The Basics: Newsletter 101

The Basics: Newsletter 101

If you had a penny for every time you read or heard that having an email list is incredibly important when you are a blogger or business owner, I'm sure you would be wealthy and on an amazing vacation right now.  But let's take a step back and start from the beginning.  You should have a solid understanding of what email marketing is and the different terms that relate to newsletters.  Letโ€™s get down to vocab.  Newsletter Lingo.  Modal, Opt-In, exit-intent...what does it all mean?  Iโ€™m going to discuss this in detail, so if youโ€™ve ever been confused on newsletter terms, keep reading.  Hey, even if you arenโ€™t confused, read on anyway because you may learn something new!

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9 Blogging Tasks That You Should Be Automating

9 Blogging Tasks That You Should Be Automating

Automation...I love it!  Set it and forget it?  I'm all about that.  Automation may be seen by some as lazy, but I see it as smart.  Why waste time on things that are considered busy work when you can be using that time to work on more pressing tasks that you HAVE to be directly involved in?  It's the 21st century...if you're not using some form of automation in your day to day blog/biz functions, you need to start...like...today.  Computers can be your personal assistant when the money isn't flowing to pay a human just yet.  If you are manually performing any of these 9 tasks, you should stop and hand them over to your robot friends!

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