Jenks Creative

27/10/2023

📅 Important dates for your marketing calendar.

Social media awareness days can be used as great inspiration for creating social media posts for your business. There are literally hundreds of them!

Tips for using them:
✅ Look ahead for dates that are relevant for your audience
✅ Think outside the box but avoid trying to force a specific awareness day into your messaging just for the sake of a post
✅ Keep your brand messaging, values and tone of voice in mind when publishing your content
✅ Think about how else you could use specific days away from social media

Sparked from conversations with members of I have put together a Social Media Awareness Day Calendar 😎 just for MSPs. A full 12 months of days.

And as there are so many days, I've tailored it to include the days that IT businesses can use as part of their marketing.

I know we're approaching the end of the year. So, if you download the 2023 calendar, you will automatically receive the 2024 calendar into your inbox before the 1st January.

If you or your marketing team are looking for some inspiration for your social media posts then you can download the calendar for free. Link in the comments.

18/05/2022

There's something truly special about the MSP Industry.

And that is the community. I don't think I've experienced a community like it in any other industry.

Yesterday Superops.ai hosted the first live in London and what an event it was!

There were so many open and honest conversations happening around the room, with IT business owners and MSPs sharing challenges, insights, resources with each other.

Seeing so many "competitors" talking to each other is refreshing and amazing to see and connecting with each other.

Add in an awesome line up of speakers sharing openly their expertise and wisdom, helping provide answers to those challenges, asking questions to make people think and inspiring the business owners in the room, no matter what stage they were at.

The room was literally buzzing.

I was honoured to be asked to be part of this event and to be able to help Richard Tubb - The It Business Growth Expert share his story and what he would do if he started an MSP today.

Thanks to Praveen Ramesh, Arvind Parthiban and the whole SuperOps team. It was so good to finally meet you in person!

A a big shout out to the other speakers on the day, Tracy Pound, Paul Green, Ian Luckett, Mark Copeman, Chris Timm, Ben Spector, Chris Gorman, Daniel Shone, Perry Ashby and to all those new faces I met and who came and said hello!

Looking forward to the next event!

13/07/2021

👩🏼‍🚀🚀Thanks to for sending me a lush parcel! ❤️

Loving the new rebrand from SoapboxHQ and so pleased you're around to help us with our Productivity and collaborations in our team and external meetings!

👀 Looking forward to seeing what you do next!

What tools do you use in your business to help with productivity, collaboration, team meetings and agendas? Let me know in the comments!.

17/02/2021

🌈Visual content? Visual marketing? Visuals? Graphics, videos, gifs, downloadable PDFs, infographics, audiograms… the list goes on and on.

They’re seen a lot but not necessarily talked about in detail so let’s not assume... What actually is visual content? And most importantly why you should be using it?

In this video I’ll be answering that question for you and will be giving you an insight into where you may use it within your business and why!

Visual content? Visual marketing? Visuals? Graphics, videos, gifs, downloadable PDFs, infographics, audiograms… the list goes on and on. They’re seen a lot b...

01/01/2021

Happy New Year and welcome 2021!

I don't know about you but I can't actually believe we're in January!

Are you ready for what this year brings? I gave up with resolutions a long time ago. They always ended up as things I should be doing anyway, regardless of a new year.

Instead, after joining a few webinars with last year, I've decided on an annual axiom instead.

This year will be focussed around "becoming the best version of myself and shining bright'.

Fuelled by learnings from last year about the need to put myself first, being healthy and focussing more on self care, all whilst building a successful business.

What resolutions or goals and dreams do you have for 2021? You may have three words as shared by .brogan?

I believe in putting them out into the universe so I'd love to hear. You don't know who might be around to help support you and make them come true!

Let me know in the comments 🎉

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02/12/2020

Have you thought about using Instagram carousels, but not sure what to share across multiple images?

The old phrase, a picture says a thousand words is true, but what if you have the opportunity to use additional graphics, words or videos to add context and value to that one photo?

What if you have more to say!?

👀Watch my new video for some inspiration on ways you can start to use them!

12/11/2020

I'm thrilled to be speaking at with Channel Partners Conference & Expo on 1-2 December all about "The Marketing Superpower of Digital and Social Content".

We're going to be looking at the what, the why's and the hows to make an impact with your marketing superpower!

Register with my exclusive discount code 'Jenks' to redeem a free pass*! ➡️ https://l.feathr.co/Channel-Evolution-Europe-Virtual-2020-Claire-Jenks

Will I see you there?

20/05/2020

📹How can my graphic design expertise help your YouTube videos stand out?

Many of my clients ask me about the design process involved in creating YouTube thumbnails.

There are 5 stages from gathering information about your business to the finished thumbnails appearing on your channel. 🎯

I explain these in my video 👇

How will this make a difference?
These little pictures will ensure your branding ties in with your content and will ensure your videos get new views and more viewers.

One of the questions I often get asked is about the design process we go through to create YouTube thumbnails. How will they fit with their brand? How will t...

06/05/2020

🎥 My graphic design expertise will help you to solve any issues with YouTube channel artwork.

My clients often find getting the dimensions on their channel header, their profile picture and thumbnails is one of the most difficult tasks.

When people land on your channel, you want the user experience to be as smooth as possible. Making sure it looks good on all devices can be one of the biggest headaches.

In my video ‘The Best Sizes for your YouTube Channel Graphics’ I explain how to get the dimensions right whichever way your audience is watching.

You can take a look at it here. 👀

https://youtu.be/hFiyNvl4cFQ

08/04/2020

Did you know there’s a great way you can get better engagement on your blog? Why not add visual elements?

Images, videos and infographics are ideal for breaking up a wall of text and your readers are much more likely to stay engaged in reading your blog. They will also get added information from the visuals.

My blog ‘How to Increase Blog Engagement with Visual Upgrades’ gives you a variety of different suggestions. The aim is to give you some guidance and a starting point for you to add these extra features to your blog.

Of course, being a graphic designer means I keep a keen eye on visuals and I would really encourage you to consider using them.

BONUS: The Visual Blog Post Blueprint!

http://clairejenks.co.uk/how-to-increase-blog-engagement-with-visual-upgrades/

Take a look at my blog here.

65% of us are visual learners, so including visual elements within your blog posts is a great way of increasing your engagment. Here are some suggestions!

02/04/2020

It's time to attempt journalling again.
So of the most successful people I know journal, and when I say successful, that could be financially or in business, but also in gratitude, happiness, emotional intelligence, life perspective, mindfulness. So many ways.
I've had so many wins and moments to celebrate but I'm onto the next thing thing before I've had chance to appreciate them.
So I've decided to attempt bullet journalling again and including my celebrations and gratitude within in.

This is the start of my journey.

01/04/2020

Even before your audience starts watching your videos, they will be deciding if your content is worth watching by looking at your thumbnails.

In my blog ‘5 Tips for Creating YouTube Thumbnails’ I explain how to make them eye-catching and informative. Why does this matter? These little pictures can be the first sign to your viewers that your videos are worth a further look.

Think of your thumbnails as book covers. How many of us decide to read a book just by looking at the cover?

You can delve into my blog and watch the video here: http://clairejenks.co.uk/5-tips-creating-youtube-thumbnails/