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10 Ways Trello Will Make You a Social Media Management Pro

Social media management is challenging and the one key factor to success is organization. It’s impossible to juggle all the balls that you need to with social media if you aren’t organized. In this article, I’m going to share ten ways that Trello will make you a social media management pro.

I use these Trello tricksto manage my blog and social media platforms. This keeps meon track and sharp. Andthey can help you get organized too!

If you haven’t used Trello yet, open your account here. You...

How to Harness Your Authentic Voice and Think Bigger

In the online world, the echo chamber is getting bigger by the day. If you’re struggling with how to harness your authentic voice and get your ideas heard, then this article and book are for you.

For My Book Club this month I read Louder Than Words: Harness the Power of Your Authentic Voice by Todd Henry which talks about how to find your true, authentic voice and do more than check off lists and complete projects. On your path to finding your true voice, you need to define what you stand fo...

DIY Design: How To Design Stunning Images Yourself

Images can make or break a landing page, promotion, or social media post. They are the many faces and personalities of your brand, which is why it’s so important to get them right! But how, you ask, can you make them easily, quickly, all the while ensuring their effectiveness and quality? Learn some of myvisual marketing powerhouse tips to design stunning images yourself.

Creating images doesn’t have to be at the bottom of your to-do-list, and you don’t have to be a pro to make them look imp...

How to Discover Your Breakthrough Idea To Stand Out

Simply working hard isn’t enough to get your idea discovered these days. To make a name for yourself or to be successful in certain industries you need to learn to stand out online and build a following. It’s time to be bold and get your ideas out there in the world.

Dorie Clark’s book Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It is perfect for entrepreneurs and people wanting to learn how to find their big idea and become a renegade thinker.

Stand Out: How t...

Five Inspiring Approaches to Improve Your Facebook Page using Visual Marketing

Managing a Facebook Page is one of the hardest social media tasks to do well. It’s a challenge due to the constant changes on Facebook as well as the fierce competition for attention.

Frankly, a lot of Facebook Page managers aren’t doing a good enough job and they’re blaming it on Facebook’s algorithm changes. Yes, I know that makes things hard but you can learn to create a Facebook Page worth following. Here are five ways that you can improve your Facebook Page with better visual marketing....

How to use LinkedIn SlideShare to Create Eye Candy that Converts

Are you using LinkedIn SlideShare as a social media marketing option?
Are you using LinkedIn SlideShare presentations to market your business?

Have you considered Linked In SlideShare as a conversion tool?

LinkedIn SlideShare is useful for sharing highly informative presentations with your audience, but it’s also a hot social platform. Many businesses are missing out on the huge potential of SlideShare as a social marketing and lead conversion tool.

In this article you’ll discover four simpl...

4 Fantastic Design Ideas For Facebook Pages

Facebook Page management is one of the toughest social media tasks. Keeping up with all the changes in how to post and what type of posts to share canleave you fried for the basic tasks like creating great visual content. If you’ve found that you’re struggling to create great visual content for your Facebook Page, I hope these five ideas can help jump start your creative process and get your ideas flowing.

To power up your Facebook design, use the proper size images for Facebook posts so you...

Everything You Need To Know About Canva For Work

I’m super excited to share the details of Canva for Work! I’ve been usingthese amazing features as they’ve been working on them at Canva. As you may remember, I was Head of Social Strategy for Canva for about six months and Guy Kawasaki is the Chief Evangelist and I work with Mr. K so I’m still connected with Canva. I was sworn to secrecy on these cool new features and I kept my part of the bargain until now! So, here are the great new things that you have coming soon to yourlaptop or iPad.

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Check Out Facebook’s New LIVE Video Feature in Mentions

Facebook has added a brand-new feature to it’s exclusive Mentions iPhone app. Mentions was launched in 2014 to a limited number of people. From Facebook, “Mentions is a better way for actors, musicians and other influencers to stay in touch with their fans and the people and things they care about on Facebook.”

Some of the unique features in the Facebook Mentions app:

• Go Live – Tell your story as it happens with live video.
• Talk with Fans – See what people are saying about you and the to...

5 Time Management Ideas That Can Better Your Life

I get asked all the time how I manage everything that I do with social media and blogging and the best answer for that is time management. What people want to hear is that there’s one magic button that you can hit to fast track your to-do list and be successful but there’s not.

This month for My Book Club, I read I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time by Laura Vanderkam and loved learning about her research based on time logs of 1,001 days of women who make...