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There’s so much information out there on the web, but how do you know where you should be focusing your time to move your blog forward. With this is mind I have created three separate blogging schedules. So whether you have 10, 15 or 20 hours to spend on your blog I have mapped out a 5 day week that will move …
During my life as a blogger one common issue crops up time and time again for the bloggers I speak to. We’re all beavering away, trying to turn our blogs into whatever we hope they’ll be (in many cases our business), but we often lack direction and focus. It’s so common not to really know where you are in the landscape …
How Instagram Stories work There is no doubt that having a live ‘real’ connection with your audience is vital to the success of your blog. People want to have relationships with authentic people and so this live connection is becoming increasingly important. I’ve spoken more about the value of Instagram Stories in a previous post – How to use Instagram stories …
Just under a year ago I started creating courses to help people turn their blogs into businesses. As part of these courses, I set up a Facebook group to support my students and people taking one of my free challenges. Over the last 10 months or so that little Facebook group has grown into a Revolution; the Mamapreneur Revolution. I’m …
The basics of good content structure Having a good structure to your content ensures that people will be able to read and understand your content more easily. Having a way to structure the creation of your content makes life easier for you too. Step by step post creation guide Step 1: Plan your post – choose the topic, research, outline …
Blogging is totally awesome. For me, it has changed my life and that of my family without a doubt. Whether it’s financial, events, opportunities or connections, blogs can be hugely powerful. With this in mind, I asked a few friends to share the biggest bonus that blogging has given them. For me, it is the friends I have made, life-long …
Storytelling: Your autoresponder secret weapon What makes you read a blog post or article or email? Interesting stats? A clever turn of phrase? An attention-grabbing headline? All of those things can pique your interest, but they won’t keep your eyes on the page. For that, what you need is a story. As a blogger, service provider, …
What to blog about? How to use reader feedback When you first started your blog, chances are you had no trouble coming up with content ideas. But as you continually put out content, you’ll at some point hit a wall where you’ll start to have trouble coming up with new content ideas. When you get to this point, instead of …
DO YOU WANT TO ATTRACT AN AUDIENCE HUNGRY FOR YOUR CONTENT? FREE TRAINING! Do you feel like it’s only other blogger’s who read your blog? Want to build a loyal audience of blog readers? It can be hard to know what to focus on to make sure readers find your blog and then stick around! You long for …
There’s so much tech surrounding being a blogger/entrepreneur that sometimes it can be overwhelming. Some of the apps and programmes quite literally save my life (and my sanity) like the king of all Twitter schedulers, Social Oomph* and so many other ‘tech bits’ that we just seem to ‘collect’ as we go through our journey. Some of these are as cheap …
Wouldn’t it be great if we could see into the future and live today with the added benefit of our experience a few years down the line? It would be so much easier to make our decisions and plans if we had that sort of foresight. It can be so hard to know which direction to head in and super …
How to find your voice as a blogger I write only because / There is a voice within me / That will not be still. –Sylvia Plath When you read content by someone who’s found their voice, there’s a really distinct ring to it. You can tell they’re really passionate, really self-expressed and really know what they’re talking about. …
The best thing about blogging is the community. With this in mind, I thought I found ask a few (100 to be precise!!) of my blogging friends to share THE BEST blogging tip that they have ever been given. We have bloggers at all different stages of their blogging journey, so I hope you enjoy reading their best blogging tip. …
When the lovely Maria asked if she could write a guest post for my blog, I was so flattered when she told me the topic – 5 ways You Baby Me Mummy’s blogging tips have helped me! The main aim of my blog is to help people, so this was such a lovely validation of the work I’ve been doing. So …
Blogging award season is upon us and I usually do what every other blogger seems to do and start canvassing for votes as soon as the polls open. I’ve been lucky enough to have been a finalist in the Brilliant in Blogging awards for the last two 2 years. Although I’ve never managed to bag the gong! This year, …
The Importance Of Having A Mentor As an blogger, it’s exciting to go it alone and create something on your own. However, the reality is that, while you have a great idea, you may not know exactly what you should be doing with your blog at which times to develop it into a sustainable business. No matter how good you …
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Social media is an incredibly powerful marketing tool that can help you to reach a potentially unlimited number of people with the very minimum investment in terms of time, money and effort. But while social media might be incredibly powerful, it’s still only going to be as good as the strategy you have in place and if you haven’t …
Pinterest can be a huge source of traffic for us bloggers. I personally have seen so much traffic growth since I started to use Pinterest regularly and I know it can do the same for you too. However, like everything blogging related you have to invest time and let’s be honest time is something we all seem to struggle with, especially …
So many people want to really grow their blog and push their income to the next level. Some people want to do this for personal satisfaction, while others want this growth so they can quit their day job. Whichever speaks to you, there are 5 things you can do right now to help grow your blog and make your dreams …
This week I’m sharing an interview with some friends of mine who are PR consultants. Hopefully, this will give you an insight into what PRs are looking for and hopefully it will make working with brands and PRs easier. The PR Panel from left to right is: Lucy Hollister and Stavros Themistocli, PR consultants from Beattie Communications and Katie Portman a Freelance PR, as …
Welcome to the Blog Biz Goal Party! Whoop! My round-up to make sure I stay accountable to my goals and also share how I’m growing my blog biz. Each month members of my Facebook community the Mamapreneur Revolution can all add their goal updates in the comments and I’ll pick one person, who I will give a shout out to on …
Like many people who work for themselves and juggle the demands of work and children, I work hard. Sometimes in the past I’ve felt that, although I put in a large number of hours, I wasn’t always focused and using my time as effectively as I could. I would feel my focus dissipating and the window flicking would begin. I felt …
10 Mistakes Bloggers Are Making Right Now When you start blogging there’s no test you must pass before you publish your first post. Consequently the learning curve is pretty steep! I learn things every single day and also spot things that other could be doing better. We all have our own little bug-bears don’t we?! So in the spirit of …
Welcome to the next video in my Canva tutorial series. In this tutorial I’m showing you how to customise the ready made Canva templates. The other videos in this series so far are: How to get started with Canva – the basics How to create 4 optimised social media images in under 5 minutes How to use Canva & Apple Pages together …
Hi everyone. It’s the time of week when I give you a glimpse of what I have been up to this week. What brands we have been working with and what I have been up to. Here’s my next instalment, I hope you enjoy. Don’t forget you can check out all my blogging tips over on my Blog Club page or you can …
How to become a Brand Ambassador How do I become a brand ambassador? Is a question I get asked very frequently. During my blogging career I’ve had the pleasure of being a brand ambassador for many national and international brands. So I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on what a becoming a brand ambassador means and my tips on how …
If you want to grow your social media accounts, then you should be actively looking for new ways to get extra followers. The more followers you get, the larger the number of people that each of your new posts will be automatically broadcast to. This is ultimately one of the primary objectives of social media and it’s what will give …
Welcome to the next video in my Canva tutorial series. In this tutorial I’m showing you how to use Canva to make your own media kit. If you need to find out what to put in your media kit you can check out my post. The other videos in this series so far are: How to get started with Canva – the basics …
How to identify time-wasting habits Life is short. Don’t we all wish we can maximise the effectiveness of every minute we spend? In order to do that, it’s critically important to identify the time wasting habits in our lives, the little seemingly harmless activities that are actually sucking time from us without our knowledge. These are the activities …
