Do you spend hours and hours and hours on Facebook? Blog post written, press publish, it looks beautiful. Now what are you going to do? Why, head over to your social media to publicise your latest fabulous offering. 5 hours later, you’ve learnt that little Freddie has taken his first steps, one of your friends […]
Just recently Chelsey wrote us a post about the best social media platforms to get traffic to her site. Of course the best ones will often vary by blogger and subject, Stumbleupon has never been great for me. But we both agreed that Twitter was useless and we weren’t afraid to say so! That’s where […]
Hello! I’m Chelsey from Budget Girl and I’m so excited to be guest posting for Deby! First, a little backstory. I started blogging in October 2012. In September 2013, I began self-hosting. My desire was, and is, to monetize…which means my efforts in getting my blog seen have quadrupled. I feel that’s important to note because, without full-time-job-level effort, getting […]
This post first appeared on Create Hype – and it was a bit more New Year then than it is now! We all have New Year’s Resolutions, but in the true tradition of self-improvement, most of them prove to be fleeting good intentions that simply take too long to achieve and are quickly abandoned. But […]
Learn how to schedule pins for free! There are times when you might want to pin a picture or post to several of your boards on Pinterest. Got a great recipe for Chilli and want to pin it to your recipes, family favorites, Mexican Food and your favorite group boards? Why not, BUT who wants […]
We all want more followers, more fans, more traffic. Pinterest is one of the best traffic sources online for blogs, but you really need a healthy band of followers to get likes and repins, and get your pins and your blog posts and crafts etc in front of a wider audience. When you are starting […]
The internet is getting more visual every day. We spend hours every day staring at the screen, for work, for emails, for leisure and gaming, for entertainment, for TV and more. Our eyes can get tired from too much close up work, too much reading text and are inevitably drawn to images. Big, bright, bold […]
Facebook is still huge. For pages, it might no longer be the same as it was, with fewer of our followers now seeing the posts, but it is still an important resource for bloggers and you should continue to maintain and market your page and use it to bring visitors to your site and subscribers […]
Did you get the email from Pinterest about the new analytics for Pinners with their own website? It gives interesting info on the pins made from your site, popular pins, number of repins, number of views etc and is well worth taking a look at. Here is how: 1. Get early access to the new look […]
Many themes and templates already include a set of social media icons or buttons. But perhaps you don’t like the ones with your template, or perhaps you don’t like where they are by default and want to set up your own. Setting them up in a nice neat row can also free up valuable space […]
Make money pinning.. I’ve recently sent details to my newsletter followers about a new way to earn money from Pinterest. It’s something you might not have heard about yet, so it seems a good idea to share it here too. It’s a new scheme, run by a recent startup in India and I think they […]
Today’s Tiny Tip – make sure to use your social media to tell everyone about your latest post or project. You’ve heard me say it before – you are awesome, so don’t keep that a secret. SHOUT about it. In the last Tiny Tips I reminded you to Pin your own projects. But don’t […]
Today’s Tiny Tip – increase traffic to your site using Pinterest. Other than search engine traffic, Pinterest is my number one source of traffic for my sewing blog. And my photos really aren’t very good at all, and just show a middle-aged woman in some ill-fitting dress she just made! Imagine what you could get […]
Today we are starting to think about Social Media. I remember it was only 6 years ago that someone complained to me that they kept getting invites from their friends to this stupid thing called Facebook. They were already registered on Friends Reunited, and had a MySpace. Why would they want something else? Well, we all know […]
