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In the absence of my social media guru, I have tried my best to keep up with the weekly scheduling of social media posts. If you follow me on Facebook<\/a> or Instagram<\/a>, you’ve probably noticed the result. The reason I had a social media person working for me was simply because I don’t “do” social media naturally. I am working on it, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in the past couple of weeks, I have been so overloaded with responsibilities, real and self-imposed, that I have realized something very important: in any given week, I have time for either production or promotion — rarely both. This realization has been very freeing for me — previously, I would get hung up on the fact that I was unable to get any social media posts scheduled, then get stuck in a spiral of guilt and executive dysfunction and the week would end with nothing getting done on the knitting front. Last week, instead, I just told myself “OK, I didn’t do any social media posts — this must be a production week” and I got 3 Youtube videos<\/a> out, moved my mailing lists<\/a> from MailChimp to MailerLite, set up some email automation, and cancelled a workshop for low enrollment \ud83d\ude41 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will this mindset work forever? It remains to be seen — but I think it’s healthier than the alternative. So if you don’t see any social media posts from me for a week, you can rest assured that I’m being productive and will have more news for you soon (hopefully). This isn’t great for the almighty algorithms, but short of spending a mint, very little that I can realistically do will help much with those. The best you can do is like and follow my Facebook page<\/a>, and with luck you may see some of the posts there. That, or stay tuned here or on my mailing lists<\/a> — which the last survey I ran told me were much more important to most of my customers than social media anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshops update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Per my recently-posted virtual workshop cancellation policy<\/a>, I’ve had to let my Off the Grid workshop go this week for low enrollment. I am still trying to figure out June, and in all likelihood, I will move that workshop to June and give those students another chance to take their preferred workshop (as well as more time to get more students into the workshop). However, I have two more workshops this month as well as new in-person workshops scheduled for August at Vogue Knitting Live in NYC! (all times below in Eastern Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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