You don't need to go to major conferences to be visible online and grow your brand! Here are four simple and proven ways to do it, free, without leaving home.

In this week's episode:

• The number one rule to gaining online visibility is to be where your audience is online. If you're unsure, google "social media demographics" and look at the data for the platforms you enjoy using most. 
• Facebook has approximately 2.8 billion people, so your audience is likely on there.
• LinkedIn is all business all the time, so if you have a business you should have a daily presence there. 
• Use one or two hashtags for each social media post (up to 30 for Instagram), including a branded hashtag and one topical one.
• You cannot own a hashtag, but you can dominate it.
• The easiest and fastest way to get noticed by experts or others in your industry is to be a helpful audience member in the chat of livestream broadcasts. I detail many ways to do this in the episode including greeting the host(s),...

If you know these four things, you can be a successful entrepreneur and have a thriving online business.

In this week's episode:

• You must believe you can! You must have the mindset that you really can accomplish what you want.
• I discuss the difference between a consumer mindset and the producer mindset and how each affects the entrepreneur.
• I didn't grow up knowing about entrepreneurship and I was 18 years old before I ever met an entrepreneur.
• I started my business coaching and consulting business at 49 years old with no encouragement, no training, no encouragement, and no start-up money.
• Entrepreneurs have positive mindsets and they simply figure it out.
• You already have all the resources (or the ability to get resources) that you need to be a successful entrepreneur.
• Use Google and YouTube to research what you need to know.
• I learned to edit podcasts through YouTube video tutorials and asking other podcasters questions.
• Ask your friends, family, and mentors for help or to the...

I want you to be a "scroll stopper" (stopping other peoples' scrolls because they want to consume your content) with your blogs! After being a lifestyle blogger and influencer and reading thousands of blog posts over the years, I've noticed that some blogs miss out on key components. Want to know exactly what every epic blog post needs in order to have your audience clamoring for more? Keep reading!

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This week on the Business Fabulous Podcast, I answered one of my most often asked questions: Where should you be hanging out online? In other words, which social media platforms should you be spending most of your time on?

In this episode, you will learn more about your audience, Google Analytics, social media insights, and your sales as well as:

• What the "best" platform is to grow your business.
• How you determine where you should be online.
• How you can determine who is actually following you online and where.
• Where people are finding you online.
• When your audience is online.
• How you can determine who your audience is without having a website.
• Who you should target through social media, blog posts, ads, etc.

At the end of the episode, I challenge you to look at your insights/analytics and tell me what you learned about your audience, who they are, and where they're hanging out online. I'd love to learn about your audience! Email me what you learned at [email protected].

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Ladies and gentlemen,

If you're an entrepreneur, this will come as no shock to you:

Being an entrepreneur can be tough.

If you put the word "entrepreneur" in a Google search, you'll likely get a definition of someone who has a business and that definition will probably use some phrasing like this: "...taking on greater than normal financial risks..."

Being an entrepreneur does not guarantee a consistent paycheck on the 15th and 30th of each month--unless you've created your own unique system to make this happen.

Being an entrepreneur does not mean that you have new clients waiting for you each and every day--unless you have created a working system that consistently brings in new business for you.

Being an entrepreneur means that you must make happen what you want to happen in your business. EVERY single day.

So why am I an entrepreneur?

Even though there are financial risks, I love being an entrepreneur. I love the fact that I create my own hours, (early or late, week or weekday),...