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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…
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What I Am Reading 3/7/25
Read more: What I Am Reading 3/7/25Things came up. And even though I was still reading like mad (thank you, book club), I had to concentrate on other projects over the last couple of weeks. Being a solo business owner is rough. I have heard for so long that when things get difficult, you just lean in harder. But that’s not…
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Be Mindful of Your Social Media Audience
Read more: Be Mindful of Your Social Media AudienceWhat is the easiest way to get in trouble on your social media accounts? By not knowing what’s important to your audience and staying on top of that. Not having this kind of connection can lead you to post at the wrong time with the wrong content. And doing either of those can make you…
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How to Be More Productive While Running Your Business
Read more: How to Be More Productive While Running Your BusinessBeing more productive is always a popular topic among those of us running our own business. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten together with friends and we’ve shared what we are using now. All in the hopes of answering one question: How can we squeeze a little more out of ourselves? Is…
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Too Many Ideas and Nowhere to Put Them
Read more: Too Many Ideas and Nowhere to Put ThemI feel like I’ve been talking about a lot of sad things lately and I just want to flip the scrip to something I struggle with regularly: Too many ideas. As soon as I get a new problem or a new client to solve, my brain goes in five thousand different directions and ends up…
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Combatting Decision Fatigue on Social Media
Read more: Combatting Decision Fatigue on Social MediaEvery day, I feel like I have to make a million different decisions. Most of those decisions affect my daughter so they feel like big decisions even if they really aren’t. As a people pleasing person, any decision feels like a lot, so it’s not all that shocking that I feel like I’m in a…
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What I Am Reading 2/14/25
Read more: What I Am Reading 2/14/25It’s been gloomy here. Everything gray and my mood reflects that. I don’t have a lot of motivation. It’s just a lot of just trying to get through. So it’s an excellent time to just disappear into reading a book. Everything seems to be in the dumps right now, and I know I’m not alone…
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How to Get a Social Media Consultant Back on Course
Read more: How to Get a Social Media Consultant Back on CourseIt happens sometimes. Your social media consultant veers in another direction than you expected and you have no idea how they got there. But you need to get them back and fast. From my experience, there are usually a few different causes, and they can easily be changed. So let’s take a look at what…
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Ways to Minimize Social Media’s Affect on Your Mental Health When It is Your Job
Read more: Ways to Minimize Social Media’s Affect on Your Mental Health When It is Your JobWhat do you do when what you do for a living is possibly hurting your mental health? That’s a question many social media professionals are facing right now, and there’s no great answer. I know I’m not the only one who has looked longingly as friends have talked about digital detoxes or when they have…
