How to Stop Over-Complicating and Over-Thinking Every Decision
I’ve noticed a trend with my clients (and ummm, in myself!) when it comes to making an important decision for our businesses. We can tend to overcomplicate and/or overthink it. There are times when it’s more prevalent than others but often it comes up during one of these situations: when it’s time for a change when you need to make a decision when you want to launch a new service or product when you want…
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How to Write An About Page for My Website
I’m working with several clients right now who are deep into developing a successful brand strategy as we are building their websites and when it comes to their about page, they are unsure of what to add and how to make it attractive + appealing for their audience. Today’s blog post will take you step by step through how you can write an effective about page particularly for your service based business. I hope this…
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An Insiders Look At The Top 10 Tools I Use to Run My Business
I love that I can run my business with a laptop, my iPhone, and a wireless connection. I’d love to say that I can work at the beach but the reality is that sand is not a friend to technology! I can do social media from the beach for sure — not really run my business. I get asked a lot about the tools I choose to use to run my business. Today I want…
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How To Get Over Your Fear of Doing Video
Can you believe that August is ALMOST over? I’ve had the best summer – no big travel and lots of staycation mini moments. Today I wanted talk about a hot topic – video – and include my thoughts on why I think so many women are ambivalent to using it on social media. I’ve been having some REAL results and conversations happening on Instagram using video over the summer. I can tell you for sure…
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How to Get Facebook To Show the Image I Want When I Share My Website
It’s so frustrating when Facebook does not pull the image you want to show up alongside your blog post. I get it. I’ve been in exactly that situation many times. What’s usually happened is that I’ve added a featured image but then changed my mind and changed the photo out. SOMEHOW, Facebook found that original photo and it might seem like they’ll never forget about it! What really happens is that Facebook serves cached versions…
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How To Set Up Registration On Your Website and Accept Payments
I have SO many clients who offer workshops, retreats, or online experiences that want to easily accept registration, get payment, and send an automated welcome email that I thought it was time I showed you exactly how easy this can be. In today’s tutorial, I’m showing you how I use Gravity Forms, Paypal, and Mailchimp to create a registration form + accept payment on your Wordpress website.
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What You Should Really Know About Adding Prices to Your Website
It’s just a fact; businesses revolve around the sale. This isn’t news. But as a web designer and business coach for female entrepreneurs, I find all too often my clients are hesitant to include sales information on their websites. I understand where this hesitation comes from. The women I work with are coaches, consultants and creatives. And we creative entrepreneurs see our businesses not only as our income, but as our craft. We want our…
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Where do I start when developing a logo for my new business?
This question comes up at least once a week with my clients. I know you’ve been wondering about it to. Where do I start when developing a logo for my creative business? Let’s get something out of the way right out of the gate. In today’s landscape, a logo is quite simply a recognizable graphic design element that illustrates your business name. It may, or may not, have an icon associated with it (these days,…
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When & Why Do I need Branded Visuals to Accompany my Blog Posts?
I’ve had this question several times over the past few weeks. At what point do I commit to having a branded graphic to go alongside my blog posts? I have a hunch you’ve been curious about this too. In today’s post, I’m going into the reasons behind why you’d want to consider this and the exact tools I use to make this happen in each of my blog posts. Our goal as we write content…
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