Thriving Blog & Life
It’s a HUUUUGE struggle when you’re working hours on end on your blog and no one is reading it. Especially when you put so much heart and energy into it. It doesn’t mean you suck as a blogger. It just means there are some things to look at that you can easily fix. And that’s what you’re going to find out in this post!
So if you’re wondering why no one is reading your blog, here are 6 harsh truths why and how to easily fix them! (more…)
Every month, I design calendar wallpapers & printables to not only help you organize your life but also brighten your day! This isn’t necessarily a blogging resource but it was a popular request from my followers who wanted to see a glimpse of their calendar in the quickest way possible.
Feel free to personalize it and make it your own! My subscribers like to circle important dates like events, birthdays, and even paydays.
If you love these wallpapers, I’d love to see it in action! Post a photo on your Instagram story/feed of your experience with my wallpapers and tag @travelingpetitegirl. Your photo might be shared by my account (with credits to you, of course!) for extra exposure of your account or blog. (more…)
Growing a blog takes months, even years! It takes a lot of patience but good news: there are tools you can use to help you grow faster and achieve your desired results faster!
Whether it’s growing your community, making money from blogging, or both, this is what these resources will do for you. They’ll save you time and will make your life a whole lot easier. That’s what they did for me and I am more than happy to share them!
So here are my favorite blogging tools & resources that have made a WORLD OF A DIFFERENCE in my blogging career. From strengthening my brand to driving traffic to my blog, to growing my following, and making money.
*rubs hands* Let’s get started!
So I’m the type of person who loves to set goals. I’m very goal-oriented and it excites me to start new goals and plan my life around it. But the HARDEST thing for me to do is to follow through and actually achieve it.
So based on the goals I did achieve, I learned different strategies that actually made a difference in achieving my goals and do what I said I would do when I said I would do it.
Like starting this blog, starting a social media management business, meeting my future husband, moving to Japan, getting married, and then moving here to Germany. My life would’ve gone a different path if I didn’t achieve these goals. I don’t think it would’ve been bad but it would have been a completely different life. I think I could still be single, living in Guam or in the States.
Anyway, grab a notebook because you’re going to want to write these tips down! And make sure to stick to the end because I have an exciting free download that I think you’re going to like. *wink wink*
Let’s get started! (more…)
-And just like that, we moved from Japan to Germany! I fee like abundance is present in me and my husband’s life right now. Now only did we find a beautiful house to live on the first day we got our of quarantine, our home is abundant with plum trees and apple trees that are ready to pick. It’s crazy how things are great now and I’m cherishing every moment of this (even if we have no internet, no fridge, no washer & dryer yet, I’m still happy).
So here’s what’s been happening behind the blog. I’ve definitely been behind on content but have been focusing on moving and getting everything set up. I always believe that if you don’t have a solid foundation of yourself, your family & your house, it will be hard to improve other aspects of your life without that strong foundation.
So I’ll be behind on posting content for the next few weeks until I get internet here. I’m tethering my phone and using it as a hotspot at the moment and I’m almost at my limit. I hope you guys understand but know that I’m still working behind the blog. (more…)
Every month, I design calendar wallpapers & printables to not only help you organize your life but also brighten your day! This isn’t necessarily a blogging resource but it was a popular request from my followers who wanted to see a glimpse of their calendar in the quickest way possible.
Feel free to personalize it and make it your own! My subscribers like to circle important dates like events, birthdays, and even paydays.
If you love these wallpapers, I’d love to see it in action! Post a photo on your Instagram story/feed of your experience with my wallpapers and tag @travelingpetitegirl. Your photo might be shared by my account (with credits to you, of course!) for extra exposure of your account or blog.
I’m going to say it- the world has had ENOUGH of basic captions like “High tides + Good vibes ??”, “Seas the day ⚓️,” or “Tropic like it’s hot ???.”
I’m not hating on people who use these captions, these are all captions I’ve used before! There’s just a time and place for these things. And with how times are like now, the world could use more authenticity.
Here are 6 ways to be authentic and real on social media! (more…)
It’s time to lift the hood and show you the behind the scenes of how I run my blog! Last month, I launched my first ever online course. It was a crazy rollercoaster ride. I’d never made a product before so this was such a huge win for me. In today’s post, I share how I launched my online course.
I go over what worked, what didn’t work, a walkthrough of how I marketed my course, and what I would do next time. I go over the money side and share how much it cost to create my course and how much I made!
Hopefully, you can learn a thing or two from me so that you can grow your blog and monetize it too!
Every month, I design calendar wallpapers & printables to not only help you organize your life but also brighten your day! This isn’t necessarily a blogging resource but it was a popular request from my followers who wanted to see a glimpse of their calendar in the quickest way possible.
Feel free to personalize it and make it your own! My subscribers like to circle important dates like events, birthdays, and even paydays.
If you love these wallpapers, I’d love to see it in action! Post a photo on your Instagram story/feed of your experience with my wallpapers and tag @travelingpetitegirl. Your photo might be shared by my account (with credits to you, of course!) for extra exposure of your account or blog.
