Knowing Your ‘WHY’ Can Help You Achieve Your Goals
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Knowing Your ‘WHY’ Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

It seems crazy to say it – but we’re almost at the end of another year. Before we’re whipped up into the mad whirl of Christmas preparations, it’s a good time to take stock and reflect. How has your year been? Have you achieved what you wanted to achieve? Done the things you wanted to…

How Goal-Setting Changes Your Brain And Allows You To Achieve More Of Your Desires
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How Goal-Setting Changes Your Brain And Allows You To Achieve More Of Your Desires

Growing up, we are constantly told the importance of setting goals. We are taught that if we want to attain or accomplish something that we must write it down, think about it, and then map out a plan to get there. I never understood the importance of this goal-setting process until I had so much…

Boost Your Website’s Visibility With Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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Boost Your Website’s Visibility With Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Like any other serious entrepreneur, you get the same advice to first create a website when you start your business – your customers are online, and so your business must be too. You go about getting your website up and running, three months down the line and no one has visited your website except perhaps…

Digital Marketing For People Who Don’t Know Anything About Digital Marketing
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Digital Marketing For People Who Don’t Know Anything About Digital Marketing

I didn’t know anything about Digital Marketing when I joined the Design Pickle team. I was personal training Russ Perry, the founder of Design Pickle, when I decided to quit my day job and start fresh with something totally new to me – Digital Marketing. My background is in Kinesiology, the study of movement, so most of my…

3 Reasons To Take Advantage Of Influencer Marketing
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3 Reasons To Take Advantage Of Influencer Marketing

I never quite understood what a socialite was until I became a marketer. The concept was so foreign; like what do they do? How? When? Think Nicole Richie & Paris Hilton, 10 years ago. If you were not working for Louis Vuitton or in lifestyle marketing, it’s highly likely that this concept may have evaded…

3 Essential Digital Marketing Workflows
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3 Essential Digital Marketing Workflows

In the digital world we currently live in, social media is key to any marketing strategy. Running social media content can be easy to do, or the other way around, depending on the workflow itself. Understanding chronological workflow content makes it easier as a junior digital content marketer or beginner who jumps into social media…

How to Overcome The Fear of Work After a Period of Leave
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How to Overcome The Fear of Work After a Period of Leave

Whether you’ve been on a sabbatical, are between jobs or have been on maternity leave, it is daunting to re-enter the workplace after you’ve been away a while. We are going to explore what is behind your fears and how to overcome them. I took a break from work after selling my shares in my…

Rise Above and Flourish: 4 Ways to Overcome Your Self-Limiting Beliefs
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Rise Above and Flourish: 4 Ways to Overcome Your Self-Limiting Beliefs

A few years ago I suffered a health collapse from stress. I developed an auto-immune disease and I struggled with chronic fatigue for several years. I lost a lot as a result of this burnout: relationships, income, and my confidence. I had trouble believing in myself and I developed a belief that I would never…

Is the Fear of Failure Limiting Your Growth?
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Is the Fear of Failure Limiting Your Growth?

Fear of failure is a subconscious symptom of even deeper-seated issues that are triggered by the things that challenge us, the things that others will see and share unsolicited opinions about, sometimes even the mundane things that seem ordinary to the masses like leaving the house today. Failure is a derivative from the concept of…