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You’re not on Instagram to get views and go viral. You’re here
to figure out the power of strategic storytelling on socials
and grow your bottom line.
I know you don’t have time to waste or money to burn on marketing. What you want is a social media expert to laser focus your efforts and make sure every post builds trust, deepens connection, and attracts high-value leads.
My social media support understands you and your business, it doesn’t ask you to embarrass yourself or look desperate by hopping on awkward trends.
No. With my help, you’ll finally feel free of content brain clutter, feel confident in your social strategy and get time back to carry on with normal life!
I can turn your social media from, “this is so bad” to “wow, I’m making it work!” (really I can!)
I'm Becky
But before you meet me, you have to meet Beanz, my show-stealing, tail-wagging office dog who took my heart in Llys-nini rescue 4 years ago (he’s a bit-of-a-mix for those asking).
I’m the invisible voice behind brilliant businesses. For over a decade, I’ve helped people get social media essentials, like, better engagement, more referrals and a even good night's sleep.
Because with Purple Dog, your online-overwhelm becomes a thing of the past.
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A little Purple Dog news… and a BIG reason to celebrate! 💜🎉
We’re finalists for Creative & Digital Business of the Year at the Swansea Bay Business Awards 2027!
One of the top three. A very proud moment.
To our lovely clients and everyone who supports, recommends and cheers on Purple Dog — thank you. This is a moment to celebrate with you, too. 💜
Next stop: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, on 29 January for the results! 🥂
Congratulations to our fellow finalists
You can do a lot more with Canva than you might think! 💻
Yesterday I was back in the New Forest delivering a Canva materclass for @newforestbp at the lovely Royal Lymington Yacht Club.
We went a bit further than simply working out where all the buttons are, looking at how to create designs that are clear, consistent and recognisably yours.
Because while most people can pick up the basics of Canva fairly quickly, knowing what makes a good design takes a little more thought.
We used social media as our main example, but the same principles apply whether you’re creating posts, flyers, presentations or pretty much anything else.
One of my favourite things about delivering these workshops is watching people discover just how much Canva can actually do.
There were a few moments yesterday where people seemed genuinely blown away by features they didn’t even know existed (and how much time they could have been saving!). 😅
I also shared a fairly strong warning about being kind to your future self and getting into the habit of naming your files properly and organising your folders from the start.
Speaking from experience, because my own Canva account is a bit of a mess and finding anything sometimes feels like an archaeological dig. 😂
It’s always lovely seeing those little lightbulb moments, especially when you know they’ll make creating marketing materials that bit easier.
A big thank you to @NFBP for inviting me along and to everyone who joined us. 💜
Do you use Canva for your business? And more importantly, are your folders organised or are you just winging it like me? 😅
Posting regularly but still seeing the same faces in your likes and comments? 👀
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You’re not necessarily doing anything wrong. Showing up consistently matters, and it’s something many businesses struggle to maintain.
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But consistency alone doesn’t guarantee that your content will reach people beyond your existing audience.
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Reaching new people means thinking about whether your content is easy to understand, useful enough to save or share, and relevant to someone who doesn’t know your business yet.
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👈👈 Swipe through for six things that could be limiting your reach.
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Which one will you work on first? Tell me the number in the comments. 👇
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📌 Save this for your next content-planning session, or send it to a business friend who might find it useful.
Filming useful B-roll and filming loads of random clips are not the same thing 👀
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One gives you footage with a job to do. The other gives you a camera roll full of perfectly decent clips… and somehow still not the one your Reel actually needs.
Ask me how I know. I spent yesterday afternoon hunting for one very specific clip 🤦♂️
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Before you start filming, decide:
→ what this video is about
→ what someone needs to understand
→ what they’ll see first
→ which 3–5 clips will actually tell that story
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Those are your planned clips. They have a job to do.
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Then, while you’re already set up, grab a few extras for your B-roll bank. A close-up, your hands working, your workspace, something being set up or packed away. They might not belong in this video, but they could save you time later. That’s what makes filming feel purposeful rather than just “record everything and hope for the best”.
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We’re working through this properly inside Unleashed Content Club on Wednesday as part of Create Better Video Content on Your Phone. We’ll also cover framing, sound, B-roll and simple editing in Edits.
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So are you a planner, or more of a film-everything-and-deal-with-it-later person? 👇
You don’t have to become a presenter to make video content.
I hear from so many business owners who avoid video because they don’t want to sit in front of their phone talking to camera.
That’s only one way to do it.
You can film yourself working and add text over the top. Record a voiceover. Show what’s happening on your screen. Demonstrate how something works. Capture a bit of behind-the-scenes. Show a before and after. Or simply pull a few short clips together into a montage.
Most of those can be filmed very quickly on your phone, and there’s a good chance you’ve already got useful footage sitting in your camera roll that you’ve completely forgotten about.
Every clip in this Reel was already there 👀
That’s the bit I think people often miss. Video doesn’t always mean creating something from scratch. Sometimes it’s just noticing what you’ve already got and using it properly.
Which of these feels easiest for you?
I hear this a lot:
“I know I should make more video, but I genuinely have no idea what to film.”
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Usually, there is plenty to film. It just doesn’t feel interesting because it’s your normal working day.
Preparing for a client. Packing an order. Opening your laptop. Writing notes. Setting something up. Showing part of your process. Answering a question you’ve answered approximately 47 times already.
To you, that is just work.
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To someone following your business, it can be useful, interesting or reassuring because it shows them what you actually do and how you do it.
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Video also does not have to mean talking to camera every five minutes.
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You can use B-roll, text, voiceover, screen recordings, close-ups, behind-the-scenes footage or a simple montage. Much less “presenter mode”, much more capturing what is already happening.
