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One month to go people! Whoop! #BML16 is the date in the diary that lots of bloggers have been looking forward to as soon as the decorations were packed away and the last turkey sandwich had been munched. This will be my third year at the conference, and I think it will be the best one yet. I am so excited …
Last Saturday I spoke at Blog Camp about how to save time as a blogger and I had lots of requests for my talk to be put online, so here it is. It’s worth bearing in mind that I have a content schedule which means I publish between 2 and 4 times a day. This is due to the amount of brand …
This week the lovely Lizzie who blogs over at Firstooth asked me how I interact on social media. Which platforms I use for chatting, promotion and which for fun. I explain all in this week’s #BlogFixFriday. If you have any topics or questions you would like me to cover in #BlogFixFriday then please let me know in the comments and I …
Welcome back to my new YouTube series, which I am sharing here on the blog too. The idea behind Blog Chat is simple; a quick(ish) chat about my blogging news, which brands we are collaborating with, which projects we are working on and anything we have coming up. Here’s my next instalment of Blog Chat, I hope you enjoy. Don’t forget …
I have been blogging for a few years now and a day doesn’t go by without me reading something I MUST do right now or my blog will implode. There’s so much advice around, and I share my own here on this blog. I thought I would look at the biggest myths about blogging and the ones you really should …
This week the lovely Lizzie who blogs over at Firstooth asked me how to explain what your Klout score is. So here is my #BlogFixFriday chatting all things Klout! If you have any topics or questions you would like me to cover in #BlogFixFriday then please let me know in the comments and I will try my best. …
Welcome back to my new YouTube series, which I am sharing here on the blog too. The idea behind Blog Chat is simple; a quick(ish) chat about my blogging news, which brands we are collaborating with, which projects we are working on and anything we have coming up. Here is my next instalment of Blog Chat, I hope you enjoy. Don’t forget …
This week for #BlogFixFriday the lovely Claire who blogs over at Life, Love & Dirty Dishes asked me what she should put on her business cards and what essential items I would take to a blogging conference. If you have any topics or questions you would like me to cover in #BlogFixFriday then please let me know in the comments and I will try …
This week the lovely Rebecca who blogs over at AAU Blog asked me how to to secure blog conference sponsorship. So I have vlogged some tips and tricks to help you do just that, here is my #BlogFixFriday. If you have any topics or questions you would like me to cover in #BlogFixFriday then please let me know in the …
Last week I may have convinced you that you need a blog newsletter. You might be sitting in front of your computer right now sure of the benefits that a newsletter could bring to you, but unsure of where you are going to find the time to do yet another blogmin task. I totally hear you and I am here …
This week I decided to chat to you about pitching to brands, as I know it can be a little daunting, especially to newer bloggers. I hope it helps! CHECK OUT MY FREE WEBINAR – 5 STEPS TO WORKING WITH BRANDS AS A BLOGGER If you have any topics or questions you would like me to cover in #BlogFixFriday then …
I recently decided to do a Q&A to answer all those little questions that people have. I wanted to vlog it, as I really enjoy vlogging and I think Q&A’s are much better face-to-face! I am covering family, blogging and everything in between! So thanks to everyone who asked a question and here is part one! [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA57gwdgk8c[/embedyt] …
This week I want to talk about blog images. One of my blogging dislikes (just me personally, no offence meant to anyone) is no images in posts or small images. As you can imagine this is quite a large topic, but I wanted to pull all the relevant information together in one place so you don’t have to go searching; it …
This week the lovely Mim who blogs over at Love From Mim asked me how to promote blog posts. So here is my #BlogFixFriday sharing with you how I promote each of my posts every single day. If you have any topics or questions you would like me to cover in #BlogFixFriday then please let me know in the comments …
Back in January I decided to set myself some blog and personal goals. For the first time ever I wanted my blog goals to be quite specific and so I set myself targets in terms of the numbers of social media followers, so I could really focus on growth. For me, it is easy to say keep growing and becoming …
Good photography can make a huge difference to your blog and how it is considered by others. Very few successful bloggers have poor photography skills; In fact, most of the bloggers earning a living from their blogs have a considerable degree of photography skill; some as you will have seen are incredible. Photography is a passion of mine and …
Welcome back to #BlogFixFriday! This week I am talking about Instagram and how to grow your followers. I have grown my followers from 2.3k to 7.6k in around 20 weeks or so. I tell you exactly how I have done it. Excuse the gurning face, YouTube won’t let me upload customised thumbnails! Nightmare! I hope you found that useful! If …
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A couple of weeks there was a bit of an uproar among Instagram users, when the Facebook owned social network announced a change in their current algorithm. As from yesterday Instagram are showing images in your feed depending on your interests and relationships to the accounts posting in your feed. Gone* is the chronological feed we have come to love from Instagram and …
Bloggers rock! Bloggers are hot property, whether they blog about food, fashion, family, lifestyle or one of the countless other niches, bloggers can now be global influencers. I don’t know about you, but I find that hugely exciting. Many of us started our blogs as a hobby and have watched them develop into something much more than that. Something that in …
They might not be the Oscars, but the bloggers very own yearly awards in the form of the MADS (MAD Blog Awards) and the BIBs (Brilliance in Blogging Awards) have both opened for voting. They are met with mixed reaction from bloggers. Some people become semi-obsessed with canvassing for votes and others barely acknowledge that voting has begun. I think in …
A couple of weeks ago I burned the midnight oil to take part in a live webinar by Nathan Chan, founder of Foundr Magazine, hosted by Darren Rowse from ProBlogger (my blogging hero). For any of you who haven’t heard of Foundr magazine, it is a digital mag which Nathan started in 2013 while working full time in another job. Since …
I have blogged before about my new found love for Instagram. I want to share with you some things you can do today if you feel you need to up your Instagram game. I used to treat Instagram as another platform like Facebook, I would post any pictures of our days, occasionally an inspiring quote and I didn’t really ‘get’ …
Last week, in the first part of this post I introduced some of you to the term a ‘Sticky blog‘. If you didn’t catch that post you can check it out here. However, in summary a sticky blog is one that retains its readers after they read the initial blog post and turns them into (hopefully) repeat visitors. In that …
What is a sticky blog? I know, it sounds a bit weird doesn’t it? A sticky blog? What bloggers mean by this term is a blog that makes the reader want to stick around. They will read one post, then will see something else and click on that, maybe visiting a couple of posts before they leave your blog. Then, and this is …
I have spoken before about the friendships I have made through blogging; about the wonderful people that have come into my life since I published that first post back in 2014. I genuinely never thought that friendships would turn out to be the best thing about blogging when I started. I have obviously had friends before, plenty of them; some …
I started to blog to simply record the memories of our daughter, like an online, pimped up baby book. Over two years on my blog is so much more than that. Primarily, it is still a space for me and my daughter, a treasure chest of memories for us to look back on. However, my blog now has other functions as …
For many people making money from their blog is a personal goal. If you have been blogging for a while and you are seeing fellow bloggers earning from their blogs, you may want some of the action. You may even long to give up your job and blog for a living. However, monetising your blog can seem a little confusing at …
I think there is a misconception among some bloggers that using hashtags is not cool and can seem spammy. If you think this, then you’re wrong. If you have a massive following, then your fans will see your images in your feed and you will get likes from these fans. However, if you’re looking to build your likes and followers …
I love being inspired. A gem of information from a blogging friend, reading a blog, looking at a image; there are so many ways in which our creativity can be sparked. Also sometimes that nugget of information gleaned from other blogger will not only inspire us, but can also make our life easier by highlighting a process that could work …
