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What I Am Reading 12/13/24
Read more: What I Am Reading 12/13/24This week I had to take some time off, but I was still reading. For fun, I create a theme every December and I place crochet items I made around that theme in my neighborhood for people to find. It’s a little odd, but it makes me happy. This year, I decided our neighborhood was…
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What I Am Reading 12/6/24
Read more: What I Am Reading 12/6/24I’ve been down this holiday season. I don’t fully know what’s going on, but I’m at least still enjoying getting lost in reading books. The weather doesn’t seem to be helping. First, we had a cold snap and then it just got so gray. I’m staying inside too much with little access to sunlight. I…
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Impostor Syndrome and Running a Business
Read more: Impostor Syndrome and Running a BusinessI am a huge sufferer of impostor syndrome. I think everyone is better than me, and eventually everyone will find out that I have no idea what I’m doing. Obviously that’s nowhere near the truth. There is not a single person out there that fully knows what they’re doing. There are just some people who…
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The Role of Patterns to Keep You Consistent
Read more: The Role of Patterns to Keep You ConsistentWhat I can do better than most is staying consistent on social media for clients. There are a lot of secrets on how I do it, but the first one I recommend to those getting started is creating patterns. What do I mean by that? And how can you create your own pattern? Let’s get…
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How to Avoid Overworking as a Business Owner
Read more: How to Avoid Overworking as a Business OwnerI live in a home that has two business owners. My partner just started his business, whereas I just celebrated twelve years of working for myself. It’s been eye opening to go through this with him, due to the different ages of our businesses and the different kinds of businesses we do (he is a…
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What I Am Reading 11/22/24
Read more: What I Am Reading 11/22/24It’s been a week. But that has not stopped the reading. Preschool applications have started opening up and now I have to get serious about where my daughter is going next year. I felt super confident about it until I was in an open house for the school we liked the best. We were in…
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Why It’s Important to Go Long With Your Social Media Consultant
Read more: Why It’s Important to Go Long With Your Social Media ConsultantI received a phone call I always love. Someone saw me speak and connected with me. They wanted to hire me as their social media consultant as soon as possible. Considering I connected with them as well, I was beyond excited. The problem? They only wanted to hire me for a week of work. They…
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Ways Social Media Can Help Your Mental Health
Read more: Ways Social Media Can Help Your Mental HealthI’ve read so many ways that social media can deteriorate your mental health that I thought it might be interesting to turn that on its head and look at the positives for once. Granted, social media is not going to cure your mental health and you really should be under the care of a doctor…
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Overcoming Writer’s Block
Read more: Overcoming Writer’s BlockWriter’s block will plague the best of writers at some point. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about. And the earlier you admit what is going on, the sooner you can get some help. So what can you do when writer’s block hits? Can you really overcome it? Let’s talk about it. Write something else If…
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Managing Social Media Client Expectations
Read more: Managing Social Media Client Expectations“Yes, when I worked with her before, I increased her company’s engagement by 5000%.” The second those words left my mouth in a prospective social media client meeting I wanted to pluck them from the air and stuff them back in as quickly as possible. But I said it. The prospect heard it. And now…
