Blogging

You know, I sometimes take onboard the pressure I hate and feel bad about myself for the blogs I’ve half started and all that anti shiny stuff that exists in the world.   And then I logged into the Twitter account for my mostly unused but will never give it up travel blog, Suitcase Scribbles. […]

Popular Internet Things I Find Meaningless   Stats Disclaimer: qualitative researcher by training so I always find stats meaningless. But in the internet context, having your downloads for a podcast, or unique views on a blog…. mean nothing to me. I don’t monetise by ‘traditional’ means such as sponsorships and it’s usually the sponsors who […]

Community building 101. Share with your community. Be active. Reply to them. All that good, juicy, presumably brain-stimulating-happy-juices stuff. That’s what gets people to click through to your site. That’s what makes or breaks you.   The Little Engagement Lie     Until… it doesn’t. And that theory doesn’t work.   My Stats I rarely […]

Now, as much as I am a fan of listicles* (ok not really but it felt like the correct thing to write) … I’m not actually going to make a list of six million fatal blogging mistakes. That’s because blogging is rarely fatal. In fact, the only fatal way to blog that I can think […]

I really wish people didn’t stop blogging. I was updating some old blog posts and clicked on the links in my comments… only to find most of the sites were gone. Domains bought up (I assume by opportunists) and being sat on by random websites. And it makes me weirdly heartbroken.   Blogging And Being […]

I rarely look at the weekly reports my social media scheduling tool emails me. Mostly because I don’t care if I have grown or shrunk or stayed the same. It means little to a blog where I’m not reliant on numbers for purposes such as paid posts.    Why I Like Losing Followers   I […]

Something that never ceases to amaze me in online groups (cough Facebook cough) is that some people need a lot of hand holding to do anything. They don’t seem to be able to be independent and learn.   Be Independent And Learn     This might come off as a bit harsh, and I’d like […]

Back in 2018, I posted about my welcome email funnel. I mentioned in the post that a task on my to-do list was to create an opt-in for the mailing lists associate with this blog. Um.. yeah. I never set up my opt-in. I still haven’t done it.   I Never Set Up My Opt-In […]