Social media has become an essential tool for bloggers and it is important to make the most out of these platforms. But trying to be everywhere will likely spread you too thin. We will go into detail on how to pick the right social platform for your blog, why planning ahead is important, and how…
Blogs can’t stop using social media because it’s the most effective way to reach customers and potential customers. But you must use it strategically to maximize the return on your investment. If you’re not finding a lot of success with social media then it likely means you need to stop using one or more social…
Pinterest can be a great way to get your blog content out there, but it can also be very involved. When you’re a blogger you already have so much to do, that it can be difficult to add one more thing to the list. I know because it’s part of the reason I have clients…
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…
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…
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…
You’ve heard me talk about my personal finance blog Less Debt, More Wine on occasion. However, what you might not know is that the site was originally called Friday Night Shenanigans. Having gone through a rebrand, I here to help you rebrand your blog. Now while Friday Night Shenanigans was a fun name, it didn’t…
Email marketing is talked a lot about in the blogging sphere, all about how you need a list and to grow your list and how valuable your list can be. It may all be true, but only if you really understand what email marketing is about. I’ve been blogging for over five years and I…