4 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐒... 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝗪

The benefits of doing collaborations with brand ambassadors, other business or micro-influencers in your community are HUGEEE

1 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 / 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘺!
People loveeee feeling like VIP’s — and when you treat them with extra attention, perks, promo codes etc. they’ll be that much more motivated to talk about/share your brand...

2 𝘐𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳/𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵...
...that you don’t have to create! Not to mention - you’ll get the benefit of different creative angles, people & environments to share as marketing materials!

3 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 (𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵!)
If your brand ambassadors are IDEAL CLIENTS - then the people following them probably are too! SCORE!

4 𝘜𝘮𝘮... 𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙𝘠𝘉𝘖𝘋𝘠 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦!
Promo codes WORK — so take advantage of that knowledge and use it to your benefit!

**send this to someone you wanna collab with!

𝐀𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 & 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 (𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞!) —

𝘗𝘐𝘕𝘒 𝘗𝘙𝘌𝘚𝘌𝘛 𝘣𝘺 @marinabraunnn — 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘸 & 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴!

𝘊𝘐𝘈𝘖 𝘉𝘌𝘓𝘓𝘈 𝘣𝘺 kat— 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦? 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘸!

𝘊𝘖𝘊𝘖𝘕𝘜𝘛 𝘣𝘺 @yulya.kors — 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘨𝘰-𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤... 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘱 & 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 ‘𝘮𝘦𝘩’ 𝘵𝘰 ‘𝘰𝘩𝘩𝘩 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘩𝘩𝘩𝘩!’

𝐏𝐒𝐀: it’s important for us to show up WITHOUT filters on social media too... because more n more women (& young girls!) are comparing their natural faces to photoshopped influencers / celebrities. Ughhhh ‍

BUT our biggest concern is seeing filters popping up left & right that change the structureeee of your gorgeous face. They heighten cheekbones, baby-doll your eyes and lip inject those puckers so that you don’t...

-𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 *𝘏𝘈𝘊𝘒* 𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘜𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘕𝘓𝘠 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮!

By editing a custom cover using this speedy technique, you won’t even need to open another app (Canva included!) for your reels to 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 & 𝘢𝘥𝘥 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦!

𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏

1 Take a photo of yourself, your product or whatever it is that your featuring (in gold lighting!) in the reel using Instagram’s Stories function...

2 Use Instagram’s fancy Story Fonts / paint tools to add your TITLE as an overlay on the middle (or as close possible!) of your photo...

3 Screenshot/download the finished product to your Photo Album... Double check that the text fits into a ‘square’ (so that it’s readable on the feed) — upload it as a custom COVER photo before publishing your reel on Instagram!

**𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄** 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐥!

‼ 'W𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 "𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘤𝘦" 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 #𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨... 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘐𝘛?!'

𝘈𝘭𝘴𝘰, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘦 #𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦/𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵?

HELP!!!

Here's my cheat sheet: people buy from women they 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝗪, 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 & 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐓.

Now, whether it's your feed, story, Pinterest board, blog etc. t𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦:

CONTENT THAT...

*𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬* 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐊𝐍𝐎𝗪) - ex: a holiday giveaway with another VTW entrepreneur who has a similar ideal client = dreamy new potential customers to connect with!

*𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐬* 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 (𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄) - ex: an infographic/IG reel (use this!) that teaches your followers proper squat form = adding value to your people's feeds!

*𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬* 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐓) - ex: showcasing customers pairing your earrings with cute Fall outfits and a 10% off with the code PSL = inspiration/motivation to buy from you!

Combine these 3 for a *stellar* content game plan... without one of the...

Secret HACK to get *SWIPE UP* w Less Than 10,000 Followers!

Tbh, I debated sharing this well-kept Insta-secret because it's the kind of 'insider info' our 1:1 clients pay big bucks for (like… thou$sand$)…
‼ 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭 ‼

𝘉𝘜𝘛, 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙𝘠 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 $𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦$ & 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘪𝘻...

SO…

If you’ve ever felt super salty about not getting the 'swipe up' feature because you've got less than 10,000 followers... 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘕 𝘐𝘛'𝘚 𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘓𝘜𝘊𝘒𝘠 𝘋𝘈𝘠 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘎𝘙𝘖𝘞𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘎𝘖𝘋𝘋𝘌𝘚𝘚!!!

…Megan and I accidentally (#bless) uncovered an insanely easy workaround to getting the SWIPE UP option on your stories, + it's SO. F*CKING. SIMPLE.

All you have to do (and read this carefully) - is 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐆𝐓𝐕.

Yup, that's literally it.

'Wait… what? HOW? You're serious?'

𝘈𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘦.

If you're familiar with Insta-captions - you already know that the 'gram doesn't let you *𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤* in your...

***𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆*** + 𝘚𝘞𝘐𝘗𝘌 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘟-𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘊𝘖𝘕𝘛𝘌𝘕𝘛 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯’ 𝘊𝘖𝘕𝘝𝘌𝘙𝘛𝘚 + 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘜𝘉𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘛𝘚 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵!***

Wait wait wait... HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!?!?

𝐒𝐢𝐬, 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐎𝗪𝐄𝐑 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆

One of the BIGGEST mistakes we see entrepreneurs make on the dailyyyy is not reposting your own *golden* nuggets in other places where your ideal audience could definitelyyyy be watching...

We’re talking...

𝘦-𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘹!

𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 / 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 / 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳!

𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘣𝘪𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦!

𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘍𝘈𝘘 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘋𝘔’𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴!

...what stops badass boss babes like you from taking advantage of this super amazing perk above???

𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐑.

The fear of ‘looking annoying’...

The fear of showing up ‘too much’ on someone’s feed...

The fear of getting ghosted...

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐑...

Purging Yo’ Feed + Protecting Yo’ Energy!

GG: Content Creation FREEBIE  http://bit.ly/GG-Balancing-Social

REAL TALK: who else has spent an *embarrassing* amount of time stalking their ex’s new girl on Facebook?

**literally everyone slowly raises their hand… LOL**

Yeah SAMEEEE ‍

+ We get it… + whether it’s:

…stalking old frenemies/hookup’s on Snapchat…
…eye-rolling your aunt’s racist FB posts…
…scrolling through insta-influencers photo-shopped bikini pics…
…following the most cringe-worthy celeb rants on Twitter...

...most of us have accidentally curated our feeds to make us FEEL totally MISERABLE a LOT of the time! (#OhSh*t...)

So, gal - we want to ask you this: what’s the ‘PRICE OF ENTRY’ that you’re charging to get access to yo' PRECIOUS feed/mind?

Why’s it important to curate?

…because girl, ALL of the content you see online IS taking up...

CORONAVIRUS + #Social (Media) Distancing!

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WHAT. A. SH*T. STORM. #AmIRight?!

This week has honestly felt like a scene straight out of 'Contagion' or 'I Am Legend'... + there's nothing like a nation-wide plea for toilet paper to remind us of the importance of the BASICS (literally).

However, as crazy/uncertain as these times may be... it almost feels like the fear and overwhelm that we're all dealing with is just as infectious as COVID-19 itself... + our addiction to the feed isn't helping anyone feel ANY better.

We WANT to stay informed. As humans, we CRAVE being in the know and we have a VERY hard time dealing with the unknown. We're wired for answers - and when it seems as though we're not getting any, our natural instinct is to... F*CKING. PANIC.

*breatheeeeee, sis....*

REMEMBER: the STRESS that you're inflicting on your body from freaking out - is DETRIMENTAL to the strong, badass, beautiful white blood cells that...

How Planning Posts EARLY Will Save Yo’ BOOTY!

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AHHHH!!! *screams internally out of PURE. GODDAMN. JOY*

Your girl (hi hi! Deniz here!) got to meet SO many @girlsguide.co boss babes in the making today in PERSON...

+ I gotta say, nothing makes our lil hearts wanna explode more than getting to serve you ladies in the feed/face to face *virtual hug*

More than HALF of the stellar local female entrepreneurs in this "Social Media Power Hour" at our downtown co-working space were GG followers - *squeals*

+ you know the best part?
They were all SO. FRICKIN. NICE!!!
These super sweet ladies were CRAVING connection with other badass girls bosses, they WANTED to level up their #social media game + they KNEW they had to get out of their perfectionist mindsets/classic comfort zones to do it.

#PreachPreachPreach...

But what were the biggest roadblocks in their way?

We chatted about 3 main points in that busy hallway:

...

How NOT Setting INTENTION Can Screw You/Your Biz Over


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It's a mistake a LOT of female entrepreneurs make (us included!)... + tbh, you've probably already made it TODAY (#NoShame #AlwaysGrowGirl)
Trying to function throughout your day, or get through the seemingly never-ending to-do's of your business list without INTENTION is like trying to find a Waffle House in the middle of Vermont without a GPS... *F*CKING. HARD* 

You MIGHT get there, eventuallyyyy... but it's going to take you:

...10 x as longer... (when you already feel out of time)

­ ...make you wanna pull your hair out...(NO GIRL PLZ)

...+ there's a HUGE chance you might not make it (womp womp).

We end up doing this SO often, that we just fall into the habits that no longer serve us, waste our own damn time or don't ACTUALLY get us RESULTS.

Especially when it comes to moving the dial on your biz... $$$

In this week's #MondayMindset...