
Create Image · Lifestyle scene5 credits
Brand
Northwind Studio
Size
4:5 Feed
Headline
Handmade oak side table
Button
Shop the collection
Product photo
Your photoGenerate
Made by hand. Built to last.
Picked
Made by hand. Built to last.
Shop the collection
Oak, finished by hand
Option 2
Oak, finished by hand
Shop now
The table your room was missing
Option 3
The table your room was missing
See the range
ONE INBOX

Comments, messages, mentions and reviews in one list

Every channel, sorted by what needs an answer

Social Inbox pulls in comments, direct messages, mentions and Google reviews from your connected channels. Filter by channel or type, assign to a teammate, and clear the list without switching apps.

✓Comments, DMs, mentions and reviews
✓Filter by channel, type or teammate
✓Mark done, assign or reply in place
Social Inbox14 open
Priya S.2m
Do you ship to Ireland?
Instagram comment
Mark D.1h
Lovely service, table arrived early.
Google review
Lena K.3h
Is the oak table in stock in 180cm?
Facebook message
Suggested replyFrom approved facts

Hi Priya, yes, we ship to Ireland. Delivery takes 5 to 7 working days and is free over €300.

Source: Delivery · northwindstudio.com/delivery
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