Blog Smarter: 3 Secret Tips to Grow Your Audience {Blogging}

May 21, 2017

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Tips to Help You Grow Your Blog Audience

If you are reading this post, I am assuming
you have an interest in growing your blog
or website audience by driving more traffic to it,
and while I may not be an optimization expert (and
quite possibly a granny regarding
most technical issues), I am in the trenches
just like you and want to
share what I am learning about
growing a blog...because remember,
this aint a competition (has anyone ever
told you this, and don't you feel relieved?).

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Grow Your Blog Audience

So because I love you and want to help...here are
3 Secret Tips to Help You Grow Your Audience
which have truly helped me succeed recently!

Bonus tip: painless and mildly effective for driving more traffic.

Tip No. 1
Rachel Miller's magic monetizing Facebook fairy dust.
She's a Facebook phenom, and if anyone can
show you how to optimize a facebook page which
will create a community and drive traffic to your
site, it's Rachel's course Facebook Page Strategies
and her FB group Massive Growth Strategies.

Why is the course so valuable?

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Facebook Page Strategies Course

Because what she teaches is relevant to
creating viral posts, video, and ads
on other platforms beyond
Facebook...I was overlooking the audience
I could be reaching with my FB page and forgetting that
a ton of people use FB as their internet
and search engine.
Do not underestimate Facebook!
The shopping cart for the
Facebook Page Strategies course opens
Monday, May 22nd and is only open
for a short time so if you're considering it,
don't wait!
We're never sure whether it will
be offered again, let alone at this price.

Pitch Perfect Pro

Tip No. 2
Jenny Melrose's sensibly smart strategies.
I was introduced to Jenny Melrose and
her course to work with brands
by Becky Mansfield, an incredibly successful blogger
in the mom blog niche...how successful?
Becky is heroic in her transparency and released
an income report last night--in each of the last two
months, her blog earned 6 figures, and her annual
income is in the 7 figures.
Seriously.

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Blog Smarter: 3 Secret Tips to Help You Grow Your Audience {Blogging}

So I took Jenny Melrose's Pitch Perfect Pro
course, which came with incredibly helpful
bonus courses to grow traffic, and I continue
to use her strategies to build my business.
If you would like to learn to work with
brands directly without going through an agency,
learn how with this course...and please do use
these links and tell Jenny I sent you!

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Blog Smarter: 3 Secret Tips to Help You Grow Your Audience {Blogging}

Tip No. 3
Brian Dean's SEO Science.
I don't know when or how I discovered
Brian Dean's Backlinko site
(probably a manic googling
for SEO help), but I am so, so, happy I found
his expertise, and after watching this
hot off the presses video about On Page SEO,
you will to want to propose marriage to me
(fine...you'll wanna hug me).

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Blog Smarter: 3 Secret Tips to Help You Grow Your Audience {Blogging}

The video is gold and contains genius advice
which is shaping the way I blog smarter.

Ready?
One more thing.

Here are 23 tips for driving more traffic
to your blog in case you missed it!

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Blog Smarter: 3 Secret Tips to Help You Grow Your Audience {Blogging}

If you appreciated these smart resources,
please help me grow by
liking my FB page
following me on IG
following me on Pinterest
and
subscribing to my daily posts.

Pin Me to Save for Later!

Thanks, friends, and peace to you
right where you are.

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Personal Reflections: Growing Hello Lovely

March 11, 2017

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Once upon a time, a renegade
sugar plum fairy blogger
who stopped growing
in the 6th grade created
Hello Lovely.

That was before the advent of Pinterest,
back when she needed more
creative writing practice
and digital storage for lovely images
of dreamy timeless and tranquil splendor.

As it happened, many lovely folks she
may never have met, wandered into
the sanctuary of serene lovely, and they
stayed whether she was dancing, renovating,
or struggling (with illness,
depression, anxiety, hormonal meltdowns,
menopause, family crises).
They keep showing up to read her
stream of consciousness,
keep encouraging her
to live out loud.

Back in the day, there were no pillows on
Target and Anthropologie shelves
etched with her blog's name, and
certainly no trace of "brand" on her thin lips,
no frame of reference for
"mompreneur,"
"influencer,"
or
"blogger to billionaire."

(Do blogger billionaires exist?
No idea, but, hey, we can dream.)

Since her writing career brought home
mostly peanuts, monetizing for all of the
hours devoted to blog work made good sense.

Hello Lovely now blossoms
and flourishes as a home-based business
where the fairy can still be her creative dynamo self
doing what word-freaky, peace-loving,
spiritual-thinking-creative-dynamos do...
um...drink caffeine, paint abstracts,
stay up too late reading, and
craft stories to inspire others to create
more peace at home.

And now that we're thoroughly exhausted with
second-person yadda yadda, let's get first
person personal.

Would you mind terribly
helping Hello Lovely grow?

Easy as 1-2-3, here is what I'll be ever so grateful for:

1.
Sign up for my email...no spamming,
just timeless doses of lovely hot off the press.

2.
If you have not already, could you

follow on Pinterest

follow on Instagram

like Hello Lovely on Facebook
(make sure it's the right FB page, there
are imposters all over the place hijacking
Hello Lovely thunder)

(and, oui, I'll follow/like you back...email me!)

3.
Pin images from this blog like you're coo coo
with that sweet Pinterest button hovering
over the gorgeous images.
How does it help?
Each pin is like a little advertisement for my
blog since the link will show up on Pinterest,
and poor design-deprived souls who are shriveling
up from lack of nourishing lovely and have never
heard of Hello Lovely will be able to click over
from the Big P to the Promised Land.

Share my posts by clicking the share buttons
at the bottom of each post under the words
SHARE THIS STORY.

What's in it for you after all the clickety clicking
and likety liking I am asking of you?

Two things. Both top secret.

First, the more invested I become in the business of
blogging, the more energized I feel about
bringing better, fresher, lovelier quality content.
When I partner with brands and businesses,
instead of it being a chore and something to
trudge through so I can cross it off the list and
resume content I really want to share, it's just
the opposite...partnering increases accountability
and motivates me to tell a story you'll appreciate.
So you're destined to see better content as I grow.

Secondly, I plan to share with you a bunch of
behind the scenes, insider stuff I have
been learning in the last year on my own
about how to grow a better blog, monetize, partner,
etc. for those of you with dreams of your own
(whether you have been blogging forever
or are just starting a blog).
Yep.
Stay tuned.

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By the way, I now offer advertising on the sidebar for
bloggers, brands, artists, creatives, etsy shops, you name it.
(Don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like to
hang out at the bar looking lovely...ha!).

The blog gets a ton of eyes on it, and
I want to make sure others have an opportunity
to benefit from it.

Hello Lovely Studio

I'll keep you posted on this business of blogging,
and do let me know if the idea of hearing tips and
secrets for building and growing appeals to you.

Hello Lovely Studio

Ever taken a blogging-related course?
I'm taking my first one right now...the only other
pro blog thing I ever did was attend that thing I
thought was about making blogger friends, and...
um...was not about friendship...also, and this
is the TRULY tragic part:
there was no cake.

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Re-visiting these photos taken by my sister Jo
has made me feel ever so nauseous as I realize it
has been months since I have been to the gym
or in short sleeves, and spring is almost here!

Are you ready for short sleeves????

(This is the part where you are supposed to
remind me I never ever have to be a
swimsuit model so all shall be well...very well.)

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Thanks for reading me guys.
For following, sharing, liking, supporting,
indulging, and allowing me to interrupt
your days as I do...and if there
are ways I can support your own
businesses, please don't hesitate
to connect.

Peace to you right where you are.