When did you set up your Pinterest account? Did you know what you were doing? At the time, did you understand all of the opportunities to optimize your Pinterest account for search discoverability? For a lot of creators on Pinterest, the answers to those questions are “years ago, and I had no idea what I was doing.” I so hear you. First things first: good for you for[...]
In the 3 years that this blog has existed, I’ve never really addressed its existence. I was so afraid of being mistaken for the “online diary” blogging stereotype that I haven’t shared a single post specifically about myself or this blog’s purpose. An explanation could’ve really helped, too, because the content has zigzagged across the map! In the beginning, I wrote a[...]
The process of beginning a website is a herculean task. You pick a name, research the best host, choose a theme and gather the gumption to hit publish when you still have no idea what you’re doing. Pour the champagne! You did it! And then, like the inevitable hangover, comes the thought: who is going to find and read this? The answer is Pinterest. Let me show you exactly how to use Pint[...]
Social media is one of the most powerful tools that brands can use to market themselves. Your brand can establish connections with your consumers on those platforms while also promoting your brand without or at minimal costs. Social media marketing does everything a business needs to promote itself, making it very appealing across industries. Yet, if you don't know how to use it, none of[...]
Having a good email nurture sequence makes our lives as creators easier. With a good nurture sequence, you can build a returning audience and eventually turn that audience into customers. However, designing one is also one of those tasks that many of us actively dislike or at least find confusing. How long has it been sitting on your to-do list? When you started blogging, either[...]
Do you know for certain that you want the online business lifestyle that you see online? You know the one I’m talking about: people who make great money working on their laptops, working from anywhere in the world, totally fulfilled. You know you want an online business, but there’s an elephant in the room: what are you going to do? That’s actually not an uncommon juxtaposition,[...]
Online business is the wild west: there are people making their living dropshipping toilet brushes and financially dominating people. There’s no one recipe telling you what you *need* to make it online, but the benefits of blogging for business are so clear that they are unignorable. Yet, if you're here reading this, I reckon you might not be convinced that the benefits of blogging[...]
So, you think you've been mistakenly caught by the Pinterest spam block? You're in good company; like, a football-field-full-of-people amount of company. The Pinterest spam block has caught many accounts for no particular reason, but you're not helpless. Some Pinterest Spam Block Backstory In true 2020 style, it was sometime during 2020 that the spam filter began plaguing crea[...]
Do you have it too? That lingering feeling that you have a good idea for a business but you’re not entirely sure what to do with it? That vague idea in the back of your head, that question that starts with “wouldn’t it be great if…” Perhaps you’ve been getting a lot of compliments on how you do something and you’ve been thinking, or dare I say dreaming, about turning that sk[...]
All successful creators, no matter what type of content they’re passionate about, all have something in common: they made the decision to start a brand. Or maybe, they didn’t even specifically pursue the idea of a "brand," per se, but they wanted to create and build something for themselves online. If you’ve been watching these people from the sidelines thinking [...]
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