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!

Favorite Internet Finds – Eating at Weddings, Social Media Calendars, + More – Friendors Consultancy

Hey there, Friendors! Happy Monday! We’re just gonna jump right into it today. 🙂

First, press play on this bomb ass mix by DJ Cuttlefish, then start clicking all the awesome links below. Enjoy!

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We often hear that industry professionals struggle with eating at some weddings. How to make sure you eat when you’re working a wedding by Offbeat Empire gives ya some tips on how to make it easier. Click here.

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Social Media can be a weird ground that’s time consuming and confusing. Why You Need A Social Media Calendar and Examples over on Hootsuite‘s blog helped us. Click here.

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Do you know how large of a role Social Media plays into a bride’s wedding planning? Wedding Wire does! Click here.

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Brides.com shared 45 Fascinating Wedding Traditions from around the world. Click here.

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Wedding Wire EDU shares 10 Creative Ways to Use Your Reviews. Click here.

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Brad Pitt is a Photographer now. Whaaaat? Yeah, he photographed Angelina and their family for W Magazine. Click here. (You’ll have to buy the magazine to view the full interview and all of the photos. Or, you can try to view it while you’re waiting in line at the grocery store. Is that wrong?)

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Amy Schumer did a skit on everything wrong with engagement sessions. We think her first few jokes hit the nail on the head (so true and so funny) but the skit loses our interest once it moves into baby placentas and dead weight. Like, what? Click here.

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Until next time!

xoxo, Friendors Consultancy

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:

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?

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!! 🙂

Favorite Internet Finds – Instagram Takeovers, Cats, Authenticity Online, + More – Friendors

Hey there, Friendors. We’re here with our second ever post in the series Favorite Internet Finds by Friendors, where we share the best things we’ve came across on the internet recently, whether we stumbled upon it or sought the information out. We think these things will brighten your day and week.

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There is a Tumblr where wedding bouquets are replaced with cats. So clever. Click here.

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Ady from Verbal Gold blog shares with us How to Host an Instagram Takeover. Click here.

More tips on how to host an Instagram takeover on Latergramme. Click here.

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5 Ways to be Authentic Online by Wonderlass, a kick ass business owner and blogger. We adore her and you will too! Click here.

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It makes us sad when we see industry professionals complain publicly online about their job or how ready they are for wedding season to be over. This industry rocks and we’re all lucky ducks to be a part of it. Don’t be that guy by Offbeat Empire delves into why you shouldn’t complain about the industry online. Click here.

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This sick mix by DJ Cuttlefish has had us pumped up for hours. Tryna get in the groove? Click here.

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Gala Darling, a blogger (and co-founder of Blogcademy that we just went to!) who writes about Radical Self Love, gives us a Punk Rock Approach to Living the Life of Your Dreams. Click here.

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This gooooorrgeous Bohemian Wedding published over on Bespoke-Bride.

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Until next time, xoxo

3 Apps You Need – Friendors Consultancy

Hello, Friendors! We took a look at our phones and are sharing 3 apps that we find helpful. Learn about and download them noooowwww.

1. VSCO

VSCO stands for Visual Supply Co. and is a photo editing app (designed for photographers and artists) that’s ruling Instagram right now. It’s super user friendly and professional looking. Why aren’t you spiffing up your images now?

2. Google Drive

Google Drive is exactly what it is on your computer, except on your phone. Can you imagine how easy it would be to have everything in the Google cloud on your phone and computer to access anywhere?

3. IFTTT

Connecting our favorite apps together, IFTTT is an app that creates recipes to streamline your social media. IFTTT stands for If this then this. An example recipe: If you post to Facebook then it will automatically post to Twitter as well. Easy peezy lemon squeezey online life for ya now.

Do you use any Apps you find helpful? Share them with us! Comment below or email Hello @ Friendors .com

Calling Anonymous Friendors

We’re writing a new post called Friendors Anonymous and we need your help! (Have you ever heard of PostSecret? Similar concept!)

It’s going to be a a kind of humorous list, with several anonymously submitted secrets and funny things about life as an industry professional (things that have happened to you, you’ve seen, how you feel, etc) that we wouldn’t admit to openly.

EX: My favorite thing to do after a full day wedding is pick my nose on the car ride home.

There are tons of funny ones to come soon on the blog post and I hope you’ll email us something too, to

Hello @ Friendors .com (without the spaces).

This post is our written contract that we will not share who shared which secret with anyone else.

Favorite Internet Finds – Friendors

We love the internet. It’s a seemingly endless pit of memes, cat videos, and business advice, the things that make our worlds go round. Because of it’s incredible-ness, we are beginning a new category on the blog – our Favorite Internet Finds.

Here is the first of many to come!

Enjoy!

To start the post off right, here’s a cat that we’d love to chill with.

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What Should We Call Wedding Photography is a Tumblr that we could spend hours on. Okay, a site that we have spent hours on. Hours upon hours.

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This Dude proposed with his Wisdom Tooth. Wicked.

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You may have already seen this – it’s been circulating the internet for quite some time, but we’re still in love.

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Until next time, xoxo.

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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. 😉

4 Wedding Industry Events You Don’t Want to Miss – Atlanta

Hey there, Friendors. We heard about these four events and thought you should hear about them too. Three professional workshops and one open house. Learn more below!

The Knot + Two Bright Lights

Getting Published

Thursday, October 22, 2015

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Wedding Network USA

Thankful for Technology!

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

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Wedding Network USA

Paperless + Productivity = Profit

Thursday, November 5, 2015

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