BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Welcome to the seventh episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today my Co-Host is Lauren from Lauren McBride Blog. Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL
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EPISODE AT A GLANCE
* Power Behind Instagram
* Benefits of Instagram
* Being Intentional on Instagram
* Iconosquare
* How to Grow Instagram Feed
* Instagram Challenge
QUOTES BY TAYLOR
"(Instagram) allows a bit more organic feel even to sponsored content because you are still having to share something about your life through that photo." Taylor Bradford
"Having an intention with what you’re posting is something that will help you grow your Instagram account." Taylor Bradford
"Figure out what your game is on Instagram, what your aesthetic is." Taylor Bradford
"Try to figure out what your game is, what is your feed, what are you wanting to share, and does it align with your brand." Taylor Bradford
"Who are you posting for, who is your customer, who are you trying to engage with on Instagram." Taylor Bradford
QUOTES BY LAUREN
"That’s what makes Instagram so powerful because it’s so visual, it’s really one of the only forms of social media that doesn’t have like a stupid algorithm like Facebook or Pinterest." Lauren McBride
"I'm all about the aesthetics of my Instagram feed...I have a method on how I edit my IG photos." Lauren McBride
"I am constantly being intentional about how I want my photos to look. If I don't like how it looks (overall feed), I'll quickly delete it." Lauren McBride
"In my brain, engagement, commenting more, liking more, in general is also really helpful, posting a few times a day, making sure your feed has that style like Taylor was saying, aesthetically pleasing..." Lauren McBride
"You want someone to go to your Instagram profile, scroll down, and you want everything to flow as a whole, but also...you want that photo to be appealing on its own." Lauren McBride
RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED
Instagram
Facebook
Snapchat
Iconosquare
Twitter
SHOUT-OUTS
*Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.*
World Market
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show
Brock O’ Hurn Instagram
Brock O’ Hurn Snapchat: username-imbrockohurn
Cents of Style on Instagram
Lindsay Cotter on Instagram
Helene in Between on Instagram
Goose and Gemma on Instagram
The Samantha Show on Instagram
MORE FROM TAYLOR
Pink Heels Pink Truck - pinkheelspinktruck.com
Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk
Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck
Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk
Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk
MORE FROM LAUREN
Blog: Lauren McBride Blog
Instagram: @laurmcbrideblog
Facebook: facebook.com/laurenmcbrideblog
Twitter: twitter.com/laurmcbrideblog
EPISODE AT A GLANCE
* Selling Out
* 8 Signs of Being on the Verge of Selling Out
* Proper Disclosure
* The 80/20 Rule
* Being True to your Brand, Content, and Readers
* What's Happened to Twitter??
* I totally lose count on how many tweets I was counting. That's funny, y'all! It's about 24 tweets in.
QUOTES BY TAYLOR
"If your posts always have free items in it, you might be on the verge of selling out." Taylor Bradford
"Don’t host a giveaway every single day on your blog, unless you’re specifically a giveaway blogger." Taylor Bradford
"You want to always be honest about what you are talking about but you don’t also want to engage in brand bashing on your blog." Taylor Bradford
"Genuinely want to be there to support your fellow bloggers, support your tribe members and don’t always just ask ask ask and take take take, always be willing to give back, it’s all about community." Taylor Bradford
"Keep your credibility with your readers, don’t push them to question your content." Taylor Bradford
"Money isn't worth losing your street credit as a blogger." Taylor Bradford
"If you get approached for something that is not a ‘hell yes’ than say no." Taylor Bradford
QUOTES BY JENNIFER
"Setting your line in the sand about products you are willing to do, what you’re not willing to do, and really establishing that before the offers even start coming because otherwise they will be tempting if you don’t already have your standards set." Jennifer Salter
"You have to treat everyone with dignity and respect whether or not you had a good experience with that product or not, and I think sometimes you can earn a better reputation by holding your tongue than by just spewing how much you disapproved or disliked something." Jennifer Salter
"You don’t want to be committed to a project that your kind of slightly hate and miss out on opportunities that you could have said yes to that were a 'hell yes'." Jennifer Salter
RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED
Twitter
Periscope
SHOUT-OUTS
*Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.*
Trish on Twitter - @TriniCapini
Love Laughter and a Touch of Insanity (Trish's Blog)
Texas Women Bloggers
To my BST Ninja Monkeys!!
Lancome
Covergirl
Neutrogena
Shark Tank
MORE FROM TAYLOR
Pink Heels Pink Truck - pinkheelspinktruck.com
Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk
Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck
Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk
Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk
MORE FROM JENNIFER
Blog: Busy Being Jennifer
Instagram: @BusyBeingJennifer
Handmade Biz: Homespun Happiness
Facebook: facebook.com/BusyBeingJennifer
Twitter: twitter.com/busybeingjenn
Shop Facebook: facebook.com/HomespunHappiness
Shop Instagram: instagram.com/shophomespunhappiness/
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Welcome to the fifth episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today my Co-Host is Jennifer from Busy Being Jennifer. Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL
* This episode is rated explicit. Nothing crazy, just don't want little ears listening in.
* Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew!
* Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram
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TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE
* Finding Your Blog Tribe
* What to Look for in a Tribe
* Trusting Tribe Members
* True Purpose of a Tribe
* Where to Start Finding Your Tribe
* Tribe Challenges
* Bitly Links
* SEO
* Proper commenting on blogs
TAYLOR SAID
"...try to find a tribe of people of no more than ten when you are first starting out. And some people now are calling them masterminds which I think is a cool girl boss term because a tribe doesn’t necessarily have to be everybody in your exact niche." Taylor Bradford
"What it feel like to be part of a tribe, just the camaraderie of having people that kind of know what you’re doing and kind of understand it." Taylor Bradford
"I can’t stress enough how important finding a blog tribe is." Taylor Bradford
"Seasons change. Friendships change. Tribes change." Taylor Bradford
"The biggest, number one thing you need to look for in a tribe is people you can trust." Taylor Bradford
"You want to be able to freely share about the things that are going on in your head, like your ideas, in a space where you will not feel like someone might scrape that idea, or steal that idea." Taylor Bradford
"Cultivating your tribe is more than just blogging and commenting on their blogs." Taylor Bradford
"Always give back, always offer support, and always provide value." Taylor Bradford
JENNIFER SAID
"Finding people who were of the same mind and interested in the same things, which was blogging, was so key for me not going crazy." Jennifer Salter
"Your tribe will change, guaranteed, it will change overtime, but that’s a good thing because you’re growing, which means your tribe needs to grow." Jennifer Salter
"You want to look for people too that are learning things, you don’t want to talk about the same old things." Jennifer Salter
"Try to find a least two or three people who are experts in something that you suck at." Jennifer Salter
"Your tribe is not about getting ahead, your tribe is about supporting each other and sharing knowledge." Jennifer Salter
"Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there because, if you’re doing it through your computer, there is a little bit of a buffer so you don’t have to be afraid of rejection because you know it might happen but, just feel comfortable." Jennifer Salter
RESOURCES AND LINKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE
31 Days to Build a Better Blog - Darren Rowse aka PROBLOGGER http://www.marieforleo.com/bschool/
Fearless Launching
SHOUT-OUTS
*Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* SITS Girls
The Pioneer Woman
MORE FROM TAYLOR
Pink Heels Pink Truck - pinkheelspinktruck.com
MORE FROM JENNIFER
Blog: Busy Being Jennifer
Handmade Biz: Homespun Happiness
Facebook: facebook.com/BusyBeingJennifer
Twitter: twitter.com/busybeingjenn
Shop Facebook: facebook.com/HomespunHappiness
Shop Instagram: instagram.com/shophomespunhappiness/
CONNECT WITH US ON INSTAGRAM
Taylor - @pnkheelspnktrk
Jennifer - @BusyBeingJennifer
#bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Welcome to the fourth episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! In today's epsidode, I'm interviewing Indie Author and fellow Texan, Adrian R. Hale! Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL
* This episode is marked explicit. Nothing crazy, just don't want little ears to be around! Keeping it real around here!
* Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew!
* Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram
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* Oh and I say the word "cool" a lot in this episode. ;)
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE
* National Novel Writing Month
* Making Sacrifices
* Fake it till you Make It
* Find Facebook Groups that you can join...find people that you can trust
* Opportunities
* Keeping Creative Juices Flowing
* Intentional Homework
* Practice Your Craft
* Writing Things Down and Dreams
* "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great." Jimmy Dugan from A League of Their Own
TAYLOR SAID
"I do have to look at all of the opportunities that are coming my way and if I can’t legitimately say that this is a ‘hell yes’ kind of opportunity, I have to say no." Taylor Bradford
"You have to have information and inspiration in order to get to the new creation, without the information, it’s hard to create." Taylor Bradford
"Intentional homework, give yourself homework and read." Taylor Bradford
"To just note when you are trying to get your creative juices flowing is that you should expect challenges, not everything is going to come naturally to you. Taylor Bradford
"Fill your mind with lots of compelling content, whether or not it is something for whatever it is you’re creating." Taylor Bradford
"Find like-minded creatives." Taylor Bradford
"Keep creating, even if it’s crap, just keep doing it because eventually you will break through, and when you break through, embrace it." Taylor Bradford
"The creative process, it takes time, it takes energy, and it takes intentional effort, it’s not going to come easy." Taylor Bradford
"In life, go forth with grace and gumption and know if the creative juices aren’t flowing now...do the things that like make you who you are and just love what you do and do those things and I totally think that will help you break through and help those creative juices flowing." Taylor Bradford
ADRIAN SAID
"...how am I going to balance anything at all? How am I going to balance this juggling act?" Adrian R. Hale
