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How to Create a Winning Instagram on a Budget

Instagram is growing like wildfire and if you’ve put off learning how to use it for your blog or small business, now is the time to learn how to create a winning Instagram on a budget. Instagram on a budget Be consistent with your brand Your Instagram posts will be creating a story for your…

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12 Strategic Ways to Use Pinterest Marketing

Pinterest is fun and boosts creativity but at its social media heart, Pinterest is marketing. Very smart marketing! Let’s look at some smart ways to use Pinterest for marketing.

Are you wondering how you can use Pinterest to market your small business, company, blog, or to promote your next book or product? Visual marketing on Pinterest is a low-key, self-paced way to reach people and get the word out.

Having a strategy for your Pinterest activities will help you reach your goals and objecti...

10 Amazing Tricks To Get The Most Out Of Your Travel

I love to travel! I’m going to share some of my favorite travel hacks with you. I’ve used social media to help plan my trips. It’shelped me see more amazing things and enjoy my trips in different ways.

I hope they bring joy to your next trip as well.

1. Buy a top ten guide for the city or country

These handy guides give you an overview of what there is to do and how to get around. They are super small you can pack them and they make great reading for the plane.

I like to mark things by day...

12 Most Innovative Ways to Create Content That Gets Shared

Your most important online asset is your content. It attracts clients to you and encourages prospects to take action.However, creating compelling content that engages your audience and inspires them to share that content with their community can feel elusive.

Excited to share this guest post from Rebekah Radice with you. Rebekah is one of my favorite bloggers in the social media space and her experience with social media is fantastic. I know you’ll love her advice.

Whether you are writing fo...

How to Unlock the Key to Instagram Engagement

The key to Instagram engagement is TIME. Visual storytelling and conversation starting combined with the right mix of when to post and what to postcreates Instagram gold.

T – Time

Are you posting at the right time? Are you giving Instagram enough time to make a difference?

I – Intent

Time to stop your random acts of posting on the Gram. Being intentional with your photos, concepts, and descriptions is crucial.

M – Management

Do you have a system down to make Instagram a part of your social...

How to Make Your Pinterest Pins Look Like a Million Bucks

Designing great Pinterest pins has never been more important for bloggers! Social media algorithms and content glut are slowing traffic to websites. If your social traffic is slowing or you just want to add solid referral traffic to your blog, Pinterest is here for you!

“Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas. “

Pinterest has remained steady and solid for leading qualified traffic to websites. In fact, a pin is 100 times more spreadable than yo...

How To Curate Content Better In Less Time

Learning how to curate content is an essential task for social media managers. And time is short! Content isan essential part of your social media marketing plan. As a social media marketer, you needto both create original content andcurate content from othersources. Time spent reading niche-related blog articles is important tokeep up withindustry news. Being a part of the conversation by sharing content with thoughtful comments and questions will help your brand be a sought-after source of...

20+ Powerful Tips and Strategies for Video Success

Video success seems fleeting but it’s easier than you think to create powerful video content.

Video has been a huge challenge for me personally because I don’t know how to edit video. I’ve tried and I have Adobe Creative Cloud and iMovie but it’s hard for me. My daughter is fantastic with video editing and she works on some of my longer videos which is fantastic! But I’ve got an awesome new tool to share with you that can guarantee video success with any skill level. (even mine!)

Enter Adobe...

10 Great Gifts to Inspire Girl Bosses

Girl bosses need a little extra love this holiday or any day! Show your support for your favorite girl boss with a few items from this fun list that bound to add a little spring in her step.

Some of these are my current faves and I’m adding some to my Santa wish list too! Or I might just order them.A girl boss doesn’t need to wait for a gift, right?

Get organized with a planner byDay Designer$19.99

Fine tip Sharpies that won’t bled through plannerpages $8.90

Folders to color and use! $12.24

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How To Boost Your Social Media Like a Boss

Social media marketing is evolving at rapid speed. Being ordinary isn’t going to help your brand grow. In this article I want to share how to boost your social media like a boss and grow your business or brand.

It’s not rocket science to boost your social media but it does take planning and effort. Let’s look at some ideas that you can implement right away. 1. Think progress not perfection

Marie Forleo‘s weekly videos preach this simple (much needed) motto. If you focus too much on perfectio...