Tweet I’ve written so many features on How to start a blog for magazines and websites I kind of forgot that I hadn’t actually written a post about it on The Mum Blog. Doh.…
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Tweet As some of you noticed, I’ve been largely absent from this blog and social media for the past 10 days. Sometimes something happens in your real life that completely obliterates everything else. The…
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Tweet Someone is trying very hard to make trouble for me via the blog. They tried a few months ago, and they’ve tried again today, without success. I’m not going to go into detail,…
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Tweet Yesterday I received an email from a marketing/SEO company on behalf of a major supermarket bank. It had all the usual waffle – we love your blog, we think we’re a perfect fit…
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Tweet So tonight I’ll be joining all the other finalists at the Brit Mums Brilliance in Blogging (#BiBs) awards. There will be Champagne, and cackling, and catching up with old friends, or meeting new…
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Tweet When you first start using social media, it’s easy to get into online spats, or say the wrong thing, which can land you in hot water. Even the most timid people become very…
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Tweet On Thursday night, thanks to the Trackback plugin on my blog, I discovered that someone had stolen 10 of my blog posts. 10. It was a ‘scraper site’, ostensibly about travel, and they…
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Tweet Let’s pretend, for a moment, that this blog is a painting, hanging in a gallery. I’ve spent months creating this painting – I took sketches, and then I started to paint, and finally,…
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Tweet When I started blogging four years ago I had no idea just quite how many opportunities it would lead to. It sounds ridiculous now but I didn’t even realise blogging networks existed for…
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Tweet During the four years I’ve been blogging I’ve often heard the term ‘blogging royalty’ bandied about. It really is the most nonsensical, meaningless phrase. In Hollywood the term ‘royalty’ is used to describe…