Blogging & Personal Development

Blogging 101: Best Apps for Bloggers

If you’re anything like me you absolutely can’t live without your phone. Whilst articles are increasingly talking about putting the phone down, and helping mental health, self-care detoxes etc. I’m here to give you ideas on which apps you can be using to be productive when on your phone. These are some of the great…
Blogging 101: Supporting Other Bloggers

Do you feel the rush of positive feelings every time you see someone has liked or commented on something you’ve posted? The overwhelming emotional break down when someone shares you or says something super nice about your content? (Or is this just me??). Well, I’m here to remind you that there’s often other people at…
Blogging 101: Protect your Brand

I’ve previously talked about how important Branding is to blogs and it’s come up in a lot of different Blogging 101 posts before. However, what I haven’t really talked about is what to do after you’ve done all the hard work of planning and creating your brand. There’s some level of brand protection that is…
How I Afford to Blog

This is a post I have wanted to write for a while now, but the recent talk on Twitter about expenses of blogging made me think I should pull it forward in my schedule. Blogging does have expenses, and some of these are things you wouldn’t really think of if you aren’t within blogging/website development…
Blogging 101: Creating a Media Kit

A media kit for bloggers is usually used to show off yourself and your blog/YouTube/social channels to brands you want to work with. Marketing and PR professionals also often use them to better understand whether blogger X, Y and Z will be a good fit for the product they want to promote.
Blogging 101: Increase Your Page Views

So how do you get visitors on your site, and to stay on your site for multiple page views? This was the question I had for myself back at the beginning of the year, and I had decided to give myself a bit of a challenge to increase my page views.
Blogging 101: How to Use Your DSLR

I would like to preface this post with a little chat about whether you need a DSLR as a blogger. A lot of bloggers use DSLRs because they have additional control when taking images, which allows a more professional finish. However with advancements in technology in phones and compact cameras, as well as easier access…
Blogging 101: Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers

Have you ever wondered how other bloggers make money from their blogs outside of brand deals? Or you know about affiliate links but you just don’t know how to use them for your content? Well this is the post for you. I’m going to talk all about affiliate marketing, and how to best maximise your…
Blogging 101: Blog Maintenance

Every so often, it’s good to do a bit of blog maintenance. This is to make sure your site is running smoothly and everything you’ve worked hard for is working as it should.