How 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…
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3 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…
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How 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…
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How 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…
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How 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: Personally, I signed up for Acuity…
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How 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…
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How 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…
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Reflections 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: After sitting with these questions, I was inspired to…
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5 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…
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