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Client Boundaries from a Recovering People Pleaser
Read more: Client Boundaries from a Recovering People PleaserClient boundaries are hard. It’s hard to know when you are asking for the right things and then it’s hard to enforce those boundaries when the client tiptoes through the tulips while you’re depending on them for a paycheck. The older I get, the more likely I am to say, “This is not working for…
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On Resilience
Read more: On Resilience“Resilience” is a word I have been meditating on lately. Somehow, against all odds, I have become a resilient person. I never saw that coming. So why am I writing about this on a blog dedicated to issues around social media? Odd choice, right? Not really, if you think about it. If you’ve worked in…
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When More Doesn’t Get You Anywhere on Social Media
Read more: When More Doesn’t Get You Anywhere on Social MediaLonger reels! More characters! When these social media announcements happen, it can be tempting to take them as a challenge. “3 minute reel lengths?! I CAN FILL THREE MINUTES!” But why? Does it really make any sense to go longer in this day and age? The easy answer is no, and it never has. Fans…
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How to Do Social Video with Little to No Work
Read more: How to Do Social Video with Little to No WorkFirst off, I want to make it clear: Great social video takes work. It takes a lot of time and effort. But not many of us have the time to be great. It sounds terrible to say, but it’s just a fact. And unfortunately, video is getting to more feeds than anything else, so it’s…
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Why More Followers Should Never Be Your Goal
Read more: Why More Followers Should Never Be Your GoalAs I’m rebuilding my business after my maternity leave, I often look at ads for social media consultants. Too often in those ads there is the same statement: “Must get X followers by the end of the year,” and every time I shudder. These people are just asking to be scammed. But worse is that…
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How to Work When You’re Emotional
Read more: How to Work When You’re EmotionalI’m admittedly a person with big feelings. You might even go so far as to say I’m an empath. I take a lot in, which can be a total asset. It makes me actually feel what our social media communities feel. However, it means that I can also get emotional. Sometimes about random things. If…
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The Perfectionism Problem on Social Media
Read more: The Perfectionism Problem on Social MediaWe have heard so many times about how the perfectionism on social media is harming our mental health. It’s to the point that people are getting plastic surgery to look like Instagram filters. It’s a serious problem and there is thankfully a movement to combat it with the realities of their life, and I frankly…
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Just Say No to Extra Twitter Characters
Read more: Just Say No to Extra Twitter CharactersElon Musk is throwing the book at Twitter Blue to try to get people to purchase it. The latest? A whole 4,000 Twitter characters if you become a subscriber. Four. Thousand. Characters. For someone who likes to write long form and not be constrained by these character limits, it’s probably enticing. But this is in…
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Why AI Still Needs a Personal Touch on Social Media
Read more: Why AI Still Needs a Personal Touch on Social MediaAI has been on the top of everyone’s list lately. It’s creating waves that will rock so many industries. Whether that will create more work or less remains to be seen, but it will definitely change the way we work. But what about social media? I think some content marketers have been quaking in their…
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My Weekly Results 2/8/23
Read more: My Weekly Results 2/8/23I’ve been spending this last week working behind the scenes, so even though you might not have seen any changes, there were several. So what were the results of those changes? Let’s take a look. Goal: Keep Doing What I Am Doing This is a deceptive goal, since I was putting the processes in place…
