Blogging

There are lots of ways to promote your blog but do not promote your blog these 5 ways. Send an Email Asking for a Link When blogs were new, emailing a blogger to ask if they would like to swap links in their blogroll was the thing to do. But that is so 2005. Most …

Have you ever wanted to easily make videos to add to your blog posts or share on social media or add to YouTube? I discovered a cool tool called Lumen5 which allows you to easily do this for FREE. You can take a blog post you already have and convert it into a video. I’m …

You should never stop learning but it can be tricky to learn new things without getting overwhelmed. We are surrounded by how-to videos, self-help books, people with well meaning advice and blogs and websites (like this one) with how-tos and tips. So what’s a person to do?   Learn New Things Without Getting Overwhelmed 1. …

Can TV shows teach us about real life? Sure! Here I cover What Can Grey’s Anatomy Teach You About Blogging. Grey’s Anatomy is a popular medical drama about surgical interns and residents and the drama associated with their lives both in and out of the hospital. So how can a medical drama teach us anything …

Have you ever scrolled ALL the way down to the bottom of a website and noticed a bunch of small text links? There is usually an about us and a contact me but there is also usually a privacy policy, terms or service or other long documents. If you frequent other blogs, perhaps you’ve noticed …

After your first few weeks or months of blogging, you probably started hearing people talk about their PageRank or Alexa Ranking or Klout Score. It can seem a bit overwhelming trying to figure out what they all mean, if low or high numbers are good, if you REALLY need to worry about the numbers and …

Today is Recess at Work Day and for bloggers, most of whom work at home, it can be easy to take a recess instead of doing the work we are supposed to be doing. So I asked a bunch of bloggers, what fun things do they do when they are supposed to be blogging? Today …

  © Bogdanzagan | Dreamstime.com People have very short attention spans in this digital age. If they don’t find what they want in a few seconds they will click away. There are just so many things fighting for our attention that it doesn’t take much for us to say “never mind”and go looking for something …

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about blogging self-esteem which is how you perceive your worth as a blogger. You can be blogging along, just fine. All of a sudden you suffer a setback such as lower stats or a campaign that falls through or a mean comment or email and all of a sudden, …

  Discover You can access the discover section by clicking on the the number sign (also known as a hashtag symbol.) There are a few sections including tweets which shows the best tweets tailored to you by twitters special algorithms (mathematical formulas.) Activity shows you what people you follow on twitter have done recently such …