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 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 the…
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…
It’s finally here – the last part of my mini series on how to give your blog a DIY makeover! So if you’ve been following along, you may have done some (or all!) of the following: Part One: Created a…
Last summer I wrote a post entitled 10 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started a Blog. Having re-read it a little while ago, and the fact that I still receive the occasional comment on that post, it got…
