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Freshen Up Your Website: 3 Ways to Show Your Website Some LOVE

Freshen up your website with these three creative tips for rekindling the flame and showing your website some love. Remember when you and your website very first met? In that […]

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Website Homepage Best Practices: The Ultimate Checklist

These 10 website homepage best practices are a great place to start to make sure your homepage is elegant, informative, and compelling. Do you know why they call it a […]

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Video On Your Website: 3 Creative Ways to Rock It

Enjoy these three ways to put video on your website so your videos get noticed, appreciated – and most of all, watched. Let’s start this post off with some good […]

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FAQ Page Design: 10 Best Practices To Thrill Your Visitors

How do you design your FAQ page? These 10 best practices will show you how to set up an FAQ page that delights your website visitors. The day when I […]

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How to Choose Your Word of the Year + Use It to Amp Up Your Website

Learn how to choose your word of the year for 2021 – and also how that very word can take your business website to the next level. Have you picked […]

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Marketing Mistakes: Here’s the #1 Thing Everyone Does

When it comes to marketing mistakes, this is the #1 biggest one that just about every business owner makes. Are you making it as well? I know what you’re thinking: […]

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Overcoming Limiting Beliefs for Business Owners in 3 Simple Steps

Overcoming limiting beliefs isn’t as difficult as you might think – and it has everything to do with your business. Have you ever found yourself thinking any of the following […]

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Five Companies that Display Their Core Values Perfectly on Their Website

It defines who you do business with – and who you do not. It shows the ideals that sew together the fabric of your company’s culture. It communicates what you […]

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Unique Hobbies: 10 Creative Indoor & Outdoor Ways to Spend Time

These 10 unique hobbies run the gamut from the creative to the nerdy, from the indoors to the outdoors, and everything in between. “A hobby a day keeps the doldrums […]

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Best Apps For Small Business Owners: 10 Ways to Make Life Easier

The best apps for small business owners are a combination of marketing, organization, productivity, and communication tools. These days, there’s an app for virtually any issue you might encounter while […]

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How to Get People to Read Your Blog: 4 Ways to More Readers

So you’re diligently blogging week in and week out, but how to get people to read your blog posts? Do these three things, and you’ll increase your chances. As almost […]

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How to Spend Less Time On Your Phone: 5 Ways to Create Space

If your phone the first thing you look at when you wake up and the last thing you look at before you go to sleep, here’s how to spend less […]

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When to Fire a Client: 4 Signs it’s Time to “Bless and Release”

These are the four tell-tale signs of knowing when to fire a client. If you are feeling one of these things, you know it’s time to break up and say […]

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Website Tips! An Easy 10 Step Recipe for a Great Website

When it comes to website tips, there’s just nothing better than a foolproof recipe. These 10 ingredients will have your business cookin’ in no time. Back in my vegan days, […]

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Tech Acronyms: Computer and Website Abbreviations You’ll Love Knowing

For all those times someone dropped tech acronyms that made you think “What…?” here are the six website and computer acronyms that will keep you in the know and feeling […]

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Finding Flow: 4 Paths to Getting “In the Zone”

Finding FLOW is discovering “a mental state in which a person is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus and enjoyment in an activity, characterized by complete absorption and […]

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Writing Copy for Websites: 3 Secret Tricks of the Trade

When you’re writing copy for websites, it helps to have a few pointers from the pros to get you started. These three will do nicely! When we first decide to […]

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How to Face Your Fears: 3 Remedies for Overcoming Dread

How to face your fears all comes down to reframing in the mind. Use these three proven techniques to move through your dread. You CAN overcome! When I started my […]

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Things to Do On Staycation: 5 Tips to Have a Great One

When it comes to things to do on Staycation, the sky is really the limit! Enjoy these tips for planning the perfect Staycation for you, and creative ideas to make […]

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How to Send Large Files Over the Internet Fast and Free

These five methods for how to send large files over the internet are all fast – and all free. Take your pick! Pop Quiz: what do you do when you […]

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5 Keys to Successful Client Relationships: This Will Change Everything

Happy clients equal a happy business, and these 5 keys to successful client relationships will give you the happiest business of all. Picture your favorite client. You know the one […]

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How to Get Better at Multitasking: 3 Tips

If you’re wondering how to get better at multitasking, look no further. These three tips will have you spinning plates in no time. There are many who say multitasking is […]

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Marketing Overwhelm: 3 Smart Tips to Avoid Burnout

Marketing overwhelm is real, and all too common. This entrepreneurship game is a marathon, not a sprint, so it’s imperative that we learn how to market our businesses without wearing […]

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Home Office Ideas for Her: 5 Ways to Add Inspiration!

These home office ideas for her will help you to create a workspace that keeps you motivated and inspired.  What your workspace looks like – and more importantly, feels like […]

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How to Have Better Conversations

The secret of how to have better conversations is all in your mindset: enjoy these four mental shifts that may just power up your conversations. First things first: What do […]

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SEO Quick Tips: 5 Easy Steps to Better Page Ranking

These SEO quick tips will help you to figure out what keywords to target and then how to build them into your website at all levels. Ok, here’s the deal. […]

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How to Get Likes: 5 Ways to Increase Social Media Engagement

What’s on every business owner’s mind is how to get likes and comments on your social media platforms. These five tips will give you the boost you’re looking for. When […]

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How to Use Google Analytics to Improve Your Website: 3 Simple Ways

The world of how to use Google Analytics can be overwhelming, to say the least, so here are three easy metrics you can look at and use to make improvements […]

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How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome: 5 Things to Try Right Now

The key of how to overcome imposter syndrome comes down to naming it, recognizing it, and taking control. Imposter Syndrome – A psychological pattern in which an individual doubts his […]

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The Story of Ellanyze

One morning 9 years ago, I got up, walked over to my desk, sat down, and began making a list. But it wasn’t the typical everyday to-do list I’d made […]

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