JFDI with The Two Lauras | For Freelance Social Media Marketers

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If you are a freelance social media manager, you are in the right place! Join the two Lauras as they give you their honest views and advice on building a business in the social media sector. They'll share tips on marketing trends, growing your business and give you an insight into how they run theirs. Join the free Facebook group to continue the conversation at thesocialmediamanagershub.com

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108: Why We Suggest You Dump “Social Media Content Dumps” in the Bin

May 13 2024 28 mins  
Content dumps - dump by name, dump by nature. We are not fans of content dumps at all and mainly that’s because they just don’t make much sense! If you’re going to put in the hard work creating 30 new posts, why drop them all in one day, then vanish to never be seen again (until the next dump, that is). How, then, do you handle it if your client wants to jump on the trend and

Everything we know about Meta's new 'pay to play' options & how it affects social media managers

May 09 2024 32 mins  
Meta just made a major change to the way their verification system works, adding new paid options that give businesses more benefits, including links in Reels and the opportunity to be featured on the platform.But what does this mean for you as a social media manager? We're diving into it all and picking apart this new 'pay to play' version of Meta's platforms in this bonus episode

107: Write Better Copy so People Stop the Scroll and Engage with You Instead

May 06 2024 24 mins  
There’s a myth going around that people just don’t read captions anymore and social media is all about the visuals - and we think that’s wrong! We just believe that people are reading captions in a different way than how they used to, so it’s time we work on adapting to this new way of reading.Basically, if you aren’t hooking people in and making it easy for them to read

106: Use Our Simple Framework to Make More Money as a Social Media Manager

Apr 29 2024 28 mins  
What comes to mind when you think of “business security”? If you answered having lots of retainer clients, well then, today’s episode should be going right in your queue! You’d be surprised how easily it can happen that a few clients roundabout the same time as each other will end services for one reason or another, leaving you panicking about signing a new one - as you’v

105: Why You Might Want to Rethink Hosting a Giveaway on Social Media

Apr 22 2024 28 mins  
Social media giveaways - a very divisive topic! We’re all honestly probably a little bit sick of getting tagged in random competitions by our friends wanting to win yachts, blenders, hairdryers or any other random things they probably weren’t in the market for in the first place (although who’d pass on a free yacht?!) and this is partly why we feel like giveaways have had the

104: Buying Habits Have Changed… Here’s How to Influence Buyers’ Decisions as a Social Media Manager

Apr 15 2024 29 mins  
How many ads have you seen today? Unless listening to this podcast is the very first thing you’ve done today (which we hope it is!), probably far more than you can count, which understandably can feel quite overwhelming. The rise of social media and influencers have made a lot of people feel like they’re being sold to all the time, so how can you, as a social media manager, fee

103: Ethically, Should You Use AI as a Social Media Manager?

Apr 08 2024 25 mins  
In our little online business bubble, everyone and their dog knows what ChatGPT is, and it seems like every platform we use has some sort of AI feature incorporated into it. But does that mean that we should be using it, and what are the ethics around that? And what even is the best way to be using AI? Because as we all know, ChatGPT still writes like a robot and we can spot it a m

102: Win More Clients with a High-Converting Proposal

Apr 01 2024 23 mins  
Some questions we see SO often in our Facebook group is “what should I put in my proposal?” or “my proposal is taking hours, how long should it take?” or even “what price should I put on my proposal?” and we’re here in today’s episode to put all these questions to rest. You should already have all the information you need, and it certainly shouldn’t take you hours

101: Handling Social Media Backlash and Negative Comments on Your Content

Mar 25 2024 33 mins  
What’s our least favourite thing as social media managers? Definitely when negative comments get posted on our content or our clients’ content. We all know people don’t mind saying things behind a screen they’d never say in real life, but we still have to handle it!In today’s episode, we’re going to talk all about different types of comments we’ve received from differ

100: Arguments, JFDI Attitudes and Big Business Mistakes

Mar 18 2024 43 mins  
100 episodes - where on earth did the time go?! Thank you so much to all of our wonderful listeners and especially those of you who took the time to leave us a review (...shameless plug to do so if you haven’t already!). In this episode, we’re doing a Q&A of all the burning questions you sent in to us - from whether we argue, to getting things done and our absolute non