Hi all, ✌
this post is long overdue but we finally had some extra time to share with your our thoughts about Hive after about a month since we made our first post here.
Just to remind first time readers who am I.
I’m mom, a kindergarten teacher and have been a ✂️ craft blogger since 2015, making paper craft videos and tutorials. I’m followed by millions of teachers and parents from all around the globe on my social media: Facebook 2.5 million followers Instagram 330K YouTube 93 K
So lets start with the first post! Link
There is only one word to properly describe it.... WOW! 🤩🤩
This has blown us away. I think this doesn’t happen here everyday right?. Here are some screenshots we took. It for sure will be one of the highlights of our successes we had.
What a reaction and support! Totally unexpected.
So thank you all for such a warm welcome!🙌
Our progress so far 🐱🏍
At the moment, this is our 18th post we made. The schedule is set to 3 post a week, typically Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. We share mainly our new crafts + templates and we are quite happy with the results so far.
Tom has spent hours on the phone or texting with 
What we learned + changes to our process 🚀
Since we are in the business for some time, we always try to innovate and improve our process and efficiency. Adding another platform to the mix is always time-consuming, as when we make new post Hive is always first place, then we continue with others.
Obviously, we needed to optimize our images, copy etc so we don’t have to make 4 different ones each time. So we try to make the best on Hive first and then follow up with other platforms.
Also we weren’t happy with the quality of our pictures, so we invested into new 📷 camera and post production to really stand out in the crowd. ✨
To give an idea, each craft takes me about 3 hours to create, prototype and make and another hour for shooting and posting on all of our channels. It used to take us double the time one year ago.
❔ If anyone would like to learn more about the process work in a bit more details, let me know in the comments, we could make another post just focusing on this.
Some challenges 🌱
I am not a tech person, I am leaving most of the stuff on Tom. Here I see a potential challenge in our growth here, mainly by introducing Hive to the rest of my followers.
I know my audience well over the years, and most of them do struggle with stuff beyond major social media, emails etc. Getting them understand my membership program, recurring payments etc. is difficult at best.
To be effective here, you have to really understand what is going on, see value and understand the motivation of why would you use this over some other platform. And lets be honest, the average mom, teacher etc, is not the type.
So here lies a challenge where we would like to know and learn from others here. What is the best way to communicate in a simple way, have some easy how to set up etc. for people out there. Something to explore further in the next weeks and months.
We can’t really complain about rewards or upvotes, but I always appreciate when someone makes and sends picture of the craft I did. So far no one has done it here but we learned to be patient ☺
What’s coming? 😎
Outside the challenges, we really like it here so we will stride forward!
❔ We would like to try sharing content outside “just crafts”. But we would like to know from you what would be of interest.😺
Some examples
- Our journey so far, starting from 0 to where we are now
- Learnings and successes being content creators for 7 years
- Creative process, how we make posts, etc.
We plan to invest all our earnings + something extra to our HP, to give rewards to our followers and fans.
Next we would like to explore possibilities of making our own community here, as this was suggested by several experienced Hiveans (do I get it right?😁).
❔ Also, if anyone successfully introduced Hive to their followers on other social media, and has tips and tricks to do it, please let me know
Of course, we will keep posting craft ideas. Currently Easter and Spring is the theme and more is coming after for sure.
Thanks again to everyone who is following us, we are having a blast and it's great to be here.
Reny & Tom ❤