Every year I set myself a challenge to try and do most of my Christmas shopping as locally as possible. It can be time consuming and a fair bit harder than running around a shopping centre for a few hours, but it’s far far more rewarding. In this article I give you heaps of tips on how to save money, time and stress and still support local and small businesses through the silly season - for gifts, food, wine and more.

Have you heard stories of the Instagram shadowban and wondered what it’s all about? Maybe you’ve experienced it? The fact is, there are a number of rules that you need to know when using Instagram. Some of them are obvious and some may come as a surprise. Read on to find out how you can avoid getting your Instagram account paused.

If like me you are searching for ways to help save our local small businesses, I have some ideas and I would love to hear yours. We have a real opportunity right now to make a difference to the lives and livelihoods of our community’s greatest assets.

Truly understanding your customer is the first step towards knowing how to market your products and services in a way that is helpful rather than just advertising. Read on for some easy steps to guide you towards developing content that will resonate with your customers and hopefully lead to a greater connection with them.

In a recent post by Instagram, we got a little more insight into how they use algorithms to rank your content. If you want to work better with the newsfeed algorithm, consider these things that you actually can affect, rather than worrying about what you can’t.

Have you ever thought about what makes you special? What your product or services do that are not only great but are really special? I believe that knowing what that is can be the key to unlocking your perfect marketing messaging.

I’ve been noticing a bit of a pattern across the Facebook-owned channels over the past few months. Clients coming to me with a big drop in reach and engagement, wondering why, when they haven’t really changed anything.

Don’t get me wrong, those algorithms are incredibly unpredictable at times BUT there is one thing that has started to stand out as a pattern.

If you are having trouble connecting with your audience, perhaps a dose of positivity could help.

If you’re unsure about the new COVIDSafe app and how the app is going to use your data, now might be the right time to do a proper security health check on your smartphone. Because, if you’re concerned about this little matter of national health, you might be surprised to know what you’ve already got going on in your phone.

Are selfie videos part of your Instagram marketing content? If they are and you are sick of looking horrendous when your cover image appears in your feed…read on.

Social media can be very time consuming. Sometimes it’s hard to justify and sometimes it just gets left behind competing priorities. Read more about how to prioritise your social media accordingly and grab a few tips on how to be more efficient with your time on these channels.

It’s important to add a little measurement and reflection into your social media marketing strategy. Learning what works and what doesn’t can be crucial to your success in these channels. But are you focusing on the wrong metrics? Read on to find out what vanity metrics are and why you could be letting them distract you.

Protecting your privacy on Facebook, Instagram and generally online is a hot topic at the moment. Here are just 10 ways that you can better protect your privacy and minimise access to your data while using Facebook.

If you're looking to increase the number of followers on your Facebook or Instagram business pages, you might be tempted to run a competition or giveaway. But have you really thought through how that might work and whether or not this is actually good for your business? Here are my thoughts...

Don't panic about the changes to News Feed announced by Mark Zuckerberg. Instead, keep busy working on your content with these 10 things.

Understanding how the Facebook news feed algorithm works will help you to write better content.

I'm always asked what I use to do what I do and the answer is a LOT of things. I trial heaps of tools and I'm still trying to work out exactly which ones I'll keep and which ones I won't. Here are a few things I use all the time.

Here, for 2017, are five more practical lessons drawn from the Sensis Social Media Report. Think about how you can use this information to strengthen your own online presence.

If you're taking screen shots and dropping them into your Instagram feed or using an app with an intrusive watermark, you'll want to read this post. How to repost in Instagram and the etiquette.

Are you too reliant on any one social media channel to promote your business or brand? As much as I love social media, I am only too aware that the data we collect in these channels does not belong to us. This can lead to serious issues.