Entrepreneurship articles, tips, and motivation for millennial side hustlers, bloggers, coaches, and more.
Normally, I’m not one to write down New Year’s Resolutions. After a while, they got a little stale for me personally; I prefer more creative outlets than boxes. But with the new decade upon us, it got me thinking about “What unique New Year’s Resolution ideas can I come up with?” Looking back on the …
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Pretty much immediately after I wrote last weeks post, “3 Painstaking Truths in Life & How to Overcome Them”, where I touch on some of the most common advice we get and how it can often lead to perfection paralysis, I was hit with a full blown case of writers block.
I’ve been trying to have my posts planned out at least one week in advance… But here I sit Monday morning at 7:45 am writing this trying to get it up today (gotta stick to that schedule!).
Blogging requires a lot of self motivation. There are a lot of things to stay on top of from writing content, promoting content, taking and editing photos, email lists, social media channels, managing reader discussions, managing your inbox and brand partnerships, auditing and revising old content, staying on top of SEO, and so much more! …
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Figuring out how to grow your blog is one of the biggest questions that plagues both new bloggers and professionals who have been blogging for years. Honestly, blogging can feel like a never ending marathon; always churning out new content day after day. If you approach it like a sprint, pushing yourself to the max …
Raise your hand if you find yourself hitting up social media, daydreaming, or generally wasting your time while you’re supposed to be working ?? Don’t worry, you’re not alone! One survey found that 80% of employees waste time at work on non-related tasks. Like playing sudoku, paying bills, catching up with friends? And with the …
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Everybody says to “follow your passion” but is passion a concrete thing? Can millennials classify it as one thing.
I’d been working and gaining experience since I was 16 in a variety of different fields.
There was freelance photography, working on higher education political initiatives, marketing, but struggled to figure out my dream career when I came across a book called The Art of Work*.
While I didn’t know it at the time, it would prove to be the exact thing I needed to get me thinking how I would move forward in my life.
If you are a blogger or business owner, you’ve probably heard this before: you need to be growing your email list. Most entrepreneurs say the #1 thing they wish they started doing sooner, is growing their list for email marketing.
For about a year, I grew my email list using a basic subscription box in my blog’s sidebar and an opt-in box on the homepage. Overtime, I added content upgrades to the bottom of my posts (after reading a post, it’s the clickable link where people can enter their email to download a worksheet or checklist that adds even more value to a blog post). But the truth is, my list grew slow and steady, until it became totally stagnant.
TRUTH: I’d much rather work smarter, not harder. I see so many people running around saying how “busy” they are, but honestly, I don’t want to be busy. I don’t want to manifest that quality of life for myself. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind rolling up my sleeves and getting dirty, putting in long hours, but IMO, work should be fun.
We spend so much of our lives doing it, it should be boosting our mood, elevating ourselves (and society), and moving toward the greater good. When we take the idea of “working hard” it feels like we are automatically condemning ourselves in a tug of war between happiness and the hustle… no thank you. I think the two should be integrated, not battling it out for the limelight.
The most frequently asked questions I get asked: “How to get sponsored on Instagram? How do you get brand sponsorships for your blog? How to pitch brands as a micro influencer or a small blogger?” Without fail, every single week these roll into my Instagram DMs. I get it, it can feel impossible to land …
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Monday Mantra: May Your Choices Reflect your Hopes, Not Your Fears – Nelson Mandela I got an email recently from a reader who is thinking about starting a blog and asked me a few questions. Two of them were far too deep to put in an email for just her so I decided to bring …
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