*This post contains affiliate links.  This simply means that should you purchase any products mentioned I may receive a discount or incentive at no additional cost to you. Build your list with this easy to use app My latest adventure in lead magnet creation has lead me to create quizzes.  For some of my clients, quizzes are the top performing lead magnet on their site.  In ..read more

We all know there are a lot of decisions to make when you are starting a new business.  One of the biggest questions new business owners face is “How do I market my new business on a small budget?”  Enter Pinterest.   What is Pinterest? I feel compelled to answer this question simply because there are so many people that still refer to Pinterest as a social media platform ..read more

Why it's not beneficial to have thousands of followers Whenever I see social media accounts with thousands of followers, I immediately wonder how many of those followers are “real”.  How many of those followers are potential clients?  Current clients?  Bots?  Paid followers?The follower count on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook can often be very misleading.  Fr ..read more

So you keep hearing that you *need* to be on Pinterest and that without it, you are missing out on a ton of potential customers.  You want to exist on Pinterest but the concept confuses you or you don’t fully understand how to get your business, brand or products on Pinterest.You are in the right place.  This simple guide will walk you through creating a Pinterest Business Profile rich in keywords to drive traffic to your pins and your site.Ready to get started?  Great!  Let’s go ..read more

The Benefits of Enlisting Help to Grow Your BusinessSolopreneurs like to run their businesses light and tight. If you’re like most small business owners, that means you don’t have many (or any) employees and you wear many hats throughout the day. You’re the CEO, the bookkeeper, the web designer, the social media specialist, the marketing department, the affiliate recruiter and even the janitor. You handle every part of your business yourself. Flying solo can be a good thing and it’s certainly fun. But if you want your business to grow ..read more

Small business owners are facing more pressure than ever to juggle more and more administrative and marketing tasks on top of providing the goods and services offered by their business.  Invoices, newsletters, Facebook ads, Pinterest, click funnels, customer appointments, meetings, website updates, SEO, flyers, commercials, booking travel, attending conferences, networking with clients, etc.  Get the picture?  With all of these tasks on a business owner’s plate, who has time to actually do the things that make your business, well….a business?  This is where a virtual assistant comes in to ..read more

Browsing the web can inspire you but sometimes, it’s hard to know exactly how a designer created a specific element. What color did they use? What font is that? Wonder no more with these cool design tools. Create Beautiful Designs with These Chrome Extensions Colorzilla Colorzilla is an extension that allows you to pull the color from any element on a web page. That means if you love a shade of green you see on a website, you can click the color picker and discover exactly what color it is. Another handy feature of Colorzilla is that it stores your previous color selections. Th ..read more

A Quick Start Guide to Setting SMART goals. You’ve heard of SMART goals, right?  I think we all have. Do we follow it?  Not usually. We get distracted. Or tired.  Or we set goals that were not defined well enough to put together an actionable plan.   Then we feel defeated or unmotivated to keep pushing forward and open ourselves up to yet another failed attempt at achieving our goals. Let’s change that in 2019 and actually stick to a plan and CRUSH our goals. Set SMART Goals. But what makes our goals and resolutions SMART? SPECIFIC If your goals are generic, your progre ..read more

Bloggers juggle many tasks. I’m not sure that the average person realizes how much work goes into managing the blogs that they follow. Between managing social media posts, creating new content, editing photos, and marketing your blog, it oftentimes becomes too much for one person to handle. Here, we’ve highlighted some of the tasks that bloggers can easily outsource to a virtual assistant so they can get back to doing what they do best….blogging. Virtual assistants can help bloggers get back to doing what they do best…blogging. 1. Social Media Management It can be a real pain ..read more

Many business owners and bloggers are faced with the daunting task of running the entire project all while running their day to day business or blog. The thought of juggling all of that can be exhausting and overwhelming. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. So how would a virtual project management consultant benefit your projects? Aside from the obvious benefits of bringing on a virtual assistant, you will find that a virtual PM can be just the resource you never knew you needed. Read on for more… You can focus on what you do best Bringing in someone to focus ..read more