Let’s get one thing straight: There are no shortcuts when it comes to growing your blog traffic. That being said, you can see massive progress over a period of a few months with good content and legitimate SEO techniques. For example, I was able to increase my blog traffic by almost 4,000% in just half a year. In this ... Read More
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How This Accountant Ditched the Cube and Became a Productivity Blogger
Carrie Smith Nicholson is the founder of carefulcents.com where she works as a financial influencer and productivity blogger. Using her past experience as a small business accountant, she helps burned out business owners get more done in less time. Her business strategies and productivity tips have been featured in Inc. Magazine, ... Read More
How This Mom Went from Retail Management to Full-Time Blogger
Scarlet Paolicchi is a Nashville blogger and stay-at-home mom of two. Her award-winning blog, Family Focus Blog reports on parenting tips, family fun activities, eco tips, food, travel, decor, discounts, and giveaways. Find out how this biology major made the leap from retail management to full-time blogger. You started blogging in ... Read More
How One Mom’s Career Change Turned Her Passion for Gluten-Free Living Into Profit
Jenny Finke is a certified nutrition and health coach. She founded her gluten-free blog, Good For You Gluten Free, after a devastating celiac diagnosis in April 2012. Today she helps her readers and clients live a healthy, gluten-free lifestyle, and she works hard to advocate for those living with celiac disease or following a ... Read More
5 Ways to Use Social Media to Promote Your Blog
As a blogger for years, I’ve experimented with multiple types of blog promotion. To this day, though, one of the most effective promotional platforms for me, continues to be social media. In this blog post, I’m going to share my top five tips to use social media to promote your blog. 1. First things first: Grow your social media ... Read More
Solid Advice for Buying an Established Online Business
Julie Fry's passion has always been for small business and building community. In her family, she's the designated event planner for birthday celebrations and milestone events, so she decided to harness her talents for the mom entrepreneur community. Find out how this mom became the owner of Business Among Moms, and what advice she ... Read More
5 Ways Blogging Can Contribute to Your Self Growth
We all have them. Bad habits, mindsets, learned helplessness that we may not be aware of. We’ve gotten quite accustomed to them that they feel a part of us. Developing good blogging habits should allow you to confront some of these habits and make decisions about them that will be beneficial. If you’re new to blogging welcome ... Read More
100K Bloggers Who Are Making Big Bucks From Their Blogging Efforts
I hear it over and over again -- bloggers can't make good money. While I obviously disagree with that statement, I decided to prove the naysayers wrong by featuring some women who are earning big bucks through their blogging activities. The really great thing about blogging is there isn't one right way to do it. How bloggers make ... Read More
How a Blog Can Help You Launch a Home-Based Business
A lot of clients tell me “I don’t have a business yet, so I can’t blog.” What a lot of people don’t know is this: A blog is essential for the business that you have yet to begin. Why? Because a blog provides you with an instant platform to get your brand message across and create a following for your brand — even before you have ... Read More
Blog Your Way into the Writing Business
Are you trying to break into the writing business without doing a bunch of free work? Blogging can be an excellent place to start. Monetizing your blog may be one way to create recurring and diversified revenue over the long term. But an easier way to start making money fast is by ghostwriting blog posts for successful ... Read More
7 Social Media Tricks All Bloggers Should Use
Every single day, you might ask yourself “What else can I do to improve my blog?” Great content, simple and creative website design, pictures with Alt text, niche-based keywords—unbelievably, sometimes these aren't enough to boost your blog to the top of search engine rankings. So, what will? I'm sure you will have heard of ... Read More
Why Hobby Blogging is Not Like Career Blogging
I know I’m not the only one guilty of being a serial-blog abandoner. I’d ask for a show of hands, but I wouldn’t want to embarrass anyone who is currently reading. I can’t even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a great idea for a blog, got it started, written some content, and then. And then my attention has been pulled in ... Read More
4 Tips on Blogging Your Way to Your Ideal Clients
Blogging can be an effective way to market your business skills and expertise, specifically by appealing to those within your target market or your ideal audience. The art of finding that connection between you and your ideal clients using your blog requires a certain type of marketing skills. At the same time, because you’re ... Read More
Writing Fast: Blog Writing in Less Time
Wouldn't it be great if you knew how to write a blog post quickly and easily so you could move on to other business matters that you enjoy more? Lots of people struggle with staying on top of their blog writing schedule because they get hung up in the process. It takes longer than they want. They struggle to find the right words and ... Read More
What You Need to Know About Monetizing Your Blog
At-home entrepreneurs are always looking for additional ways to add to their income. With the surge in blogs that has occurred in recent years, it may seem that blogging is a great way to add to your cash flow. However, before you jump into monetizing your blog, review these four points to make sure you know the ins and outs and can ... Read More
