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Practise imagination to boost your creativity
At my home, and the first six years at school, I was truly encouraged to creativity. I could access drawing tools, such as coloured pencils and basic watercolours, I had empty notebooks for writing and reading books was a big thing. All that raised me to be an imaginative and creative person, who keeps utilising her imagination throughout adulthood. It may be true that some people are more inclined for creativity, more equipped to have a vivid imagination. Perhaps their brains just work that way. However, I believe that creativity is something you can, and perhaps need to, train. As you ca...
Here's why starting over with a new email list is a good idea
While I wasn't blogging, I also wasn't emailing my list. The last email I had sent in May, trying to dust up the stale list. It wasn't stale because of my subscribers. It was stale because it wasn't working for me. As with my blog, I had driven myself into a corner. After reading all the advice on how you should give more value and information and more this and that, I was trying to write emails that weren't... me. I was going against my own advice on not trying to please your audience, and it was not working out. Besides, I had set myself a schedule of weekly emails which was way too mu...
How to get stuff done when you don't have the "right" tools
I always find the "how to start a blog" type articles funny. I mean, don't you just start one? Free WordPress.com or Blogger. Or a self-hosted one, like mine. You publish your first blog post, and there you are, blogging. Then again, it's easy to feel like you cannot publish a post if your blog doesn't look exactly the right way. Or start a podcast without an expensive microphone. Not to mention getting into video creation, without having extensive knowledge about editing or owning a great camera. And how about getting your business up, without having the exactly same apps and website ho...
New beginnings
It's been a while. I'm aware of that. Almost a year! There has been breaks before, week or months. But this long? Never. The break started as your usual not-feeling-like-it. I wanted to redesign my site, but either I didn't have the time and motivation or I was out of ideas. Seeing the site reminded me of this, trying to blog reminded me of this. Suddenly it had been a month. Then another, and another, and another. Finally, I felt a bit ashamed to blog again. It had been such a long time already. What would people say? Would anyone even bother to read it anymore? I dwelled into Instagram...
Creature of night
Pour me a stiff drink And I’ll tell you the tale Of the creature of night Still making me pale. It was half a human Half beast of wild Chased me through nightmares That cursed child. My legs frozen The ground holding tight I cried and moaned No sound, no fight. When I woke up In my bed I still felt its paws Grasping my head.
Setting up your sales funnel like a grocery store
Entering your local grocery store you might not think about it. As you walk through the store, you are actually walking through a life sized and physical sales funnel. Here in Finland, the first thing in a store are usually the fruits and vegetables or the bakery. Fruits and veggies are colourful, fresh, juicy, inviting. The bakery hits you with a delicious scent. You didn't go to buy that freshly baked rye bread, but somehow it ended up in your shopping basket. The grocery stores place the most regular items in different parts of the store layout. The bread is here, milk is over there. You...
Dealing with Instagram spam
Since my older posts about getting rid of spam on Instagram and stopping and preventing your account from sending spam are still quite popular, I decided to revisit the subject with an updated post. Instagram has changed quite a lot between then and now. This includes many changes to the algorithms, which dictate the reach of your images. With all these changes, spam hasn't gone away. As a matter of a fact, spam has only evolved. Now you aren't only dealing with spambots, but also using spammy methods for growing otherwise legit profiles and their following and reach, is extremely common...
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