44 Different Ways To Say Subscribe on Your CTA
Almost every business owner has a freebie or lead magnet that they offer to new website visitors. If you don’t, you’re missing a HUGE opportunity to nurture your leads. Most business owners don’t take the time to change the text on the call to action (CTA) from subscribe. Today I’m giving you access to my list of 44 different ways you can inspire your audience to say YES to your freebie. Get Instant AccessI’m ReadySend Me My DownloadInstantly DownloadSign Up For FreeStart ReadingGet StartedLearn MoreCome On InTry For FreeTap To ContinueYes, PleaseGO!Give it to MeBegin LearningStay InformedClaim My DownloadStart TodaySend…
Read MoreHow to Add a Video Into a Screen Mock Up
In today’s post, I’m showing you how to add video to a screen mock up in what appears to be a still photo.
Read MoreHow to Easily Remove the Background of a Photo
There are many reasons why you’d want to remove the background of a photo and before this easy method existed, you needed to use a professional editing program like Photoshop to make it happen. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how easy it is with only ONE click to effortlessly remove the background from any photo.
Read MoreHow to Easily Crop a Photo into a Circle
In today’s tutorial, I show you how you can use my favorite design tool for non-designers, Canva.com to easily crop any photo into a circle.
Read MoreWe Can All Learn a Thing or Two About Brand Identity from Amy Porterfield
Amy’s digital footprint is EVERYTHING every female led brand wants. It’s linger-worthy, clickable, and clear. Today, we go deep into Amy’s brand to examine the importance of the logo. What we discover might surprise you!
Read MoreHow to Prevent or Reduce Spam on my WordPress Website
Are you experiencing an abundance of spam comments on your websites or seeing an increase in spam coming in on your contact forms? In today’s tutorial, I’m showing you how you can reduce or prevent spam on your WordPress website.
Read More3 Ways to Thrive in a Post Pandemic Economy
Are you ready for a post COVID-19 world? There is a growing sense out there that the businesses that are going to thrive in the economy in our post pandemic world are going to be the ones who have evolved and adapted to meet their changing market’s needs. If you’re a business owner who didn’t have a significant online presence before social distancing began, I’d be willing to bet you see just how important it is now. Of course I’m talking about an effective website that gets results. I’m also talking about your social media and email marketing strategy. Here’s…
Read MoreHow to Make Custom Stickers for Your Instagram Stories
I’ve had SO many amazing comments on this tutorial. If you want to create your own branded stickers to use in your Instagram Stories, this tutorial is for you! All you need is your imagination and a FREE Canva.com account. Tag me over in Instagram in your stories (I’m @activateherawesome) so I can see your creativity in action. Are you ready to impress the hell out of your subscribers, students, followers, and clients with your marketing materials? You need to check out my CANVA TEMPLATE VAULT! The Canva Marketing Vault is a system of designer templates that you can use…
Read MoreHow To Embed an Audio File in Your WordPress Website
Yesterday I did my first FREE Office Hours where I invited everyone who was one of my newsletter subscribers on a 90 minute call where I answered any questions anyone had about creating a website, connecting with clients, brand strategy, marketing online and just about anything else that came up. During the first part of the call, we were talking about podcasting as a way to attract your community and use it as a platform to educate, support, and inspire. That led into a great conversation about blog posts and how they don’t have to traditional anymore. It’s no longer…
Read MoreWhat You Really Need to Know About Launching a Website
I think it’s time for some truth telling. I have watched SO many woman turn themselves inside out and backwards while wrangling the words to put on their website. They agonize over colors and fonts and imagery to make it look perfect for they hit publish. (Like they’re never going to get clients if we don’t move that icon two pixels to the left!) They worry and stress and overthink every single word. Once they see the words live, they overthink them again. They ask for changes. Because it’s still not quite “it”. Then they re-read and overthink it even…
