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Laurel Denise Planner Review

USE CODE: LOSETHEFLAME10 SHOP W/DISCOUNT This planner has helped me in so many ways. I’M SO EXCITED to share it with you, and include a discount code for the Laurel Denise Planners.  I have been paperless for about 4 years. After using paper planners for years, I attempted to use a digital planner.

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Remarkable2 Review

Scribble, Doodle, Amaze: The Unbelievable Wonders of the Remarkable 2! Hey, tech enthusiasts and creative wizards! Buckle up because we’re about to dive into the fantastical world of the Remarkable 2—a gadget that’s not just a tablet; it’s a magical portal to your creativity! We’ll even share a $40 off Remarkable2 Coupon Code

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Taming the Email Beast

A Chronicle of Inbox Overload – In the age of instant communication, our inboxes have become the virtual battlegrounds where important messages, newsletters, and spam duke it out for our attention. If you’re like me, you’ve experienced the overwhelming feeling of opening your email to find a sea of unread messages, each one

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Use Less Stuff Day

Get ready to celebrate Use Less Stuff Day on November 16th. Will you participate this year?  I feel like people start this thought process in spring, with spring cleaning themes. But, I do feel as though the collection of ‘stufff ‘ starts in the fall/winter season This playful day aims to tackle the

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Grüns Gummies Review & Discount

20% Discount My Grüns Review I don’t like vegetables. Yes, I think they’re yucky. I like green beans, cucumbers, corn, lettuce and tomatoes. That’s about it. No Kale, brussel sprouts, spinach, squash, broccoli and absolutely no carrots. Have I tried different recipe’s? Yup. Even cooked them for my kids. I just can’t. Is

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CRM & Followup Systems Review for Direct Sales

Direct Sales Follow Up Systems – CRM Reviews Update – 4/7/2024 – Two years later and nothing has changed. There still isn’t a sales CRM built for tracking orders, customers and followups. I wonder why that is. Thousands of consultants, affiliates, advocates need this type of tracking and we’re all left with trying

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Customer Text Service Review & Discount

We suggest and prefer BuzzyText! $10 a month gets you 300 credits, 1000 credits is $20 a month. Check out BuzzyText for yourself!  I’ve always thought of marketing as emails letting customers know of the great offer so they can decide if they’re interested and click a button if they are, delete email

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Why We Use Jotform Forms

Get JotForm Our Jotform Journey – Review We started our website back in 2009 and we had very limited options for form plugins to use with wordpress. It was always a challenge to find a way to collect information from our online visitors. I started using Wufoo: Online Form Builder and it was

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Canva Review – Graphic Design DIY

Get Canva Pro Owning a small business comes with many challenges. Some are easy to conquer and others, well – are not. I would love to have enough money in our budget to hire an assistant or specialist for each area in which I’m lacking the expertise or skill set, but the truth

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App Sumo Review & Discount Code

Haven’t heard of App Sumo yet? If you are a small business and use a lot of online tools / resources or applications  to run your business, you need to start looking at App Sumo – think of it as your one stop shop to all the deals and discount codes for online

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Why we use Elementor Page Builder for WordPress

Get Elementor Pro When we first started creating wordpress sites, we didn’t have a page builder tool at all. I was introduced to WP Bakery about 6 years ago and thought it was heaven sent.  I could design so much faster – I could  create posts so much easier and they looked more

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Why we moved to MailerLite from Mailchimp

Sign Up – Get $20 Off Coupon Code For over 10 years, my business relied on Mailchimp- I loved it from the start. Super easy to create newsletters to send to my customers to highlight a promotion or a sale we were having. The open rate was fabulous and I really didn’t have

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Direct Sales tools to use

I run my direct sales business all online.  I have a full time job and a family and don’t have a ton of time to spend doing home parties or online parties for that matter.  For the last 11 years that I’ve been with Scentsy, I have shared the love of the products

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Flodesk Newsletter Review

I used Mailchimp for my newsletters for over 8 years.  The benefits and functionality was really great. I don’t have much to complain about as far as the ability to edit and send and even maintain the lists / segments I had. They really thought of everything and while I loved the application

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Clean Email Unroll.Me

We all get tons of emails – but do we always delete them when we’ve read them and when we don’t need them anymore?  What about the junk email that actually lands in your inbox? My issue is how many emails that I actually really want and subscribe to, but don’t have time

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Coaching

There’s this new craze that everyone is on that earns a lot of money for the service provider and I’m not completely sure that the consumer is getting their money’s worth. It’s called a Personal Life Coach or even a business coach.  To offer this service, one usually attends a seminar for a

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Scentsy in Netherlands

Have you heard? New and Exciting news coming from Scentsy – “We’re thrilled to announce that Scentsy is expanding to the Netherlands in late fall!” We couldn’t be more excited to welcome a new country to the Scentsy family, and for the momentum it will bring to Scentsy worldwide.  Now’s the perfect time

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Lux Mobile Case Review

I’m sure you’ve seen these phone cases by Lux, the ads are everywhere right now, facebook, Instagram, everywhere. I believe Shaq is in some of their ads now. I bought this phone case back in July of 2018 for my husband. He had purchased a similar battery case for his iphone 8 plus

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Scentsy Bring Back My Bar

This Scentsy promotion has got to be the best yet. Have you ordered a Scentsy Wax Bar in the past, loved it, and then when you get around to placing another order, the scent is gone? All you’re thinking is … ‘what, that was an awesome scent, I’m sure everyone loved it, why

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Scentsy Disney Products

If you haven’t seen Scentsy’s Disney Collection yet, you’re missing out on the most impressive Disney inspired products.  There are numerous characters such as Winnie the Pooh – Scentsy Buddy, Tigger – Scentsy Buddy from the Hundred Acre woods collection.  Unfortunately, the Winnie the Pooh and Tigger – Scentsy Buddies have been ‘vaulted’

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CoSchedule

When you’re super busy, but you need to stay on top of your social media platforms and posts, all you can think of is, I need to clone myself. Or I need an assistant.  I’ve been using CoSchedule and I’m loving it.  I can sit down on a Sunday and schedule my posts

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Mailchimp cleanup

I have over 4,000 contacts in my Mailchimp Newsletter list.  You are charged monthly based on how many contacts you have in your lists.  I found a great way to clean up your newsletter list without compromising your marketing efforts. The main thing you want to look at is their member rating. Below

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Selling Online

There’s so much misconception when it comes to entrepreneurs that sell products online. Most people think that having an online presence is easy. “I’ll just build a website, and they will come” type of mindset is just being naive. Sure, you can build a blog or a website, but then what?  Do you

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Raven Tools

I tried Raven reports about 4 years ago, at a time that i didn’t really NEED it for my business. Now, that it has grown and I’m having more issues keeping up with the social media and how my sites are ranking on search engines, I decided to try them again. They have

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