Do you find yourself Googling “How to get more blog traffic?” Have you ever wished that you could increase the number of readers for the posts you so lovingly and painstakingly craft? Are you tired or maybe embarrassed of the fact that your mom and your best friend are the only two people who visit your blog? You aren’t alone. Blogging is tough. Blogging can be challenging. Blogging can make you want to throw the towel {or laptop!} in more than once! But at the same time, … [Read more...]
Get Profitable! 50 Free Marketing Ideas that Really Work for the Time-Starved, Bootstrapped Business Owner
Free marketing ideas? I mean, really? Do these even exist? Want to skip the queue? Download this PDF filled with all 50 free marketing ideas right now! I can almost see the thought train running crazy in your head. But before it crashes into “this-won’t-work-for-me” station, let me have you pull the brakes. The thing is these marketing ideas are free and they do work. You see, in the last 7 years of working with hundreds of time-starved, budget-conscious entrepreneurs … [Read more...]
Biz{tro} Tools We Use and Love: wpCurve for All Our {and Your!} WordPress Woes
If you’ve known me for any length for time, you’d know that tech and I don’t talk well ;) Honestly, while I did move my site from Blogger to Wordpress back when I was starting out and I did set up our first own self-hosted site too, I like to stay away from techy things as much as I safely can. Now, as anyone who’s been on Wordpress would obviously know, it is a wonderfully intuitive platform and incredibly easy to use. However, at the same time, there’s stuff that needs to be done and … [Read more...]
The Top 5 Business Goals for Every Entrepreneur and the Tools to Accomplish Them
So, has the freshness of January and a new year worn off yet? Is the year already feeling like the last and the year before that as far as your business goals go? Does that momentum seem to have lost its way? You aren’t alone, my friend. That is one of the reasons, resolutions have been known to fail. When the year starts, we’re all excited about a fresh, clean slate and everything seems possible, achievable, doable. We set impossible goals and they seem possible. But when … [Read more...]
Business Blogging 101: My Easy, No-Fail System to Come Up with Creative Original Content All the Time {Free Downloadable Included}
Business blogging is my jam. Period. I thrive when I create content for fellow business owners. Whether it is a mom photographer or a handmade jewelry storeowner, I just love to pull back the curtains on their business and share their brilliance with their audiences. Since, at any given time, I’m creating content for at least 5-7 different businesses, I know that it can get tough coming up with ideas that resonate with their community and reflect their values as well. If you, too, … [Read more...]
My Top 10 Takeaways from a Blogging Conference and Our ONE THING for This Year
On the 12th of August this year, I boarded a plane ALL by myself and flew to Brisbane, via Singapore. It was the very first time I had travelled alone, internationally to a country I had never been too for a conference I had never attended before. Hey, I’d never been to a conference ever, let alone this one. It gets better. At the Brisbane airport, I was met by a lady I’d never met or interacted much with before and she generously and graciously drove me to the conference venue on … [Read more...]
5 Online Content Writing Mistakes That Make You Look Like an Amateur
Online content writing is powerful. It can set your brand apart and turns readers into subscribers or customers. It can also turn people away faster than you can say “content”. That’s right. Done perfectly, online content has great power to influence, persuade, and turn a regular reader into a brand ambassador. Done wrong, it can be the death knell for an online business. Readers feel disconnected, don’t engage and worse, discard a business or brand as being amateurish. 5 Online Content … [Read more...]
14 Pro Blogging Tips to Supercharge Sales and Bring More Readers
Blogging is hard. There. I said that. Blogging for a business can be harder. Blogging to earn an income can be tougher. You need to come up with great content ideas. Write them. Upload them. Optimize them. Find gorgeous images to go with them. Send them out to the world via email and social media. And even then, there is NO guarantee that readers will flock over and love your content. Chances are, you’ll often hear crickets. Hard work, like I said. The good news is {and yes, there … [Read more...]
