Author Archives: Angelique Rewers

5 Surprising Places to Look for Creative & Effective Marketing Ideas

Examples of good (and bad) marketing are all around us. By modeling the pros, you can cut the amount of effort it takes to create your marketing materials, and you can drastically improve the results you’re getting. The key is simply to know where to look and what to look for. These five places [...]

5 Easy Steps to Get YOUR Message Out Through the Media

What Every Solopreneur Needs to Know Before Doing Another Media Interview

“The media loves two kinds of people—experts, whom they misquote, and victims, who they exploit.” – Joe Palca, National Public Radio
Just for the record, I don’t actually agree with the above quote. But I know it’s how a lot of people feel when [...]

3 Strategies to Help Solopreneurs Tackle the Work/Life Tug of War (and Enjoy More Life!)

  As I was preparing to abandon Corporate America in order to step into solopreneurship, I remember thinking that achieving work-life balance would be soooooooooo much easier after the switch. After all, I’d be working at home. What could be more convenient?
“Just think of all the time I’ll save not having to get ready for [...]

19 Ways to Drive a Steady Stream of Traffic to Your Website

  A few weeks ago, I listened to a teleseminar about how to grow your opt-in list to 100,000 subscribers and beyond, when one of the guests shared a great tip. He said, “Think of the online sales process as TLC: Traffic = Leads = Customers.”
That’s simple enough. But how do you drive more traffic [...]

The Solopreneur’s Guide to a Fabulous Staycation

According to leading research company Gallup, more than 50% of Americans now plan summer “staycations”– that is, they vacation at home.
For many, it’s a great way to unwind without stressing their budgets or dealing with the hassles that come along with air travel or high gas prices. But a staycation can also be ripe [...]

A Solopreneur’s Checklist: 57 Things You Could Be Delegating in Your Small Business

Are you delegating as much as you could in your small business? Something we talked about in last week’s Brilliance! (just in case you’re still not receiving your FREE subscription!) is that it’s difficult to grow your revenue to six figures and beyond when you’re spending your time on “$20 an hour” tasks.
There are [...]

Searching for the Magic Marketing Pill?

Create a Successful Client Referral Program

One of the biggest reasons small business owners and solopreneurs struggle to see any results from their marketing efforts is that they are simply trying to do too many different things.
And it’s no wonder. On top of all the traditional ways to market our businesses (i.e. advertising, trade shows, [...]

7 Steps to Building the Right Social Media Connections

Once upon a time, it seemed as though the number of “followers” or “connections” a person had on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn was akin to the number of votes they had for homecoming king or queen. It was the adult version of a high school popularity contest.
However, as these websites [...]

99 Amazing Reasons to Be an Entrepreneur Right Now

Sure. As solopreneurs and business owners, we experience a lot of up and downs. But the good far out weighs the bad, don’t you think?
I certainly do. In fact, when someone recently asked me why I started my own business it was hard to articulate just one concise reason. But it got me to [...]

3 Easy Steps You Can Use to Overcome Distraction and Get A Lot More Done

As an entrepreneur or small business owner, there might not be anything more important to your ultimate success than knowing how to overcome distraction and get things DONE! After all, you can have million-dollar ideas, read countless best-selling books, attend dozens of motivational seminars, and buy all the home study courses in the world. [...]