Blogging

Making Friends In All The Right Places The internet is a huge place and there’s plenty of room for all of us making a living online. If you’re worried about collaborating with “your competition” think again. One of the best things you can do is make friends with other bloggers in your niche. Start By …

When it comes to Email Marketing, having a great list is important but if no one opens or reads your emails, it doesn’t matter how many people you have on your list. The key to getting them to open your emails is compelling subject lines. 5 Tips For Crafting Compelling Subject Lines It’s easy to …

I am now offering paid blog critiques as a service to my fellow bloggers. I will critique your blog on 12 points and give you some feedback on your blog. This is currently valued at $20 although the price will probably go up in the future. You can find out more about the blog critiques …

Bloggers are journalists too. We may not have gone to journalism school but that just means we are a different type of journalist. Is a homeschool mom not a teacher? She didn’t go to teacher’s college but she is still a teacher, just a different type of teacher. Same thing. What is a journalist? A …

You have to promote your blog if you want people to read it but there are so many different ways of doing so and it can be hard to decide which ways to go. Also sometimes you are faced with ways to advertise that cost money that you may not have. Whether you have a …

*This is a Guest Post by Tina of H&R Block. Congratulations, you started a blog. Or perhaps you have a blog and the traffic has started to pick up. Or perhaps your blog is starting to earn more money and you are already planning retirement. At what point does your blog stop being your hobby …

“It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know” – Anonymous “The way of the world is meeting people through other people.” – Robert Kerrigan “It’s all about people. It’s about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges.” – Mike Davidson Importance of Networking Networking has always been important, even before …

As a blogger you need to constantly be generating content ideas so you don’t run out of things to write about.  When you first start your blog you often have lots of ideas but as the months or years go by, the ideas seem to go as well. No matter what your niche or blog …

When you decide to make the move from hobby blogging to pro blogging you may find you need to make some changes in how you do things to succeed, especially if you are having trouble succeeding as a home business. A hobby is an activity you do on the side, for fun. A hobby blog …

WordPress Plugins are a great feature because there are so many and they can do so many things. You know the saying, “There’s an app for that” well you could probably also say, “There’s a plugin for that!”