Bloggers are stereotyped as posting about their kittens and what they had for breakfast, but the truth is that there are bloggers writing about every conceivable topic.
This section is designed to assist bloggers in monetizing their online content. We also cover all digital publishing platforms in detail to help writers and marketers stay ahead of the curve. We’ve got blogging tips for beginners as well as reminders for seasoned bloggers. In this section, we’ll cover everything from creating a website to writing blog posts to email marketing.
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Read our most recent blog posts for advice on blogging, SEO, social media marketing, and latest technology in blogging platforms.
Instagram Hashtags: Ultimate Guide For Your Business
When you hear ‘Instagram,’ you might think it’s just an app you can use to share pictures and videos with your friends. But as an entrepreneur, it’s a powerful platform…
How to Gain More Followers on Instagram
The question we get asked a lot when chatting to other bloggers and users is ‘how do you gain more followers on Instagram? This social media platform is quickly becoming…
How To Start A Travel Blog
How To Start A Travel Blog: A Step-By-Step Guide. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything you need to know about easily creating and how to start a travel blog…
10 Best WordPress Plugins For Blogging
Best WordPress Blogging Plugins If you’re new to the world of blogging, it can seem like an endless spiral of information that you need to process before you can get…
Trending Topics by Month For Your Blog & Social Media
Fill Your Content Calendar with these Monthly Ideas One of the most common reasons mom bloggers struggle with their blogs is a lack of content. It’s critical to remember the…
How to Add Pinterest to your Facebook Fan Page Timeline
Pinterest is a great way to drive traffic to your blog, whether you are a mom blogger, or another kind of blogger. People love looking at pictures and when they…
How to Write a Product Pitch Email
Product reviews are found on lots of blogs. Honest, authentic reviews can be beneficial to both the brand and the blogger. But how do you go about getting product reviews?…
SEO WordPress Tips For Beginners
Could your blog use a boost in its search engine rankings? Are you unsure of how to make that happen? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Keep reading to learn some…
Make Your Freelance Branding Stand Out
How to Brand Your Freelance or Consulting Services Having a professionally designed brand has many benefits, but the practical reality is that in the beginning of your freelance career, you…
How to Add Text to Photos in 4 Super Simple Tips
Recently, I’ve received a few questions about the process I use to add text to photos, so I thought I’d share a little tutorial with you today.. I have, on…
How to Use Facebook to Drive Traffic to your Family Blog
If you already have a family blog, I’ll bet you have a Facebook account as well, right? In fact, many family bloggers first started sharing photos and stories with their…
How to Brand Your Blog with a Color Scheme and Font
Have you ever stumbled upon a blog with bright colors, beautiful photos, and writing that makes you want to read? Sounds inspiring, doesn’t it? No matter what kind of blogger you are…
Why No One Cares If You’re an Expert
Secrets Behind Being a Successful Freelancer “I could never be a writer!” That’s the sort of response I get whenever I’m asked that classic cocktail question of what I do…
When You’re a Mom, Not All Freelance Work is Created Equally
For the past five or six months, I’ve spent nearly every waking moment working. I’ve fallen into bed exhausted every night, feverish with stress and the dread of doing it…
Find Freelance Writing Gigs By Cold Emailing
I made a concentrated effort to get better calling people when I had to interview a Broadway star appearing in The Color Purple. I stammered so much explaining why I was calling…
Start a Mom Blog: Content Promotion
Up until this point, this guide has focused mainly on how to setup your mom blog in a way that is conducive to generating organic traffic from Google. However, in this…
Start a Mom Blog: Content Creation
Now that your mom blog is properly set up, the real work begins. To make money from your blog, you must have excellent content. However, the concept of “Content is…
Start a Mom Blog: How to Choose a Focus & Set Up Your Blog
A great many moms are tempted to start a blog on a free blogging platform like Blogger, Tumblr, or the free version of WordPress, and that’s fine if you’re just…
3 Simple Steps to Increase Amazon Affiliate Sales
I’ve been making money with the Amazon Affiliate program for about 18 months. My first few product postings were abysmal. I’ve since gone back and cleaned up the posts and…
Why Don’t People Love Your Blog?
