Managing your social media can be a chore if you don’t have the right systems in place to keep yourself organized. Before finding my new social media love, I tried to organize my posts in Google Sheets - it worked, but it wasn’t as simple (or pretty) as I wanted.

Then, in walked Trello. Well, not really, but I was introduced through one of my fellow small biz owner’s. In a matter of minutes, I knew that this was going to be my new tool for organization. I use this site for everything - from project management to social media organization - it is my new favorite business tool.

Now you have your amazing branding and you’re ready to share it with the world, but how? One of my favorite places to chat about my biz and the current trends in design, my latest projects and new products, is social media. It’s a cheap/free way for you to reach beau coos (yeah, that’s an official term) of potential clients. There are three things that I focus on when planning out my social media posts.

Brand Style Guides are a must-have tool for every business! These needed pieces compile every piece that is essential to your branding and organize it in one simple document. This document tells everyone how to design and communicate within your brand.

Sick days are for the birds, but you can tackle your to-do even when you don’t feel like it.

This week I have been sick y’all. Not like “a few sniffles” sick but more like “I’ve been hit by a train” sick. It’s been such a long time since I had to deal with all of these horrible feelings and the first since I became an entrepreneur. During this week, I’ve learned a major lesson that I never had thought of before… my business doesn’t take sick days.

The wake up call of a “no sick day” business quickly hit as emails and calls poured in. Instead of shutting everything down OR pushing through and working a full day, I put a few things into practice to help me have great customer service, get projects off on time and give myself time to rest.

It seems that we start every year with a laundry list of things to make our lives better. By the spring this list is lost and we continue to fall back into our old ways. Am I alone here? Bueller?

Have you heard about this?  You select one word that you focus on for the entire year - one word that encompasses everything you are striving for in life? How empowering - one word instead of a long list of to do's! It seems so freeing to me (and I'm relieved that I won't have several items that I don't accomplish by the time we ring in 2018.)