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That is a big part of what we’re covering in next week’s Unleashed Content Club workshop, Create Better Video Content on Your Phone.
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We’ll look at what to film, how to plan the clips you actually need, how to make the footage better, and how to edit it without disappearing into your phone for the rest of the afternoon.
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What do you find hardest at the moment: knowing what to film, being on camera, or editing the thing afterwards?
Confession: my Canva is an absolute mess. 😂
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I’ve been working on my Canva workshop prep this week and, because part of the session is about making Canva quicker and easier to use, I thought I should probably take a proper look at my own organisation first.
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That went well. 🤦
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I currently have 57 folders sitting at the top level.
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They’re named in several different ways, there are duplicates, folders Canva has helpfully created when I’ve resized things, old client bits, random things I clearly intended to sort out later and a few folders where I genuinely have no idea what past Becky was thinking.
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There has clearly been a system at some point.
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I’m just not completely sure what it was. 😂
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It did make me laugh, especially as I’m about to stand in front of a room and talk about getting your Canva organised.
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But it’s also a really useful reminder for the workshop.
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Because making Canva quicker and easier isn’t always about learning another clever feature or shortcut. Sometimes it’s being able to find your logo without going on a small archaeological dig, knowing where your templates are, or finding that brilliant design you made six months ago without scrolling through 847 versions of “Instagram Post”.
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None of this is the exciting bit of Canva, but it makes a huge difference when you’re creating content regularly.
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So before I head to the New Forest on 20 October to deliver a Canva Masterclass for @newforestbp, I’m apparently doing the digital equivalent of clearing out the junk drawer first.
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If you’re coming along, you can see whether I’ve actually managed to practise what I preach by then. 😂
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Please tell me I’m not the only one. How organised is your Canva really: beautifully filed, vaguely under control, or absolute chaos?
Future Becky did poorly Becky a favour.
I’m currently full of cold, my head feels like it’s stuffed with cotton wool, and creating my own Instagram content is fairly low down my list of things I fancy doing.
To top it off, Beanz is under the weather too and is off to the vets tomorrow. Apparently we’ve decided to be poorly together. 🙄🐶
So this isn’t the post I had planned.
But thankfully, past Becky left me with plenty to work with.
I’ve got a bank of photos from photoshoots. I’ve got ideas written down. I’ve got a content plan I can dip into rather than having to start from scratch.
Which means tonight’s content can simply be: pick a photo, share a thought, post it.
No Reel. No elaborate carousel. No trying to force creativity out of a brain that would currently quite like a nap.
And actually, this is exactly why I bang on about making social media sustainable.
Your content plan shouldn’t only work when you’re feeling motivated, have loads of time and everything is going swimmingly.
It needs to work when work gets busy, life happens, the dog needs the vet… or you just feel a bit rubbish.
Sometimes consistency looks like a beautifully planned Reel.
Sometimes it looks like using a photo you already have and choosing the easy post.
Tonight, I’m very much choosing the easy post. 💜
What does your “easy post” look like when you haven’t got the time, energy or brainpower for the thing you’d originally planned?
One of the reasons video content can feel like such a faff?
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We treat every Reel as a completely separate job:
💡 Come up with an idea
📱 Work out what to film
🎥 Set everything up
✂️ Edit it
😮💨 Repeat the whole thing next time
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Instead, try thinking about building a bank of useful clips.
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The next time you have your phone set up, don’t just film the one thing you need.
Capture a few extra shots:
✅ A close-up.
✅ A wider angle.
✅ You doing the thing.
✅ A bit of behind-the-scenes.
✅ Something you could use as B-roll later.
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You don’t even need to know exactly what you’ll use every clip for yet.
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Over time, you start building a library of footage you can pull from rather than starting from scratch every single time you want to create a video.
And that’s one of the things we’ll be getting practical with in this month’s Unleashed Content Club workshop:
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📱 Create Better Video Content on Your Phone
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We’ll look at what to film, how to plan your clips, simple ways to make them look better, how to batch useful footage and how to bring it all together using Edits.
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Because creating more video doesn’t have to mean spending more of your week filming it.
September was a bit of a big one. 🐾💜
Purple Dog turned 13, which still feels slightly ridiculous to say out loud. Thirteen years of self-employment, changing things, learning things, getting things wrong, adapting, and somehow still being here doing a job I genuinely love.
Possibly just as significantly, I took a proper two-week break.
Not a “technically on holiday but still checking emails and doing the odd bit of work” break either. An actual one.
I spent a few days on my own in a restful little off-grid cabin, followed by a trip to Anglesey with Matt and Beanz. Beanz, unsurprisingly, absolutely loved it and seemed very happy with the combination of new walks, sea air and general holiday attention.
For the first time in a long time, I properly switched off. It turns out the business did not collapse in my absence, which is always reassuring.
I’ve also been making more of an effort to get back into wild swimming this month. It’s one of those things I know is really good for me, but which had quietly slipped further and further down the list when life got busy.
Then it was back to work, and September ended up being a pretty varied month.
🎬 I delivered a workshop all about short-form video
💡 Headed to Bristol for Uplift Live and a day full of ideas, conversations and learning
💬 Spoke about LinkedIn at the latst @4ivy event
💜 Celebrated 13 years of Purple Dog along the way
My word for this year was balance, and September probably came closer to what I meant by that than most months have.
There was work. There were interesting things happening. There was also rest, sea swimming, time away, Beanz living his best Anglesey life, and quite a lot of staring at nice views without feeling the need to be productive.
I’d quite like to take a bit more of that into October.
What are you taking into the new month? 👇
