profile

Gems from The Black Business Vault

Join The BBV’s Friends List. Our friends get weekly tips, tools and tactics to level up their content creation and online visibility

Featured Post

Let's team up this November! 🤝

Hey Reader There are several ways that we can work together this month on various marketing & operational initiatives for your business - Take a look here: 👉🏾 Email Marketing Let's create compelling campaigns for your upcoming events/programs that land directly in your subscribers' inboxes. 👉🏾 Social Media Marketing Strategies Do you need a comprehensive marketing strategy for Instagram or LinkedIn? Great! You should prioritise this now, so you can hit the ground running in 2024. 👉🏾 Business...

Hey Friend - Happy weekend! I just wanted to jump in front of your day to remind you to sign up for the LinkedIn Level-Up Bootcamp. LinkedIn is the secret gem that most business owners have overlooked in favour of giving themselves headaches over trying to come up with innovative daily content on Instagram... How about you leverage a social media platform where having an active presence can present numerous opportunities for growth, partnerships, and learning? The platform is well known for...

Hey Friend, Guess what? I used to be utterly petrified of LinkedIn. Yep, the "Content Creation Strategist" herself was once worried about popping up on the professional platform. Why? I had this unfounded fear that my employer would question my commitment if they saw my active side hustle on LinkedIn. The irony? When I finally went full-time into my business, I realised I'd been missing out on some prime LinkedIn gold. My absence wasn't just a simple oversight; it was a missed connection. A...

Hey Friend, Guess what? I used to be utterly petrified of LinkedIn. Yep, the "Content Creation Strategist" herself was once worried about popping up on the professional platform. Why? I had this unfounded fear that my employer would question my commitment if they saw my active side hustle on LinkedIn. The irony? When I finally went full-time into my business, I realised I'd been missing out on some prime LinkedIn gold. My absence wasn't just a simple oversight; it was a missed connection. A...

Don’t worry if you did it’s a virtual lock-in and you can still gain entry as the bouncers are friendly lol I decided after a conversation with an Instagram friend that I needed to do more to promote myself and concluded that we all could do more! So I opened my comments to do just that - People used the opportunity to promote themselves, to say who they are, who they serve and what help they need…I actually have a Zoom coffee in an hour for an opportunity that came about after one of IG...

Attention friends! If you missed the replay and you couldn’t make it live or just want to relive the awesomeness that was The BBV CON, this replay premiers today!!!!Get your pop corn🍿 and a notepad 📝 because the content is 💎Jump on and watch it live with me and let’s chat it up in the comments 6th July 23 7:30pm BST🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾 Go now and set your notification reminder HERE

Hey Friend I feel like I can finally breath - Lauching really does take it out of you! But I am so exited that we are live and able to support people with their online content. I asked in my stories yestday what was stopping people from producing content and the most popular reply was that people were stuck for ideas... So I created a Content Matrix which gives you 28 different pieces of content you can create to add value to your audience and go after your online goals. I'm gonna share it...

Hey Reader, how are your friend? Great I hope & you will be even better when you learn that in America they are celebrating Black Business Month. Given that we copy everything that america do, I think we are good to jump on the bandwagon and really promote ourselves & our businesses. I am pushing on with the goal of launching in the month of August, given that it's Black Business month it only seems right and also to the fact that my birthday is also in August; I just think it will be pretty...

Hey Friend How was your weekend? In fact I'd love to know if your weekends are two days of solace after a difficult week or if you press in with your business and get stuff done? ...Well this weekend was a press-in type of affair for us in The Vault... We shot the photos for our first first drop of photos that our lovely members will receive. Check out this short behind the scenes clip We think that cultural representation matters and so we’ve added licence free stock photos as one of the...

Hey Friend Are you using the newish feature on Instagram, that if used correctly could help you to get more eyes on your business and ultimately increase your visibility online? 'Chelena what is it???' I hear you scream…It's pinned posts, which IG released in June this year. I just published a video sharing 9 ways that you can use them to get more traction for your content. Check it out & hit me back letting me know what you are going to implement or if you have any additional tips that I can...