Blogging

Commenting on other blogs is not only part of being a good blogging citizen, it’s also a valuable way to meet new people and sometimes get traffic to your blog. But how do you go about it? What should you be aware of?   Tips For Commenting On Other Blogs     Actually read the […]

I am a huge fan of hashtag stalking conferences and events. You can’t always be at them all, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn from them all! I stalked the Kidspot Voices of 2015 Top 100 Masterclass event on Twitter.     I took some notes during the day and have added my thoughts where […]

Community Not Competition   This is what blogging is all about to me. Yes, we may sell things. Yes, we may want more readers, more comments, higher stats…but what blogging has really meant to me over the years I’ve been doing it is being part of what is (99% of the time) an incredible and […]

Your newsletter subscribers are the most important fans of your blog. They have given up the most valuable item in the digital age – their email address! You have to make sure that you are treating them well. But one of the things that people have when starting a newsletter is less about how often […]

Some people start blogging because they have the need to write and publish. Others start is to help their business. The reasons why you might start a blog vary, and the reasons why you keep blogging might change over time.   Whatever your reason for starting a blog (or if you have no reason!), one […]

How you blog & manage ideas is a really personal thing. Because I’ve found that  cloud based notes apps don’t really work for me (you can read more on that here) I’ve been looking for ages for a workflow that works for me. And I’ve realised that over time, it has come to me.   […]

I started writing a post about the 2016 ProBlogger Conference the day after it finished; while I was still at the venue. (Forewarned, this is more personal and less bite sized than my posts usually are!) Only what it was really saying was “be confident that you are doing what you need to”. I had no real […]

Every now and then someone will pop up in a blogging Facebook group or forum of some kind and ask the question: “do you blog for love or money”?   Blogging For Love AND Money   The answers are almost as predictable as the question itself. The most common answers fall into one of these […]

Originally published on Kiki and Tea August 12th, 2015. Republished with permission.   With the ProBlogger Conference coming up in a few short weeks, it’s time to start deciding what sessions to attend. There are a few steps I took in 2013 to make sure I chose the conference sessions accurately.   How To Choose […]

I wanted something awesome to launch Bloggers and Bacon (when it was its own blog) and welcome it to the land of the internet. Yet, any post idea I had just didn’t seem like a launch day thing. So I put some calls out in the blogging community, asking what their number one bite sized […]