Website Maintenance. Sounds terribly important, doesn’t it? The phrase brings to mind a tiny team of nanobots crawling around the internet, brandishing wee wrenches. But maintain, you must. You can’t create a website and then just leave it there, hoping that positive thoughts and good vibes will sustain it.
Fresh content is heady, potent stuff. People love it, and search engines love it, too. If you start offering a new service, add a team member or have an event to promote – you should update your website.
Once people understand the power of a custom website, the eye-catching visuals within a functional, easy-to-use framework, they get excited and think of the possibilities. Then they start thinking of cutting costs. You should consider your website to be your most important marketing tool. Because it is.
Everyone you want to do business with has an email account. And everyone checks their email daily, several times per day. It’s usually one of the first things we do each morning. Email marketing is one of the smartest ways you can spend your advertising budget – if you do it right.
Savvy business owners know who their ideal audience is, and develop branding that appeals to them. Also important: knowing who is *not* the target audience. Trying to appeal to everyone is a common newbie mistake and a red flag for buyers. Let’s go over some branding basics and I’ll share some resources that cover the topic in greater detail.
Cleaning can often feel like a chore. But Spring cleaning feels like a privilege, a joy, like “Oh wow, the weather is lovely and I get to do this!” Whether you want to tacklet it all in one day or make a project of it, your efforts will be rewarded with boosts in productivity and mood.
I’m starting a new end of workday routine. Trying to build a business out of thin air takes effort, focus, gumption, drive, perseverance and research. Oodles and oodles of learning new things. I’ve worked far into the night on too many occasions. It takes a toll, there’s a woeful lack of work/life balance. And both the work and the life suffer for it.
It’s common for us small business owners to bite off far more than we can chew. We love to hustle and grind, hit our goals and have that wonderful feeling of productivity. But we must be careful, because a tomato-shaped timer and a stack of post-it notes cannot win over the pervasive bleah of burnout.
Here’s some good news if you’ve ever felt like a failure for getting distracted and not sticking to a task: You are completely normal. All things shiny and new give us doses of dopamine, which makes us feel happy. It’s easy to get distracted when we’re trying to focus because it actually feels good.
Productivity is not about doing more things – it is about doing the right things at the right times. Spend 10 minutes to plan your day and save hours in wasted effort and unnecessary task-switching. Next time your brain is swimming with all the wonderful possibilities of things you could do, or drowning in dread of all the things you have to do, you are going to thank me.
People often believe that strong will and good intentions will drive them through their to-do lists. Instead, what turns intention into action is planning and follow-through. That, and banning the concept of multi-tasking from your mind forever.
Website Maintenance. Sounds terribly important, doesn’t it? The phrase brings to mind a tiny team of nanobots crawling around the internet, brandishing wee wrenches. But maintain, you must. You can’t create a website and then just leave it there, hoping that positive thoughts and good vibes will sustain it.
Fresh content is heady, potent stuff. People love it, and search engines love it, too. If you start offering a new service, add a team member or have an event to promote – you should update your website.
Once people understand the power of a custom website, the eye-catching visuals within a functional, easy-to-use framework, they get excited and think of the possibilities. Then they start thinking of cutting costs. You should consider your website to be your most important marketing tool. Because it is.
Everyone you want to do business with has an email account. And everyone checks their email daily, several times per day. It’s usually one of the first things we do each morning. Email marketing is one of the smartest ways you can spend your advertising budget – if you do it right.
Savvy business owners know who their ideal audience is, and develop branding that appeals to them. Also important: knowing who is *not* the target audience. Trying to appeal to everyone is a common newbie mistake and a red flag for buyers. Let’s go over some branding basics and I’ll share some resources that cover the topic in greater detail.
Cleaning can often feel like a chore. But Spring cleaning feels like a privilege, a joy, like “Oh wow, the weather is lovely and I get to do this!” Whether you want to tacklet it all in one day or make a project of it, your efforts will be rewarded with boosts in productivity and mood.
I’m starting a new end of workday routine. Trying to build a business out of thin air takes effort, focus, gumption, drive, perseverance and research. Oodles and oodles of learning new things. I’ve worked far into the night on too many occasions. It takes a toll, there’s a woeful lack of work/life balance. And both the work and the life suffer for it.
It’s common for us small business owners to bite off far more than we can chew. We love to hustle and grind, hit our goals and have that wonderful feeling of productivity. But we must be careful, because a tomato-shaped timer and a stack of post-it notes cannot win over the pervasive bleah of burnout.
Here’s some good news if you’ve ever felt like a failure for getting distracted and not sticking to a task: You are completely normal. All things shiny and new give us doses of dopamine, which makes us feel happy. It’s easy to get distracted when we’re trying to focus because it actually feels good.
Productivity is not about doing more things – it is about doing the right things at the right times. Spend 10 minutes to plan your day and save hours in wasted effort and unnecessary task-switching. Next time your brain is swimming with all the wonderful possibilities of things you could do, or drowning in dread of all the things you have to do, you are going to thank me.
People often believe that strong will and good intentions will drive them through their to-do lists. Instead, what turns intention into action is planning and follow-through. That, and banning the concept of multi-tasking from your mind forever.