When you work at home it’s as much fun as it is challenging. Over the past thirteen years I’ve been a work-at-home mom who has also homeschooled two kids simultaneously. I’d love to say that every week is exactly the same and there are never any hitches in the system, but that would be a…
Hey there my savvy blogging friend! Did you accomplish your blog goals for the year? Did you crush them? Or did you crash them? Earl Nightingale once said, People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. This is true in all walks of life and you can apply it directly to blogging…
Do you remember the hex numbers for your color palette? How about the font size for your Pinterest graphics? Do you know the URL for your best affiliate links? Does this all sound like Greek to you? Have no fear. You can keep your blog organized and running like a well oiled machine with just…
You can actually improve your blog while sitting on the beach, or by the pool, or next to a lake. Whether it’s summer, a weekend get-away, or just time to up your game, you can make your blog a whole lot better by doing just a little reading. But, you say, there are so many…
If your blogging voice being drowned out by all the noise on the internet? It’s the same thing every year, posts show up across social media at the beginning of January predicting the future of blogging, describing what worked and what didn’t over the past 12 months. The so-called experts analyze how to change it…
Have you seen the crazy headlines about how people are building an email list of grand proportions in five minutes or less? There are graphics all over Pinterest stating how you can get 7000 subscribers in 10 minutes or “My Path To 10K New Email Subscribers While I Ate Breakfast.” Okay, maybe they aren’t quite…
Working with clients has given me great insight into how well bloggers are protecting their sites. Or not. Some days it blows my mind how vulnerable people’s blogs can be. I don’t want you to fall prey to a hacker and lose all your content. I want you to protect your blog and keep it…
Wait! What? You want me to get rid of subscribers to my email list. Girl, you crazy! I know. I know. It sounds so counter productive when you first hear it. But it’s not. The truth is you need to clean up your email list, occasionally. Are you finished hyperventilating? Deep breaths. In. Out. In….
Have you ever heard of font licensing? It turns out that not every “free” font can be used for commercial purposes. Did you know this? If you did, you are doing great and probably don’t need this info. However, if this is news to you or you are just learning about this wrinkle in the…