On Monday, a friend came to me with a bit of a concern regarding her Facebook page. There was another blogger who started about the same time as she did and had fewer Facebook fans at the time who now has almost double the fans. She was trying to not get upset about the difference [...]
Playing the Numbers Game
February 14, 2012 By 4 Comments
Tomorrow morning, I have a post coming out on my thoughts on Facebook numbrers. It came out of a discussion with a friend, but honestly, it’s a discussion I see repeatedly in various blogging forums. Bloggers worry about their numbers because they feel that without the numbers, they will never “get somewhere” or “make something” [...]
Would You Blog Differently if Your English Teacher Was Reading?
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In high school, I had an English teacher named Mrs. Spiwak. She scared the crap out of me! No, really, she was one of those teachers who may have just barely been over five feet tall, but she could command the attention and respect of the biggest badass in any class. Now that I’m trying [...]
If They Call it Bliss, Why Am I Terrified??
February 13, 2012 By 6 Comments
Yep, I’m totally on the ball with this one! I saw other bloggers posting their ice breakers, went to Creative Kristi so I could see what all is “required” of me to participate in the pre-Blissdom blog hop and realized the post has been up for over a month. Now, you know the first thing [...]
Facebook – Tool or Time-suck
February 13, 2012 By 2 Comments
How you spend your time in front of the computer quickly becomes an indicator of how successful you will be as a blogger. Notice I didn’t say how much time you spend in front of the computer, but HOW you spend your time. I know some very successful bloggers who make enough money to contribute [...]
Blogging For a Living Requires Investment
February 11, 2012 By 2 Comments
It seems like every day I see posts from new (and not so new bloggers) who are confused by the illusion that others have developed very successful blogs overnight and have readers flocking to their pages, pressing refresh just to see what the blog has to offer. There are many who hope to make blogging [...]
Don’t Get Caught in the Cheap Hosting Hype
February 10, 2012 By 1 Comment
I haven’t posted much in the past week because I had this brilliant plan to get some loose ends tied up before heading out to Nashville in under 2 weeks now so I could come home refreshed with a clean slate. I still plan on that happening, but some things have come up that brought [...]
#31DBBB – New Focus, New Challenge
February 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
I’ve gone through 31 Days to Build a Better Blog several times now, partly because I’m spacey and need the reminders and partly because it’s just a good book to go through when you find yourself going through blog changes. Today, I realized that it’s the perfect time, although in honesty, the perfect time would [...]
A New Way to Post in 2012?
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In the last year, and noticed that the busier I got with design and site management the harder it was to keep up with my own blog. This year, I’m trying to make sure they have a better balance of everything that I need to get done. For almost as long as I’ve been blogging, [...]
Widgets and Pop-ups and Tool Bars, Oh My!
January 31, 2012 By 2 Comments
This week, I wound up having a conversation with another blogger about what she should include on her blog. What started as a discussion about buttons quickly turned into tool bars, pop up subscription boxes, etc. I will be the first one to stand up and say I want to do everything I can to [...]
