Social Media Toolkit Reblog

We're pleased to launch our new project... Social Media Toolkits - an online hub of social media guidance and toolkits used by some of the best-loved brands.

If you would like to browse our collection of social media toolkits head to: www.socialmediatoolkits.co.uk

We’ve been blogging about social media for two years, and this is our new home to make it more easy, accessible and simple for you to pick up social media tips, knowledge and advice from the team.

The aim of our new online hub is to bring you the very best toolkits to help you create, develop and manage a successful social media presence for a company, brand or offering.

Click here to browse the collection and choose from the following toolkits....

Awareness Day Calendar

Packed with more than 600 events including national awareness days, sporting events, album releases and holidays. This 2015 calendar is designed to inspire your social media content. Each event has been researched to find the relevant social media links and hashtags for 2015.

Social Media Content Calendar

If you know you need to plan your social media content, but not sure where to start this content calendar template is there to ensure your content is inspired and planned effectively. Inside you’ll find examples and tips on how best to fill your calendar too.

Social Media Strategy Template

Let’s face it, without a plan, you plan to fail! This strategy template is designed to help you plan your social media activity for a long period of time, including all the elements you need to consider and examples and tips throughout to help you create your very own bespoke strategy.

Social Media Evaluation Template

Evaluating your social media activity is so important in letting you know what’s working and what needs to be improved. This evaluation template includes all the activity that can be evaluated, using online tools for free, including how to evaluate your social media platforms with helpful tips and examples throughout.

Social Media Audit Template

If you want to regularly audit your social media activity in a simple but effective way, this toolkit will enable you to give yourself an overview of stats. It’s also helpful in making quick comparisons against competitors too.

Social Media Recipe for Success eBook

This jam-packed eBook gives you the insider knowledge of how to create a successful social media presence. It contains hints, tips and real-life examples so you can fully understand what sets an ordinary social media presence apart from an outstanding one.

We hope you find our toolkits helpful and inspiring, and rest assured we have lots more to come your way too including a Social Media Policy Toolkit which will be available to download in March.

If you have any questions please email us at smile@katieandjane.com and remember to keep up to date with us on Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ where we will post regular social media advice and tips too.

SMT team

The Best Things in Life... in March

Spring has sprung; the sun is shining and the lambs are bouncing around the fields but we've moved out of the country and into London to open our first Not Dogs pop-up shop! In our 'Best Things in Life' this month we talk feeling inspired, veggie chilli, new coffee love and exploring new areas.

Katie

Best things in life?

Being inspired daily by Sam Baker, ex-editor at Red Magazine & now very successful author. Each day she tweets a quote from somebody she admires with the hashtag #todayimchannelling – I always find it such a positive and happy start to the day. You can find Sam tweeting @SamBaker

Launching our very first Not Dogs pop-up shop in London and meeting all our new customers – the feedback across Twitter & Instagram has been so exciting to see! Our most popular dog so far has been The Original Frank, and we’ve been having fun collecting lots of #SausageSelfies. We’re very busy creating lots of new recipe ideas, so those looking for a lighter or vegan option – watch this space!

The Pool UK is a very exciting, but secretive new concept launched by Lauren Laverne this month, and all we know so far is that it aims to give opportunities to women. Lauren has been quoted as saying “There’s loads of us out there; I wanna claim our half of the world!” I guess we’ll just have to be patient for the time being… www.the-pool.com

What's your favourite Not Dog?

I’ve chosen from our Winter menu as I want to highlight how much I love vegetarian chilli! The Cha-Cha Chilli Dog is packed with our home-made chilli con carne, with a layer of tortilla chips and finished off with a sprinkle of birds eye chilli flakes – it’s a spicy dog that’s for sure! To me, there is nothing lost in substituting meat in a chilli to Quorn, in fact I find it tastier & far more lighter, but still very meaty too!

The pin of the moment for me is...

 Jane

Best things in life?

The Watch House, Bermondsey - Katie and I are living in Bermondsey while we're running the Not Dogs pop-up shop and it seems like a really distinctive, funky area to be in. We stumbled upon The Watch House on Bermondsey Street one morning - an artisan coffee shop located within a unique 19th Century building with housed guards who protected the churchyard graves. There's loads more amazing restaurants and bars that I can't wait to try.

The new Starbucks Maple Macchiato - there's a big marketing push on Starbucks' new drink and, of course, I've been sucked in by all the amazing branding so my usual Skinny Caramel Cappuccino has been relegated and the Maple Macchiato is in!

The Skinny Bitch Collective - SBC is loved by many of the amazing, inspirational women I follow on Instagram so I had to find out more about this wellness and lifestyle project created by Russell Bateman. The collective promotes lean, strong, empowering women and is loved by Millie Mackintosh and Ellie Goulding to name a few. While Katie and I are in London I really hope we can attend the 'illusive class designed to throw you as far away from your comfort zone as possible'!

What's your favourite Not Dog?

I should say the Plain Jane as it's obviously 'my dog' but I'll have to go with Hello Houmous as although I love houmous I really didn't think it would go well on our Not Dogs but that's the surprising thing... it so does! Quorn Bratwurst, Houmous, Roasted Red Peppers and Smoked Paprika make for a pretty perfect Not Dog!

The pin of the moment for me is...

Not Dogs is… London bound!

After a fantastic time at the DEFRA Food Stars event at Downing Street last week we are beyond excited to announce that we will be opening our very first pop-up shop in London SE1 from Tuesday 10 March!

On a windy day in Oxford last year we were approached by the team at The Moveable Feast and invited to join their new veggie food emporium located in London SE1. Fearlessly, we said Yes!

We can’t wait to welcome festival-going Not Dog regulars as well as new customers to our first pop-up venture and serve up our tasty NotDog creations as well as try out some exciting new ideas too!

Our bestsellers will take pride of place in the window and the menu will include our favourite ‘Meaty Dogs without the Meat’ including the Plain Jane, Kickin’ Katie Nacho Dog, The Original Frank, Cha-Cha Chilli Dog & many more tantalising delights that will amaze and excite our customers every day!

Initially we'll be open from Monday-Saturday at:

The Moveable Feast

2, 21/27 St Thomas Street

London

SE1 9RY

Check out our social media channels for all the details and opening times and we’ll see you there very soon for a #SausageSelfie!

We’ll be recruiting for people to join our Not Dogs team in London soon, to register your interest send us an email at smile@katieandjane.com

We have lots of festivals to embark on in our little purple food truck this year too, so don’t worry if London is too far a stretch for a Not Dog, we’ll hopefully catch you in a sunny festival field from June onwards.

We do want to say a huge thank you to the Secretary of State for DEFRA Elizabeth Truss & her team for the Government's 'Food Stars' initiative and reception at Downing Street last week. We had a truly brilliant day and met and heard from a host of inspirational, motivational and well-connected influencers and press within the food industry. With their feedback on Not Dogs and DEFRA’S support for 2015 we are confident in embracing our next phase of growth…watch this space! (eek!)

Eat. Sleep. Not Dogs

Katie x