As a start-up or “young” business, one of the biggest struggles is making the most out of a small budget: for marketing, for managing your business, for growing and scaling. A very large majority of start-up businesses fail within the first couple of years and one of the reasons for that is quite simply, a…
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What You Need To Know About the 4 Types of Income
Money is the foundation of nearly anything that we want to do in life. Most of us are taught that if we want to have a good life that we have to go to college, get a practical degree, and work until we’re 65. We’re taught to budget and to save for retirement, essentially most…
5 Ways to Make Money on Pinterest
Do you love Pinterest? You’re not alone! Pinterest has over 250 million active monthly users and is one of the most visited websites in the world. If you spend a lot of time on Pinterest like I do, you might have wondered if it’s possible to make money from Pinterest. After all, people are making…
4 Ways to Get More Comfortable In Front of the Camera
If the thought of being on camera terrifies you, you’re in good company. Talking on camera is essentially another form of public speaking, which is in the top 10 fears among most people! The technical term is Glossophobia, and it’s the source of many nightmares. But you may be surprised to learn that there are…
3 Easy Ways Your Business Can Make Better Content Right Now
After spending some time in the game, marketing your business or blog on social media can feel a little….well, boring. But it doesn’t have to be! Here are 3 simple ways you can improve your content marketing right now… Tap Into Instagram Stories In my opinion, Instagram stories are the most powerful way to share…
What I Learned from Having a Failed Small Business
Who reading this right now is trying to launch a small business? It can be an exciting adventure to take but one that comes with a lot of risks. No matter how much planning goes into it, the future remains unclear. One day there could be tons of customers and the next… Nothing. No sales,…
The 10 Daily Habits of Happy People
Like everyone else in the world, I want to be happy. I want to accomplish crazy dreams, have an amazing relationship with myself, and be surrounded by awesome and loving people. However, also like everyone else, I genuinely struggle to attain happiness – and keep it. It makes us all wonder how others in comparison…
5 Free Tools to Give Your SEO a Boost
One of the best ways to drive traffic to your blog is by optimizing your blog posts for search engines like Google. For most blogs, up to 70% of their traffic is coming from organic searches. That’s true for blogs that don’t even have optimized blog posts. On Google alone, there are about 3.5 billion…
How & Why You Should Host a Twitter Chat
Want to build community around your business? Needing to up your game and become a more recognizable face on social media? Hosting a Twitter chat is a super effective way to achieve both of these goals. After hosting multiple chats that have gone from ‘sucked’ to ‘success’, I’m here to share the top 5 reasons…
The Importance of a Great Title (and How to Craft the Perfect One!)
What if I told you that a great blog post title could lead to more views and more shares? It’s so easy to just slap any old headline onto a post and call it a day, but when you really take the time to perfect your title, it could be the difference between achieving more…
You Don’t Have to Create Content Every Day
What if I told you that 50% of your blogging time shouldn’t be focused on creating content? I think that a lot of the time we bloggers get so wrapped up in creating something new and something that our readers will love that we forget a major key to success: sharing, and re-sharing. Think about…
The Problem With Facebook
Ever since I started this blog, I’ve had an active Facebook page. It used to be a great place to connect with others and share new posts. I mean, it is a social networking site, it’s supposed to be for social networking, right? That’s what I thought, but the past year or more has just…
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Custom Design Services
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