7 Easy Steps For Creating Amazing Pins That Get Shared

7 Easy Steps For Creating Amazing Pins That Get Shared

Creating pins that will get shared on Pinterest is all about using great images and the words you use to convey your message. You want to attract the reader’s attention so they will stop and click on your pin to share it and to click through to your blog post or sales page.  We've got 7 easy ways to create pins that will make you smile.

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Be Awesome: 3 Ways to Shine on Social Media You Need to Embrace

Be Awesome: 3 Ways to Shine on Social Media You Need to Embrace

How do you stand out in a sea of crowdedness when it seems that have to share is already online?

How do you create space for yourself in the digital world when it seems that there is ALREADY duplicates of you out there in various forms?

Well, here's the good news:  there is NO ONE out there like you.

There is only one you, ever in existence - unrepeatable, unique and vital - whose energy is absolutely needed right here, right now.

What you have to share, what you are here to do, only you can do it.  It is up to you whether you take action... here are the three things you need to embrace with a resounding "YES!"

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Baby Boomers in Millennial Space: 5 Reasons for Boomers to Adopt Social Media and What You Need to Know

Baby Boomers in Millennial Space:  5 Reasons for Boomers to Adopt Social Media and What You Need to Know

Many people say driving is a reflection of your personality. Posting on social media is also like driving in that how you post and what you post on social media is a reflection of your attitudes, behavior, and action:  your personality. 

This article addresses 5 Reasons for Boomers to Adopt Social Media, and to raise awareness of behaviors, whether conscious or unconscious, of how we, as a collective, show up in the space of social media.  After all, if we do not know what our patterning is, there is no hope for progression.

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Fight or Flight on Social Media: What You Need to Know About Pet Peeves and Your Options

Fight or Flight on Social Media: What You Need to Know About Pet Peeves and Your Options

In social media, as in life, there are certain aspects of human interaction that we universally experience.  When you post an accomplishment, it feels good to share the excitement, and have others root for your success. When you are sharing about challenges you are having encouragement from others creates a feeling of validation.

Social media allows us (individually and collectively) to feel seen, heard and understood.  Until we don’t.

Communication breakdowns on social media are similar to ones we have face to face.  And I dare say that due to the sheer volume of people you are interacting with each day, you may feel irked by some of the seemingly rude and inconsiderate people you might come across. 

What do you do when your online interactions make your hairs stand up?  How do find harmony when you are triggered?

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5 Parallels of Social Media And The American Dream You Need To Know

5 Parallels of Social Media And The American Dream You Need To Know

For heart-centered entrepreneurs, digital success is not just about sales, but also about community and freedom to live the life of your dreams!

Social media and blogging enable me a lifestyle that supports my vision of presence for my children, time with my spouse, and success in the world - to make an impact with those whom my work and message resonate.

I started to think deeply about a business that would enable me to work anywhere, anytime I wanted, and I realized that a digital business, fueled by marketing channels via social media is much like the American Dream.

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Presence is a Gift: Looking Deeply at What's Important When It Comes to Building Your Life

Presence is a Gift: Looking Deeply at What's Important When It Comes to Building Your Life

Different things matter now, and I find myself looking deeply at what really is important and continuing to drink in every moment of life.  Every breath with a deep abiding appreciation for all the blessings I have in my life:  my beautiful family, my loving husband, my health and my amazing support system.

Look deeply at what's really important to you.  The desire to build a lifestyle business is a soul's call, but, in addition to making things work, presence to the inner journey is of great value. 

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Answering The Call: Knowing YOUR "Why" Makes All the Difference

Answering The Call: Knowing YOUR "Why" Makes All the Difference

I'm Going...You Wanna Come? | I'm Ready ... Are You? 

Well, ya know that nudge that I'm always talking about on my radio show "The Call of Spirit: Tune In toPossibility?”

Sweet Jesus, the nudge is real!!

For a couple years now, that nudge has evolved a push, and not necessarily a gentle one, ya know?

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9 Steps to Social Media Campaigns to Make You More Effective

9 Steps to Social Media Campaigns to Make You More Effective

The following nine steps are efficiency reminders for busy entrepreneurs.  These nine simple steps give order and strategy to the monster we call social media. It helps us to hone in our campaigns and provides a process so that we can see the trees from the forest. 

