blogging

How to Deal with Blogger Envy

Feeling envious of someone's blog and the lifestyle their blog provides - this post will help.

If you run your own blog, you may have felt a twinge of recognition when you read that headline. I doubt there hasn’t been a time when you have looked at another blog and secretly envied their level of success. We might envy a fairly new blog with lots of comments, readers, and social shares. […]

Continue Reading

How to Be a Better Blogger by Being Yourself

One of my friends, who has also been reading my blog regularly since I started writing, gave me some interesting feedback recently. He told me that I was quirky and that I should be maximizing this more through my writing on the blog. I was intrigued. My first thought as a writer was to check […]

Continue Reading

12 Blogging Lessons Learned from Watching Soap Operas

12 Blogging Tips Learned from Watching Soap Operas. Yes you read that correctly!

I have a dirty little secret. I’m a soap opera fan – The Bold and the Beautiful to be exact. In my defence, I don’t watch reality television (except for the rare singing competition where actual talent is involved). I would rather watch far-fetched, unrealistic fictional characters make fools of themselves; then watch far-fetched, unrealistic and […]

Continue Reading

The 6 X-Men that can Make You a Better Blogger

Last week I read an inspiring post by another blogger. The blogger discussed the need to stop trying to be Superman. Instead of always thinking we need to do everything ourselves, she suggested embracing more of an X-Men business approach. Each business owner has their own unique power, yet still belongs to a team who […]

Continue Reading

The WordPress Plugin That Will Totally Shock You

The WordPress Plugin that Will Totally Shock You

Over the years, I’ve installed (and uninstalled) a few different plugins on this blog but there is definitely one that shocked me the most. Which plugin am I talking about? Broken Link Checker Plugin When I initially installed this plugin, I anticipated I would have two or three broken links on my site. For starters, […]

Continue Reading