56. Social Media Tips for Small Business Owners with Gabriella Layne - a podcast by Renee Warren
from 2021-02-08T08:00
Hey you wild women!
My next guest is a Public Relations Professional and Content Marketing Strategist who commits her life's work to bridging the diversity gap in the marketing & fashion industries. During the early stages of her career in PR & Marketing, she realized that she had a knack for helping start-ups and family-owned businesses execute effective grass-roots promotional strategies. Often with little to no budget, she scrambled the few resources she was given to execute effective campaigns that successfully created word-of-mouth for the companies she worked with. When she realized that there was a gap in the market for adequate promotional services for Black and woman-owned businesses, she decided to tackle it myself — and Strut Communications + Strut to Success was born!
In This Episode, You Will Learn About:
- Keeping up with the constantly changing social media marketing landscape
- How Gabriella used “fake it ‘til you make it” to reach her goals
- Overcoming clients that don’t value your service
- Creating and leveraging community from your ideal clients
- Why Gabriella stopped exchanging her time for money
- Learning to create air tight contracts
- Claiming your brand and finding your niche
- Building habits and getting over procrastination
- Why Gabriella started Strut Communications
- Helping women of colour build their businesses
- Where the name Strut Communications came from
- Why solopreneurs and small business owners find social media so difficult
- Create a strategy that works for your brand, not just the algorithm
- Putting fun and energy into content, while also being consistent
- Showing up even if no one else does
- The process of gathering feedback and tweaking your process
- Creating a realistic and sustainable social media strategy
- Utilizing your analytics to find out what works
- How women in business can tap into their inherent skills to create content with more ease
- Organic growth using engaging content versus viral growth
Public Shoutouts:
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Shaa Wasmund: Building a Bigger Table
- Airtable
- Canva
- Later
- Trello
Resources:
- Instagram: @struttosuccess
- Website: https://msha.ke/struttosuccess/
- Website: https://strutcommunications.com/
What it means to be a WILD woman:
“I feel like being a wild woman means making your own rules. It means doing things the way that you think is best for your situation... For me, being a wild woman is being receptive to learning and growing and evolving, but also understanding that I ultimately choose my path.” - Gabriella Layne
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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.
She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.
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