Blogging 101: Promotion

  • Blogging 101: Online Etiquette and PR Skills

    Blogging 101: Online Etiquette and PR Skills

    Something that I keep coming across on social media is that some bloggers and creators lack online etiquette which can alienate other creators, a possible audience and brands. So as an Influencer Manager in my day job, I’m here to give some helpful hints on how to improve your online etiquette and PR skills.

  • Blogging 101: Bulk Uploading to Pinterest (for FREE!)

    Blogging 101: Bulk Uploading to Pinterest (for FREE!)

    Need some help cutting down on the time you spend pinning your own images? Well, you can upload your images in bulk and edit them right on Pinterest’s website and here’s how.

  • Blogging 101: How to Utilise Mailing Lists

    If you’re up for creating even more content then maybe a mailing list is for you. Mailing lists are often used to remind readers of what you’ve recently posted, but it can also be a great tool to engage them with your brand, and the promise of exclusive content on a weekly or monthly basis…

  • Blogging 101: Guide to Buffer

    Buffer is another site that helps you post to social media. It has Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn capabilities as well as other social networks when on it’s paid plans. Scheduling If you haven’t guessed yet, I love being able to schedule social posts. I currently work full time 9-5 and I can’t be on my…

  • Blogging 101: Guide to Tailwind

    The biggest pull for me to use Tailwind was that you could schedule pins. I’ve had a look around and Tailwind has the best set of tools specifically for Pinterest. You can also use Buffer, and a website called Viraltag. Viraltag has free 14 day trial and Tailwind has free 100 pins trial. So you…

  • Blogging 101: How to Utilise Pinterest

    Create different Boards Not all the content you pin will be for your blog so create multiple boards which cover the different topics you cover in your blog and also topics you might just be interested in. Also create a board specifically for your blog and pin your images to both boards to increase possibility…

  • Blogging 101: How to Utilise LinkedIn

    Why use LinkedIn? Network with PR agents and agencies My degree is in marketing and as soon as I started university I was told to create a LinkedIn account and start building my own personal brand. Marketers and PR agents are specially trained to build themselves up as a brand – and they do this…

  • Blogging 101: How to Utilise Instagram

    With Instagram’s changing algorithm and slow growth issues everyone’s a bit miffed on how to actually create content which grows your brand. At the time of writing this I’m thinking less on the growth of my followers, and more of the maintaining the followers I have. Theme If you’re aiming to be a brand on Instagram…

  • 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…