I had an appointment this week with one of my doctors who asked me what I was going to do if I could not remove the stress from my current job. You see, I am a full time middle school teacher. I love my job, but lately, it has become …
My Blogging Journey: Finding the Sweet Spot
When it comes to advertising and growing your business, you have to find just the right niche to throw all of your time into so that you can become successful. If you’ve followed along with me, you know that I have several blogs that I run that range in subjects …
My Blogging Journey: Slow and Steady
Finding my blogging groove is a slow and steady pace. As much as I would love to jump in and go Gung Ho on it all, I just can’t do that. I noticed recently that one of my blogs has gained a lot of traction since school started. I know …
My Blogging Journey: Long hiatus
When I say that it has been months since I blogged, I am not exaggerating. As a matter of fact, I have one draft sitting in the queue for this website that I began on September 2nd, and I couldn’t finish it. I have struggled since school began. Not because …
My Blogging Journey: Planning
I am always planning. I plan and schedule posts. I plan and schedule pins, social media, and newsletters. Planning is my best friend right now. I sat down and looked at my post schedule prior to utilizing my content calendar, and I realized how burned out I had become. There …
My Blogging Business: Downsizing
Downsizing. At first the word seemed like I was giving up, but after some thought, I realized how freeing it actually was in the long run. While I run several websites (10 to be exact), I was back to feeling overwhelmed and not blogging like I should be. Some of …
My Blogging Journey: Websites Down
The downside to having all of my websites on one server is that if it goes down, all of them go down. I had finally started gaining traction again when all of my sites went down at once for a week or more. Crud! What do you do then? You …
My Blogging Journey: The Disappointment
The disappointment I feel when I realize the momentum I lost during that month long hiatus. For some of my blogs, it was 2 months. I went from page views in the thousands to 20, and in some cases, my page views are in the single digits. The reason? Not …
My Blogging Journey: Getting back to a schedule
When it comes to blogging, I have to have a schedule. If I write too much, I become burnt out. If I write too little, I allow myself to procrastinate more. The great thing about school finally being out and me not working a full time job outside of the …
My Blogging Journey: Getting Ready to Groove
It’s the end of the month (and the end of the school year), so I am planning out my June content calendars for all of my blogs, plus I am catching up on some writing. Last week, I only updated maybe 3 of my 10 blogs, but I did get …