We opened the second season of Best Life Qatar (BLQ) Workshops with a very interesting topic that’s really useful and practical to many.
Facilitated by a volunteer speaker – a dear friend, Ms. Sharice Tan, who specially designed a module for the session tailored to address some of the most common concerns of Instagram users – new and old alike. Starting with the basics of setting up an account to numerous ways of maintaining a visually appealing feed… all these were discussed in the Build and Boost Your Instagram Workshop.
FULLY BOOKED IN AN HOUR!
Due to the popularity of our session speaker, a lifestyle and beauty blogger who has been gaining a strong following since 2013, the first session was fully booked within an hour after we opened the registration via Event Brite.
That was really unprecedented, from an initial 15 participants, we even extended the room capacity to 20 then later to maximum of 30 persons. But even with all these, we still received a lot of requests which prompted us to open another session for the following week.
When we opened the next registration, it was still well received that the entire 30 seating capacity was also fully booked within 24 hours!
A lot of people were really excited about this session since the topic was very popular in itself… one that is handy and helpful, and that this workshop season has also been much anticipated being pushed back few months later than its original schedule.
Trivia: There were two poster designs that was submitted by Ms. Sharice for this workshop. Two color tones which i both liked and thought of using for the event promotion later on. Not knowing that we will actually be needing two posters for two separate dates.
BATCH 1 – AUGUST 31
BATCH 2 – SEPTEMBER 7
VERY INFORMATIVE WORKSHOP
Participants were all praises to Ms. Sharice for the very informative sessions. The last two sessions conducted on two succeeding weekends at Java U Al Sadd were packed with highly enthusiastic content creators, v/bloggers, and influencers of different nationalities.
In a feature article published on iloveqatar.net, Mr. Sonkie Bagongfirs highlighted 10 of Sharice’s tips on how to organically grow your following on Instagram. Read the full article here.
NEXT SESSIONS
We are planning to schedule at least 1 session every month. This is in line with Best Life Qatar’s continuing commitment to serve the community by providing free workshops that are helpful to the up and coming content creators in Doha. We are finalizing all the details of the video editing tutorials for October and effective writing skills by November. Updates and final schedules will be announced soon.
This year, all sessions were initially set at Java U stores. Java U Qatar is the official partner of BLQ Workshops for this season. Last year, all the four sessions were held at Figaro Coffee near Ramada Signal.
CREDITS: Special thanks to Ms. Sharice Tan for saying yes to this project and for conducting two successive sessions due to overflowing requests. Also to Ms Jacquie de Guzman of Java U (Marketing Officer of Bandary International Group) for being very supportive to us. And to all our participants for attending the sessions. You all made this workshop a huge success!
Here are some of the vlogs created for the event (in no particular order):