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Blogging Simplified 6 Tools To Make Your Blogging Easier

{PLUS 27 Bonus Ways To Simplify Your Blogging!}


Blogging can be a fun hobby or a lucrative financial investment and venture. Many

people run blogs as their sole business. It’s up to you how far you want to take it.

But, blogging day in and day out can become tedious and stressful if you’re not

sure how to move forward or how to keep it going. It’s important to understand that

diligence, perseverance and plenty of tools, tricks and resources will help.

The following 27 ways to make blogging easier are full of actionable tips that you

can take now to start making blogging easier and yes, more profitable. After all,

blogging isn’t supposed to be stressful or hard. It should be fun, profitable, and

frankly simple. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel, if you follow the suggestions of

experts who have gone before you and are already successful you’re going to be

more likely to become a successful blogger.

The areas that will be covered are content creation, social media, maintenance,

email management, marketing and even finances.


6 Tools That Will Make Your Blogging So Much Easier:

Find out exactly how to use these tools in your blogging by reading the rest of this report - plus

there's a huge bonus list of other amazing tools at the end, too!

Aweber.com – This is autoresponder software that you can use to help build your email list.

Canva.com – This software is cloud-based template driven graphics software. It’s free to use

other than certain template, designs and images. But, most of them are quite inexpensive.

WordPress SEO by Yoast – This WordPress plugin helps you get your search engine optimization

right on your blog and all the pages on your blog. Just fill in the blanks and follow the

suggestions.

Mobile Test Me – Want to know how your blog looks and works on any type of device then you

can check it with this cloud-based software.

Blog Topic Generator – Not sure what to blog about? Use this blog topic generator from Hub

Spot to help give you ideas for blog posts.

Go Daddy Bookkeeping – This accounting software is made for people who aren’t

accountants as it’s single entry bookkeeping. You can automate it with your payment

processor and bank so that you can avoid a lot of data entry.

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http://www.canva.com/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

http://mobiletest.me/

http://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator

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More Blogging Tips... Creating Blog Content Simpified - Page 5

Facebook Simplified - Page 8

Twitter Simplified - Page 11

Pinterest Simplified - Page 14

Instagram Simplified - Page 17

Blog Maintenance Simplified - Page 20

Email Management Simplified - Page 25

Marketing Simplified - Page 28

Finances Simpled - Page 31

A Final Tip... - Page 34

Bonus List Of Tools & Resources - Page 36


Creating Blog Content By far one of the most important aspect of your blog is the content. Whatever niche that you

have, you need to have a lot of valuable content to draw your audience to your blog and to

answer your calls to action. There are some tried and true ways that you can develop and

create awesome content that your audience will not only consume, but share with their friends.


1. Use Google Autocomplete

When you’re stumped for an idea of what to blog about, go to Google Search. Type in the

subject matter and pay attention to the Google Autocomplete tries. These are things that other

people have searched for with that word in it. That gives you a good clue that it’s likely a good

thing to write about, or create other types of content about such as videos, or infographics.

15 Minute Task: Make a list of at least 100 keywords that you can use, and then each day

you can probably come up with at least four or five blog post ideas simply by using Google

Search Autocomplete.

2. Read Industry News

The more you know about your topic, the more information you’ll have at your fingertips to

blog about. Keeping abreast of news by reading other blogs, books, magazines and more will

give you that knowledge to help you stay ahead of the pack. Your audience depends on you

to be the expert and the only way you can be the expert is if you keep reading and learning.

Quick & Easy Tip: As you read, always take notes. You will not remember what you’ve read.

A good practice is to use old fashioned 3x5 cards or you can use software like Evernote to

keep track of the ideas that you develop as you read.

3. Repurpose Older Content


Take inventory of all your older content. Update anything that is out of date and maybe even

wrong now due to new information or technology. Then, you can take those blog posts and

put them into a new format. For example, if you had an article with five points, each point can

now become a video blog for YouTube.

15 Minute Task: Weekly, starting with the oldest blog post (keep notes of where you stopped

last) read them, and bring them current, as needed, based on the current situation and facts.

Then as you do so, think of how you can repurpose. Is a blog post data centric? That’s perfect

for an infographic design. You can use Piktochart.com to create awesome interactive

infographics.

Content is arguably the most important part of your blog. Spend time putting content on your

blog, and then redirecting people to you blog instead of spreading content around all over the

place. Your blog should be considered the hub of your online existence.


