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What I Am Reading 1/24/25
Read more: What I Am Reading 1/24/25This has been a WEEK when it comes to social media. I don’t know anyone who is happy. But I do know quite a few people who keep reading as many novels as possible to escape it. With the ups and (mostly) downs of the week, I kind of feel like I have whiplash. But…
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The Balance Between Control and Freedom with a Social Media Consultant
Read more: The Balance Between Control and Freedom with a Social Media ConsultantWhat is most likely to kill a social media program? A client who wants to control every move of a social media consultant. Like to the point where the consultant has to run every comment by the client. Things start feeling sluggish and the social media consultant feels uninspired. And very quickly, it trickles down…
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Losing Trust and Moving Forward
Read more: Losing Trust and Moving ForwardThere is nothing more devastating to a relationship than losing trust. And there were many of us who watched the TikTok debacle go down and realized we fully cannot trust anyone who runs a social media network anymore. Of course the big problem is that so many of us work in social media with zero…
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A Social Media Network Played With Us. Now What?
Read more: A Social Media Network Played With Us. Now What?We were warned for months that this was going to happen, and we all kinda knew in the back of our head that it couldn’t possibly happen. But then TikTok was just gone. A social media network that was once thought to big to make go away had done the impossible. And then it reappeared,…
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What to Do When You Experience Business Failure
Read more: What to Do When You Experience Business FailureWhen you’re running your own business, chances are you’ll experience failure more often than you’d like. It’s just the cost of doing business. Those business fails teach you so much and eventually you learn to fail better. But that doesn’t meant that it’s not absolutely devastating. If you get stuck in that devastation, you are…
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What I Am Reading 1/17/25
Read more: What I Am Reading 1/17/25This has been a week of migraines. I honestly have no idea how I got any reading done, but I did. And to add to it all, my daughter decided to dunk my phone in the toilet. Do you know what will really put you in pain? Seeing your phone at the bottom of the…
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Inspiring a Social Media Consultant
Read more: Inspiring a Social Media ConsultantAs a social media consultant, I will be honest: There are just some clients who make it hard for me to do great work for them. These clients are very rare, but they are so exhausting that they usually stick out more than any other clients. Sometimes I feel like screaming, “I JUST WANT TO…
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From Problem to Problem with No Rest
Read more: From Problem to Problem with No RestI don’t know about you, but I’m tired. From the minor (like snow days that have kept our family cooped up inside) to the major (like changes that make the landscape of social media almost unrecognizable), I feel like I’m going from problem to problem with little to no rest. Can just one day be…
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Handling Writing Feedback
Read more: Handling Writing FeedbackThe other day, I read a post on LinkedIn saying that finding a writer that can handle feedback on their writing and not take it personally is rare. Not all that surprising. We’re putting our heart out there and hoping someone will love it. It’s disappointing when they seemingly don’t. But if you can’t handle…
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Professional Development and Running a Business
Read more: Professional Development and Running a BusinessYou’ve got your business going and things are looking up. You’re now looking to grow and that means learning more. But what kind of professional development can you really do? I’ve found it’s really tough out there and lots more snake oil salesmen than actual great products to help you. So where do you go…
