Business & Entrepreneurship – Page 32

August 9, 2016

What are my Goals for this Blog?

I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately regarding business and online presence. Writers always ask what the purpose of your blog is and I always thought I knew my answer. To write about stuff I like, stuff I eat, and stuff I make.

But one article I read made me think deeper than that. What is my real reason for this blog? Why do I write about those things? So I thought about it for a while.

“Can’t I just write about what I want? What’s wrong with that? Do I really need to have a purpose to write?”

The answers are yes and no, nothing, and YES. ABSOLUTELY YES.

So I thought about it more, and what is my purpose in writing this blog? What the heck are my goals?!

To share. I’m a firm believer of sharing information that can help others. In personal or professional life I’m an open book and are usually willing to share.
To vent. Writing is a way for me to express myself. It’s one of my favorite ways to express myself, actually. I’ve written about happy moments, sad moments, more happy moments, and more sad moments. It’s an online journal for me. A place where I can chronicle a part of my life. There are days where I just go to the website and read all the things that have happened and changed since I started blogging in 2007. Wow, almost 10 years! Didn’t realize that til now 😛
To promote my business. I like to mix a little personal and professional on here. My businesses are my life. I live and breathe it! I dunno, it’s fun lol! As weird as it is for me to say that, that is the purpose of this blog. It shares the name to my online store for a reason and I can’t forget that is the main purpose.

I think all in all I just want people to see the personal connection I have to all the things I design as well as the person behind the product. As I’ve grown as an business woman I’ve seen that the connection between me and my products becomes closer and closer. I used to believe that I could keep them separate. But as time passed I realized that that isn’t what I wanted to do. I wanted to create things that I would use. If I didn’t see function or beauty in it then who would?

xoxo,

Kissa

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July 19, 2016July 19, 2016

Pinterest Posting Drama

Who knew it would be such a pain in the ass to post pins on my blog?!
I literally spent hours on Friday trying to figure out how to share 3 pins on my Weekend Faves post. HOURS! Are you kidding me? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
After scouring the Internet for the answer I couldn’t find 1 helpful post. You’d figure WordPress Support would be helpful – NO. I scoured other blogs for the answer but I couldn’t find anything relevant since most of the posts were 2015 and prior. What the fudge?!
SO. For those of you like me that are trying to figure out how to post Pinterest pins or Pinterest boards on your site here’s what you do. First thing’s first…
Important: Whether you want to post a pin or an entire Pinterest board you need to copy and paste Pinterest’s “pinit.js” code into your “header.php” file in WordPress. If you don’t do this, none of the following steps will work!
Where do you find this code you ask? You’ll find it by clicking on the 3 dots on your Pinterest profile page. From there, click on “Make a Widget.”

At the bottom you’ll see the code.

Copy that code and then go into your WordPress Blog (in another tab or window). Go to Appearance > Editor. Click on Header. At the bottom before the “</header>” tag paste your “pinit.js” code.

Hit Update File and you’re ready to pin and share! Woot woot!

Now, onto embedding a pin…

To embed a pin onto your post.

1. Click on the pin you want to share and click on the 3 dots. Click on “embed.”

2. This will take you to the Widget Builder. You can customize your pin settings here. Once you get your pin to the size you want copy the code.

3. Go back to your WordPress post or page you’d like to post the pin in and click the Text editor (vs Visual). Paste the code where you’d like it to appear.

4. Hit publish/update and voila!

PHEW!
TBH, I’m appalled by how difficult it is to do this. *tsk tsk* Pinterest and WordPress. Making us jump through hoops to share pins. PSHAW! If you don’t have any coding experience it’s pretty difficult to know what to do without being worried you’re going to F something up. But there you go! Hope this helps you guys and happy pin sharing!
Xoxo,

Kissa

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July 14, 2016July 14, 2016

Using Evernote to Get Organized

So I had an organizational epiphany yesterday haha! I decided that I would jump on the Evernote game and see what this is all about.

TBH, I try to be organized but it’s hard to stay on top of everything while I run 2 businesses, keep my household in tact, and trying to work on my fitness. From marketing, accounting, sales, customer service, food logging, cleaning, laundry, meal prep…the list goes on and on when it comes to the responsibilities of a small business owner and person on-the-go. I’ve tried numerous methods to keep me organized but nothing has really seemed to work.

I’ve tried the “tried and true” method of writing things down. This works well when I’m at my desk either at the restaurant or at my home office, but my life is always on-the-go and I get a lot of my “AH-HA!” Moments while driving, at the gym, talking with friends, etc.
I’ve also tried using the Apple Notes and Reminders app, but the syncing functionality isn’t as quick as I thought it would be between all my devices as well as Charlie’s. There were numerous times I would list things in my grocery list on Reminders and even 24 hours later Charlie and I still couldn’t see it on our phones.
I know, first world problems right?!

So here we are back to Evernote. I’ve tried using it before but never really got the hang of it. But yesterday I made a decision to really try to give it a chance for a year and see how it works. It will obviously take some time for me to adjust to a new routine and method of staying organized but I have a good feeling that this might be the thing I’ve been looking for.
I’ve set up my notebooks as you can see above. I downloaded a calendar from Evernote’s Blog site to help me with post ideas and scheduling. Once a get a workflow that works for me I’ll be sure to share it with you all. Wish me luck!

What do you do to stay on top of all your tasks, events, ideas, etc? Share with me in the comments below. 🙂

xoxo,

Kissa

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