Blog Love: The best of blogging and business every week

March 1, 2015 by Sarah Morgan Leave a Comment

This week was almost entirely dedicated to late night rehearsals and performing in my first show here in SD! I got a spray tan for the first time and it made me feel like a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills. I’ve been taking it easy during the day, so I’m excited to get back on a more intense training schedule next week. Also really excited to eat a cheeseburger after our last show tonight. Performing in such a sexy show means I’ve been eating super healthy all week. Over it!

I was over on Halley’s blog this week sharing why content and social media are NOT the key to growing your blog audience >>>

Your website is gorgeous…but what do you do?? >>>

How to handle tough conversations and save the client relationship >>>

What to do when you feel should-y about your business >>>

Make your most popular posts work harder for you >>>

How Pinterest became my top referrer >>>

When to turn down a potential client >>>

Massive movement inspiration >>>

How to be social online when you aren’t naturally social >>>

5 questions for anyone who wants to turn their blog into an income stream >>>

How to raise the bar without burning out >>>

10 easy ways to automate your blog & business

10 easy ways to automate your blog or business from XOSarah.com

This week I shared my top 12 monthly tasks for keeping your business healthy and one of those ways was to simplify and/or automate my processes. All that admin-type stuff can take hours, so now I have more time for the important stuff like creating content and building blog themes! Here's how I do it . . . Buffer This was and still is my READ MORE >>>

12 monthly tasks to keep your online business healthy + a printable worksheet

12 monthly tasks to keep your online business healthy from XOSarah.com

We all know those daily, weekly, monthly tips to keeping ourselves healthy. Drink eight glasses of water each day, exercise at least 30 minutes three times a week, have your teeth cleaned every six months, but what should you be doing on a regular basis to keep your business healthy? I know I get caught up in all the blog post writing, social READ MORE >>>

Blog Love

This week was for . . . lots more rehearsals, buying the most ridiculous push-up bra so I'll fit into my corset for the show, giving myself whiplash from all the hair-flipping in our routines & being SO happy to have a massage the next day, shopping trips with Vanessa, taco truck tacos, my cutie cute niece starting to crawl all over, stocking READ MORE >>>

How to use font glyphs + a recent design

While working on a client project recently I was going through the different glyphs included with the font to make the blog title flow smoothly. While this is second nature for me, I realized that many of you might not even know those options exist. I didn't until a few years ago when I was all, "What do these buttons do??" and started clicking READ MORE >>>

Blog Love

This week was for...so many classes and rehearsals I had to take two days off to recover, adding a new Wordpress theme to the shop, mid-day champagne and oysters...and cake, actually meal prepping so I don't end up at Wendy's after every rehearsal, weather warm enough for shorts and lunch on patios (endlessly entertained by this because it's READ MORE >>>

Blog Love

This week was for...pushing myself to take aerial classes every morning, mega cheeseburger cravings, finding beautiful views of San Diego, buying too many boxes of Girl Scout cookies (is there such a thing??), late night coding sessions, launching a new Wordpress theme, a double dose of Badass Babes hangouts, and s'mores ice cream READ MORE >>>

Fix-It Friday

It's Friday! The ONE time of the month that I'm at your service to hand out free blog design and answer all of your questions. Between 8AM and 5PM EST post your blog/website link in the comments and I’ll reply with one tip for improvement. I’ll do my best to give each person a different suggestion so you can come back and use all of my tips to READ MORE >>>

Twitter Challenge: 7 ways to grow your audience

I shared this Twitter challenge with the Badass Babes email list subscribers and at the request of Tiff I'm sharing it with all of you too :) Below you'll find 7 tips to help you grow your Twitter audience. They’re short, simple, and easy to add into your daily life immediately. If you complete all seven steps I have 100% confidence you’ll see new READ MORE >>>

6 things that make moving to self-hosted WordPress less scary

Ah, moving to Wordpress, the mark of an ambitious blogger. Once your pageviews start to grow and you want to be taken seriously by clients, customers, or brands, you know all those themes and plugins will be massively beneficial to your success. But with this need to grow comes the onslaught of what-ifs that surround that complicated-sounding move READ MORE >>>

Blog Love + Babes registration ends TONIGHT!

This is it! The last day to join us for this session of the Badass Babes Blog Club + E-Course. We get down to business tomorrow! The e-course is eight weeks of videos and homework to help . . . focus your blog content improve your design find your ideal readers build an editorial calendar with two months of post ideas learn to READ MORE >>>

#badassblogchat: Growing your audience through social media

Recap of the #badassblogchat Twitter chat

Just in case you missed out on today's Badass Blog Chat, here's the transcript! (Did my best to organize all the tweets so they make sense) I've been having so much fun running these chats that I think this will become a regular event :) You all are just too much fun to hang out with! If you're into connecting with other bloggers and having the READ MORE >>>