BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 25th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! In Today's episode, Jennifer and I discuss Link Parties & Blog Crawls/Hops after having a question called in from Quita from Audacious Biz. * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA INSIDE THIS EPISODE * Link Parties * Blog Crawl & Hops * Ideal Customer JUICY QUOTES "A link party is basically where the host blog, gives you the opportunity to leave a link and a thumbnail image that links back to your site in a particular post. The cool thing about that is that you are getting your content out in front of their viewers." Jennifer Salter "We live in an image-based society." Jennifer Salter "I think you have to ask yourself a couple of questions before you decide if you are going to host a link party. It's a lot of work. It's not something you just decide to do and if you want it to truly grow, you're going to have to put the time and effort behind it. And you also have to ask yourself, 'why are you doing it?'" Taylor Bradford "If you are dropping your own links, you are hoping that you will potentially have more eye balls on your posts." Taylor Bradford "You always want to be asking yourself, 'Is this beneficial to my ideal reader?' 'Is this answering their questions?' 'Is this providing them value?' Because those are the people, your readers, are the people that are continuing to come back to your website." Taylor Bradford RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* Create and Crave Link Party Inlinkz.com No-Follow Episode Link Party Resources for Crafts/Recipes/DIYs/Fashion Taylor's VA Service for Link Parties - email me! ([email protected]) SHOUT-OUTS Inlinkz.com Quita with Audacious Biz FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk FIND JENNIFER ONLINE Blog - Busy Being Jennifer Instagram - @BusyBeingJennifer Handmade Biz - Homespun Happiness Facebook - facebook.com/BusyBeingJennifer Twitter - twitter.com/busybeingjenn Shop Facebook - facebook.com/HomespunHappiness Shop Instagram - instagram.com/shophomespunhappiness/ HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 24th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! In Today's episode, Jennifer and I discuss Do-Follow links and No-Follow links and what that means + Affiliate Income * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA INSIDE THIS EPISODE * No-Follow Links * Do-Follow Links * Affiliate Income * Google's Webmaster Policy about No-Follow Links * Link schemes JUICY QUOTES "No-follow links is a bit of HTML code that you add into your link that is going outbound to a brand, boutique, product or service. If you are getting paid to write about said brand or service or product or whatever, if it's in money or product compensation, you need to be no-following these links. That tells Google that you either a) don't trust the source or you've been paid. One of the two." Taylor Bradford "If you are being paid to talk about a brand or service, your links going to that brand or service have to be no-follow links." Taylor Bradford "Some people will say, oh well it's just Google. But, Hello! It's GOOGLE! Google runs the internet. If you blog, you are on the internet. And you do not want to piss off the Google gods...EVER!" Jennifer Salter "It's going to hurt your brand and their brand simultaneously if you don't follow these rules." Taylor Bradford "When it comes to this kind of stuff, go to the source." Jennifer Salter "Ignorance is not bliss." Taylor Bradford "Start doing your research on how to go about doing these things the right way." Taylor Bradford "Do your own research and know 100%. Even in the articles that you and I have written about these kinds of subjects, we have both said we are quoting these sources, but go read these sources for yourself. Interpret them yourself. Get the knowledge in your own head so that you can stand up for your own brand." Jennifer Salter "At the end of the day, no one else is representing you." Taylor Bradford "If you are an Amazon Associate, you cannot send out affiliate links through an RSS Feed or a newsletter." Taylor Bradford RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* Google Webmaster Policy on No-Follow links Google's stance on Paid Links Do-Follow/No-Follow via #BLOGGINGEDUMACATION Amazon Associates Plugin for Wordpress: Remove Amazon Links from RSS Feed CJ Affiliate RewardStyle ShopStyle Collective Share-a-Sale SHOUT-OUTS No one got mentioned. Lots of great advice! FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk FIND JENNIFER ONLINE Blog - Busy Being Jennifer Instagram - @BusyBeingJennifer Handmade Biz - Homespun Happiness Facebook - facebook.com/BusyBeingJennifer Twitter - twitter.com/busybeingjenn Shop Facebook - facebook.com/HomespunHappiness Shop Instagram - instagram.com/shophomespunhappiness/ HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 23rd episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! In Today's episode, Jennifer and I answer Quita's (Audacious Biz) call-in question relating to content creation & then we segue into online privacy and more. * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA INSIDE THIS EPISODE * Starting a Blog * Finding your Voice * Just start * Tell the why behind your business * Answer your customer's #1 question * You are your brand * Online Privacy * Grabbing ALL of your social media names * Consistency in blogging * Creating an editorial calendar JUICY QUOTES "You just need to start [a blog]. I don't necessarily think you need to have a whole lot of content in the back burner to get started blogging. I think the biggest thing you need to do is just start blogging." Taylor Bradford "We didn't have anything when we started. It was a wing and prayer when we got started. And I think sometimes that's the best way to learn." Jennifer Salter "You don't really find your voice [in your blog]...you're not going to be able to pinpoint that [your voice] until you get started and start developing your audience." Jennifer Salter "Get yourself into like-minded Facebook groups and start interacting with people that might be in your business niche. Or maybe it's solopreneurs or creative entrepreneurs, some kind of Facebook group where you can literally if they have a weekly thread or a daily thread where you can throw your brand new content out there. Then you can start getting some eyes on that and start building kind of your self-confidence behind your content." Taylor Bradford "Every blogger starts at zero. Every single one of us." Taylor Bradford "Start with your customer's number one question. That should be your first blog post." Taylor Bradford "People need to know the why behind your business." Jennifer Salter "It's important to put your face out there....you are your brand, regardless of what direction you take it. You are you and you are your brand. You have to put your face on that." Jennifer Salter "Consistency is so the key. And that is something that you need to sit down and have a discussion with yourself and say this is how often I'm going to post and these are the days I'm going to post. And you need to stick to that schedule because your readers will come to know what that schedule is." Taylor Bradford RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* You got off easy on this one! SHOUT-OUTS WOW...we were so into talking about this topic that there were no shout-outs outside of Quita!! Big shout-out to her for calling in her question!! Go visit Quita online: Website: Audacious Biz Twitter: @AudaciousBiz FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk FIND JENNIFER ONLINE Blog - Busy Being Jennifer Instagram - @BusyBeingJennifer Handmade Biz - Homespun Happiness Facebook - facebook.com/BusyBeingJennifer Twitter - twitter.com/busybeingjenn Shop Facebook - facebook.com/HomespunHappiness Shop Instagram - instagram.com/shophomespunhappiness/ HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 22nd episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing author and Boss Girl, Angela Correll. * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA INSIDE THIS EPISODE * Building a Business with a Team * Believing in your Strengths * Being Excellent at a Few Things * Managing Fear JUICY QUOTES "To really, to get great folks on your team and to help them develop in a way so that they can be using their giftedness and really trying to get out of the way and let them do what they are there to do. I think one of the hard things when you are a creative is, you know, we kind of tend to think if something is our baby, and when we have an idea or a vision of how we want to do something, that there is only one way to get there. And the truth is, there are a lot of different methods. Really letting people use their own method, and as long as everyone has the same goal and the same vision, that's the main thing." Angela Correll "We all can do a lot of things, but there are only a few things we can probably do well." Angela Correll "Doing things in excellence takes time and energy." Angela Correll "Sometimes you can rob someone else of an opportunity by trying to do everything." Angela Correll "I think perseverance and patience are two of the most important qualities you can have. I've just seen over and over in my life that perseverance is so much more valuable than talent really." Angela Correll RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands by Lysa TerKeurst SHOUT-OUTS Lysa TerKeurst Jan Karon Mary Catherine McClellan, Co-Founder of Taigan FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk FIND ANGELA ONLINE Website - AngelaCorrell.com Facebook - AuthorAngelaCorrell Twitter - @angela_correll The Bluebird Cafe Wilderness Road Guest Houses & Rooms Kentucky Soaps and Such HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 21st episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! In Today's episode, Jennifer and I chat where you can share your content online to get it into the eyes of more potential readers. * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA INSIDE THIS EPISODE * Social Media Platforms (Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, Facebook) * Floating Share Widgets/Plugins * Click-to-Tweet * Tagging people & brands on social media * Emailing people you write about in posts * Twitter Cards * Newsletters * Hashtags * Foodgawker, Yummly, Tastespotting, Craftgawker, Stylegawker * Sverve * StumbleUpon JUICY QUOTES "Twitter: when you are writing new content, I recommend you push out your post at least 3 times, the day it goes live." Taylor Bradford "Don't forget about your archived content that you've worked so hard to create." Taylor Bradford "Make sure it's a repin off of an exisiting pin because you will have more traction off repinning than creating a brand new pin." Taylor Bradford "Sometimes people use it (click to tweet) with a little bit of humor, like "oh that was tweetable, here click here." Get people to engage with your post, those are fun." Taylor Bradford "When I do a book review, I will always go and find the author's twitter handle and their facebook page. And when I'm writing the tweet or writing the facebook post share, I'm making sure to tag them because when it pops up in their radar, it's basically free advertisement for them. All they have to do is click the retweet button and they send it out to their community." Taylor Bradford RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* Meet Edgar Buffer SumoMe Click-to-Tweet CoSchedule Twitter Cards YOAST SEO Plugin WP Jetpack Yummly Foodgawker Tastespotting Craftgawker Stylegawker Sverve StumbleUpon SHOUT-OUTS Patti Tucker, Oh Mrs. Tucker Create and Crave Link Party, #CreateandCrave FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk FIND JENNIFER ONLINE Blog - Busy Being Jennifer Instagram - @BusyBeingJennifer Handmade Biz - Homespun Happiness Facebook - facebook.com/BusyBeingJennifer Twitter - twitter.com/busybeingjenn Shop Facebook - facebook.com/HomespunHappiness Shop Instagram - instagram.com/shophomespunhappiness/ HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 20th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm flying solo and chatting more about email lists and opt-ins * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA INSIDE THIS EPISODE * Opt-ins * Email lists * Sign-up to receive my opt-in and receive my favorite online biz tools * Popular posts and PDFS * Drip campaigns * Ebooks * Stock Photos * Audio/Video opt-ins QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE "What is an opt-in? An opt-in is a freebie. Something you give people to sign up for your email list." Taylor Bradford "It's important to have an opt-in so that you can get people interested in the content that you are creating every day or every other day or however often you are creating your content for your website or your blog." Taylor Bradford "You want to be able to provide something else that's unique to who you are and what you are creating on your website or your blog. And provide that specifically to the people that want to sign up to get your stuff in their inbox." Taylor Bradford "Here's the thing: a brand new subscriber probably hasn't read your content from a year ago. And what better way to purpose what you've already written in the past by putting it into a PDF." Taylor Bradford "Allowing people to kind of have a little bit more behind-the-scenes access to you, so that they can get to know who you are and become an avid reader of whatever you create." Taylor Bradford "If you create a drip campaign and they want it all at once, add something extra to kind of boost that." Community member, Quita from Audacious Biz "If you are wanting to grow your community through your email list, I would do more than just your RSS automatic feed to their [your subscribers] email." Taylor Bradford "How in the world do we engage people to just want to sign up for your email newsletter? First of all, the opt-in. That's one. SEcond of all, getting people to answer questions." Taylor Bradford "Always add a call-to-action at the end of your emails." Taylor Bradford RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* Hootsuite Twitter Tailwind Pinterest Google Analytics Mad Mimi Mailchimp Periscope Facebook SHOUT-OUTS Krystal from Bloggers Get Social Texas Women Bloggers FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 19th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm flying solo and chatting about SEO, building community and growing email lists * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA INSIDE THIS EPISODE * Keywords & SEO * Building a Community * Spamming your own blog * Growing your email list * Microblogging * Reward your readers * Facebook Groups vs Facebook Pages QUOTES BY TAYLOR "SEO is Search Engine Optimization and it is important. However, if you're trying to target a very broad keyword, for example, happy or sad or something that, if you went to Google right now and you just typed in that word, you would get a ton of results." Taylor Bradford "When you are gearing up your posts for SEO purposes, to rank high in the search engines, you have to take a couple of things into consideration: how broad is the search