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Can you believe 2015 is one-third over? June will be a busy month for our family, and I’ve been looking over my blog and identifying some quick ways I can improve my blog in between end-of-school activities, summer camps, and our family vacation. I’ve been working on crafting effective calls to action and have already begun to see…
Over the past few years, we’ve shared a lot of information about improving your blog and building your platform. Social media has radically changed both how we share and how we receive information. It’s easy to become overwhelmed and feel like it’s impossible to keep up. While I firmly believe there is no “one size…
You’ve spent hours crafting the perfect post. You’ve found the ideal image and formatted it with text. You’ve researched keywords and written a great meta description to improve the SEO. You finally hit publish, promote on social media, and wait for the engagement to begin. But nothing happens. And you begin to wonder if maybe…
Let’s face it, some days it feels like we are blogging to the walls. I’ve been blogging for over six years and more than once I’ve contemplated walking away. After all, we spend hours putting each post together and then more time promoting and sharing it … and the reality is, we still can’t control…
Today we’re wrapping up the one idea-three posts series. I started by sharing a 3 simple steps for identifying multiple posts from one idea. Using social media scheduling as our one idea, I’ve approached different aspects to craft three different posts. The first was identifying tools for social media scheduling. Next we explored the benefits…
We’re still working through our one idea-three posts series on social media scheduling. Last week we looked at 3 tools you can use for scheduling your social media updates. But, perhaps you are wondering, “Why bother with scheduling at all?” As a blogger, I’ve had seasons where I was proficient at scheduling and seasons when…
One of my personal goals for the next couple of months is to become more efficient in my meal planning and preparation. I’ve spent several hours researching various methods such as once a month cooking. The idea of spending one whole day doing all the preparation for a month’s worth of meals is attractive to…
We talk about brainstorming ideas frequently in these posts. Why? Because I believe it is one of the most challenging aspects of building your blog. Recently I worked with a client to identify her first twenty-five posts. She had not yet launched her blog and wanted to have at least that many ready to go…
Here we are at the end of February … is anyone but me wondering how the first two months of 2015 are almost over? Last week I shared some of the ways I’m working to improve my use of offline connections to build my online audience. This week, let’s focus on social media and how…
I’ve been looking at my personal blog stats a lot lately. I’m working on a big project and have needed to examine where I can improve my audience engagement and see more growth. One of the realizations I have had in this process is this: I’m not doing much offline to build my audience online….