Most new bloggers struggle with the same thing: getting their blog to make money. If you made it through your first year of blogging, you have probably learned a lot of valuable lessons.
Figuring out blogging platforms, plug-ins, email lists, social media management, and guest posting are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to everything you learn to juggle. If you are struggling to go from “blog” to “business” then here are a few tips to get you started! (more…)
Google is one of the largest search engines in the world. Billions of people use it every day to search for answers.
You have an idea for a blog post that you know will solve a problem for your audience but how do you get Google to show it to them? How do you get your blog post to rank on Google?
It’s not a mystery. It’s actually quite easy. The process just takes time.
So if you want to drive traffic to your blog through Google, or any search engine for that matter, here’s how to write blog posts that ranks on Google. You can also think of this post as a Beginner’s Guide to SEO for Bloggers. (more…)
When I started blogging, I didn’t think I was good enough to write. Even back in college, it took me hours to come up with a paragraph (partly because I was unwilling to be messy in my writing). So you can imagine how nervous I was to publish my first blog post. It took me forever to write and when I was finally finished, I didn’t hit “Publish.”
So it sat there as a draft for days even though I so badly wanted to blog. I just couldn’t get over the awkwardness of people in my life knowing I had a blog. Or that I even had the audacity to call myself a blogger with my sub-par skills.
In the end, I realized that starting my blog didn’t have anything to do with my writing. (I learned soon after that I didn’t need to be a great writer to blog– all I had to do was share useful information and mean what I say.) Starting a blog meant coming out of hiding, putting myself out there in a way I never did before, and doing it on a weekly basis. I was scared of the vulnerability and the commitment I was going to put myself through.
Then I remembered that no blogger I ever admired got to where they were by keeping their excuses. They even admit to starting with bare blogs and low-quality content.
My friend even told me, and I love her so much for telling me this, “You know you’re bullsh*tting yourself right? There are so many opportunities waiting for you but you’re being picky about it because you want to control how things go.”
And it was true.
I was scared of putting myself out there because once I was out there, I couldn’t control what people think and say about me. I was letting what I thought what their opinions were, get in the way of me being fully-self expressed.
So I went to my drafts and hit “Publish.” Then began my wild journey. And honestly, it got easier after that. The more I blogged, the more I received messages from readers thanking me for helping them, and the more I found myself motivated to blog even more. It turns out, there were actually people waiting for someone like me to help them. They just didn’t know it until they came across my blog. And I didn’t know it until I heard from them.
So I know it’s scary but you do have an audience out there waiting for you, it doesn’t matter what topic you’re talking about. You just need to be of service to them.
So if you need a little courage to continue blogging or a push to get started, here are 8 reasons why you should blog even if you’re not a writer or an expert.
By the way, if you’re want to start a blog but don’t know where to start, I have a free checklist with everything you need to do before you launch. It’s called the Bold Blogger Launch Checklist. Click here to download it.
So let’s get started! (more…)
I remember when I blogged for months and didn’t get anywhere. No matter how many hours I spent a day and how much content I created, I wasn’t getting any readers outside of family & friends.
It turned out there were SO MANY myths about blogging I believed that actually prevented it from growing. I wasn’t getting any traffic, so I wasn’t getting any subscribers and we all know how important it is to build an audience, right?
So one by one, I figure out what these myths were and ignored them. Even though it felt very uncomfortable because they had to be true because everyone else thought it was. And can you guess what happened next?
My blog traffic EXPLODED by 700%.
All because I stopped believing these myths. So if you’re wondering why your blog isn’t growing, no matter how many hours you put on it, you could be putting your energy into the wrong strategy. So keep watching to find out what these 18 blogging myths are so that you can ignore them and explode your blog too.
I noticed there’s a lot of word going around that it’s hard to start a WordPress blog because of the added steps to sign up with a website hosting service, register a domain, and basically design a website from scratch.
This may have been the case ten, even twenty, years ago but it’s nothing close to that today. Below, is my step by step guide on how to start a WordPress blog within a ridiculously short amount of time– 15 minutes.
Let’s get started! (more…)
When I first started blogging three years ago, I knew the topic I wanted to blog about right away– travel. So choosing a niche for my blog was fairly straightforward. But what I didn’t realize was that I had so many different interests that I wanted to incorporate to my blog and that I started veering away from my niche.
I thought it was weird. I was still creating valuable content but my traffic was getting lower and my follower growth was coming to a halt.
I had an inkling it was because I was posting content my travel-enthusiast readers weren’t interested in (some of them even unsubscribed). So as an experiment, I went back to travel content for the following month, and guess what, my traffic and followers went back up again.
So if you want to your blog to grow traffic, readers & followers then choosing a niche or choosing a topic to blog about is crucial for the success of your blog– especially if you want to grow your blog into a biz and make it profitable!
Read on for my tips on how to choose a profitable niche!
