Is it Time to Leave Social Media? Social media. (Ooh, did those two words send just shivers down your spine?) Like it or lump it, it’s become one of the perceived “necessary evils” of starting and growing an online business. Reason being? Social media is a place to solve problems in public, attract clients, play around, put your work out there, and […] read more
What to Do When You Want to Burn It All Down Have you ever used a pressure washer on your driveway or deck? (And even if you haven’t, a friend probably has. And you probably know because they probably posted a VERY excited before and after on Facebook.) Can confirm: it is a very, very satisfying feeling. All that high-pressured water fires out of the spout at a […] read more
How to Make Customers Care + Buy with Shenee Howard “I want to put myself out there more… but I feel like no one really cares.” ^ Ah, the self-judgement trap that literally every creative in the known universe falls into. (At least the ones who want to build more of a brand for themselves online.) And the reality is: when you’re just getting started? You’re […] read more
Launching Myths and Must Dos with Shenee Howard Launching is basically the Schrödinger’s Cat of marketing. It’s an approach to sales strategy that feels simultaneously dead and alive. Effective and broken. Useless and game-changing. Creating record profits, and record failures. Somehow everything, everywhere, all at once. My criticisms of the launch world have been well documented (and coincidentally read tens of thousands of times) — but it’s still a part […] read more
How to Handle Crisis Response as a Small Business “Please don’t be mad at meeeee!” she said, holding yet another rat in her small, tanned hands. It was my senior year of college, and my soft-hearted roommate had had yet another run-in at the pet store. Specifically: another trip to Petco for rat food had caused her to discover yet another under-loved rat she simply had to bring home. (At […] read more
How to Rebrand Like a Beast It won’t surprise you to know that I came out of the womb noisy. I arrived on this green Earth apparently screaming that I wasn’t ultra fond of being touched (these days I’m more chill, but I am incredibly ticklish), and intensely eager to look at/babble at everything. From an early age I was terrifying my parents with my unbridled extroversion. […] read more
