Personal Fulfillment & Solopreneur Productivity Coach | RomCom Novelist
If you’ve ever wished you were a little more productive in the morning, these tips will help you out! Simple tips to make for a more productive morning Grab the cheatsheet to save 45+ hours each month >> 1. Prepare the night before. Tidy up your workspace before you wrap up your workday. Make notes …
Grab your checklist for preparing to work from home full-time I absolutely love being a small business owner. It is the perfect thing for me! But that’s not to say that owning a business is right for everyone—and it’s not something you should just jump right into. It requires some careful thinking and assessment of …
Are you a social media manager? Or are you just trying to navigate the world of social media to promote your own small business or blog? While there’s a lot of great information on the Internet detailing basic tips for how to manage social media, these two tips are meant to assist you with fine-tuning …
I love blogging. I’ve loved blogging right from when I first started blogging, nearly eight years ago. But I didn’t think it was something I could do for a living until I started the Elite Blog Academy last December. Grab the cheatsheet to save 45+ hours each month >> Since then, I’ve been thinking a …
I’ve mentioned it before and I’ll say it again: I am not the kind of person who can just walk up to someone and say, “hi, I’m Sagan and I’m a freelance editor / writer.” It just feels so contrived! When it comes to networking effectively at events, unless someone asks you point-blank who you …
Last week we discussed the importance of how to prepare for creating a business plan. This week I’ve got a business plan template that you can use to plug in your ideas once you have them! Use this business plan template as a freelancer or other type of solopreneur, so you can map out your …
Putting together a business plan may seem to be a dry task—but it doesn’t have to be! I know that when I say that I find it fun to look to the future and set our vision and goals on paper, and have something to work with when we begin to implement our strategies, I’m …
In case you haven’t heard, Periscope is the hot new social media platform. It’s like a combination of Instagram, SnapChat, and YouTube, all rolled into one (from what I understand of it). While I’ve been on Facebook and Twitter for years, and jumped on Instagram a couple years ago, I don’t think I’ll be joining Periscope—at least …
I have attended a lot of worthless meetings over the years—meetings that just end up wasting your time, and which don’t really seem to have a point to them. It was doubly frustrating when I knew that the meetings could have been useful and meaningful, but they were just conducted poorly. Nowadays, with freelancing, my …
Last week we discussed the #1 mistake people make on Twitter. Today we’re going to look at mistakes #2 and #3! The second thing that people do wrong on Twitter is this: Linking up your Facebook to post directly to Twitter. Don’t do it! It’s going to take you a couple extra minutes each day …
I love Twitter. It’s the kind of platform that speaks to me. I like that I can share a quick thought or funny moment, direct people to an interesting article, and participate in conversations with all kinds of people from around the world—and, of course, I love making up silly / clever hashtags. Growing Twitter …
Are you close to finishing your book and getting ready to hire an editor? Here’s what you should do to prepare your book for the editing process… 1) Have as much of your book written as possible. This will help to save you money! If the editor starts working on an unfinished book and you end …
Becoming a professional editor is a little different from becoming a professional writer. For one thing, if you have a natural talent for writing, you can become a professional writer with little formal training. Editing isn’t the same. Aspiring editors commonly say things like, “I’m good at catching typos” or “Everyone comes to me to …
This is one of the most common questions I receive: I love to write, and I think I’m pretty good at it. How did you start? How can I quit my day job and write full-time too? This is a great question—and there are so many potential answers to it for how to be a …
When I go to an event and get into a good conversation with someone, I have a terrible habit of staying with that person and just talking to them. I get comfortable speaking with the same person, and I also like to have longer, deeper, more meaningful conversations. That being said, this might not be …