As usual, we’re going
to start this blog post off right: being 100% open and honest. If you look at the bottom of this
post, you’ll see the links to our main website, as well as our six different
social media accounts. We also have accounts on Pinterest and Snapchat that we
don’t use very often. Although our president is pretty active on Twitter, we
decided we should probably focus on Instagram and Facebook. With both platforms
we can concentrate on posting pictures in our free time and have them show up
throughout the day. We can recognize different groups for their participation plus
give people ideas for what they could include in their cards. We first started increasing
our activity on Instagram in April of 2016. Let’s look at some “Before” and “After”
pictures showing how things have progressed.
Before:
After:
One of the key
differences between the “Before” and “After” pictures is the “2 likes”
vs. the “2 likes and 47 others.” In addition, the “After” picture is an
Instagram post focused on the cards created—not the creators or recipients! One
of the main differences is the recent increase in followers on our Instagram
account. Now here’s where the honesty comes in. Do you want to know one of the
main reasons why? It’s thanks to the “@a_little_helps_a_lot” account: this
organization connects cheerleaders who are interested in volunteering and
giving back. They’ve been encouraging their followers to get involved with Cardz for Kidz! and make cards. Right after they posted information about how we were
going to partner together, we immediately saw an increase in followers and
started getting more likes on one of our targeted social media platforms.
Actually, they’ve been helping us on both Instagram and Facebook. Here are some
of their “Helper Bees” posting on Instagram about making cards:
They have also
been sharing some of our Facebook posts—specifically the posts where we request
for people to make more cards:
No they haven’t made a
world renown number of cards, but YES they have gotten people across the globe
to make cards—we’ve even received cards from one of their followers in
Australia!! Thanks to this fruitful partnership, we’ve been able to connect
with some of their followers, including Bella—who’s made some amazing cards; if
Q4 2016 wasn’t already a record-breaking quarter, she’d probably have multiple
cards in the OVERALL Top 10! Here are some of her creations:
In summary, we’re VERY thankful
that our friends at A Little Helps A Lot continue to help us in many different
ways. Not only do they encourage their followers to make cards, they pretty
much said, “We’re here and we’re CHEERING
FOR YOU and the children you reach!” And for that we’re forever thankful.
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