Episode 37: Caitlin Durning at Meraki Media Management

Learn How She Grew An Instagram Following From 18K Followers To 500K Followers In Under A Month!

Hosted by: David Lee

Show Notes:

Our guest provides Instagram Training for Business Owners. She is proud that before she started her business, she was working for a local nonprofit in her hometown where she grew their Instagram following from 18K followers to 500K followers in under a month and surpassed her fundraising goal. She quickly realized that she was great at that and had to find a way to harness those skills and build a business out of it. A year later, her business, Meraki has coached over 35 women business owners, managed over 7 Business Instagram accounts, and teaches real strategies that can actually gain business owners more clients through Instagram! Her superpower is relating with people! She loves to communicate with others and she can share anything from video strategies, content creation, business insight breakdown, reels advice, and brainstorming!

You’ll learn:

What it was like when she first started her business
Some Strategies that she used to help her clients
Why having an online presence is now more important than ever
How she was able to help beauty businesses with her work
Why success isn't connected to the amount of followers you have
What she learned from growing her business up until now

Resources:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/GetSocialwithMeraki

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/meraki_media_management

Website:

https://www.merakimediamanagement.com/

Email:

merakimediacaitlin@gmail.com

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