Facebook Simplified

Facebook has over 1.44 million active users. With that many users there is no doubt that you

need to be on Facebook if you want to find a bigger audience for your blog. First thing you

should do is create a special page for your blog.

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4. Tease Them

Use your Facebook page to tease your audience about your new blogging content. Provide

an interesting blurb, such as a quote from the new blog post or video and then invite them to

read more to find out more. Don’t provide the entire post directly on Facebook, make them

click through.

Quick & Easy Tip: Need help writing your next blog post? You can even tease your readers

while you’re writing the post. For example, ask questions about the topic to get input so you can

make your blog post even better.

5. Add a Good Picture

Not only should you have a good profile picture and cover picture, but every time you make a

post include an engaging and relevant image with it. The image will draw attention to the post,

and will even encourage sharing.

Resource Tip: Use software like Canva.com to help you make quick and easy images that

are appropriate for Facebook. Remember if you plan to promote the post, the image cannot

have too many words and must be mostly an image.

6. Make it Into a Graphic

If you have a good blog post that has a lot of data in it, you can share a blurb to the post, but

also put the data into a graphic to post with the Facebook post. Graphics are easy to make

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using Canva.com, or Pixlr.com and even Gimp.org which is free professional grade image

editing software.

15 Minute Task: Go to Canva.com and make a free graphic with one quote from the blog

post you’re sharing. Make sure it’s something that resonates so that they want to click through

and read more.

With so many people using Facebook every single day, it’s important that you put it to good

use. Facebook makes it easy to target the right people, build up a community, and make the

most of all your content.


Twitter Simplified

Another supremely important social media network that will help you promote your blog and

even help you figure out what to blog about. Twitter has a world of good information and due

to the fact that it’s searchable you can use it for research too.


7. Use Video

Twitter video is easy to use. You can make a recording specifically for Twitter with your

Smartphone, or you can upload another video that you created for something else with your

iPhone. The trick is that the video needs to stay at 30 seconds or less. You can link to the rest of

the video if you have a longer video to link to.

Quick & Easy Tip: A really good tactic is to respond to direct Tweets with a video. You can

record videos for Twitter directly with your Smartphone giving them an answer to a question. It’s

a great way to drum up excitement.

8. Use it For Research

A really great use for Twitter is research. With over 400 million Tweets a day, there is a wealth of

information to find if you know how. In order to conduct research on Twitter just sign into your

Twitter account. There is even a Twitter Directory for Higher Education which allows you to

search for Hashtags or add them to a special academic directory. So, if it’s good enough for

academia it’s good enough for you.

You can use Twitter Lists to help you aggregate specific information that you can read when

you want to. If you know what a specific hashtag is you can also use that in your search. But,

even if you don’t know you can simply type your keyword into the search bar. Remember,

there are no spaces used in hashtags. So a two word search should be smashed together as

one word.

9. Set Up a Hashtag

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To create a hashtag it’s important to understand why you want the hashtag, make sure it’s not

used by someone else, and then to use it regularly and ask others to use it too. Plus call out

people who are using it so that they know you’re watching.

To create a hashtag you want to keep it short, remember that a Tweet can only be 140

characters and a hashtag that is too long will not be used by people. Secondly you can ensure

it’s not being used by going to hashtags.org to make sure it’s not been used. Of course, you

can still use them, but this is a good way to get the rights to a hashtag.

Use the hashtag that you create in blog posts, and on Tweets and ask other people to do it too.

That way you can search your hashtag to find out how far the information has gone.

15 Minute Task: Use the last two Twitter tips to create a hashtag for at least one of your blog's

topics. Start using it whenever you write about that topic!

Twitter breaks news before cable or network news. Because of this simple fact it’s imperative

that you learn all you an about it and use it to help promote your blog to your audience.


Pinterest Simplified

One of the most important social networks of our time, Pinterest is another image centric social

media network. You can use Pinterest to find topics to post about, as well as create pin boards

to attract people to your blog. Even if you have to think outside the box a little, because your

topic is less image-centric, it’s possible to use Pinterest to drive traffic to your blog using

Pinterest. Note: Don’t forget to verify that your blog’s URL for Pinterest is accurate.


10. Create Infographics

Pinterest is the perfect place to put infographics that you can make from any data centric blog

posts that you have. Then you can link directly to the blog post so that the audience can see

the explanation for all the data in the graphic.

15 Minute Task: First, choose an old blog post that has a lot of statistics or data in it. Then go

to Piktochart.com and choose a template in which to add the data. Then post it with a link back

to the original blog post. You can also add the image to your blog post to beef it up. Don’t

forget to add a “pin” button to each of your blog posts.

