Tell us about your business! I am the founder and creative director of Haute Stock (formerly Haute Chocolate), a styled stock photography membership site for women entrepreneurs, bloggers, and creative business owners. I created Haute Stock because I was frustrated with spending hours trying to find stylish, high-quality, stock photos. My goal is to create the most beautiful and high-quality images for women business owners, so that they can create stunning visuals to help their brands stand ...
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20 Productive Habits of Work at Home Moms
Working from home isn't all yoga pants and coffee breaks. Every minute of the day we're distracted by hungry little monsters ("Mama, more milk!"), piles of laundry that we just can't seem to get to the bottom of, a phone buzzing with constant social media alerts. How do we find time to get any work done at all? *deep breath* Establishing productive habits is the key ingredient to this work from home thing. In order to be successful we have to find the little ways to be more ...
15 Feminine Google Font Pairings
There are so many gorgeous feminine fonts available, it's hard to choose the perfect one for your brand. Pairing fonts can be tricky but I've put together the best 15 feminine font pairings using Google Fonts. Free Feminine Fonts This collection is free to use and there are a lot of beautiful options that work with your brand. Pin the list below to your board and save it for later! Powered by Creative Market Looking for more options? Here's even more font pairings I've ...
How to Prepare for Your Personal Brand Photo Shoot
I struggled for years with posting photos of myself for my business and I even tried to take my own branding photos. Nothing felt right. I bet you can relate. 😉 Then, I hired a photographer. #hallelujah Branding photos are essential if you plan to get your business noticed (and I was looking to get noticed!). If you can only do one thing to improve your brand, it should be professional brand portraits. Let's make sure your session gets you the knockout photos you've been dying ...
10 Office Essentials for the Design Startup
Disclosure: I get commission for purchases or clicks made through links in this post. Starting your own freelance design business is a great way to make some extra income or maybe even make it your full time job! To get started, there are some essential things you're going to need. I've put together a list of everything you'll need to start your own freelance design business. Apple MacBook Pro Apple is what all serious designers use. I love my MacBook Pro because I can take it ...
4 Ways to Stay Positive When Business is Slow
In 2016 I took a year long maternity leave and shut down my website. Big Mistake. BIG. HUGE. (Can you tell I love Pretty Woman?) My SEO plummeted and my pins on Pinterest had been going to a dead page. I had stopped marketing my business on social media, except for occasional posts on Instagram of my sweet little boy. When I was finally ready to return to work, I came back to...crickets. To say my business was slow was an understatement. I felt like I was starting over again and I ...
Where to Find the Best Free Stock Photos for Your Blog
When starting a blog one of the essential resources you'll need are photos for your posts. I've gathered a list of my favorite resources for the best free stock photos you can use for your blog. These sites have stylish and unique photos that will attract reads and give your blog a professional ...
Meet WAHM Sarah Funk of Growflowers.org
Sarah is the owner of a really cool flower business and she's just launched her new site Growflowers.org. She teaches you how to run your very own flower farming business, from bookkeeping to weeding she makes sure you have all the right ingredients! Sarah is also a wife and a mom to two children (under 3!). In our interview together she shares how she manages to run a business, a flower farm and raise a family. ...
10 Essential WordPress Plugins To Keep Your Readers Engaged
Once you get a reader to your site you want them to stick around and see all of your amazing posts, right? You know you have great content to offer, but sometimes keeping a reader engaged is about as impossible as getting a toddler to sit still for a There are a ton of great plugins you can add to your WordPress blog right now to get readers to engage more with your content. Yoast SEO If you install just one plugin, this is the one. Yoast SEO is the premiere plugin that helps you ...
How to Set a Routine When You Work From Home
For most of us, working from home is like a dream job. You can work when you want, how you want and wherever you want. If you're like me, you feel out of control without having some type of routine in your work life. But it can be hard to keep up with a routine when you're your own boss. Having so much freedom can actually hurt your business and your personal life if you don't stick to a routine. I'm sharing my best real-life tips for setting a work from home routine... Plan out ...
