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Instagram Stories: The Latest Features & Hacks

Instagram Stories: The Latest Features & Hacks

How Your Small Business Can Survive COVID-19

Freelancing· Small Businesses

6 Apr

Starting, maintaining and growing a small business presents a great deal of challenges at the best of times, but during economic downturns these challenges can grow quite substantially. Check out my tips for both service based and product based business owners, to help ensure that your small business can survive COVID-19 and the tough times ahead.

What it’s REALLY like to be a Small Business Owner featuring Imogen Apparel

Small Businesses

22 Jan

Discover what it’s really like to be a small business owner through the inspirational, insightful and value packed business journey of UK fashion designer Imogen Apparel in my very first interview. Imogen reveals how she grew her business to where it is today, her tips for creating a beautiful brand, what she loves most about being a SBO, how she has overcome her biggest challenges and provides some epic advice for anyone out there considering starting their own business.

instagram predictions for 2020

Instagram Predictions For 2020 (and what they mean for small business owners)

Marketing· Small Businesses· Social Media

15 Jan

Being on top of the changing trends and latest features on Instagram is essential if you want to keep up with the algorithm, stay relevant to your audience and make the most of this platform’s potential. Discover my Instagram predictions for 2020, what these mean for small business owners and how to incorporate these trends and features into your own social media strategies.

10 Lessons I Learned In My First Two Years of Freelancing

Freelancing· Small Businesses

8 Jan

Navigating life as a freelancer and small business owner over the last two years has taught me some powerful lessons that I wish somebody had told me before I started… which is exactly why I am sharing them with you today! If you are at the beginning of your freelancing or small business owner journey, or perhaps you’ve already got things started but you’re still looking for some guidance, then this post is for you. Discover the 10 biggest lessons I learned in my first 2 years of freelancing, so you can learn from my mistakes and make the next two years of your life a whole lot easier!

How To Work Smarter Not Harder On Instagram

Marketing· Social Media

2 Oct

Work smarter not harder on Instagram – a concept that may seem like the stuff of dreams and farfetched fairytales for a busy small business owner like yourself, but believe me – it’s actually possible! Discover 6 easy ways to help you claim back your precious time while still delivering an effective social media strategy for your business.

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• postcards from paradise 💌 • postcards from paradise 💌
• doing what we do best ✌🏽 • doing what we do best ✌🏽
• it’s been a while... ✈️ • it’s been a while... ✈️
• 30 TODAY! 🌟 Happy birthday my darling husba • 30 TODAY! 🌟 Happy birthday my darling husband ❤️ so many beautiful and epic memories with you and so so so many more to come. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for you for your dirty thirties 😏 I love you SO much and I especially love your two new grey hairs. Time to celebrate baby 💃🏼🕺🏽🥂 #lessssgo
• out of office is on and we are finally off on • out of office is on and we are finally off on hols in three short days time 🙏🏼 excitement levels to get on an actual plane for the first time in 15 months are HIGH 🤩
• summer sundays with my love 🌞 drives throug • summer sundays with my love 🌞 drives through the hinterland, ocean dips, naps on the beach, beautiful headland walks and a coupla frosty pints to top it all off. Lotsa days like this in 2021 please 🌼
• it turns out the last day of 2020 was one of m • it turns out the last day of 2020 was one of my absolute favourites 🤍 there is something so incredible about being underneath a huge waterfall - heart pummelling in your chest, energy and force swirling all around you, pigtails zooming back in the air and not a single leech attached itself to my tootsies 🙌🏽
Grateful that I got to spend the last day of 2020 on a high, experiencing something so beautiful with my hubs 🙏🏼
• beach days with the small bear 🧸 • beach days with the small bear 🧸
• boxing day bliss with the fam 🙌🏽 (micks • boxing day bliss with the fam 🙌🏽
(micks face a possible indication that I’ve eaten one too many slithers of ham in the last 48 hours 🐋💦)
• merry christmas ya filthy animals❤️ love t • merry christmas ya filthy animals❤️ love the searsys x
• after a solid week of rain and a very leaky ho • after a solid week of rain and a very leaky house it felt sooo good to get our bodies out in the sunshine this morning and soak up all those magic beams 🌞 fingers crossed it sticks around for next week 🤞🏽
...and that's a wrap! 🎬 Another whole year of ...and that's a wrap! 🎬

Another whole year of running my little biz and working with so many awesome humans to help them turn their passion into their profession and grow their businesses online. It's been epic, but it's also been tiring AF 🤪 - so I am mega looking forward to switching off until the new year and spending the next couple of weeks slowing down and soaking up all the good stuff with my little fam 💕

To my beautiful clients, thank you as always for trusting me with your business babies! I am so grateful for you all and I can't wait to work with you again next year 👋🏽 but for now, my margi awaits 🍸 #outofoffice
• this time last year, living our absolute best • this time last year, living our absolute best life honeymooning in new caledonia with no bloody idea what was in store for 2020 😅💕
• putting up a christmas tree in a heatwave didn • putting up a christmas tree in a heatwave didn’t feel particularly festive, but a smidge of michael buble and some red wine goes a long way 😏 roll on my favourite time of the year with my three favourite faces! 🤍🎄
• Rosie Sears 🐻 the latest addition to our li • Rosie Sears 🐻 the latest addition to our little fam 💕
• one of the most beeeautiful morning walks I’ • one of the most beeeautiful morning walks I’ve ever been on, little slices of paradise around every corner and so many ocean friends to spot along the way like this little guy 👆🏽🐢💫
• having a real noice time 🐋 • having a real noice time 🐋
• a little change of scenery + some sunshine goe • a little change of scenery + some sunshine goes a long way 🙌🏼 feeling ever so happy and grateful to be back in straddie soaking up all the good stuff with my darling hubs 🌞
• it’s been such a treat hanging with all thre • it’s been such a treat hanging with all three of these munchkins the last few days and it’s made me very sure of two things:
1) dogs are the absolute best and spread joy wherever they go
2) ralph is getting a four legged little sister asap 🐶🤍
• those out of office feels ✌🏽 • those out of office feels ✌🏽
• postcards from paradise 💌 • postcards from paradise 💌
• doing what we do best ✌🏽 • doing what we do best ✌🏽
• it’s been a while... ✈️ • it’s been a while... ✈️
• 30 TODAY! 🌟 Happy birthday my darling husba • 30 TODAY! 🌟 Happy birthday my darling husband ❤️ so many beautiful and epic memories with you and so so so many more to come. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for you for your dirty thirties 😏 I love you SO much and I especially love your two new grey hairs. Time to celebrate baby 💃🏼🕺🏽🥂 #lessssgo
• out of office is on and we are finally off on • out of office is on and we are finally off on hols in three short days time 🙏🏼 excitement levels to get on an actual plane for the first time in 15 months are HIGH 🤩
• summer sundays with my love 🌞 drives throug • summer sundays with my love 🌞 drives through the hinterland, ocean dips, naps on the beach, beautiful headland walks and a coupla frosty pints to top it all off. Lotsa days like this in 2021 please 🌼
• it turns out the last day of 2020 was one of m • it turns out the last day of 2020 was one of my absolute favourites 🤍 there is something so incredible about being underneath a huge waterfall - heart pummelling in your chest, energy and force swirling all around you, pigtails zooming back in the air and not a single leech attached itself to my tootsies 🙌🏽
Grateful that I got to spend the last day of 2020 on a high, experiencing something so beautiful with my hubs 🙏🏼
• beach days with the small bear 🧸 • beach days with the small bear 🧸

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