Mirco Gluch has spent 12 years building Instagram and organic social strategies for brands that couldn't be more different — UV gel nail strips, children's bicycles, SaaS tools. Every single channel performs. The secret isn't budget or follower count. It's that he starts where almost every brand skips: actually talking to followers.
His take: most brands stand in their own way — posting every day out of obligation, running everything through brand police, and wondering why nothing lands. In this episode, we dig into his design thinking approach to social strategy, why 2–3 epic posts a week beat seven mediocre ones, how full-funnel Instagram actually works, and why the content that crushes on Instagram almost always tanks on TikTok.
🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
• The 3-phase design thinking framework: Follower Understanding → Creative Exploration → Execution Playbook
• What a "Unique Following Proposition" is — and why it matters more than your content calendar
• The quality vs. quantity debate: why 2–3 posts a week is now the smarter move
• Why Instagram content tanks on TikTok — and how to build a platform-native strategy for both
• How to build a full-funnel Instagram strategy using the Manco Nails case study (37K Facebook community → Instagram revenue)
• Why ClickUp never shows their product on social — and why it works brilliantly for B2B
• Where AI belongs in your social workflow — and where it's getting brands destroyed
💎 KEY QUOTES:
"Why would followers even follow a brand like you? Why don't they just follow entertaining influencers or celebrities instead?"
"Why would you sacrifice on quality just to increase your quantity? Create content your team is actually proud of."
"You don't get into your customer's wallets with social media. You get into their hearts and their minds first. Then the wallets follow."
👤 ABOUT MIRCO GLUCH:
Mirco is the founder of Piggyback, a social media agency building organic strategies across wildly different industries. With 12 years in social and a design thinking background, he field-tests every strategy before calling it one. He also created the AI for Social Media online course.
🎯 PERFECT FOR:
• Social media managers tired of posting every day and getting nothing back
• CMOs whose brand control is quietly killing their organic channels
• B2B marketers who think their product "isn't exciting enough" for social
• D2C brands sitting on a community they're not converting
🔗 CONNECT WITH MIRCO: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirco-gluch/ Agency: https://www.piggyback.tv/
📥 RESOURCES MENTIONED: • Piggyback — https://www.piggyback.tv/ • AI for Social Media (Mirco's course) • Maniko Nails (case study - UV gel nail strip brand) • ClickUp (B2B Tiktok) • The Ordinary (brand leading the quality-over-quantity shift)
🎙️ ABOUT THE GROWTH DOJO: The Growth DOJO is a podcast for challenger brands and marketers who refuse to settle for vanilla strategies. Hosted by Luke Costley-White (DOJO AI), we unpack forgotten marketing channels, contrarian takes, and tactical systems from the best in B2B.
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