Posts by Jamie Teasdale
Disabled By Instagram: When Social Platforms Shut You Down For No Reason
UPDATE 6/26/19: After going through every route available, pleading with Instagram to return my account to me, or send me a full download of ALL of my captions and photos, I received an email on Wednesday, June 26th. Instagram informed me that my account had been reactivated and they apologized for the inconvenience. Before I…
Read MoreBlogging: Make Search Engines Love You!
Create SEO friendly content and hone in on your keywords “What SEO keywords should I use?” has become a cubical question to ask in business blogging. We can no longer install a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugin and add an exhaustive list of words to every page of our blog. With each of Google’s releases…
Read MoreThe Greatest Showman: Going 7 Levels Deep with P.T. Barnum’s ‘Why’
Editor’s note: This blog category, Business Lessons We Learn From Movies, is one of my favorites, and the movie I’m reviewing today, is one of my new favorites, too! As a movie buff it’s not difficult for me to find beauty, inspiration, emotion, ideas, or even motivation watching a great flick. I might be behind…
Read MoreAlways Remember Your Why, Entrepreneur!
When work, life, communicating, or just getting out of bed gets hard, always remember your why, entrepreneur! It was mid-March of 2009 when the economy had already started collapsing that the company I was working for called all employees from across the globe into a mandatory, all-employee meeting. When the meeting was over, ladies were…
Read MoreRefocus Your Steps to Success: 2nd Quarter Preparation
Wasn’t it just yesterday we were thinking about our New Year’s resolutions and wondering what the year might hold for us? And yet here we are, in the month of April! As we approach the end of the 1st quarter, it’s a strategic time to review what we’ve accomplished so far, and look ahead at…
Read MoreWhat Every Entrepreneur Should Keep in Mind When Communicating
If there is one thing I’ve learned throughout my life, it’s that communication is vital, and how we communicate makes all the difference, but communication isn’t just by verbal words. In my high school English class, I learned that grammar, punctuation, proper spelling, sentence structure, and the flow of a story all add up. In…
Read More4 Team Building Areas Solopreneurs Need to Understand
Building a team of professionals can be one of the greatest joys, points of relief, and opportunities to grow your business in different ways. Or it can be one of the greatest headaches an entrepreneur can face. Interviewing, hiring, managing, leading, and letting team members go requires a dedication to your mission and an understanding…
Read MoreHow to Self-Start When Motivation Is Low
How Do Solopreneurs Self-Start? A student in a class I spoke to last year asked me, “how do you force yourself to get up when you work for yourself and make your own schedule?” I snickered and responded, “Sometimes I wake up two hours before my alarm goes off because my mind knows there is…
Read MoreKeep Track of Your Social Media Progress
Businesses worldwide have adopted social media marketing as part of their overall marketing strategy. Whether they are posting to Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, YouTube, or all of the above, businesses around the globe are reaching their audiences through the use of social media. Now, businesses can post to social media and engage with…
Read MoreTake It Easy: One Platform at a Time
Small business owners have probably been hearing for some time now that they need to be on social media. However, they may be wondering how they could possibly take on yet another thing? With so many social platforms they could be on, they may start believing that it’s too difficult to possibly manage every platform…
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