Blogging Advice

This week I was lucky enough to be on a 2 1/2 hour webinar with Jon Morrow (The God of Blogging – no joke). The webinar was about how to go from 0 – 10,000 blog subscribers. Jon used to write for Copyblogger (here’s a not-to-be-missed post I wrote as a result of reading that…

source I’m always thinking about what I’m going to write next on my blog. In fact I think about it so much that it hurts my relationship. We used to have coffee and get connected every morning, but now I wake up and bury myself in emails and work. It’s also very hard on a…

With all the information on the wild, wild, web, as I went through the process of writing and publishing my eBook there was so much I didn’t know and I was surprised at how hard it was to find the information I needed. Pinterest You Spend a Lot of Money on Consultants If you are…

Pinterest I recently received this question from a reader and thought I would respond in a blog post: “Please could you share how on earth you find the time to do Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, your beautiful blog and website and do the amazing work you do. This is a genuine request as to what part…

Photos by Maria Killam I have always imagined that being the Editor-in-Chief of a [any] shelter magazine would be the best job in the world. Travelling the world to see the most beautiful interiors, free merchandise flowing in the door in the hopes that you’ll feature it in the magazine. . . Yesterday, Blogfest started…

At the Design Bloggers Conference early this week, Rhonda from All the Best gave a talk on ‘How to create your Brand’. The message that really hit home for us all was “Everyone thinks social media is a magic bullet, but it’s not that easy.  Social media is like teen sex, everyone wants to do…

source I’m here at the very first Design Bloggers Conference and yesterday Scott Hanselman gave us a talk on the 32 Ways to Take your blog to the Next Level. Here are a few of them: source 1. Moo.com, see all these quotes?  Well they are from this great website where you can print business…

If you are a decorator/designer/stager and you need more business, (who doesn’t?) a blog is a great advertising medium for you and it’s free—except for your time of course. Writing a design blog on a regular basis also keeps you, the design professional, really current as I mentioned in this post; Why your Designer should…