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Pretty Up Your Phone – Watercolor Wallpapers from Friendors

Hiiii, Friendors! We hope you’re having a lovely Monday morning! We sure are. We’re in the Smoky Mountains with Far Out Galaxy at Parkside Resort for a company retreat. Soooooo fun. Don’t worry, we’ve got Six Hearts here taking some killer photos that we can’t wait to share with you all.

Anyways, today’s post is the first of (hopefully) many to come in our new category: Pretty Up Your Phone, Friendor. 

When you’re at client meetings or networking events, it’s inevitable that your phone screen is going to be seen – wouldn’t you like something simple and motivational for others to catch a glimpse of?

Okay, fine, we really just wanted a pretty new phone background and you caught us trying to twist it into something to do with the industry. Hey, at least we’re sharing!

We have three smart phone wallpapers for you below. This series is watercolor. The first is inspired by Shia LaBeouf, who has recently quickly found his way into our hearts as an artist. The second is inspired by none other than us and our mantra, and the third is inspired by Far Out Galaxy‘s motto.

Simply screenshot these on your smart phone and set them as your wallpaper. We’ll be back in a few weeks with a different style series. Enjoy!

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5 Email Marketing Softwares – Friendors Consultancy

Some of you may or may not know, but we send out monthly newsletters in collaboration with Far Out Galaxy. Those of you that know have asked for advice on the best way to go about email marketing – campaigns, templates, etc. So, we’re here to open the door and to share some email marketing sites/systems that are out there.

Here are 5:

 

Constant Contact

Mad Mimi

Mail Chimp

Vertical Response

Benchmark Email

 

Let us know what specific questions you have about email marketing (or anything else industry related) and we just might blog about it!

Want to be blasted in one of our emails?

Contact us at Hello@Friendors.com

 

xoxo,

Friendors Consultancy

 

Social Media Scheduling Tools – Friendors Consultancy

Hiiii! We know lots of you, including us, struggle with the overwhelming task of Social Media. It’s this weird ground that’s really time consuming and often times confusing. We all try to find ways to simplify the process, and one of those ways is scheduling.

We’re here to share with you some tools that are for scheduling your Social Media so you can get off that smart phone and computer of yours and get to living your life, all while still maintaining an online presence. You’re welcome. 😉

There are soooo many scheduling systems, it seems, and these are just the ones we’ve used before or heard good things about.

 

 

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is the leading social media management system, in the form of a dashboard. It seems to have the widest reach across all platforms within one management system: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, MySpace, WordPress, TrendSpottr and Mixi. You can have multiple users, social profiles, etc. There are free as well as paid plans.

 

Buffer

Buffer is used by Fortune 500 companies, like Fortune (get it? hahaha, punny), Business Insider, and other big names. It allows posting to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest. They bank on “Schedule As You Discover”, with browser extensions and apps. As far as we know, there are no free accounts, only paid. But, you can get a free trial. (note that this one includes Pinterest while Hootsuite does not)

 

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is a Scheduling System for Twitter, by Twitter.

 

Facebook

Facebook allows you to schedule posts within their platform now, for free – so why wouldn’t you? (If you don’t know how to schedule posts on your Facebook page, let us know and we’ll write about it.)

 

(note that none of these include Instagram)

 

Publish

Publish is a mobile app for posting to Instagram  (although Instagram doesn’t allow scheduled automatic posts, you can go ahead and set your posts up and manually post them) and it’s actually our favorite. Not only does it let you schedule your Instagram posts, but it also chooses when you should be uploading them for you – you know, the best times.  It will just pop up on your phone and say it’s go time. You can override that with your own times but we just suggest sticking to their word. There are free as well as paid plans.

 

Latergramme

Latergramme is another mobile app for Instagram posts. It doesn’t have the feature that Publish has where it chooses the best time for you, but it’s super easy to use. And free.

 

(note that Instagram also allows your posts to push to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and some other social sites that most of us don’t use. This means Publish and Latergramme are really like  scheduling tools for these sites as well. Wham Bam!)

 

IFTTT

IFTTT is a site we talked about in our 3 Apps You Need post. It’s a recipe creating system that allows you to create ‘If This Then That’ formulas between your social sites. It’s not technically a scheduling tool but it helps. Example: if you post to Facebook, then automatically push the post to Twitter as well, or whatever other formulas your mind can come up with. Just connect all your social sites and get to it. It’s free!

 

When choosing how to manage your social media, we think it’s mainly a matter of how much, if any, money you want to spend, whether you want to knock out all your platforms in one system or not, which social sites are the most important to you, and, you know, everything else. Good luck choosing!

Let us know if you need any help and what you’d like us to write about next!! 🙂

 

How to Tag People on Your Facebook Page

Friendors, Facebook has this new thing goin’ on with Pages where you cannot tag People – in statuses, in images, in anything – as the page itself.

We know it bothers you, Page Admins, cause it bothers us too.

We had to find a way to tag. Tag, tag, tag.

So, here is a step by step on how we work our way around this nonsense. AKA, we’re trickin’ the system like the little baddies we are and teaching you our rebel ways. For the greater good.

 

1. Instead of a status, post an image to your Facebook page. (Images do better than text anyways)

2. Share the image to your Personal Profile from your Page.

3. Go to your Timeline and right click on the image and click ‘Open link in new tab’.

4. Once you have the new tab open, (you’ll see that it’s the old way of Facebook image viewing, not in a pop up like it is now) make sure you are ‘liking and commenting as’ yourself and not the page.

5. Tag away!

 

We’re not sure why our Page rights are so wack but we’re sure this will work. At least for us. 😉

If you have any questions about specifics on the steps, let us know and we’re totally here. Comment below or email hello @ friendors.com.

