171: How I Doubled My Blogging Income and Had My Most Profitable Month Ever
How I Doubled My Blogging Income to Achieve the Most Profitable Month In today’s lesson, I want to talk about my blogs monetization strategy that is responsible for our biggest month of profit every year. Back in December 2010, I rather impulsively did something on my photography blog that led ...more
Making money
Community Discussion: Do You Take Time Off Your Blog at the End of the Year?
Sleigh bells are ringing, Christmas lists are being written, plans are being made – there’s an unmistakable buzz at the end of the year, and thoughts often turn to getting together with family, having some time off to recalibrate (and if you’re in Australia, spend some time in the very ...more
Community Discussion
Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?
Coming to you live from amid the christmas tree, twinkle lights, and wrapping paper – I’ve got the holiday spirit full force! It’s my favourite time of year, Grab a glass of eggnog and wander through the news this week. How to Figure Out Your Overarching Theme — The Definitive ...more
Pro Blogging News
10 Posts You Need to Read Before the End of the Year
It can be so easy to slide into holiday mode too early at this time of year (trust me, I’m struggling with it from time to time myself!) but the desire to clock off can be a good motivator to end the year well. I love a fresh start come ...more
Blogging for Dollars
170: How to Stay Inspired and Avoid Bloggers Burn Out
How to Stay Inspired and Avoid Bloggers Burn Out In today’s lesson I want to talk about blogger burnout and how to avoid it. Most bloggers start out blogging with an incredible burst of passion, excitement and energy with their blogging, but usually at some point within the first year ...more
Increasing productivity
Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?
I’m in full-on productive mode over here, streamlining and organising and powering through work (and housework!) to end the year with a bang. It’s such a good feeling to run with that momentum and before I know it, it’ll be Christmas and I’ll be in the sun, drink in hand, ...more
Pro Blogging News
How to Create Consistently Valuable Content for Your Blog
Doing something of value is a basic motive that drives us in doing pretty much anything in our lives. Writing is a passion and there is a little art in every piece of content we create, irrelevant of the topic or the reason why we put the words in this ...more
Writing Content
4 things I Learnt as a Blogger Working at an Influencer Marketing Platform
This is a guest contribution from Sam Wright at techgirlblog.com. I’d had my technology lifestyle blog for little over a year when I began working with an influencer marketing platform, connecting brands and bloggers on sponsored collaborations. Blogging in my region hadn’t become a true income source yet (that has changed ...more
Blogging for Dollars
169: How to Transition from a Single Author Blog to Multi Author Blog
Transitioning From Single Author Blog to Multi Author Blog In today’s lesson, I want to talk about hiring writers for your blog. In order to do so, I want to share a case study of how I took my own photography blog from a single author blog, publishing 3 posts ...more
Creating Content