It would be my second David vs. Goliath battle. A non-compete agreement would prevent any new
designs in the bridal stationers market. But that document didn’t say I couldn’t open up a design shop for other things.

How did this battle even begin?

Etsy’s relationship with sellers has continued to go downhill. Here’s why I closed my shop after five successful years, and why I think Etsy is only good for new, yet-to-be-established brands.

Looking for a list of brand storytelling ideas or prompts?

If you’re spending a LOT of time drafting up blog posts, trying to figure out what to say, or wish you had content that was practically impossible to copy by others, tune in.

The world seemed huge to me (and chaotic), until I met an elderly man named John Campbell.

If you enjoy putting some love into your brand, you’re going to find yourself deep-diving into this concept. 

You have probably heard that storytelling as part of your marketing strategy is a good idea, because it helps create relatability with your audience. Storytelling connects us all. Today I’ll share some storytelling methods you can easily use in email marketing. Before we get started with this post, though, just some quick admin stuff! This […]

The Larson vs. Dorland Perry “Bad Art Friend” case, copyright infringement, plagiarism in the writing community hit the news. Here are some of my takes and experiences.

Find out why you may want to reconsider farming out your Pinterest account and pinning activities to a third party.

Use the Pinterest Visual Search Tool for a variety of reasons! Learn more about the ways I personally use it in my business and what you can learn from the results.

Thinking of investing in Canva templates? Here’s how to customize Canva templates for your brand, so you can make any set truly your own.

These fonts are the best farmhouse fonts for branding and design. Use them for all kinds of home or design projects for that farmhouse feel.

This collection is the best signature fonts for branding that I’ve used in my graphic design business. Only the best font creators included.

Still using HTML and color adjustments in Flodesk to match your website? Have Elementor? Find out how to quickly use Forms in Elementor to integrate quickly with Flodesk without any design hassle whatsoever.

Curious how a welcome kit can help you welcome and retain more clients? This eBook may help you out.

Announcing the arrival of the “Lifestyle Solitude” Canva template! This is a quiet, minimalist Canva template designed for lifestyle bloggers.

Pinterest recently came out and said they’re going to favor and place more preference on new images and content rather than old pins. Read my opinions on some things floating around out there!

Because Pinterest is such a visual medium, it’s essential authors understand how to best market themselves with images rather than words!

Artful Agenda is a new calendar app that syncs with a ton of different online account calendars in the most gorgeous way!

Features and Favorites: preset 11 will help you correct over-exposed whites and warm up the skin tone (perfect for overly bright scenes). Preset 1 (featured in mother/daughter image) is one of my favorites for all-around application.

There’s been a decent amount of debate recently on various blogs about whether or not, as a Pinterest marketer, you need to pin other peoples’ and brands’ pins.
Some say, “yes, but no”.
Other say, “yes”.
And there’s a rare few that say “no”.
As an expert with Pinterest marketing, and having written the #1 preferred book on the topic, I’ll put this matter to bed for you once and for all and support my position on this with reasons.

It took me a long time to realize the truth: you don’t necessarily need the most expensive schedulers to get what you want posted effectively, and with ease. And… you can save time with one specific feature that few schedulers offer. When I think about all the time and money I wasted setting up and trying out various schedulers…

The Lady Boss Canva Template set is here! This template bundle designed for Canva features over 500 templates for your brand.

Ideas galore for email marketing content! Check out these amazing prompts to get your readers looking forward to your emails

Struggling with coming up with email headlines that your readers will actually take action on? Check out this amazing workbook filled with all kinds of email subject line ideas!

How exactly do you write a sales funnel email sequence? What kind of emails should be included in a a sales funnel?

These 10 plugins are ones I use for my WordPress blog, and I couldn’t run my multiple websites without them in place. Here are my favorites!

Pinterest Marketing Amplification is the sequel book to Pinterest Marketing: 80k to 14+ Million in 3 Months. Read about the 7 methods to amplify your Pinterest account so you can better reach your ideal audience.

What should you focus on more? Quality content or quantity? How do you balance quality writing with needing to put out a lot of content? Here are some arguments and thoughts on the matter.

Looking for quality Pinterest marketing business tips? Here’s 100 that you should know if you’re starting out on Pinterest. New book release for a quick read and high-level tips to get you started in the right direction.

Pinterest Marketing Amplification is the sequel book to Pinterest Marketing: 80k to 14+ million in 3 months. Learn about the 7 methods of marketing amplification so you can reach your ideal audience.

