Category: DIY

Create a Blog

15/10/2019

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun” — Mary Lou Cook

It's easy to create your own Blog. The tricky part is deciding what your Blog is going to be about - what's it all for? It's worth spending some time considering why you'd like to have a Blog. Once you know what you'd like to achieve you can start creating & posting Posts. Some reasons to have a Blog may include:

To stay in touch — with friends & family, or customers & clients
To share your hobbies & interests with the world — provide stories, images, & videos online
To create an online journal — for family events, business development, or travel...
Relaxation & stress relief — a diary of your thoughts, reflections, feelings, & creative solutions
To practise writing, photo editing, etc — explore & develop your creative skills & get feedback from others
To have a semi-private online journal — just for you & a few select others
For SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) — as part of your website & business marketing
To share your business ideas & advice with clients & customers.

“Blogging can generate a great deal of traffic to your online business.”
— Fabrizio Moreira

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DIY Marketing

31/7/2017

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“You don't need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself” ― Ray Allen

You can do your own DIY marketing! There are lots & lots of places online where you can create your own marketing items. Many of these options are FREE or have a range of prices for any budget. It's well worth spending some time trying out a few different DIY marketing options to see if they suit you & your clients.

Some FREE DIY marketing options you may like to try out are:

Make your own Website with a web builder — try out Wix, Weebly, or Wordpress
Start a Blog — try out Blogger or Wordpress
Start a Newsletter — check out Mailchimp
Design your own Branding — check out Tailor Brands or Looka
Create Advertising, Business Cards, or a promo Postcard — try out Canva, Pixlr, or Vistaprint
Make your own business forms — try out OpenOffice and Surveymonkey
Create more Social Media pages — try out YouTube, Pinterest, or Instagram
Learn about marketing techniques — upskill at a workshop or search online for ideas

“Don’t be afraid to get creative & experiment with your marketing.” ― Mike Volpe

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eBooks – make your own books!

20/7/2017

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison

There are several ways you can make your own eBooks. One of the easiest and most popular is to create an eBook for FREE on Amazon Kindle and offer it for sale around the world. Amazon KDP can help you with making the eBook, publicity & distribution, and also make a printed version of your book. You may like to give yourself a couple of weeks to complete the publishing process.

These are roughly the steps to publish your eBook on Amazon:

Write or compile your Book
Type your book in Microsoft Word or create a PDF
Visit https://kdp.amazon.com — check out how to set-up & publish your Book
Create a Book Cover
Order an ISBN
Create a Book on your KDP account — step through the eBook process on your Amazon KDP Bookshelf
When you are ready — Publish your Book

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anaïs Nin

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