BabblSocial

BabblSocial 💁🏻‍♀️Hello 👋🏼 I’m Nicky
📈I help to get more eyes on your small business using social media, paid ads and websites.
🥇 Award Winning Supplier of the Year.

Message me today for a chat about how I can support you. Babbl Social offer bespoke social media management packages to suit small to medium sized businesses. Specialising in the childcare and kids clubs sector. Born from the knowledge that all businesses thrive with the benefit of well executed social media presence, the owners, James and Nicola, wanted to develop a brand that offered quality social media marketing that was accessible to even the smallest of businesses. We will post on your behalf to all major social networking sites. We also produce bespoke videos, blogs and can design or update your website. Having previously worked with varying sized independent businesses and charitable organisations to enhance their presence across all social media platforms, they are now looking forward to working with you to increase your customer base, turnover or brand presence and to offer you great value for money and an unrivalled level of customer service.

Back to Basics #2: Finish your About section.It takes fifteen minutes and most businesses never do it. Which is odd, be...
15/09/2026

Back to Basics #2: Finish your About section.

It takes fifteen minutes and most businesses never do it. Which is odd, because it's the bit people check before they decide whether to trust you.

Worth filling in properly:

- Categories. Pick the specific ones, not the vague ones. This is part of how Facebook decides who sees you.
- Opening hours. Wrong hours cost you actual customers.
- Phone and address. Make them match what's on your website and your Google listing, character for character.
- Website link. Astonishing how often this is missing or points somewhere dead.
- The description itself. Say what you do and who for. Not your mission statement.

Go and look at yours now. Bet there's at least one gap.

Tomorrow: what to actually post, when your head's empty.

I'm going to give you ten tips for your Facebook Business page over ten days, starting today. Make sure you're following...
14/09/2026

I'm going to give you ten tips for your Facebook Business page over ten days, starting today. Make sure you're following so you see them all.

Back to Basics #1: Your Page is not your profile.

I still see it every week. A business run entirely from someone's personal Facebook profile. Friend requests instead of followers. Birthday photos next to price lists.

Here's why it's costing you:

Profiles cap at 5,000 friends. Pages have no follower limit.
No scheduling. Meta Business Suite is Page-only.
No advertising. You need a Page to run ads at all.
You won't show up in local business search.
And it breaks Facebook's terms. Profiles used to represent a business can be removed without warning.

If that's you, switching doesn't mean starting from zero. Check Meta's current guidance on moving from a profile to a Page before you do anything else.

Tomorrow: the About section fields almost everyone leaves half-empty.

Happy birthday to us. Babbl is nine today. 🎂I'm letting myself be properly proud of that one.When we started, social med...
09/09/2026

Happy birthday to us. Babbl is nine today. 🎂

I'm letting myself be properly proud of that one.

When we started, social media for a small business more or less meant a page and the occasional tweet. Since then the ground has shifted under me more times than I can count. Video took over. Then short video took over from that. A pandemic pushed every business online overnight, ready or not. Platforms have risen, fallen, changed the rules and changed them back. Now AI is rewriting the job description all over again.

What's kept me going for nine years isn't that I saw any of it coming. It's that I paid attention to what businesses actually needed at the time, and been willing to change how we work to meet it. The Babbl of 2017 and the Babbl of today are doing a genuinely different job for genuinely different reasons, and that's exactly as it should be.

Thank you to every client who has trusted us with their voice over the years, and to everyone who's been part of getting me here. It means a lot.

📣 Back to basics, starting Monday 3rd August.Let's be honest: a lot of us are busy doing social media without ever check...
01/08/2026

📣 Back to basics, starting Monday 3rd August.

Let's be honest: a lot of us are busy doing social media without ever checking whether the foundations are actually in place. And when the basics are off, everything you post has to work twice as hard.

So from Monday 3rd August, I'm running a daily series taking you right back to the fundamental, one simple, practical thing each day to make sure your business social media basics are solid.

No fluff. No jargon. Just the stuff that quietly makes the difference between a page that gets ignored and one that gets found. ✅

Whether you're just starting out or you've been at this for years and never had time to check under the bonnet, this is for you.

📩 Got something specific you're stuck on? DM me anything you want answering and I'll cover it in the series.

A school. Facebook. 289,000% more reach.That’s what happened when we stopped posting like a noticeboard and started post...
29/07/2026

A school. Facebook. 289,000% more reach.

That’s what happened when we stopped posting like a noticeboard and started posting for people.

Before: almost no engagement, posts barely seen.
After: content parents actually interacted with, shared, and talked about.

Same platform. Completely different results.

Most schools and businesses don’t have a reach problem.
They have a content strategy problem.

Message me and let's have a chat.

Posting more isn't the answer. 📉If your page feels like a ghost town, the problem usually isn't how often you p...
28/07/2026

Posting more isn't the answer. 📉

If your page feels like a ghost town, the problem usually isn't how often you post, it's that you're only relying on your page to do the work.

The businesses getting seen are showing up where their customers already are: in groups, in comments, in other people's audiences.

Here are 5 ways to get your page in front of the right people, without adding another post to the pile.

Which one are you going to try first?

The honest version of running a digital marketing business in 2026:– Half the day creating content for clients, the othe...
17/06/2026

The honest version of running a digital marketing business in 2026:

– Half the day creating content for clients, the other half wondering when I'll create some for myself.
– A notes app full of post ideas I've definitely had at 11pm.
– Genuine excitement when a client's reel takes off, and genuine relief when a tricky tech problem is overcome.
– Caffeine. Always caffeine.

Nine years in and the work still feels like proper work, not a "personal brand," not a content factory. Just me, looking after a handful of small businesses I really care about.

If that sounds like the kind of marketing support you've been after, you know where I am.

Nine years of Babbl this year, and honestly, the question I still get asked is: "Am I actually going to deal with you, o...
15/06/2026

Nine years of Babbl this year, and honestly, the question I still get asked is: "Am I actually going to deal with you, or someone on your team?"

Always me. That's the whole point.

When you work with me at Babbl, you're not handed off to an account manager you've never met. You're not in a queue behind a hundred other clients. You get me, replying to your messages, writing your posts, sending you emails, picking up the phone when something needs sorting.

It wasn't always the plan, but now it's a deliberate choice. I want to keep it personal because that's what my clients want too. And after nine years, I'm more convinced than ever that it's the right one for the businesses I work with.

Interesting one from LinkedIn this month: a new Meltwater report analysed 9.5 million AI citations and found LinkedIn is...
12/06/2026

Interesting one from LinkedIn this month: a new Meltwater report analysed 9.5 million AI citations and found LinkedIn is now the second most-cited source by AI chatbots, behind only YouTube. The bigger surprise? Around 75% of those citations came from personal profiles, not company pages.

What that means in plain English: when potential customers ask ChatGPT or Claude for recommendations or research in your industry, the AI is increasingly pulling from what real people are posting on LinkedIn. The findings are strongest in B2B, but the direction of travel is clear across the board.

So if you've been treating LinkedIn as the platform you "should" be on but never quite get round to, the cost of staying quiet just went up. Personal profile posts beat company page posts. Always have done, even more so now.

Less "post more," more "post the right things in the right places."

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