Sponsored Posts for Bloggers 101
Some of the questions I get the most have to do with sponsored posts. As much as I would like to respond to each of those questions individually, I decided it would be most time effective and, hopefully, helpful, if I wrote a post about everything you wanted to know about sponsored posts!
I've been involved with writing sponsored posts since very early on in my blogging career. I felt like it was a good way to make money, get involved with brands I love, and
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How to Setup Amazon Native Ads and Make $$
I got an email today from Amazon stating that starting on November 1st, any commissions generated through Amazon Native Ads would earn a 12% commission, which is INSANE.
I think Amazon typically caps out at 8.5%, so to raise that commission during the hottest time of the year amazing.
Amazon Native Ads have been pretty successful for me. They have a higher conversion rate than text links (for me, at least), and I love how customizable they are. I have had a few people ask me how to get these set
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How to Save Drafts on Instagram
Instagram has done a few larger updates lately, and I think they are long overdue. The first one? You can now save drafts on Instagram of photos.
There are a few apps that you can buy that would help you do this - you could upload photos to your computer, write the posts, and then it would remind you at certain times to go and post.
Some people would even write all their posts and post them in airplane mode, so they would "fail." Then when they wanted to post, they pressed retry.
Not exactly the
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How to Get a Contact Button on Instagram (and Become a Business Account)
How to get a contact button on Instagram.
A few days ago, someone in a group I'm in brought up that someone had a contact button on their Instagram.
I hadn't heard about this, but I was instantly intrigued. It looked really great! In addition to the contact button, it showed a few more markings of a business account (it put the industry, as well as their name and blog title.)
So I did a little bit of digging, and I figured out how to convert my account to a business account.
Having a
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How to Increase Click-Throughs on Instagram
Instagram is one of those social networks I didn't really take seriously until recently.
Awhile back, I made a personal account and occasionally tried to grow my professional one for Clarks Condensed, but it just got back put on the backburner.
However, I kept hearing about the power of Instagram and how companies are really looking for influencers there, so I decided to up my game a little bit!
I've been working hard to grow my following lately, and I'll share a few of those ideas in a minute.
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Three Simple Tips to Maximize Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing has been kind of my jam lately.
I shied away from it for so long, and I'm kicking myself for that. It's quickly becoming my favorite monetization method.
If you aren't a fan of ads or doing outright sponsored posts, affiliate marketing is an awesome option for you.
But even if you do like ads and sponsored posts (which I do!), then you should still be doing it. It's an amazing passive way to make money.
My friend Kristina are going to be writing an affiliate marketing class
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Two Apps Every Blogger Must Have (That Will Save You Money and Sanity)
We just finished doing our taxes for the year.
I really miss the days of when it took about 10 minutes to do (you know, back when I was in college.)
I was pretty thrilled to find out that not only had I saved an extra $10,000 for taxes that I didn't need to pay, but we got over $1000 back in a refund.
Thankfully, I have a dad for an accountant, so it made life a little bit easier (you can read some of tax tips for bloggers he shared awhile back). But I'm pretty relieved to be done.
As we were
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The Blog Post Checklist
STOP.
Don't press publish.
Well, until you have read this post.
There are certain things every blogger should do before they release their latest masterpiece to their readers - regardless of the niche.
I've read a lot of blog posts, and I've written a lot as well. I've certainly made many mistakes - sometimes because I'm just lazy and sometimes because I just forget. However, I feel like I've gotten a pretty good idea of things you should always try to do before you press publish.
And lucky for
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One Way to Make Facebook Scheduling Easier
I'm all about simplifying and streamlining, especially when it comes to blogging!
When I started using BoardBooster awhile back, I felt like a weight was lifted from my shoulders. I loved not being a slave to Pinterest anymore.
For a lot of my blogging career, I just hadn't paid much attention to Facebook. I would share all my articles and occasionally share something else funny I found. Needless to say, my page really only grew when I did some kind of giveaway, and I was lucky if I got one
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How to Get Started With Amazon’s Affiliate Program
Well, if you are a blogger in Colorado you have may heard the news - we can officially use the Amazon Associates Program for affiliate marketing.
This is HUGE news. While Amazon doesn't offer the highest commission rate, the fact of the matter is this - people LOVE Amazon and do a lot of shopping on there. I was making a good amount of money from the program when we moved to Colorado and were banned from participating. I tried to swap out links to Walmart, Target, etc., but they just did not
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One Thing All Bloggers Need to Do
Okay, there's a lot of things that bloggers should do. But today, I'm focusing on one that I sometimes forget, and it can really affect your traffic!
Most of us probably just use one browser - and perhaps have a backup browser, just in case. Because of this, you may not see how your site displays in a different browser. As nice as it would be to have our sites look and function exactly the same across all browsers, it's just not that simple. For me, I rarely leave my Google Chrome browser
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How to Make Blogging Goals You’ll Keep
It's been awhile since I've posted here - hopefully we still have a few followers left. It's been a crazy few months since my son, Oliver, was born. Unfortunately, this website has gone on the back burner!
But with the New Year here, I'm hoping to jump back in and write here more often. I feel like I'm always answering questions for people on an individual basis, so I might as well post those answers here. In my experience, if one person has a question...a lot of others have the same one!
Since
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