You woke up in the morning, tired, a little annoyed and not looking forward to what lie ahead. You wondered what crazy task your boss would ask of you, or which of your clients would have the strangest demands. You grumbled your way to the office (wherever that may be), booted up the computer and let out a huge sigh. It was going to be...
Blogging at its root is simple: it is words on a (web)page, put together and reachable by anyone with internet and your blog address. There are life bloggers, business bloggers, mommy bloggers, pet bloggers, food bloggers, pretty-much-anything-you-can-think-of bloggers, and every single one of them is doing the exact same thing: putting words on a screen for their readers to see. Blogging is not segregated. There...
A few weeks ago, we covered strategy questions. Those questions were created to help you determine more about your business in general. But, your business is not just work, phone calls and clients. Your business is you, your good things, your bad things, your personal life and your business life. Learning more about who you are and who you are in your business will help...
Can you provide an answer to ALL of the following questions:What is your business strategy? What is your blog strategy? What is your twitter strategy? What is your facebook strategy? What is your branding strategy? What is your personal strategy? What is you financial strategy? What is your conversation strategy? What is your networking strategy?If you can’t answer them, you need to take some time out of your schedule and come up with...
Today, I saw @paulttran tweeting about elevator pitches and it got me thinking about mine. On April 6th last year, one day before my life changed and Wright Creativity became more than just a blog, I was participating in the 31 days to a better blog challenge from problogger. He asked us to create an elevator pitch for our blog – tell our readers what they...
I spelled a tag wrong but it’s already attached to a post, what do I do? I have received this question about a half dozen times each week, and finally have decided to write a quick post, outlining how to change tags, simply and effectively…On the dashboard, click the “posts” section Click on post tags Either search for the tag you are looking for (partial words/tags will show...
How many of us work on projects, take on clients, or attempt to do things that we know we’re just hurting ourselves trying to handle? *hint: the answer starts with every and ends with one* When I attempted to hand code html or php, it hurts. So I don’t do that anymore. Instead, I found someone that I trust and I can work with that...
Over the next 25 posts, ending on my birthday, I will be covering an incredibly creative moment or idea from a year of my life AND one creative moment in either the marketing, advertising, technology or media world. 1990 – the year I fell in love with writing and CBS realized their biggest mistake. In first grade, I made my first book and found my passion for...
A couple months ago, I did the problogger challenge to improve my blog. One post we wrote was about analyzing the traffic to your blog – monitoring analytics. What I failed to talk about in the post was whether or not I was actually using those analytics to make changes and improve my blog (which I am). One of the most important pieces of my traffic...
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. – Mary Kay Ash Being the daughter of a Mary Kay senior sales director meant quotes like this were commonly heard in...
