Marketing your business on social media is basically a full time job. While there are a lot of different social media sites you can use to promote your business, understanding the right way to use them is very important. I'm going to share with you the exact way to use social media for your business to gain more followers. If you've just been randomly sharing posts, or links to your website, then you've probably been wasting your time and not getting anything out of it. Before you read ...
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10 Amazing Resources for Free Graphics for Your Blog
Vecteezy This is one of my favorite resources for high quality graphics for all of my projects. Most of the files are vector-based (hence, the name Vecteezy). If you are a professional designer you'll prefer working with vectors since you can resize them and change colors very easily. If you're not a professional designer, you can use their vector editor tool to edit files before downloading them. Every vector is fully customizable. You can easily change sizes, colors, fonts and much ...
How to Enable Rich Pins in 3 Easy Steps
Pinterest has become more than just another social media platform where you can post pretty pictures. With over 175 million users, it's now one of the world's biggest search engines. Online shopping has also become a valuable resource on Pinterest. Every day nearly 2 million people pin products that have rich pins. If you want to get more out of Pinterest for your business or blog, make sure you are using rich pins. I'll help show you how in three easy steps. But first... What is ...
25 Essential Steps To Starting a Blog When You Work 9-5
Can I tell you why I really started this blog? I was bored and unfulfilled at my 9-5 job. I needed another creative outlet to tell the world who I really was. Blogging was an outlet where I could write about anything I wanted. If you've been thinking about starting a blog while working a 9-5, I've got the best tips for you! Find Your Passion If you plan to be good at blogging, you'll be writing a lot of posts about the same topic for a long time. Maybe you're passionate about ...
How to Unlock Your Brand’s Personality
Your brand’s personality plays a role in how you connect with clients. When your brand personality shines through in everything you do, your audience will learn to connect with your brand and build a trusting relationship. This is how brands are built. I’m going to help you unlock YOUR brand’s personality with my free worksheet. WHAT IS A BRAND PERSONALITY? A brand personality is how your audience perceives your brand, and how you choose to communicate with your audience. If your ...
How to Use ConvertKit Like a Boss
One of my business goals for this year was to build an email list and send out weekly emails. After doing some research I decided to give ConvertKit a try. They promised their product was easy to use and as a busy mama and business owner, I didn't have much time to take on a complicated system. I've always loved writing, but with using ConvertKit I realized how much I really loved writing these emails and connecting with my readers. Because their system was so easy to use and setup, the ...
WordPress Categories vs. Tags + How to Use Them the Right Way
Organizing your blog content is so important. A disorganized blog will make it hard for readers to find the content you've worked so hard to create. The good news is you can make changes to your categories and tags right now! I'm sharing my tips on how to use categories and tags in WordPress the right way. CATEGORIES Categories are meant for broad grouping of your posts. This is how users will sort through your content in your navigation and possibly your sidebar. Think of categories ...
The Ultimate Way to Tell Your Brand Story
In the past I've talked about about a huge failure I had in business had when I took a maternity leave for one year and shut down my website. What a mistake. 🙈 Believe it or not, this became part of my brand story. You may think your brand's story can only be about your triumphs, your success, your passion or your hopes and dreams. But the most authentic brand stories dig deep and tell the truth about vulnerability, embarrassment, desperation or hopelessness. It makes them relatable ...
Meet WAHM Rachel of Haute Stock
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 ...
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 ...
