How many times have you thought to yourself, “There's no way I can do all of this!” Sure, you love your blog, and you love writing and creating beautiful content, but there is an awful lot of down-right drudgery when it comes to blogging – whether it's scheduling social media shares, gathering research, or formatting your posts. You may have thought about hiring a virtual assistant – a VA – to handle some of this work for you. But bloggers tend to be independent, and let's face it, your blog is ...
How To Find Motivation When You Hit A Blogging Plateau
It happens to the very best of bloggers occasionally – lack of blogging motivation and writer's block. You know you have to write a post, but you just can't seem to think of anything to write. What do you do when you need blogging motivation? Blogging Motivation vs Blogging Discipline Everyone asks how to get motivated, and that's really the wrong question. The key is developing discipline. Motivation is fickle – discipline is something you can culture in yourself to get things done when ...
When And Where To Invest In Your Blog
If you're just getting started as a blogger, you're probably trying to spend as little money as possible to do it. It's hard to know where to invest in your blog in the beginning. So often, I see newer bloggers having a difficult time trying to justify spending any money on something when they aren't sure if it will pay off. This is a totally self-defeating attitude to have. This mindset says “Well, I'm probably going to fail, so I'm not going to try very hard,” which, of course... leads to ...
Increase Your Blog Subscribers With These Easy Ideas
Have you ever stopped to take a look at how many blogs are out there in the blogosphere? There are MILLIONS – with thousand more starting up every day (and almost as many being abandoned). It's no wonder that trying to create a following to your blog can be tough going – there's so much competition! The good news is there are a lot of things you can do to boost your following and get more blog subscribers. It takes work, but once you get to a certain point, you'll find it gets easier to ...
4 No-Nonsense Steps To Overcoming Time Management Obstacles
You've started a blog and now you're losing your mind. There's so much to do! And sometimes when you look at your to-do list, you wonder how on earth you can do everything that needs to be done. To make matters worse, you look around and see all these people who are killing it – they're all over social media, they're getting new blog posts up, creating ebooks and courses. What do they know that you don't? Do they have some sneaky sci-fi way of getting more hours out of their day? Probably ...
How to Craft Email Subject Lines That Get Your Emails Opened
Do you sign up for a lot of email lists? I follow a lot of blogs, and for me the best way to stay updated with what they're doing is by subscribing to their email newsletters. The downside of this is my email in-box is a madhouse. I get dozens of emails every day – and I bet you do too. In the end, there's really just no way to read them all. So, how do I decide which ones to read? Which ones get opened? It all comes down to the email subject line. That's really important to know when ...