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If you are an entrepreneur or work from home regular looking for northside Indianapolis coworking spaces this is the list you need! Let’s be real – working from home has its perks (hello, pajama pants), but it also comes with distractions that are not on your to-do list. Maybe your toddler bursts into “Let It […]

The Best Northside Indianapolis Coworking Spots

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AI is a big, complicated topic, and I don’t want to be naive about the downsides for our world and the creative community. As a business owner and a parent, though, I’d rather be informed and use my time well. In this episode, I shared how I use AI to buy back time in my actual week, plus the CORE f

The CORE Framework for AI Prompts That Helps Me Buy Back Time

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On this episode, I talked about making the most of the content from a brand session. For anyone new here, I’m a photographer and videographer in Indianapolis working mostly with brands. If you’ve been wondering how to plan a brand photoshoot so the images keep working long after your gallery is deli

How to Plan a Brand Photoshoot Around Where Your Content Is Going

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Flat lay of cameras, lenses, a Rode mic and a clapperboard on a mustard blanket, set up for a brand photoshoot

“Oh my gosh, that’s so on brand.” We say it about people, items, events and places, any time something fits so completely it couldn’t belong to anyone else. That phrase became the name of my new show! If you’ve been looking for a branding podcast for women business owners, pull up a chair.

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Not long ago, my book club got so far off topic that I couldn’t tell you how our conversation about the actual book ended. Somebody asked how people are finding businesses now, and whether everyone just asks AI who to hire. I went home and started building tools to help. This episode covers four fre

Will AI Recommend Your Business? Start With Your Google Business Profile

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The brands that stood out to me in New York made a lot of small, deliberate choices so every touchpoint felt connected. Here are six brand experiences from my September trip and how you can apply each one to your own small business.

What New York Taught Me About Brand Experience for Small Businesses

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TL;DR “AI will save you so much time” is the most repeated and least examined sentence in small business right now. Saved from what? Turned into what? I’ve written before about how I use AI tools; this is a different question. This is the accounting. Because the honest pitch AI for small business owners isn’t […]

How to Use Your Brand Photos + Examples TL;DR I can tell you brand photos should work harder for your business, or I can just show you the receipts. Let’s do receipts! Solid Wellness and Aesthetics is a functional wellness and aesthetics practice in Westfield: whole-person care, from hormone and gut health to natural-looking aesthetic […]

Where One Brand Session’s Content Actually Landed

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I tried this once before. A few years ago I started a podcast, published a handful of episodes, and then set it down. I had the ideas and the gear and a name I liked. What I didn’t have was the capacity, and every episode cost more than that season of my business had to […]

Introducing So On Brand: A Podcast on Branding, Content & AI for Business

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Getting Started with AI It started coming up between setups. A client would be changing into her third look of the day and ask, half-joking, whether she was supposed to be using AI yet. Then another one asked. Then another. The funny part is that by the time those conversations started, AI had already been […]

TL;DR Someone asked me at a networking event what I do, and when I mentioned brand photography, she nodded politely and said, “So… headshots?” It’s the most common mix-up in my world, and it’s worth untangling, because the two solve different problems at different price points. So, plainly: brand photography is professional photo and video […]

What Is Brand Photography? (And What It Isn’t)

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