If you want to run your blog as any kind of business, you’ll have to have a product or service to sell at some point. When you’ve been blogging a while, you’ll inevitable have learned a lot, sometimes without knowing it. Then, when you start to think about monetising, you don’t know what you know. […]
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What Do I Work On First?
Something I’ve heard from bloggers a few times is that there is so much you can do in blogging that it’s hard to know what to work on first. Do you think about the back end security of the blog? The SEO? The content? Being active on social media? What Do I Work On […]
Permission To Take A Break From Your Blog
Post originally published on Bloggers and Bacon in… um, about 2015? Last week I chose not to blog here & shared it on social media. I was tired, basically. Anything I would have written or edited would have been of low value. I was behind in my blog writing due to launching Contentum Creatio as […]
5 Things A Rebel Will Post On Instagram
Stew Sometimes, food tastes better than it looks. Some people will even have the audacity to share photos of these meals on Instagram. Some complete assholes won’t even apologise for it not being pretty enough. 5 Things A Rebel Will Post On Instagram A Gym Selfie But not the full makeup, hair in place […]
Are You the 1%?
Originally published on Bloggers and Bacon in 2016 Post ProBlogger was always a great time for blog post inspiration. High off spending the weekend with people who GET what you do, ideas flow. Like I’ve said before, the key thing is to make sure you publish blog posts. Write down all of those […]
3 Ways To Become An Expert Blogger
First up – I’d like to acknowledge that the word expert is pretty subjective these days. I’m using it to mean that you have a level of competence that means you have a good sense of what is going on, even if you don’t do every single little blogging task yourself. 3 Ways To […]
10 Reasons To Hire A Blog Coach
One of those “wish list” items for bloggers is often to have someone there to help them along with their blogging journey. You may or may not have heard of blog coaching and blog coaches, so I thought I would put together a list of reasons to hire a blog coach! Hopefully it will explain […]
Tips For Commenting On Other Blogs
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 […]
Kidspot Voices of 2015 Top 100 Masterclass
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
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 […]