Effective Nerd Quick Hits

This week on the podcast we go over the basics for improving your website speed. How fast your website loads is an important factor when it comes to both user experience and SEO. This episode also includes my five best tips for analyzing your website's speed.

I talked to over 100 creators, artists, and entrepreneurs about their best social media DOs and DON'Ts. I took all of their responses and boiled them down to the best 20 to 30 tips. This episode is part 2 of the two-part series. On Today's episode, we go over social media DONTs.

I talked to over 100 creators, artists, and entrepreneurs about their best social media DOs and DON'Ts.I took all of their responses and boiled them down to the best 20 to 30 tips. This episode is part 1 of the two-part series. On Today's episode, we go over social media DOs. Part 2 will be out in a few days.

On this week's podcast, we discuss 18 tips for hitting affiliates on Twitch. Twitch can be an excellent platform for creators, podcasters, and gamers. Getting into the affiliate program takes some work. Here are the strategies I used to reach affiliate status on Twitch.

This week on the podcast we discuss 15 tips for creating after time off. Sometimes our lives get busy and we don't have the time to work on our crafts and passion projects. Here are our best tips for getting back into the swing of things!

Our first bonus episode! Today on the podcast we discuss our new studio, site redesign, and the launch of our new service: Effective Nerd Brand Audit. Have a great weekend everyone!

This week on Effective Nerd Quick Hits we discuss 6 strategies for selling your artwork locally. The internet is a vast and saturated place. There is an endless amount of artists trying to sell their work. While this is true, many artists still attempt to sell their artwork locally and within their communities.

Marketing your art locally is a bit different than marketing yourself on the internet, or through social media. In this episode, we discuss ways artists can sell their art to those who live near them. On our quest to be full-time artists, local marketing is a good idea.

Making art isn’t always easy. You have to learn a craft, gain experience, and produce your work. You spend your time, and money, and emotional vitality making your creations.

Where there are difficulties, there are bad feelings. There are fears of failure, or embarrassment. Works of a personal nature can bring about intense vulnerability.

These feelings can be paralyzing for people, myself included. I have spent a lot of time avoiding my creativity in my life. I feared failure so badly that I could not even begin to think about creative work.

Creative anxiety can rear its head in many forms. There is classic stage fright. There is the fear to feel vulnerable, which can keep us from starting. Impostor syndrome makes us doubt our experiences. There is a form of anxiety for each step of the creative process.

Today I wanted to discuss some of my favorite strategies for overcoming creative anxiety.

This week on Effective Nerd Quick Hits we talk about ways to decrease phone distractions. Smart phones are one of the most powerful tools in our creative arsenals. It allows us to schedule our time, connect with other creators, and run our businesses. However, our phones can create big obstacles when it comes to wasting time and being distracted. Here are some of our best strategies to limiting phone distractions.

Welcome to the first episode of Effective Nerd Quick Hits! Before we get into solutions, I wanted to start off by outlining some problems. When it comes to be an effective creator, there are many obstacles that hold us back. A lot of the time, these issues come from internal resources. Sometimes the biggest problem is the way we think about and approach our art and content. Today, I want to talk about 9 excuses starving artists tell themselves.