Profitable Mommy Blogging

I read lots of great ideas last week as I implemented my three four tips for learning from blog conferences. Some of those ideas came from an interview I had the privilege of doing with April Atwater. April recently attended her first blog conference, Mom 2.0 Summit and shared the following things she had learned: [...]

I recently recommended 3 ways you can learn from a blog conference without leaving home. Well, I’d like to add a fourth way to that list. Interview people who attended the conference. Misty Khan attended Friday’s sessions of Mom 2.0 Summit and has graciously agreed to be interviewed for Profitable Mommy Blogging. Read the interview:

Keeping your brand in mind as you build your on-line reputation you will make it easier for readers, promoters and advertisers to find you. Instant recognition is to your benefit!. Here are 5 ways to maintain a consistent blog and social media brand. 1. Use the same avatar on your blog, email signature, Twitter profile, [...]

Are you tired of the standard Twitter backgrounds but can’t afford to buy a customized skin right now? Well, I am thrilled to tell you I found some FREE Twitter skins you can download! Split Decisionz has 7 background images or skins. TwitterImage.com has 48 background images and a How-to Manual to guide you through [...]

Did you attend Blissdom or Mom 2.0 Summit? No? Me neither. I wanted to go but just couldn’t swing it. Instead, I discovered 3 ways to learn from a blog conference without leaving home. Buy the Audio & Transcripts You can secure copies of the session after the conference wraps up. You can purchase the [...]

Hi! I’m Stephanie, Kelly’s new intern for Profitable Mommy Blogging. Like many of you, I am a wife, a mom and a business woman. In 1997, I married my college sweetheart, Joel. Shortly after our wedding, he found a job in Rhode Island and moved me from rural Arkansas to suburban New England. Over a [...]

Carrie has been on a roll ever since she came home from Blissdom – did you listen to her on this week’s Profitable Mommy Blogging podcast? She’s put together a great report with one hundred really useful tips for bloggers and she’s letting us give it away for free! Thanks Carrie! Carrie’s 100 Top Blogging [...]

Mom Blogger Carrie Lauth of Natural Moms Talk Radio joins me fresh from her trip to the BlissDom Conference.  We’re chatting about how important it is for mom bloggers to realize that their blogs and their writing skills are valuable. We ended up talking about mom blogger who blog for free for other publishers.  If [...]

First off let me say congratulations to Barb of Elementary Spirits, the winner of the best mom blog header contest! Her prize? $100 paypal cash. It touched my heart to find out that she wasn’t accepting the prize but instead donating it to a cause known as The Virtual Food Drive. I asked Barb a [...]

This is a guest post by mom blogger, Carrie Lauth. Last weekend, I spent two days with 250 mom bloggers. I had a blast. I made new friends. I shared pizza, beer, chocolate, a chick flick, a dance floor, handsome Greek opera singers, a painfully slow wi-fi connection, elevators and a hotel room with funny, [...]

It’s been awhile since I shared some of my favorite new WordPress themes – and no, they are not made just for moms, I just think moms would like them I Can Watch Movies This one is kinda strange and angular, but the 3d effect is fun and I think that a mom would have [...]

This week I get to talk to mom blogger Gina Badalaty. Gina Badalaty has been blogging on parenting since 2002, and her Mom Blog is top-ranked for the phrase “mom blog” on Yahoo! and Google. She is a freelance blogger for AG Interactive, and a web developer. She has been married for 10 years, is [...]

If you write your blog for fun – have fun But do you realize that you could be having fun and making money? It’s true. I’m having fun right now   Seriously! And – I’m definitely making money. I haven’t sold out – I don’t take one single penny from any advertiser or affiliate program [...]

Do you want to learn the ins and outs of blogging?  I have a an opportunity available for two new mom bloggers.  You have to make a firm ten week commitment to me – in return I provide an education in blogging and a foundational introduction to internet marketing. It won’t cost you anything – [...]

I’m sure most of you, as mom bloggers, have “opted-in” at one time or another when you requested materials from a website or other blog. The basic process is as follows: A potential customer requests information from a website and is asked to confirm that they want the information to come to their e-mail address. [...]