10 things you should know (plus, there's a pepperoni shortage!) 🍕

First, in major news, there is now a pepperoni shortage. Not good, I tell ya.

Also, on Tuesday this past week, I got an email saying "Your quotes made it into Entrepreneur Magazine online and it's featured on the homepage." I'm mainly writing this here so I have it down for the record. What a cool moment for me. Although my mother said "I didn't see your face on the cover of the magazine..." 😂 You can read the article here (I'm #4).

9 things you should know about this week:

What if your company gave you Paid Period Leave?
I ordered this awesome $10 downloadable poster that I plan to print at FedEx Copy and frame.
Want to up your online marketing game before the holidays? Make sure you register for these free "Business Building" sessions from Mailchimp next week. I will definitely be listening to "Holiday Trends 2020" and the session with Calendly and Courier Media.
This is the only newsletter I read each day. I lied -- I read this one too.
If you are an online entrepreneur and haven't read this book...
If you have a WordPress website and use plugins, certain ones can majorly slow down the speed of your site. See a list of the 65 slowest plugins here.
This post was my most popular Instagram post of the last year. Still trying to figure out why this one struck such a chord with people, but I'm happy this one was the one.
Shirley Manson's series, The Jump, premiered it's second season this past week via Mailchimp Presents. Some great episodes with George Clinton, Juliette Lewis and more. Most episodes are about 20 minutes, which I like.
Facebook and Instagram DM's + Messenger are about to MERGE.
EMAIL TIP: Start planning your email marketing strategy for the holidays now. Cyber Monday is 105 days away. Sign up here for a look at holiday trends for this year.

Lastly, I'm speaking this Wednesday to the Kentucky Small Business Development Center in a webinar all about email marketing for small biz. Anyone can attend and it's totally free. Sign up here.

PS- Did I mention I so appreciate you being a subscriber here? I really do. If at any time you want to go back and view past newsletters, click here for my archives.