1,000 Reasons Why I Love You

I love Pinterest. A fact that was never in question.

I also love my Followers.

So, I feel like my Pinterest followers are probably the most badass people in the world.

This post is just my way of saying THANKS to all of you beautiful, repinning Pinteresters. I'm nearing 1,000 Followers (I may have rounded JUST a smidge) and felt like I should do a fun/thanks post!

Bellow is a collage of some of my FAV pins that can be found within my boards. I hope you enjoy!

I also wanted to give a shout out to C. Elizabeth Vescio and her Wasted Series and, of course, their boards. She made me a contributor and, although I've slacked on adding to them, I do love them dearly.

Here's a collage of my favorite pins from Clothing Styles: The Fairholms, Clothing Styles: Osiris, and Elegance Inc! The rest of her boards can be found here.

Stay classy, kids.

-Tyler Anne (aka Chick Tyler)

Pinterest Love: The Baker

No surprise that I love me some Pinterest. It's one of the first sites I visit when I start up my lovely little Mac. Out of all of the social media sites I use, Pinterest is my favorite. I repin for me and me only. Lately though, I've been getting an influx of followers and that couldn't make me happier.

So, to incorporate more Pinterest in your life and mine, I've decided to do one post a week that focuses on the addicting and amazing site.

I'm calling it Pinterest Love and each week I'll search a word or phrase and make a board using some of the results. Sound boring? Nope! It's fun!

For this week's Pinterest Love I searched "The Baker." The top picture and the following mini board are my favorites from the results!

Hope you enjoy!

To find these individual pins, go here to my new Pinterest Love board. You can trace them all back to their original owners that way. My Pinterest profile can be found here.

-Tyler Anne (aka Chick Tyler)

Announcement: Social Networking & You Ecourse

We may have mentioned before that both us Annes are social media nerds, though we prefer to say things like experts or gurus. (Self-Confidence building!)

Not only do we love spending our time social networking, but we actually are both social media managers and consultants for different small businesses. After college, the Annes bonded over this fact and decided to start putting our skills together and thus, we have this blog as it is!

We also have been working "behind the scenes," on an ecourse about using social networking for your blog (or business). 

Today, we are SO excited to announce that our Social Networking & You Ecourse is finally ready!

In this ecourse, we take the tools that we use to promote our blog (and the blogs of our freelance clients) to teach ways that you can make social media work for you.

This is a very thorough, step by step kind of program that you can use at your own pace. It is designed for both the well versed and completely clueless social media user, so you can skip around and take what you need from it.

Here's more explanation on what exactly this ecourse entails:

• -Step by Step instructions on setting up Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest
• -Tips and tricks for using the big four to get people to your blog or site
• -An overview of smaller social networking sites
• -Tools for choosing which social sites to invest your time in and exactly how to use them for best results
• -Guide for pulling all the information together into a personalized social media plan
• -A PDF you can reference anytime and use at your own pace/experience level to fit your needs
• -Real life examples of social media in action

In addition, we are making ourselves available for questions that may arise along the way while taking this ecourse. 

Interested in finding out more? Click here.

Let's get social!

—The Annes

Instagram Wedding

Holli got married on Saturday. It was beautiful. We'll have a post about the wedding and the reception soon, but this particular post is about Instagram + weddings.

I used to run a blog (Social Spaz) where I talked about social media and networking sites. I'm kind of addicted to online media so when Holli and I hatched the concept of "#hollicon" I was way excited. See, we wanted everyone as pumped as we were about the upcoming nuptials as well as an umbrella term for everyone attending to use. Starting on Friday, I started Instagraming with the tag #hollicon. The wedding party and Holli were on board too and it became an affectionate term that we would say while rehearsing and decorating. Holli even used the #hollicon logo in the reception's decoration. The MC made announcements to #hollicon! As of now, over 100 pictures were uploaded to Instagram using the #hollicon tag.

At first I thought it was just a fun idea but now I see the potential behind creating a term to tag on Instagram for your wedding and reception. Holli can now search #hollicon and see what her friends were doing and the different pictures her and her new hubby were caught in. She doesn't have to worry about being texted or emailed pictures--she can just use the search option on Instagram to get a category filled with her lovely day's pictures!

So if you're about to get married, considering coming up with an easy to remember and spell tag that represents your love! (Holli + part of her new last name.) Then make sure people know what to tag and then give them free reign to snap some pictures and upload to Instagram!

Also, if you haven't seen #hollicon on Instagram yet, go search it under Tags!

We hope you enjoyed the ride (and continue to enjoy it since Holli is honeymooning still)! We can't wait for the official pictures to show you how awesome the DIY decorations and vintage-style fashions that were rocking out at #hollicon!

Follow me @socialspaz & Holli @hkeaton!

-Tyler Anne (aka Chick Tyler)

Hire the Annes: Consultations For You

The Annes are all about blogging and social media! If you haven't seen our new page offering our consultations, you can find them here but we also thought we would explain a little more about them.

If you have any questions feel free to email us at chasingthere@gmail.com!

What are the consultations? 

Besides awesome? Well, each one is different because they are catered just for YOU. We offer consultations on social networkings, as well as blogging. We are both really passionate about teaching fellow creatives, business owners or just people with a hobby about these topics. The way they work is you request a consultation, we give you a questionnaire on what your needs are, then we do research for you on your existing or upcoming projects/blogs/social networks and we set up a video chat session with you (up to two hours!). You get two expert opinions (because two is better than one!), as well as detailed notes of your session.

Why should I pay you to consult me? 

Holli Anne: Well, I'm not big on answering questions like this. Sounds so job-interviewy! I don't have the MOST impressive Facebook following or Twitter or any other social media following for that matter. But let's be real, I'm not a celebrity! What I do have is knowledge of how to make social media work for the blog, two years experience consulting and managing social media for businesses and a whole lot of passion for social networking sites! On the blogging end, I've been dabbling in blogging for years. I've been a professional blogger for around a year and before that was a newspaper editor/communications employee. Moral of the story: Planning, writing, organizing and marketing are sort of my "thing."

Tyler Anne: Like Holli Anne, I've been a social media consultant and maintainer for two years. I've worked with small businesses of all kinds to help reach their Internet audience and maintain an online presence. I also have a very real addiction to social media and networking which definitely isn't a bad thing. Not only do I work in and around it but I also live my social media. I bring experience and passion to helping fellow creatives, business owners, and anyone else interested in blogging. There are so many social media sites out there that it's easy to get lost. Let me help you find a way that will work specifically for you.

What will I get out of it? 

Exactly what you need. Like we mentioned above, it's tailored to you, so we create our consultations to teach you exactly what you need to know. Want to get more interaction on your Facebook page? Want to understand Twitter and Instagram? Need help forming a social media strategy? Want help coming up with blog topics? Whatever it is, we got this!

Is this just a one time meeting or do we get to be friends forever? 

Oh, we get to be friends forever! After your consultation ends, we send you your notes and we check in on you from time to time, just to see how you're doing. We also are pretty much always a quick Internet message away from answering your followup questions!