Influencer Entrepreneurs With Jenny Melrose

There is so much pressure to be perfect in today’s society. When it comes to our families, homes, businesses, and even the way we look, there seems to always be something we have to measure up to. Here’s the truth: you don’t have to be perfect to be amazing. And you can be your best self without obtaining perfection.Today Cel Smart is joining me to talk about how she discovered fitness, how coaching women inspires her, and how making time for yourself will help you be your best self. Read more HERE

Do you ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels, in life and business? Maybe you started a business with the hope of changing your life, and now, you just feel stuck and like it’s not working out. If this describes you, or if you just need some motivation to make it to the next level, today’s episode is for you!My guest today is Jessica Bouton. She shares her story of overcoming depression and creating the life she craved. Click HERE to read the full episode.

Today we will cove how to launch a product online, from confidence, to choosing the right audience, to setting up your onboarding sequence.If you’re not sure how to outline your product, how to create a sales funnel, what it should look like, you need my product guide. It will teach you exactly how to create your own product that sells; with a 5-point checklist, a sales funnel worksheet, and an invite to my private Facebook group. If you haven’t grabbed this freebie, now is the time.Click HERE for the full episode

After the year that we had, telling you to stop being complacent might seem a little harsh. Let me be honest with you: I got really complacent in 2020 and I know a lot of you did, too. I’m here to tell you that it’s okay that we took that time to just survive. But now it is time to get back up and start hitting our goals.Read more HERE.

Have you thought about self-publishing a cookbook? Self-publishing can feel so overwhelming with all the unknowns. It can be helpful to find someone who has done it before to help you know exactly what to do. Jason Logsdon is here today, and if anyone can speak to self-publishing a cookbook, it is him. He has self-published 13 cookbooks. He gives you the 4 main steps of self-publishing and will help you take the leap into getting your cookbook out into the world. Read more HERE.

Are you afraid to sell to your email list? Are you worried about sounding money-hungry? Kate Doster is on the podcast today with the best tips for making sure you are sending offers to the right people, and not holding out on people who are interested in what you have to offer. Kate will help you feel confident in sending email sales sequences, no matter how many subscribers you have. Read more HERE.

There are tons of personality tests on the internet, but no one ever talks about your marketing personality. We often do things that feel totally foreign to our actual personality when it comes to marketing just because we don’t know exactly what to do. Brit Kolo is on the podcast with me today to talk about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and how you can use that information to find your marketing personality. This directly affects how you market your business and will help you market in a way that makes you feel good. Read more HERE.

Creating Instagram Reels is one of the best ways to really engage your audience. They are fun, easy to watch, and relatable. Natasha Samuel is here today to talk about creating Reels that will really help you engage your audience and continue to grow your business. She’ll also share her 3 tips for getting started with Reels and how to make sure you’re providing value to your audience. Read more HERE.

If you’ve been on Instagram at all recently, you know that Instagram Reels are booming. They are a fun and creative way to help you grow your business and build your brand. But how exactly do you use Instagram Reels to help you do that? As with anything new on any platform, you have to know your niche and know how to serve your audience well. JM Buckler is on the podcast today to share how she uses Instagram Reels to reach her audience of readers and authors, and how she grew from less than 5K followers to over 10k just by using Reels. Read more HERE.

Does live streaming video sound overwhelming and intimidating? Is it something you really want to try but have no idea how to get started or what to use? Or do you not know why in the world you should even give it a try? Live video is a fantastic way to connect with your audience and continue to show up authentically. It provides you with content for many platforms by doing one simple thing. Today we’re going to cover the why, the how, and precisely what you need in order to succeed when it comes to live videos. Read more HERE!

Are you struggling with how to get photography clients? Do you need help knowing which brands to reach out to, how to market yourself, or what to charge? These types of questions can leave you in analysis paralysis and keep you from ever moving forward or growing your business. But they don’t have to!In today’s episode, I’m talking to Christina Peters about food photography, how to impress brands and gain clients, and how to do it all while pricing yourself properly.Christina Peters has been a commercial food photographer for more than 25 years. She specializes in working with ad agencies and design firms. She also teaches other bloggers and food photographers how to do the same as a business. Read more HERE.

One of the most important parts of running a business is cultivating community within your brand. It is key that your brand communicates exactly what sort of community you are creating. Now, more than ever, we are searching for community and relationships. As our lives become more and more virtual, it is important that we can still find other women with whom we can share.Today we will be talking about SheFactor, a brand that is cultivating a beautiful community of young women through their brand.Read more HERE.

Running a business can be overwhelming, especially when it comes to know how to charge what you're worth. How can you know what value you are really providing? The truth is that we can all know the value we provide simply by talking to our customers, clients, and audience. If you are solving their problems, you are providing value. My guest today is going to share some ways you can make sure you are charging what you are worth. Mike McDerment is the founding CEO of FreshBooks. FreshBooks is cloud-based accounting software. Mike created this software when he was running a design firm. The accounting software that he was using just wasn’t working well for him as he tried to create and send invoices and collect payments. Mike created the software and transitioned away from the design firm to being a software company. Since then over 20 million people have used their software with customers in over 100 different countries. Read more HERE

This is the 200th episode of the Influencer Entrepreneurs' Podcast and we are celebrating with my 10 top podcasting tips! Yes, you read that right, we are 200 episodes in. This podcast episode is a HUGE achievement for me! I debated what to do to celebrate 200 episodes, but decided that the best thing I could possibly do is share my top 10 podcasting tips. For 200 weeks in a row, I have put out a podcast episode. That is almost 4 years straight of creating and sharing content. We have gone through so much together in the past almost four years. So much of my life and your life has changed in that time. I really want to bring you my top podcasting tips that can help you, whether you are trying to decide if a podcast is right for your business or if you are already creating a podcast. These tips will help you stay consistent and be successful. Read more HERE!

Have you ever thought about hiring interns to help you run your business? Do you have a lot of little tasks that just need to be outsourced? As business owners, we have to know when it’s time to hand certain tasks over to someone else. This allows us to focus on our zone of genius and continue to do the things that will grow our business. Hiring an intern can sound overwhelming, and you might be wondering how it even works. Today, we’re going to dive into exactly how to recruit, hire, and manage an intern so that you have more time to focus on the things you love. My guest, Christina Hitchcock is a former marketing VP, turned blogger, turned business coach. Read more HERE.

Do you struggle with making quick decisions? Are you stuck in analysis paralysis when it comes to your personal life or your business? Decision making skills are so important when it comes to growing your business. You have to be able to trust yourself and know that you are doing the right thing. And you also have to be willing to accept your mistakes as a stepping stone for growth. Today we will talk about how to make quick decisions and how to allow those decisions to push you forward, no matter the outcome. My guest today is Amira Alvarez. Amira is the founder and CEO of The Unstoppable Woman, a coaching company that helps women find financial freedom and become unstoppable in all areas of their lives. She is also the host of The Unstoppable Woman Podcast. Read more HERE

One of the things that is on a lot of our minds right now is figuring out how to prioritize tasks. This is especially true as we are entering a very busy season, as well as still in the middle of COVID-19.With kids going back to school in a mix of virtual and in-person, having to be both mom and teacher while working from home and running a business can be overwhelming. And I get it. I’ve had my days of crying in the corner and losing my patience. We have to be able to prioritize our tasks to prevent complete overwhelm and burnout from happening, and in order to push our businesses forward. Prioritizing your tasks is simple and will help you as you wear all your hats and try to find time to do everything you need to do. Read more HERE.

Are you in the right niche in your online business? How would you know? And if you’re not, how do you go about finding the right niche?In this episode of the podcast, I am talking to Robyn Graham about finding the perfect niche, how to niche down, and how to know if the niche you chose can become a successful business.Robyn is a brand strategist and personal branding coach. She hosts The Second Phase Podcast and is also a professional headshot and branding photographer. In spite of having a doctorate in Pharmacy, ten years ago she decided to pursue her passion, which is photography. From her very first client, she knew that photography and branding were what she wanted to do. Robyn dove deep into learning more about branding 3-5 years ago when she realized that many of her clients didn’t know how to build a personal brand. Read more HERE.

Increasing your visibility and getting backlinks to your site is one of the keys to growing your business and becoming a media maven. Gaining media exposure can seem daunting and unattainable, but is it? In today’s episode, we’re giving you the best tips for gaining media exposure and growing in your publicity and profit. My guest, Christina Nicholson, was a TV reporter and anchor for 10 years. She moved into a job in PR, working for an agency for 6 months but she wasn’t getting the flexibility that she needed at that agency, so she started her own. Christina slowly started to grow her agency. People began to reach out to her for help who couldn’t afford an agency. She would just tell them what they needed to do and they would do it. That’s how her online course, The Media Mentoring Program got its start. Read more HERE

If you have an online business, you need customers in order to be successful. If you owned a brick and mortar business, you would be working to increase foot traffic, and that’s exactly what you need for your online business, as well. In today’s episode, I am chatting with Stacy Tuschl about how to increase foot traffic online. Stacy Tuschl has been an entrepreneur for 18 years and has two performing arts academies in Milwaukee, WI. Stacy calls herself an “accidental entrepreneur” but her career path was totally meant to be. She started a competitive dance team in her parents’ backyard when she was 18 years old. She started out with 17 kids and that snowballed into 100 kids within 3 years’ time.  She grew up in an entrepreneurial family and her parents encouraged her in her business efforts. Five years ago, Stacy started teaching others how she grew her businesses. Because her business now has 50 employees, Stacy is able to work from home instead of going to a studio. She loves to teach others how to be a wif