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Instagram is one of those things that we wonder if we should do. What I love about Jonah’s approach to Instagram is the generosity and authenticity at the same time as the practical side of actually focussing on working with clients.  I highly recommend you follow Jonah if you want to grow your business using Instagram. His tips always light me up and get me excited about Instagram. In this i...

When Mel told me she wanted to chat about knowing yourself I got so excited - because it's one of those seemingly throw-away statements that has really rung true for me in my business and life.   And I find it's helping me with my kid's weekend fights too.  Even though we are imperfect, we can really get a lot more out of life when we know ourselves. But Mel didn't actually take the...

Join me for a fun chat with super boss babe, Karen Phillips about what you can do now that your website is live. No, sorry, it's not over yet. If you want your website to be found there is a little more to be done. And Karen is the woman I send everyone to who asks me about SEO because she is the boss of SEO in my eyes.  Karen helps you get found online. She helps women with SEO to get their...

In today's episode I'm talking with Claire Riley, the Recovering Perfectionist about Virgo Season and how taking small actions not only make you feel good, they also improve your happiness and SEO! Get more from Claire here:  http://www.claireriley.co/virgoseason https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheRecoveringPerfectionists/

What should you do first thing(!!!) when you have set up your website? In my opinion, the Facebook pixel is super important. Even if you're not planning on running ads yet. Here is my What, Why and How of the Facebook pixel.

One of the best tools you can have in place for an online business is Acuity for booking sessions with clients and taking payments. You can save so much time: instead of sending endless emails or messages back and forth trying to find a mutually agreeable session time. PLUS you can start to deliver services, take payments and operate online using Acuity. What is Acuity? Acuity is an online tool yo...

Let me just answer your question straight away…should you get Canva for work? Should you pay for Canva? I don’t actually know! But I can help you to see what you will get with Canva for work and help you to decide for yourself. If all else fails, I recommend signing up for the free, 30-day trial and if you can’t live without the features once they’re gone, you should probably pay for it. In this b...

Once you’ve set up the Marketing Basics for your business you might be ready for MORE! More clients, more revenue and more marketing. If you have your website, branding and Facebook set up and you want more, I would encourage you to walk through the following steps to grow your business to the next level. If you don’t have your basics set up I suggest you check out the previous podcast where I out...

Do you want to put a temporary link in your menu for an upcoming workshop, or webinar? And then take it out later? Here's an easy Wordpress how to tutorial :) You may like to view the video. You can do that on this YouTube channel:  Ok - you can save time and money by learning a few simple Wordpress hacks and re-wire your brain: you are NOT going to break your site! So taking simple steps lik...

Whether you are online only, bricks and mortar only, service based or product based and whatever mix of those 4, there are some things I recommend ALL businesses set up FIRST. Obviously, every business has distinct needs and every industry has different recommendations that I would make. The recoommendations in this post apply to EVERYONE 🙂 This post if for you if you are very new to it all and y...

Welcome to the Connected Marketing Podcast! I wanted to take some time today to welcome you to the podcast by telling you what Connected Marketing really means to me and what kinds of things you can expect to hear on this podcast.  Some of these podcasts accompany my educational videos and blog posts that you can find on my website while others will be pure listening pleasure!  Basically...

Have you heard of SSL? Do you sometimes get warnings that your website or sites that you are visiting are not secure? In this blog I’m going to explain a bit about what SSL is and why it’s important for your website and for browsing on the internet in general. Enjoy! What is SSL? SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and is an additional level of security you can place on your site. It basically enc...