Read MoreTen Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make on Your Website
I’ve been helping women for over ten years build a website for their business that attracts AND converts. I’ve watched countless others make costly mistakes. Your website needs to be appealing to your audience, be a genuine reflection of you, AND help you generate revenue. If your website is not making you money, it might be time to have a look at why that is. Today, I’m sharing ten of the top mistakes I see women making on their websites. I’m even sharing the simple solutions that can help fix the issues. Here are ten things that MIGHT be costing…
Read MoreHow To Use Google Analytics to Improve Your Website Traffic
Google Analytics is a free web analytics service by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. It’s one of the best ways to measure the effectiveness of your marketing efforts and most of the women I work with have no idea how to access their analytics much less interpret them. You see, once you know where to access your website analytics you’ll be able to: measure the overall health of your website and see areas that need to be fixed or optimized find out which social media channels are sending you traffic discover what content your audience is most interested…
Read MoreHow to Get Notified When Someone Joins Your Newsletter
In this tech tutorial, I’m showing you how to enable the notifications in your Mailchimp account to ensure that you’re notified every time someone joins your newsletter. If you’re a new to the email marketing game, this may be a benefit to you because it opens the door for you to reach out personally and welcome your new subscriber. Let me be clear: not all businesses would want this notification turned on. If you were list building regularly, it could be uber annoying to have your inbox light up each time a new subscriber joined your community. You wouldn’t really…
Read MoreHow to Make Text Pop On Your Social Media Graphics
I’ve had this question so many times that I thought it was about time I showed you a couple of insider tricks that you can use to make your social media graphics POP. Many times I’ve had clients use an amazing photo and want to add text over it but the text is almost unreadable. This particular tutorial came from one of the students inside of my Website in a Weekend DIY Course. Monica wanted to know how to create a social media cover photo that was in alignment with how her website hero images looked. In today’s tutorial, I’m…
Read MoreHow to Make Sure Your Mailchimp Images are Never Blurry
In today’s video tutorial, I’m tackling the issue of how to ensure the Images you add to Mailchimp never come through as blurry. In today’s world with the high resolution screens we have, it’s important to use retina rules where we can so our images come through crystal clear. In order to do that, we need to bring images in at 1200 px wide (by whataver height) and then go into the settings and constrain them, by 50% to ensure crisp photos! Sound hard? It isn’t. I promise. I’m walking you though it in this video tutorial:
Read MoreHow to Update Your WordPress Website
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had clients and students reach out and tell me how fearful they are to perform updates on their websites. The biggest reason it’s important to stay on top of your WordPress updates is security. Hundreds of websites are hacked every single day. The #1 way in which hackers are able to accomplish this is from outdated plugins + themes. They find a vulnerability (think secret back door) in the code of a particular piece of software that keeps your website running and they create code to gain access to your website. I…
Read MoreFresh, Spring Wallpapers for Your iPhone!
Spring is finally in the air here in Nova Scotia and today I was inspired to create three new wallpapers for my iPhone. I quite honestly couldn’t decide which one I liked the most so I wanted to share all three with you. You get to decide which one you love the most! Happy Spring, friends!
