If you’ve been around my blog for awhile, you know these two little faces! They don’t make it around here much anymore! Now that there are two of them - blogging our personal lives has totally taken a back burner. But if you follow my instagram, you know they are the center of my page! With my business constantly growing, we pay for full time child-care and wouldn’t have it any other way. I get lots of questions about this. Keep reading to find out why!

All I’ve ever known is “going” to work! So when I started working from home, I had a lot to learn. I’m generally a pretty self-motivated person, but there are definitely days where I look at my bed and just want to crawl in!

Remote work can be amazing for so many reasons! I love to take breaks when I want or need them, I can stop and throw in laundry quick or let my dogs out, and I can start as early or work as late as I want to!

Here’s what I do to make sure I stay productive and motivated to keep on trucking through the week!

If you put out the same.exact.content people are going to get bored. It feels repetitive to see the same sorts of stuff on your social media platforms! Keep reading until the end to see some ways to mix up your social media.

Find out ways to mix up your social media content to get the best engagement from your audience.

"Slow Season" is different for every business! For a lot of people, it's right now after the huge holiday rush of chaos! Use this time when business might be slow to get things in order!

Keep reading to get some great ideas to focus on when things are slow. You finally have the time to get some of those things crossed off that you’ve been saying forever!

A lot of people hear the term “Virtual Assistant” and they’re like, “Whhaaaa??” and I totally get it. It’s such a new business idea that people really have no idea what things Virtual Assistants can provide! Head to some of my previous posts to catch yourself up on some terms dealing with being a VA! If you own a business and are trying to gain some time back in your day, keep reading!

This little business of mine that started as a tiny idea has grown into something bigger than I ever expected. My word for 2021 was GROWTH, and it definitely showed up! I surpassed my income goal with almost three months left in the year. I hired my fourth person and have built a team of women that show the heck up every day with fantastic work. These ladies have saved my butt multiple times (through sickness, that time I spilled on my computer, kids home, and more!) I cannot wait to keep on growing and having these ladies with me through it all!

Probably one of the most common question I get in my DMs after talking to Instagram is how the heck I make my coffee.

I love coffee. It started when I was a teacher, but I never found anything I really loved. This resulted in me and a coworker stopping for coffee lottttttss of days a week. Which is obviously expensive!

Once I started working from home I had to figure out how the heck to make something I loved because I wasn’t going to spend the money on good coffee every day.

The bottom line…just DO IT.Have you ever lost photos because your phone broke or you lost it? Chances are, if you have…you now backup your photos. Because it is really the worst possible thing ever. So the simple answer here, is just to do it. Even if you don’t have any sort of organization at all. Just get them on something! I’ll tell you how I do mine here, followed by another post on how I organize them!

The most asked question I get on my Instagram is how I edit my photos. Over the years, I’ve just figured out what I like and created presets for those edits. These presets have been ready for yeaarrrsss. It was just a matter of getting them off of my phone, and into your hands and I finally did that! Introducing…

Bliss+Lane Presets! ⁠A variety 4 pack of presets that I use on every single image I take of my own life! Take your images up a notch and fall in love with them!⁠

Do you have an upcoming photoshoot? Here are some tips for achieving a camera-ready smile from a cosmetic dentist in Lincoln. Dr. Louis Olberding from Olberding Dental is joining us at Bliss + Lane for a guest post on Tips for Getting Your Smile Camera Ready! With one click, your photographer will perfectly capture a moment of time (and you know how fleeting those can be!). Now that summer is here, the busy time for family photoshoots is rapidly approaching.

People are often wondering how hiring a Virtual Assistant can benefit themselves and their business. I wanted to write a blog post about this because the possibilities of a Virtual Assistant helping you are endless, which means that the benefits are also never ending!

Remember the most important thing to note here is that there are a multitude of ways a Virtual Assistant can help you. This is completely dependent on what kind of work YOU do and what kinds of things you want to GIVE UP to have someone else do!

A Virtual Assistant (VA) is a remote assistant who offers support in your business so you can focus on other things. This can be admin support, creative services, social media help, and more.

If you own a business, you know how hard it is to keep up with everything.

I’m Tristan Bouc. It’s said like (Boats) but no one can even believe that and it’s my most asked question ever. I fill this space with my photography and virtual assistant life at Bliss + Lane.I have some insanely awesome clients in both areas, and couldn’t be luckier to call this my job.