If you’ve been blogging for long, chances are you’ve had weeks where you struggle to get your posts written. Whether you call it writer’s block or blogger burnout, if you’re blogging “professionally”, it’s a good idea to plan ahead of time for how you’ll deal with it when it happens. This week has been one [...]

The following is a guest post from Sherri at Zen Family Habits and Serene Journey: When I first started blogging I was filled with excitement. There was the excitement of my very first subscriber (that wasn’t a relative), the excitement of getting my very first comment, and the excitement of a big name blogger taking [...]

As part of my blogging series this week, I want to take some time to tackle the elephant in the room — earning an income from your blog. We’ve all heard people say that you can’t earn money blogging, but we also know that people like Dooce and Problogger make significant incomes from their blogs. [...]

As I mentioned on my setting up a new blog post, one of the reasons I use WordPress.org as my blog platform is because of the ability to choose from thousands of available plugins to improve the function and design of your site. Today, I’m sharing nine WordPress plugins that I use to save time [...]

Why do you blog? Defining your goals and identifying strategies to achieve them is just as important for your blog as for any other area of life. Today, as part of the Maximize Your Blogging series, we’re going to look at the importance of setting goals and making a plan to take your blog to [...]