Business, Blogging & Money tips for creative small business owners. Reclaim your freedom. Create a passive income & read about running a passive business and blog so you can enjoy your life and travel more!
Though it may seem like something of a formality, your website can actually be the key to your success. When you put together an amazing website, you’re making it that much easier for customers to discover (and fall in love with) your brand, which can enhance both your reputation and sales considerably. As a result, you must find different ways to improve the quality of your website, paying attention to technological advances and popular trends when doing so – as this is the easiest way to stay ahead of the game and ensure your website presents your brand in the best possible light.
With that in mind, here are some easy ways in which you can improve the quality of your website.
I’m probably late to the party but I just discovered small business subscriptions for ink with the HP ink program and it’s a total game changer for working from home or your small business office!
If you’re just here for the HP Instant Ink free months code, click here or use dbbg1g.
Remember the old days of printing? Never fully understanding which cartridges to buy, or where to recycle. Running low on ink when you really needed to print something and more horror experiences than I can remember.
I used to only have a professional black and white Brother printer that’s great for business admin, but as a creative business it’s a total game changer to now also own a HP color printer with unlimited (read: 300 copies a month) pages to print. And that’s a lot! But it’s only costing me less than $12 a month! Hello Instant Ink Program!
What is a HP Instant Ink subscription?
With an Instant Ink Subscription you get new ink cartridges in the mail without the hussle. It knows two main differences from other printers:
Part 1: never out of ink
Your printer is via wifi connected with HP, and it notifies them when you’re almost out of ink and they send you new ink.
Part 2: pay for what you print
You get a subscription for ‘x’ amount of pages per month, and you get to print those pages without any extra costs. If you don’t reach your limit, you get to take the rest of the pages to next month.
Get started with HP Instant Ink
Watch the video:
Original HP Ink ordered by your printer, delivered to your door.
Instant Ink is HP’s ink delivery service. Your HP Printer automatically orders ink, and cartridges. The HP Instant Ink delivery service can save you up to 50% on ink. They are delivered to your door before you run low and you get to recycle your old ones, just add them to the box your new ones got delivered with and mail them back to HP.
Monthly plans
See how you can save time and up to 50% on ink that’s ordered by your printer and delivered to your door before you run out.
Is HP Instant Ink Worth it?
Yes! As a small business owner, blogger and all around creative I enjoy printing colourful pages so much. To print my own products and planners, to create vision boards and more. I got the 300 a month plan, and to be honest… that’s a lot. I was really happy with my free months of printing as well and to never go to the store to buy the (wrong) cartridges and all those things. I really enjoy the wireless part of the printer too. I hated those wires that came with my old printer and the fact that I always had to be close to the printer with my computer to be able to print. Now I just print from my mobile or laptop and it’s so easy!
But keep in mind when choosing a HP Instant Ink plan that printing is not good for the environment and that you still have to get the paper. And those packages come often in 500 pages, so that would mean about one pack every month. Also, as a (wannabe) minimalist I’m not a big fan of paper everywhere, so I only print what I need to and try to use the paper twice if it’s just a draft.
Trust me, start with a smaller plan
So I suggest you start with one of the lower plans to see how you like it. How often you really need to print. I know how tempting it is to print every recipe you come across now and every beautiful motivational quote of image you find on Pinterest, and allll the planners you use but is it really necessary or will you print it just because you can ‘for free’?
Get started with HP Instant Ink
Head over to Amazon to purchase your HP Printer. I got one for just $80 and it’s working perfectly, even for photos. Click here for free months of Instant Ink or use the code dbbg1g for free months!
I wrote about 5 programs/sites you can use to schedule your Pinterest pins before and made a pretty good breakdown of the differences between each site. As you might know, I love Pinterest! It’s my biggest source of traffic and how I make the most money on autopilot, thanks to this strategy. But recently I decided to step up my game to go all in on using Tailwind to schedule my pins. Wanna know why? Read along… (more…)
Talking about subjects I’m very passionate about, making money blogging (with a small following or as a micro influencer) is probably part of my top 3. Today I want to share a new guide that I’ll be adding articles and resources to the next few weeks to help you make money with your blog if you have a small following.
If you’re just starting out in business one of the hardest things to achieve is that of building authority within your marketplace as a credible company and as someone that can provide value, particularly if you’re operating in a crowded marketplace where there are already several dominant companies on the horizon that are viewed as the “go-to expert” within this area.
This post is an updated version of my post with 50+ blogging networks to join, as the market is always changing and there are SO many influencer agencies now.
I have listed the top 20 agencies that have landed me or people that I know big bucks. I think the correct term now is something like ‘influencer agency’ and not ‘blogging network’.
You can make big money with sponsored content, ugc creation and company collaborations. Your personal brand is worth a lot.
But what if companies don’t approach you?
You can approach them.
But as a blogger with a small audience, it’s more likely they will sell you a ‘no, not yet’ than a ‘yes, great let’s go’ But there are other options, you just have to know where the brands are that are actively looking to work with bloggers!
Small at-home businesses are usually run by a single person. While they can occasionally hire freelancers and outsource work, most of the decision making is managed by a single person. As such, there’s a lot of responsibility on that person’s shoulders and it can be rather daunting to try and run a business in that environment.(more…)
Even if the pandemic did little to affect you personally, it’s not uncommon for it to have consequences that blow over into the long term. Having children at home all the time, for instance, means that you likely had to spend on more groceries last year, and ended up spending more on entertainment in aggregate. Everyone can use saving money tips these days. Perhaps your house needed maintenance a little more frequently due to how commonly and regularly it was used. Maybe you’ve worked on become more financial skilled and read my Ultimate Guide To Money + Finance and want to save money after a difficult year. Perhaps you’ve noticed that companies are trying to offset some of their unpredictable costs from last year, leaving subscription prices to go up.
Traditionally, home loans and ownership were shared by married couples and protected for both sides by that fact. But, as millennials settle down later and seem keener to branch out without traditional relationships, times are changing. (more…)
Whether you work at a family law firm or in personal injury or even prosecution – humans are at the heart of what you do. And, their feelings are inextricably linked to every issue you deal with but are the key to success.
Why do most startups fail? As per the recent statistics, it is because they fail to develop products that people need. This means that creating a lovable product is as important as selling it. The bottom line is that customers will purchase your product if they’re attracted to it over and over again so make sure you mak your products more attractive.(more…)
Are you worried about the future of your finances? You should be because there are a lot of issues that could hit them quite a lot harder than you would probably like. Let’s explore some of the ways that you can sure up your financial profile and guarantee that you don’t run into any serious issues. (more…)
