So this is it... the final chapter in our Super Secret Podcast Series is here.And if you missed any of the other episodes, this is one you'll want to hit play on.Because I'm recapping the 6 social media superpowers you need for social media success AND covering the 3 mistakes I see people make when it comes to social media.Here's a teaser of the first mistake (maybe you can relate)...❗You think you can learn all you need to know about social media on YouTube.And that's true! But who wants to sift through the 720,000 videos uploaded every day to hunt out the information you need? Especially when you know you're gonna lose SO many hours to funny cat memes. ☝🏽You'll need to tune in to hear the other two snafus, but be quick! ⌛Because this episode goes off air on Wednesday 27 September.🎧 Pop in those AirPods and tune into the Sparkle and Thrive PodcastOr👀 Watch it on YouTube or FacebookAnd if you want to learn more, you can join our Social Media Management Certification Programme right now. If you're looking for something that makes social media super simple and easy-to-follow...Something that comes with a year's access to our curriculum and 18 weeks of LIVE group coaching from a team of social media coaches dedicated to each network...THIS is for you. Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

We're back with the third part of our super secret podcast series.And this one's a biggie.How do you make money from social media when you don't have a gazillion followers or millions of views on YouTube?Well, you need to tap into my final two social media superpowers: market magnetism and mailing list magic.And in this recap from Day 3 of our LIVE Social Media Superhero Bootcamp training, I dive into them and reveal:🦸🏽 My 6 Bs for social media success and how you can get more eyes on what you have to say with the Eyeball Matrix.🦸🏽 Why the sales are in the (e)mails and how you can convert your social media followers to your mailing list.🎓 Plus, you'll discover how to make sure your website links look good on your socials so you can avoid the grey box of doom!🎧 Pop in those AirPodsOr👀 Watch it on YouTube or Facebook Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

It's here... the second drop in our super secret podcast series.Because if your head is spinning with what feels like 99 problems – whether that's home mares, work mares, or just life keeps getting in the way mares – there's no reason why social media should be one of them.So in this recap from Day 2 of our LIVE Social Media Superhero Bootcamp training, I'm here to show you:🦸🏽 How you can work out which network is right for you and your business with a nifty tool I like to call the Social Media Matrix.🦸🏽 How social media works and what and when to post with the Sunflower Effect.🎓 And now your invisibility cloak is well and truly off, I'll show you step-by-step how to shoot a 1-minute LIVE video on Facebook.🎧 Pop in those AirPods Or👀 Watch it on YouTube or FacebookEnjoy!Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

This is the first time we've put our Social Media Superhero Bootcamp training out LIVE to the world. Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

I'm so excited that I get to speak with Eve Rodsky, author of the book 'Fair Play' which made Reese Witherspoon's Book Club list (Reese’s Book Club).'A hands-on guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with'In this interview, Eve and I discuss how to share the mental load, rebalance your relationship and transform your life. We go deep on our own relationships and the impact that shifting the balance has had in our own homes.Want a chance to win a copy of the book? Contact us on Social Media (@TechPixies on all networks) and tell us why?Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

One of my favourite books of 2019 was Marie Forleo’s book ‘Everything is Figureoutable’. It is short and sweet and straight to the point – there is pretty much a solution for everything – you just need to figure it out.At TechPixies, a common response we get as to why people didn’t sign up for our paid courses is connected to money… which is why… for the entire month of January, we’re going to talk about the elephant in the room: MONEY.What could be better for our first post in this money series than ’30 ways to make a grand in 2020′.In our brand new freebie, we give you 30+ ways that you can plan to make a grand. Perhaps you have spare time, spare resources or hidden investments that you just haven’t thought about! You might want to combine several ideas!However you plan to make a grand, the TechPixies guide is a great place to start.And if you’ve joined us for our January Free Training Series, you’ll know that in the first session we talked about limiting beliefs.If your limiting belief is that you don’t have enough money – let’s add that awesome little word and transform that limiting belief into ‘I don’t have enough money YET’Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

In this episode TechPixies founder, Joy Foster, talks about the trends we can expect to see next year for big business, medium-sized business, startups, Influencers and Instagram according to HootSuite, Buffer and Later.Don’t have time to read all the articles on 2020 Social Media Trends? I’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a debrief of the top social media trends expected in 2020.Download the DebriefAn example of a previous trend would be ‘Stories’. Once upon a time only the network ‘Snapchat’ featured a disappearing post. This has now successfully infiltrated pretty much every major network. If we know about these changes we can be ready to keep current and take full advantage.Social media is constantly evolving, as anyone working in the field would tell you. Unfortunately, what worked really well a few months ago may not get you the same good results today!Habits change, Social Media networks make change / update, and completely new pieces of technology are evolved! All of this influences how people use and react to social media marketing, as well as how Social Media Managers are able to reach their audience.It is more important than ever for us all to understand and stay ahead of the game when it comes to social media. Doing so ensures you equipped to succeed. That you have an up-to-date strategy, and the required skills to make the most of social media.Where will 2020 take you? Make sure you know what is hot this year and download the debrief.Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

