How to Use Pinterest to Boost Traffic

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Pinterest is making a big splash online and many of us are wondering how to use Pinterest to boost traffic to our creative businesses. I’m sure that you have checked out Pinterest, and have lost several hours sifting through all of the site’s amazing photographs, moodboards, and illustrations. If you haven’t clicked through Pinterest, here’s…

Interview with the Cake Spy

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I’ll be honest.  I love baking and I love eating baked goods.  But my love for such things pales before that of the Cake Spy.  She’s living the sweet life with her job as a freelance writer and illustrator with tough jobs like reviewing bakeries.  Are you jealous yet?  She took a break from her…

How to Build a Brilliant Brand

Having an online business means your branding is the first thing your potential client or customer is going to see, a first impression if you will.  Whether they are on your website or your Facebook page, your branding is the first chance you have to stimulate them visually.  And you have to admit, the majority…

Track This! by Brittni Mehlhoff

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Product: Track This! Creator: Brittni Mehlhoff Claim to Fame: Founder of Papernstitch, a curated, online showcase of the best of handmade, and the beautiful blogger behind the blog of the same name! Star Ratings:5 Stars! What it Includes: 33 page e-book Extra incentives sheet To-do list Fun thermometers to color!  (My favorite!) What I loved…

Link Hype 9-23-2011

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I have so many amazing things to share with you today!  I’m celebrating Friday by sharing a job opportunity for you, an amazing new project, the 5 best business articles of the week, AND a great business book!  Whew!  Are you excited?  Happy reading! Job Opportunity! IndieMade is looking for creative folks with mad writing…

Drop the either/or. Embrace both/and.

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Either I actually sell this product. Or I charge what it’s worth. Either I make a difference in this world. Or I make enough to pay the bills. Either I create art. Or I create value. We’ve been taught that either/or is that way to consider our choices. It’s the very definition of choice. Either…