Vertical photos work much better on Pinterest, so that’s why infographics work so well.

11. Make Category Pin Boards

On Pinterest you can create different Pin Boards. Use your blog categories to create a different

pin board for each category. You need five to ten Pin Boards to make your Pinterest account

look active and to get people interested so this is a perfect way to separate out the different

boards you want.

Post an image depiction of each of your blog posts to each category, linking back to the blog

post. Remember, when someone pins it or shares it, and someone looks at it, it will always take

them back to your original post.


Also ensure that you are using Rich Pins. This ensures that your blog name and your name are

added to pins when they are shared. But, don’t forget to watermark all your images. You can

use an app like iWatermark or Visual Watermark.

12. Get Topic Ideas

Like with Twitter, Pinterest can be an excellent way to find important topic ideas within your

niche to create content about. If you regularly post your blogs to Pinterest, it’s likely once you

get enough content and followers you’ll also get comments and questions. That will be an

important way that you get content ideas.

You can find out what people are pinning from your blog, plus you can find people who work

within the same niche as you and find out what people are pinning from their blog. This

information will help you know what type of posts are more likely to get pinned and can give

you good ideas for content.

Quick & Easy Tip: To find out what posts are being pinned from your domain just type this into

a browser: http://pinterest.com/source/yourdomain.com and you can do this with any website

which will enable you to search your competition’s results as well. This can be very useful

information for you to use when creating blogging content.

Pinterest isn’t always a slam dunk. It really does depend on your audience, whether they’re

there or not, and whether your niche can be translated into information that is easily viewable

and understandable on Pinterest. If you can find an interesting out of the box way to share your

niche on Pinterest, and lead more people back to your audience then you should do it.

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http://www.visualwatermark.com/

http://pinterest.com/source/yourdomain.com


Instagram Simplified

When you use any social network the goal is to bring them to your blog. To get started put your

blog URL in your Instagram profile. Do make sure that your blog is useable on mobile devices

first, otherwise they’ll be disappointed when they click through.

Also, while users cannot click on links in comments you can still put a URL as a watermark and in

a comment so that users can copy and paste it into a browser window to visit your blog

directly. You might even want to tell them “copy and paste this URL to find out how to make

this delicious recipe”.


13. Ask for Questions

One great idea for Instagram is to pose a question on Instagram using a graphic. Ask them to

answer a specific question in comments. Then you can use the questions as topics to new blog

posts. Once you create the blog post, go in and respond to the question with the link to the

answer.

It’s also nice to call out the questioner and tell people in your answer what their Instagram

name is so that you can share the wealth with them. They’ll appreciate it and be more likely to

supply questions in the future.

Quick & Easy Tip: On Instagram you can also use hashtags on posts.

14. Post Day in the Life Pics

It’s nice to have content on Instagram that is different from what is on your blog. This keeps the

Instagram audience interested, attracts new audiences, and if your other social network or

blogging audience joins you on Instagram they won’t be bored. A great idea is to post “day in

the life” information.

15 Minute Task: For example, let’s say you’re a food blogger and you made a mistake, go

ahead and post that mistake to Instagram. People will love you for it. Say you’re a freelancer;

you could post a picture of you working with your feet up in your easy chair or a picture of the

beach from your balcony.


There are numerous ideas that can work with this. Use humor too. Say you are trying to work but

your two year old is crying, take a picture, add a caption “so much for work” or “so glad I have

a flexible schedule” and it’ll be an instant sharable hit.

15. Send Them to Your Blog

The whole point of Instagram, like other social media accounts is to get more traffic to your

blog. These channels are good to use for promoting your content. Content will not be

consumed if people don’t know about it. If you know for a fact that you have an audience

that likes using Instagram then you need to be there.

Quick & Easy Tip: Put your URL in your profile, watermark your images, and mention your URL

in your comments. That will help draw traffic but what will work even more is creating wonderful,

engaging, and interesting images that tell a story of their own.

Instagram is extremely popular. There are people who became stars on Instagram before they

even started blogging. Find a good way to share the information that makes people want to

come back to your blog again and again.


Blog Maintenance Simplified

It’s very important that you keep your blog up to date and functioning. Broken links, and old

design or a poorly working platform can all turn people away from wanting to be part of your

viewership if you’re not careful. The best content just won’t be looked at if the site loads slowly,

it can’t be read on a mobile device, or the colors burn people’s retinas.


