Singing Thunder Jewellery - Social Media Brand Awareness Campaign
Project Overview
Singing Thunder Jewellery is a Toronto-based handcrafted jewellery brand rooted in Afro-Indigenous heritage, intentional design, and believing in slow fashion. The brand creates handcrafted jewellery using crystals, beads, stones, and traditional beadwork techniques that reflect cultural authenticity, healing, and self-expression.
This project involved creating a social media brand awareness campaign to expand the brand’s online visibility, strengthen audience engagement, and support customer acquisition through applying storytelling in digital content.
Problem
Although Singing Thunder Jewellery has built strong in-person brand presence and customer relationships at artisan markets and cultural events, its social media lacked a steady content strategy to capture attention, build emotional connections, and turn online audiences into customers. The brand’s digital content primarily focused on product display, while deeper storytelling remained under-communicated online. This limited audience engagement, online discoverability, and acquisition opportunities.
Objective
The goal was to grow brand awareness and attract new customers, especially wellness-focused consumers and creative professionals, by sharing engaging, educational, and community-based content on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.
The campaign aimed to:
Increase visibility among new audiences
Improve engagement and social sharing
Strengthen perceived product value
Drive profile visits and website traffic
Support first-time customer acquisition through trust-building content
Target Audience
Value-Driven Creative Professionals: Adults aged 28-45 who value authenticity, creativity, cultural appreciation, and handcrafted products. They are highly engaged with fashion, art, design, and independent brands.
Wellness & Spiritually-Oriented Consumers: Consumers interested in mindfulness, healing energy, intentional living, and meaningful self-expression through products connected to wellness and spirituality.
My Role
Social Media Strategy: Generate idea and content strategy for Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Create content based on storytelling, aligned with the brand's positioning and personality, while planning engagement tactics and awareness campaigns.
Campaign Development: Created short-form video campaign concepts, developed educational and interactive content ideas, and structured posting flow and content calendar direction.
Creative Direction: Designed visual directions for storytelling-focused content, created concepts for UGC-style posts, interactive stories, and educational campaigns, and developed the brand mood board and aesthetic strategy.
Strategic Approach
The campaign used emotional and educational content to reach more people, encourage interaction, and build trust with new audiences. The strategy emphasized: storytelling, education, cultural depth, visual intimacy, audience participation. This approach helped reduce purchase hesitation while increasing emotional connection and perceived authenticity
Content Series
Refer to the list of ideas and detailed content plans for each episode here.
(1) “Stone Stories: What Your Jewellery Knows”: A leisurely, intimate, educational video series introducing new health enthusiasts to the materials' spiritual importance, cultural roots, and healing energy. In each episode, a focused material, such as a stone, a metal, or a colour, is illuminated in Afro-Indigenous traditions, the story of its origins, and how it might enhance contemporary mindfulness practices.
Target: Wellness Seekers
Primary Platform: Instagram, Cross-post TikTok and Facebook
Episode Plan: 6 core episodes with 1 is a seasonal episode per series
Posting schedule: 1 episode every 2 weeks
One series runs on one single platform at a time (no overlap per platform)
Acquisition Impact (Goal): Attract new customers through educational and culturally driven content that encourages saves, shares, and engagement. The storytelling approach builds trust, emotional connection, and curiosity, driving profile visits and website traffic from wellness-focused audiences interested in mindfulness and gemstone meanings.
(2) "Made With Meaning: The Ethics of Beautiful Things": A bold, purposeful video series for creative professionals interested in the origin, craftsmanship, and the story behind the jewellery pieces that make them. Each episode discovers an aspect of the Singing Thunder process, from sourcing metals to designing culturally inspired motifs, and relates it to more general discussions about responsible and ethical consumption, cultural sensitivity, and the influence of deliberate buying.
Target: Value-Driven Creatives.
Primary Platform: TikTok Cross-post IG and Facebook
Episode Plan: 6 core episodes with 1 is a seasonal episode per series
Posting schedule: 1 episode every 2 weeks
One series runs on one single platform at a time (no overlap per platform)
Total duration: 4 months
Acquisition Impact (Goal): Strengthening perceived product value, reducing skepticism around pricing. By highlighting the authenticity and handmade quality behind each piece, it built transparency and trust with potential customers, setting the brand clearly apart from fast-fashion jewellery competitors.
Interactive Content Campaigns
Created interactive Instagram stories featuring polls on gemstones, jewellery styles, colours, symbolic meanings, product highlights, and benefits, while encouraging conversations through engaging topics, direct website links, and compelling CTAs.
Acquisition Impact (Goal): Increased engagement, audience participation, profile visits, website visits and repeat interactions while helping build emotional connection and gathering audience insights for future content.
UGC & Community-Based Content
Community-focused content encouraging customers to share personal stories (#Wearyourstory) and how they style their jewellery.
