A selection of blogging posts covering how to tutorials, setting up a blog, using social media, building an online business and growing your audience.
Today I thought I would create a tutorial on how to start a Wordpress blog. It’s a question that I get asked a lot so I thought it would be good to get it written down. Please note this tutorial contains affiliate links. Read my terms & conditions page for more information about this. Read More »How To Start a WordPress Blog on iPage
Recently I have been helping a few friends to set up their own blogs and it has inspired me to create a few blog-related posts that new bloggers will, hopefully, find useful. If you’d like to know more about starting your own blog please do consider joining my free Blogging for Beginners eCourse. You can sign up at the bottom of this post.Read More »How to Create a Custom Blog Header using PicMonkey
I have decided this year is going to be the year that I make improvements on my blog. I don’t want to overwhelm myself with too many targets so each month I shall be focusing on one thing. In June I decided to focus on reducing my bounce rate as it was silly high!Read More »How I Got my Bounce Rate from Disappointing to Excellent in 1 Month
Are you interested in finding out how working with a blogger can increase business for you? Would you like to tap into a system that promotes your business in a modern, fun and cost effective way? Do you want to get people talking about your products? Read More »The Power of the Blogger
Yesterday I recieved an email notifying me that I have been nominated in this year’s mumandworking awards for working parent blogger of the year!
Read More »I’ve Been Nominated for Working Parent Blogger of the Year!
Last year something pretty amazing happened to me; I was not only a finalist in the Best Thrifty Blog category of the Mad Blog Awards 2015 but I also won it. At the time I was in a complete state of shock as I generally didn’t believe for one second that I would win. I was just so proud to be a finalist; to then go on and win it was just unreal. Still to this day every now and then I have to go and look at my award just to check that it did actually happen and wasn’t some weird blogging dream.Read More »Still Can’t Believe I Won! – Mad Blog Awards
You may have noticed that my blog has suddenly changed. It’s been a long time coming really and I’m so happy that I’ve finally taken the plunge and gone for it. The main reason for the change was to regain a bit of focus on my blog. When I first started blogging 5 years ago I had two young children both of whom were still in nappies. It was hard work and I very rarely got any time to sit down and drink a hot cup of tea, hence the name ‘Cold Tea & Smelly Nappies’. However 5 years on and we are well past the nappies stage, both of the kiddies are at school and I regularly drink at least 5 cups of hot tea a day. The name just didn’t fit anymore! That and I was fed up with getting emails asking if we’d like to review nappies even though my youngest is now 5!Read More »Why I Rebranded my Blog?
The secret to running a successful blog giveaway is undoubtedly all about the promotion of it. Today I thought I’d share with you 10 places where you can promote your blog giveaway for free.Read More »10 Free Places To Promote Your Blog Giveaway
When I first started blogging I would spend hours writing a blog post, editing images and just generally making sure that everything looked okay. I’d then hit publish and just sit back and wait for people to read it. It didn’t take me long to realise this was not the way forward. I just wasn’t reaching enough people.
It’s 2016 already, where does the time go? It’s that time of year when we all start reassessing our lives and how we might improve them in the coming year. As well as personal goals for the coming year I also have some new blogging goals. Today I thought I’d write them down so I know what I want to focus on.Read More »Blogging Goals for 2016