Blog Maintainance, Blogging Basics, Business Growth, Content, Distributing, Making Money
When it comes to your blog audience, there’s no denying that size matters. While your blog traffic is not the most important thing when it comes to profitability, you’ve got to have someone to sell to. And if you’ve ever felt that your blog isn’t growing fast enough,... 
Business Growth, Content, Crafting, Making Money, Side Hustles
When I started blogging, and told people about it, I heard a lot of, “Yeah, but how do you actually make money with a blog?” At the time, I will admit, I had no idea. But I knew it was possible, so I kept going. Even a couple years later when I was featured in a CNBC... 
Blogging Basics, Business Growth, Mindset, Productivity, Starting Out
As of this writing, there are over 600 million blogs on the internet. That’s a lot. However, not all are active and not all are profitable. Why? There are a number of reasons blogs don’t make money, but the most common are these 3: It’s a hobby blog. The blogger... 
Blogging Basics, Starting Out, Teacher Life
The internet is full of blogging advice, and a lot of it is really useful. Unfortunately a lot of it used to be useful, but became outdated 20 years ago, and some of it is just plain wrong. So how does a budding blogger discern the difference? Well, it’s not easy... 
Blogging Basics, Business Growth, Making Money, Side Hustles
One objection I hear over and over again when I talk to people about blogging is that what they do is different, so they don’t need to blog. This is a very common misconception. The fact is that I have a hard time coming up with any business that can’t benefit from a... 
Blog Maintainance, Business Growth, Making Money
As a teacher, you may be sick of hearing about data. But as a blogger and business owner, you can’t ignore the numbers. If you want to know if your efforts are paying off, you need to track your numbers. If you want to know what people are responding to, you need to... 
Blog Maintainance, Blogging Basics, Distributing, Starting Out
You work hard on writing helpful, easy to read posts that your audience will love. So it’s frustrating when it feels like no one is paying any attention. I get it. If you want to get more eyes on your content, there are a few things you can do to accelerate your... 
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... 
Business Growth, Content, Crafting, Making Money, Side Hustles
When trying to monetize a blog, affiliate marketing is one of the fastest ways to start making money from your site. Affiliate marketing is selling other people’s products or services in exchange for a commission on the sale. For more on the basics of affiliate...
