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Month: March 2017

Want to be a 5 minutes graphic designer?

3 / 23 / 17 5 / 5 / 18

How are you from the last time you read my blog?

If you are new, welcome to my blog!

My all time favorite tool to use online is none other than?

Today I am so excited to share with you one of my “fave” tool that I have learned to use online. It’s Canva, I have no idea how I came by it maybe someone suggested it to me, but the beauty of it was that I did not know how to use it and I taught myself and today I will be showing you how to as well.

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five minutes graphic designer

Canva is an amazing site that allows you to create and edit your pictures. You can also create a E-book memes newsletter headers and checklists you name it Canva is the one stop site for creating those amazing graphics and trust me you will be wowed like me when you finish using it and see how amazing it is and easy to use.

First, you want to visit the site Canva when you do so you are required to sign up with your email address, then follow the instructions for signing up.

Let me show you how to make your very first design all FREE

If you are interested you can access the PDF guide

Glad you are in; once you are in, there is the main page or a dashboard that allows you to choose your designs that you want to make. You will be seeing three tabs one that says create a design, your designs and shared with you.

graphic designs to choose from

Canva also categorizes the type of templates, those that are popular, social media posts, documents, e-books.

We will choose from the social media post category, then click on the template that has social media. You will notice that when you do so a new page is opened with the design for us to start from scratch.

Let’s learn about the different features of Canva.

To the left of the new template, you will realize that we have numerous options such as layout, elements, text, background and uploads to choose from. Also our new template it is always blank and we are given an option to upload our own images or use the suggested templates that they have.

layout to design your graphic design

You can choose to select the template that you desire by scrolling through the suggestions. Once you click on the one that you prefer it is automatically dragged on the blank page.

Please also bear in mind that this site has free templates as well as a paid version to use to design those graphics for your social pages. The ones that do not have a dollar sign are the ones that are normally free and the ones with the dollar sign are not free.

Before we continue, let’s name our first design, to the top right-hand corner of the page you will see three tabs share, download and make public. Where you see untitled design let’s click on that to change our name of the design, let’s call it first design.

Name your first design

I went ahead and choose a free template that we can use to upload to our social pages. The cool thing about this site is that it automatically saves our design and when we are not happy with the result we can choose the undo button to start all over.

Choose your template

Canva breakdown at your fingertips.

Don’t forget that you can view the PDF guide

Now a bit more on those options to the left of the dashboard, layouts are the suggested templates that we are allowed to choose from.

Elements are cool templates that have grids, shapes, frames you get the drift. You can choose to select from those categories or click on undo at any time.

The different features of Canva

 

The text feature allows you to add text to your design if you don’t like what was used in the template the background feature allows you to choose a different background.

Once you click on the template itself that you are using you will notice that you can change the colour, you can choose to move the picture forward from a text or even to the back. You will also realize you have the option of inserting a link or even making the design transparent.

Now that you have played around with the different features available to your design, you have the option of making the design public, or to download, you can also choose which one best suits you either if it’s the PNG or JPG version.

Download the version you chooseGo ahead and download the version that you are happy to use, you can now post away from your “fave” site. Remember that when you want to update or even see the design you made you can always click on the Canva icon, which will direct you to your design that you have made. You can always repeat this process that I have just shared.

Let’s see your first design, you are welcome to share your design publically here in the comments below.

It was nice of you to stop by.

Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.

Don’t forget to check the sidebar and footer of this website for awesome resources!

Photo Credit: Haute Stock

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Use your favourite social media site to maximize your business

3 / 5 / 17 12 / 23 / 17

How are you from the last time you read my blog?

If you are new, welcome to my blog!

My “fave” social media platform is?

Today I want to share my favorite social media platform with you! I also want to clue you in that you can use your favourite social media platform to maximize your business as well.

I literally get goosebumps when I am talking about it. I love Facebook and this post is all about how I have moved away from using Facebook from my personal profile to my business page to maximize my virtual assisting business.

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Let me show you how I use Facebook to maximize my business.

So before when I actually had my personal profile page, I use to love liking my favourite pages, these consisted of fashion pages. Can you guess which ones?

I loved that I was able to see beautiful pictures that I could like and comment at my disposal and I was able to follow up with any new trend from the comfort of my home here in Jamaica.

Fast-forward to having an online business and trying to get other’s to notice me and to even like my business Facebook page

First of all, when creating your business page it’s free to use, but people will not randomly know about you or your services unless you get yourself out there!

The first suggestion that Facebook recommends is inviting your friends to like your page, when this has been done you can go on to create Facebook Ads to reach your potential ideal clients. This is by far the best way to reach those clients who will actually benefit from your services.

What I did first to maximize my favourite social media site for business.

Now you do not have to go the route of the paid version of getting your ideal clients at first, if you want, the choice is yours. I did my likes organically first by inviting friends then afterward I would do FB Ads.

What I also did when I first started out was joining Facebook groups with my personal profile, so that I can see what my ideal clients were talking about and how I can be of service to them.

To be clear when you have joined these groups, please read their group guidelines. Do not spam their groups, but do make an introduction of yourself and how others can benefit from your expertise.

Most groups hate spam so if you are going to join these groups to spam about your service then you will be banned and trust me others will remember when you came and spammed the group and you do not want that for your first impression.

So you have joined the maximum 10 groups, which I recommend, you want to add value in these groups as well, pay close attention if these groups offer theme days, if they offer a promotion day, the best time is to advertise what you do on that day.

Make sure you have an elevator pitch or an offer pre-schedule at that time so that you can customize by each group.

Facebook groups are another way to maximize your business.

Participate as often as possible, but because I do not personally like when I am seeing others posting what they can do. I personally recommend you post what you can do for your clients instead than what you do. Trust me this tends to stand out more and when done creatively.

When you also tend to add value by sharing your tips or comments. You do not want to be spending the whole day doing this. You can schedule 10 minutes at a time for 2 hours, then you can sign in and out to see what others have replied to your post or what you have commented.

If you prefer not to see your notifications pile up by the minute whenever you sign back in after your ten minutes interval, once you make a post you can right click on that post and turn off notifications.

These are tips that I have used both with my personal and business page. I try my best as possible that when I do connect with other women who might be my ideal clients I show them that I care, and not pushing down their newsfeed what I can do.

You might ask how do I do this? I might send a message every now and then. I interact with their posts on their personal Facebook page, as well as their business page and I also send birthday and or anniversary wishes when they are celebrating.

Depending on how you use Facebook, this platform has been beneficial to me for both my personal profile and business page. I show my clients that not because they will need my services in the future they will not know who I am. I tend to also post engaging posts for these women so that they are seeing that I am a human and that I am relatable.

This is how I have used Facebook for my business. If you are interested in joining my supportive group The LadyPreneur MeetUp you are welcome to request to join.

I also want to know what you have done to maximize your favourite social media for your business? Share in the comments below.

It was nice of you to stop by.

Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.

Don’t forget to check the sidebar and footer of this website for awesome resources!

Photo Credit: Haute Stock

 

 

 

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