My Marketing Moonie Yaps

This moonie touched grass recently and went to Canva Create 2025! Besides being absolutely starstruck by Jon Batiste, Cynthia Erivo, and Duolingo’s Head of Social, I dove headfirst into the future of AI, creativity without limits, and learned the fine art of surviving treacherous ball pits (more on that later). Canva’s latest updates will make you clutch your moon rod. I’m already cookin’ up marketing mischief using them—and if you're an anime creator or run a nerdy small business, it’s time you did too.  So What’s New at Canva? Among nearly 70 (!) new features, here are the ones that I’m really excited about: 1. Canva Visual Suite 2.0 Imagine all your creative chaos (brand kits, social posts, mockups, websites) happening in one place—no tab overload required. Powered by new AI tools like Magic Write, Magic Design, AI Video Editing, and AI Image Magic, this suite is your brand’s new bestie. 2. Canva Code You can now create interactive quizzes, flashcards, and mini-apps without know...

How a Brand Collab Fail Became Your Marketing Lesson It’s funny how a terrible experience with a brand can turn into a marketing lesson. When you see a brand collaboration online, it looks seamless—engaging content, aligned messaging, and a well-coordinated timeline across multiple channels. What you don’t see is the meticulous planning, approvals, and months of communication that go into it. I’m saying this as someone has and still is doing social media campaign collaborations between podcast brands, pharma companies and other marketing agencies at her 9-5. But in my experience with GloMelanin, a small black-women-owned skincare brand with effective products that I’ve used for nearly a year, it felt like none of those things happened. So let me tell you what went down (with receipts) so you can learn how NOT to run a collaborative campaign with other small businesses—and what you SHOULD do instead (with receipts btw).

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