Mom Blogger Pro (Formerly Profitable Mommy Blogging)
How to blog from professional mom bloggers who share their experiences and tactics for earning from their blogs.
This Social Media Woman Magazine has Lynn Terry on the cover and her interview inside. It’s a free pdf for you to download and no opt-in is required.
If you like audio here’s a podcast from Melissa Ingold about finding business opportunities.
Maria Bailey encourages you to not forget marketing to offline moms as well as online. Don’t limit yourself to other bloggers.
For those of you eagerly awaiting a new podcast – I’m sorry. Please hang on until next week when I will post the next podcast. For now here are some links to keep you busy.
The Difference Between A Work From Home Job And A Work From Home Business at Type A Parent.
This one will be helpful if you are heading to a conference or offline event – The 59 Commandments of Business Networking.
Two places to learn about Facebook Marketing:
From Hubspot – Facebook Page Marketing
Free ebook from Make Use Of – Facebook Marketing Guide
Previously I talked about guest posts for links. Angela wrote a good post on how to Create Incoming Links for Vital Posts Through Remote Blog Posts and included some ways to build links without having to guest post.
We know that a lot of our new traffic and links come through social media. Digital Surgeons has a great graph showing statistics about Facebook vs. Twitter.
Of course all the extra writing takes more time. This slideshow from Pete Savage for the International Freelancer’s Academy shows how he uses a jigsaw puzzle graph to get more done.
Once you have all the links and traffic coming in you have to figure out How To Get Paid What You’re Worth. That’s always hard for me; maybe the post by Peter Shankman will give you something to think about as well.
Top 12 Marketing Blogs For Women, By Women from Womanwise Marketing will fill up your feed reader fast!
Here’s s short post titled It’s Not All About Sales and Marketing by Traci Feit Love. Really!? After reading I totally agree.
Yes, Twitter is a marketing tool. Use Twellow to Maximize Your Twitter Usage on Top Business Reviews.
This one’s for affiliate marketers – 5 Tips for Successful Pre-selling by Lynn Terry.
Your blog tagline is a part of marketing your blog. BlogCoach has some great tips in the article Give Your Readers a Clue With a Great Tagline.
Gathered from sites around the web… It’s link love day!
Is Tagging Still Important? by Jonathan Bailey on Blogging Tips
Is Your Promise Irresistible to Your Customers? another great piece by Liz Strauss on valuing and learning about your customers.
Two Video Clips full of business tips on Martha Stewart Show from women/moms Business Tips, 1 and Business Tips, 2 [I like Martha Stewart - so sue me!]
As an intern trying to figure out what I should do there has been a lot of info flooding my brain. The article The ONE Thing You Focus on Right Now by Lynn Terry is right on for me at this time.
This post titled Back to Basics: 4 Forehead Slapping Blog Promotion Methods by Easton Ellsworth on the Blog Herald made me chuckle and say ouch at the same time.
Of course we know that Moms Rule The Web , but it’s nice to read this confirmation posted on the NewBaby.com blog.
Are You Selling Lemons? written by Regina Baker who, sadly, bought some ebook lemons.
A Somewhat controversial post titled Why Mom Bloggers Aren’t Flipping for Just a Sample of Your Product from GeekMommy. Reading through the comments is more interesting than the post!
Another post about bloggers and PR from the PR point of view - Bloggers, Brands & the New Publishing Paradigm from PR MAMA by Stephanie Smirnov
A post by Alexander Sandler titled Don’t Give Up and Keep Cool is true to the old saying, “No pain, no gain.”
To be profitable we need loyal readers. How do we get them?
Top 50 Web Rankings: Affiliate Networks from website magazine. I guess in the back of my mind I knew there were a bunch of affiliate networks, but I never would have been able to name 50!
Sunday Morning SEO: How To Use Anchor Text Effectively Part One and Part Two from The Blog Herald
Sidebar Fix #1 on Desperately Seeking WordPress. I love this site. She doesn’t post often so I just keep her in my reader and wait for the good stuff. She is helpful and writes things in ways I can understand. Once I contacted her because I couldn’t get her tutorial to work. She replied and I was able to fix it.
How Twitter Has Made Me a Better Link Builder by Angela Moore on Link Princess. Great points and more people you can follow!
Another Twitter post – Watch your follower to following ratio by Grant Griffiths at Blog for Profit. This link is to Day 4 of 30 Days of Twitter Tips. I think it is a great point and am eager to read what else he will say about Twitter.
Any designers out there? Amanda, a WAHM of four runs Beautiful Blog Designs. ”It is a directory of the many talented women blog designers, and helps bloggers find beautiful free and premade templates if they cannot afford a custom design. Amanda also publicizes current custom blog design giveaways and specials that designers are offering.” What a great resource!
Hope these are a help to you!
It’s time to show a little love to those blogs that are teaching me how to make money with mine, right?
Let me just say that the Secret is in the Sauce, baby. I’ve met more cool bloggers through this website than you could ever imagine!
Problogger, oh problogger, how I love thee. This blog deserves three gold stars and a swoosh, because it’s just that great.
Parent Dish really hit home with this post and kind of showed me some cool things to do with the craziness that is working for home.
I love all the cool giveaways the Resourceful Mommy does, and I always meet really cool new people during her sitewarming parties.
I’ve been reading this site like it’s my new mommy blogging manual and I especially like the part where she tells me exactly how to monetize my blog.
I think it’s important to make your blog look good, and I LOVE to make my own blog pictures, so I am always on the lookout for good photoshop tutorials, and I have big ray of light plans soon.
This is a great post about blog reviews and how they sometimes aren’t worth it.
There you have it! I Link Love you Guys!