"I had to learn to say no a lot more, when you know you have a deadline you have given yourself for a book or you know you have an early morning wedding, you kind of need to say no to some of those social aspects of life." Adrian R. Hale
"You have to look at things and be like is this something that's going to get me further along in my career? Is this going to help me in someway or what?" Adrian R. Hale
"My dreams have just really grown and changed over the years and to be able to do both (hair/makeup and author) at the same time has been pretty phenomenal this year." Adrian R. Hale
"Publishing is a huge business that I had no idea about. I finished a book and was I was like 'Hey! I finished a book, what do I do now?' and people were like 'oh calm down, young one, like here's a whole list of things for you to learn about now'." Adrian R. Hale
"You have to fake it till you make it, don’t let them see you sweat, and then finding the people that you trust to get you through it." Adrian R. Hale
"I'm either writing fast and furious or not at all." Adrian R. Hale
"I try and find something that interests me. Because I'm not going to be able to write about French Cooking because I'm not really interested in French Cooking. But if you talk to me about MMA or if you talk to me about the hair and makeup business or like anything car related. I have a very defined interest in all of those. That is something that I can write about for several months straight." Adrian R. Hale
"A lot of authors…we do sprints where we’ll come up with a topic that could be related to what your writing or absolutely not…and then you would just write about that for however many minutes, as much as you can, anything that is like brain dumping just to get your brain going on a certain topic." Adrian R. Hale
"Anything to help develop yourself as a writer, finding out information about what processes for other people…anything that is going to get your creative juices flowing." Adrian R. Hale
"You can take something away from everything." Adrian R. Hale
RESOURCES AND LINKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWrMo) - November 1-30
Facebook
Pinterest
SHOUT-OUTS
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Texas Women Bloggers
Lost Oak Winery - Burleson, Texas
Amazon - Adrian's book is there!
Author: Karina Halle
Author: Heidi Joy Trethaway
Author: Mary Kay Andrews
Author: Colleen Hoover
Starbucks
Grey's Anatomy
MORE FROM TAYLOR
Pink Heels Pink Truck - pinkheelspinktruck.com
MORE FROM ADRIAN
Author Website: Adrian R. Hale
Hair/Makeup Artist Website: Revelry Beauty
Facebook: facebook.com/AdrianRHaleAuthor
Twitter: twitter.com/AdrianRHale
Adrian's Book: A Taste of Bliss
CONNECT WITH US ON INSTAGRAM
Taylor - @pnkheelspnktrk
Adrian - @AdrianRHale
#bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Welcome to the third episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! And my very first Boss Girl Interview with Blogger/Author Sophie Hudson! Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL
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TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE
* Approaching the obstacles of life
* Opportunities and when to say “no”
* Making time to write
* What’s next for Sophie
* Fun facts about Sophie
* Advice from Boo Mama
* Importance of building relationships
* Dale Carnegie, "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people then you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
TAYLOR SAID
"We are still making our own paths and our own journeys and if one door closes, another one opens." Taylor Bradford
"I wouldn’t be where I am now without everyone I have met this far." Taylor Bradford
"We want to grow our brand but I think the more important thing is to grow your community and grow with your community." Taylor Bradford
SOPHIE SAID
"I just love home and I don’t think I have super elaborate expectations of life other than just having some people to love and people to serve, I just tend to like things simple and easy." Sophie Hudson
"I don’t have a complicated view of life." Sophie Hudson
"I really try to kind of come at every situation with 'If I say yes to this, am I going to be a source of frustration to someone?'" Sophie Hudson
"If I don’t do my main priorities well…than I kind of missed it." Sophie Hudson
"Ultimately, I want to be able to do a good job for people and if I can’t do a good job, it’s not going to serve me well and it’s not going to serve them well." Sophie Hudson
"Whatever tiny little piece of the internet I leave behind, I want it to be encouraging." Sophie Hudson
"I have never been on a schedule with my blog…I just like to do things on the fly." Sophie Hudson
"Worry more about building relationships than building traffic." Sophie Hudson
"Make decisions that are for the good for everybody." Sophie Hudson
"I think if your focus is on service versus promotion, I think it, again, kind of works out for everybody." Sophie Hudson
RESOURCES AND LINKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE
Instagram: http://instagram.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com
Libsyn: http://www.libsyn.com/
SHOUT-OUTS
*Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.*
Allume.com
Amazon.com
The Bachelorette
Starbucks
Amy Grant
Beth Moore
Broadcast News
Daniel Craig
Mentholatum
MORE FROM TAYLOR
Pink Heels Pink Truck - http://pinkheelspinktruck.com
MORE FROM SOPHIE
BooMama - http://boomama.net
Sophie's Books - A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet: Southern Stories of Faith, Family, and Fifteen Pounds of Bacon-Sophie and Home Is Where My People Are: The Roads That Lead Us to Where We Belong
CONNECT WITH US ON INSTAGRAM
Taylor - @pnkheelspnktrk
Sophie - @boomama205
#bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA
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