16. Check for Broken Links

Not much is worse than sending your audience to a blog and for them to be taken to a broken

link. What a disappointment. Have you ever watched a show like Shark Tank, saw an item you

liked, tried to find their website only to see that it’s either crashed or the links don’t work? When

broken links happen a lost opportunity will occur all the way around for them and you. No one

likes that.

Resource Tip: You can avoid this problem by checking often for broken links. You can use a

free service like Dead Link Checker, or if you use WordPress you can use a plugin like Broken

Link Checker. But, you can also optimize your 404 pages. A 404 page is a page that your

audience is taken to when the link is broken. Use a WordPress plugin to help you with WordPress

404 page customizations. If you use another type of site, ask how you customize the 404 error

page before you mess anything up, but usually it’s just a matter of finding the page, then

adding your customizations to it.

17. Test Everything

Like broken links, and error pages, it’s important to be very aware of how your blog site is

working. How fast does it load? Do the links work? Is the navigation good enough to send your

audience where you want them to go? Is the popup too disruptive? It’s important to test

everything you do and every change you make.

http://www.deadlinkchecker.com/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/


https://wordpress.org/plugins/404page/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/404page/


While not everyone is a grammar guru, it’s important to double check spelling, typos and other

errors. You never know when your 9th grade English teacher will read your blog. It’s okay to use

language that isn’t technically grammatically correct as long as it makes sense and represents

your voice.

15 Minute Task: If you have forms on your website, make sure that they really work. Not only

that double check that they flow well, and have good instructions. Fill out the form and make

sure it goes where you think it should and that it gives the right thank you page.

18. Keep it Updated

The worst thing you can do for your blog is to not keep it updated. If you are having issues

getting enough blog posts up, date the date off the code so that first time visitors don’t realize

it’s been a long time since you posted a blog. But, mostly you want to keep it up dated with

valuable content because your audience will come to expect it and look forward to it.

Resource Tip: Check your SEO for each post. You can use a plugin like WordPress SEO by

Yoast, which helps lead you through proper SEO on each page you create. Even if you have no

idea what you’re doing the software helps you.

Make sure you’ve updated to a mobile friendly website. It’s easy to do if you use WordPress, just

make sure the theme is responsive. But remember, just because it says it’s responsive doesn’t

mean it’s ideal. Double check what your site looks like on other devices using Mobile Test Me.



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The more modern your website is and the better it looks, the more people will want to read your

blog. The fewer mistakes there are on your blog, the faster it loads, the more everything works

the more repeat visitors you’ll get and the more they’ll trust your recommendations.

Resource Tip: If it's in your budget, consider hiring someone to manage your blog

maintenance for you. This can free up your time to focus more on growing your blog - rather

than just trying to keep it running.

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Email Management Simplified

Part of your success as a blogger depends on getting people to sign up for your targeted email

marketing lists. An email list, as you may know, is really where the money is. Having your

audience on your email list will allow you remind them about new content, tell them about

products or services that you like or have created for them and more.

Luckily, it’s possible to set up most of these things to run automatically using the right software

and systems.


19. Set up Email Series

Using software like Aweber.com, set up an automated email marketing series that sends

information to your audience once they sign up for the information on your blog. You can use it

to market tools, information products and to simply update them on what’s going on if you

want.

Quick & Easy Tip: Every post needs to have a reason and every post should have an

amazing call to action in order for it to produce results. An email series should be directly

related to whatever your audience member signed up for. It should be very targeted and

personalized.

20. Announce New Posts

A great use of an email list is to send out a blog post announcement. Don’t just send it out

without a blurb and some other news, but reminding your audience to come back to your blog

based on the new blog post is a great reason to send out a message to everyone. Include

other information in the post and tie in the new post to the email message. That way it’s

interesting enough to open and gives you a chance to promote something else.

Quick & Easy Tip: Remember that one thing that gets people to open your email is whether or

not they liked the last email you sent them. Make them relevant, make them personal, and

always make them lead back to your blog.



21. Collect Email Addresses

Before you can send email series or blog updates you’ll need to collect email addresses. There

are a few ways in which you can do this. Give away something of value; put some of your

content behind a wall, push out a pop up or slider that asks for an email address. Host a

webinar or do other things that get your audience’s attention that enable you to collect their

email address.

30 Minute Task: Think of a resource you could provide to your readers that they would really

like to have. Something that would make life easier for them. Create a lead magnet that is

something your audience really wants to help them solve a problem. A good way to market

your lead magnet is to use Leadpages.net to help you set up the landing page for it. Another

way to collect email addresses is to put some of your content behind a “pay” wall. The fee is an

email address. This can be done with software such as Pay Per View or Pay With a Like.

