Marketing Meeting: Elyse Sparkes

Marketing Meeting: Elyse Sparkes

In the Marketing Meeting series I talk to some of my my fave online entrepreneurs to learn more about the tools and techniques they employ to grow their biz and bring in the moolah. No overnight sensation stories here–just the facts. Time for the Marketing...
9 Alternatives to an Email Newsletter

9 Alternatives to an Email Newsletter

Newsletter. I’m signed up for plenty (and if I’m signed up for yours, you’re doing a lovely job!). But does anybody else think early 2000s Microsoft Publisher newsletter templates when they see the word? Dull design with a splash of WordArt and grandma-pleasing...
Marketing Meeting: Mallie Rydzik

Marketing Meeting: Mallie Rydzik

Have you ever read an interview with an entrepreneur talking about how their business got going, and it was always some kind of overnight sensation scenario? They got their product featured on the home page of Etsy 2 days after they opened their shop, the Google gods...

The Portfolio: Community Love Fest with Jordana Jaffe

  Every time I finish a project I think, “hey, I should totally add this to my portfolio page!” Yet three months later it sits, staring at me from my computer desktop and making me feel like I’ve abandoned my child. Alas, I decided this cycle must end. That’s why...
5 Business Lessons I Took Away from Mad Men

5 Business Lessons I Took Away from Mad Men

  I haven’t been with Mad Men since the beginning, probably because a little thing called college got in the way of most of my religious TV viewing. It wasn’t until the summer after I graduated that I watched my first episode. I checked out the first season from...

Why You Need to Treat Yourself Like a Client

Oh hello, there. I’m finally emerging from the cave I’ve been in–a magical land where I was buried with projects and then succumbed to a stomach bug that sent me on a ginger ale soaked five-day sabbatical. The good news? I finally watched True Detective (which,...

How to Create Visually Appealing Blog Posts

These days, blog posts are more than just word-heavy masterpieces. Sure, your sentences matter. But you also need to create an article that visually fits with your brand and pulls in readers at first glance. Some of this has to do with your actual blog theme (the...