Blog Maintainance, Business Growth, Content, Making Money, Planning
SEO, when implemented properly over time, can provide a major boost to your blog traffic and your overall income. For each blog post you write, you need to have a clear, repeatable, SEO process to make certain that you’re maximizing search engines. Follow the steps... 
Blogging Basics, Business Growth, Content, Making Money, Planning
Search Engine Optimization, SEO for short, is an essential piece of any blog growth strategy, but it generally has an air of mystery around it. There are lots of definitions floating around – some that seem to contradict each other – that use a lot of... 
Blogging Basics, Content, Planning, Starting Out
What should my blog be about? That’s one of the first questions you have to answer when starting your journey into blogging. And it’s one that many people get stuck on. Of course, your blog niche can be literally anything. The only limit is your imagination. But this... 
Blog Maintainance, Content, Planning
Every few months or so something happens and just seems to take over every media outlet and social feed. Betty White’s unfortunate passing springs to mind. Inevitably, smaller publishers like bloggers start to jump in on it, too. If you’ve ever thought about trying to... 
Content, Planning, Starting Out
One of the first decisions you’re going to make as a blogger is what to name your blog. But before you think about this, you need to know what your niche is going to be. Go back and review this post for assistance with this. Your blog name is the public face of your... 
Content, Mindset, Planning, Teacher Life
Teaching and education are popular topics for teacher blogs. It makes sense. You’re a teacher. You write about what you know. Sounds perfect, right? Well, here’s an unpopular opinion. Your teacher blog shouldn’t be about teaching… or education… or anything school... 
Content, Crafting, Mindset, Planning, Side Hustles, Starting Out, Teacher Life
I started blogging in 2013, I had no idea what I was doing. I made a lot of mistakes. A lot. My mistakes cost me a lot of time and money, and slowed the growth of my business in ways I can’t even measure. Last week a client asked what I would do differently if I... 
Content, Crafting, Distributing, Mindset, Planning
The internet is crowded and it can be hard for a new blogger to get noticed online. And if you’re just starting out it seems like there’s so much to… how do you know where to put your time and energy so that your posts get found, read, shared, and engaged with? While... 
Content, Crafting, Distributing, Mindset, Planning
Let’s start this blogcast with an important statement: You are enough. Right now. Today. You are enough. I say this because there are a large number of side hustlin’ teachers who want to start a blog, podcast, or video show, but don’t because they feel they’re... 
Content, Crafting, Distributing, Planning, Productivity, Teacher Life
One question that comes up all the time with my clients and members of the Side Hustle Teachers community is how I manage to consistently put out my blogcast week after week. There are 2 things I rely on; systems and tools. I’ll address my systems in a future...
