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Mentally Staying in the Game When Business is Slow
Read more: Mentally Staying in the Game When Business is SlowOn Monday, I talked a lot about what you need to do to keep yourself in the game when business is slow, but I only touched on what you need to do mentally. With work harder to come by for many of us, mental health is too important to just give a cursory nod to…
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How to Stay Motivated During a Slow Business Period
Read more: How to Stay Motivated During a Slow Business PeriodI’m going to admit it: Business is a little slow for me right now. This is partially my fault. My focus is on my daughter until she goes to preschool, so I am not able to work more than part-time. But still, when I put my feelers out for work, it’s unusually quiet. It’s odd.…
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What I Am Reading 3/28/25
Read more: What I Am Reading 3/28/25My brain has been on a pro bono project lately, and it’s where I’ve let my creativity fly. Usually my creative activity has been reading and this project has taken up the time I usually give to reading. It hasn’t stopped me from finding other times to read. It’s just been a bit more sporadic…
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How to Deal with Social Media Perfection
Read more: How to Deal with Social Media PerfectionLook, we all deal with this every day, but it might be worse for social media professionals because we live in the online world. We see the absolute perfection of other people’s lives and we start wondering… What is wrong with us? Why aren’t we that perfect? The amount that we doubt ourselves because we…
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Do You Need to Be on Every Social Media Network?
Read more: Do You Need to Be on Every Social Media Network?Marketing teams are getting leaner and stretched further with demands. And yet, they continue to try to be on every single social media network and do ALL THE THINGS. That’s a great recipe for disaster and burn out. But what do you do when the expectation is that you are on every social media network…
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Adding a New Service as a Business Owner
Read more: Adding a New Service as a Business OwnerA couple of things have happened recently. One is that I’m working with a pro bono client on a new service that I’ve never offered before. The second is that LinkedIn published a list of skills on the rise. Both of these had me thinking about how I decide to add a new service to…
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What I Am Reading 3/21/25
Read more: What I Am Reading 3/21/25I ran a half marathon last weekend! And then collapsed in bed. I definitely got out of the reading routine, but I then I worked hard on my comeback. I don’t know if I was reading the right book for that comeback, but that is a story for later on. Running has been really important to…
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Keeping a Routine When Working in Social Media
Read more: Keeping a Routine When Working in Social MediaIt’s so easy to throw out a routine when you work in social media. You have to work odd hours (sometimes in addition to the regular office hours), and before you know, you’ve slipped into complete chaos. But a routine is your friend. It helps you maintain a life-work balance and prevents burn out. You…
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Stop Trying to Do It All
Read more: Stop Trying to Do It AllWhen I first started with my business, I was working constantly. I’d sometimes get up at five in the morning and wouldn’t finish until ten at night. It was exhilarating to do it all, but thankfully, I knew it couldn’t last. So as soon as I could, I started taking things off my plate and…
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What I Am Reading 3/14/25
Read more: What I Am Reading 3/14/25It’s been a week of just trying to get by while I am sick. And no, I haven’t been reading as much as I would like. Last weekend, we did a quickie trip to meet my brand new great nephew. There is a pattern when I visit my sister and her family: We always get…
