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Visual Brand Design For Small Businesses

“Getting clear on their ideal customer and getting to know them,” says Jackie. She explains that you should really know the details before starting the project, including, where they live, their values what their family situation is like versus their business situation, are they working full time or freelancing?

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Getting Your Business Legally Legit

Wondering how to decipher all the legal “stuff” when it comes to your business? In this podcast, I spoke with Demetrius about how business owners can navigate their businesses through a legal lens.

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Squarespace Website Pros and Cons

Have you been stalking Squarespace to see if it’s the right website platform for you? We’ve all been there, in the undecided phase. You know, the one where you watch 20 videos just to see if they help you make a choice for your business? Well, here’s another one for you.

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Book Review: How to Get Sh*t Done by Erin Falconer

Having an endless to-do list started in high school. Between being in AP classes to writing for the city’s student page, the list started growing. Somewhere along the way, it started becoming endless, just like the guilt of not completing it all.

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Starting and Maintaining a Business Using Sustainable Strategies

Melissa Wick’s passion lies in helping budding entrepreneurs think about how they can use their business to have an impact on the community. Although she understands we’re all looking to monetize our ideas and bring products to life, she knows that it’s important to have a strategy embedded into the business to showcase what motivates you - a cause that’s important to you.

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High Performance Habits Book Review Part 3

Brendon’s book, High Performance Habits, is starting to grow on me. Although I do believe that the Intro and “Beyond Natural: The Quest for High Performance” sections could be skipped (or at least listened to at 1.5 speed), he’s hit multiple points in his book, High Performance Habits, that make sense to me as a business owner.

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Busting Through LinkedIn Myths

Want to know the top LinkedIn Myths and how to gain more traction on the platform? Deanna Russo, owner of Leverage Up, busts through the myths and gives us actionable tips to increase our LinkedIn know-how.

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3 Things I Learned About Business In 2020

2020 has been a crazy year for my business although not necessarily because anything out of the ordinary happened with the business itself. In reality, it was everything else, including virtual schooling, not being able to concentrate, and my uncanny ability to add more to my plate (literally and figuratively) when I’m already full. The business was actually holding steady growth despite everything going on. So here’s a rundown of what I’ve learned about business in 2020.

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High Performance Habits Book Review Part 2

Ok, I have to admit, it really felt like Brendon was speaking to me at the beginning of section 1, Seek Clarity. Sifting through the comments about all the powerful people he’s worked with, I found myself stopping as soon as he mentioned that, oftentimes, no one knows that the high achiever is a hot mess.

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PR For Small Businesses — Website Design In Columbus, Ohio

PR Communications for small businesses doesn’t have to be scary. In today’s episode, I interviewed Yiema John, a PR specialist located in Columbus, Ohio, and helping entrepreneurs nationwide. “Communication is something that we all need to be good at,” says Yiema, “...whether we're communicating with friends and family to a C level executive.”

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High Performance Habits By Brendon Burchard - Book Review

The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing. I believe that your main thing can be anything that excites you so much that it’s hard to fall asleep and easy to wake up. It’s the one thing that makes you gleefully drop off your kids at daycare each morning. Well, I do that either way, but I digress.

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5 Ways To Update Your Website

Looking to freshen up your website in the new year? Here are my top 5 tips to give your site that revamp it’s been needing. First, though, there are a few things to keep in mind: are you pivoting your business or just refreshing your website?

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Small Business Website Reviews

Recently, I hosted an event for the Digital Hustle Tribe to get their small business websites reviewed. You can catch the full video below or the audio version where I go through the main points quickly.

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7 Steps Before Building Your Website

Whether you’re creating your website from a blank slate or redesigning the whole thing, it can be a daunting task for a business owner. The worse part is when you have to go through the process all over again because the foundation, aka: planning, wasn’t done from the start. That’s wasted budget and time.

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7 Website Steps To Take BEFORE Building

Been wanting to get started on your business website? Stop! Make sure you’re not missing these crucial steps! As a note: this solo episode is a crossover with a blog post recently in my Studio Notes. Check out the FULL article and let me know if you have any questions.

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