Pinterest continues to make changes to their platform for the good of the user. The latest update is video. Yes, you can now upload video pins to Pinterest. Today I’m talking about Pinterest and video with my guest, Kristen McDonnell. She has a very successful Youtube channel, Studio Knit, where she teaches people how to…
As bloggers, we know that traffic is what grows our businesses. If you started a blog several years ago, you would have had the benefit of Facebook driving tons of traffic to your blog. But that was before the major algorithm changes that took the majority of that Facebook traffic away. More traffic almost…
Today we are talking about how to explode your traffic using simple SEO tips. SEO, otherwise known as “search engine optimization,” is a constant buzzword in online business. If you don’t have good SEO, people won’t find your blog. Today, my guest is Jeff Hawley. He is an SEO expert. Jeff works with publishers, bloggers,…
As bloggers, our number one need is traffic. We all know it, and yet sometimes, we try to talk ourselves out of it. We think we can grow our blogs and our businesses and not worry about traffic. And that’s not true. If you want to increase your blog income, you have to increase your…
People ask me all the time how we grew our Catch My Party Pinterest account to over one million followers (which sends us millions of pageviews per month). I say it’s by being consistent, using strong keywords, creating engaging pins, and being proactive about growing our followers. Here’s a screenshot of our Catch My Party…
As an entrepreneur, do you find yourself chasing every new idea you hear about, to the detriment of your current business? As an entrepreneur, do you struggle with shiny object syndrome? It’s so easy to get distracted by new ideas, new systems, new products, etc. But for most of us, what we need to do…
For most bloggers, Pinterest is one of the top tools in our arsenal for getting traffic to our blogs. So it’s important to know how to keep your Pinterest account growing and out of trouble. The main question is how can we be active on the platform by staying within Pinterest’s good graces, and not…
My guest this week is Crystal Paine, founder of MoneySavingMom, host of the Crystal Paine Show podcast, and a New York Times bestselling author. Over the past several years, Crystal has built her blog into a 7-figure business. In this episode, Crystal shares how she grew a wildly successful business by serving her audience of…
There seems to be a lot of confusion over how to use Instagram for your blog. Instagram doesn’t tend to lend itself to driving traffic so what’s the point of using it? The key to Instagram is engagement. In this episode, we share how to boost your engagement on Instagram so you can unlock all…
If you want to learn how to make serious money as an Instagram influencer, this is the episode for you. Today my guest is Maria Koutsogianni from the blog, Food By Maria. She is a food stylist, recipe creator, and photographer. But more than all of that, she is an Instagram influencer. She has over…