This is a guest post from Megan MacNeill, a Personal Brand Strategist who helps professionals achieve personal & professional goals without sacrificing what is important. Personal branding is simply what people like, feel and say about you. Building yours takes conscious effort of putting yourself out there to influence and attract the right people and … Read more
There’s a few non-negotiables if you run a business, but here’s one: as an entrepreneur, you need to spend time learning, all the time. Some people enjoy taking courses, others enjoy reading books. I prefer the latter, and if you do too, I’ve put together a list of the best books I’ve read lately that … Read more
As a savvy creator, you know the importance of your email list and how crucial it is to grow a list with targeted subscribers. In other words, you don’t just want anyone signing up to be on your list. You want people who are in your community. People whose vision and values align with yours. … Read more
There’s a morbid saying in SEO that goes: the best place to hide a dead body is on the second page of Google. It’s true that if you’re not on the first page, you’re not going to get many—if any—clicks to your content. Optimizing your blog posts for search is one of the best ways … Read more
This post is sponsored by Newor Media. All opinions are my own. As a blogger, monetizing your blog is necessary if you want to pursue blogging full-time. One of my favorite monetization methods is through ads because they offer a passive approach to earning an income through your blog. There are many different ad networks … Read more
We’ve all been there—you just wrote an ah-mazing piece of content and you’re ready to publish it. You slap on a quick title and hit “publish”. Your post ranks but traffic doesn’t pour in like you’d hoped! And you can’t help but wonder why… Luckily, if people’s eyes are glossing over your content, it’s an … Read more
Tell me if this sounds familiar: it’s time to write your monthly blog post. You sit down to write but the ideas aren’t flowing and after starring at the blinking cursor you decide to close your laptop and come back later. Or never. Listen, you’re not a bad writer (far from it!), you’re just overwhelmed … Read more
I vividly remember my first time scrolling through videos on TikTok. As I swiped through copious videos of people dancing and lipsyncing, I thought to myself, “oh my gosh, I feel old,” and “wait…I kind of love this.“ It almost reminded me of Instagram’s early daysback when we posted grainy brunch photos with that horrible … Read more
Blogging is competitive. In fact, today, there are over 600 million blogs. All that extra competition means it’s incredibly hard to get your content noticed. So it’s easy to understand why businesses might ask themselves, “is blogging dead?” But is blogging really dead, or has the landscape just evolved? If you ask me, it’s far … Read more
“I want to start blogging but I’m not a very good writer.” Maybe you’ve thought that before. And if we’ve spoken one-on-one, there’s a good chance you’ve uttered those exact words to me. Here’s the truth: most people I speak with tell me they don’t consider themselves a writer. And I can understand why! Writing … Read more