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Ryan Robinson

Ryan Robinson is a prolific creator, blogger, podcaster, startup founder, and (recovering) side project addict that teaches 500,000 monthly readers how to start a blog and grow a meaningful business at ryrob.com.

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Ryan Robinson shares his AI tools with us at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit
Jhene Nel shares how to get booked with brands at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

Jhene Nel

Head of Sales at Webfluential

Webfluential runs campaigns for the top brands in the country. They know what they look for in content, influencers as well as the various influencer strategies and platforms that work for various brands. They ran 294 campaigns and rolled out over 3205 content pieces on behalf of their clients in the last 12 months.

Check out: Webfluential, The Salt

Teresa Ulyate

Over the past 20 years she has built a career in the food industry having studied Food and Nutrition and gained industry experience in recipe and product development, production and retail. She has been writing a food blog for 11 years and currently works as a freelance recipe developer, food photographer and content creator. Her work has been featured in both print and digital media, she has appeared on television numerous times and published her first cookbook in September 2023.

Teresa Ulyate gives us the lowdown on how to take photos on a budget at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit
Amanda Rogaly gives us tips on how to take your blog to the business level at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

Amanda Rogaly

Her company was first started as a personal blog focusing on the questions she wanted answered by credible individuals. This was the days when Facebook was king and her following grew very quickly with parents and brands. Today her little blog is a large scale company that has the largest parenting following In SA (over 600 000 engaged followers combined) using various channels and has since developed other business areas all within the Parenting Space making them #1. Passion will always breed Success!

Pearl Holdstock shares how she built her community based on a passion at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit - for bloggers and influencers in South Africa

Pearl Holdstock


Pearl is a woman passionate about woman upliftment. "I love to celebrate other women, and I strongly believe we can achieve more in life if we support and encourage one another."


She describes herself: "I am a child of God, mommy, wifey, business owner, Digital Creator."


Having gone through infertility she believes that mindset plays such an important role. "The moment we change our thoughts, how we speak about our situation is essential. I want to be a beacon of hope and to share that nothing is impossible."


Pearl has over 16k followers on Instagram and over 230k followers on TikTok where she shares her own #mzansicomedy #zulutiktok life.

Aisha O'Reilly

Aisha is a multiple award-winning content creator, host of her podcast The Whole Mama Show, and event speaker. She is also an entrepreneur and runs the motherhood store The Whole Mama Shop. Aisha is passionate about sharing her honest and raw journey as a working mom of three. Her mission is to create safe spaces for mothers to share their truths.

Aisha O'Reilly tells us how to start a podcast at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit
Renee Shupe helps us maintain our website at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

Renee Shupe

Renee has been working online since 2008 and started out as a virtual assistant. She quickly found out that her clients needed more help around the technical side of running their businesses. Her experience in both marketing and technology created the right kind of combination to help her clients both with marketing and managing the tech side of her clients business. After focusing on website design and development, Renee discovered she really loved figuring out the issues on her clients sites and saw the need for taking care of the ongoing maintenance and security of her clients site. Since 2017 Renee has been focusing on helping keeping her clients sites well protect and maintained so they can focus on doing what they love in their business. Her business has grown to give her and her husband the flexibility to slowly travel the world and in 2024 they will be spending much of their time in Mexico with their 15 year old Havanese named Fozzie.

Cindy Laufs shares the importance of authenticity at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

Cindy Laufs

Founder and CEO of Hustle Media

A full-service, multi-disciplined communications and digital agency, she offers:

SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION

DESIGN AND BRANDING

WEBSITE DESIGN

INFLUENCER RELATIONS

EMAIL MARKETING

CONTENT CREATION

PUBLIC RELATIONS

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

With her passion for connecting brands with the right influencers and helping her clients craft impactful campaigns, she recently achieved a significant milestone - January 2024: 2.9 million content views across various campaigns and industries since its conception. This underscores why she remains steadfast and committed to her ethos: Built on passion. Fuelled by excellence.

Nuriyah Gallow

Nuri started off as a mom influencer and slowly found her passion in comedy and lifestyle. One piece of crucial advice is to always remain authentic and follow your passion. By doing this she has grown to an audience of over 64k across IG and TIKTOK. She also created a course helping others learn how to do the same.

