Entries by Colleen Eakins

2014 Business Makeover: Free Branding Review

January is the universal month for new resolutions and goals for the year. All over social media I keep seeing “New year, new me” statements and a lot of resolutions are related to appearance. So, I figured why not for businesses? Your business cannot physically work out or eat better (your employees can), but you […]

Working Around Short Comings

Do you have short comings that make things difficult as a small business owner?  A disability to work around?  I have a little of both.  I have a disability, that I won’t disclose today 🙂 and a few perceived short comings that I have to work around.  I am an introvert, I have way more […]

Fixing Jetpack’s Publicize Issues

I have been using Publicize within WordPress’s Jetpack to post new blog posts to my social media networks for a couple of months now.  At first, it was great!  I was even able to configure things to use my new custom shortlink when it posted on the networks.  Somewhere along the way, things went awry. […]

Being an Introverted Freelancer

I am an introvert, a freelancer and an entrepreneur.  However, I did not learn that I was an introvert until a couple of years ago.  My mother is an introvert and my father is an extravert.  Because I have the personality of my father, I have always been branded as an extrovert and my introverted […]

Long Hashtag Gripe: #iOnlyHave140characters

I have a hashtag gripe.  While I love that brands are embracing social media and making custom hashtags for us to follow and engage with them, why must some of them be so long?  I only have 140 characters!  I was watching TV a few nights ago and saw a KFC commercial that illustrates this […]