Pinterested? we are…

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We’re both visual people, so the new kid on the block (not that new been going since 2010), Pinterest,  is really grabbing our attention at the moment. We think there’s a lot of mileage in this one as an amazing and fun way to be sociable for business. We’re investigating right now and will let [...]

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Happy clients mean happy Holly and Jan!

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We were bowled over this week with our latest client testimonial. Here at Holly and Jan we work hard to make sure our clients get the absolute best for their business, whether that business is a local sole trader or an international financial and professional services firm as in this case: “This is the first [...]

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Change to a Facebook Business Page – you really can’t afford not to

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We’re continually amazed/shocked by the number of businesses which are still using Facebook Personal Profiles! We wrote about why it’s a really bad idea last year and now we want to make a couple more points – including one about how you are running the risk of losing your supporters. First of all, something commonsensical [...]

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Creative clients

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We’ve been planning and plotting for the coming new year – and as part of that we’ve slightly amended our strapline, from Holly and Jan – social media for creatives, to Holly and Jan – creative social media.  Fascinating I hear you cry! Well we wanted to be clear that although we do work with [...]

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A new social media year – get the skills in 2012

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It’s THAT time of year again. The whole New Year resolutions schtick is oozing out of every magazine. And if you’re a small business owner, if you’re an artist, a photographer, an alternative practitioner, well, making resolutions about your business growth can be a bit dispiriting given the current economic climate. If you’re like lots [...]

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Christmas post

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So, you’re stuck for what to get your partner/other loved one for Christmas? What you’d really like to give feels unattainable – their heart’s desire is for their creative micro-business to become better known: to sell more art, more photographs, more beautifully crafted ceramics. They’d like more clients. But we’re in an economic mess and [...]

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Simple, fun blogging with Tumblr

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A while ago we wrote about Posterous, a great (and free!) blogging platform. There’s another one we love, one which we’ve used recently for clients and for our own creative project – it’s called Tumblr. Again, it’s free. There  many discussions online about Posterous vs Tumblr: which is best, easiest to use, most customiseable etc. [...]

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Amazing feedback for Holly and Jan!

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We absolutely love our work so how wonderful to get this sort of fantastic positive feedback from our clients! A huge thank you from our amazing client Sandra Jordan Photography. “I have been seriously into photography since 2007 but was never very good at getting my work out there so I decided this year was [...]

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Kickstarter sessions are go!

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We’ve been enjoying working with an amazing mix of clients and we’ve developed an introductory session that works perfectly. We’re calling this the Kickstarter Session – it does what it says on the tin! The Kickstarter Sessions are an hour long meeting with us both. We have overlapping, but also very different, areas of expertise [...]

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What is blogging?

Blogging is a brilliant way to increase your visibility online, and allows you to communicate more about who you are and what you do. These days, that’s what people want to know. It allows you to regularly post on one subject or across a whole range, useful for those of us with portfolio careers and [...]

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The Summer Tour at the Festival

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We’ve both been involved in Hebden Bridge Arts Festival as volunteers and it seemed a natural progression to take on the social media side of getting the word out about the amazing 2011 programme of events. Holly had been tweeting on behalf of @hbaf for some time and Jan took on the management of the [...]

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Make social media work for you!

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Check out our article in the Halifax Courier today! “To some a RT, a #ff and “liking” something are all common parlance, for others that may as well have been Swahili. But in Hebden Bridge, two friends are trying to de-myth the internet slang and open the web out to those who want to use [...]

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