Okay, let me just start by saying that I live on systems. As I was starting my business, I knew that I wanted to get my systems in place early on. In some cases, before I even had my first client, because I knew it would be so much harder to find the right tool,…
First, let me say that Canva is a great tool. I used it for years, both the free and paid version. But as a blogger, I’ve found another tool that works WAY better in my workflow. In this post, I’m going to share 13 reasons why you should make the move away from Canva to…
A famous quote from Laurie Greiner is: “Entrepreneurs are the only people that work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.” And this is oh so true. But 80 hours a week is not good, you shouldn’t work that much. It’s not it’s not good for your health it’s not good…
When I started working with Paige, the mastermind behind Last Ingredient, she was already an Instagram rockstar with over 50,000 followers, but her Pinterest looked nothing like the food blogger she was, it was mainly interior design boards. Her goal was to reach the necessary minimum to apply for a certain ad network. She knew…
Have you been blogging for a while but it seems like no matter what you do you can’t get that pageviews number to budge? You’ve heard that traffic is a “vanity metric” but the truth is it only becomes a vanity metric at a certain point and that point is usually somewhere past the 50,0000-100,000…
You heard that Pinterest is where it’s at in terms of getting traffic for free, but your monthly page views would beg to differ, am I right? While Pinterest is great for driving traffic because of it being its own search engine, just like it takes work to rank on Google, it takes some effort…
If you’re not learning you’re not growing. And as bloggers and business owners, it’s important to keep up and educate yourself on what’s new. But finding the time to learn in today’s busy world of never-ending to-do lists can be tough. In this post, I’m going to break down 5 easy ways for you to…
Wordpress has long been the bread and butter of preferred website platforms, but it can present new users with a steep learning curve. Which has lead many to compare Squarespace vs Wordpress. The learning curve of Wordpress has provided a market for other providers like Squarespace, Showit, Wix, and more. With an all-in-one easy to…
Is it just mean or does there never seems to be enough time to get everything done? It seems I’m always on the go, having to find one hour here or 20 minutes there to get blogging stuff done. It was always a struggle, until I figured out ways to blog on the go… In…
Blogging can be a great hobby and/or a great business. But once you start digging into it, you’ll quickly find that many in your family are confused by what you’re doing. And with the holidays in full swing and the various family gatherings, inevitably your blog will come up. It’s not that they don’t necessarily…