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I went viral on Threads… in a bad way
Read more: I went viral on Threads… in a bad wayFor Easter, I sewed my daughter a dress. I did at the last minute because I’d been so busy, and I didn’t finish it until Sunday morning. I was super anxious to try it on her, because there had been no fittings. It was either going to work or else we needed to go into…
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Creating a Mental Health Space for Your Audience
Read more: Creating a Mental Health Space for Your AudienceSo many brands say that they care about mental health. But when it comes down to it, most don’t do more than talking the talk. Walking the walk is just too hard. There are some brands where that’s just not enough and they just can’t get away with not doing anything. But where do you…
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Mentally Staying in the Game When Business is Slow
Read more: Mentally Staying in the Game When Business is SlowOn Monday, I talked a lot about what you need to do to keep yourself in the game when business is slow, but I only touched on what you need to do mentally. With work harder to come by for many of us, mental health is too important to just give a cursory nod to…
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How to Deal with Social Media Perfection
Read more: How to Deal with Social Media PerfectionLook, we all deal with this every day, but it might be worse for social media professionals because we live in the online world. We see the absolute perfection of other people’s lives and we start wondering… What is wrong with us? Why aren’t we that perfect? The amount that we doubt ourselves because we…
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Keeping a Routine When Working in Social Media
Read more: Keeping a Routine When Working in Social MediaIt’s so easy to throw out a routine when you work in social media. You have to work odd hours (sometimes in addition to the regular office hours), and before you know, you’ve slipped into complete chaos. But a routine is your friend. It helps you maintain a life-work balance and prevents burn out. You…
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Too Many Ideas and Nowhere to Put Them
Read more: Too Many Ideas and Nowhere to Put ThemI feel like I’ve been talking about a lot of sad things lately and I just want to flip the scrip to something I struggle with regularly: Too many ideas. As soon as I get a new problem or a new client to solve, my brain goes in five thousand different directions and ends up…
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Ways to Minimize Social Media’s Affect on Your Mental Health When It is Your Job
Read more: Ways to Minimize Social Media’s Affect on Your Mental Health When It is Your JobWhat do you do when what you do for a living is possibly hurting your mental health? That’s a question many social media professionals are facing right now, and there’s no great answer. I know I’m not the only one who has looked longingly as friends have talked about digital detoxes or when they have…
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How to Keep Posting During a Dark Time
Read more: How to Keep Posting During a Dark TimeI recently saw someone post about how it’s a dark time to work in social media. There are days where that feels about right. I have friends who are being directly and indirectly affected by a lot of the change going on in our country. And I can count myself as one of those people.…
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Protecting Yourself Prior to a Troll Attack
Read more: Protecting Yourself Prior to a Troll AttackIt’s not a matter of if a social media manager will experience a troll attack. It’s a matter of when. I’ve handled social media accounts for all kinds of industries and of all kinds of sizes. It doesn’t matter how small or how nice your page is. You can’t please everyone all the time. So…
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Losing Trust and Moving Forward
Read more: Losing Trust and Moving ForwardThere is nothing more devastating to a relationship than losing trust. And there were many of us who watched the TikTok debacle go down and realized we fully cannot trust anyone who runs a social media network anymore. Of course the big problem is that so many of us work in social media with zero…
