Last time I wrote I was complaining because I couldn't write 1700 words a day. I'd decided to participate in the NaBloPoMo that takes place in November, but found it a challenge to write 1700 words per day. It was my intention to write everyday, even if I didn't hit the 1700 word mark. I made it a whole 4 days. I love blogging, I love
I don't know what I was thinking when I pledged to write 1700 words every day during November. I was coming off my Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop and really thought I could do it. I can't. I can't write 1700 words a day. I've got too many other things going on that need to be addressed NOW, that by the time I get to writing
I've tried this before, and I'm pretty sure I petered out after a week or less, but I'm going to try again to write every day for the month of November. It is of course, Nanowrimo or National Novel Writing Month. I'm not trying to write a novel, I just want to get back into the habit of writing regularly. It's been months since I
Welcome to day 12 of Start Your Own Blogging Business! You've made it through to the final lesson - CYA and other Legal Stuff!! As always, if you have any questions please leave them in the comments or post your questions in the Facebook group. If you haven't already joined the Facebook group, please do so you can participate in the community. If you've stumbled
Welcome to day 11 of Start Your Own Blogging Business! You're nearing the home stretch of this blog course, woohoo!! As always, if you have any questions please leave them in the comments or post your questions in the Facebook group. If you haven't already joined the Facebook group, please do so you can participate in the community. If you've stumbled onto this post, but
Welcome to day 10 of Start Your Own Blogging Business! By now you have set up your email capture form and created a template for your newsletter. You may already have some subscribers, but how do you grow your email list? How do you entice visitors to give up their email address? You offer them an incentive - or what we call a lead magnet
Welcome to day 7 of Start Your Own Blogging Business! Today it's all about how to make money on your blog. I'll explain what it means to be an affiliate and how the affiliate links work. I'll also go over Sponsored Posts and where you can find opportunities for them. As always, if you have any questions please leave them in the comments or post
Welcome to day 9 of Start Your Own Blogging Business! Today we're going to work on our newsletter. Yesterday you set up the email capture form on your site with Mailchimp, Constant Contact of Convert Kit. Today we're going to put together a simple newsletter. As always, if you have any questions please leave them in the comments or post your questions in the Facebook
Welcome to day 8 of Start Your Own Blogging Business! You're in the home stretch and should be feeling pretty good about your blog. The fear should be gone and you're probably excited to get going already! Today we're going to talk about email lists and how to grow them. As always, if you have any questions please leave them in the comments or post
Welcome to day 6 of Start Your Own Blogging Business! Prior to today's lesson, we've been doing the heavy lifting of creating a blog. So far we've discovered our niche, found our domain and set up hosting. From there we installed Wordpress and chose a theme. We also created our social media sites and designed them to look like our blog. Yesterday, we learned a