Read MoreHow to Write Blog Posts That Inspire My Audience To Hire Me
One of the biggest things you can do for your SEO and your bottom line is to use your website for its intended purpose : Attract Your Audience. In my daily conversations with the women I work with, I know that coming up with a list of ideas to generate content is a real road block to moving you forward in your business. Today I’m sharing with you my FREE cheatsheet that comes complete with 100 different possible topics that you can write about RIGHT NOW for your audience. You can instantly get access to it right here: Set yourself…
Read MoreHow to control your avatar when you comment online
In today’s video tutorial, I’m walking you through the steps on how you can create or update the avatar image that shows up next to your name whenever you post a comment online. It’s possible you have a new email address or a really old headshot or possibly have never created one! In this quick video, I’m walking you through the exact steps you can take to control which images shows up when Globally Recognized Avatars are an option. Gravatar Website: https://en.gravatar.com/
Read More3 Mistakes You Want to Avoid Making on Your Website
In 2019 and beyond, it’s crucial for even a new business to have a website. AND when you’re just starting out, it’s hard to invest in a full custom website + strategy. It’s even a conversation that comes up in many of my early discovery sessions with clients. Once we start talking about target audience, ICA (ideal client avatar), what your audience struggles with, what they want to learn from you, and how you’re uniquely positioned to help, it oftentimes becomes clear that instead of investing in a custom design right now, it’s more valuable for you to get something…
Read MoreHow to Develop a Mission Statement for Your Business
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past several weeks scouring the web for a solid resource I could send to my clients (and use myself!) that would help articulate their mission. What I learned is that I couldn’t find one resource that gave me a step-by-step, easy formula that I could begin to play with and refine for what I felt like my mission was becoming. So I returned to the teacher in me (my education degree STILL comes in handy, see Mom!) and I developed a worksheet that I used to flush our my own mission. I…
Read MoreHow to Use Your 404 Page to Engage Your Audience
It happens, ladies. We redesign our websites. We direct traffic from one URL to another. Inevitably, a visitor will stumble onto a 404 error page. Now it’s not as bad as it sounds. A 404 page is a page that exists on your website to let people know the link they’ve followed is no longer there. You might access a 404 page when the web page you’re trying to get to doesn’t exist anymore. Some of the reasons it may have disappeared include: The URL (the link) or its content (such as files or images) has been deleted or moved…
Read MoreHow To Create A Branded Signature For Your Email
In today’s post I want to show you how I created the branded signature that shows up in every email I send. NOTE: I use G Suite for my email. If you use Gmail, you can also follow along using this tutorial. Before you get started, it’s important to think about WHAT you want to include. Here are some examples I saw when I looked through my own inbox: Name Job Description or Title Professional Designations Link to email Link to website Headshot Brand Icon/Logo Social Links Link to book an appointment Invitation to sign up for Newsletter Freebie/Opt-in Phone…
Read MoreHow to Turn Your Glowing Reviews into Likes on Instagram
I have a client who wanted to create an Instagram graphic to showcase a glowing review she received. She had a lovely little image she pulled together in Canva that she wanted my opinion on. Once I had a peek, my designer and brand strategy hats had an opinion AND an idea. I believe we need to think less linearly when we’re thinking about our Instagram feed. We need to start using the “adding multiple images” option more instead of trying to keep everything in one, easy photo. One thing I’ve seen more recently, is that Instagram will actually show…
Read MoreHow to Hide Pinterest Graphics in Your Blog Posts
Pinterest is a visual social media tool that you can use to build a relationship with your audience when you add specific “pinnable” graphics that are hidden inside your WordPress blog posts. If you were to add them to the body of your blog post, they take up valuable real estate because they are so large and you run the risk of turning off your viewers because they have to scroll for so long before they can engage with your content again. With the release of Gutenberg for WordPress in January of 2019, there are a couple of extra steps…
Read MoreReflections on 2018 and A FREE Gift for You
I can’t believe 2018 is almost over. I don’t know about you, but I have been doing a lot of reflecting the past few days. After the Christmas rush, before the New Year, I always take some time to look at my business. Yes, I measure metrics but I also tap into how I feel. Curious about the exact questions I sit with? Here you go: What do I want to keep going into 2019? What am I ready to let go of? Who did I LOVE working with in 2018? Who do I want to attract in 2019? How…
Read More5 Things You Can Do To Improve Your SEO Today
SEO. Search Engine Optimization. Three little letters that define to the search engine bots what content is on each page and post of your website and which collectively work to affect your rankings or visibility in search engines. Why should you care about your images? Google does. If you do a search for your business name in Google and click on the “images” tab, you want to make sure that you and your website is showing up at the top of those images. If you’re not, you have some work to do. Don’t believe me? Go to Google and type…
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