ConvertKit is an amazing tool for any online business owner to execute successful lead magnets & sales funnels, as well as to connect regularly with your audience via email. All the tech may seem a little bit overwhelming, but trust me, it couldn’t be simpler! In this video, Im showing you how you can add a ConvertKit pop-up form to your Wordpress website so you can start collecting leads from your website today.

I think this is a problem we can all relate to. Signing up for promo emails from our favourite brands & businesses can really add up over time and overwhelm your inbox. It’s easy to get frustrated and want to abandon the address altogether. But you don’t have to. In this video, I’m showing you how you can organize and clean up Google Mail so you can ditch the spam and just get the emails you want in your inbox.

Operating an online business comes with some interesting challenges. One of them is that collaborating remotely (via video call, email, or voice message) can make sharing ideas, problems and solutions tricky. Sometimes you just need to show someone what you’re talking about. In this video, I’m showing you how to easily make & share a screen recording using Loom so you can get clear in your communication.

Getting your online business off the ground is an exciting time – but it can also be confusing. Do I need a website & logo to start connecting with clients or taking work? Do I need a following to ramp up my social media strategy? NO! In fact, when you’re first starting out, you should be connecting with your audience & collecting leads BEFORE you start worrying about a website, logo, or other online infrastructure. In this video, I’m showing you how you can use ConvertKit to rake in leads & collect email addresses so you can start your online…

You may have noticed when that when you’re interacting in any online space, like commenting on someone’s blog post or a chat room, there’s often a profile picture beside your name. These online interactions are just like any networking opportunity: you want to show up looking professional, and ladies, the grey placeholder avatar is just not cutting it. In this video, I’m showing you how to manage your profile picture or avatar so all your online interactions can be accompanied by your most professional headshot.

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!

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.

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…

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…

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…

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: Today, I’m taking you on a VERY candid tour of my own google analytics. I want to preface this video with the acknowledgement that I have done ZERO thing in the eight-twelve weeks before this…

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…

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:

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…

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…

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/  

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…

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 Scheduling in late 2017 to use as my scheduler. I cannot tell you how much time this has saved me from being in my inbox.…

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…

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…

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 doesn’t come as a complete surprise but your about page is actually not about you at all. (I know, right? BIG happy sigh!) The About…

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 to give you an insiders peek into my top ten tools I use to run my online business. G Suite – My Tool for Email,…

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 that the most significant portion of my revenue since June has come directly from Instagram. I want to share my own experience in hopes that…

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.

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 clients to respect the integrity of the our work beyond the integrity of the price tag. Today, I want to talk about why publishing prices…

Can you feel the energy shifting online? It’s significant and deep. And it’s an opportunity. We need to ensure privacy for small businesses is addressed. Something is happening, and I’ve felt it for a while. I’m sure you have too. In this world of Google, Facebook, and privacy concerns, the European Union (EU) has taken a big step to protect personal data. You’ve likely noticed your inbox filling up with privacy policy updates. This is a good thing. What’s All the Hullabaloo? The EU passed a law that took effect on May 25. It’s called GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).…

A few weeks ago I was introduced to a quiz platform that has wow’d me from the get-go. Interact is an online software tool that helps you generate leads and drive sales using quizzes. I’ve been pondering what it would be like to use a quiz to bring more of my just right clients into my world, grow my reach, and create some passive income. Since I’ve done it, I want to give you the inside scoop. I’m always hesitant to use a platform for the first time. And it’s important that I constantly try new tools so I can…

It’s been a while and I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but I’ve taken a break from writing content for you. All that is changing today. I’ve spent a lot of the last eight months deep in transformation, figuring out how I most want to serve the incredible women I work with. If you’re anything like me, you’d really like to know how I did that. If you want to know my own secret, it was time, patience, exploration, creation, purging, building a new house, taking my business to my mastermind and upping my game, re-focussing my website to be…

Does this sound familiar? You’ve been getting out there and writing blog posts. You’ve been showing up in Facebook groups answering questions and showing your expertise. You’ve been supportive and much more “out there” than your typical introverted self usually is. But, your email list isn’t growing like you expected. One of the tools you can use to grow your list is to begin employing content upgrades. What exactly is a content upgrade and how do they work? A content upgrade is a bonus piece of information that further supports the piece of content that it’s related to. One of…

I’ve had many clients asking how they can keep important emails they really want to receive from ending up in their Gmail or Google Apps spam folder. There are a couple of things you can do to ensure you keep seeing the emails you want to see if they’re finding their way into the spam folder. Firstly, always add the email sender to your contact list as that will mark them as safe. The second one is to create a filter to prevent messages from going to spam AND sending them right to your inbox. In today’s Gmail hack video…