Welcome to Live lunch!

This week, we talked about how to plan your holiday marketing strategies, recent twitter privacy changes, planning for another potential lockdown, going on video, and how you can help other small businesses during the pandemic.

Here are the snippets:

- Green Umbrella new mediator and using online internal training for the first time

- Twitter privacy settings have changed and they have released a series of helpful videos

- Make sure you check your privacy settings regularly to avoid cybersecurity issues

- Christina's latest podcast is on cybersecurity

- Keeping yourself and your business secure online. Password management software, 2-factor verification and being careful what you share

- Holiday marketing - half term, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, etc. Marketing messages need to adapt and you need to start planning now

- Facebook ads - now is the busiest time for advertisers, how do you make sure your adverts are seen?

- Will there be another lockdown? We should use what we learned in the last one and always be planning ahead in case of another

- Small Business Saturday - partnering with other local businesses, helping each other out, accessing each other's audiences, etc.

- Fear of being on video. How can you be better at it? Being yourself and lots of practice.

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