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Today I wanted to share 3 tips on writing sponsored posts: 1- Make it a story! It does not have to be a 'straight-up' review. Make it personal, fun and interesting! Share a tip or a recipe or a craft… Make your readers WANT to read it! 2- Have a catchy title - would you rather read "Review of ____" or "The best & easiest dinner recipe you are going to read all month!" I never write "review of___" in my titles. 3- Sell it, sell it, ...
Today I wanted to share a few things that have been an inspiration... Take a minute & let these things sink in. I think that you will like each one of them for different reasons. :) ...
Here we go! It is time for you to begin your blogging journey! We are right here, every step of the way! Where can you find us? On Facebook & in our private forum. :) ...
Many people want to know how they can schedule their pins. They are debating jointing Viral Tag vs. Ahalogy. Today Alida From The Realistic Mama is sharing what she has learned about these companies. First- if you want to become educated on Ahalogy, read my post about it here. Ahalogy: Why to use it: This schedules your pins for you. You will tell it what to schedule and what boards to put it on. It will figure out the best time to pin ...
Your Modern Family Income (You can see my most popular posts in my About Page by clicking right here.) So many of you have asked me (on our Facebook Group that you should join!) about how to monetize your blog and how much I make. I haven’t told anyone my income, except a few close friends and family members, until last month. I shared my August income from Your Modern Family. This post contains affiliate links to the companies that I ...
Paula and I are going to Blog Elevated soon, for an AMAZING blog conference. (What's that? You want to join us? YAY!!) Well, in order to go, we both needed to update our business cards. Here are a few things that you will need to put on YOUR business card... (ps- vistaprint has them really cheap! This is where Paula and I both ordered our business cards.) 1- YOUR PHOTO. This is a given. They want to see you! Let them make that ...
This post contains affiliate links for products that I have & love. I am sharing my 6 things you CAN NOT FORGET to take to a blog conference Here are 5 things you CAN NOT FORGET to take to a blog conference 1- PHONE charger! You will be gathering phone numbers, taking pictures, tweeting out cute messages from the conference… all things that will eat up your battery. Be sure to take your portable charger. 2- Business ...
This post contains affiliate links for Blogging on the Side. Last week Paula posted about the 5 essential books for bloggers … today I want to share my three favorites: 1- How to Grow Your Blog Paula and I teamed up a lot of other bloggers to write this book, so I may be partial, but I think that it has a lot of great info in there. It really would be like asking 30 bloggers to give you their best blogging advice… and then you just jot it ...
This post, as with any on Blogging on the Side, may contain affiliate links to products & companies that we love! My friend Keri asked me recently how to put an image on a large white space. I have to do this a lot because my featured image size is a perfect square. Start with PicMonkey. I use PicMonkey for every post, on Blogging on the Side & Your Modern Family. I just take an old picture & resize it to the size that I want, ...
This post, How to grow your blog, contains affiliate links. (We only share what we believe in!) We've been keeping a secret… Paula and I have been working together, with other bloggers, to bring you something amazing… Paula and I are having so much fun working together (in our long distance blogging relationship!) We recently teamed up with another blogger, Shauna, to help her write an awesome e-book (can I say that its awesome, even though ...
