Invite All Your Friends To Like Your Facebook Page With This Chrome Extension – Friendors Consultancy

We all want our Facebook pages to have tons of “Likes” but clicking on and inviting every single account on our friends list can be exhausting.

So, we did a little research and found a Google Chrome Extension that will make it suuuuper easy for you.

Download the extension by clicking here.

Once you have the extension installed on Google Chrome, go to your Facebook page and click “Invite Your Friends”.

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After you’ve clicked the link to invite your friends, you will get a pop up with all of your friends list and notice that the new black check mark in your menu bar is now highlighted for you to click on. Click it.

After you click the black check mark, it will tell you that it’s checking your friends.

Just wait for the magic to finish and watch the likes roll in! 🙂

WALLAH! 🙂

Friendor Funnies – Wedding + Event Memes – Friendors Consultancy

Hey there, Friendors!

We’ve scoured the internet for funny memes that relate to weddings, the industry itself in particular. Most of the funny stuff about weddings on the internet is from a brides point of view, but we found a few that we related to (and a few from the clients perspective that we can testify to) and are here to share some memes with ya.

C’mon, you’ve gotta be a liiiiittle nutso to be in our industry. Like, what are we even doing? Oh, that’s right, gettin’ emotional over the love we get to be a part of.

When a bride starts telling you about her wedding and you’re just like ‘that’s so 2011 Pinterest, ew”, but you gotta just smile and say it sounds beautiful.

How often do you run into clients who have realistic Pinterest boards for their budget/wedding theme? Like, ever? Let’s educate them!

Are you texting your clients during their 9-5 work hours? You should be! Work is when they’re doing their quality planning! (oh, you thought they were doing it in their free time?)

When you can’t remember the grooms name on the day of the wedding… too late to ask.

Are we allowed Something Blue too? 😉

And a final one – a little shout out to our Wedding Planners who got time for that. 😉

That’s all we’ve got for ya for now. Have any funnies we should see? Email them to us at schellie@faroutgalaxy.com!

Favorite Internet Finds – Friendors Consultancy

Here are a few links we’ve ran across that we thought would be helpful to you wedding and event professionals.

4 Ways To Handle Sales Objections: According to WeddingWireEDU, objections are buying signals and opportunites. How do you combat them?
Want To Buy Instagram Followers? This is What Happens When You Do: Sure, you can stack up thousands of followers with programs and bots that you pay, but is that really helping you?
Why Millennial Pink Refuses To Go Away: Did you know it was called Millennial Pink? We’re okay with it staying.
Infographic: Why Millennials Love Video Marketing: Videos get more views and interaction than photos do. Are you using videos in your marketing?
Why Every Marketer in 2017 Needs to Be a (Part-Time) Designer: 53 Design Terms and Tips to Level Up: We’re at the point in time where you can’t really get away with crappy graphic design and have a successful business, but we also know how expensive it is to shell out for continuous designs.

Until next time!

Favorite Internet Finds – How You’re Losing the Job, Social Apps, Plugins, + More – Friendors Consultancy

You know how it goes. (and if ya don’t click here to find out)

5 Ways You’re Losing The Job: Alan Burg, WeddingWire Educator, shares 5 ways you’re losing the job and we can especially agree with number 5!
The 20 Best New Social Media Tools to Try in 2017 (And How to Use Them!): If you’re into apps, organization, and dat new stuff, this is for you.
Just Not Sorry – The Gmail Plugin: Sometimes we unintentionally add in unnecessary words that undermine ourselves. For example: “I think”, “I just”, “I’m no expert”, and more. With this plugin, we can eliminate that – it underlines all instances where you might be putting yourself down.
16 Secrets To Staying In That Honeymoon Phase Your Whole Life: We know this isn’t directly event related, but we thought it was an inspirational read if anything. 😉

Tips, Ideas, and Facts About Instagram’s New Carousel Feature – Friendors Consultancy

Hey there, Friendors!

We’re sure you’ve seen the new Instagram update, where you can now upload more than one image and your viewers can swipe to see more. It’s officially called carousel posts but we’re calling the feature SWIPE. It was originally only available to advertisers but Instagram just rolled the feature out to all users.

We are in loooove with it and wanted to share some tips and advice for when to use it and some links to help get your groove goin’. Let’s get started!

