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The Launch.

Nala Resort. A five-star opening at Mission Beach, built a feed at a time.

523%Instagram follower growth · five weeks
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No Runway. Straight To Live.

Nala had built the brand. We came in at the last minute, in the middle of Christmas and New Year, with festive bookings, seasonal menus and opening hours that shifted with the season, all of it needing to reach people fast.

So we posted from day one. The practical went out while we planned the shoot, captured the content and built a model that turned the resort's values into a feed with a narrative. Awareness, a campaign and a strategy to build on what they already had, live while it was still being made.

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61Instagram followers at the start
26Assets delivered, video and stills
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01The Count · Weeks 1 To 5

Discovery, Before A Dollar Of Paid.

Five weeks of organic content, measured against the account that existed before it and against hospitality benchmarks. The feed did the job it was built to do.

523%Instagram follower growth, 61 to 380
189%Reach-to-follower ratio, 80%+ is exceptional
114.5KFacebook views in five weeks
20.9KPeople reached on Facebook

Source: Nala Performance Review, weeks 1 to 5. Meta, Facebook and Instagram.

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02The Table · Open To The Public

Awareness, Grown Not Bought.

Nala's restaurant was open to the public, for dinner and for weekend brunch. Most people assumed a resort restaurant was for guests only. So they never thought to book.

No paid push. Just the feed, doing the work. Reels of the food and the room, and one clear message. You could book a table without booking a room.

Open to the public · Dinner Wed–Sat 5:30–9:30pm · Brunch 8:00–10:30

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03The Reach · One Post

One Post. Mostly Strangers.

One carousel, posted and left to run. No boost, no spend. It reached 8,205 people, more than nine in ten of them strangers to the page, and pulled a reach-to-follower ratio of 1,190%. The content doing its own work.

12,919Views on one post
1,190%Reach-to-follower ratio, 40%+ is exceptional
90.7%Reached who don't follow the page
$0Ad spend
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nalaresort Between reef and rainforest, on a quieter stretch of Tropical North Queensland. A small, adults-only resort created for soft mornings and slow days.
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