Equine Social Media Awards - Voting closed awaiting results!!!

Voting has now closed for the ESMAs and I'm awaiting the results, hopefully the winners will be announced sometime after 7 March.

I recorded my acceptance video at the yard, we had a few takes and it was a little windy. Found it difficult to do as I've not done anything like it before. I find it easier to talk when someone is asking questions rather than me doing a speech! I probably won't win though so the the video might not get seen!

I've enjoyed being involved in the ESMAs. It was a great idea set up and run by Liam at Abbeyview Equine and Rhea Freeman. They must have put in a lot of hours to sort it all out.

My sponsor, Blue Chip, were also in two categories hopefully they will be winners too. I'll keep you posted but in the meantime if you'd like to see the great work that Liam & Rhea did please visit http://abbeyviewequine.com/awards

Equine Social Media Awards - Finalist!

I was very pleased to find out that I'm a finalist in the Equine Social Media Awards - Category 6 Amateur Rider! Thank you to everyone who nominated to help me become a finalist. Although one of the smaller categories, competition is tough there are some great Blogs, Facebook and Twitter pages out there!

Hopefully you enjoy all of my Website, Twitter, Blog and Facebook updates. My new year resolution is to update everything more often. I find with all of the horses at the yard to look after and ride plus the schooling and clipping I do on top of my work in the pub in the evenings time is sometimes quite limited.

Also everything I do is a learning experience. As I left school at 16 and have been working with the horses until a couple of years ago marketing was new to me. I realise how important it is and it doesn't matter how good you can ride if you don't market yourself no one will know about you!! I've still a long way to go and networking scares me!

I've been really lucky with the continued support I've had from Blue Chip, my only sponsor. Blue Chip have also made it on the finalist list in two categories please support them too!

I hope that through the world wide web more people will see what I do, hopefully like it and join the team! I'd love to obtain more sponsors and to get my first owner on board. I realise the competition is very tough there are so many good riders out there - hoping someone gives me that break and I can continue to prove myself.

If you feel I'm worthy for a vote please visit http://abbeyviewequine.com/awards to cast your vote. I think voting closes on 18 February. Also you can only vote once as if you vote more than once all votes are invalidated.

Thank you again to everyone who supports me.

TTFN! Lisa