term and if you go to Google and start typing that term in, what other words pop up with it before you hit the enter button?" Taylor Bradford "When you are trying to come up with your keyword for your blog post, go look at Pinterest search." Taylor Bradford "If you can come up with a better phrase that people might already be searching for, that may not be as broad...as the word happy...maybe you can narrow it down just a little bit with whatever you are trying to create, that is going to help you out." Taylor Bradford "SEO is good, however, if you are trying to rank high off of one post for SEO purposes and that's already a word or phrase that has a lot of searching on it, it's going to be an uphill battle for you until you can establish yourself as an authority on that search term or phrase." Taylor Bradford "What are you truly trying to use SEO for and is it going to benefit you?" Taylor Bradford "I think building a community with your brand is probably more important now days then SEO." Taylor Bradford "I recommend that you don't spam your own blog...leaving comments on your own blog that say 'thanks for your comment'...with comments like that, if you can re-contribute back to the conversation in a comment that somehow reiterates your post and your keywords within your comment, then I totally think it's okay for you to comment back on your blog." Taylor Bradford "A tip on how you can build community through email: somebody leaves you a comment on the blog. You respond back to that person and however you need to respond back, send them to something else on the blog." Taylor Bradford "Work on growing your email list." Taylor Bradford "One thing you want to do in those emails is talk to your people like you are having coffee with them. Have a conversation. Ask them questions." Taylor Bradford "SEO is still important. Don't get me wrong. Don't completely squash the whole SEO thing. But understand it takes a lot of work to build on your SEO presence based on what you are trying to accomplish. So if you want to be known as what ever it is you want to be know on, you need to write a lot of content based on that theme in order to truly rank high for SEO." Taylor Bradford "Microblogging is just blogging on another social media platform." Taylor Bradford RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* Periscope Pinterest Google Search Google AdWords Facebook Instagram Twitter SHOUT-OUTS Texas Women Bloggers Mindy (MindyJoyM) BGC Crew FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 18th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing Helene Sula! * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA INSIDE THIS EPISODE * Growing your voice * Being authentic * Creative Spark * Launching a product * You are worth it * There's room for everyone QUOTES BY TAYLOR "It's just not rainbows and roses all the time. And I think the more authentic you can be on your blog and your social media platforms, that's what drives readers to keep coming back." Taylor Bradford "Because you are worth so much more!" Taylor Bradford "I think once you have that creative spark or something, that you know you can carve out your own little space and make it awesome. And truly make it what you want it to be. You may not know exactly the details, but you know that there is a huge possibility." Taylor Bradford "I think if you are not constantly trying to learn, then I think you are doing a disservice to your own brand and to your own business." Taylor Bradford "I think it's important to learn from the mistakes [made in blogging/business]." Taylor Bradford "If you have the heart and the drive and the passion, I think you really can do anything you set your mind to doing." Taylor Bradford QUOTES BY HELENE "Finding my blogging voice has always been very difficult. You hear so much conflicting information out there. So many bloggers and businesses are telling you to do it one way: to find your niche and stick with that. But that's not necessarily the right way to go about it." Helene Sula "I wanted to carve out my own blogging voice. One that is going to be for every blogger. Anyone can read me." Helene Sula "I think when you are authentic, people will see that. And they want to continue to read and work with you." Helene Sula "You have to put yourself in your readers, your audience's shoes. And think about "okay, if I'm reading this from their perspective, is this something they want to read? Does this sound like something that's coming from my voice?" Helene Sula "Your blog is your brand." Helene Sula "I like to ask myself, whenever I'm posting, whether it's a sponsored post or not, why would my audience care? And if the answer is they don't? Then I'm not going to post about it." Helene Sula "My journey has kind of been different because early on, I was very obsessed with my blog. Because it was my creative outlet when I was stuck inside by myself all day, every day for months. Because I had this broken ankle and leg [from a rock climbing accident] and it was just a great way for me to get to express myself." Helene Sula "I realized that blogging is something that has really changed the game on how we get our news, how we get our sports, everything. Everything you we can find online, you can find with blogs. And you can find someone else's perspective." Helene Sula "Sometimes you just have to go for it. And really try to figure out, can this work for me?" Helene Sula "The more I can learn, the more fear that goes away." Helene Sula "Don't put all of your social media eggs in one basket." Helene Sula "I think the more mistakes you make, it's okay. As long as you can learn from those and grow from those. The better you end up being: the better blogger, the better entrepreneur, the better Boss Girl you end up being." Helene Sula "The main thing you have to think about - you are worth it. Your blog, your business has worth. And it deserves everything you put into it. You deserve to be paid for your work. You deserve to get recognition for your work. You are spending so much time and effort imparting your knowledge for free to others. You deserve the attention and the paid opportunities. It's not a bad thing to take paid opportunities. Because you are worth it." Helene Sula "There is so much opportunity and room for everyone. We all are bloggers. We are all entrepreneurs. And there is room for everyone. Really, there is." Helene Sula RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* Fearless Launching SHOUT-OUTS Texas Women Bloggers Sara - Venus Trapped in Mars Taylor - The Daily Tay Brooke Saward - World of Wanderlust FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk FIND HELENE ONLINE Blog - Helene in Between Facebook - HeleneInBetween Twitter - @heleneinbetween Instagram - @heleneinbetween E-Course - Quit Your Job to Blog HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 16th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing Tena Pettis! * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA INSIDE THIS EPISODE * How Tena got her start * Light bulb moments * The road to creating an agency-style office * Taking online courses (aka course-junkie) * What comes easy/what's hard in business * How to handle making mistakes in business * What's next for Tena QUOTES BY TAYLOR So much great stuff from Tena! Go listen! QUOTES BY TENA "In 2009, no joke, I'm sitting in the car with my hubby. And I thought 'I don't want to sit in a cubicle anymore.' He actually said to me "you are way too talented to be sitting in a cubicle" and it just like a huge light bulb went off. I always wanted to do the entrepreneurial thing. And I just never really knew what it looked like." Tena Pettis "When I started thinking of Tena.cious and that light bulb went off. I thought, 'you know what? I don't want to be like every other design firm or web firm or when they combine and do design and web. I thought what is like that third thing I can do. And again, light bulb, it was like, I can manage Facebook Business Pages for people." Tena Pettis "One of the things that really changed me was in January in 2013 is when I first did my first coaching program. And it was a group coaching program that I did with Erika Lyremark. And she, back then, had a business called The Morning Whip or the Daily Whip actually, and one of her courses was called The Morning Whip. She was an ex-stripper, she's doing amazing things still to this day. But she's kind of like similar in what she teaches to like the Marie Forleo B-School, but very different and much more hands on. You got to talk to Erika all of the time. So, I started working with her. And I remember at the time, in December of 2012, we had about $10,000 in sales a month. So, you know I had staff. I had overhead. I had all of these different things. And $10,000 is really not a lot. I hired and did that group coaching program and by February, actually, we had more than doubled our sales. So, that February was $22,000 in sales for that month. I was a true believer of the coaching program, let me tell you. And it just changed my whole mindset." Tena Pettis "One thing that does come easy to me is ideas. I'm never out of new ideas...what's been hard is knowing when to take that next step. Knowing when to hire that person. Or when to take that next step. Risk." Tena Pettis "I love to talk to people who have been there and done that." Tena Pettis "I think Masterminds are best when people aren't working together." Tena Pettis "I want to keep making the stuff we have, that much better." Tena Pettis "I think most people and women especially are taking on too much at a time. And we want to do every social media platform and have our blog look perfect and our video look perfect and do Periscope and Blab and Meerkat. And blah blah blah blah blah. And the thing is, no one is benefiting from that. So, I say narrow things down. Declutter as much as you possibly can." Tena Pettis RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* The E Myth Book by Michael E. Gerber Twitter Facebook The Daily Whip by Erika Lyremark B-School Podcasting School for Women Podcast Movement One Great Goal Book by Ursula Mentjes National