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10 Squarespace Plugins to Take Your Business Website to the Next Level
Web design can be tricky business, but it doesn’t have to be. Using Squarespace you can build a beautiful website that’s optimized for mobile and desktop alike. But to make your website truly custom looking, Squarespace plugins can offer a look that native Squarespace settings just can’t match. Here are 10 you might want to use on your website.
Soulful Business Manifesto: An Invitation to Healers and Change-Makers
Being a soulful business owner means taking a long hard look at how we do business in the western world. It means turning convention on its head and pushing for a better world. It means healing ourselves so we aren’t embodying the archetype of the wounded healer. It means taking a stand for our values and ethics. Read the Soulful Business Manifesto to learn more about this heart-centered approach to business.
10 Essential Tips for Avoiding Solopreneur Burnout
Burnout is far too common among solopreneurs. It’s so hard to do everything! Here’s a post to help you steer clear of burn out or backpedal out of it. It’s essential to ensure we are thriving in our lives and businesses so our clients get out best care (and we have a strong sense of wellbeing). Keep prioritizing yourself in your soulful business!
4 Powerful Ways Building a Website Can Transform Your Business
It sounds strange to say, but website design is a portal into better understanding yourself, your ideal clients, and your ideal business structure. While it might seem like a superficial thing to check off your list, web design is actually a powerful experience you can harness to become a thriving business owner and life purpose liver. Take the web design experience seriously and you’ll find yourself growing quickly into a business you love!
My Business Story: Why I Became a Squarespace Web Designer
Everyone has a story when it comes to how they started their businesses. It can be helpful to read others’ journeys to get inspiration, learn more about your favorite business owner, and deepen your understanding of how careers are shaped. Here’s my story to inspire you to follow your own path and to help you understand why I am a Squarespace web designer and how I became one.
A Guide to Soulful Email Marketing for New Solopreneurs
Starting a business is a lot of work, especially when it comes to figuring out your soulful marketing tools. Email marketing continues to be a strong way to connect with your audience and develop trust with your potential clients. Explore how to use email marketing soulfully and minimally, to keep your sanity and share your heart.
A Solopreneur’s Guide to Setting Up Email Marketing with Flodesk
Feeling a little lost when it comes to email marketing? Here’s a guide to getting setup on the Flodesk platform so you can start collecting email addresses and building your audience! Flodesk integrates nicely with Squarespace so you can make the two work together in a couple of different ways. Read on to learn how to get it set up and why list building is so important.
14 Tips for Clear Writing for Soulful Solopreneurs
Does staring at a blank page freak you out? Do your words always come out a little stiff? This blog post is just for healers and holistic professionals who need a little extra help writing in their businesses.
How to Create a Nourishing Life & Business So You Can Thrive
While building a business requires a lot of strategy and linear thought, often we don’t put a lot of thought into the ways in which we nourish ourselves in our work. Creating businesses that feel as nourishing for us as they do for our clients is essential to our success and overall well-being.
6 Tips for Taking Time Off from Your Business
Planning to take a break from work is super essential for your overall mental and physical health. This is especially true if you work in a helping profession, such as a therapist, midwife, or other intensive care field. Taking a break will help you refill your own well so you’ll have enough to care for yourself before giving care to others. Here are 6 tips to help you do just that.
How Slow Can Change Your Work and Life (+ 8 tips for slowing down)
When you’re bringing lots of soul into your work, it’s important to take time to slow down. But what does “slow” really mean, why is it important, and how is it done? Slow working, slow business, and slow marketing can be a challenge to conceptualize. Read on to unpack this very useful concept and system of values in your own life and solopreneur business.
Slow Living and Working: 13 Self-Care Tips for Entrepreneurs
If you’ve been hustling your heart out, this article might help you get back to your center again. You didn’t start your business to become a workaholic, right? Here are 13 tips to help you slow back down, reprioritize your work, and put your self-care back to the top of your to-do list (where it belongs).
Why You Shouldn’t Be Everything for Everyone: Identifying Your Ideal Clients
Wishing you could attract more ideal clients? Not really sure how? Maybe you’re not even sure who your ideal clients are. Here’s a post just for you! Read on to learn more about how to determine who your ideal clients are and why you should design a business with a niche.
Should You Use Social Media for Marketing Your Wellness Business?
While social media can be a great way to market your business, it’s a good idea to give your plan some thought before jumping into a new platform or creating a new account. Just like all things slow marketing, it’s okay to take this one slow and infuse a lot of soul into your decisions.
A Web Designer Answers Honestly: Do You Really Need a Website?
Trying to set up or expand a business can be overwhelming and frustrating. If you’re still trying to figure out this marketing thing, you’re inevitably going to worry about websites. Do you need one? Or can you get by with just running your business without one? The answer depends on your, your values, your goals, and your business structure. Read on to learn more.
A Guide to Soulful, Slow Marketing
Marketing is a word that makes soulful, intentional business owners cringe. But it doesn’t have to be a deceitful, manipulative experience. You can do marketing in ways that feel authentic and even enjoyable. If you’ve been looking for a new mindset for marketing, you’ll enjoy the slow marketing perspective. Read on to learn more about how to put this into practice in your own business.
Squarespace or Wordpress: The Basics
If you’ve been debating between creating your website on Squarespace or Wordpress, this post is for you. Wading through the heaps of information out there (lots of it biased) can be overwhelming. So I’ve created a super simple guide to the biggest differences and which situations each platform is best for. Read on to pick your platform!
How Being an Entrepreneur Can Help You Grow as a Person
Being a business owner is an incredible way to also grow yourself. It’s not always easy, but it’s definitely worth it. Here are a few tips to help you when you get stuck and need a little push. Keep growing!