How anyone can build a business around a blog.
On Tuesday, Kim from Today's Creative Blog and I initiated a hangout on Google+. Many of you were gracious to pioneer with us (totally impromptu) and figure out how it works. It was fun to "meet" several of you, chat some and learn together. I'd love to have more of you hop in next time! {Continue reading…}
If you're like me and don't take a lot of photos of your own to include in your posts, don't waste time by finding images for each individual post you write. Instead, find images in bulk. Photo by alancleaver. (This is a great tip Amy Porterfield offered in her post, How to Strategically Dominate the Facebook {Continue reading…}
There's always a reason you might want to edit some of your images. Maybe you want to create a watermark or crop something out, make something a bit more fancy or all sorts of things. In my How to Make a Blog Button post (and How to Make and Install a Favicon), Picnik was the tool I {Continue reading…}
I mentioned before the importance of email subscriptions and making your sign-up form really easy to find. I see a lot of blogs with the generic FeedBurner sign-up form in their sidebar. The default form looks like this: Now, there isn't anything wrong with this and if you have this in your sidebar, way to go! {Continue reading…}
When it comes to branding, ideally you'll want your name/username to be consistent across all social media sites. Whether you're creating a new site or a new product, or you want to more firmly establish the one you've already got, a great tool to check if and where your desired name is available is called {Continue reading…}
A bit of housekeeping today if you don't mind… I'm always so grateful when I get an email from someone who has written about Tell Your Time. I'm putting together a page that links to all these posts, so if you have written about it, feel free to shoot me an email and I'd love {Continue reading…}
We've talked about declaring email bankruptcy—you know, just hitting delete when you are totally derailed in your email management, there's no realistic way of keeping up and you get knots in your stomach every time you open your inbox. Have you ever felt that way about your blog? I've started (and quit) numerous blogs over {Continue reading…}
Some of you have expressed concern that Google Friend Connect is going away. From the announcement post in November 2011: Google Friend Connect—Friend Connect allows webmasters to add social features to their sites by embedding a few snippets of code. We're retiring the service for all non-Blogger sites on March 1, 2012. We encourage affected sites to {Continue reading…}
Having your own website is becoming more and more common in this day and age. I talk a lot about blogs here, but you can apply just about everything I talk about to regular websites as well. But sometimes we need a site that isn't a blog. Sometimes we don't want to update our sites {Continue reading…}
I know a lot of you are writers. You could care less about the technical part of blogging, you just want to write! A blog with ads is not the only way to make money online. There are definitely ways to make money writing. I don't consider myself a freelance writer by any stretch of the {Continue reading…}
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