7 Tips for small business start-up goals for the new year in 2020
With the new year approaching, it’s a perfect time to find tips that work for reaching your small business start-up goals. As a new business owner, you can set your focus on as many goals as you want for 2020 and new goals each year after.
Not only is the new year great to set-up new small business goals, but it’s also a great time to reassess your business start-up’s goals.
(Work)Book Review: CREATE
Over the last few weeks of the year, I've been reading and working through much of Meera Kothand's CREATE. It's been much easier to determine who my target audience is, my marketing strategies towards my target audience, and goals that I'm hoping to achieve for and through my business start-up.
Squarespace vs. Wordpress: The best web development platform for your start-up business
There is a big debate about whether you should use Squarespace or Wordpress or other web development platforms to design and manage your website and blog.
After sifting through other website platforms, like Blogger and Wix, I ended up sticking with Squarespace rather than Wordpress. Here’s why.
Should you participate in share-for-share posts in Facebook to gain traffic for your blog?
Share-for-share Facebook posts helped me a lot when I first started out and needed guidance as I learned how to start my blog. After a month or two and working through CREATE An Intensive Biz Playbook & Planner: Scale Your Online Business, Create Explosive Growth and Build a Brand You Crave, I was able to rely on my own marketing strategies to make my blog visible and marketable for my target audience.
New ideas and tips to create your business' content marketing strategy for Generation Z
Content is king in many businesses. Content helps readers establish a connection through stories, personal relations, and establishes a visual. Generation Z especially enjoys videos, story-telling, and personal touches in marketing materials aimed towards their generation. You should stay authentic and inclusive on an individualistic level compared to marketing towards a more generic target.
Book Review: Creative Strategy and the Business of Design
Business is not one of my strong suits. Douglas Davis’ Creative Strategy and the Business of Design helped me understand the main key-points that my peers repeatedly had to explain to me.
All-in-all Davis helps graphic designers and creatives to learn how to speak and approach businesses in a way that will help graphic designer’s careers gain a sense of freedom and understanding.
Soft skills are highly desired in today’s professional industries.
Many work environments look for hard and technically learned skill sets but soft skills tend to hold more power over positions. It’s important to know hard skills, like Adobe Creative Suite or book-keeping software, but your soft skills show how you work with others, whether that be a client or a coworker.