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10 Secret, Smart and Productive Habits You Need to Have

10 Secret, Smart and Productive Habits You Need to Have

Those who are entrepreneurs love the lifestyle: freedom, the ability to make your own decisions, and unlimited income.  Along with the awesome lifestyle and freedom of an entrepreneur, one must be disciplined around some of the challenges of entrepreneurship.  This article addresses the self-management of an entrepreneur.  With so many issues that arise on a daily basis, there are a number of things that effective, smart entrepreneurs deal with that allow them to be productive.  This article addresses the 10 most important traits that every smart, effective, productive entrepreneur possesses.  More

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6 Easy, Actionable Steps on Social Media You Need to Take

6 Easy, Actionable Steps on Social Media You Need to Take

If you are interested in a wide reach when you post there are 6 easy actionable step that MUST be taken to assure results. In order for it to break through the algorithms set in place by the social media platforms, it is really important that the steps are taken daily, on a consistent basis, for organic reach to go further.

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5 Easy Steps on How to Create Powerful Social Content

5 Easy Steps on How to Create Powerful Social Content

The content you produce must be able to cut through today's noise and it must stand out from the abundance social media postings online.  Stop back and evaluate your service, program, or product.  What problem does it solve?  How does it educate? Does your content entertain the reader?  Your unique high-quality, authentic, content should have 1 of 3 goals ... 

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5 Powerful Reasons I Switched to CoSchedule for Social Media Postings

5 Powerful Reasons I Switched to CoSchedule for Social Media Postings

Of the various schedulers I have tried over the years to streamline my social media content, nothing comes close to the robust capabilities that CoSchedule offers.  CoSchedule is a web-based social media management system that is not simply a scheduler but also a marketing calendar that provides organization for my content.  Five powerful reasons convinced me to convert to CoSchedule as my go-to social scheduler of choice for social media...

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6 Social Media Platforms: How To Decide Where You Need to Be

6 Social Media Platforms: How To Decide Where You Need to Be

As of January 2017, there are 2.8 active social media users world wide, with an increase of 22% since 2016.  They are not all on the same platforms, so where are your peeps?

Which social media platform(s) are your people most like to show up? If you have a clear idea of who your ideal client is, the following statistics and information from Pew Research would be all the more meaningful for you.

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How to Attract Your Audience with Irresistible Content

How to Attract Your Audience with Irresistible Content

Social media is a wonderful platform to build community online.  If you are interested in truly building an engaged and active community, it's time to take a leadership role in gathering your tribe. Coupled with deciding on a theme, the use of hashtags help greatly in your quest to grow your audience. Hashtags and social media are wonderful for joining in on discussions and conversations allowing others to find you. 

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9 Social Media Schedulers Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know

9 Social Media Schedulers Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know

If you have decided to build community through social media, social media schedulers are a MUST HAVE tool.  Social media schedulers help you sort, organize and plan your campaigns so that you can engage with your audience.

With soooo many options out there, where do you start?  In this article, I’ve created 3 sections of distinction, based on price, which is also a function of capacity.  

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The Share Worthy Factor When It Comes to Content Marketing

The Share Worthy Factor When It Comes to Content Marketing

The key to content marketing success is it’s shareable factor. When you share information that speaks directly to your tribe, it resonates like a universal truth. 

Your interesting, totally relatable, highly applicable content is considered valuable, quality information, and begs to be shared. 

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Lack of Storage & The Solution to Space

Lack of Storage & The Solution to Space

Social media today has become visually intensive. It is imperative to have great pictures when we submit a post to our Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest accounts. Our mobile devices have become more and more sophisticated to support this function. Yet, when we run out of storage space on our device, what can we do?

The solution for lack of storage on your phone is to back up it and move your precious photos to another device.  How do we do so without much effort?

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Content Strategy: Why Content Is Not Just King, It Is The Soul Of Small Business

Content Strategy: Why Content Is Not Just King, It Is The Soul Of Small Business

Now, more than ever, producing share worthy content as part of your digital marketing strategy is integral to success.  For the solopreneur, infopreneur and entrepreneur, it is even more critical to make content the foundation of your services and offerings. For the entrepreneur, content is the soul of small business

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