Podcast & Blog
Practical tips, tricks, and hacks, for beginning teacher bloggers, plus advice on growing your money mindset.
How to Do a Year-End Blog Review & Cleanup
The end of the year is a great time to reflect, examine, and set new priorities for what’s next, which makes it the perfect time to do a review of your blog business. If the word review makes you shiver and think of your end-of-year...
Looking Forward: What I’m Focusing on In 2023
With a new year, comes new possibilities. Looking forward is so important for content creators, but rarely do we give ourselves time to do it. If I’m totally honest, I haven’t been good about giving myself enough white space to think...
10 Years of Blogging: What’s Changed and How to Make it Work for You
As we approach 2023 - man, that sounds weird to say - I realized that I have been blogging for 10 years! I don’t actually remember the date, so don’t be expecting an anniversary party or anything, but I made my first money as a blogger...
How to Create a Gift Guide Your Audience Will Love
With the holidays approaching, you may find yourself noticing lots of posts popping up with gift recommendations and wondered if they really boost revenue (they do!) and how you can make one for your own blog. A well done gift guide can...
5 Ways to Build Authentic Relationships with Your Audience
Know, like, and trust. You may have heard those words before - you may have heard them from me - and thought, “That’s great… how do I do that?” Even though we live in a time when we feel highly connected to people we only know from the...
4 Tips to Avoid Blogger Burnout
Burnout is nothing to joke about. It’s real and it is vicious. Blogger burnout has derailed many potential entrepreneurs and we don’t want that to happen to you. The good news is that you can avoid this all-too-common phenomenon with a...
Help! My Students Found My Blog!
This question came to me from someone in the Side Hustle Teachers community, and I wanted to answer it here because it’s something a lot of people may worry about. Here’s the question: “I want to start a blog, but I’m worried that my...
To Guest Post or Not to Guest Post
Guest posting, also called guest blogging, is a process in which a blogger creates content for another site in order to build backlinks, expand their audience, and strengthen their authority. Early on in the world of blogging, guest...
4 Traits of an Ideal Side Hustle for Teachers… and why I chose blogging
Once you tell people you’re thinking of starting a side business, you will find yourself presented with all sorts of opportunities. In fact, one of the most frequently asked questions in the Side Hustle Teachers Facebook group is, “what...