The important thing when building your email list is to find a way that is not intrusive and makes

your audience excited to give you their information. Once you get their information, use it

wisely.

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Marketing Simplified

When you have a blog, the only way it’s going to become popular is for you to market it. There

is a saying among marketers it is simple: Always be marketing. When you produce new content,

whether it’s free or paid, spend just as much time on promotion as you did creating it. That’s

how you’ll get more readers, and more readers actually bread more readers. Eventually, with

enough work, there will be a snowball effect. Your traffic will just keep getting bigger and

bigger and it will come to a point where it feels effortless.


22. Set up Share Buttons

If you don’t have share buttons on your blog, and under each post, as well as a call to action

to share, then you’re missing out on a bigger audience. You can even incentivize sharing by

blocking some of your content behind a wall that requires you to “like”, “share”, “Tweet”, “Pin”

or even email the content to a friend of theirs will be an encouragement for your audience to

get the word out about your information.

Resource Tip: Add Share buttons to your Wordpress blog posts with the Shareaholic plugin.

23. Include Calls to Action

A call to action is simply verbiage that asks your audience to make a choice and to take an

action. The best calls to action are relevant, timely, and limited. You don’t want your audience

to have too many choices because there is a specific action you want them to take. Be clear

about that action. Tell them why they should take it. Focus on the benefits of action, as well as

the way in which you will solve their problems. Make them an offer they can’t refuse, and then

make it easy for them to act.

15 Minute Task: Look at your last two blog posts. If you don't have a call to action at the bottom

of them, add one! Whether it's asking for a comment, for an answer to a question, or for a share

or tweet, each post should have a clear call to action.


24. Remarket

One of the most exciting things about technology today is the ability to remarket to people.

Remarketing works by installing a cookie on your website that downloads onto your visitors’

computer. When you set up remarketing using either Google Ads or Facebook Ads (just follow

their instructions) then when they leave your website and go about their business looking at

other things, your offer will keep showing up in the ad area of websites and social media sites

that your visitor looks at.

Marketing is something that is important for everyone with any type of business to do. If you

don’t market you won’t be found. You have to be found to become a sought after blogger

and expert in your field.


Finances Simplified

Part of running a blog is the hope and dream of earning money from it. But, what if you knew

that it’s not really just a hope and it’s much more than a dream, if only you develop a plan of

action, follow through, and choose a niche that is monetizable? Then you would do what you

need to do in order to make it work.


25. Set a Budget

When you first set up your blog you’ll need to set a budget. If you’ve already got going and not

thought about budget that’s okay, think of it now. You may need funds for different things like

hosting, professional graphics, stock photography, and even a website builder to help you build

a more secure blog site. Eventually, you may even need to budget in contract help such as

copywriters, content writers, and a virtual assistant.

Quick & Easy Tip: Keep your finances for your blog and personal life separate. You can use

bookkeeping software like Go Daddy Bookkeeping to help you automate your accounting

process.

26. Promote Something

If you don’t promote something there won’t be any finances to worry about. Even if it makes

you uncomfortable, promotion is something that you have to wrap your mind around in order

to be able to blog and turn it into a living. Promotion is not a dirty word. The truth is, anyone can

become a blogger, but only a few people will actually turn it into something tangible.

First, you have to get readers. Finding readers requires promotion. In order to continue keeping

up the blog, you’ll need to be able to pay expenses. Hosting gets more expensive when your

blog is busy, answering questions of your readers starts getting time consuming, and processing

emails becomes a drudge. In order to manage everything you have to bring in some money.

To earn money you’re going to have to either create a product or a service, or you’ll need to

promote someone else’s products and services. You can also accept ads, but the truth is you’ll



earn the most money promoting products and services whether yours or someone else’s. Most

high earners do a combination of both. But, they both require promotion.

You’ll have to realize that “sales” is not a dirty word. Earning money is not bad. You can be a

blogger, and you can earn money doing it. You just need the right niche, the right plan, and

the right mindset in order to promote your blog, and the products and services that you believe

in to the right audience on a regular and continuing basis.

Finances need to be determined from day one, and if you continued to be organized and

make goals, and concrete plans and stick to them you will reach your financial goals. Use a

calendar to plan each day as if it’s a real work day. Before you know it, you’ll have even more

finances to take care of, which is what you want.


A Final Tip...

