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Lightsmith Media | Hobart, Tasmania

Social Media Marketing Hobart Businesses Can Actually Measure

Boosting posts and hoping for the best isn't a strategy. We build paid social campaigns with sharp targeting, creative that converts, and reporting tied to real outcomes, not likes.

Social media isn't free anymore. Make it work harder.

Organic reach on social platforms has declined dramatically. For most business pages, only a fraction of followers see any given post without paid amplification behind it. That’s their business model now.

The businesses succeeding on social aren’t the ones posting more. They’re the ones running well-structured paid social media campaigns with sharp targeting, creative that stops the scroll, and a clear path from the ad to a conversion. That conversion path almost always leads to a well-built landing page.

At Lightsmith Media, I manage social media advertising as a performance channel. That means every campaign has a defined objective, a target audience built on data, and reporting that tracks what actually matters to your business.

“The businesses that get the best results from social aren’t the ones posting every day. They’re the ones who know exactly who they’re talking to and what they want them to do.”

Andrew — Founder, Lightsmith Media

Everything your Hobart paid social needs to perform.

Audience Strategy & Targeting
We build audience segments based on your ideal customer profile — custom audiences, lookalikes, interest targeting, and retargeting pools. The targeting is what makes or breaks a social campaign.
Creative Direction & Briefing
We advise on what creative formats and styles work best for each platform and objective, and brief your creative team or help you source the right assets. Good creative is non-negotiable.
Campaign Setup & Management
Full campaign build, pixel setup, conversion event configuration, and ongoing management. We monitor performance closely and make adjustments before small issues become budget problems.
Testing & Optimisation
Systematic A/B testing of audiences, creative, and placements. We find what works and scale it. We cut what doesn’t before it wastes budget.
Reporting & Insights
Clear reporting tied to the metrics that matter for your objectives — cost per lead, cost per purchase, return on ad spend, reach, and frequency. No dashboard padding.
Retargeting Campaigns
We build retargeting audiences from your website visitors, video viewers, and page engagers — then serve them tailored follow-up ads to bring warm prospects back into the funnel.
Paid social management from $750/month. Ad spend is separate, stays in your control, and we'll recommend a realistic starting budget based on your goals in the discovery session.

The right platform for your audience.

Different platforms reach different people in different ways. We work across six primary social media platforms and match the right ones to your audience and objectives.
01
Meta: Facebook & Instagram
The broadest reach of any social platform. Precise targeting by location, age, interests, and behaviour makes Meta the default starting point for most Hobart businesses.
02
TikTok Ads
Rapidly growing reach across younger (and not so young) Tasmanian audiences. Strong for brand awareness and businesses with a visual product or story to tell.
03
LinkedIn Ads
The right choice for B2B or professional services. Higher cost-per-click than Meta, but unmatched for reaching decision-makers by role, industry, and company size.
We also run campaigns on Pinterest, Reddit, and X where the audience fit makes sense. We can discuss if these might be right for your business.

Understanding the difference between organic and paid social for your business.

Both have a role to play, but they do different things. Here’s the honest breakdown.

Organic Social

  • Builds community and brand personality over time
  • Reaches people who already follow you
  • Relies on algorithm favour for reach
  • Can't be targeted to specific audiences
  • Results are slow and hard to directly attribute

Paid Social

  • Reaches people who don't know you exist yet
  • Targeted by age, location, interest, and behaviour
  • Results are measurable and directly attributable
  • Can be scaled up or down based on performance
  • Drives action: leads, purchases, website visits

From brief to live campaign.

A clear process from day one so you always know what’s happening and why.
1
Strategy & Audience
We define your campaign objective, build your target audiences, and map out the funnel from first impression to conversion.
2
Creative & Setup
Creative assets are briefed, accounts and pixels are configured, and campaigns are built with proper structure before anything goes live.
3
Launch & Learn
We launch with controlled budgets, monitor early performance closely, and make fast adjustments in the first two weeks based on what the data tells us.
4
Scale & Report
Winning audiences and creatives get more budget. Underperformers get cut. Regular reporting keeps you across what your spend is delivering.

Frequently Asked Questions

Paid social management starts from $750/month. Ad spend is on top of that and stays in your control. We'll recommend a realistic starting budget in the strategy session based on your goals and market.

Paid social can generate data within days of launch, but meaningful results  (consistent leads or sales at a target cost) typically take 4 to 8 weeks as we test audiences and creative and optimise based on what's working.

It depends on the objective, but most campaigns need a minimum of $1,000/month to generate enough data to optimise effectively. Below that, results are too slow and too noisy to act on. We'll give you a specific recommendation based on your goals.

You'll need to supply assets or work with a creative partner to produce them, but we'll brief exactly what's needed for each platform and objective. If you don't have a creative resource, we can point you in the right direction.

Yes, and they work well, but they perform best when there's a clear conversion point for the traffic to land on. A well-built landing page or booking page makes a significant difference to what paid social can deliver. We'll factor that into the strategy from the start.

It depends on your audience and whether your creative can support it. TikTok suits under-45 audiences and needs authentic, native-feeling content. LinkedIn is the right call for B2B. Meta is the default starting point for most Hobart businesses. We'll work out the right platform mix in the strategy session.

Social media is one piece of a bigger picture.

Ready to make social media actually work for your business?

A photo of Andrew, founder of Hobart digital marketing agency, Lightsmith Media sitting in a chair
I’m Andrew, the person who’ll work directly with you. Before starting Lightsmith Media, I spent years as Head of Media at TPG Telecom, managing over $100 million in annual ad spend across iiNet, Internode, and Vodafone Australia. Now I work exclusively with Hobart businesses, bringing that same level of expertise without the regular agency BS.

Stop throwing shit at the wall to see if it'll stick. Let’s build a strategy that scales.
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