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3 (plus a few extras!) Essential Steps to Effective Website SEO
Here are 3 essential steps to boost your website's SEO, ensuring that it not only attracts more visitors, but also engages and converts them!
Should You Choose Squarespace for Your Website? The Pros and Cons
Picking the right platform for your website can feel pretty daunting, and if you are really new to all of this online tech, you may not even know where to start. We are here to try to make your decision a little easier!
10 Principles of Great Website Design: Crafting User-Friendly Digital Experiences
Here are ten fundamental principles to consider when designing or revamping your website, ensuring it's not just visually appealing, but also functional and user-friendly.
Better Storytelling With These 5 Tips
Storytelling uses words to create experiences in a reader or listener's imagination. It can not only impact human emotions; it can also lead people to accept original ideas or encourage them to take action. Here are some key elements to great storytelling.
8 Reasons Why You Should Be Strategic When Choosing Your Website Photos!
Relevant imagery plays a HUGE role in the overall design, user experience, and effectiveness of your website! The purpose of brand imagery is to communicate the right messages with your target audience so that they develop strong emotions when they encounter your brand.
7 Key Elements That Go Into Developing Your Brand (in a nutshell!)
Your brand is the personality of your business, the promise you make to your customers, your position in the market and the impression people get when they hear your name!
Brand development is the process of creating and strengthening these aspects. It's about building a brand identity that resonates with your target audience, differentiates you in the market, and makes you distinctive!
How to Write a Great About Page
Right after your readers peruse your Homepage, they are going to head right over to your About Page to learn more about you—and that’s why it’s so important to get it right. Most websites miss this amazing opportunity to start building real relationships with their audience.
6 Important Steps to Launching Your Online Business.
So you have decided it’s time to start your own online business.
This is ahhmazing, and congrats! Working for yourself can be challenging, but it is also very rewarding.
If you are starting from scratch, it can feel pretty overwhelming, so I have compiled a list of 6 things that are absolutely necessary when you are starting out.
Crafting Effective AI Prompts
Also included: The enhanced capabilities of Chat GPT-4, and why this is a valuable resource for business owners!
Common Mistakes New Chat GPT-4 Users Might Make, and How to Avoid Them
With the advent of Chat GPT-4, AI-powered language models have taken another step towards mimicking human-like conversations. However, as with any tool, using it effectively requires knowing its strengths and limitations. We will guide you through some common mistakes that new Chat GPT-4 users make and how you can avoid them to maximize your experience.
How to Boost Your Online Business With A.I.
In the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from the realm of science fiction to an everyday tool that businesses of all sizes can use to improve their operations and bottom line. For online businesses, AI offers a wide range of opportunities to enhance customer experience, streamline operations, and make data-driven decisions. Here's how you can harness the power of AI to boost your online business.
Do You Really Need a Coach or Mentor?
If there is ONE thing that I could change about launching my own biz, it would be finding a coach or mentor with EXPERIENCE to give me guidance.
Mistakes or misdirections can be costly or frustrating—or both.
A coach or mentor can help find your strengths, your audience and niche, and address any potential pitfalls you will encounter. Find someone who has a similar outlook, and that you resonate with.
9 Steps to Help Define Your Personal Brand
Whether you're a professional seeking to advance your career, an entrepreneur launching a startup, or a freelancer looking to stand out from the crowd, developing a strong personal brand is more crucial than ever.
Why Building an Email List Matters to Your Business.
There is a lot of hype around email list building these days, and for 3 VERY good reasons!
6 Important Copywriting Tips For Your Website
How do we engage with our audience or prospects in a way that gets and keeps their attention, and makes them feel like you are speaking directly to THEM?
As a Freelancer, do I Really Need to Pick a Niche?
This wasn’t always the case, but today It’s necessary to have a niche because the online landscape is crowded. Having a niche allows you to establish authority as an expert in a field, rather than anything and everything, making it easier to find your audience.
Here’s a Cool Way to Choose a Niche.
If you are a freelancer or entrepreneur, there are strong arguments to be made for finding your most desirable clients rather than generalizing. Whether this means they are found in a narrow area of expertise, or most closely tied to what you love to do, applying an 80/20 mindset to making a decision about where you will dedicate your time and energies can be incredibly effective.
Three Important Cornerstones of Running a Successful Service-based Business
Running a successful freelance business online requires more than just having a great product or service. It's about building a great brand, having a well-structured business model, and implementing effective client acquisition strategies. Let’s talk about it.