If you haven't, let me share that you haven't missed much. In all honesty, you haven't missed anything because I went MIA in February. Not because I don't love sharing tips or showing off my crazy kiddo, simply because I just became unmotivated with the content I had prepared. It just seemed uber lame and I drifted from my content plan into the new projects that filled the design calendar.

I have some awesome things I do to stay motivated in my creativity and I started applying them to my social media content. It's amazing how they work so well... I now have stuff to share that I'm sure you'll love and wanted to kick off March with a blog about what I do to stay motivated.

Please. Don't ask me to do accounting. It's my least favorite part of being a "one man band." Prepping invoices and tracking expenses seems to take years off my life, although I've slowly figured out a system that works for me. This system is my go-to to keep myself organized (and sane come tax time.)

Sometimes things don't work for your business and that is ok. Check out how it went when I gave Google AdWords a go.

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.