March winds and April (snow) showers bring forth May flowers - idiom
I've heard "April showers bring May flowers" quite a lot recently, mainly when it's snowed (again). Apparently, the above version was first recorded in 1886, according to Wikipedia. I like it because it very much reflects life in Colorado's Front Range, but enough with the meteorological chat. This month, I'm all about finding inspiration from Spring and trying to do the same old thing in new, fun ways. When you've been running your business for a while, it can be easy to start to do things on automatic pilot, but that's dangerous because if you're bored, your audience is probably bored too! Here are some ways to keep things fresh.
Marketing strategy
Spring cleaning your marketing
I don’t know about you, but I’m actually starting to feel like Spring might be real and accordingly, all the urging I’m seeing on social media to spring clean my life/house/head is starting to resonate. So what could that look like in your marketing?
Coming up with new content ideas consistently can be hard, even when you know what you should be writing about strategically. Here are some places you can go for a little extra inspiration.
As graphic design is such an important part of marketing, I wanted to talk to a graphic designer about what they do to help small businesses understand it better.
Facebook is muscling in on the audio room landscape. It's not available to everyone yet but it's an interesting development to watch given that it could be a handy new tool, without going to a whole new platform.
From this photo you're going to learn three things about me:
In Spring I take unoriginal photos of blossom.
I speak French. This photo was taken in Toulouse, France, where I lived for six months when I was 20 as part of my year abroad while studying French and German at Oxford University.
Basically, the whole of my adult life is on Facebook. I started using it in 2005 when first it made its way across the Atlantic. I went all the way back through my photos to 2007 for this one.