FACTS:

You are now allowed 10 images in one post. That’s soooo many!
You can post photos and videos together.
All likes and comments apply to one post

WHEN TO USE SWIPE:

Listacles: Swipe is perfect for listacles. Here are a few examples to get your brain rolling with more ideas: 10 Bridal Hairstyles We Love, 5 Flowers In Season For Fall Events, 7 Times The Flower Girl Stole The Show, etc.
To Prevent Spamming: You know when you get in that mood and you want to share like a billion photos in one day? Or when your company is at more than one event a day and you want to show everyone? It’s kind of annoying to spam with a photo from each of your events in one day. Now, you can put them together and say something along the lines of “We’re out working at 7 events today – swipe to see a peek into each one!”
BTS: Behind the scenes photos are fun and everyone wants to see them, but they should not be the main attraction of your instagram Share BTS images once or twice a week in Swipe format so your feed is full of finished product posts and just a few sprinkles of BTS. You could even post the final product as the first image in your carousel and then say “swipe left for bts to see how we got this photo!” or “swipe to see our team dancing in the kitchen while making this delicious pie for today’s event” or something.
How To’s: Everyone loves a little how to, especially when it’s helpful to them. Here are a few ideas: How To Hold Your Bouquet For Photos, How To Tie Your Bow Tie, etc.
To Tell A Story That’s Too Important For Stories: Stories are popular right now but what if you want to tell a story that’s too important to disappear in 24 hours? Instagram’s got ya now.

TIPS:

This new feature automatically crops each image square. Make sure you are choosing images that are good compositions for squares and that you’re not cropping your or photographer’s images poorly.
Don’t forget to tag each photo individually! Even though likes and comments apply to one post only, you can and should tag each image individually.
Post photos and videos together in one swipe post!

LEARN MORE WITH THESE LINKS WE FOUND:

Favorite Internet Finds

You know how our Favorite Internet Finds goes so here ya go!

5 Things Marketers Need To Know About Gen Z: Is the prime time of marketing to millennials over? Are we marketing to Gen Z now? Millennials are still our target market but Gen Z is next. Are you prepared?
A Photographers Guide To Getting Published: This guide helps more than just photographers. Planners, Designers, anyone else submitting weddings for publication should take a peek here.
19 Hashtags You Need To Use on Instagram: Hashtags help. Simple as that.
11 Things In Your Home That Are Making You Unhappy: New Year means it’s time to declutter and start simple and fresh for success. What in your life doesn’t bring you joy?
How To Build A Great Newsletter: You remember that post we did on Email Marketing Softwares? Well, here are some tips to put to use on those.

A Really Cool Instagram Planner – Friendors Consultancy

You may remember when we shared a few Social Media Planning Tools with you all, like Hootsuite and Later, and when we elaborated on How We Make Our Instagram Cohesive, but we’re here with a new app we’ve discovered that we really think tops the cake. (is that a saying?)

If you haven’t heard of this app, you’ll be thanking us from the bottom pits of your heart for forever after you try it out.

It tells you the best hashtags, the best times, allows you to schedule posts, and to even drag and drop your images in a predicted grid view on your phone so you can match them up cohesively before posting. The other apps we’ve blogged about in the past have some of these functionalities as well but this one’s user friendliness and variety won us over.

It’s free up until you meet the number of free grids and free uploads you’re allowed in the free plan. For just 2.99 – 4.99 a month you could be rolling in all of the features. (we are!)

You ready for us to finally tell you the name of it?

It’s called Unum.

Click here to download!

Social Media Content Ideas – Friendors Consultancy

Struggling with what to share on your social accounts besides photos from events you’ve done?

There’s a “holiday” – official, national, or just plain wacky – every day of the year! Why not have some fun and take advantage?

For example, caterers, did you know that January 2 is National Buffet Day? Yup! Or that January 6th is National Bean Day and National Shortbread Day? Why not have a little fun in the kitchen and share a recipe with your followers for these things?

June 1st is National Say Something Nice Day. Why not share photos of your favorite local professionals on your social account and say something nice about them? Or do a video round up of each person on your team saying something nice about someone else on the team? Or a post of all of your most recent 5 star reviews where people went on and on with nice things about you? Just ideas.

How do we know these random dates? How can you come up with content for your brand every day of the week?

There’s this dope website we browse sometimes, National Day Calendar.

We think it’ll inspire ya. 😉

Click here to view the National Day Calendar

Favorite Internet Finds – Social Stats, Guest Posts, + More – Friendors Consultancy

Hey there, Friendors!

We haven’t shared our Favorite Internet Finds with you in a while so we figured it was time. Here are some various links around the internet that we found helpful, educational, or just plain pleasing.

Enjoy!

7 Social Media Stats All Marketers Should Know: The stat we found the most interesting? By late 2015, 47% of Facebookers had never used the social platform on a desktop. With that large of a percentage of mobile only users (which we imagine has gone up in 2016), are you optimizing your Facebook page on your desktop or your mobile device? Or both? 😉
Yes, The Wedding Mark Up Is Real. Here’s Why: We work hard. Weddings are a big big deal.
How To Easily Create Irresistible Guest Posts For Top Blogs To Get More Traffic: Our favorite tip from this article? #4
Infographic: The Battle Between Instagram And Snapchat: This pretty much says Snapchat is better, Instagram is a copycat but has more reach and scale, and all of their differences. We’re still on both sides but are kind of sore about it. (ha!)
Salvador Dali’s 1973 Cook Book Is Getting A Rare Re-Release: We just thought this was cool and thought you artists and business owners could appreciate.

XOXO

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