You’ve just launched your blog’s brand new custom design, you post content daily because you know content is king, you engage and interact with your community, you seem to be checking off all the boxes you have been told will give you blog success, but it is not really coming to you. The opportunities seem… Continue Reading
How’s your blogging week been? A little bit chaotic if you’re doing the school holiday juggle like me? It’s times like during holidays that I really do rely on the organised part of my brain to get me through to the other side … while still attempting to publish good, consistent content on my blog.… Continue Reading
Two of the most frequent questions I am asked are: 1. How to you get blog readers? 2. How do you build your blog readership? Of course there are a whole host of strategic ways to do this – using your email database, hosting giveaways, engaging with people in your social media networks … These… Continue Reading
Four years ago … about a month or so in from starting Styling You and this blog … I was at a networking function, downing a glass of wine and talking geekery to a former work colleague. This former work colleague has many talents – one of which is applying contact to school books. It’s… Continue Reading
I cannot imagine my life without apps. I realise that this may sound a little over-dramatic but I’m a geek girl at heart and apps seriously float my geek girl boat. I have periods where I go a wee bit cray-cray and download every new app that I think my life needs. This is generally… Continue Reading
I’m calling it. Bloggers are journalists. What’s prompted this seemingly outrageous outburst on my behalf? I’m so glad you asked. A couple of things really. The first was reading about Eden Riley’s account of the Blogging and Journalism panel at the Melbourne Writers Festival. This statement by Eden really got me thinking: As a blogger,… Continue Reading
We all blog for different reasons. For some, it’s an outlet. For others, it’s about making an income. And for another group, it’s about catching the eye of a publisher. Hopefully. But are book publishers looking at your blog? We’ve all heard about the Blog To Book success stories. Gretchen Rubin, Julie Powell (Julie &… Continue Reading
You learn quickly as the husband of a blogger never to touch a meal or take a sip from a new drink until it has been photographed, Instagramed, uploaded to Dropbox and shared on the Styling You Facebook page. You learn quickly that to buck this system never works, because the whole process will have… Continue Reading
Tomorrow we pack up and end over to the West Coast. My time in NYC has been broken into two parts – BlogHer ’12 and after-BlogHer ’12. I moved so quickly into the after-BlogHer ’12 mode and have so tightly filled the days since that it’s incredible to believe that just one week ago I… Continue Reading
She’s an entrepreneur, a grandma and keeps it real by cleaning out her own chicken coop. And yesterday, Martha Stewart turned 71 and chose to spend some of her birthday with 4500 bloggers at BlogHer ’12 in New York. I was one of those bloggers and I’m damn glad I was there. And yes I… Continue Reading
Have you got an iPhone? Use it to take photos? Lucky you. You’ve got a lot of professional photographers either worried or joining your photo sharing ranks. Because, as was confirmed at the iPhoneography session at BlogHer ’12 today, no longer do you need thousands of dollars to take and share amazing photos. That’s kind of… Continue Reading
