Hints and Tips to Help You Build Your Business With Joy
The Pinterest Experiment: Part 2
It's been a little over a month since I started my Pinterest experiment - and you can read about my aims here if you want to catch up. The Main Things I Have Been Focusing on Are: Posting Regularly Every Day - at the moment I am averaging adding 12 pins per day...
Running a Facebook Giveaway
We are all aware that Facebook reach for pages is down, but that doesn't mean it's now impossible to get any organic reach at all. Sometimes you just have to incentivize people, and running a Facebook giveaway is a great way to do that. The important thing with any...
The Pinterest Experiment
I have long recommended Pinterest as a great way to grow the audience for your blog and to ultimately make more sales of your products and/or services. Pinterest however, is less a social media platform and more a search engine and that means that as well as great...
Preparing Your Business for the Holiday Season
We are already into August and believe it or not now is the perfect time to start making those holiday season preparations for your business Here are some quick tips to optimise your conversions in the coming months. Blog Posts Blog posts can take anywhere between 4...
Convertkit Vs Mailchimp: Why The Choice Was Easy
Mailchimp has recently changed its pricing structure and therefore I thought now is the perfect opportunity to examine Convertkit vs Mailchimp; and to dive deep into the real differences between the two platforms. While you can still get an account for free with...
4 Mindset Authors Who Can Help You Build Your Business
As I wrote over on social media earlier this week, in some tips to live by, building a business is hard! So hard in fact that we really do need all the help we can get. However, while building a business can be hard, what these authors show us is that it can also be...
What’s a Lead Magnet and Why Do I Need One?
Simply put a 'Lead Magnet' is something you give away, in exchange for someone giving you their email address and signing up to your mailing list. It can take many forms: a written pdf; access to a video or audio; a short course delivered by email; a checklist; or...
How To Keep Your WordPress Website Secure
While it's something that we often don't pay much attention to, security is probably one of the most important aspects of owning a website. You might not have been in the situation yet where you get hacked, but I promise it's not a good place to be, and therefore the...
It’s Time to Commit
There are lots of moving parts to building and promoting a business. There are also many ways to approach marketing. Should I head to networking meetings, jump on social media, start blogging, or even streak naked through the centre of my hometown to just get people's...
What Are You Doing Differently in 2019?
As we start the year I thought I would put together my thoughts on how I want things to change in 2019. Many of these won't be right for you, but maybe one or two will strike a chord. Also I would love to hear in the comments section what you are going to be doing...
The One Thing That Will Make The Biggest Difference to Your Business
If you are struggling to get traction in your business there are always steps you can take to move you forward. Often we want there to be one magical solution that will suddenly propel us to success. We believe there's a 'secret' everyone else knows about that we are...
It’s Ok to Disappoint Yourself
Sometimes things in our life will just seem 'off'. Maybe there are events happening which are causing us real struggle. Health, relationship, financial issues - they can all take a toll on us and on our ability to live joyfully. Heck, you only need to ingest what's...
8 Reasons to Publish Your Own e-Book
Whether you are going to sell it from your own website or add it to the Kindle store there are a number of benefits of publishing an e-book. If you are writing non-fiction, you don't need to worry that this will need to be a weighty tome in the style of one of the...
Way Back When
Do you remember when you were a little girl (or boy) and there were so many things you got excited about. I'm not talking here about absolutely MAJOR things like Christmas or your birthday. Why of course that sent you into a frenzy of excitement, I mean presents and...
20 Ways to Grow Your Email List
Ok so before we talk about growing your list it’s important to realise that you need an incentive to encourage people to sign up to your newsletter. This is sometimes referred to as a ‘lead magnet’ and it can be any of the following: a downloadable resource in a pdf...
3 Tips to Improve Your Instagram Marketing
Today I have three fab tips which will help you make the most of your Instagram updates. 1 Research Hashtags You want to use hashtags which will help you to get discovered by new people. The easiest way to see what's working is to head to the profiles of your...
6 Reasons to Get Started With Affiliate Marketing
Whether you are looking to add an additional stream of income to your existing business; or whether you want to start creating passive income from the ground up, affiliate marketing can be a great choice. Affiliate marketing (as is passive income in general) is not...
8 Ways To Promote a New Website
So you have your lovely sparkly new website. You are super proud of it and can't wait to see your potential audience checking it out. Naturally you want to give it the best start possible in terms of ranking in the search engines so to get you started I have created...
Feeling Under Pressure? 8 Ways to Take a Break From Your Business
Let's be honest if you have your own business or are self-employed you are probably working way more hours than you should be. Sometimes this is no bad thing, there are times in our lives when we have to put the time in if we want to see the rewards. This might be...
You Will Fall Down
At heart this website is about encouraging you to take action and build a business (and in the process life) you love. Maybe you want to escape a 9 to 5 that is just getting you by; maybe you want to explore a passion that you can turn into a business; or maybe you...
How Do I Get More Traffic to My Website?
I often get asked this question and it's one that website and blog owners ask themselves on almost a daily basis around the world. The problem with it is though is that when we ask the question in this way it's almost as though all the power is 'out there' with all...