Make People Want to Read Your Blog I’ve been there. It was seven years ago. I’d had a blog for about six months and people just weren’t coming. I’d heard…
Why Doing Videos And Being On YouTube Can Explode Your Mommy Blog
Using YouTube To Succeed Online Creating videos and sharing them with the world is not only fun, but potentially profitable. By doing videos and being on YouTube, you can explode…
Alternatives to Google Adsense for Mommy Bloggers
The majority of blog owners follow a simple formula that is based on how the periodical or media industries, (magazines, newspapers, television, radio, etc), traditionally operate; they try to get…
Email Marketing & List Building 101
“The money is in the list” – is a common expression passed on within the internet marketing industry. True enough, an email list is the most fundamental asset for any…
How to Read, Use and Take Advantage of Google Trends
How to Use Google Trends to Find Popular Searches Google Trends, an often under-rated product developed by Google, is finally receiving the attention it duly deserves. Since its inception in…
Make Money as a Mommy Blogger
How do Mom Bloggers Make Money? Why not take a break from being a mommy when the children are taking a nap. You can make some extra cash blogging right…
Be a Blogger: Identify Your Target Audience
Now that you have identified a subject you are passionate about it’s time to identify your target audience. This is an exercise familiar to any traditional author or marketing executive….
The Power of Branding
I used to play volleyball in high school, and I’ll never forget how my coach taught me to strengthen my overhead serve. It was a simple tactic: Follow through. He…
Google Blogger Review
Is Google Blogger the Best Platform for You? Although we prefer and promote the use of self-hosted WordPress, Blogger is an excellent platform if you are a beginner blogger. Google…
What Do I Blog About?
“Location! Location! Location!” How often have we heard that when we are buying a house. In the world of blogging it can be described as, “Niche!, Niche! Niche!” What do…
I’m a Baby Boomer and I Want to Learn How to Blog!
Is this you? Are you a Baby Boomer with a desire to learn how to blog, show up on page one of the search engines and maybe even make money? …
Moms Work From Home To Stay At Home
There are many reasons moms want to work from home; mainly because you want to stay at home with your kids. You have a choice: Work for peanuts at cheap-paying…
A Baby Boomer’s “Daily Journal” Is Not A Newspaper
Blogging Ideas for Baby Boomers Many of us write a daily journal or blog for a variety of reasons; whether it’s to jot down our daily thoughts, vent our frustrations,…
Retirement Income Needed: Baby Boomers Are Worried
Online Businesses for Baby Boomers Baby Boomers are worried that they won’t have the retirement income needed when their grand day arrives. Born between 1946 to 1964, Baby Boomers have…
How To Blog For a Baby Boomer Audience
How to Market to Baby Boomers If you want to write about the largest generation in history, you need to know how to blog for Baby Boomers…meaning… how do you…
What Is A Good Blog Post Outline?
It’s not difficult to write a great article as long as you have a good blog post outline (continue reading and decide if I follow my own advice). The outline…
Blogging Traps to Avoid
As I write this post I am working under the assumption that you diligently want to create the best blog you can and that you want to improve every day…
5 Tips for Being Interviewed by the Press
I was recently interviewed by my local magazine about the work I do with Special Moms Network and how I have transitioned from blogging to speaking at tech and mom…
Tips for Turning a Blogging Hobby into a Business
If it seems like the same bloggers are getting asked to speak at conferences or attend press junkets, it’s because they are skilled at working their connections and networks to…
What is Malware and What To Do About It
I’m sure you’ve all heard about computer security and malware and many other terms that you may not understand. Today, I am going to give you some of the definitions…
Do the Loudest Bloggers Always Win?
