Coming up with new blog post ideas can be tough, especially if you don’t have a content bank to refer back to when your idea well is running dry. Personally, my favorite part of the blog writing process is coming up with new ideas and writing up the initial draft. (I’m not so fond of the editing and publishing process, which is why I hire that part out.) Because I love coming up with ideas, I’ve got my content brainstorming ...

As a creative, you’ve likely gained skills throughout your life that other people would also love to learn. These skills can help others to start their own business or pursue artistic endeavors within a shorter time frame than ever. It’s incredibly easy to become an online instructor, nowadays, and teach what you know online. You can teach drawing, painting, finance for creatives, classes on photography (like I do), and so much more. On Skillshare, most of the classes are project-based, ...

Sharing your artwork is a very important part of having an online business as an artist. You not only have to share your artwork in your shop so people buy, but you also need to share your artwork on social media to gain new followers. And unless you have a ton of money in your budget for professional photos of everything, you’ll likely need to take the photos yourself at first. Taking photos can be difficult if you’re not sure ...

When I initially received an email from Skillshare back in 2017 saying that I would make a good teacher, I was excited and eager to start teaching. But I was also nervous and figured that I wouldn’t be able to bring in much money. So I put off becoming a teacher for an entire year. But last year, I finally decided to take the leap and create a few classes for the platform. I’m so glad that I did. Since ...

If you read my recent post about creating an Instagram theme, you might want to send those new photos out into the world now that you’ve settled on a checkerboard type pattern. But you might find that at the end of every day you still haven’t posted anything. Time just seems to slip away throughout your busy day and before you know it the sun has dipped down past the horizon. Yet another day that you haven’t shared anything and ...

  When you’re an artist, the truth is that you’d probably like to spend most of your time creating. Not shipping out packages, fielding customer service questions, or working on all the other admin tasks that come along with being a small business owner. But you might find yourself in a place where all you’re currently doing is filling the demand for some small prints or original paintings with no downtime to create something new. And you may have heard ...

When it comes to Instagram, it can feel like everyone else’s photos and feed are better than your own. You might be looking for that special sauce that it seems that so many others have. But it might feel like it’s always just outside your reach. Today, I’m going to share with you how I personally like to tackle this issue, which is to create a theme on Instagram. You may call it a theme or maybe a pattern but ...

This year was a huge transition year for my life and my business. My husband and I moved to our new home state of Pennsylvania and my husband started a new job. And my business moved away from design work completely! You might have seen that now I only work with clients through my membership site, Creative Biz U, and through one-on-one coaching/consulting. So I took down all of my web design packages and started transitioning everything over to this ...

When you’re feeling frustrated and overwhelmed because you’re not reaching your goals with your business, it’s easy to lack joy in your day-to-day. You might wake up and long to crawl back into bed so you can put on reruns of Friends, even though you’ve seen each episode a million times and can quote Monica like nobody’s business. And even though you have deadlines to meet. You might be craving a day where you don’t have to make any major ...

Over the years, I have used many different tools to make my creative business run. I’ve tested out different software programs and settled on the ones that work for me. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve tried out many and then canceled and switched.   I know how difficult it can be to figure out just what you need to make your business run, so I hope the list below will help to cut out some of ...