DESIGN YOUR ONLINE CREATIVE BUSINESS

According to Tom Shapiro, CEO for Stratabeat , as a personal or company brand, you should be asking the following critical questions, which will  deliver valuable digital customer experiences; 1. What problems are your clients trying to solve? Start with segmentation to develop accurate customer personas, and to understand the personal characteristics and traits behind your audience. For instance, you can retrieve this type of information by creating a customer checklist on your landing page. The checklist can also direct your prospective clients to the right content and potential solutions they are looking for. By doing so, you will be able to develop the right client personas which are segmented into different characteristics. Checklist questions you can ask for instance are as follows; What websites do they visit? How are they consuming information? What are their goals? According to Shapiro 50% or more of a persona should be focused on the customer’s go

Picture Source:  Pixaby A recent article by Harvard Business Review discusses how lack of confidence is a primary cause one of the main causes women stunt their career unintentionally.    A study  released in 2011 by Europe’s Institute of Leadership and Management revealed that women report having lower confidence in regard to their careers. According to Data from Gong.Io analysis   some of the main challenges we as women face is also due to the following reasons; Men on average had a 42:58 talk-to-listen ratio, while women averaged 46:54, talking 9% more often than men. Men interrupt their prospect an average of 4.2x per hour. Women? 6.3x per hour -- about 50% more often. Men also pause before responding longer than women on average: 1.5 seconds versus 1.3 seconds. This blog post idea was inspired by numerous  feedback from women in my network have provided about the main challenges they experience with their Online Business. Often the highest and main concern

Do you believe that what you choose to focus your energy on mindset wise can grow positively or negatively? Moreover, your thoughts do contribute to creating your reality? So for instance, if you are feeling unhappy about your job, you are most likely to amplify your feelings to the point that you being to hate going into work daily? You are most likely too if you are not fully aware mindset wise to blame your current state in life on external sources. Such as your work environment including the people you work with. You may also find yourself in a situation where you are drawn more to work colleagues who are in a similar situation like yours. Where you end up spending the majority of the time invested energy-wise fueling on how much you all hate your work-life situation? The most essential thing to consider if whether your state of mind whether positive or negative is helping you well-being wise to progress forward and towards your desired income. For instance

As we are nearly approaching the end of the year and close to the festival period and holidays for most of us if is easy for our minds and body to automatically start slowing down.  Also easier to start procrastinating on your Lifestyle Business goals. If you are looking to remain consistent and not looking to wait for the new year to actualise your goals its still possible to do so; it's not too late.  It is about maintaining daily habits of achieving the essential goals which matter the most to the point that it becomes a lifestyle hobby and passion. Where you no longer see your business goals as something that interrupts your personal lifestyle.  I am a stronger believer of creating a lifestyle business, which enables you to feel happier, passionate and more motivated to slay your goals every single day.  It is about being able to move beyond the traditional employee mindset to one of entrepreneurship with a growth and abundance mindset.  So that you

GRIEF AND LOSS It is in inevitable that most of us will experience grief and loss in our lifetime. Unfortunately, most of us will only awaken to the true value of life after an emergency, or tragic event in our life occurs. As much as some of us may dislike our current life circumstance we become comfortable in being uncomfortable and imprisoned by our life challenging situation. Even if we dislike it, or may want to change it.  Mentally, you may feel trapped to push through and beyond. You may also find yourself being fixated blaming external factors for the reasons why you cant move forward.  HOW DO YOU BEGIN TO PUSH THROUGH & PAST BEING STUCK MINDSET WISE?  1. It is important to become self-awareness of what is fuelling, or not fuelling you internally. This in terms of your life purpose. What limits you most in being able to pursue what you visualise? Does it connect to past-life experience and challenges, which have now become embedded in you as p

It is so easy to be fully drawn in and overly consumed by completing daily operational tasks. Such as being caught up in being more responsive to firefighting issues and other peoples "urgent," requests. Or easily becoming distracted intentionally by self-imposed responsibilities,  which steer you away from achieving meaningful rewarding tasks. So much so, that by the end of the day, you may feel as though you have not achieved any of the strategic goals you had set out to achieve.  Feeling overly busy can also lead to an adverse impact on your overall well-being and health. For instance, you could potentially end up feeling overwhelmed, stressed and develop anxiety. Or end up potentially going off-sick and not being able to complete your tasks. LEARN MORE TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS BELOW WHICH MAY HELP YOU IN PLANNING YOUR DAYS EFFECTIVELY: 1. Starting off with Well-Being Tips: Get up and walk regularly throughout your day: Force yourself to take regular

“As the saying goes your Network is your Networth ,” but how do you know if it is the right network? Are you, for instance, gaining Social Capital and achieving the outcomes you set out before you joined? According to Porter Gale, Huffpost Contributor , building and strengthening your network will help you improve your happiness, productivity, and true net worth. She encourages people to focus on their passions, to surround yourself with people that share your values and don’t let your social capital lie dormant. Reinvest it!   Things to consider before jumping straight into a new Network: 1. What is your Vision and Life Purpose and does the network you are considering joining core values align with yours? 2. How much time and energy will you need to invest as part of being part of that network? Will it worthwhile for your Social Capital and eventual Financial Gains? 3. What benefits will actualise, according to your life vision? Will you still be able to f

Can you believe it that this year is nearly over and that in three months we will ring in a whole new year?  Is it too late to start dominating your goals?  The truth of the matter is it is never too late to start today. What is most essential is to stop dwelling on the days and time you have lost and to start focusing on the now. After all, you can't buy back time.  Most of us remain trapped in the "what ifs," and "if only," and focus on blaming external factors as the main causes of not being able to move forward in accomplishing your  Life Vision goals.  WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO START DOMINATING YOUR GOALS NOW RATHER THAN LATER IN LIFE?   As the saying goes time waits for no woman or man, it's way too precious to focus on overthinking and hesitating. Tomorrow is not promised you only have one life to live. Living with regret daily is the biggest agonising dream killer.  It does not pay to watch others fulfilling their dreams, and