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Simplest Ways to Make the Best of Goodreads

Are you on GoodReads? If you’re trying to learn more about a topic or advance in your career, reading can be the path to your success. Goodreads is the place to track your reading progress and keep a list of the books that you’d like to read.

What Is GoodReads?From their website:
“Goodreads is the largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world. We have more than 9,600,000 members who have added more than 340,000,000 books to their shelves. A home for casual readers and bona-f...

Creatively Build Your Ideal Instagram Audience

Building an audience for your small business, services, or creative entrepreneurship can be a challenge. Using these smart ideas, you can connect with your ideal Instagram audience.

The biggest thing to consider is that social media successdo not happen overnight. Social media takes time and patience. Therefore, if you have a product, book to launch, or something with a specific deadline, you need to work on this well in advance so you have time to cultivate relationships and build your soc...

How to Use Pinterest for Creative Entrepreneurs

Calling all creative entrepreneurs! If you’ve been hearing how amazing Pinterest is but haven’t figured out how to use it – this is for you! Pinterest is the number two traffic referral to websites. Is traffic coming to your projects, blog, or creative business? Learn how to use Pinterest for creative entrepreneurs for professional purposes and grow your business with social media.

Facebook has long been the biggest force for many small business and creative entrepreneurs but organic reach p...

10 Smart Gifts to Inspire Creative Entrepreneurs

Being a creative entrepreneur is a dream for many people and is becoming a viable career for many others. These gifts can help you or your favorite creative entrepreneur be more creative and productive wherever they are on their journey – from idea phase to actively working on marketing their products and services.

Honestly, the best gift that you can give a creative entrepreneur is your love and support. Doing what you love and putting your dreams out into the world isn’t easy. Supporting t...

How to Communicate your Personal Brand on Twitter

Communicating your personal brand on Twitter can be a challenging but with a little time setting things up and planning for your personal brand, you’ll be tweeting like a pro in no time.

How you choose to present yourself on Twitter to share who you are and what you’re all about is key. Every choice that you make in setting up your Twitter account is a little piece of what people know about you and what you tweet is, of course, also important.

Let’s look at how you can put the pieces togethe...

5 Must-Follow Pinterest Boards for Social Media Fans

Perfectly curated Pinterest boards are a goldmine of great information. I spend a lot of time making sure that my boards are refreshed with relevant and interesting content for people to find and repin to their boards.

My love for Pinterest continues to grow as my resources build and I pin to my Pinterest board collections. Pinterest is for sharing and marketing but my number one reason to pin is to gather inspiration and save valuable resources.

I’ve put together a collection of Pinterest...

How Content Marketing Can Fuel Your Entrepreneurial Success

Can content marketing work? Is content marketing a buzzword or solid business plan?

What’s the surest way to startup failure? Follow old, outdated rules.If the same old, same old isn’t working and your ideas are going nowhere, you need somethingnew.

What you need is a NEW rulebook for entrepreneurial success. Enter Content Inc. In Content Inc.:How Entrepreneurs use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses , one of today’s most sought-after content-marketi...

Dramatically Improve your Blog Quality

If you’re a blogger I’m sure, like me, you spend way too much time thinking about your blog. Analyzing your content. Stressing over details like plugins, titles, visual content, and social sharing. The struggle is real. There’sa super crowded streamof blog content.So, how can you dramatically improve your blog quality without going crazy or broke? Find a blogging partner!

As the old saying goes, two heads are better than one. Although my blog is a single author blog, I work with a blogging...

Instagram Productivity Tips: How to Create a Workflow that Works

One of the biggest challenges for Instagram is that it is only mobile, and a lot of people just get stuck on “I just don’t even know what to post or how to post.” They don’t know any great shortcuts or have a workflow. My goal for you when you are done with this post is to have an idea how to create shortcuts for yourself and get into the habit of regularly posting on Instagram. You’ll beto really be ready to roll with your Instagram productivity.

We’re going to talk about the right tools a...

How to Make a Splash on Twitter with Visual Marketing

Visual marketing is important on all the major social media platforms and Twitter is no exception. If you want more retweets and favorites, these Twitter tips will get your Twitter visuals in shape.

I know you’re dying to learn visual marketing tips for Twitter and this week I have a treat for you. I have a guest post from my friend Aaron Lee!Aaron is the Grand Master of Customer Delight at Post Planner. When he is not writing, he’s finding the perfect cup of coffee and trying to perfect his...