There are oh so many ways I’m loving Instagram at the moment but here are two: my so-much-fun Hands-On Instagram workshop, held on the weekend, and my upcoming #bizgram launch to get people like me using Instagram more for great images to help their business.
Our first Hands-On Instagram workshop
I love it when one of those bright shiny ideas I have (usually in the shower) turns into something real and this workshop was one of those. I had the idea that, although Instagram is pretty easy to learn to use, it would be great to get a group of people together, tell them all the little tips and tricks that might otherwise take them months to pick up, talk about how to optimise their use of Instagram and then go out and do it. A kind of a combination of networking plus learning.
And on Saturday, that’s exactly what we did. I had six women come along (a sell-out!) with a variety of different backgrounds and reasons for learning more about Instagram but they all hit it off famously and we had a fabulous day. We had about two hours of learning (and eating cake) first, and I was really pleased to see that even the more experienced Instagram users in the group learnt lots of new stuff (and some were beginners and learnt even more!).
From there we went down to Hillarys Boat Harbour and three pairs of participants each had to work on some practice tasks (you can see some of the results by hopping on Instagram and looking for the #amandasworkshop hashtag).
Of course what I hadn’t counted on was that to practice they’d all start taking photos of me but fortunately the magic of Instagram made them look not too bad. I was glad to escape down to Hillarys though where there were a lot more photogenic subjects!
Big thanks and shout out to Jo of Wildfire Social Marketing, Vida of Just Improvise, Kath Mazzella, Aggie Lim, Rae of I Opened My Mouth and our lovely “other” Jo for making our workshop so much fun.
I haven’t set a date for the next Hands-On Instagram workshop but if you’re interested do email me and let me know.
#bizgram starts next week (2 September)
Amanda, I had the best fun and picked up a few tips to help use Instagram more in business than just for pure fun, which will help my clients. Thanks so much for your leadership and guidance. Love the format and style of the workshop, being relaxed and fun. Loved the hands on practical part too. Highly recommend this session to anyone who wants to embrace Instagram.
Thanks so much Jo, everything you described was *exactly* what I was aiming for so I'm very glad it worked out so well!
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