Social media should not overtake your life, but so often the conversation I have with CEO’s to friends in the media is that social media becomes this all encompassing black hole vortex where time goes to die. Here are 7 tips for busy people. 1. Use voice to text when trying to type something it’s actually quicker to communicate in …
Be awe inspiring
One of the voices that we tune into within our business and team is Jason Silva who runs a YouTube channel called Shots of Awe. At the very core of the DNA of our business is a responsibility to awe. We want out clients, our business owners to be re-inspired and re-invigorated into their businesses, be driven with purpose, with …
Social Media Security Series: Mass Tagging + Who Checking You Out
Recently (30 minutes ago) a friend of mine had his Facebook account compromised. It came in the form of a notification that I had been tagged in a comment on a group that I was stalking my friend Sal. Aside from the bad grammatically structured sentence, the way the post looked was frustratingly scam looking. What this bug is taking …
From technology tourist to native
I, Kylie Herda, am part of that mini generation, Gen Y. I grew up with a fat TV, with a telephone plugged into the wall. I remember when we got our Commodore 64 computer. It was so cool, I think my love for Tetris has morphed into my love for Candy Crush… (currently level 2398 and increasing) I remember recording …
5 things to change in your Facebook strategy right now
1. Increase your post frequency. We’ve all seen the many articles of how Facebook has changed the algorithm and the news of doom and how we all need to spend money on ads (this isn’t true) because Facebook won’t show your content to more than 2% or 3% or 10% (number variance is depending on the article or time of …
Social Media 2018 Security Series: Reducing Scam Risks
This one is overdue for a re-write and update. I’m often getting people reaching out to me or referred to me distressed that their Facebook profile has been hacked, for anyone who also runs a business this can create enormous stress when this is your only marketing channel. With the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal revealing that data was scrapped from …
4 gaps to address that reflect in your Social Media Marketing
The following list is in no particular order, it could be longer but I thought I’d start with these ones first: 1. The right hire. This one has taken years off my life. While I often have to remind myself that every lesson comes in the time that the lesson is supposed to reveal itself, my inner critic can be …
5 new neat updates for Facebook Pages you might have missed.
Things on Facebook update often, most of us moan at change but here at MJ HQ we thrive off change and a murmur of get excitement spreads through the team when a new button shows up. Here are our top 5 neat updates from Facebook that we’ve been using that you might have missed so far. 1. Facebook Sound Collection …
Organisational Flow State of Affairs
“I feel that the expectation is that we should be able to do more because we have these tools.” something stated with a distinct level of distress in the tone at my workshops last week. It’s a sentiment at least 98% of my clients carry around in their heads unconsciously stressing themselves into a short grave that they should suddenly …
Grief redux
A thing happened, it wasn’t a big thing, it’s not an anniversary, nobody died today that I know of, the avalanche of grief came for a visit today, maybe it’s the build up of tiny little things, people leaving my world, a cosmic clearout of an old life, my working through childhood trauma, pressures from work, old work habits of …