You’re staring at a blank screen, wondering which types of content you can create for your blog. I’ve been there—struggling to think of anything new when it comes to your creative content marketing efforts—but your posts aren’t getting many comments or shares. Worse yet, you’re hardly making any money from your blog—which was one of
Because building a blog has gotten so much easier in recent years, here are my picks for the ten best free blogging sites you should use to create your first site and lay the foundation for what’s to come in your blogging journey. Blogging has a long and rich history. Since 1993, people have been
Believe it or not, taxes for bloggers are pretty straightforward and easy to manage. I use a combination of practical tax tips for bloggers (informed by my CPA), paired with just a small handful of useful, free and inexpensive tax tools to manage all of the tax implications of running my blog business. It’s not
Why? Well, having a grasp on the most current blogging statistics and facts can help you identify gaps where you can create more strategic content that’ll stand out from your competition. Analyzing the data behind what’s working well for other bloggers can also help you pinpoint your own content shortcomings, gather insightful ideas to test
I’m living proof that a content marketing strategy can serve as the backbone of customer acquisition for many kinds of online businesses. I’ve been doing it since starting my blog 8+ years ago and I’ve seen first-hand just how effective content marketing can be in various industries & niches. How to Create a Content Marketing
Today, we’re talking about how to HTML highlight text in WordPress (in both the Gutenberg editor and Classic editor), to get a highlighted result like this: Here’s an example of highlighted text. As a new blogger when you’re just getting your blog off the ground, all of the little technical components of learning WordPress can
If you’re ready to take your blog to the next level, you’ll need to set real blog goals in order to get you there. You want to create more than a part-time income, and you’re tired of relatively low traffic. You may even be experiencing a backward trend—a downward tick in traffic, email subscribers, social
Too many bloggers don’t have a clear blogging strategy. They just jump from one task to another, trying out the latest ideas they’ve heard about… and never getting far. If that sounds like you, don’t feel bad. Even among professional business-to-business marketers, only 65% (just over a third) actually have a documented blogging strategy. Want
The list of benefits from getting a remote job goes on and on. As a full-time remote worker (and blogger) myself, I get to experience many of these benefits first-hand. But being in business full-time for yourself also comes with more risks, higher costs, and the ever-present potential for down times. Figuring out how to