Hoooo boy is this stuff confusing. Part of the reason for all the confusion around what you should or should not be disclosing as a blogger or influencer is because of our proximity to America. And the rules are different, […]
Oy yoiyoi. What a week it’s been, friends. If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know I’ve been feeling pretty discouraged about Instagram lately. Their algorithm has kicked into gear big time, and it’s resulting in less people seeing and […]
Every once in a while, I feel the need to write an opinion piece, or go on a bit of a rant. Fair warning: this is one of those times. It’s been an interesting week in the world of opinion […]
If there’s one thing we all want, it’s exposure. We all want to see that little spike in our Google Analytics. It’s a great feeling. It’s hard, especially when you’ve been at this a while (*cough* 9 years) to come […]
I’ve been doing content markteing online since 2007. That’s just a fancy way of saying I’ve been writing this blog since then. Content Marketing, or “pull” marketing, is just about creating useful or valuable content that is then going to […]
Friends, if you had been to my house lately, you would have noticed that my dining room table looks like this: Yup, piles and piles of receipts I’m sorting through and entering into Excel spreadsheets in preparation for doing my […]
Yikes. I hope not. I just started teaching a blogging class this week, so let’s just say I have something personal at stake here. But it’s more than that. I love blogging. Again, it’s personal. I feel like writing is […]
Content, content, content!! When you’re a blogger or you are in social media, there is constant pressure to come up with fresh content all the time. It’s hard! Sometimes you run out of inspiration. One thing I do is look […]
Gentle reader; This is one of those posts I’ve been struggling with for a while. One of those ones you feel bubbling up inside you, but you don’t know if you have the guts to actually put fingers to keyboard […]
In the month of December, I conducted an experiment over on my other blog, Cooking By Laptop. I decided I was going to blog every weekday during the month of December 2014, so see how it would affect my traffic. […]