Cool alumni jobs- the bloggers
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A typical day in Merrymaker land, good question because there really is no typical day. One of our more typical days is when we're creating content for the online site. We would wake up and we always do some sort of exercise, except for this morning, well it was raining! We like walking, yoga, that's a super important thing for us to have that life-work balance Then we're at our computers, writing, creating recipes, cooking, and then we're photographing the recipes and tweaking the recipes again, we might make it twice. And then there's pod-casting, we do lots of interviews. We don't have a podcast, but we'll get on a lot of podcasts so we're talking to people all over the world which is super fun. We're always on Skype talking to mentors or other people we collaborate with. Social media is a huge part of our business, that's pretty much how we market ourselves. How we began the business was actually from an Instagram account and then it grew from there. So we are always on Instagram, always posting on Facebook and driving traffic to our site. Because that's probably the most important thing about our business is how many visitors we're getting to the site so we have a bigger audience, we can be more interesting to brands and things like that so we can collaborate with them. And then we might be doing a bit of project work as well. So there's all sort of business and digital stuff, which is writing and keeping the blog up to date, but we're also now expanding into more projects like physical products as well as ebook development, and we're currently developing an online community, so we like to batch things, and do project work, BAU work, writing, photography. But every day looks different! Everything is the best! I think the fact that when we wake up in the morning and we jump out of bed and we are so excited to get to our to-do list because we created this, we have the power over everything, there's no one telling us what to do, there's no one saying you have to do this and barking orders at us, we control it, so we're like 'what do we want to do today, what do we want to create?' And I think when you're doing something you're so passionate about, it just doesn't feel like work at all, you're living your purpose and you know 'this is what I'm meant to be doing', and you're just having fun and even though there are super hard times and tough times you just enjoy the whole process I think. I think because our business is so based on health, happiness and well being, the emails and the feedback we get from our readers is epic! It genuinely feels like we're changing people's lives through our content and that makes us even more passionate and more driven to just keep on providing this sort of stuff to our readers. There's been so many highlights! Probably most recently we just self-published our own hard copy book which was epic! That's so amazing that we can actually hold something in our hands and so 'oh we created this' and people want it. So that's amazing. And I think just the people we meet. We meet such amazing people who are doing crazy things and we're just like, we would never have met these people if we hadn't done what we're doing. And we get to travel a lot too, we just got back from a recent conference in the Philippines, and that was just because we wanted to boost our business, and that's something we never would have done. It's just crazy what we get up to I think. And big brand collaborations, that's really fun as well. We've worked with people like Reebok, Microsoft, Fitness First, they are really big brands and they want to work with us which is kind of like 'wooow, that's kind of cool'.
The Alumni of the ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓƵ are using what they learnt to do amazing things and change the world in which we live.
In this edition of Cool Alumni Jobs we meet Carla and Emma Papas. The duo- better known as The Merrymaker Sisters– perfectly embody the fit, fun, happy and healthy lifestyle they promote through their hugely popular blog and social media channels.
See what it is like to do what you love and blog for a living, and make sure you read our '7 tips for becoming an online star' from our chat with the girls earlier this year.
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