How to Start a blog with WordPress and Siteground Lately, the most common questions I’ve seen are how to start a blog and as you know, I blog a ton about how to promote your blog but what if you don’t have a blog to promote? So I thought why not share with you exactly how to start from the very beginning and take you through setting up a blog step-by-step no techy langue allowed! This is going to be a two-part series because well, there’s a lot to learn about setting up a blog and I want to give you the best information possible! This first part dives into…
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How to use Tailwind to Grow your Blog
A little over a year ago I started exploring how to use Pinterest to market my blog. At the time I had zero traffic, zero direction and zero idea of how this all worked. Needless to say, I became kind of slightly obsessed with Pinterest and how to utilize it for my business! And eventually, I found something that worked and it worked really well! It’s no secret that I absolutely love Pinterest. I mean seriously, I’d scream it from a mountaintop if I could…but there are no mountains within reach. I’ll save my whole Pinterest speech for another day but here’s the gist, Pinterest brings in 90% of my traffic,…
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6 Reasons Why No One is Reading your Blog (And How to Fix It)
The biggest bummer in blogging is when you spend hours writing incredible blog posts, click publish and no one reads them! Week after week you write and yet, there’s still no traffic! Not only is it a bummer but it’s a huge hit to your self-esteem. But don’t worry, there is a solution! Last week I wrote a blog post about how to drive traffic to your new blog which you can read here: Seven Things You Must Do To Every Blog Post Once You Hit Publish. But what happens when you’ve tried all those marketing techniques and they don’t work?? Are you just one of those people that can’t…
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7 Things you should do to every blog post after you hit Publish
You wrote this incredible blog post, full of valuable information that you know your audience will absolutely love. You sit back, pat yourself on the back and hit publish. That’s it right? Now it just falls into the wonderful world of the internet and your audience will see it, engage with it and share it without you having to lift a finger! STOP, no. That is unfortunately not the case. If you build it they will not come. You have to show them that it’s there! If you want to treat your blog like a business, then you have to market it like a business. I’m giving you seven things…
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How to Set up a Simple Sales Funnel
When you think sales funnels, you usually don’t put the word “simple” with it, but it doesn’t need to be overly complicated to be successful. You just need a strategy and a way to see if it’s actually working or not. While sales funnels can be as complex as you want to make them, you can also set them up fairly simply and I’m going to break down this process into just a few steps. Why do you need a Sales Funnel? First, I want to answer the question, “why though.” Because sometimes, we just want to skip ahead to the paid ads, to the making all the money and…
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Four Tips and Tools for Automating your Online Business
From the outside, owning your own online business seems like a breeze. You get to wake up when you want, set your own schedule, work in your PJs and drink coffee all day, right? So you take the plunge and realize just how much work running your own business really is. I am by no means trying to deter you from owning your business but it’s just not as simple as sipping tea and eating Oreos on the couch all day while opening your laptop once to check your email. If we want to create a business that lasts, whether this is a side hustle that you would like to…
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How to Stay Motivated when Working from Home
At the end of 2016, I decided to quit my low paying, traditional job and start working from home! Did I have a plan? No, but I didn’t care I just knew I had to get out of there. Long story short, I’m still working from home and seriously loving it! But that doesn’t mean there weren’t struggles along the way. When you think of working from home, you think about all of the freedom you have and while that’s a good thing, it can also deter you from getting your actual work done. And because there’s no boss breathing heavily down your back, you can let things slide. So…
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What is Evergreen Content and why do you need it?
Evergreen content is content that technically has no expiration date. It doesn’t rely on a specific time of year to be relevant and it’s information that will be relevant over a long period of time. So basically, evergreen content is content that lives on forever…forever…forever *cue “squints” from the Sandlot.* Evergreen content can pretty much be anything from a “how to”, a “checklist”, a resource guide. Anything that lasts longer than just a trend or a fad. Of course, as we know, the internet changes quickly and even evergreen content will have to be updated once in a while to keep its relevancy. It may seem more daunting and like a…
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Do you really need to “launch” your blog to be successful?
So you want to start a blog eh? Maybe you want to start a blog for your business or maybe you’re just as crazy passionate about writing as I am and wanted to get all that creative energy out on paper! Regardless of the reason, you are ready to begin blogging. And if you don’t think you need a blog for your business I’ve got six reasons you do! Curious? Check them out for yourself! “Six reasons you need a blog for your business” You’ve picked out your sassy blog name and picked a template that you like for your blog. You may think that you now need to get…
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Six Ways to update old blog Posts
You know all those blog posts you wrote six months ago, a year ago maybe even longer? It’s easy to forget we have them right? They’re buried deep down under all your new posts, but why shouldn’t we use them again? Why not update them and reuse them. Updating old blog posts is not only going to help you continually bring in more traffic, but you’ve already written those posts. So why not make them just a little bit better! As we all know things on the internet seem to change on a dime and what we wrote about six months ago could have completely changed. It’s important for us to go…
