Blogging & Personal Development

  • Blogging 101: How to Utilise Facebook

    Unlike Twitter and Instagram, Facebook is a much slower newsfeed and often comes with slower growth. (Although recent changes have further impacted this as well as slowed Instagram as well! But that’s another post for another day…). Because of this, you can only really post once or twice a day in order to not spam…

  • Blogging 101: Guide to Hootsuite

    If you’ve been using Twitter for a while, you’ve probably seen people talk a lot about Buffer and Hootsuite. In this post I’m going to focus on how you can use Hootsuite to better your social media efforts, whilst increasing your productivity by not being stuck to your phone all the time. Hoosuite works with…

  • Blogging 101: Guide to Tweetdeck

    Tweetdeck is a tool where you can see your twitter feed, tweet, respond to DM’s and even schedule tweets. It’s not a fully automated system for you to increase traffic to your blog, but it really helps you to organically and naturally engage with others on twitter. Columns Tweetdeck’s columns are how you see exactly…

  • Blogging 101: How to Utilise Twitter

    Post, Post and Post So many people are posting on Twitter at every hour of every day. In order to keep yourself in people’s feeds you need to post multiple times per day. You can post talkative tweets, polls, images of your day. Just keep your twitter active and engaging for people to follow. Link…

  • Blogging 101: Content Frequency

    So you’ve started a blog and have loads of amazing ideas to write down. Now what? – Should you write them and post them ASAP? When’s the best time to post them? How many times a day or week are you supposed to post? I know when I first started I was just guessing about…

  • Blogging 101: Creating an Editorial Calendar

    What is an Editorial Calendar? An editorial calendar is a way to keep on top of your blog content and to plan out what you want your blog to look like in the long term. It will help you to see where you have (or don’t have) availability for sponsored posts or if you have…

  • Blogging 101: WordPress Tags and Titles

    Titles In simple terms you can have two types of titles for blog posts. There’s you main title or H1 which you can see at the top of your page. Then there is an SEO title which is displayed in search engine results. SEO titles have a different purpose to H1 titles and so can…

  • Blogging 101: Types of Content

    So you’re inspired to write, and ready to start blogging but what kind of content can you create? There’s so many different ways of writing blog posts that I thought I’d split them up into an easy to read list. Some people are better at one type of content than others, and that’s okay! Just…

  • Blogging 101: Getting Inspiration

    One of the biggest parts of blogging is actually thinking up ideas for posts. This is where getting inspired is important. You need to get into a mindset of anything and everything can lead to a blog post idea and to write them down before you forget. Getting inspiration can sometimes be difficult, and you…