Today I’m going to give you a little tutorial on Feedly, and why it’s my favorite tool for content curation. If you’re a blogger, you know how important it is to read other blogs right? Not just for the sake of commenting and community, but to get new ideas, share great content, and build your […]
Archives for July 2014
Identifying the Design Elements on Your Website
You’ve hired a designer and are so excited to work with him/her. But then, you quickly realize – you two are speaking entirely different languages. I’ve run into this problem many times over email and on the phone, so I’ve put together a little video giving you the terms for all the most popular parts […]
Getting Google’s Attention | How to Get on That First Page of Search
Despite the relatively boring title, I’m going to give beginners a step by step process that will help get your site seen by search engines. Using this post, I’m going to show you the process I went through to design this particular blog post. Don’t let SEO or SERP acronyms scare you. It’s basic common […]
My Blogging and Social Media To Do List
A list of daily, weekly, and monthly tasks — broken down by platform. The following post is as much for my benefit as yours! It’s a no frills task list according to platform. It’s what I aspire to {and only accomplish in part} with my online business and presence. I’m sure it’ll be helpful to many of you as well!
Pitch Yourself | Submitting Your Blog Posts to Other Sites
At some point in your blogging career, you might realize that without a little networking and collaboration, your ability to gain new readers is limited. It’s a huge misconception that other bloggers in your niche are your competition. The opposite is in fact, true. There are countless testimonials of bloggers who were launched into the […]
Quick ‘n Dirty | MailChimp, Migration Woes, Instagram, and More
As a blog designer and social media consultant, I receive a lot of questions in my email inbox. And you’d be surprised how many are repeats! So I thought I’d start a series where I compile them in a list with no frills answers. Consider it a grab n go resource guide for you to […]