Suz Bird, Author at Bird and Emmy

How to plan your social media content.

by Suz Bird | Sep 28, 2020 | Content marketing, content planning, digital marketing, Instagram, Social Media, social media marketing, strategy

“Help! I don’t know what to post on my social media channels anymore” is one of the most common problems a business owner or anyone who runs the social media for a business will run into. We can YouTube a tutorial on actually how to post to our Instagram or Facebook...

How to be a self-employed and go on holiday.

by Suz Bird | May 18, 2019 | digital marketing, freelance community, Social Media, social media marketing

In April, my daughter and I had a mini-break abroad. Doesn’t sound like a big deal right? Expect it was. This was our first holiday abroad since 2015, it seems being a freelance Digital Marketer and working from a home office are not the usual buzz words associated...

The Beginners Guide to Instagram for Business – review

by Suz Bird | Apr 7, 2019 | content planning, hashtags, Instagram, Social Media, social media marketing, strategy, Workshops

2.5 hours, 10 people in a room, a 12-page workbook, haribo’s and countless realms of magic chart – what could possibly go wrong? Well very little it seems. In March I hosted the first Beginners Guide to Instagram for Business in Aberdeen, this was an interactive...

How does my plan help me be spontaneous on social media?

by Suz Bird | Mar 2, 2019 | content planning, Social Media, social media marketing, strategy

I was recently asked to speak at an event about social media for business; the event was an evening networking meet-up and the speaker brief was “a mini power talk circa 4 minutes long”. Ha. Think my time was up not long after I said my name and made a bad joke! Time...

What’s the point of a hashtag?

by Suz Bird | Feb 24, 2019 | Social Media, strategy

I once wrote an ode to the seemingly humble hashtag for someone who was starting on their social media for business journey and had asked what the point of them was… It went something like along the lines of “use them, they are super important. The End”. Hard to...

5 things you wish your mum had told you about a social media strategy

by Suz Bird | Feb 23, 2019 | content planning, Social Media, strategy

In a sea of jargon, buzz words, trends and millions of experts I am a big fan of the one-liner. Those key phrases that you can pin up above your desk and cast your eyes over really quickly to make sure you are on the right track. Or to make sure you are keeping it...

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