Acquisition Impact (Goal): Built authenticity, social proof, and trust while reducing purchase hesitation and helping new audiences connect with the brand through relatable customer experiences.
| TIKTOK | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| CONTENT | “Stone Stories” series “Made With Meaning” series Interactive story polls |
“Stone Stories” series “Made With Meaning” series |
“Wear Your Story” UGC posts Event recaps Educational storytelling posts Repost reels series |
| TYPE | Carousel Reels Stories |
Short-form videos UGC-style content |
Feed posts Community posts Event posts |
| PROMOTION | Educational storytelling Interactive polls UGC |
UGC Carousel Founder-led storytelling |
Community engagement UGC sharing Event/community highlights |
| GOAL | Save & Engagement Brand Awareness |
Reach Trust & Conversion |
Community Building Brand Trust & Awareness |
| KPI | Views: 3,000-10,000 views Engagement rate (likes, comments, saves): 4-7% Follower Growth: +300-800 Conversion - Profile Click Rate: 0.5-1.5% |
Views: 5,000-15,000 views Engagement rate (likes, comments, shares): 5-10% Follower Growth: +500-1,000 Conversion - Profile Click Rate: 1-3% |
Reach: 2,000-6,000 accounts Engagement rate (shares, comments, reactions): 3-5% Page Growth: +150-400 Link Click Rate: 0.5-1.5% |
Content Calendar Sample
| DAY | PLATFORM | BEST TIME TO POST | TYPE | CONTENT | HASHTAG | GOAL |
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| MON | 12:00 PM | Reels | “Stone Stories” Ep.1 - Turquoise: The Sky Stone | #stonestories #healingstones #mindfulness #afroindigenous #slowfashion | Awareness Education |
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| 6:00 PM | Community Discussion Post | “Which jewellery piece feels most meaningful to you?” | #communitydiscussion #intentionaldesign | Engagement Community Building |
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| TUE | TikTok | 8:00 PM | UGC | Customer styling jewellery (“#WearYourStory”) | #wearyourstory #jewelrytok #selfexpression #fyp | Social Proof Reach |
| 7:00 PM | CTA Story | Product highlight + gemstone meaning + website link | #shoplocal #healingstones #wearpurpose | Website Visits | ||
| WED | 12:30 PM | Carousel | “Meaning Behind Rose Quartz” educational carousel | #didyouknow #wellnessjourney #crystalmeaning | Saves Education |
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| 6:30 PM | Educational Post | “Why meaningful jewellery matters” | #mindfulliving #slowfashion #ethicalfashion | Brand Trust | ||
| THU | TikTok | 8:30 PM | Short-form Video | “Made With Meaning” Ep.1 - Why Handmade Takes Time | #madewithmeaning #ethicalconsumption #jewelrytok #fyp | Reach Trust |
| 6:00 PM | Reels | Cross-post “Made With Meaning” Ep.1 with discussion caption | #supportartists #ethicalfashion #culturalstorytelling | Transparency Trust |
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| FRI | Instagram Stories | 12:00 PM | Poll Story | “Gold or Silver?” / “Bold or Minimal?” | #jewelrycommunity #creativeexpression | Engagement |
| TikTok | 7:00 PM | Conversational Post | “What does intentional fashion mean to you?” | #slowfashion #mindfulstyle | Audience Participation | |
| SAT | 2:00 PM | Reels | Behind-the-scenes jewellery crafting process | #behindthescenes #artiststudio #slowmade | Engagement Authenticity |
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| 5:00 PM | Community Feature | Customer spotlight + personal story | #communityfeature #supportsmallbusiness | Trust Relatability |
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| SUN | 12:00 PM | Carousel | “3 stones for grounding & mindfulness” | #wellnesssunday #healingstones #mindfulliving | Saves | |
| TikTok | 7:30 PM | UGC + CTA | “Why I choose meaningful jewellery” | #ethicalfashion #jewelrytok #wellnessjourney | Conversion Trust |
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| 6:00 PM | Community Discussion Post | “Which jewellery piece feels most meaningful to you?” | #communitydiscussion #intentionaldesign | Engagement Community Building |
Post Sample
“Stone Stories: What Your Jewellery Knows” - Short Form Video Series
Caption:
EP. 3: Obsidian: The Shadow Stone.
Not every stone shines loudly. Some protect, ground, and hold quiet strength.
Obsidian is known as the shadow stone, guiding you inward, helping you release what no longer serves you.
Take a moment. Breathe. What are you ready to let go of today?
✨Discover more stories behind the stones on:
Instagram: @singingthunderjewellery
Website: https://singing-thunder.square.site/
#GemstoneJewellery #HealingCrystals #MindfulJewellery #AfroIndigenous
Campaign Run Time: This entire series will take an estimated 4 to 6 months to run on a single platform before being cross-posted on another platform.
Cadence: new episode every 2 weeks.
Primary Platform: IG → cross-post TikTok, lastly is Facebook
6 core episodes and 2 seasonal episodes (targets the Wellness Seekers)
"Made With Meaning: The Ethics of Beautiful Things" - Short Form Video Series
Caption:
EP 1: Why I Only Use Recycled Metal.
Each item tells a story, not just in its appearance but also in its craftsmanship.
Using recycled metal is a choice stemming from care, intention, and respect for the earth.
Because what we wear should reflect the valueswe cherish.
✨Let's explore more meaningful items at:
Instagram: @singingthunderjewellery
Website: https://singing-thunder.square.site/
#EthicalJewellery #SustainableFashion #HandmadeJewellery #MadeInCanada #IndigenousOwnedBusiness #TorontoArtist