Last month I wrote a post entitled Professional Blogging: Should Brands Pay Bloggers For Product Reviews?, and I was totally unprepared for the response I got. It seemed to touch a raw nerve with so, so many bloggers, professional and…
Here we are again, another year on: Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to my blog! Not Dressed As Lamb is three years old today (aww), and I’m 42 today. Though I have been saying for months that I’m 42…
Having been blogging professionally for nearly a year now, I’ve realised that my attitude to blogging has changed dramatically from how it was when I was a hobby blogger. Don’t get me wrong, I still absolutely love it, but there…
I’ve had quite a few people asking me lately via email and Twitter about how to connect with more brands. So as a follow-on from last Saturday’s post about How to Make Your Blog a Success, I thought I’d share…
Google Plus. It still strikes fear (or apathy) into the hearts of many bloggers, and I completely understand that… I was one of them. I’ve mentioned before that when I first joined Google+, I was not happy at all. It was…
A week ago today I was lucky enough to attend the Next Blogger Network workshop at the fabulous Hoxton Hotel in London. I say lucky because St. Jude’s Storm only made me a couple of hours late rather than missing…
In my pursuit of assessing my blog and finding out what can be done to improve it, I’ve recently been pondering the “jump break” tool used on a lot of blogs – that is, where you see the beginning part…
If you want to improve your Instagram pictures and produce a great looking feed that will make people “ooh” and “aah” over every image – and hopefully gain some more followers in the process – then read on, this is…
On many occasions I’ve read blogs talking about photo editing, and the bloggers getting a little despondent when they talk about how they “can’t afford” Photoshop. If I were to suggest that you forgo that pair of new shoes this…
