A while ago, I finally got on the bandwagon and committed to creating an editorial calendar. It was more of a loose conceptual calendar of what I wanted to blog about than a specific one. Regardless, it was a huge improvement to what I’d been doing before which was totally flying by the seat of…Read More
Blogging
5 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic
Ways to Increase Blog Traffic There is one thing all of us writers who blog have in common, and that’s the desire to grow our traffic. Increased traffic helps grow our business in countless ways. Therefore it’s one of the many aspects of marketing we lose sleep over. At least I do anyway. The challenging…Read More
3 Reasons Why You Should Blog as an Author
Why you should blog as an author! Blogging is an important marketing tool for an indie author and I wanted to share with you the top 3 reasons why I feel every author who is committed to making a living with their writing should have a blog. I know not every writer out there will…Read More
3 Tips To Make Your Blog Posts Sizzle
I recently read somewhere that people only read about 20% of your blog post. It actually surprised me it was that much since we all seem to have such short attention spans these days. Think about how you digest information. Do you read every little line or do you skim? Personally, I skim. There is…Read More
5 Tips to Beat Blog Burnout
I’ve been blogging since 2008, which honestly is hard to believe. It doesn’t seem like 10 years have passed since I started this journey. Though by the number of old websites Matt (my soon to be husband and web developer) has in his “way back” machine it would look more like 16 years have gone…Read More
Why Are You Doing That?
Why Are You Doing That? Why? Why is the sky blue? Why do I have to get up today? Why am I doing this? Why. A simple 3 letter word that can drive us crazy. For instance when my kids were toddlers and asked why every second about things I had no clue how to…Read More