Hey there, my fabulous listener, welcome to episode 258 of the Small Business Made Simple Podcast.

Thanks for lending me your ears today – I know you have lots of choices, so I sincerely appreciate me being one of them!

If you’re enjoying this podcast – I’d love you to take a screen shot and share it on your socials and tag me in it.  How cool would that be!

Don’t forget you can get the show notes for this podcast at www.socialmediaandmarketing.com.au/258

Did you have a listen into last week’s episode? My podcast last week was all about thinking about your Instagram grid a little differently.  Head back there if you didn’t get a chance to listen in already- click here to listen to ep 257 – www.socialmediaandmarketing.com.au/257

But before I get started, I wanted to give a shout out to this week’s podcast sponsor Are you tired of wasting time on financial admin?  Simplify your business with Thriday.  Thriday is the next-gen accounting platform that automatically reconciles your expenses, calculates your tax and chases up overdue invoices.  You can control it all from one place.  Imagine how much time that could save you.  Business finance doesn’t have to consume you.  Become a Thridayer and live your best life! https://www.thriday.com.au/

And just finally before I get chatting with you about Facebook and all its goodness – I just wanted to tell you about my 4 week email marketing masterclass that’s happening in September. If email marketing is something that’s been on your list to learn and develop in your business – then this 4 week program could be just right for you! Take a look here: https://bit.ly/EmailMasterclasswithJenn

Today I have an amazing business friend and awesome businesswoman Emma Lovell from Lovelly Communications.

Emma Lovell is coach, speaker and writer specialising in personal brand. Her mission is to help women to show up and shine so they can attract the work and life they want! Emma gives women the tools and support to grow their business, become an authority and build their own unique brand. She’s a speaker and MC, regularly taking to the physical and virtual stage to speak about business, personal brand, travel and mental health. Emma is also the host of not one, but two podcasts – Lovelly Travels and the Live & Love Your Brand Podcast. Wherever possible, she combines her passions of business and travel together and she sees life as one big adventure. Emma’s personal mission is to live a life that she loves, a lovelly life, and inspire others to do the same. Emma lives on the Gold Coast with her Aquaman husband Mathew, her toddler Finn and their furbaby cat, T’challa.

EMMA’S LINKS:

Website https://lovellycommunications.com/

Facebook business page https://www.facebook.com/LovellyCommunications/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lovellycomms/

Linkedin profile page https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmalovelly/

Brand Audit Checklist – https://lovellycommunications.mykajabi.com/brand-audit-guide

I hope you enjoyed that podcast – the link to the audit that Emma spoke about is in the shownotes. Otherwise, you can find them on Emma’s Instagram at Lovellycomms

Don’t do a me and forget to build your own personal brand whilst building your business.  Like I said, it’s probably one of the biggest regrets in a past business is not doing this but lesson learned so that’s why I talk SO much about human to human marketing now and love the messaging of business friends like Emma!

If you’d like to continue the chat, join me and join in the fun in my Facebook group Like Minded Business Owners https://www.facebook.com/groups/LikeMindedBusinessOwners – love to hear from you over there.

So, that’s it for episode 258. If you loved this episode and found it valuable, please take 30 seconds out of your day to leave me a rating and review if you want where you are listening.  One more goal of mine is to reach more people with this podcast, and you can help me achieve that, by leaving me a review!  Thanks in advance.

See you next week on the podcast for episode 259!

Thanks again to Thriday – the next-gen accounting platform that automatically reconciles your expenses, calculates your tax and chases up overdue invoices. https://www.thriday.com.au/

Don’t forget to check out the deet on my email marketing masterclass https://bit.ly/EmailMasterclasswithJenn

But in the meantime, let’s hang out on social and get social on social – you’ll find me on Instagram, Facebook and my fav LinkedIn.

But whatever you do,

……..remember small business peep, as my opening song says, there’s no point in dreaming small!