A slick signature with social profiles

I was recently delighted to learn about www.wisestamp.com which gives your email signature a really slick professional look. All your social media buttons can be added here which is pretty fancy. You can get it for free or pay £4 per month if you don't want a link to their site. I set mine up on outlook 2013 and am thrilled with it and I thought I would share the love! 💕😍

This was a Facebook post I sent out recently about following your dreams - its often very scary to do something new, I felt this when I set up my own business.  But as I have heard many times before 'the failure is not to try'.  We will all make mistakes whatever we do and that was really hard for me to accept as apparently I have a 'perfectionist sub personality' going on somewhere.  Hopefully this will inspire you to follow your dreams, whatever they may be.  Know that you will make mistakes but turn it around and instead of looking on it as a mistake, look on it as 'new learning'.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Sam Smith doing a cover of Tracy Chapman's Fast Car

Here is a link to Facebook post I sent out which was Sam Smith doing a cover of Tracy Chapman's Fast Car. .....Take a few moments and enjoy!


https://www.facebook.com/flourishwithsocialmedia/posts/538685716275366

The granny snoring dilemma

What should you do when you go on holiday with your 75 year old mother and she snores very loudly in the family room you are sharing with her and your 2 young children. 

Do you give her a shake and say 'mam you're snoring' and risk her then being awake for hours? 

Or do you lie there getting more and more tense waiting for every snore to reach new octaves and hoping that once it reaches a crescendo, like a dormant volcano, eventually it will subside? 

It's a very difficult decision for a loving daughter and mother. I'm torn between my wonderful mother's need to not be woken up and my bleary eyed children who are baffled at this new granny they haven't experienced before. They are getting fits of the giggles in between pulling the quilt over their ears. 

It brings me back to when I was a child staying in a caravan on holidays which literally shook its way through the night with the level of snoring.

This is a DILEMMA

Got a lovely review after a recent social media coaching session

From Tori Deslauriers Photography Ltd
'Marian is wonderful to work with; personable, funny and knowledgeable. Her 1-2-1 training is great value for money and has left me with many ideas on how to push my business forward on social media platforms. I will definitely be recommending her.'

Nice to get such a lovely review x

Testimonial from Allison Spargo, MD, People for the Future

"Marian is a a super partner to work with, extremely friendly and professional. She takes time to thoroughly understand your business and what you want to achieve from your social media and then presents her thoughts and ideas in a creative, easy to comprehend way.  Her writing skills are extremely engaging.  Her knowledge and experience in Marketing, combined with her knowledge and experience of the different social media platforms give her clients the best of both world. I would highly recommend Marian to her future clients"

My Dad

Sorry I haven't been writing for a while.  Sadly my father passed away on March 29th 2014.  He was often described as the 'Perfect Man'. To me he was the 'Perfect Dad', kind, loving and gentle.  Thinking of you dad x

A happy customer

I recently did a one to one coaching session with a lady on Twitter and Facebook recently.  She has now found the confidence to start tweeting and was delighted with the results of her Facebook ad.  This is her review

'I contacted Marian at Flourish with Social Media as I needed someone to help me navigate the different social media platforms that are available.  I booked an hour consultation during which time Marian helped me understand how to use Twitter for my business and gave me tips and ideas.  This has given me the confidence to begin Tweeting to help raise my business profile.  We also looked at advertising on Facebook and she helped me target my campaign to specific locations.  This brought about positive results and bookings.  It was certainly an hour well spent.

Thank you Marian'

Lovely to get such positive feedback 

Ever been to a Click Farm? Not all organic and wholesome!

Hi everyone,

Do you know what a Click farm is?

According to The Sunday Times Magazine,its a place where groups of workers are paid to click on Facebook 'like' and Twitter 'follow' buttons, and per per click advertising links.

I knew it happened but didn't know the official name for this activity. 

Even the US State Department has been buying fake likes.  It stopped after its inspector general criticized the agency for spending $630,000 on boosting its Facebook profile

I ask myself, what is the point?  This is similar to 'rent a crowd? Surely you want your community on social networks to be a meaningful one.

Let me know what you think?

New Years Resolution

I'm sharing some of my New Years LinkedIn Resolutions..... Build up a Quality following on my LinkedIn Company Page Continue to build up my quality connections on LinkedIn Create, Post and Share great social media content to my LinkedIn Communities Follow more relevant companies on LinkedIn to keep up to date on what is happening for these companies Meet as many of my LinkedIn Connections as possible to learn about their businesses Build up my recommendations on LinkedIn Keep my LinkedIn personal profile continually updated with my latest work and projects Better get to work...... Later M