It’s time to pay attention to hashtags if you’ve been ignoring them as some quirky “twitter language”. Hashtags are now on every major social media platform (Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Pinterest, and Instagram). I’m going to break down the hashtag into normal everyday language in hopes that beginners will be able to see the value […]
Archives for March 2014
How To Create an EPIC Sidebar For Your WordPress Clients
The sidebar on a website is prime real estate. For most of us, it holds our newsletter sign up form, our social media buttons, about profile, plus a host of other things like Ads, buttons, awards, etc. It is difficult to fit too much on the sidebar without it scrolling for days past a post […]
How to Use Pinterest if You’re a Blogger
If you’re anything like me, your Pinterest boards are probably a scattered mess of recipes, ideas, crafts you’ll never do, blog posts you love, etc. etc. Today I want to talk about how an organized Pinterest account can make all the difference in your following and traffic! Pinterest is only as good as the way it’s arranged. […]
How to Create an Easy Opt-In Option with MailChimp
If you’ve heard the buzz around the importance of “opt-in” features, but are intimidated at the idea of getting another email service or plugin, you can employ a very simple method of using MailChimp to gain the psychological benefit of an “opt-in”. In laymen’s terms, opt-ins are simply a way to entice people to sign […]
Cheats and Hacks: Trick Out Sidebar Widgets When You Don’t Know HTML Code
Problem #1: I want to add formatting to a text widget, but I don’t know the HTML for it! This is a common problem for bloggers who want to add a photo (usually left aligned) with text that is either bold or italicized, formatted with colors, and needing to go in a sidebar. How now […]
Blogging and Twitter: How to Grow Your Following into the Thousands
I am SO EXCITED (as evidenced by my use of CAPS) for this guest post today. Kate Hall is a good friend, fellow blogger, and master tweeter– and I begged her to share with me her tips and tricks for using Twitter. She’s currently got 8936 followers, earned the good ol’ fashioned way — by following, […]