Online Courses Every New Content Creator Needs To Take For Their Business To Survive

My move to the islands in Corpus Christi, Texas 8 years ago to help sick family members turned into a staycation!

It was a very abrupt transition that forced me to evaluate and question my whole life.

After our first year on the island, I wasn't needed as much by my family, so I decided that I was going to take a sabbatical. I soon had my 5th and final baby. Ha!

By year 3 on the island, while surfing the net, I discovered the blogging community-first through Skype which then led me to Bloglovin’.

My love for reading and writing began to resurface!

(I joined Bloglovin’ as a reader with no real intentions of writing, knew nothing about social media, or the word “blog".)

I always found myself getting caught up reading stories with popular headlines like,

“I dropped everything and moved to Thailand”…

“I quit my job to travel the world”…

Though I wasn't traveling outside of the US, I had a virtual bond with digital nomads, expats, and travel bloggers. I had dropped everything to help my family.

I left Houston, Texas drove to Northern and Southern California-stayed for 7 months, drove to San Antonio, back to Houston, then onto Corpus Christi to help my family-and then later, got a place 5 minutes away from the beach, to start my new island girl/mother beach life.

Although these bloggers came from a totally different work-life than me, we shared the same, “ready to roam and explore, free-spirit traits!”

After going through a serious spiritual transformation, I was eager to start creating multiple streams of income, upgrade my skills, and yeah…., eventually travel!

I used Island Time to reflect, reevaluate my life, become one with nature, and get to know my true authentic self once again.

Moving forward, I wanted to expand my small senior care service so I took a few courses, and received certifications in human resources, entrepreneurship, customer service, accounting, business management, and leadership.

In 2015, I enrolled in a natural health consulting course and got my certificate as a natural health consultant. I then decided that I was going to further my studies to become a natural health practitioner!

I spent a huge amount of time speaking with reps from several accredited online colleges in regards to obtaining a degree.

(I also checked out a bunch of historical books at the library, and immersed myself in online history books, and religious studies.)

It was then that I discovered that you can virtually learn to do anything on the internet! The opportunities are endless! Plus, you can learn at your own pace! You can take several courses at one time, and learn so much within a couple of hours, days, weeks, and months-versus years.

While surfing the net, I began to read about how to start online businesses, and how to become a blogger.

I also went to numerous webinars, to gather information, observe, and to learn about how different people were transitioning from the traditional work-life, to start online businesses.

Through trial and error, I am still learning this online world!

My love for learning, continuing my education, and picking up new skills, hasn’t stopped.

Social Media

I first dove into social media for business intending to expand my independent senior care service. I signed up for Google+ and then decided to sign up for a Twitter account. I had no clue!

But hey, I tried!-Learning as I go!

While stumbling my way through endless scrolls of tweet tweet tweets, I made a few business connections and even got the chance to do a book review, after a Caregiving team reached out to me. It was fun!

Finding the right platform for your particular business and brand is key!

Some marketers stress that you need to be on every platform, while others advise focusing on at least 2 that seem to have the best engagement for your brand.

Blogging

I started blogging with my one targeted niche but noticed that I was always somehow trying to incorporate travel or style on my senior care site..lol.

I then took a step back and decided that my online presence and businesses would flow better if I created one website around all of my interests and businesses, thus Tiffany Tene’.

The beginning stages of my blogging and social media journey were more like training rather than a full-fledge consistent business.

I was like, do I really want to try and do this full-time when I can just go out in the real world, quickly get more patients, receive daily cash or checks in my hand, and be more than okay?

Then I thought to myself, if I were so content with that routine, I wouldn’t have moved away from it…

Is Senior Care stable? yes! Predictable? yes! Economy-Proof? yes!

7 Reasons Why Senior Care is The Best Economy Proof Business Ever

But because I had been in the field for over 10 years, I wanted to start exploring other income options.

The good thing is that my medical career will never leave. I can and will always go back to it.

Medical careers will never go away. The health care industry is so vast, that even if Robots replace some health care positions, somehow medical workers, caregivers, and researchers will always be needed.

The best thing about being in the medical field is that I can pick it up and put it down when needed.

(In this wild life of mine, I have to have flexibility in all things!)

Decisions Decisions Decisions

Do I want to be in this blogging thing for the long run? Do I really want to be a content creator? I mean, consistently! No in and outs! How much do I love writing, and providing information for readers? How much time am I willing to invest in my new brands? Is it worth it? How do I feel when I am photographing, writing, researching, posting, and creating?

(And this is why I stepped away from social media…three times!)

This time, I really needed to make a final decision.

I made up my mind that I was going to work in the medical field, and in the Senior Care Industry while building other businesses.

Am I in this for the long run?

My final answer is yes.

Learning New Skills is Crucial!

You should always be learning something new, upgrading your skills, and expanding your knowledge. Don't ever stop! As unforeseen circumstances continue to happen on this planet, you will need to be flexible-You will need to be able to maneuver from skill to skill.

If you are new to blogging and have made the final decision to become a serious and consistent content creator, then you need to take these courses for your online brand to survive.

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