Building an email list to serve my audience has been the single most influential thing I have done. Unfortunately, though, I wasn’t always good about actually emailing the list. Since the beginning of this year I have started sending my email newsletter list an actual newsletter. This has been a gamechanger for my workflow and…
Archives for June 2018
Always prefer to be taught by all . . .
As a writer and former educator, I love teaching people. The trouble is that I often feel compelled to offer advice when it isn’t really wanted. I can get let the pride of knowledge cloud my ability to listen to and learn from others. I love this quote from St. John of the Cross: “Always…
Social Media Goals
I’ve worked in digital marketing for about ten years now. Somehow I keep falling into the same temptation again and again. When it comes to social media marketing, everyone wants to get more followers. We compare ourselves to other influencers or other businesses similar to ours and we feel bad about how many more followers…
Success = Change
Success is helping people make a change they seek to make. That is how Seth Godin described success on a recent Entreleadership podcast. The focus on change was my #1 takeaway from Godin’s Marketing Seminar last year. The question he asks participants at the beginning of the course is: What change are you seeking to…
Batching Your Work
I suffer from a problem that a lot of other artists and entrepreneurs deal with on a day to day basis. We have so many ideas and projects that we want to work on that we end up starting but not finishing many different projects at the same time. As a results, we tend to…
