Maybe you need extra user accounts on your Mac so you can have multiple people using the same Mac without all sharing the same account, or perhaps you just want an extra user account to keep your work and personal computer usage separate. Whatever the reason it’s pretty simple to set up additional user accounts on …
Getting started with social media can be a tricky process, working out how to use each different platform effectively, building an audience…so here are my top ten tips for getting started! 1. Start With A Plan It all starts with having a good plan in place (one that will be revised as you go along …
When you start out blogging you might feel like email lists aren’t all that important. When you’re only getting less than a handful of views a day on your blog what’s the point in wasting time setting up an email list and newsletter? Well, I’m going to attempt to demystify why so many successful bloggers …
I had so much fun writing the first 10 Newbie Blogger Mistakes post that I couldn’t resist writing another one. So, drumroll please! 10 more mistakes you might be making as a newbie blogger! And yes, there are for sure more on this list that I am guilty of making, hopefully not as often these days. 1. …
Youtube’s announcement of their new 10,000 lifetime views required to monetise rule has got a lot of people in a tizz. While some people have simply shrugged and gone “whatevs” (usually those with well over 10k views) smaller creators that are struggling to grow their channels are now worried about the future of those channels. …
It’s time to say goodbye to annotations in videos guys! Youtube has announced that on May 2nd annotations are over for good. If your videos are full of annotations then don’t panic! Any existing ones will still work, but you won’t be able to add more or edit existing ones once May 2nd swings around. …
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Evergreen videos are timeless videos. How to Boil an Egg is evergreen, there will always be people that want to know how to boil an egg and the process is unlikely to change any time soon, on the other hand a video about How to Install WordPress Version 1 is no longer relevant seeing as we’re way past version …
Jetpack has a feature called Photon which Sounds pretty good right? The slight issue is the fact that they serve your images from their own CDN, in simple terms, they host your images off of your website. While for some bloggers this might not be an issue, for others who are in the more visual …
There’s a sneaky little bloggers trap that I like to call “generic content”. Basically it’s content that can be found a million times over on a million different blogs. If anyones ever tried to look up how to grow a following on social media then you’ve probably found a tonne of sites that all offer …
End screens have taken over and I know that some people out there (me included!) have been trying to figure out the best elements to put on there. Well, I think I’ve cracked it, but to figure it out you’ll need to take a little dive into your analytics, and decide where exactly you want to be …