Last week my first blog love, my travel blog Not A Ballerina, turned nine. Yep, nine whole years have passed since I first sat down at my little desk in my flat in Germany and started a blogspot blog, not really having any clue about what it was all about, and even less clue that I'd still be doing …
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Monetising my travel blog: traffic and income report May 2014
It's been two months since I last wrote about my travel blog's monetisation journey and I thought that made it time to check in again. You might remember that last time I listed quite a few bloggy tasks to do and I have definitely made some progress but at the same time, the monetisation progress …
Alfalfa sprouts and my entrepreneurial journey into social media and blogging
I've been thinking about this post for ages. I even got my Mum to look back over old pictures in case we had one of me with alfalfa sprouts (don't worry, it'll all make sense soon) but alas, back in the olden days we didn't take photos of every single second of daily life, did we! Then my friend Jo …
Preparing for Problogger (or any conference) – four months out
Anyone who follows my Facebook page will know that I was ultra-excited when I got a ticket for the next Problogger conference in late August this year. The Problogger event is "the" conference for people in my industry in Australia and I was lucky enough to attend Problogger for the first time last …
Monetising my travel blog with a long list of tasks (and a stats update)
Well, it seems that there are plenty of you out there keen to see how my journey to monetise my travel blog goes, judging by the feedback I got to my first post inviting you along for the monetisation ride. I wasn't planning to update monthly (more likely quarterly) but since I have other relevant …
How to use our Facebook group for Perth bloggers – WABAK
One of my blogging students had the fabulous idea of starting a Facebook group for Perth bloggers who met in my courses, so that they could all keep in touch and follow each other's blogging journeys. WABAK: Western Australian Bloggers Amanda Knows was born in a hurried fashion as a result, and the …