As a blogger, I’m usually the influencer in the relationship with companies and organizations that seek out sponsored posts and other sponsored content. But in order to do the best job I can, it pays to think about what the business is going through, how they decide what sort of campaign they want to run, […]
On Doing Things You’ve Been Putting Off Forever; Or, I Have a Newsletter Now!
I used to subscribe to e-mails from the FlyLady. If you don’t know her, she’s a legend among women of the Internet who are trying to get in control of their housekeeping. She sends about a million e-mails a day, and even the daily digest was too much for me after a while. But one […]
A Gentler Approach to Fall’s Challenges
I don’t know why it is that November is the month with all the challenges. I guess it started with NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. There’s also NaNoReadMo, started by Austin Kleon, which charges readers to share a novel they loved each day of the month. (There apparently also used to be a novel […]
Notions: Taking Care of the Business of Blogging
This week’s notions is inspired by the fact that last weekend was the fifth Arkansas Women Bloggers University conference, which took place in Hot Springs and was, by all accounts, fabulous. (I wasn’t there because it was my birthday weekend.) While I wasn’t there to get the knowledge live, I’m happy to pick up some […]
Scheduling Social: Buffer vs. CoSchedule {Craft Your Blog}
Bloggers, like everyone else, are super-busy people. It’s kind of strange that one of the things we have to do is be active on social media because we have to get the word out when we have new content. But if you’re posting everything by hand whenever you have a new post, you’re probably spending […]
What Does “News Sense” Mean for a Blogger?
I’ve recently started writing for a local food publication, which is the closest to journalism I’ve come in a few years. A colleague has commented a couple of times on my ability to find stories and to see stories where she just says, “oh, that’s interesting.” In the biz, they call that having good news […]
4 Reasons You Need an Editorial Calendar {Craft Your Blog}
I am usually a planner by nature, but you wouldn’t know it lately. After writing a few weeks ago about how much I love to do lists and calendars, I haven’t been using either much recently. Facing two out-of-town trips, the end of school, the start of swim lessons and goodness knows what else, no […]