Speakers Association Get Rich, Lucky Bitch! Book by Denise Duffield-Thomas Periscope Blab Meerkat 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess Book by Jen Hatmaker The Copy Cure A Course About Copy SHOUT-OUTS Michael E. Gerber Erika Lyremark Jessica Kupferman Elsie Escobar Ursula Mentjes Nathalie Lussier Angie Weber Denise Duffield-Thomas Danielle LaPorte Jen Hatmaker Marie Forleo Nikki Elledge Brown FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk FIND TENA ONLINE Personal Website - TenaPettis.com Business Website - Tena.cious Twitter - @tenapettis Facebook - TenaciousEdge Podcast - Create Your Clique Work with Tena HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 16th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing Abby Hutcheson! * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? Prices increase October 1st! * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA EPISODE AT A GLANCE * About: Eat Work Play Balanced * Overcoming Obstacles * Key Priorities in Life/Business * Shiny Object Syndrome (aka "Squirrel") * Looking Back * Easiest and Hardest Parts * Managing Fear * Looking Ahead QUOTES BY TAYLOR "Whenever we start out on any new endeavor that fear of "Will people even take me seriously? Will they think I’m professional enough? Will they think I know what I’m talking about?" Taylor Bradford "Take a step back and see, you know, does this really fit in? And like, yeah, shiny objects might look really cool but does it serve your main purpose?" Taylor Bradford "It’s amazing how when we go down these journeys that that kind of thing can happen…you have to have a reality check even with yourself to say you know what is too much and how can you serve your clients the best and in what manner." Taylor Bradford "I think that with anything I think we should look at fear as something that’s not necessarily scary because I think if we allow it to creep in and overtake us then it can bring in so much negativity to our business because we start doubting ourselves and our capabilities." Taylor Bradford QUOTES BY ABBY "I realized so many women were struggling with the overwhelming fear of weight gain and kind of being stuck in a diet trap I call it, because I had struggled with that for a few years prior to realizing, "oh this is what I want to do." Helping other women get out of that diet trap and mindset so they can just feel at peace with food and their bodies and learn to listen to their bodies again." Abby Hutcheson "I kind of had this fear that I wouldn’t be able to manage it. I thought okay, ‘Where do I even start and if I don’t know where to start? How can I make this vision come to life of being a health coach?'" Abby Hutcheson "I’ve really had to learn that just because something sounds good in the moment, you do have to take time to pause and think about the pros and cons of it…and I also ask myself how the opportunity will make me feel. When I’m working on it, if I’m following the expectations the opportunity has given me, will that make me feel energized? Will it fit with my business? Will it help my audience? If it doesn’t I have to say no." Abby Hutcheson "If you know what the key priorities in your life and in your business are then it’s so much easier to say does this opportunity, no matter how good it is, no matter how much money it will bring me or whatever, does it really fit with what I value and what my top goal and priorities in my business are?" Abby Hutcheson "The easiest part for me is connecting with other women who are looking for support that I can give them. You know guiding them and creating content whether it’s blog posts or emails or whatever. I find that to come pretty naturally to me and the time management side comes pretty naturally to me as well." Abby Hutcheson "I like doing things that make me a little bit nervous because the results are always beyond expectations, almost always…I realized that what’s the best that could happen way, way, way outweighs what’s the worst…asking if this will benefit the women I work with." Abby Hutcheson "Remember as a boss girl that you are a boss girl because you want to be more in control of your lifestyle, how you feel, your schedule, your income all of that. So with that being said make sure that you are really clear about what it is you want; how you do want to feel, how you want your days and your weeks to look like. Once you know that you can design your business and schedules around that." Abby Hutcheson RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED Slack Evernote Google Docs Fearless Launching Product Launch Formula by Jeff Walker SHOUT-OUTS *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* Anne Samoilov Jeff Walker Brian Tracy Darren Hardy Chalene Johnson Starbucks Shania Twain Whitney Houston Jimmy Fallon FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk FIND ABBY ONLINE Website - http://eatworkplaybalanced.com Facebook - Eat Work Play Balanced Instagram - @eatworkplaybalanced Pinterest - @ewpbalanced Work with Abby HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe!