Social Publishing
Help! My Instagram is posting spam!
There's another wave of spamming going on at Instagram. Spam comments, promising loads of free followers, tagging your account to spammy photos and spammers following you or asking to become your followers, are getting out of hands. Not only there's lots of spam, but many, quite innocent folks have noticed their accounts are spamming others. So why are Instagram accounts turning into spam accounts, how to stop it when it happens to you and how can you prevent it? The most searched and found article on this site is my last year post, on how to get rid of spam on Instagram. Due to this I hav...
How to keep on blogging
All bloggers have been there. The moment of doubt, the questioning for why you are doing this. Not just getting those blog posts written. A short break becomes a longer hiatus and the hiatus becomes the end of your blogging. How can you keep blogging, when there are so many excuses for pushing it for later or quitting altogether? 1. Have a reason Why do you want or need to keep on blogging? Is it your undying urge to write, is it for branding and other marketing purposes, to vent your feelings, to learn something or maybe another reason I cannot even imagine? Whatever your reason is, yo...
The good, the bad and the ugly of sharing daily selfies on Instagram
For almost two months I have been posting a selfie per day on Instagram. During this time I've made tons of observations about sharing daily selfies. Today, I'd like to share those observations with you. I had a handful of reasons to start sharing daily selfies on Instagram. It's not because I love to be in front of a camera. No way. I hate it. It's not because I didn't have anything else to do. There's always too much to do. It's not even because I thought people who follow me would like it. I've seen some go, including those I know outside Instagram. I assume they don't like my face. Hey...
The lifestyle of lifestyle blogging
When you are starting to blog, all the available advice about how to do it, can be overwhelming. One of the confusing thing is choosing your blog a specialisation, a category where it falls. While you can choose many other categories, lifestyle is a good way to go. In the olden times, when blogging was new and rare, blogs which talked about life, personal events and other similar subjects were referred to as "haircut blogs". The name was derived from the idea that people would blog about getting a haircut and often it was used as a patronising term. As blogging became more mainstream (not...
Surprising ways to distinguish yourself on social media
Small business owners, creatives and freelancers are doing the same stuff all over social media. They share tons of links, pretend to be social by using automated thank you messages, share the same "inspirational" quotes and aphorisms and are generally kind of boring. Distinct types of content work differently on all the various social media services, so trying to do the same thing all over the place is futile. Besides, what's the point of doing the same thing as everyone else? Social media has turned out to be very noisy and in order to get your message over that noise, you are trying to ye...
Five simple ways to improve your blog posts
I go through lots of blog posts each day and oh boy how they can be difficult to read. I have collected here a handful of the most common things to improve in blog posts, to make them more readable and simply better for your readers. All and all you should remember that your blog post is by far not the only thing people are likely to be reading online during a day (or even an hour). Many of them come straight to your blog posts, through social media or search engines. They are not likely to click through your site if their initial experience is shitty. Some of these things may require redesi...
Thinking out loud
Blogging these days is so serious. You must have a blogging plan and strategy, a clearly defined specialty (or a niche, if you don't hate that word as much as I do) and a specific audience to keep happy. There's no spontaneity, there's no personality. Instead there are lots of blog posts featuring the same infographics found on every other site and all the advise you didn't want to get. The other day Richard MacManus published a post about blogging in the new year 2016 (from whom I stole the whole thinking out loud -thinking). He asked, amongst other things, if finding an audience is reall...
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