  • Check out her course here.
Nuri Gallow tells us how to grow our social media at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit
Hayley Malan shares the trends she's seen in the past 10 years at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

Hayley Malan

Hayley Malan is a South African blogger and social media influencer behind the blog and social media channels "Hayley's Joys." She started her blog in 2014 as a way to share her experiences as a new mother and has since grown her platform to include lifestyle, parenting, and travel content across her blog and social media channels.

Helene Olivier tells us exactly how she makes a fashion reel at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

Helene Olivier

Fashion- & Mom Influencer

23K+ followers on Instagram; 18K + on Facebook and 6K+ on Tik Tok.

Fashion. Parenting. Beauty. Lifestyle.

Combining her love & knowledge of shopping & style (+ she’s obviously obsessed with everything PRETTY)! Sharing her best finds with her followers from fashion to food, motherhood to make-up.

She’s worked with brands like Revlon, Edgars, SPUR, EverySun, Prima Toys, Laceys, Futurelife, Kingsmead shoes, Contempo, Uniq Clothing, PQ Clothing & SPAR.

She’s recently launched her own subscription channel called Pocket Fashion - this is an exclusive channel where followers get to be part of a fashionable community based on their specific body shape. Subscribers receive weekly updates to keep their style updated - videos, vlogs, outfit inspo & shopping links.

She started out 8 years ago with 2 followers (her mom and sister) and build her brand from the ground. No shortcuts. Just hard work and perseverance.

Nadine Smallberg shares the importance of networking at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

Nadine Smallberg

Nadine is a mom and former computer teacher turned digital marketing and content creation specialist. She has a keen eye for detail and a knack for storytelling which comes from her formal tertiary studies in teaching, computer science and entrepreneurship, this also enables her to effectively communicate complex concepts and share valuable insights with brands and fellow creators. In her journey as a content creator, she’s thrived on crafting engaging content, devising innovative strategies while using her years of photography experience to create relatable and engaging content. She took her digital journey further by doing a digital marketing course at one of the most prestigious business schools and passed cum laude. With an engaged audience of 11 000 on Instagram and experience successfully managing brands from Food Lover's Market to Cricut SA on top of a runner up award for best social media in the parenting blog awards, she has a lot to offer our every growing blogging and influencing community..

Ruth Adeyemi

Over the years, Ruth has combined her knowledge of Digital Marketing & Search Engine Optimization with her experience in professional (business) blogging to help her first Agency client increase their website traffic by 1147.39% in 10 days. It gives her great joy to see the impact of her solid desire + continuous devotion to learning in the lives of over 300 bloggers, business owners, influencers, 9-5ers, etc. And her mission is to stimulate endless possibilities in you, translating to dangerous confidence in the ability of your brand to thrive in the digital space.

Ruth Adeyemi boosts our SEO at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit
Cherise Roberts gives us ideas about viral posts at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

Cherise Roberts

Cherise has been a full-time creator going on two years now. In that time she’s had four reels go viral. She has won an award (SA Parenting Blog Awards: Best Video/Reel) and she’s accumulated 32 000 followers. She manages to live on what she makes by doing this full time.

Charlotte Haggie helps us find our calm at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

Charlotte

Haggie

Charlotte is a Podcast host and wellbeing coach.

Charlotte hustled for many years and struggled to enjoy her work because she was working out of fear and anxiety. As a wellbeing coach, she was teaching one thing but living another! She spent many years going through her own coaching journey and has now got to a place where she enjoys her work and life. She is in a much more balanced, happy place in her life with time to do her work, be with her family and do the things she loves.

Kaycee

Kaycee is a mindset and productivity coach as well as a content creator.

She is a Mom of two adult children. Both have disabilities.

She is a Life coach specializing in Executive, Relationships and Kids.

She wanted to earn in dollars so she looked at side hustles that she enjoys and would help her earn in dollars. She thoroughly enjoys creating digital products and now courses, helping others to start or grow their side hustle. She wouldn't call herself an expert but she’s learnt a lot. She understands your overwhelm, doubts and fears. She’s been there not so long ago. Investing in yourself and consistency, will help you build your business. The first bundle she joined she got over 500 subscribers. When she launched her first course last year, she was interviewed by Becky Beach and Faith from Faith Biz Academy. They are two of the many big names in the industry. She obtained over 160 students with just this one course. She took part in over 40 bundles. She has built her list only with bundles. This year she has new goals for her business and one of them was to participate in Summits. And here she is 😊



Kaycee tells us how to make and sell printables at the Simple Steps Blogging Summit

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