2020 mid-year round-up

From the roaring 20s to the quarantined 20s –  What an absolute whirlwind of a year it has been so far. Honestly, that’s something we say all the time but 2020 is really taking the cake… At the start of the year we had some really awesome plans in place to grow the business. We…

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Mince pie mania

This week we are discussing something a little different. A couple of years ago we lost someone very special to us – a family member who took her own life. The advent of a simple and sudden phone call had a huge impact on our family, one which we are still dealing with today. Losing…

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Overcoming burnout as an entrepreneur

Burnout or job-related stress is something that many people come across in their working lives. We spend so many hours in a work-related headspace that this isn’t really a surprising fact. For many people, the symptoms can creep up on them with limited ability to stop it before it comes to a head. As an…

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International Friendship Day 2018

Part of my job as social media manager at Avidmode is keeping an eye on the trending hashtags that pop up daily. In the last few weeks most of these hashtags (in the UK) have been based around a reality TV series called Love Island and of course the looming Brexit. Neither of these topics…

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Is Twitter actually broken?

Although we may not think about it all that much, posting written messages on the internet is very different from the kind of communication we’ve engaged in throughout almost the entirety of our evolution as a species. Never before have we had practically infinite permanence available for even the most banal thoughts we can muster.…

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