Guest List by Lauren Does Mktg

Small business owners, coaches, content creators, social media managers and designers who would rather tweak a template than stare at a blank Canva page.

Members write and post their own content and come for fresh templates and prompts each month, plus people to work alongside and ask for feedback. Lauren supplies the templates; members bring the words and hit publish.

The Guest List is run by Lauren, who started Lauren Does Mktg in 2020. She worked her way up from marketing assistant to marketing manager, then managed content at a London agency for national brands before going freelance.

She now builds custom Canva template suites and coaches female founders on content strategy, and she runs a stationery business, Short Stuff, from the countryside town where she lives.

Around the 27th of each month, 12 new Canva templates land for social posts, carousels and Reels covers, along with content prompts. Members also get the full archive of past drops, plus bonus drops and seasonal template packs during the year.

Challenges give members something to post against, such as the Post it & find out consistency challenge and The Pin It Challenge, three days of posts to fix a profile's pinned content. Live sessions include Yap & co-work co-working calls, a Canva Q&A and guest workshops on topics such as customer experience and turning one email into a week of content.

Member benefits

• 12 new Canva templates every month
• The full archive of past template drops
• Content prompts and posting challenges
• Yap & co-work co-working sessions
• Guest workshops and a Canva Q&A
• Bonus drops and seasonal template packs