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Do you have posts in your archive that are diamonds in the rough? Maybe you wrote a corker when your audience was smaller? You don’t have to just forget about these posts, you can breathe new life into them and make them earn their keep! Here’s how. Which posts to target? You can get very good information from Google Analytics. …
If you want to earn from your blog, then being organised is important. Blogging can be so time-consuming and things can get on top of you if you haven’t got systems in place. We all have multiple demands on our time. This means we all need tools and systems that work, so we can make sure we’re productive in the …
If you’re serious about blogging, then setting achievable blogging goals is very important. As bloggers, we face an endless list of tasks that need doing each day. Plus often have so many ideas we want to explore and implement. Without achievable blogging goals, you might find that you don’t feel as if you’re moving forward and growing your blog. Setting …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
fOne of my favourite things about being a blogger is attending blogger conferences. I love the chance to chat to other bloggers, learn new things and speak to brands. Just being in the company of others who ‘get it,’ is pretty cool; as sometimes blogging can feel like a solitary pursuit. Before every conference I hear people who haven’t …
Bloggers listen up! You NEED an email. Seriously, you need one. You might not have anything to sell. You might never have plans to sell anything ever. This doesn’t matter. Your email list is the only list of subscribers/followers that you actually OWN. You might have eleventy-billion Instagram followers or a gazillion Facebook fans, but on those platforms you could …
I used to write 17 blog posts each week. Yeah, I know…… I wrote a lot of content. That content gets shared a huge amount by others, so I am going to take that as a sign that people enjoy my content. The point of this post is to show YOU how you can write lots of quality posts each …
I love blogging and one of the things I love the most is collaborating with other bloggers. Most of the time we work on our own and so it can be wonderful to work with others. Collaborations can take many forms, so I thought I would give you my thoughts on collaborations and hopefully mention some that you haven’t considered …
I thought about the questions I get asked most by other bloggers and the one area of blogging that seems to be a little hush hush and mysterious is…..money! However, it’s not just about the money, lots of people message me asking how to respond to the emails they receive from brands or PRs. They lack confidence and I hope by …
Blogging burnout: Burnout is a psychological term that refers to long-term exhaustion and diminished interest in work. The symptoms of burnout are similar to those of clinical depression. Blogging is hard, let’s not pretend otherwise. Not all the time, no, most of the time it is THE most amazing gift of a hobby/job, but sometimes it can be a slog. Sometimes …
A Media Kit is a document which outlines the key facts and statistics about your blog. It’s a quick way to show your value, your skills, interests and experience. You can send your Media Kit to PR companies, potential brand partners or potential advertisers. There’s often debate around whether bloggers need a media kit. If you want to monetise your …
Monday morning rolls round. You’ve managed to wrestle to kids to school, throw a cup of coffee down and now you’re at your desk/corner of the dining room table/couch (delete as appropriate). You’re stomach sinks, not because of a meeting or any content you have to create, but because you know you’re going to have to open that inbox. The …
What do you do when you pick up a book? Most probably you turn it over and read the blurb. You want to find out what the book is about and what you can expect from it. Well, your ‘About Me‘ page is to your blog, what a blurb is to a book. Therefore, it’s vital that you get it right, otherwise your …
So you decided to start a blog. You have spent time designing it and creating posts; but now you want more. You feel you are putting in so much work and now you want your blog to be exposed to a larger audience. You want to attract greater opportunities and most of all you want it to be noticed. With …
As Bloggers we ALL want more traffic. We try to write posts that our readers will love. Some types of posts have a longer term appeal and can be a source of traffic for months and even years to come. This type of content is evergreen and it can take many different forms. In this post I’m sharing 17 types …
Thousands of people start blogs every day and blogging for a living is the dream for many of these people. If you’ve been blogging for a while, you might be working with brands and earning some income from your blog. So how do you know when it’s time to pack in the 9 to 5 and go pro? When is the …
Facebook. You either love it or you hate it. Whichever camp you fall into, one thing’s for sure, Facebook can be a great way to find clients, grow your authority, make connections, make friends and so much more. There’s no doubt it can be tricky to get traction on your Facebook page without paying for ads, which makes groups even …
Supporting other bloggers? Surely they’re your competition… Why would you want to help them? Sadly, I think there are people who do actually think this way. For me, this attitude is the complete opposite to the attitude you should have about your fellow bloggers. I’m going to walk you through why you should be supporting other bloggers and exactly how …
One of the most amazing things about the blogging community is the support network. There is always someone to help you and support you, whenever you need it and to share their knowledge. There is a lovely ethos of sharing information, whether it is the posts of others or information about opportunities. I love sharing things that work for me …
Do you need a blogging niche to be successful? Hundreds, if not thousands of people start blogs every day. All of these new bloggers want to build a successful blog, they want traffic, they want to build a loyal audience and a chunk of them would also like to monetise their blogs. They spend hours designing a logo, …
When you’ve been blogging a while, you start to get asked the same questions over and over again. Most people want to know how to make money from their blog, but one of the other main questions I get asked a lot is ‘How do you grow your blog’? Everyone wants more traffic, a bigger audience and more return …
If you’ve been blogging for more than 5 minutes, I’m sure you’ll have heard people talk about your ‘voice’. What does ‘finding your voice’ really mean and why should you care? I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still. –Sylvia Plath WHAT’S YOUR BLOGGING VOICE? Have you ever read …
Make a click to tweet image to help your organic marketing?!… Organic marketing might be the stuff of dreams for us bloggers. We should be doing all we can to make it really easy for our readers to share our posts far and wide. Yes, we all have social sharing buttons, but how can we grab the attention of our …
Want to get more twitter followers? Who doesn’t?! Twitter has always been my strongest social network in terms of number of followers. Ironically, it’s the platform that I’ve spent less time trying to grow it over the years. After 4 years I’ve increased my followers to almost 24k. Not too shabby considering the lack of focused attention on growth. So here …
WordPress plugins for blogs Ooh I love a good plugin! I get a geeky buzz when someone gives me the heads up about a plugin I haven’t used before. Especially, when I know that it will either, save me time or make my life easier. THAT, I love! I love WordPress, however the basic platform lacks some functionality and so …
Which are the best blogging apps? There always seems to be a new app in the market, something that will save us time or make our pictures look better or one of the other benefits from these technical genies. However, like it or not we rely on apps so much in our daily lives and as bloggers we *probably* couldn’t …
