No-BS Blog Strategy for the Daring and Driven
For the first 10 years of my blogging career, I (like most bloggers when they first start) wrote about EVERYTHING. Whatever topic I was thinking about that morning, as I procrastinated looking at my to-do list for my corporate job, would be whipped into a blog post and published immediately. You probably never heard of my blog for the first 10 years because this process…
Today’s post is an email I sent to my list last week. It received so many thoughtful and enthusiastic responses that I wanted to share it here as well. (Most of my emails don’t end up anywhere but in subscriber inboxes, so jump on my list to receive my weekly emails if you aren’t already subscribed.) Today I want to talk about one of the negative…
Today I’m going to turn the blog over to a handful of my students who have gone through Dare to Grow, my course, community, and coaching for bloggers ready to level-up their online presence and gain more readers, clicks, clients or customers. Dare to Grow open enrollment is closing soon and I don’t want you to just take my word that the program is amazing….
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about growing a blog, it’s that it is extremely easy to add more tasks to your plate than you could ever complete in a lifetime. You want to do EVERYTHING. Write all the blogs and all the Instagrams, and podcast, and go live, and write an ebook, and figure out Facebook ads, and tweet, and promote, and and and…
Pop quiz! How many people start blogs, get so excited to create content and share what they’re passionate about online, and then give up after just a few months? Answer – I have no idea. But judging from some quick and dirty internet research, I’m going to go with A TON. (They obviously haven’t been hanging out with me, huh??) Building my blog has brought…
Today we’re going to talk about something that some bloggers find really fun and some bloggers seriously struggle with. And that thing is . . . branding. Now, we’re not just talking about a logo here. We’re talking about all the visuals for your blog and how those visuals + what you share makes your readers feel. Because branding is less about picking fonts (though…
Awesome guest post alert! Today my buddy Nathalie Lussier is here to talk all about creating pop-up boxes that won’t drive your blog readers mad. Because I know, and I’m sure you do too, that it’s really easy to create pop-ups that are super annoying. I run into them every single day! And while bad pop-ups can make you not want to do the same…
Does this sound like you? 8AM: Oh man…it’s been awhile, I should probably post something on Instagram 2PM: Ok seriously, I really need to take some photos so I have stuff to post on Instagram 8PM: Crap. Totally forgot to take photos. Can’t think of anything interesting to share. Instagram will have to wait until tomorrow…again. Wash. Rinse. REPEAT. While I’m constantly pinning and Facebooking…
* I’m a big fan of TailWind, which means this posts contains affiliate links Want to know something crazy…..I have 823 pins scheduled right now. Seriously! This means I have pins scheduled from now (April 12th) into JULY. I could literally abandon my Pinterest for almost FOUR MONTHS and it would keep on going. Keep pinning and bringing in blog traffic, social media followers, and sales….
So you know you need to be blogging every week and you know you need to be posting on social media multiple times every day. But I’m guessing one of the things slowing you down and keeping you from posting consistently is your images. Specifically taking your own photos that look somewhat professional, well styled, and on-brand. The good new is, you don’t need to take photography classes and…
If you’re ready to expand your blogging audience, increase your influence, AND do it without paying for ads, today’s post is for you! My friend Christina from Media Maven is here to talk about getting publicity for your blog. And I promise, it isn’t as difficult or intimidating as you might think. Christina is a former TV reporter and anchor who now owns and operates…
Today we need to talk about something that has nothing to do with strategy or blogging tips and everything to do with keeping you feeling motivated and productive and energized to grow your blog. You probably already know that being active and visible online is an important part of building an audience and expanding your reach. It allows your people to get to know you…
I’m guessing if you’ve put time and possibly money into starting a blog, you’re not planning on ditching it after a few months, right? Except, for a lot of bloggers, this is exactly what happens. They get SO excited to start blogging and they write furiously for weeks and they have SO many ideas and SO many plans, but after a while that newness and…
Today I want to share an interview with another one of my Dare to Grow students, Kayleigh Hannon from Let’s Talk Lady Biz. Kayleigh joined Dare to Grow two years ago (back when it was called Badass Babes) and used the lessons and the community to get focused and create growth in her blog and her online business. Tell us about your blog / business…
Twitter is one of my favorite social media platforms because it allows you to chat with perfect strangers, find new people to follow/collaborate with, and share information quickly. Pinterest is what I use to find stuff and Twitter is what I use to find PEOPLE. But figuring out how to grow an audience on an app that’s moving SO FAST can be challenging. It seems…
Today I’d like to do something a little different and hand the blogging reigns over to one of my students. Naomi of Live FAB Life joined my blogging course + community, Dare to Grow, almost two years ago (back when it was called The Badass Babes Blog Club + E-Course). In that time she’s taken her blog from ZERO to blogging regularly and using her…
Truth: I do not feel like blogging every time I sit down to write. Some days a post pours out of me like a waterfall of blogging inspiration, and some days my brain decides to play 20 questions about whether my post idea is good enough or if anyone will share it or if someone else has written about the topic before and probably did…
Alright, let’s talk about list building. I’ve been building my email list for about two years now, which means for the first couple years of growing my business, I didn’t have an email list at all. #FAIL. Once I finally got my shit together, I was able to grow my subscribers pretty rapidly. In 2015 my list grew from 2k subscribers to 10k, and in…
Funny story…for as long as I have been blogging and as much as I promote blogging as the best marketing tool today, I did not actually write a blog for my business when I started freelancing. Oops . . . I did have a blog and that is where most of my clients came from, but I was blogging about make-up and music and what…
There’s nothing worse than getting all excited to blog, writing a whole bunch of posts, feeling like a pro hitting publish week after week, and then . . . silence. Not a share or a comment in sight. Ugh. Here’s the thing – people take action (like sharing and commenting) when they feel something. Maybe they feel excited or entertained, maybe after reading your post…
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