Hiring new consultants, contractors, and team members is a big step in your business, but once you’re ready to take it your workload decreases and your business is able to improve in multiple ways, leaving you to work on your strengths and be the bad-ass lady boss you are (instead of the boss, chief bottle-washer and Jill-of-all-trades).

A blog editor may not have made the top of the list when you dreamed about bringing someone on to help you. But…

You only have twenty-six small letters and a handful of dots and dashes to wow, inspire, share, create, and convince. Surely you want to combine these in the best way possible?

The best and the worst thing that you can go through as a biz owner is raising your prices. It's awesome, because it means that your business is growing, but it always has the potential to be super awkward and uncomfortable when you need to have a “the price is going up” conversation with your repeat clients. Here are some super simple ways for you to handle a price increase with your clients in a way that will make them love you more than ever.

LeadPages, LeadPages, LeadPages.

Here’s the thing – as a WordPress user, I don’t personally use LeadPages. I choose to build sales pages/landing pages with Beaver Builder and/or Divi (for clients whose sites are built that way), BUT I used LeadPages for a long time and I loved it, just like most of the small business world.

So, what is it?

LeadPages is basically just a system to help you build landing pages and sales pages EASILY.

You're a new business owner – you're small, but you have BIG dreams. When your empire does start to grow, are the platforms your business is built on designed to grow with you, or will they crumble under the weight of your big, badass empire of a business? 

Squarespace is a website platform that is going to grow with your business, without blowing your budget when you're just starting out.That's exactly why I love it. 

So, why should you make the switch to Squarespace? Here are the top 10 reasons to get on board with this platform.

If you’ve ever joined any of our free trainings, then you know that half the power of the success of your business relies on consistency - Instagram growth is no different. By showing up multiple times a day or trying new posting times, you’re able to track your engagement results (hello, Instagram Analytics) and know when you should spend your time on Instagram. But we know it’s easy for the day to slip away from you. You’re busy hustling all day and all of a sudden you look up and realize that it’s 8:00 p.m. and you haven’t posted in three days. No bueno.

We’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is there’s a sh*t ton of things you can automate in your business to save you time, save you energy, and make you more money. The bad news is that figuring out actually how to do all these things can drive you just as bonkers as it does to just do them manually.

Ok, but we’ve got even better news. If you scroll to the end of this glorious little post (you know, once you’re inspired about #AutomateAllTheThings) you’re gonna see a special present we have just for you. Spoiler alert: it’s free!

How I got ranked on the first page of Google within 2 hours of publishing my post! Learn to use Yoast to maximize your SEO; with just a few tweaks you too can rank highly! 

We adore ConvertKit over here at ThinkCreativeCollective, but we always wish we could make it prettier! Our guest blogger for today, Jessica Stansbury, is giving us a quick tip to create customized quote boxes in your ConvertKit emails. Time to enjoy some prettyness in your inbox!  

You just launched your online store and you’re excited about all of the possibilities that having an online business brings, like more money and more freedom. You’ve worked hard to create a really great product and stock your store full of inventory that you know your customers will love. But when your website goes live, all you get is crickets. Here's how to get massive traffic to your online store (even without a marketing budget!).