Equipping Women to Live a Set Apart Life
If you are just joining us, I am doing a special series to share my answer to the question, “How should I spend my limited time as a blogger?” If you missed them, here are parts 1, 2, and 3. Today’s topic: how learning the technical basics of blogging can help you grow your blog. After […]
Welcome to part 2 of the Worth it Blogging Tasks series, where I’m answering the question, “How should I spend my limited time as a blogger?” You can read part 1 here. New bloggers often ask, “how do I get people besides my friends and family to read my blog?” When I started, I didn’t […]
If I asked you to name your biggest blogging challenge, I bet you’d say it’s not having enough time. Or perhaps, not knowing how to use the limited time you do have. How do I know? Because whenever I ask this question, I get these answers over and over again. Plus, I feel that way […]
“I got nothing done today!” I lament to my husband over and over again. He’s quick to remind me that is not true. At the very least I took care of two children, which is actually quite a lot. Sometimes I follow up my statement with, “all I did was clean the kitchen, do one […]
My dog’s loud, menacing bark at the front door alerted me to the package being left on our doorstep. (The delivery drivers don’t even bother knocking at my house.) When I managed to shoo the dogs away and actually open the door, a familiar brown box sat next to the step with a hand-written note […]
If you’ve been blogging for at least a year, then you’ve probably noticed that blogging has high and low seasons. Fall tends to boom but traffic fades as Christmas approaches. Page views pick up again in January, but by May, you start to see the summer slide off. Summer is particularly hard to keep up […]
Part 3 of this list building series talks about nurturing your subscribers through regular emails. Catch up on the series here: Part 1, Part 2. “What should I say in my newsletters?” This one question plagued me in the early days of building my email list. I knew how to get readers to sign-up for […]
Part 2 of this list building series dives into the very first email your new subscriber gets from you. If you missed part 1, The Basics of Building an Email List, read it here. You downloaded the Christian Bloggers Guide to List Building. You’ve followed all the steps and now have readers signing up to get […]
I read multiple blogging resources that told me I needed an email list but I wasn’t convinced. I wondered, “Would an email list benefit me as a Christian blogger? Would it be worth the time commitment? What would I say in my emails? How often would I need to send them?” Despite the number of […]
*Updated 9/24/19 Before I started blogging, I started researching. I wanted to know exactly what I was getting into. It didn’t take long before I realized I would need help. Words like themes, plugins, and SEO felt like a foreign language. Other aspects of blogging, like having an email list, weren’t even on my radar […]