Building Your Instagram: An Intensive with Creatives: Kristine Lee of @lee_kristine, Sophie Mackenzie of @wholeheartedeats and Leslie Shewring of @leslieshewring

January 21, 2017 from 10 am - 4 pm at 17 1/2 Fan Tan Alley - light lunch included

Building Your Instagram

A one day intensive workshop with three local women who have created massive followings for themselves on Instagram. Each has a unique visual identity that has translated into global business opportunities for them through Instagram. All three women have learned how to create and generate unique content that continues to grow their communities. In this rare opportunity learn directly from them, how to create and grow your Instagram for yourself and your business.

Come take the time to focus on your social media strategy with Instagram. This action packed day will be spent helping you craft a stronger and more specific brand story, take better photographs and learn more strategies for connecting to and growing a broader global community.

Who is this for?

Instagram is one of the most critically important social networks for all kinds of businesses today. This workshop is for EVERYONE who wants to grow their presence and take their Instagrams to the next level.

Especially:

Creative Entrepreneurs

Business Owners

Retailers

Photographers

Writers

Artists

Designers

Real Estate Agents

Restaurant Owners

Key Takeaways

Concrete steps for building followers

Cohesive strategy for creating an identity

Photography skills and secrets to create your best photos

Creating relationships and deeper community building

Business opportunities

*All participants will need to fill out a questionnaire before the workshop so that we can help tailor the information being covered in the intensive. This way your takeaways can be even greater.

Tell me more about who is teaching me?

Sophie Mackenzie is a whole-food blogger whose work has been featured on The Feed Feed, Food52, Urban Outfitters and the Huffington Post. She has previously worked in New York as a food stylist, and currently is a regular contributor to the upcoming food site Nom. 

Cooking has always been Sophie's passion. She created her blog www.wholeheartedeats.com as a place for her to share her food experiments, both successful and those less successful. Her Instagram presence is a visual journal of her vegan recipe experiments. She has successfully grown her Instagram following to over 50k.

Kristine Lee recently decided to leave her "dream job" to stay home and raise her children. She previously worked for a fun and innovative marketing agency as the Director of Strategic Services. She spent 10 years working with companies to develop their brands and implemented marketing strategies. She now spends her days dropping kids off at school, and making lunches. It was a pretty drastic change, but one that she fully embraced. She started her beautiful Instagram and her community has flourished.  She is striking that elusive balance of stay at home mom and creative entrepreneur. 

Kristine is not only passionate about her family but also talking about marketing strategy and brand development.  She has helped companies in the past with this and looks forward to doing this again. www.smoothieburst.com

Leslie Shewring is a designer, stylist and photographer who lives here in Victoria. Leslie has a long history in the design field with degrees in both Interior Design and Architecture. For many years Leslie designed mass retail products for large chains in the USA like Target, Walmart and Costco. She continues to do a little of this work as well as new projects like collaborating with Cloud Nine to release a line of fabrics with her watercolor paintings on them. Leslie also co-wrote, styled and photographed “Decorate with Flowers” with Holly Becker, published by Chronicle Books which is available in over ten languages. She has just released "Decorate for A Party", another book focusing on small gatherings.   You can find her on Instagram @leslieshewring. Leslie’s photography work has been used by American Greetings and has also been found in magazines like Style at Home, Better Homes and Gardens, Living Etc, Mollie Makes, Simple Things, Uppercase, Stampington’s Somerset Life and Domino.

Testimonials from our last Instagram workshop with Leslie Shewring

"Leslie's teaching style is refreshingly candid. I learned simple and effective strategies that continue to add value to my feed. I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to up their social media game"

Laura Harris, artist @lauraharrisartist

“Grateful to have had this opportunity to learn and be inspired but such a creative, and talented business lady.

Leslie’s workshop changed the way we look and utilize social media for our business. Since taking the her course we’ve seen a huge growth from what we’ve learned. We would recommend Leslie to anyone looking to grow their feed and followers.”

Alex and Nicole of @thornandthistleflowers