If you caught my hidden message in my productivity post, you might have seen that I now use ActiveCampaign (affiliate link) for my email marketing. You might be wondering, “Why didn’t you choose MailChimp?” If I’m being perfectly honest, I never even considered MailChimp when […]
Anna and I have been working on this free theme, Ingrid, for months. We had to change our plans a little (explained below), but we’re so thrilled to be able to offer it to you today for free! Let’s talk about this long ass process. […]
There are no tricks or shortcuts to getting blog followers. There’s a difference between: Raising your follower NUMBER. Gaining real, LOYAL followers who love your content. Quite often, those are two completely different things. People can be so focused on #1 that they forget they […]
Through my years as a plugin author, theme developer, and website builder, I’ve logged into a lot of other peoples’ WordPress installations. More often than not, those people have plugin or WordPress core updates they haven’t done. Through blogs, Twitter, and other social media, I […]
I don’t care how hot Bloglovin’ or Feedly are, or even Twitter/Facebook/Periscope or whatever new social media is all the rage. The #1 subscription avenue you should be promoting is email. Above all others: email. Email is the best and most reliable way to get […]
It took me a long time to figure this out, but I finally realized that I’ve been making a big mistake. A fun mistake, but an unproductive one. I spend so much time organizing and planning, that I never get around to actually doing. This […]
I’m back from Hawaii! More on that later.. but for now, I want to talk about an interesting topic. Friday morning (the day we left for Hawaii) I got SO INSPIRED. I’d had this post sitting as an unfinished draft for months and I was […]
The votes have been tallied and we have a winner! I’m happy to introduce the best-dressed Tweak Me website, with a total of 39 votes: Book Briefs takes the win! Visit the Site! Huge congratulations to Michelle taking home the $50 Amazon gift card! We […]
If you use Google Analytics, you’ve probably seen this before: Then that begs the question: what’s the difference between these three? I’m going to save sessions for last because they’re probably the most confusing. So we’ll come back to that one. Let’s start with users… […]
Sooo I accidentally wrote a novel on Facebook highlighting some of the key differences between WordPress and Squarespace. I’ve written about Squarespace before but with how popular the platform is getting, I thought it deserved a slightly more thorough post and comparison to WordPress. Before […]