The Creative Impulse with Marvelyn L. Brown

Black Friday Deals for Bloggers and Solo Entrepreneurs

This is a great time to start an online business! Many of the tools you need to build and grow are marked down. The Black Friday deals you'll find here are for bloggers and solo business owners who might just be getting started or using free versions of these products. If that's you, it's a great time to upgrade your plan as prices have been cut and the savings are amazing. To learn more head over to our blog post for the details....

Setting SMART Goals for Your Business

Goal setting has been described as the process of deciding what you want to accomplish and creating a plan to achieve the desired results. Sounds simple, right? Not so fast… Setting SMART goals can simplify your business and give you a framework that will help you expand, make decisions and resolve issues. Setting goals can also give you feedback that helps your business constantly improve and move in the right direction. To learn more about SMART goals, visit our site . If you're looking for a ...

How to Build a Digital Product Business for Free

In this episode we'll discuss how to start a thriving online business with digital products. You'll hear about what top earners are making on Etsy promoting these kinds of products. If this sounds interesting and you're a creative business owner or you want to start a digital product business, sign up for the free mini course discussed in this episode. You'll receive a lesson via email per day for five days that will show you how to start earning money for free. It's a free tutorial that helps y...

Steps to Take to Start Earning as Quickly As Possible While Building Your List

This episode is from our YouTube video that walks through the basic steps you'll need to build a sales system that will help you start earning from your business as quickly as possible. Create a lead magnet, landing page, follow up system and a scarcity offer. To learn the details, sign up for our tree training where you'll go through through setting up each of these systems step by step. You can try to figure this out on your own or sign up to walk through each of the steps with us as we build ...

Elements Needed to Grow Your Business with Passive Income

This episode talks about the features you get with an all in one sales and marketing tool and why they are required to earn passive income on a consistent basis. Wouldn't it be great to be able to have the tasks below running in your business 24/7, while you are out doing other things? Have a site that works 24/7 doing the following: Answering Questions | Processing Sales & Payments | Sending Information | Telling Your Story | Providing Demonstrations | Processing Applications | Attracting a...

Six Ways to Improve Your Marketing Approach

Here are some of the marketing approaches you might be using that might be sabotaging your ability to gain traction in your business. We'll show you six ways to turn things around and start getting results. RESOURCES: How to Find Your Niche How to Use YouTube to Make Money Online Set Up Marketing Automation with Thrive Architect and Mailchimp...

Nine Reasons Your Blog is Not Making Money and How to Improve

If you're blogging and you're wondering why your blog is struggling to make money, this episode gives you nine issues that may need to be addressed. These issues are not the end of the world, and I give you some tips to quickly improve your results. I'll talk about how blogs work and some interesting information about how they help business owners reach their businesses goals. There were too many resources to include here, so they are included in my blog post that you can access by clicking here...

Plan Your Summer Promotions in Five Easy Steps

Here are the five simple steps you can follow to create sales and marketing promotions that will help you grow your online business. Here is the link to the article that provides more detail.

Is It Still a Good Idea to Start a Blog or YouTube Channel?

This episode talks about whether it's a good time to start a blog or video channel and the advantages of blogging and making videos to promote your business.

Active, Passive and Residual Income, and Why It's Important

Understanding active, passive and residual income can make the difference between earning money that trickles in, versus money that flows. If you're an entrepreneur, it's important to know these terms. This episode will help you understand how you can use these concepts to build an online business that thrives and helps you reach your personal and financial goals. To see the show notes for this episode click here. BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 👉🏾 The Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki an...

How to Earn Passively with Social Media Automation

Ever hear someone say they earn money while they sleep? Automation is the key to passive income, allowing you to focus on other important tasks and earn money at the same time. In today's episode I'll discuss the tools and resources you can use to do use to automate your business. In the show notes, you'll be able to watch a video demonstration of the tools I use to create passive income. Click here to see the video demonstration and get a free list of social media automation tools....

Digging Deeper to Move Forward With Your Online Business

This episode talks about moving your business forward by digging deeper to learn what it takes to build an online business. Staying stuck in Freebie City is not the way to build a thriving online business. This episode gives you some alternatives that will result in more personal development and knowledge of running an online business. Stay turned for the show notes to follow in the next day or so. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/pmRMfn7nTbA.

How to Automate Your Business

The goal of automating your sales funnel is to create a consistent way to earn with your online business. It helps you become more efficient, streamlining processes, tweaking what doesn’t work and using the data you glean to make better marketing decisions. This episode talks about specific steps you can take to automate your business. Spend less time working in your business and more time working on it.

Income Generating Activities That You Should Do Each Day to Get Results in 2022

Do you have a daily plan designed to help you get bigger and better results for 2022? This episode discusses some of the things you should think about when it comes to running your business and the activities that will lead to success. The ideas from this episode and our blog post will help you determine your income goals, outlining things you should do each day to reach them. It more important than ever to create goals and strategies that will help you spend your time in the most productive way...

How Does Your Content Rate with Your Ideal Customers?

Are you totally lost when it comes to writing content that resonates with your audience? Do you struggle with what to write that will keep them engaged, and coming back each week for more? Well you’re not alone in that regard. Most people struggle with content creation until they understand a few of the things we’ll cover in this episode. Get the details, with resources and show notes on my blog at https://inawordsvcs.com/content-marketing-strategies/...

Lead Generation What It Is and Why You Want It

For details and resources you can use to implement lead generation strategies, check out the show notes from today's episode. Today we talked about lead generation, also called list building. We talked about what it is and why it's important to your business. We learned that lead generation is a process , that when done well can help you build an engaged, interactive audience of raving fans and loyal customers. There is a difference between placing an opt in form on the sidebar of your site and ...

Creating Offers That Attract

Offers are where everything starts for your online business and the first step in client attraction. If no one clicks on your offers , your amazing business will remain unseen. Listen to this episode where I share with you a simple, six step formula that will help you create offers that attract and engage your ideal clients. Grab your free download and get the show notes from this episode by clicking here ....

How to Go from Struggling Entrepreneur to the "Go To" Person In Your Industry

This episode talks about steps you can take to go from a struggling entrepreneur to the "go to" person in your industry. You can transform from seeming (and feeling) desperate, struggling to make a dime, and feeling the sting of rejection over and over again. Listen as I give you things you should avoid and things you should add to your daily activities that will position you as an authority and a professional. These steps will help you turn the corner in your business and get results working wi...

Having a Platform You Own and Control

The show notes will be available on my blog.

How to Rebound When You've Lost Your Primary Source of Income

This is an excerpt from our blog post How to Rebound When You Lose Your Job or Primary Source of Income .

Identifying Your Ideal Customers

Here are a few scenarios that many of us have experienced when starting out. If this sounds like your experience, this episode is a great resource for you. Do you routinely reach out to everyone you know to tell them about your product or service? Have you burned through your list of friends and family? And maybe lost a few along the way? Have you tried to sell your products and services to someone who was totally not interested? Have you tried to talk a friend or family member into buying from ...

Isn't There a Button I Can Push to Get Traffic?

One of the most frequent questions I get is how to get traffic to my online business. Whether you have a blog, YouTube channel, podcast whatever, you need traffic. Traffic refers to the number of users who visit a website. Without traffic you are not going to be very successful in promoting your products and services. So what is traffic? Traffic boils down to people. People who are interested, people who want or need what you have to offer. So is there a button I can push to open the flood gates...

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