We gone on all the time about using #hashtags on every Instagram post. There isn't a lot of point in posting if you don't put hashtags on.

What happens when people use a hashtag in the wrong way in order to get their posts seen in an inappropriate way?

Instagram bans the hashtag. It open doesn't actually disappear but the recent posts vanish.

If you try to use a banned hashtag, often Instagram will stop the text on your post from showing. 

If that happens, remove some of the hashtags and post again. Keep removing them until it works.

Desk?!

The list is huge so here are some banned hashtags that you might be surprised to see:

• alone
  
• boho
• brain
• costumes
• elevator
• hardworkpaysoff
• happythanksgiving
• humpday
• iphonegraphy

• kansas
• killingit

• newyearsday

• pushups
• saltwater
• skype
• snap
• snapchat
• snowstorm
• sopretty
• stranger
• streetphoto
• thought
• valentinesday
• workflow

Have you found any more funny or odd banned hashtags? Let us know!

Facebook has just launched a new element on business pages called Shops, to tie in with Shopping on Instagram. Perfect for small businesses selling products but also useful for selling services, even when you sell to other businesses.

Facebook Shops are accessable from your Facebook page and from your Instagram account. Perfect, so we don't need to create them twice and maintain two areas.

You can now add products and services that people can browse through and even purchase (at the moment, just in the US...) within the Facebook Shop.

Read more about it below and click here for Facebook's information.

The Shop area of your business page can be used to showcase anything you offer that is productised. This includes workshops, courses, reports and even fixed-price services, although there is space elsewhere for them too

Here is how we have displayed two of our own online courses in the Shop on our Facebook Page.

There is also a tab for Services. If you can't see either tab, look in the settings. You may need to change the template of your Facebook page to get them. It is a very simple thing to do.

Here is how we display two types of services:
1. Individual coaching appointments - one-off video calls with us
2. Coaching packages - to help business owners get their marketing on track and bringing in customers/clients.

While Facebook wants to help small businesses grow, especially at the moment, there are millions of us. Just putting items and services on the page won't get you any extra sales.

Now you need to promote both the Shop and the individual items. Facebook will help you if you put the effort in.

If you would like some help with this, book a coaching call with us or perhaps even sign yourself up for our six-week social media and content marketing programme (online or IRL!). We'll get you up and running!

Do you have an awesome business that you love...but face:

• A lack of customers...
• No-one really knows who you are or what you do...
• A lack of marketing knowledge...
• A lack of time...
• A lack of money...
• No clear idea for how to spend the time and money you do have?

Get the tools and techniques you need to marketing your business and turn it into something great by taking our online courses. We get you up, running and getting customers. Fast.

Courses open now and coming up are:

Run your own Instagram marketing
Would you like to run your own Instagram marketing successfully?
Do follower numbers matter? Not as much as you think.

Are you posting great content? Great! Now you've got 20% of the job done, spend the other 80% of your time actually doing what you need to do to build sales from Instagram.

Learn exactly what you should and shouldn't be doing to successfully run your own Instagram marketing in our online course. We'll work through techniques to find prospective customers/clients on Instagram and turn them into leads (giving you their contact details) so you can turn them into sales.

Registration is open: 8th May 2020 until 31st July 2020.
Price: USUALLY - US$49  -  480kr  -  £42  -  €44  NOW - US$29  -  280kr  -  £22  -  €24
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Who is looking at your website
While you wouldn't stand in your own shop with a blindfold on, do you know who is visiting your website?

Knowing who is browsing your website can tell you everything from what people like to spend time looking at to whether your business is even going to succeed. More specifically, you can decide what to spend your marketing time and effort on and ignore things that don't turn your visitors into clients.

Learn exactly who is and isn't looking at your website, what they are looking at and what they never see in our foundation level online course. We'll work through Google Analytics from the start, enabling you to work out who is reading and buying what, where they've come from and what causes them to leave your site.

Registration is open: 25th May 2020 until 15th July 2020.
Price: US$49  -  480kr  -  £42  -  €44
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Social media and content marketing six-week coaching programme
Are your website and social media profiles bringing in new business for you?
No? Then come and spend two-three hours per week for six weeks online with us (fleixble timing) and we'll work together to get your social media and content marketing set up, running and bringing in clients. 

The next available programme start is 25th June 2020 and registration is open: 5th May 2020 until 23rd June 2020.

Price: USUALLY - US$599 -  5990kr  -  £525  -  €550  JUST FOR JUNE AND JULY - US$399  -  3990kr  -  £325  -  €360
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