Today we are chatting to TechPixies alumni, Ilaria! We’ll find out all about her story.She started out in publishing and then moved to freelancing to be able to help with her family. After being made redundant, she found TechPixies. What happened next?... You’ll have to listen to the podcast!What is Illaria's favourite thing about TechPixies? “What I really liked about TechPixies is the sense of community, working in the corporate world was quite a different thing!”What advice would she give you if you're considering joining the course? "Go for it! You learn lots of things and there’s a team of people behind you who’ll always be there!"This episode was brought to you by TechPixies Social Media Magic Course. For more information visit http://www.TechPixies.com/SocialMediaMagicWant to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

At TechPixies we get some women who aren't confident and lack the skills they need to thrive in the workplace. We also get many, many, women who ARE confident and do have skills from current or previous careers. Perhaps you are already extremely confident in Tech. A question we are occasionally asked is -am I overqualified to do the TechPixies Course? If this sounds like you, this interview could really help answer a few of your questions.Joy asks, what would your advice be to those who are not sure of whether or not to do the course?Thuha responds "I would just do it and find a way to make the time to do the course. Everybody on the course has got things going on in their life, I have other things and I have to fit it in... also if you're feeling overwhelmed with everything you have to do, reach out to TechPixies and ask them to help -OK what is it you need to focus on? Maybe you're feeling overwhelmed because you don't know what your goal is?"This episode was brought to you by TechPixies Social Media Magic Course. For more information visit http://www.TechPixies.com/SocialMediaMagicWant to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

This week we are able to treat you to two exclusive bonus interviews in collaboration with Smart Works!In this episode, Meet Sarah Burns MBE, charity founder of Smart Works Reading who has helped 1500 women get dressed for job interviews!Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

This week we are able to treat you to two exclusive bonus interviews in collaboration with Smart Works!In this episode, TechPixies founder, Joy Foster is in conversation with Padma Knowles on how to interview after a careeer break. Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

3 reasons why I ❤️ online learning...In our very first episode of the SPARKLEandTHRIVE podcast/videocast, I talk about how online learning has transformed my life and TechPixies as a business over the past year.FOR YEARS, I've been surviving, not thriving. In 2019, I put a stake in the ground and I decided it was time to stop suviving and start thriving. This journey from surviving to thriving has been a long time in the works - 16 years in fact! I've tried and failed and tried again and I have learned a lot in those failures - more than in my successes BUT now is the time, my time, TechPixies time to thrive.In this episode tell the story of how TechPixies nearly failed (when we were trying to be a face to face only programme) but how the women who worked for me encouraged me to keep going even when I had to let them go because I couldn't afford to keep them on. I talk about how, in order to take TechPixies online, I needed to not only raise money (remember I had to let people go because I couldn't afford to keep them on!) AND I needed to upskill myself in how to build an online business selling courses.One of the things I tried to do right after I raised investment was reach out to people in the online course creation space on LinkedIn to see if any of them could mentor me as I made the transition from face to fact to online. Crickets. No one responded to my requests. So what I learned early on is that there one of the major benefits to online learning is instant access to experts in the industry you are interested in. 👍 NUMBER 1 BENEFIT TO LEARNING ONLINE: INSTANT MENTORSHIP FROM THE EXPERTS After 6 months of trying to do it on my own and feeling like I was letting my investors down, I found a course online called 'Digital Course Academy' run by Amy Porterfield.It transformed my business so much that I've even become a partner in her next DCA launch. Doors open 2 September. If you are interested in online course creation (like I was!) you might want to checkout some of the amazing free resources she has like a free course creater starter kit or a quiz that will help you work out what kind of course you should create (all links listed at the bottom of this post).This course was transformational to me and my business. I believe 100% that if my students are successful, I'm successful and that is something that I've learned from all my online mentors. So when I applied the learnings from DCA, I was able to transform the TechPixies Social Media Magic course in such a way that our online students started to see the same benefits as our face to face students. 👍 NUMBER 2 BENEFIT OF ONLINE LEARNING: You can learn anything! (but not all online courses are created equally!)In the video, I talk about how you can learn anything online now - cake baking, dog training, social media management. There are literally online courses for everything.BUT... it is possible to spend good money on bad online courses when really, you want to spend good money on good online courses.So what is the difference between a good online course and a bad online course?⭐ Good online courses have both video and audio. Those videos are short, ideally 5-10 minutes long so you can learn in small chunks, apply quite quickly and get a small win. ⭐ I prefer 5-7 modules with 6-9 lessons. ⭐ You want an online course to have supporting documents, things you can print out and support you with your audio and visual learning. 👍 NUMBER 3 BENEFIT OF ONLINE LEARNING: Online SupportThe third thing to look out for when looking to sign up to an online course is Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!