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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Match Made In Heaven: 10 Dream Work-From-Home Jobs
Nowadays it’s increasingly difficult to find a job, let alone one that will allow you to work-from-home. Every now and again, there’s that lucky and rare opportunity that will enable you to earn a good wage and do it remotely. A quick perusal of online job sites reveals many opportunities to work-from-home (data entry, stuffing ... Read More
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
Is It Time to Sell Your Blog? – Interview with Heidi Gollub
Heidi Gollub started Free Fun in Austin as a creative outlet in 2010, when she was ten years into being a stay-at-home mom and still had two little boys at home. She’d take her boys on a new adventure every morning and write about it in the afternoon when they were napping. Gradually, she started writing about free events that were ... 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
Enter to WIN a SnapPages Website for LIFE!
It's giveaway time! We're excited to partner with SnapPages to offer one (1), lucky reader, a FREE website for life! SnapPages is a DIY website building tool that allows anyone (yes, anyone!) to quickly and easily build a professional quality website. The winner of this giveaway will win a SnapPages website for LIFE! Regular ... 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
How to Stand Out in a Crowded Niche as a New Blogger
"Blend in, but stand out" - that is my motto when it comes to blogging for my website. As a new blogger, blogging can get overwhelming. The struggle begins once you start getting serious about it! One of the biggest setbacks for bloggers is standing out in a crowded niche. You might be interested in food, beauty, or photography ... 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
Earn Ridiculous Money While You Sleep
Admit it. You don’t mind working hard, but you’re tired … tired of working in an office, tired of working for someone else, tired of working hard just to make ends meet, tired of no time, no money, no vacations, no fun, tired of … You’re just plain tired… But, what if—you could be playing, traveling the world, doing anything — and ... 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
4 Factors That Will Impact the Success of Your Blog
Did you know that on average a new blog is created every one-half of a second? That's a lot of sites being developed daily. A large portion of them are created by people like yourself that are looking to make a few extra dollars each month. Of course, there are a lot of ways you can make money with your blog, but your success will be ... 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
