Itʻs Aloha Friday Reader!! 🌺 It's a special day today. As some of you may know, I'm a military spouse and today is Military Spouse Appreciation Day and I want to make this all about them. A Proclamation on Military Spouse Appreciation Day, 2024 Today, we honor the nearly one million military spouses for their service and sacrifice for our Nation. They are resilient. They are courageous. Like our service members, they make our country stronger. Meet the 2024 Armed Forces Military Spouse of the...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Itʻs Aloha Friday Reader!! 🌺 Somedays, my introverted self likes to pop out and demand the room. We hide from invitations. We hide in our phones so our family does not bother us. I used to fight her but I realize that sometimes that is just my way of recharging myself. Anyone else? HOW TO GET CLIENTS FOR DIGITAL MARKETING: 9 KEY STRATEGIES FOR 2024 Marketing can be such a feast and famine industry. I found this article interesting to see what other agencies face. Optimizing Your Business...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Itʻs Aloha Friday Reader!! 🌺 Iʻve been having conversations with my kiddo on her thoughts on working for a big company and having to chat with so many people throughout her shift. She had a revelation. "I like people more than I thought" TikTok Ban TikTok is in the news because President Biden signed into law a bill that could ban the smartphone app in the US. But maybe you've never used TikTok. Here's the basics and why the app is important. TikTok CEO talking about the ban Creative Market...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Itʻs Aloha Friday Reader!! 🌺 This week my husband traveled to surprise his mom for her birthday and she loved that her baby boy (all 44 years of him) was home. I mentioned in January that I want to be more intentional with what I do and little things like this are exactly what we are focusing on. Also, this week on the 15{ish} MInute Coffee Chat we had on guest Naomi Greenstein of Glas Media and was asked the question on what character you would be from The Office. Hit reply and do tell! I...
10 months ago • 2 min read
Happy Aloha Friday Reader!! 🌺 Can we mark this week as the time some of us watched the sun and moon make out for about 4 minutes? I kid. The state of Texas took off the day from school & work and I found myself going out of the office for half the day to share the groovy experience with family and besties. I asked ChatGpt for an eclipse pun and this is what they gave me: I was going to tell a joke about the eclipse, but it seems a little shady. AI is everywhere so of course I found this...
11 months ago • 2 min read
Happy Aloha Friday Reader!! 🌺 Two weeks ago, I jumped on a plane and you know airports arenʻt always my favorite place. But in the speed of having to leave, this thing happened that morning. I waved goodbye to my husband as he dropped me off curbside...and realized my phone went with him. Realizing Pay Phones are truly not a thing anymore, I begged a woman to use her cell phone and she gratefully helped me. She actually said keep calling until my husband realized it wasnʻt a real spam call...
11 months ago • 3 min read
Happy Aloha Friday Reader!! 🌺 Last week, the bug hit me. And hit me well, right in the face, hard. Between tissues, hot tea, soup, day quil, nyquil, hot showers and cold sweats...I stayed in bed. A new client we signed on was super kind when meeting with my biz partner and said of my absence "Health is important, so she needs rest". May we all have clients like this. Oh, this weekʻs stuff has been interesting. The Movement for Menopause-Friendly Workplaces Arrives in the Ad Industry Mekanism...
11 months ago • 2 min read
Happy Aloha Friday Reader!! I donʻt understand how March has had itʻs first week already. I swore it was just December 2019. 😑 Did we all survive that momentarily Facebook/Instagram outage on Tuesday? I get google alerts sent to my inbox that are related to social media, website, email marketing, etc. A recent alert had so many news articles links to this topic. Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas and Florida social media laws Take a quick read to learn about Googles new update...
12 months ago • 1 min read
Happy Aloha Friday Reader Some days you just need to own the role that you are. And Iʻm okay with this. These emails perked my eyeballs this week. If you use creator mode for Linkedin especially just give it a read so you know what your profile will be looking like. Tiktok for Business created a free download playbook to help you create content on their platform. LinkedIn is making updates to creator mode. I canʻt stand gatekeepers. (whoa, that sounds aggressive, but you know what I mean...
12 months ago • 1 min read