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What are the People’s Choice Podcast Awards? It is the longest-running podcast awards show for podcasters. It has been running since 2005. It is open globally for both podcasters and listeners from around the world to participate. It literally allows the people to vote. Your podcast listeners can vote for your podcast in the category you were nominated in.

The People’s Choice Podcast Awards Ceremony is streamed live on September 30th, 2022 at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST to announce the winners from each podcast category. This allows everyone from around the world both nominees and podcast listeners to watch from their computers or phones to see which podcasts are selected as winners and watch the winners deliver their acceptance speeches.

This year I am happy to announce that my podcast, Happy Being Well has been nominated in the Health Category for The People’s Choice Podcast awards! The “Happy Being Well” podcast talks about self-love and self-care along with other wellness topics to support your mental health to live happy being well through mindset, developing healthy relationships both with yourself & others, mindset techniques involving using the subconscious mind to change patterns of behavior towards behavior that will propel you into taking actions that lead to success, peace, love and happiness.

Every week a new episode is published either with only the Podcast Host, Rita Farruggia, who is also a Senior Contributor to Brainz Magazine or with a guest who is an expert in wellness. The Happy Being Well podcast can be listened to on Apple iTunes, Spotify, i Heart Radio, Amazon, and any other podcast listening platform. Listeners can download free wellness e-books from the podcast sponsor, Happybeingwell.com.

Happy Being Well Podcast has had big influencers on the show including Kacia Fitzgerald, the Podcast Host of EmpowerHer with over 5 million podcast listeners. You can listen to the podcast episode with Kacia here. Steve York, who has been featured on Netflix as a Negotiator has been a guest talking about negotiation and developing self-confidence, you can listen to that episode here. The Happy Being Well podcast also has Food & Cocktail TV personality, Jessie-Sierra Ross, who has a show on NBC be a guest to discuss home entertaining tips for your home dinner parties, food recipes and cocktail recipes, you can listen to that episode here. Also, subscribe to the Happy Being Well podcast to listen to an upcoming guest, Celebrity Energy Healer, Annie Parker will appear on the show Wednesday, July 13th!

To support the Happy Being Well podcast to further educate and inspire people to live happy being well, you can vote for Happy Being Well in the Health category here: www.podcastawards.com

Steps to Vote:

1. Sign up as a voter. Create an easy-to-remember password so you can log in to verify your vote to show that you are not a bot. Type in the name of the podcast that has influenced you the most.

2. On the next page, scroll down to look for Health to select, Happy Being Well. Then scroll down to click nominate.

3. Check your email to open an email from Podcast Awards to click Verify to show that you are not a bot so your vote will be counted.

I appreciate your vote in supporting Happy Being Well‘s mission to spread awareness and inspiration to people to live happy being well with a great focus on self-love. Imagine what our world would be like if everyone fully loved themselves. This would end jealously, anger and frustration directed at others and the individual themselves who feel lack and unworthiness.

If you have any questions about the voting process, comment below. Appreciate everyone’s vote and be happy being well! 🙂

Productivity is central to businesses of all variety. But some of them are simply better than others when it comes to achieving the maximum output in the time allotted. Whether you run a business or you work for yourself, it is important that you identify what is clogging up the productivity machine so that you can remove these blockages. To give you a nudge in the right direction, here are just some of the main barriers to productivity and what you can do about each and every one of them.

Poor Equipment

A workman is only as good as his tools. Perhaps it is slow WiFi which is slowing up your operation. Maybe the software that you have isn’t up to date. It could simply be that you don’t know how to use it all properly. First of all, it is worth checking out some of the tools at your disposal, and you can see more here about some of them. And if you find that your equipment is getting in your way, the obvious solution is to upgrade it as soon as possible!

Bad Planning

Businesses centre on the strength of their plan. This is what keeps them running in the first place and what keeps them on track. Perhaps you had a plan in the past which made sense, but now it has become hopelessly out of date. You need to update your business plan to move with the changing times. But you can also improve your planning and organisation on a daily basis to ensure that your time is being wisely spent. For example, few people are at their most productive when they are multitasking and attempting to juggle numerous different tasks all at once.

Not Measuring Productivity

How can you expect to improve your productivity levels if you don’t have any proper measures in place? Obviously, the type of measure that you choose will vary from business to business depending on what you are doing, but you should settle on some which are right for your company. If things aren’t going right, what are you going to do to change them? Sometimes, it is the little steps that you take which can make all the difference.

