In today's fast-paced world, it can be easy to neglect our emotional needs and put off dealing with our innermost thoughts and feelings. Writing therapy offers a unique and effective way to explore and process our emotions, helping us gain a deeper understanding of...
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How To Increase Email Subscribers For a Blog
If you're a blogger, then you know that acquiring email subscribers is key to growing your blog. But how do you go about doing that? In this post, we'll share some tips on how to increase email subscribers for your blog. So read on and learn how you can start building...
How To Start Writing (And Sharing Your Story)
Everyone has a story to tell. It may be a story about your life, your family, or your experiences. Maybe you have a story that you’ve been carrying around for years, just waiting to be told. And maybe you’re thinking about writing that story down, but don’t know how...
7 Divi Website Builder Templates For Writers (Updated for 2023)
If you're wanting to share the words in your head (and/or heart) out there for the world to read, then you need a website. And because most writers I know are not web designers, you'll likely be looking for a good website builder for writers. But there are so many...
Blog SEO: A Complete Guide to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines
Considering the state of social media and other traffic sources the way they are these days, blog SEO (search engine optimization) is becoming more important all the time. Ultimately, you want to drive more traffic to your writing. But here's the reality most writers...
8 Common Self-Publishing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Are you looking to self-publish your work? If so, it's crucial to learn the ins and outs of some of the most common self-publishing mistakes. In learning of these mistakes, you can set yourself up for the most success possible. What are the most common self-publishing...
How To (and Why) Build a Linktree Page (Plus Free Templates)
If you're building your social media platform on Instagram, and haven't considered using a linktree page for your bio link, then you're missing some really great opportunities. Instagram has established itself as one of the top and most influential social networks out...
Cybersecurity and Your Website (Our Responsibilities, and Yours)
With a greater reliance on using technology to manage our personal information, there is a greater emphasis on cybersecurity for protecting that information. It seems like reports of large-scale breaches come out every few news cycles. Some of the big ones, just this...
How To Make Money With a Blog: 5 Tips to Turning a Profit
Anyone can start a blog, but most don't make money from blogging. In fact, many people don't realize it's possible to make money with a blog. Before you can think about making money, you need to focus on writing useful content. Until you do this, you cannot move...
6 steps to growing your platform with self-publishing
Thirty-nine. Treinta y nueve. Trente-neuf. Thelathini na tisa. No matter how you say it, that was the number. After months of hard work and promotion, my first month of sales on my first self-published book netted me the whopping sales total of 39 copies. I wanted to...
have i told you about my love–hate relationship with facebook?
I want to quit. That’s how I feel about Facebook, every day of my life. I don’t know if I can take another algorithm change. And it seems like the wounds from the last one haven’t even healed yet when another comes along and rips in even more. Sometimes I don’t think...
the single most important metric for website success
Everyone wants to know what blogging and website success looks like. The list of measurements most people look to contain the usual suspects… page views, social media likes/shares, number of followers on social media, and number of subscribers. Understandably, those...
Understanding Blog Analytics (or, how to get #allthefeels with your blog)
I never make a design decision with my sites based on feelings. Everything I do follows what my blog analytics tell me to do. Don't get me wrong. I often covet cool design and/or functionality on other websites. But the truth is that I, like many other bloggers, have...
how to share your blog posts on social media like a boss
If blogging had a secret sauce or magic potion, this would be it. By far, this is the most common question I get asked about blogging and social media. When is right time to share blog posts on social media? I can confidently respond without hesitation… It depends....
Should I Make a Website for My Book? (Book Launch Strategy)
One of the most frequent questions I get from new authors is, "Should I make a website for my book?" The answer is, it depends. Here's why. My first question is, why would you want a website for the book? So people can find the book? You don't need a whole website for...