Molly · what it looks like

The look, and everything that goes out.

Less reading, more seeing. This is the palette applied, a real month of publishing laid out week by week, and what her feed looks like once it has run for four weeks.

The look

One palette, one typeface pairing, one photo grade.

Shown here in The Standard — our recommendation. Try the other five with the selector in the corner; nothing below changes except the colour.

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Display — headlines, names, numbers
Know the town before you choose the house.
Playfair Display · used large, never for body copy
Body — captions, pages, email

Main Street’s quickest weekday train reaches Union Station in thirty minutes. Fairview has more trains and not one express. On an average train the three are within five minutes of each other.

Inter · the whole system uses two faces and no more
A month, as it actually runs

What publishes, week by week.

This is a normal month with one listing in it. Weeks 1, 2 and 4 run whether or not she has a listing — week 3 is what a listing adds.

Week 1The lesson drops
Feed postLesson 1The train — why people actually move here
ReelReelFilmed on the platform, 40 seconds
Stories
StoriesStoriesBehind the shoot · poll: which station?
Ask postThe ask“Which station are you?” — replies answered same day
Week 2The proof + the read
Feed postLesson 2Only two stations get the express
BlogBlogThe station table — the forwardable one
Stories
StoriesStoriesThree frames from the week’s showings
Week 3The listing takes over
FilmThe filmOne shoot day → the hero film goes live
Feed postJust listedThe address, the film, the page
ReelDetail reelThe one thing that makes this house specific
Feed postOpen houseSaturday, with the brochure and signage
Week 4Close the loop
Feed postLesson 3Eleven minutes east is worth $800K
Feed postUnder contractThen sold — and the film gets reposted
Direct mail
Direct mailJust sold mailTo the same blocks. Next year’s listings
Proof
ProofReview askSent the day after closing, while it’s fresh
12feed posts
3reels
1film, if a listing
1blog
1market read email
~2 hrsof her time, total
After four weeks

What the grid looks like.

The point of one grade and one palette: nine posts from nine different days still read as one person, one house style, one town.

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molly · the wardlow group Downers Grove · Realtor®

Every image runs through the same colour treatment. Every caption ends with the same two possible asks. Nothing is designed from scratch on the day — which is the only way this survives a busy week.

Photography is her own listings and the team’s. No stock, no borrowed MLS photos, no AI houses.

The rhythm

Three cycles, running at once.

Two of them never stop. The third fires whenever she takes a listing — and that is the one that produces most of the material.

Every week
  • 1–2 feed posts from the series
  • 1 reel
  • Stories on shoot or showing days
  • Every reply answered, same day
Every month
  • The market read email
  • 1 blog with a forwardable table
  • A recap of what the month actually did
Every listing
  • One shoot day → film, stills, aerial, twilight, floor plan
  • Just listed → open house → under contract → sold
  • The property page, permanently
  • Just-sold mail to the surrounding blocks
And what she actually does

Approve, show up on shoot day, answer the replies.

Everything above is drafted, designed, scheduled and posted for her. Her two hours a month are spent saying yes or no, and talking to the people who answer back.

The Wardlow Group × Chicago Estates Co · The Studio Concept — imagery is Wardlow’s own sold-home photography. Captions are examples, not approved copy.