Common Distractions

Common distractions come in many forms. It could be the endless checking of emails or social media accounts. It could be meetings which are taking place that could have easily been covered by an email. All of these things can eat into your time and therefore see your profit margins take a regular hit. You may need to implement some workplace policies to deal with them. And if you work for yourself, you may need to have a greater sense of discipline to handle the common distractions which are affecting you.
New workplace productivity barriers spring up all the time, and you need to be ready to deal with them as and when they occur.

In order to be an influencer on social media sites, you need to have a good number of followers behind you. This is especially the case with Instagram. In fact, once you have a substantial follower list on this platform, you might find that you start to attract even more followers. People will see your following and think that you must be posting fantastic content in order to appeal to so many people. They’ll then want to hit your profile’s follow button straight away.

But what happens once you stop gaining followers? This can sometimes happen, even to the really big accounts. Thankfully, this can usually just be a phase and before long you will start to pick up new followers again. But what if you can’t seem to shake off this slow phase? Here are some reasons why you may have stopped gaining followers.

You’re Not Investing In Your Profile

You know how the old saying goes – you need to spend money to make money. And that is the case even on Instagram. Thanks to lots of new features, such as sponsored posts, you will find that spending money on your content can help it gain a much wider reach. There are other ways you can invest in your profile too. It’s not possible to buy Instagram likes and followers. Once you start spending a bit of cash on your profile, it will be quicker to get to the point where you can make money from it!

Your Content Isn’t Relevant

From the outset, you need to decide on the type of people who will make up your target audience. That will give you an idea of the type of content that you want to share. For instance, if you are into your fitness, then you might want to try and attract some partnerships with gyms and fitness brands by posting all about your training and workouts. This will then attract an audience who is interested in this niche. Whatever you do, never post anything that is off-niche as it will confuse your followers and might make them unfollow you.

You Don’t Give A Good First Impression

When was the last time you updated your Instagram bio? If you haven’t done so in a while, then it’s a good idea to do so now so that it is up to date and correctly reflects the type of content you will be sharing. Anyone who stumbles across your account will then instantly understand what you and your brand is about.

You’re Not Interacting With Your Followers

Whenever anyone comments on your photos, you need to like their comment and reply to them. Even if you just say thank you, this is still enough to show that you are interested in what they have to say. Users love accounts that interact with them as it shows them that there is a human behind the profile and not just a bot.

Use these tips and you will start attracting new followers in no time at all!

If there are two important factors in keeping your brand on top form online, it is your social media feeds and your SEO for your own website. Both of these play a huge and important part in ensuring that everything goes smoothly to plan, but you also need to make sure that you are getting both of these rights in relation to each other as well. Ensuring that your SEO and your social media feeds align right is hugely important, as it increases the power and potential of both aspects. In this article, we are going to look at what you might need to do in order to ensure that you get this right first time, everytime.

Work On Both Independently

First of all, you need to make sure that you are spending a lot of quality time perfecting both your SEO as it stands and your social media feeds as well. The more effort you put into both of these, the more likely it is that you will be able to make the most of both of them and align them in the way that you would hope to. Therefore, before you even think about such alignment, first work on perfecting both of them to the point where you don’t feel you can improve on them any more. You might be tempted to gloss over this section, but don’t – it is actually one of the most important parts of all, and sets you up for much greater success in the future when you then try to integrate the two. Both are equally important, so treat them as independent things first.

Your Backlink Profile

One of the most important parts of any website’s SEO is its link profile. Put simply, if you are not focusing on this, then you can’t be sure that your SEO is going to do what you hope for it to do in the long run. And one of the main things here is that you want your profile to be as natural as possible, and not have any sense of being forced or artificial. Adam White of SEOJet, teaches that a backlink profile needs a good mix of nofollow links in order to be natural, and that is a good place to start. However, you might also find that you need to carry out other actions in order to make it perfectly natural, and this can prove to be one of the hardest and most time-consuming parts of the whole process. But get it right, and your SEO will be incredible – meaning that your social links will also have more value.

Linking From Social To Site

Of course, one of the most essential actios here is to ensure that you are always linking from your social feeds back to your site, and vice versa. It is this interplay which gives both the power you are looking for for them, so you need to make sure that you have got this down as well as you can. You might be surprised at how much of a difference it makes, and it is not something you can overlook.

It’s a basic principle, but businesses need to have sales in some format in order to be sustainable and to grow. Sales of products or sales of services are really one of the same thing, but whatever the business is it needs that revenue. It can possibly be agreed that many businesses are always looking to improve their sales in some way, which brings me to sharing some of the strategies that could help you do it. Whether you focus on one or all four that I share, I’m sure that your sales will thrive.

Using social media to promote and advertise

Social media is huge these days and with more than 70% of people checking things like Facebook at least once a day, it is vital for your business to be present on them. This is when developing a social media strategy could help you to increase your online sales. Think about the content you share and how you share it, encourage your audience to engage and share which helps you business get in front of new eyes online, and ensure you remain professional and present. Consistency and good content are the two secret ingredients to being established and well connected online, which subsequently could help increase sales.

Ensuring your website is visual digitally

Is your website visual online? Of course you may have a site but if someone searches your type of products or services in a search engine will your site be one of the top results? This is when local SEO services could help improve the presence of your website on the world wide web. With many sites to do with your industry and niche it is vital to be seen. So many people take to websites like google for answers or recommendations so this could seriously improve the traffic to your website.

Checking out your competition

Whether a competitor has a different pricing strategy, be in a different location or is even different to you, of they appear to be more successful then it’s time to analyse their online presence. Looking at your competitors isn’t a way to copy or sabotage, but more to feel inspired with how you could do things differently. Maybe they post regularly online through social media or use different content methods like pictures or video to share their products and services. Feeling inspired is a great way to up your game, and can help you to stay motivated to succeed in your own business.

Market research could be your secret weapon

Let’s be honest here, your established customer base is your goldmine. These clients and customers are using you repeatedly month in month out, or even just on a consistent level if your business is a one time purchase sort of thing. So they must be coming back to you for good reason. So what could that reason be? Market research with your existing customer base could help you to see exactly what you do well, and what you could improve on. Giving you the secrets to make even more improvements in the future. However, market research could also be used for potential new customers, as you could hold things like focus groups to gain valuable feedback and criticism.

I hope that any of these four strategies help you to increase your online sales.

When it comes to starting a business, it’s true that you’re going to have a lot to think about. As much as you might love social media, know a lot about the industry and be ready to get started with your agency, it’s often not as simple as that. Sometimes, it’s okay to launch your business in an unconventional way, slowly, and learning as you go. But if you want to make the right impression from the start, you’re going to want to take a more professional approach. And to do that, you need to get the business basics down.

Whether you’ve been in business for a long time, or you’re brand new, there are a few essentials that you’re going to need to get sorted at the start of your journey. Yes you know social and marketing, and you’re ready to get going, but there are a few business basics that you’re going to need to put in place before you get going!

Pull Together Your Plan

So you know social. And you know how to make the most of a marketing campaign. And you probably even know how to market yourself with the best of them. But if you’ve not run a successful business before, you need to take a step back and pull together a plan. Because if you want this to work, and you’re serious about going places, you need a business plan. Not only will it keep you on track, but it will start you off on the right foot too.

Hire An Accountant

Next up, think about hiring an accountant. No seriously. You’re probably thinking you can just do this when tax time comes around and you start to struggle. But think back to the last point for a second. Are you serious about making this a success? If so, then you should think about doing this sooner rather than later. Because a good accountant can make sure that you’re working to your potential and help you with all financial matters, and not just filing your taxes.

Secure A Lease

And what about an office? If you’re planning on going solo and being a social media consultant, then you could get away with setting up an office at home. But, if you’re looking to do things on a slightly bigger scale, you should think about finding an office for your venture. If you want to look professional and are likely to host clients, then this should be a definite to-do on your list.

Get Insured

Then, you also need to think about insurance. Whether you get that office space or you decide to work from home, you should compare insurance policy plans to find the right option for your circumstances. Even when you work from home, you still need to take care of your insurance matters if you want your business ventures to be protected.

Get Your Tech Together

You also need to work on the equipment your business needs to be the best. Sometimes, you’re only going to be able to work with the laptop you’ve got, and that doesn’t mean to say you can’t make your business a success with just that. But, if you have had investment, and you’ve got budget to allocate, think about the devices and software essentials you need to get things going.

Consider Hiring Staff

Another key decision that you’re going to need to make at some point is whether or not you should hire staff. Again, there’s nothing to say that you’re not going to make a success of things on your own, because you can. But if you’re doing things on a big scale, you might need the right team behind you to make that happen.

Start The Pitching Process

Then, with most of the business essentials in place, you’re going to want to get your pitch on. It’s highly likely that you’ve already got some clients confirmed or at least in mind, you but you need to be out there pitching early as possible to drum up some business.

Put Yourself First

Don’t ever forget about promoting yourself as a consultant or agency. You should always be your number one client. You’ve got good social skills, so use them. If you want to get the business basics in order, then you’re going to want to put yourself first and start selling yourself to success.