Today I am sharing 15 ideas about how to blog with kids at home. It is hard to work in the summer and honestly work is the last thing that I want to do when our kids are home, but it pays the bills. I don’t mind working for a few hours in the evening when everyone is asleep, but sometimes things come up in the middle of the day that cannot be ignored. I have found a few ways to keep the kids busy in the day in case I need to make a ...
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What to do with OLD sponsored posts
If you're like us, you probably have quite a bit of old sponsored content lying around on the 'ol blog. I like digging back 2 or 3 years and sometimes I see old sponsored posts from before I really learned how to do sponsored posts well and I just cringe! Images are sub-par, or it's just one big commercial. And don't get me started on the posts riddled with sponsored links that don't go anywhere because the brand took the site down after the ...
topics to make a post go viral (Highly searched topics for each month)
We recently posted about how to hit 1 million visitors on your blog and I hope that it gave you some really great tips to grow your blog. Today I wanted to share some topics to get you started. These topics to make a post go viral will assist you if you want to achieve this goal. Here are some topics to make a post go viral and to help inspire you each month: You can download a GO VIRAL CALENDAR for free here. JANUARY- organizing. ...
How to increase your ad earnings on a smaller blog
Ads can be a huge source of income for bloggers, but sometimes it can feel like you have to be in the hundreds of thousands of pageviews to make any sort of decent income with them. Thankfully, this doesn't have to be true! While it is easier when your pageviews are higher, because you can have ad networks manage your ad stacks for you, you can also make your own miniature ad stacks (or waterfall ads) to get the most out of your ad spaces. If ...
The cycle of money with blogging – what to expect & when
My husband, Mickey, is my finance manager of Your Modern Family. Before he took this position, he was a finance manager. He knew his market trends almost month to month, consistently. He knew when purchases were up and when they would be down. He knew when consumers would buy & when they wouldn't. Like most businesses, the first quarter is usually down. Companies don't want to spend a lot of money in the first quarter, because ...
How to make a SALE using your blog or newsletter
Most of us what to make an income with our blogs. We devote our time and energy into this blog to turn it from a hobby blog to a full time income. While we go through the full list in Blogpreneur, I wanted to give you a few ideas here. There are three main components that will entice your reader to buy what you are selling, so you can make a sale. 1). Connect with people. Be authentic, kind & helpful! 2). Capture emails. ...
Let’s Get Intense…About Images!
Have you ever heard the saying, images can make or break a blog post? I hate that this is true, but it is! You can have a brilliantly written post but it will still fall short of it's true potential without a great image. It's time to get intense about it. What does that mean? That means we're scheduling our next live blog intensive and this month, we're covering IMAGES. For the most part this will not be a photography course. It would be ...
Increase your open rate (practical tips)
Most of you know that I have really been working hard on my email newsletter list. I am growing around 500-2,000 a day and I want to keep it up. Yes, it is expensive (last month I paid $450 in fees for my list), but it is worth it because in the same month, I made over $3,000 in profit from my newsletter list specifically. How it happened -1- I switched to Convert Kit. That was when I started taking things more seriously. It was when I ...
Effective Affiliate Strategy for Bloggers
We've talked in the past about using amazon affiliate links effectively in your posts, but what about affiliate links through other sources? There are lots of affiliate programs that offer higher payout than amazon AND longer cookie length. Amazon offers a 24 hour cookie, meaning if someone clicks your link but takes 25 hours to make the purchase you don't get any credit for sending that person to amazon to buy the product you recommended. ...
Affiliate products from other bloggers
We've been talking about affiliates a good bit in our Facebook group, and we've finally put together a master list of affiliate ebooks and products from other bloggers. We know that Bloggers can effectively use amazon associates and other affiliate networks and we'll be diving into some more affiliate strategy with those later on in the month, but to get you started, here's a huge list of affiliate products you can sell from other ...