I’d like to start by saying I’m not an expert in Google Analytics. However, I have been using it for many years (with a lot of trial and error!) to understand my blog traffic better. I know many people struggle to get started with it,…
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How a blog can help you gain transferable skills
This post contains affiliate links, meaning I’ll get a small commission at no cost to you if you purchase a product after clicking on one of my links. I always maintain that the main reason I was able to go into content/marketing after finishing a…
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How to stay motivated to create content you love
I often define myself as a content creator. It’s in my Instagram bio, it’s what I do 9-5 and it’s an accurate representation of how I’ve spent many a weekend. Whilst to the outside world, content creation might seem easy, those of us in the…
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5 years of Lazy Thoughts
Can you believe I’ve been blogging for five years?! Blogging is such a large part of my life now that I can’t really remember a time without it. I’ve come pretty far in the past five years and I’m not very good at shouting about…
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How I promote my blog posts
Self-promotion is a funny one, isn’t it? It feels awkward shouting about things you’ve done in a bid to get people to notice you. In the blogosphere though, there’s a lot to be said for self-promotion. You can sit and wait for other people to…
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How your blog can help you land a job
If you’d have told me five years ago that I’d be using my blog to help me land jobs once I graduated, I’d have found it hard to believe. My blog didn’t even exist in the real world yet for one thing, but I’d also…
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Blog and Social Stats | April 2018
It’s that time of the month again where I bang on about how my stats are falling and there’s nothing I can do to stop it wah woe is me. But in all seriousness, I’m bored of this format and bored of repeating myself every…
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Shooting blog content with a photographer
Photography throughout by Rachel Day and Kaye Ford. When I first started blogging, I never really considered how my content might evolve. I was happy writing about what I wanted, when I wanted and gave no thought to whether this would change. More recently I’ve…
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Blog and Social Stats | March 2018
March has been a good month for me. I started a new job and consequently got a new routine, and things have generally just been going quite well. Blog-wise, I got a new theme and started to make the most of the extra daylight to…
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Staying relevant in the Blogosphere
When I started blogging in 2013, I didn’t really give much thought as to how I might stay relevant. I naively assumed I’d just start writing and my audience would come to me and that would be it. I didn’t consider the fact that they…
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