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Do you have trouble starting? Have so many ideas. Then you overthink what you should do with them all and end up doing nothing? Do you second guess yourself or the response you may get to a post you want to write? Distracted by Facebook? Paralysis by analysis? Fear not, I’m here with some tips to make procrastination a thing …
Being a blogger and even making your living from blogging is amazing. However, it does come with it’s own set of problems; long hours, lots of stress, and to-do lists that are often off the scale. Add in your family, pets, friends and the demands of daily life and it can be very easy to become overwhelmed. As bloggers, we tend to do …
Do you share your work? Sometimes feel a little hesitant? Don’t want to feel like you’re spamming people with your links? Don’t worry you’re not alone. Many bloggers feel the same and have to learn how to overcome their fear of self-promotion. They have you overcome it, as not promoting yourself would have negative consequences to the success of your …
When you succeed, what do you feel? Maybe you were just promoted or secured a big contract. Received praise or won an award. Do you feel proud, happy, joyful? Or nervous, unworthy and paranoid you’ll be ‘found out’. Worried you’ll be exposed as a fake…. These feelings of self-doubt can be crippling, but they are something many of us experience, …
For so long bloggers have relied on brand partnerships and affiliate income streams. While both of these income streams are great and can definitely bring in decent levels of income to your business, they are not the only ways to monetise a blog. I truly believe there is such great power in creating your own products. Creating and selling your …
Pixabay – CCO Licence If you’re serious about blogging and you want to make your space on the internet your actual business rather than a fun and creative hobby, you need to get serious about adding as many income streams as possible to your blog. Even if your writing attracts thousands of views each week, you aren’t going to make …
With the wind in my hair we sped in a classic sports car down the seafront in Cannes. The winter sun making it a perfect moment to catch myself and realise that this was actually happening to me. The plane over to France had been full of journalists working for major National papers. Journalists whose bosses and titles had put …
As weather has taken a chilly turn, you may be thinking about getting some winter sun. I’m so excited that we’re heading off for some sun of our own in October! Whoop! We’re going to be guests of the 4 star Kalyves Beach Hotel in Chania. A beach-front hotel set on an award winning blue flag beach. The Kalyves Beach …
You might have heard about Affiliate links and you might have even started making money with affiliate links. Today, I’m going to share with you an overview of affiliate links and how they can be a great way for you to earn money from your blog. Once they are set up, they can be an excellent form of passive income. …
Running a business means you have to keep a handle on lots of moving parts. To make this as easy as possible you need a business hub. We all have times when we feel like we are losing our grip and things get messy. This makes us feel as if we’re failing and generally like a hot mess. Not a …
Blogging can be quite a solitary pursuit. Although you have the ability to interact with sometimes thousands of people at the touch of a button. Most of us write away on our laptops and send our posts out into the world. What happens after that is largely beyond our control. I believe that to be a successful blogger you need …
How to have the mindset of a winner So much of success is mindset. Successful people KNOW they will be successful, they don’t doubt it and they work to make it happen. So how do you develop the mindset of a winner? MINDSET SHIFT #1 – STOP HIDING AND START BEING SEEN. No one can ever work with you if …
In July 2017 I took a massive step in my business and launched my own membership community. I’d had lots of people commenting that they wanted to work more closely with me and they were looking for support to progress their blogs and turn them into businesses. So I created the Revolution Inner Circle. The Inner Circle is amazing and …
Do you love Instagram Stories? You may be wondering how you can use this feature to benefit your blog more. If you’re not sure what an Instagram Story is, they’re a picture, a collection of pictures or video which live on Instagram for 24 hours before they disappear (although you can save them). Stories sit at the top of your …
Are you tired of hearing nothing but crickets in your facebook group? In this post I’m going to share my tried and tested tips to help you create an engaged facebook group. If you’re struggling to get people engaged and talking in your facebook group I’m going to give you my step by step Facebook group strategy that will help …
What is Leadpages? As a blogger or online business owner it seems we are constantly bombarded with things we NEED to get for our business. Some of these things we might buy on a whim and then never use at all. So I wanted to use this post to share with you a tool I use. I’m going to explain …
Image Launching and running a business really seems like the dream. You can finally be able to break away from the 9-5 and you’ll have the chance to work on something you genuinely love in your own way. A business can be a wonderful thing and it allows us to finally work for ourselves in a comfortable environment, and it …
Anyone who has been online running a blog or a business for more than a few minutes has probably heard of email lists. At this point you might not be totally convinced you need an email list. Even if you are convinced you need one, you might be totally overwhelmed. It can be hard to add another thing you your …
Are you interested in starting a blog? Maybe your friend blogs or you’re an avid reader of blogs. Maybe you want to make money or to reach people with your message. Whatever the driving force, there’s no doubt that creating a blog can change your life. That’s why I thought I would create an easy to follow, step-by-step guide showing …
Pixabay (CC0 Licence) When most people start a business – and particularly a business that they can run from home – their focus tends to be narrow. They want to increase their income and find a way to work alongside parenthood, and their own business seems the most straightforward way to achieve these goals. This narrow focus is completely natural, …
Last week we started on the journey to transform your YouTube channel from meh to wow. In this post I’m going to get stuck into the next steps. How we make sure the content you create is found. It isn’t as simple as giving your video a cute name, sitting back and watching the views roll in. If only! You …
Do you wish you got more traction from YouTube? Either you’re too unsure to start or you’ve thrown some videos up there, but they haven’t done as well as you’d hoped…. The noise you can hear is crickets, rather than the postman knocking at the door to deliver your gold YouTube play button….. Sound familiar? Today I’m going to show …
Most people seem to be under the impression that phone contracts are the cheapest option. They get enticed by the fact that they are usually offered a free phone in return. However, when you add up how much you are going to pay for your contract each month you see that you are actually going to end up paying for …
The majority of us will have tried blogging out at some point or another. Blogs are great spaces to share your thoughts and opinions, show off what you’re up to, and generally engage with the wider world. But blogging recreationally and blogging professionally with a wider audience in mind are two entirely different things. When you begin to blog for …
There are some things I hear so often from the people I work with about making money online…… ‘Someone else is selling the product I wanted to sell’ ‘I had an idea but X is doing it now and theirs is great’ ‘I totally missed the boat, X has just launched what I’ve been working on’ Regardless of whether you …
Billed as the solution for time starved mamapreneurs. I wanted to share some of the awesome results my clients are getting since they begun using Socially Savvy. Socially Savvy is THE ONLY system that makes social media easy. It’s the content subscription that erases all your social media related stress fast. It helps you put the personal in the professional, …
Twenty years ago, if you’d have claimed that anyone could make a living with nothing but a computer, a website, and a few well-written blog posts, people would have thought you were out of your mind. The idea that the internet would become anything more than a collection of great scholarly databases and the occasional online bookstore (looking at you …
So many businesses and content creators are focused on traffic. Obsessing about page views and unique users. To be fair you get a great feeling when your site gets over 100,000 page views a month, but a good feeling doesn’t pay the bills! If you’re not doing anything with this traffic, then it may well not count for much. Even …
We might think our businesses are unique. That we’re the only holistic health coach or stylist for corporate women out there. But realistically, whatever we’re doing, there will be hundreds of other people offering the same thing. So how do we set ourselves apart? How do we ‘win’ the business over our competitors? What’s our differentiator? Your differentiator is YOU! …
Social media can get crazy! There’s always so much to do and the pressure to be everywhere can be overwhelming. Post daily on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Engage, respond, ask questions, pin and do stories too! How do you actually do all of this AND have a life?! Social media marketing strategies can seem incredibly complicated. You’re probably already struggling for …
