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What does SHTROM Creative’s social media management in Tampa include?
SHTROM Creative is a Tampa social media agency that runs your social media management and marketing end to end — brand and social strategy, content creation, community engagement, influencer marketing and paid social advertising, built around your brand, not a template, and working together as one system.
Built For The Scroll
This is what a client's feed actually looks like — real shoots, cut for Reels, not a highlight reel dressed up as a portfolio.
@shtromcreativeSlap Burger's grand opening ribbon-cutting
@shtromcreativeBehind the scenes at YoYo Burgers and Chicken, from raw prep to the finished sandwich
@shtromcreativeA bartender's smoke-finished cocktail presentation at Tanto
@shtromcreativeChef Taylor Dillon demonstrating Con Amor's housemade purple corn masa
@shtromcreativeA look inside Bekdash, Tampa Bay's new spot for ice cream and desserts
What does it take to stand out?
01. Understand the brand
Before we create anything, we look at where your brand is now and where it needs to go. We look at your current presence, your audience, your competition, and what makes your business different. From there, we create a clear direction for how your brand should look, sound, and feel on social media. It shouldn't look like everyone else. It should look like you.
02. Create the right content
Once the direction is there, we bring it to life. Video, photography, short-form content, graphics, campaigns, and creative concepts built around your brand. We don't create content just because something needs to be posted. Everything should have a reason behind it.
03. Get it in front of people
Good content is only part of the job. We combine it with social media management, community engagement, influencer marketing, paid advertising, and ongoing strategy. Not every brand needs the same approach. Our job is to figure out what makes sense for yours and execute it properly.
More than social media management
We offer full-service social media marketing, but we don't want to feel like another company that simply runs your accounts. We become a team that understands your business, your vision, and what you're trying to build. Then we translate that into social media. Strategy, content, management, influencers, community, and paid advertising all work together as one system. That's the SHTROM approach.
What that looks like in practice
OLIVIA, a modern Italian restaurant with two locations in Tampa Bay, already had a strong brand. What it needed was social media that matched its momentum. In two months of our social media management, its Instagram grew from 28,000 to 43,000 followers with $0 spent on paid social, and one reel passed 500,000 views in a week. Read the OLIVIA case study.
Your brand should feel like your brand
Not a template. Not your competitor. Not whatever happens to be trending that week. We make brands stand out.
Full-service social, built around your brand.What you get
- Brand & Social Strategy
Brand evaluation, positioning, research, and creative direction.
- Content Creation
Photography, video, short-form content, graphics, and campaign concepts.
- Social Media Management
Planning, publishing, management, and ongoing optimization.
- Community Engagement
Keeping your brand active and connected with the people following it.
- Influencer Marketing
Finding the right creators and building collaborations that actually fit your brand.
- Paid Social Advertising
Putting the right creative in front of the right people.
Proof
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Professional photography and video built for social — long-form, branded, short-form, and personal brand video, shot for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Facebook, in both vertical and horizontal formats.
Paid SocialVisual ad campaigns for Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — keyword research, competitor analysis, ad copywriting, and sales-funnel strategy, built to cut through the noise and reach the right audience by demographics, interests, and behavior.
Influencer MarketingFinding the right creators for your brand and building collaborations that actually fit — treated as part of the strategy, not a list of people to invite.
Consulting / SOPTurning what already works at one location into a system that can be copied to the next — recipes, SOPs, and AI-assisted tools built to help restaurants expand faster without losing what made the first location work.
Further reading
Con Amor is a modern Mexican restaurant at 5240 N Florida Ave in Tampa’s Seminole Heights, led by Chef Taylor Dillon. It makes its own masa through nixtamalization and builds original dishes on Mexican tradition, from masa gnocchi to a waffle-cone Taco Dulce. Here’s why it’s one of the most interesting Mexican restaurants in Tampa.
Outback Steakhouse Mates & Steaks: Best Steaks Ever at a Dade City Cattle RanchMates & Steaks was an Outback Steakhouse event, created with Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. to celebrate Outback’s Best Steaks Ever. It was held at Bear Hill, a family-owned cattle ranch in Dade City, north of Tampa, where guests tried Outback steaks, learned what makes quality beef and shared the night with their communities.
Mei × Yugen: A Fall Kaiseki Collaboration in St. PetersburgMei, the eight-seat tasting-menu restaurant in downtown St. Petersburg, hosted a fall kaiseki dinner cooked by its own Chef Alex Chamberlain and Chef Lwin Siss of Yugen in Sarasota. SHTROM Creative photographed the night. Here’s what it looked like, and why chef collaborations are some of the best marketing a restaurant can do.
Top 7 Food Influencers in Tampa Bay, Orlando and Nearby Areas for Restaurant MarketingOur seven picks for restaurant influencer partnerships in Tampa Bay and Orlando are Food by Tiana, Tasty Chomps, Jesus Andres Andrade, Bin Min Munch, Michael Haffner, Mr. Tampa Bay and Your Tampa Bestie — chosen for local trust, thoughtful content and how their audiences actually respond, not follower counts.
The Best Social Media Marketing Strategies for Tampa Businesses in 2026Tampa is a visually competitive market, so social media marketing here rewards original footage over stock, short vertical video over static posts, and consistency over volume. What works differs by sector: hospitality and restaurants win on food and room footage, med spas on results and trust, real estate on place, and service businesses on the person doing the work.
What Does a Social Media Marketing Agency Actually Do for a Business?A social media agency does considerably more than post. The work is strategy, original photography and video production, editing for short-form, writing, scheduling, community management, paid advertising, creator outreach, analysis and creative direction. Most of the hours go into producing content, not into publishing it, which is the part clients rarely see.
Questions people ask
How many platforms do you manage at once?
Most clients run Instagram and Facebook together, with TikTok and YouTube added based on where their audience actually is — we don't recommend a platform just to pad a proposal.
Do you create the content yourselves?
Yes. Photography, video, and graphic design happen in-house, which is also why our case studies show real, shot-by-us work rather than templated visuals.
How is this different from a content creation package alone?
Content creation makes the assets. Social media management runs the account — posting cadence, community replies, and reporting are part of the service, not an add-on.
Do you only work with Tampa businesses?
We're based in Tampa, but social media management doesn't require us to be on-site — we work with brands nationwide, and travel for content shoots when the project calls for it.
Ready to talk about social media marketing?
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