When you have a business that is a handmade business and the website goes down, social media becomes your best friend. While I couldn’t upload to my website, I was still able to post what I was working on to my social media platforms to get my customers interested in …
The disappointment I feel when I realize the momentum I lost during that month long hiatus. For some of my blogs, it was 2 months. I went from page views in the thousands to 20, and in some cases, my page views are in the single digits. The reason? Not …
When it comes to blogging, I have to have a schedule. If I write too much, I become burnt out. If I write too little, I allow myself to procrastinate more. The great thing about school finally being out and me not working a full time job outside of the …
It’s the end of the month (and the end of the school year), so I am planning out my June content calendars for all of my blogs, plus I am catching up on some writing. Last week, I only updated maybe 3 of my 10 blogs, but I did get …
Often I try to reread books that I own, especially my books on business. Sometimes those books offer immense wisdom on running and operating a business, and sometimes you learn things that suddenly make so much more sense than they did when you first picked the book up. That can …
Sometimes the best content calendars in the world cannot help you overcome what happens when you are depressed. You try to create content, but when you sit down at the keyboard you find that the creativity you need just isn’t there. I have several blogs that I had to set …
I love to sit down and watch YouTube videos on how to be a better blogger. They always give me a good laugh. Why? As a blogger, I know the ugly truth. The truth that they don’t want to tell you because if they did, they wouldn’t have the views …
I’ve owned several businesses over the course of the last 20 years and most of the time it has been a handmade business. While I have enjoyed my handmade business, there were things that I struggled with on occasion. I learned much of what I know the hard way. I …
When you begin a business or even a handmade business, you may be tempted to charge what others are charging for their products. What you may not know is that their cost may be completely different from what your costs are? What does that mean? When you make a product, …
Okay. It’s not an us. Right now, it is just me. Hi, Dear Reader, My name is Martha Thurston. I am a writer, teacher, mother, and grandmother. I am from the foothills of the Appalachia mountains in South Carolina. I grew up in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains …
