
How to Teach Online: The Toolkit You Need to Launch Your Offering
The decision to teach online is more than just creating your offering and uploading it to your site. Teaching online entails finding and nurturing your audience, then creating content that your audience wants and needs.
108 Blog Post Ideas to Inspire Authentic Content
This list of 108 blog post ideas was created to inspire and help you deliver consistent, valuable, and authentic content to your audience. We’ve divided the ideas into four main areas: Inspire, Give, Engage and Inform.
How to Use Facebook Live to Grow Your Business
I’m letting you in on a favorite content strategy of mine. It is super easy to take a piece of content and make it new again. Recycling old content is a little known trick that saves you time but still offers value to your community. And if you’re thinking ‘wait, won’t people know I’m reusing content? Isn’t that cheating?’, the reality is that not all of your followers see every one of your posts.
7 Creative Ways Yoga Teachers can Use Instagram Stories
“What are Instagram Stories?” and “How should I use this feature as a yoga teacher or small health coaching business?”
Why You Need a YouTube Channel (+ 9 Simple Tips For Getting Started)
As the second-largest search engine in the world, YouTube is one of the best marketing tools you have at your disposal to funnel new clients into your paid programs and offerings. And because of the relationship between Google and YouTube (Google owns YouTube), you can strategically help your search rankings on Google by giving your YouTube videos the right kinds of titles and keywords.
5 Healthy Habits to Help You Grow Your Online Yoga Business
As the CEO of a software startup (and busy mom to a preschooler), I constantly find myself stretched just a little too thin. Not enough sleep / too much work. Not enough time to do meal prep / way too much take-out for dinner. (God bless Postmates and local pizza delivery.) Not enough water / too much coffee. Not enough time outside / too much time staring at my laptop screen. You get the picture.
Choose the Possibilities Instead of the Limitations
Bringing a business online can feel overwhelming and can seem like there are new demands at every corner. Or it can be fulfilling, rewarding and full of possibilities. It all depends on how you look at it.
The Cold, Hard Truth: Why You Aren’t Making Money Teaching Online (And How to Fix It)
After talking to over a thousand yoga teachers and other wellness professionals, we’ve heard some common excuses about why it’s so hard to make money online… Although we have compassion for this fear and frustration, it’s time to speak the cold, hard truth.
Learning to Love Failure
When a toddler first start to walk, she stumbles and falls. Her family members cheer and clap and encourage the little one to try again. The toddler takes another few steps, falls again and the room erupts in words of gentle encouragement.
3 Tips for Teaching Yoga Online
I have a love-hate relationship with online yoga videos. Sometimes I happily scroll through Instagram, inspired by others’ beautiful yoga sequences caught on film, absolutely grateful for the opportunity to share in and appreciate others’ practices.
10 Free Resources for Taking Your Yoga Business Online
Are financial limitations stopping you from teaching online? There is a common perception that starting a business takes a lot of money. Are you using this as an excuse to procrastinate on your dream? If so, please read on because you might be surprised by how many free resources are available to you right now!
8 Things We Wish We Knew Before Starting our Business
We are now two years in and entrepreneurship has been a journey full of twists and turns, ups and downs, and a whole lot of lessons. Today, we share eight of the most important lessons we’ve learned during our own founder’s journey with Hey Marvelous (and our new Soulful MBA business community).
Why You Should Start Before You Are Ready
Back in the early 2000's, I had a huge STACK of Oxygen Magazines on my nightstand. For those of you not familiar with that magazine, it was a popular publication that was geared largely to the competitive figure and bodybuilding population (eventually the bikini category was created and that took the magazine over).
How to Get Great Audio While Filming Yoga Videos on Your iPhone
Video gets all the attention. Most teachers who are planning to start teaching online spend a lot of time thinking about the visual aspect. What camera do I need? What will the quality of the video look like for my students? But rarely, unfortunately, do our teachers spend much time on the audio set-up. This is a key mistake.
The Pros and Cons of Filming Yoga Videos With Your iPhone
You most likely have an iPhone (or other smartphone) within arm's reach and you’ve probably even shot some short video clips with it. If you haven’t yet tried to film your yoga practice for a short post on Instagram or YouTube, here are the plusses and minuses of using your iPhone as a video camera.
Why We Give Our Girls Legos (You Have the Right to Build Something Big)
A conversation between Laura Close (Women’s Intelligence Project) and Jennifer Barcelos, co-founder of Hey Marvelous. Yes, as the female founder of a software startup, I built a platform that allows wellness entrepreneurs, many of whom are also women, to build and scale their practices online.
Finding Inspiration and Bravery to Teach Yoga Online
In my consulting practice with emerging female leaders, I’ve spotted a bad strategy trend among clients: relying on your partner, best friend, a couple of work colleagues or even your parents and siblings for feedback and suggestions.The point is this: You've gotten this far, achieved this much because this is as much as you and your inner circle have been able to imagine for you.
5 Tips for a Simple and Beautiful Landing Page Design
Creating an effective landing page is key to the success of any online business. Learn how to create an eye-catching design with these five simple tips!
A Note From the Front Lines of Entrepreneurship
Namastream is a technology startup, but one that seeks to operate and serve a community of healers and visionary wellness practitioners doing very important, very human work. We believe in being accessible, getting to know our clients, and operating this business by our values and from our hearts.Still, we are a business. And we have a huge vision for what we’re building with this company.
Hey Marvelous’ Story of Origin
Most software startups probably don’t have a deeply personal transformation at their heart; but ours does. We believe in deeply personal work. In fact, it’s kind of what we’re all about. Juicy, deep, brave, conscious work.