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10 Reasons You Should Love Blogging

  • By websitebuilder@1and1.de
  • 19 Feb, 2019

Blog posts are a great way to get recognized within your community and share your voice. Here are the top 10 reasons you should love writing blog posts.

Anyone can make one:
For better or worse, anyone can write a blog post about anything they want. Everyone has a voice and that voice will rise to the top.

The writer can show their personality:
In blog posts, the writer has more leeway to add in their voice and personality than other types of writing.

Blogs are a great form of mass communication:
You can help people, learn new things, entertain your audience-the possibilities are endless and amazing. Blogging opens up all of these to a very wide audience.

You can make money:

Get the right blog going and you can make a lot of money through advertising and sponsored posts.

It allows people to craft better thoughts:
Instead of reading haphazard, uneducated Facebook statuses, it's much better to see people's thought process in a well-written blog post.

You can establish a community:
Blogging allows you to connect with other individuals who share the same interests. Sharing ideas and opinions within your community helps establish yourself as a thought leader.

Good for SEO:
Keeping content on your site fresh and relevant, you can use your blog to boost the search engine ranking (SEO) of your site and your business.

It brings people back to your site:

If your blog is strong enough and updated regularly, people will come back looking for more and bring traffic back to your site as well.

It's free:
It costs you a grand total of zero dollars to post to the blog, so if you have something to say, there's nothing to stop you.

You can establish yourself as a thought leader:

A blog is a great place for your original thoughts, and it can be a wonderful way to show off your individuality. If people like your ideas, you can become a thought leader in your industry!

What else do you love about blogs? Let me know!

By Tracy Barry 21 Jun, 2019
Got an idea?  Having trouble bringing it to fruition? 

Sometimes it's hard to find the right help to take a new direction... so let us help you take the next step in making it happen!  You have the talent, goals and vision and we have the knowledge, know-how & experience to help you to move forward in your arts career with industry-specific guidance along your creative journey.

Our objective is to open new doors, help increase your cash flow and put you back into the studio doing what you do best:  creating art and inspiring others!!

Check out our video below and contact Tracy Barry at The Nest Studio:  Arts Consulting+ 
Telephone:  807-286-4233
Email:  tracybarry@theneststudio.ca
By Tracy Barry 11 Apr, 2019

Be you!  You have a personal responsibility to live the best life that you can imagine - so believe in yourself, get out there and embrace all your fears, trust your intuition and let your best-self be discovered.  Love yourself... I MEAN REALLY BE IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF!

Emily Carr, a Canadian Artist, once said “Ones art is a growth inside one...one cannot explain growth, it is silent and subtle.  One does not keep digging up the plant to see how it grows”.

All of the little elements that make up your history have made you who you are today.  The lessons you have learned pave the way for your future success.  Your past days have influenced your fears and your beliefs, but have also strengthened you intuition.  Your past trials and tribulations do not define you.  Instead, I suggest that you look to solutions and redefine the problems as obstacles that have written a part of your story.  

Every good story needs a bit of drama, and art has taught me just that - that with every step forward I look for creative solutions and don't dwell on problems... I do this all day long.  The key is to keep your mind open, leave the roots of your past where they lay, focus not on your flaws but push forward with your strengths - aware that you are one of a kind.  

Anything is possible, if you truly are focused on what you want to take from this life, and what you want to leave behind for others to remember.  This mindset will trigger your creative conscience to develop solutions that move you towards how you can achieve your dreams!  Every individual has their own unique genius... it is your responsibility to find it.

Me... I’m not that great at some things, but I know what I can do and that I have other strengths that will help me surpass any roadblocks that come my way - this mindset has helped me to be where I am today.  A dream of mine, since I was as young as I can remember, was to paint... simple enough right?  Well, I kept that close to my heart while taking on many different career paths - and because I am not going to pull up the “roots of my past”, I’ll just say I have lived quite an interesting life full of ups and downs.  My creative mindset has helped me to look past those obstacles, and has paved the way for me to realize my entrepreneurial and career goals.

Fast forward seven years later, and I have created a life that I love.  As an Arts Business Consultant, I truly enjoy making people happy by showing them that they are one of a kind, and their stories are too... and that they can achieve a vibrant and viable business in the arts.  Today, I am recognized as an Entrepreneur; a local Thunder Bay artist; I teach others to paint; I provide a space for local artists to sell their works; and I run events like Poetry Night - Reading Series & Acoustic Performance (combining the visual, literary & performing arts all under one roof) through The Nest Studio - Life is Good!

Imagination and impressions can come in many forms, and I am often asked: "what influences your artistic mind?"  Well, to be honest, our artistic imagination is in all of us, and it has been from birth.  It is the driving force behind our personal development, ambitions, decisions and our limitless dreams.  Our bodies and our minds are trying to show us what our creative path is every day - what we choose as a hobby; a sport; our social environment; or what we find ourselves thinking about and how we use that to create.  An inspired person is one who has built their passions into their daily lives.

There are so many forms of being a creative and inspired person; it’s as simple as being able to find the right pieces to express yourself - be it a DIY project, or something made by someone else's creative hand.  Art speaks to me what words cannot, and so that is my creative path.  Don’t waste another year with your old mindset - embrace your productive and imaginitive mind.  Focus on what the definition of you CAN be, and not on what others say defines you.

And, if you need a friendly and innovative nudge, please come to visit me in my 'nest', at my place of happiness - The Nest Studio - in and alongside my associates at the Painted Turtle Art Shop and Gallery 33 at the corner of River Road and Balsam Street.

By Tracy Barry 15 Mar, 2019
Why do professionals need a set of headshots? To start, today we have both a physical and digital identity.  It’s your visual ‘business card’; your Facebook profile picture; your Walleye Magazine advertisement; and let’s not forget, it’s the thumbnail photo of all your YouTube videos!
By Tracy Barry 15 Mar, 2019
Having signs custom made for your business offers several advantages - not only will your business stand out with its unique sign & design, but you can also be specific about what message your sign sends to your potential customers.
By Tracy Barry 21 Feb, 2019
We call it merchandising. Be it that you have a retail store, office space or a gallery, rearranging furniture and reorganizing product is something that should be scheduled on your monthly calendar.  I would like to share a couple of ways merchandising can help to attract more people to your business as well as some idea's to help you declutter and increase the chances of a sale.   The number one reason for changing things around is to attract new and repeat customers. (in my option) But there are also some side benefits that are just as rewarding.
By Tracy Barry 19 Feb, 2019
Our objective is to open up new doors for Entrepreneurs of all artistic expressions and genres  What we do is provide the industry-specific assistance to ease you along on your artistic journey by helping to increase your cash flow and put you back into the studio doing what you do best: creating and inspiring others!

• RESOURCES & RESEARCH 

We supply you with the most current and helpful information for your specific goals and ideas.  

• DIRECT ASSISTANCE & SUPPORT

Our staff are available to work with you over the phone or in person taking on any task-focused obligations you require for a project.  

• CREATIVE BUSINESS STRATEGIES

We are focused on three important needs when it comes to your business: 

1. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 
2. B2B CONNECTIONS & SALES
3. MARKETING TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
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