
5 Fool-Proof Social Media Musts to Grow Your Small Business
Let's face it... growing a successful small business can be nothing short of a f*cking grind!
Even if it's founded on something you're passionate about. Maybe especially so, as all of your time, energy – sweat, blood, tears! – and money…

Is Facebook Still Relevant For My Business?
Yes, yes, and YES!
No question, with all that's befallen the social media behemoth in recent months, it's certainly fair to ponder whether or not Facebook is still relevant – to average, everyday users as well as your business.
Enjoy the…

The Power of Content: Shaping a Culture Around Your Business
When it comes to approaching social media and the other communications deployed to build a brand or business it's important to understand the significance of content and how it can be instrumental in developing and shaping the culture around…

Social Media & Content Marketing: Is it Good for Small Business?
Did you know that one in five relationships and one in six marriages was initiated online? Over 67 percent of consumers utilize social media for customer service. The average person spends around an hour and 40 minutes browsing social…

Your Content Marketing: It's Really Quite Simple... Just Not Easy!
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon yesterday talking to a small business, web design client about how she might amp up and generate engagement with not only her website but also her social media, specifically Facebook – tools integral to…

How’s Your Elevator Pitch? 9 Tips to Make It More Effective
You have an unexpected opportunity to sell your big idea or new business venture to a potential new client or investor. The research shows that you’ll have NO MORE than 30 seconds to deliver your best pitch. Are you ready?!
If you…

Creative Content Works... Even If Your Niche Might Be A Little Boring
It's 2017 and I'm trying not to crawl down that crazy rabbit hole of offering more content marketing trends to expect for the coming year. It's tough... because I, like every other entrepreneur out there, wants to know what will be most…

Mess and Creativity Go Hand in Hand!
Is messiness a sign of creativity?
I certainly like to think so as I, yet again, transfer piles to other piles, essentially taking from Peter to lose Paul behind yet another stack of obvious essentials: tax forms, bills, favourite notebook(s),…

The royalty that is content creation
Content is king, so they – the royal they, as in that all-consuming entity known as the innernets – continue to crow. or, queen, as is my preference. And it's true. content creation dominates the messaging of the Information Age.
Google…

Getting someone to do what you want
When people have their own reasons for doing things, they get done. bottom line.
Whether it's your colleague, employee, boss or teenager, unless you can glean from them what their motivations are, or what it is that sparks their reasons…