• career is over
    Blog,  Business

    When Your Career Is Over

    August 22, 2018

    It doesn’t matter what age you are … when you find out your career is over, it’s devastating. I was determined to be a T.V. news producer. That was my goal. My dream. I had so many plans surrounding this job description.  After 5 years in the field, my job was eliminated, my personal life was torturous and I didn’t know where to go from here. This was 2009 and labels meant everything to me. Being a T.V. news producer was my job title goal. Being a news producer meant something to me. I was proud to tell people this was my job and I was determined to fulfill my…

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  • dream job
    A Queen's Reign,  Blog,  Business

    Rejected From My Dream Job

    August 2, 2018

    In honor of my new podcast launching, I’ll be writing a few career related blogs. Check out My First Dollar! I’ve learned so many things on my career path, but here’s the most important one: your dream job doesn’t exist. You create it. The year was 2007 and my career was feeling rough. Following college graduation in 2004, had gotten a job in my field doing exactly what I had trained to do (be a news producer), left after a year, and had struggled ever since. I left after a year because my live-in fiance who had moved to the city I was working was offered a job back home.…

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  • small business
    Blog,  Business

    Market Your Small Business For Less Than $100

    July 26, 2018

    Too many small business owners aren’t spending the time or money where they should when it comes to marketing. How many entrepreneurs have you heard had $0 for a marketing budget? Major mistake. However, you don’t need to spend through your next six months operating expenses to be successful in your marketing. I had the pleasure of showing my marketing skills with a small budget recently and it reinvigorated my desire to help small business. The other motivation is because I’m so tired of seeing small business do it badly. How are they doing it badly? Either they hired a person who is not equipped to handle online marketing or…

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