Writing a blog and publishing your words out into the great big wide world web is no longer a tiny act. Blogging grew up. The industry requires business thinking and strategy if you want your blog to be your business. If that point rings true for you, your first step is to develop a mindset that speaks to your blog as your money making business. Then, you build your team. Don't get me wrong. You … [Read more...] about How to Effectively Build Your Blogging Team
The Exact Steps I Took to Create my Email Course
Bloggers are perfectly positioned to create email courses. ConvertKit is the perfect tool to execute your email course. Your audience is warm, you have access to extremely targeted marketing making way for potentially high conversions, and you have the content (unearth it, revive it, reinvent, revamp it). Believe it or not, email courses are simple to put together. There are a number of steps that … [Read more...] about The Exact Steps I Took to Create my Email Course
How to Build Your Quality Email List Using Facebook Live
Facebook Live is an incredible opportunity for your business and for your list building. Not only does Facebook lean into those people publishing video, our audience likes to see the behind the scenes and enjoys mini-training sessions. I've seen this result first hand. I've thought a lot about how to leverage this opportunity from all angles. Most recently, specifically I focused on building my … [Read more...] about How to Build Your Quality Email List Using Facebook Live
7 Straightforward Ways to Increase Your Facebook Live Audience
Giving people time before hopping onto your Facebook Live is a great approach to engaging viewers and creating a sense of anticipation. Increasing your Facebook Live audience is not as difficult as it might seem. Check out what I've learned about Facebook Live so far and the Facebook Live tools I use. Until Facebook rolls out an easy way to subscribe to Live, we have to be creative with how we … [Read more...] about 7 Straightforward Ways to Increase Your Facebook Live Audience
Why I am Leaning into Facebook Groups to Grow my Business
I am not going to compare and contrast Facebook Pages to Facebook Groups. Folks, let's get this fact out there right now, the two options provide wildly different opportunities for your online business. Think of Facebook pages as a newsfeed rather than a community. Your private groups are your community, your family. Don't give up Facebook pages just yet, but, if you have to choose, spend time … [Read more...] about Why I am Leaning into Facebook Groups to Grow my Business
Podcast First Steps: How to Start a Podcast Series
Yes, I have a podcast. It is my baby. Distilled Parenting is the name. I found a podcast the perfect place for me to focus on the topics about which my readers told me they were craving to learn. I also identified a major problem and concern in the parenting world: too much information. Distilled Parenting is a venue to come together to make sense of the information overloaded world, where parents … [Read more...] about Podcast First Steps: How to Start a Podcast Series