We were able to tag people in statuses not long ago but something else changed and it’s a mystery to us again. Maybe we’ll be back with Part II of Facebook tagging. 😉

10 Fall Bouquets

Did you know that today, September 23, is the first day of Fall? Yay Fall Weddings! In honor, we’ve put together a post of 10 of our favorite fall bouquets for you. Enjoy!

All photos by Six Hearts Photography.

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1. This Compact, Full, and Romantic Monochrome Bouquet of Peonies by The Funky Shack.

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2. This organically designed full bouquet by Juli Vaughn with Wheat, Feathers, Berries, and Rich Colors.

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3. This Berry and Wheat Filled Bouquet with shades of White and Red Ribbon by Virtu Floral.

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4. This Simple Wheat Bouquet with a Soft Silk Bow by Juli Vaughn.

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5. These playful and bright Fall colored bouquets by Martina’s Flowers and Gifts.

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6. These beautiful Lavender and Wheat Bouquets with Lace Ribbons by Etsy Shop Paula Jeans Garden.

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7. This DIY  Blue, Brown, and White Bouquet by the Bride’s Mom with Pinecones, Cotton, Wheat, and more.

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8. These Burlap wrapped bouquets with White and Cream florals, Cotton, Succulents, Wheat, and more from Whole Foods Market, with images of parents and grandparents attached in frames.

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9. This happy Sunflower bouquet by Oh!ccasions.

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10. This classic and romantic bouquet of Blush Roses by  with a silk Cream/Gold ribbon and embellishing added to the stem wrap around to glitz it up and add a nice fall color.

A FREE Graphic Tool You Should Be Using

Hello, Friendors!

We’re here to share with you an easy (and FREEEEEEE!) tool to help get your graphic design game on without spending buttloads of money on a professional.

Don’t get us wrong, we do strongly urge you to hire a professional for your branding, logo, and website design (a total must), but when it comes to ads, Instagram posts, blog headers, Facebook cover photos, and other simple things, we know a site that will have you busting em out like it’s nobody’s business.

Canva (they’re not paying us for this post – but they should be. Hahaha!) is an easy to use tool where graphic designers have pre built designs and you can customize them to your liking with a few simple clicks. Full of typography, color palettes, and more, we know you’ll get sucked in.

Head as to Canva.com and give it a go. If you need any help, email us at hello @ Friendors .com and we will be there for you!

 

XOXO, Friendors Consultancy

3 Tips to Grow Your Insta Following

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Hi there, Friendors! We’re here to share 3 tips for growing your Instagram following.

If you enjoy this post, let us know and we may continue the series.

1. 2-4 Likes, 1 Comment

Explore your feed or relevant hashtags and leave 2-4 likes and 1 genuine comment per user.

This makes you appear in the users notifications multiple times so it catches their eye but not too many times so you’re not a creepy stalker. 😉

Often times, this interaction with their profile results in them going to your profile and liking your photos in return in addition to possibly following you if they like what they see. And you never even followed them.

 

2. Exploit Hashtags – 60 per photo

Now, we know this sounds like a lot and we know you’re thinking that Instagram only allows you to use 30 per photo – wrong. Exploit the wonderfulness of hashtags.

Why not be a part of as many communities as possible and have your photo reach as many people as possible? We’ve found a little loop hole to having 60 hashtags per photo.

When writing the caption for your image, do not put any hashtags. After you post the photo, comment on the photo with the first 30 hashtags and then edit the photos caption to include the second set of 30, allowing you to have 60 on the image total.

Do this as quickly as possible so it will show up at the top of those particular hashtag feeds before being pushed down by other users newer posts.

Once your photo has a comment or two, no one will even be able to see your hashtags comment which makes it look less spammy and more clean for users scrolling through their feed.

Having 60 hashtags does not work if you try to do them in the original caption or if you edit the caption with hashtags before leaving the hashtag comment. Do it exactly as above.

 

3. Post at the Right Time & Schedule Posts

Do yourself a favor and Download Publish – On Twitter & Instagram (Also called TakeOff). 

This App will transform your Insta Game. Seriously.

It allows you to schedule photos for the best time to get the most response.

While we wish it would automatically post them without us, Instagram doesn’t allow this so it gives you a notification when its time, opens your pre loaded photo and pre written caption into Instagram. All you have to do is press post.

Instagram has its own sharing capabilities to other networks, so by default this app can also schedule your Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and more for months to come.

 

The truth is, your photos can be amaze balls but they will not get as many likes as they should if you are not actively networking within the community, utilizing hashtags, and posting at the correct times.

Try these tips out and share this with your friends so they can grow in online success too.

 

If you enjoyed this post, let us know and we will continue the series.

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3 Unique Wedding Seating Displays – Friendors Consultancy

So you want to tell your guests where to sit? Friendors, you’ve got a Bride requesting a unique idea?

We’ve got 3 ideas for you now. Tell us if you have any in the comments!

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1. Escort Cars

Punny, right? (you know, cause they’re Escort CARds) And so adorable.

Click here to see this full wedding and the event professionals involved.

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2. Wallet Size Prints

 We think printing wallet size prints as seating cards is sweet and sentimental. Plus, doubles as a Party Favor. And your photographer will love seeing photos they took being utilized in such a unique way!

Click here to see this wedding and the event professionals involved.

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3. Hanging Teacups

You can have guests names simply hang from a paper tag on them. We’ve seen tea cups double as a party favor too!

Our Friendor Vintage English Teacup (though the pictured above is not from there) is a great professional for this if you want to rent!

Click here to view this wedding.

HAVE ANY IDEAS WORTH SHARING? EMAIL US NOW AT HELLO @ FRIENDORS .COM 

All photography by Six Hearts Photography

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