The evil blank cursor taunts you from a white screen as you try to figure out what to send your email list.
Your freebie incentive just isn’t working. You get maybe a few signups every month, but the unsubscribes cancel out your growth. You’re not growing your email list.
You know that email sequences work, but yours is sad, pitiful, or it’s not bringing in sales like you had hoped.

There’s been some debate online on whether Pinterest monthly views are a vanity metric or not. So today, let’s open this up and debate this from a few different angles, so you can decide for yourself, once and for all, if you actually believe the Pinterest “experts” that make this claim. For starters, I’m a […]

One of the things I teach in my Pinterest Amplification course is the 7 methods of Pinterest amplification. This is not taught by anyone else, and is exclusive to the Pinterest Amplification course. It has an incredible impact not just on traffic but pre-qualified follower growth, as well. Essentially, the goal with any Pinterest pin […]

My official Creative Market online marketplace review! Creative Market seems like it would be a great place for creative types to be and open shop. Think again. Having been with them for over 3 years, with a successful shop with several 5-star reviews, I closed up shop on their platform for a multitude of reasons. Here are some pretty big reasons why I’ll never recommend Creative Market for creatives, my Creative Market online marketplace review.

Today I thought I would highlight some author software that I use to make my writing experiences top-notch, creating happiness where there is work, and quality, finished products where there is so much to compile. Author software is just one of those things you have to invest in. So instead of sending you down a […]

This is a BBQ sauce that is light, easy to spread, and better yet, uses recycled or repurposed pickle juice from your empty pickle jars.

Now you have something cool to make with leftover pickle juice!

The secret trick to this amazing BBQ sauce is in the recycled pickle juice brine that you can use from an empty jar of pickles. We’ve found the best kind to be the Vlassic Zesty, for that special kind of kick. You can also add some heat with the red pepper flakes, but that is completely optional.

“What exactly IS copy?”, you might be asking. Copy is also known as copywriting. It’s the mixture of words you use for your business, in your writing of blog posts, and in the text that you use to juice up any product or offering. 

Create custom Pinterest board covers or make Pinterest board covers from pins, which will help your audience see your brand’s overall style.

Learn the ins and outs of creating multi-dimensional pin designs, and why to use a unique, original Pinterest pin design template.

Learn about the recommended Pinterest pin size to use. Here are some other Pinterest tips, as well, so you can grow your account!

Here’s how to look attractive on Pinterest and also how to create a certain esthetic. Get some ideas on how to curate your style for brands.

The most important board on your Pinterest account is your brand board. Why? It represents your mission, product, and worldview.

Seasonal content on Pinterest should be pinned about 2-3 months in advance of the season. Should you loop seasonal content?

Use the notifications alerts on Pinterest to identify pinning ideas Pinterest is showing. This will help you get new ideas for your brand.

Pinning on-brand content on Pinterest is key to both growing your audience on Pinterest and getting website traffic.

Use Pinterest secret boards to hide pending projects, and still use Pinterest for personal use without it impacting your business brand.

Learn more about high-quality content, a must for achieving Pinterest marketing success.

How many Pinterest lifestyle boards are a good idea? How many are too many? Here are some recommendations for those Pinterest boards.

Pin descriptions matter on Pinterest! Learn how to balance keyword stuffing and writing by learning how to write a pin description.

What you’ll find is that Pinterest provides analytics, but only for the past 30 days. By using a spreadsheet, you can track of your success.

Learn how to just be you on Pinterest. Do your own thing, and don’t try to copy what everyone else is doing. Find your voice and style!

Want to know what people are pinning from your site? Also, why should you pin from your site to Pinterest directly?

Find quality accounts to follow on Pinterest. Here is how to find the best accounts to follow on Pinterest.

Your Pinterest profile picture should simply be high resolution because it’s a smaller area to fill and you don’t want it to be fuzzy.

Pinterest rich pins add your website name and your blog post title to every single pin from your website. Their metadata can be updated.

The Pinterest verification tool allows you to claim your website, along with your Instagram account, Etsy shop and more.

Pinterest Marketing: 80k to 14+ Million in 3 Months reveals my journey in building a blog, marketing it, and how I grew.

How do you fight back on book piracy without giving the pirate more traffic? Here’s how to make things difficult for book piracy websites.

Here are signs you might be over-branding instead of relating things to your brand. Think of branding as a style or mood. Not a logo sticker.