With these things in mind, it’s important to determine what your goals are, what you want to

accomplish, and then move forward with your plans. These 27 ways to make blogging easier

are tactics and tricks that any average person can accomplish if they set their mind to it. Start

at the top of this list and implement at least one new thing every day.

27. Automate

Don’t make everything so hard on yourself. You don’t have to do it all alone. Thankfully outside

of contactors there is this thing called technology. For example on WordPress you can

preschedule posts. On Facebook you can use the publishing tools and schedule posts too. Plus,

your autoresponder software enables you to put everything in there in advance to send out to

your subscribers. This offers you a lot of power to make everything easier when it comes to

blogging and promoting your blog.

Resource Tip: Outsource the techy side of blogging - letting someone else handle the behind-

the-scenes side of blogging can free you up to focus on implementing all the tips we've shared

here! Consider Blogelina's Training & Support Plan - our support services are tailored

specifically to bloggers.

Before you know it your blog will be a huge success. Getting a popular blog up and running

may not be the easiest thing that has ever been done, but when you think about the fact that

other people have done it, ask yourself, why not you?



It may not be one of the easiest things that you’ve ever done, but it certainly will be easier with

these tips. The next page has a list of resources mentioned in this report that you can use to

implement some of the suggestions mentioned. Add to the list with your own tools so that you

will have the things you use at your fingertips ready to go.

Remember - The Sky's The Limit!

We can't wait to see YOU and your blog succeed.

To YOUR Blogging Success!

-Tanya & The Blogelina.com Team

http://blogelina.com/


Bonus List of Blogging

Tools & Resources

For any business there are tools and resources which help make your life easier and your

business more profitable. The same can be said for blogging. These tools and resources are

useful for any blogger.

Aweber.com – This is autoresponder software that you can use to help build your email list.

Mailchimp.com – A different type of autoresponder that a lot of people like because it’s kind of

artsy.

Google Search – You’re already familiar with Google Search because you probably use it

every day. Go there now, start typing in something that you want to look for and notice that it

gives ideas before you’re finished typing.

Evernote.com – This online note keeping application that lives on your PC, your mobile device

and across all apps that you use normally every single day. It is like just one workspace for all

your notes.

Gimp.org – This is free open source graphics editing software. It works and acts a lot like

Photoshop. You can make graphics for your blog with it and more.


http://www.mailchimp.com/

http://www.google.com/

http://www.evernote.com/

http://www.gimp.org/


Canva.com – This software is cloud-based template driven graphics software. It’s free to use

other than certain template, designs and images. But, most of them are quite inexpensive.

Pixlr.com – Another cloud based graphics software that is inexpensive to use. It’s made for

people who aren’t really graphic designers so it’s intuitive.

Hashtag.org – If you want to register a hashtag or search hashtags to ensure that the one you

want to use is free this is where you go.

Piktochart.com – Making infographics can be expensive when you outsource them, but the

templates on Piktochart can make it less expensive and easier to make important and viral

infographics.

Twitter Directory for Higher Education – When you want to conduct research you want it to be

accurate. Twitter is great for research, so great that even Universities use it.

iWatermark – Before you put images on your blog or any social media you should put a

watermark on your images to protect them, this tool works great for macs.

Visual Watermark – If you have a PC this is another watermark tool that will help you protect

your images.

Dead Link Checker – Don’t allow broken links on your website. But, they do happen sometimes,

so be sure to check once in a while for broken links so that you can fix them.

http://www.canva.com/

http://www.pixlr.com/

http://www.hashtag.org/

http://www.piktochart.com/

https://www.insidehighered.com/twitter_directory

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iwatermark/id357577420?mt=8

http://www.visualwatermark.com/

http://www.deadlinkchecker.com/


Broken Link Checker – If you use WordPress, this is a good plugin to use to be sure to take care

of any broken links on your blog.

Leadpages.net – You need landing pages, squeeze pages, sales pages and more and lead

pages will help you make them expertly even if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Morgue File – You’re going to need images, you can find some good ones here free.

Blog Topic Generator – Not sure what to blog about? Use this blog topic generator from Hub

Spot to help give you ideas for blog posts.

Go Daddy Bookkeeping – This accounting software is made for people who aren’t

accountants as it’s single entry bookkeeping. You can automate it with your payment

processor and bank so that you can avoid a lot of data entry.

Wave Accounting – This software is free, and is more like an accountant’s program. You can

send invoices; keep track of your income and expenses and more.


http://link.leadpages.net/aff_c?offer_id=6&aff_id=15186

http://www.morguefile.com/

http://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator


https://www.waveapps.com/accounting/

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