Advice on social media, business & writing from a seasoned professional
In December there was much uproar about Instagram’s updates to their TOS. Most notably how many people were interpreting Instagram’s rights in using your photos and what they were entitled to do with your photos. There were majors concerns about Instagram owning your pictures and their right to sell or profit off your picture, largely without your [...]
We’ve all done it; taken on work from a colleague or a peer “just to help out.” For the majority of us, the relationship works out well and we’ve built a next level relationship with a fellow writer. For others though, the experience burned the relationship altogether. I’ve talked about my own experiences before but [...]
Email marketing is still one of the most popular forms of getting the word out to customers and readers. I suspect that has to do with the fact that email marketing is relatively inexpensive and newsletters are fairly easy to create with little to know technical knowledge. Even the smallest business or brand can create [...]
I don’t know if I’d call it a “new trend” or perhaps a new movement in how moms are taking over the Internet space but more and more I see mom bloggers starting their own online communities or managing other online communities. Most of the communities they are managing or claiming the title of “community manager” for [...]
Similar to having on clean undies whenever you leave the house, a contract is innately important when you’re in business for yourself. Ask someone who knows the dangers, and frustrations of not having a contract. (that would be me.) I’ve worked without them before and in a few situations, things have worked out well. However, [...]
