“How do you do it?” The infamous question we ask of friends and strangers who have even more on their plates than we do – more kids, more jobs, more responsibilities, more goals, more patience, more everything. We often ask this because we just can’t fathom adding one more thing to our already busy lives, […]
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How to Brand Your Personal Blog to Stick Out From the Crowd
Two years ago, there was an estimated 152 million blogs on the internet. I can only assume there are nearly double that many blogs online now in 2015. With such a flooded market, it may seem like it’s not worth your time or effort to create a personal blog or website, but I really wish everyone […]
10 WordPress Plugins New Bloggers Need to Install
You are looking to make money working from home as a blogger. Awesome. Chances are you know that you have what it takes to hack it as a professional blogger and have taken the steps necessary to start a blog the right way. If you haven’t set up your blog yet, you can learn how […]
How to Start a Blog that will Make Money
You recently heard that people are actually make money, sometimes loads of money, by working from home running a blog (of all things), and now you are wondering how to start a blog of your own so you can make money too.While there are lots of ways you can start a blog for free and […]
How to Know If You’re Cut Out to be a Blogger
“Oh, you’re a blogger? That’s nice.” Whenever I tell someone that I blog, most people seem to have no idea what it is I do. Sometimes they know someone who has a blog, and often it is a family update blog with pictures of that’s person’s home and family. Others know blogs because they pin […]
The Best Blogging Advice I Ever Heard
About a month or two after I started blogging I received the best blogging advice I’ve ever received. This was during a time when I was consuming blogging advice the same way I consume Wheat Thins: rapidly and without constraint. I pinned every pin that had anything to do with increasing traffic or followers or making money. […]
How I Monetize Our Blog – The Details
I’m in a lot of Facebook groups for bloggers, and these groups have varying levels of bloggers. There are people who are just getting interested in blogging, and there are others who make six (and even seven) figures from blogging. There’s definitely a huge range! Something that I find most valuable in this group is […]
How to Create a Killer and Compelling Blog Headline
I am not a blog headline expert. I really wish I was. I wish that every title I created exuded a sense of urgency to be read, but that’s just not the case. But, as I continue to blog professionally, I realize more and more that having a killer blog headline is often the key to growth, […]