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...
Blogging Basics, Content, Distributing, Starting Out
As a new blogger, you likely have a lot of questions, many of which revolve around getting more eyes on your blog. One of the questions I hear a lot is; What’s the best day to publish a new post? What they’re really asking is; Is there a day of the week that’s better,...
Blog Maintainance, Business Growth, Side Hustles, Starting Out
A conversation came up recently in the Side Hustle Teachers Facebook group that I knew had to be shared here. What’s up with blog comments? Are they necessary to the growth or of your blog, or just an extra thing to do that doesn’t really give you anything back?...
Blogging Basics, Side Hustles, Starting Out
After you’ve defined your niche, named your blog, and obtained hosting for your new website, you have to choose a theme. Contrary to what you might think, a theme is not the topic of your blog – that falls under the umbrella of your niche. In this case a theme...
Blogging Basics, Starting Out
It’s easy to dismiss the choice of hosting companies for your blog as an unimportant decision. On the surface, all hosting companies seem alike. Isn’t one just as good as another? In a word, no. Your blog host is one of those behind-the-scenes tools that you don’t...
Mindset, Productivity, Side Hustles, Starting Out, Teacher Life
There’s an old saying, “Good fences make good neighbors.” And while I absolutely adore my neighbors, I also absolutely believe this is true. Separation between our homes means that what they do to their house doesn’t impact me, and I don’t have to care about it. When...