I just finished reading an article in Advertising Age, How to Tell If Your Campaign Has Reached a Social Media Flashpoint, that recounted some of the more vocal outrage moments…
5 Ways to Retain Your Readers
Imagine for a moment that you have a hugely popular blog that is read by hundreds of thousands of readers. You provide a constant stream of quality content and add…
Blog Problems with WordPress.com
The Problem With WordPress.com & How To Fix It! If you are hosting your blog at WordPress.com, you will not be able to properly install your Special Moms badge. But…
5 Vision Board Apps Reviewed
I am a huge proponent of writing down my goals and working towards them. Sometimes I scribble them in a notebook or on a piece of paper that I stuff…
6 Ways to Lose Your Readers
It’s the hectic holiday season and while there are a ton of things to plan, gifts to buy, events to attend and meals to cook don’t let this next month…
Scheduling Social Media – A calendar for success
Planning your social media scheduling in advance can help free up your blogging time to do more important tasks. Scheduling social media is super important. Using your time wisely, is…
How to Find Analytics for A Specific Blog Post
Finding analytics for a specific blog post through google analytics is not as difficult as you might think. You might be asked to find analytics for a specific blog post…
Using Your Time Wisely As A Blogger
They say that time is money, right? Using your time wisely as a blogger should be one of your top priorities. It is true, time is money. As a blogger…
How to Start a Food Blog – Picking a Domain Name and Host
I have been asked many times, “So, how would I go about setting up my own food blog?” That’s not a short answer but it definitely isn’t a difficult one….
10 reasons MailChimp works for Bloggers
As a blogger or business owner, sending out thousands or even millions of emails a day to all the people on your emailing list seems like a daunting task. Outside…
5 Reasons Why Every Blogger Needs a Virtual Assistant
You know that running a blog is more than just writing posts and hoping that people read them. As you’ve built your blog, you’ve probably found out that other tasks,…
Building Your Blog with Your eNewsletter
As a blogger, you aim to have steady traffic to your site. Take a peak at our latest tips for building your blog with your eNewsletter. Newsletters should be an…
Link Parties – Driving Traffic to your Blog
What is a Link Party and how can it help me as a blogger? If you’re a blogger you may have heard of a link party or linky parties. Have…
Blogging Business – Treat your blog like the business you want it to be!
So you are a food blogger, huh? “What exactly is that?” That is a question I get all the time. “So you write about food? You take pictures of food?”…
Setting Blogger Goals – Dream BIG!
Setting blogger goals is an important part of blogger. Let’s dream big and set some goals. Goal setting is very important in life, in business and in your blog. Everybody’s…
Blogger Head Shot – why your blogger head shot is important
Having a headshot that you consistently use across all social media and your website is important! Having a consistent picture in your social media profiles makes your brand recognizable. Hey…
Resume Writing Tips for Mothers
As many of you know, I’ve been a stay at home mom since being laid off due a reduction in force a few years back. While I had the opportunity…
When I first started blogging in 1999, it was practically unheard of, and there were almost no tools to help. Every article on my blog is hand-coded, including monthly archive pages, “older posts” sections, and so on. Simply put, I wasn’t a particularly prolific blogger in the first few years.
Today, anybody can get up and running in a matter of minutes by utilizing free services that make adding a post as simple as writing an email. Getting to know how to distribute your content is no longer a barrier — if you have something to say, saying it is simple.
Your blog is only as limited as your interests — what do you want to say? Consider what you want your blog to accomplish — do you want it to be a documentation of your daily life, or a way to keep your family and friends updated while you’re away? Or perhaps you’d like a place to publicize your writing, music, or artwork while also keeping in touch with your fans? Perhaps you want a channel through which you can communicate with your customers — and through which they can communicate with you? Maybe you’d like to share your thoughts on politics, freelancing, football coaching, home school teaching, or fishing.