Here are the Pinterest trends for 2019 and design trends to watch in 2019. Find out what I anticipate to be incredibly popular in 2019!

Learn how to create a valuable and relevant opt-in freebie so you can grow your email list! Download my free opt-in freebie checklist!

Reblogged article from Shelf Life, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die – a great article and list of books I’m sharing with you today!

Looking for delightful Pinterest boards for authors and writers to follow? Here are 30 Pinterest boards specifically for you.

Today I’m highlighting some of my favorite January themes and ideas for bullet journaling or for my fellow bujo lovers.

Charcuterie boards can solve a lot of your toddler mealtime issues. As a WFH mom, finding these charcuterie board ideas changed my life!

A family Christmas tradition helps us keep Christmas alive for more than just one day. This is how we do the holiday season!

I turned all my questions and things I needed to contemplate into the Millionaire Blogger Fresh Start Workbook & Planning Guide. 

Being a book blogger is great, and we love them. But if you’re going to be one, don’t tag authors with your negative reviews.

An Instagram puzzle template can help you spruce up your Instagram feed. Check out this Instagram puzzle layout and template download.

Branding concepts or creating your brand concept comes down to figuring out seven elements. Learn how to enhance your brand concepts website!

The new “Pinterest Strategy” book is now live on Amazon. Focus on your Pinterest marketing strategy or learn new pinteresting strategies!

Email marketing is about connecting through storytelling, sharing lessons… and what your reader’s future could be.

There are a zillion reasons you’ll want to stay positive with your blog. Always plan for the positive, or you might find yourself in a lurch.

Little white lies authors might tell themselves: a list of things that a ‘fake it till you make it’ mindset involves & why it’s detrimental.

All things positive will happen when you clean up your email list. Money-saving reasons aside, dropping extra weight helps you weed things.

Art is subjective. Book covers are just as subjective. And you’re going to probably get varying opinions everywhere.

Fake reviews on Amazon can be bought on Fiverr and any other gig-oriented app. Here’s how to spot fake accounts and authors.

Pinterest marketing for authors is a little different than how you’d apply Pinterest for bloggers, retailers, fashion bloggers, & big brands.

Thinking about cleaning up your Pinterest boards? Here’s what happened when I did a Pinterest board cleanse.

Watch out for these types of services providers that offer publishing assistance and editing services to authors.

Do AMS ads include paperback sales? Get insight into the various Amazon ads so you understand how everything is reported.

There are so many benefits for using Scrivener for blogging. Here’s how I use it and why I recommend using it as both a blogger and author.

This writing planner will help you log your word count, plan your novel in 30 days, record your book log stats, and review competitors.

Over the weekend I was checking in with some of my Learn Pinterest Strategy course students and realized I had just turned over 3000 enrollments – my jaw dropped. After launching my course last year, I figured that no one would even be interested in it. I mean, after all, there are some free ones out there (but they don’t go into as much detail) and there are some really expensive courses, too.

Christian authors who responded to me were often the most rude, entitled, and self-righteous people I have ever come across.

…Every Author Needs to Know As an author myself (but mostly blogger), I’ve learned a great deal of insight with book marketing over the years. If you take away anything from this post, it’s that you’ll learn a lot about marketing purely from testing and observation, two things that I think many authors frequently don’t […]

Learn the difference between information vs. commercial wording. First, start with the end goal and what course of action you want.

This one thing, the double opt-in, could be hurting your email list in a big way, and could be hurting your sales, too.

Have you dreamed about having your blog earning over a million dollars a year?

Feminine styled stock photos are gorgeous images you can add to your social media a blog. Here’s a whole list of the best ones!

The Amazon book publishing game can become addictive both in a good way, and also in a terribly bad way.

This is an entrepreneur list of 50 things for your bullet journal to give you some ideas to fill your bullet journal and cross things off!

Repurpose your content in over 100 different ways with this book available on Amazon. Repurposing marketing content is easy!

Here’s how to keep your customers coming back; and tips on how you can lure them into new sales.

LinkedIn email spam comes in two forms, and one of them is when a contact adds you to their email list without your permission.

Launch your new product with ease and confidence with these key tips for product marketing.

Here are 5 ways to promote affiliate products. Depending on what you sell, there’s a few different ways to go about marketing products.

Here are a few ways your website design impacts your business sales. Get more wow-factor for your website with better design.