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I used to be a "night before" blogger, and sometimes I still am. I would stay up late and write my post to go live at midnight. I want to tell you how freeing it is to just write the posts when you have a lot of time and schedule them for a full month! Today I challenge you to write in advance. Here are some tips: 1- LESS STRESS! It is so much less stressful to do this! I started by taking a full Saturday (well, about five hours) and ...
This post contains affiliate links that help us & hopefully help you, too!! :) There are new ways to make money blogging popping up every day and I wanted to share three of them them with you today. Well they are all new to me- I've known about #3 for a while, but I"m finally putting it into play on my blog. 1. Izea They have finally made the "switch". We had been hearing about it for MONTHS, but it has arrived! Are you signed ...
Today I wanted to share 4 mistakes the new bloggers make (I know because I made them, too!) 1). Writing too much in one post. I say this because I have been there, done that! I wrote way too much in the beginning. We were talking about this earlier in the week on our Blogging on the Side Facebook Group (you can join!) and someone asked how many words you should write per post. While I stick with 250-500 (normally), I go over sometimes and ...
This post contains affiliate links. So- this book is geared toward kids and it is fantastic. It is called Help Your Kids with Computer coding: Initially, I saw the beauty of this, teaching our kids about computer coding… and then I began to think: WAIT! I NEED HELP WITH COMPUTER CODING! Which then lead to… MAYBE YOU NEED HELP WITH COMPUTER CODING, TOO! And so this post & giveaway were born. haha! WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT? With ...
Today I want to share a few posts and a few series that will help you take your blog from making a little money to a six-figure income. This post contains affiliate links. These secrets of a six-figure blogger come from Kate McKibbin- she is sharing her tips with us! I recently teamed up with Kate and I am taking her class: Secret Bloggers Business: How to Make Money Blogging. I am so very excited to share this info with you. There comes a ...
Do you have any rhyme or reason for your posts? How do you balance sponsored posts vs. non-sponsored posts? Do you have a schedule for your posts? Do you just post what is on your heart? I do both on my blog, Your Modern Family. I like it this way- sometimes I will be laying in bed, trying to fall asleep, and something will be laying on my heart, so I'll jump onto my computer & write out a post (of course I wait to post it until ...
I came across something that I found to be VERY interesting this past week. As some of you know, I had my page redesigned (with the help of Jornie.com… she can ad widgets anywhere on your page for a fee) Well, when I was playing around with where I wanted my google ads, I found that the small banner looked so much nicer, but at the end of the day, I had shocking results! If you are wondering which size adsense ad should I use - this will ...
I just wanted to share where we get free images! If you are following this thread on our Blogging on the Side Facebook group, you will get a ton of info there! (If you aren't a member…. just request to join & we will approve you!) Here are some places to go for FREE images for your blog… New Old Stock. Canva Microsoft Images Morguefile Photopin (remember that the sponsored posts are ABOVE the dotted lines & the ones that you ...
I keep reading more and more about media kits. I had never done one, but then I read an article that said that "3 out of 5 sponsors prefer them" so I decided that I better get to work. Then, coincidence would have it that someone posted about Media Kits in a Facebook group that I am a part of that they were going to charge $50 for a kit and I was going to go ahead and purchase it. Before I hit that purchase button, I googled "Media Kit" and it ...
Do you feel pressure to move to WordPress? Are you feeling left behind thinking everyone is over there? I used to feel that way, but the longer I have been on blogger the more I realize it can be a great platform to blog on. I love blogger and have been blogging for over 5 years on the blogger platform. I am not an expert when it comes to blog design or html and coding, but I have figured out quite a few things over the ...
