Blogging – Not What I Expected

My popular rocky road recipeIt’s been almost 12 months since I set up my blog Easy Peasy Baking. This is my outlet for my love of baking and cooking.

Since I was little I liked to make things and when I finished uni and had a good job I started indulging my interest. My baking and cooking has steadily grown over the years with notable landmarks such as appearing on Masterchef in 2006 and mass catering for some special occasions in my family like my sister’s 21st birthday.

I was new to blogging and considered it to be something of a chore when my husband suggested it. I love to bake but who would be interested in my simple baking recipes, who was I to show people how to cook!! How would I find the time blog with a full time job and lots going on!! Little did I know back then! Continue reading

7 Big Myths That Stop You From Having A Business Blog

It seems that small business owners are allowing a series of fears and myths that prevent them from having a blog for their business.

The fact is, a blog should be a major piece of your overall marketing plan, with it’s job being to communicate the personality and soul of your business. Of course, there’s no escaping the fact that blogging does need your attention and time to update it, and to keep it happy, fresh, and healthy. Continue reading

Using Your Blog as a Powerful Marketing Tool

If you own an internet business, and you have not been able to make much progress in the past few months, one of the best strategies you can employ is to enhance your blog, transforming it into an effective tool used for augmenting your marketing strategy.

Ever since Rich Pearsall, me and the rest of the New Forest Activities team had shifted and expanded our previous business plans to start NFA in 2009, we realised the major role that online marketing tactics, particularly blogging, would eventually play in attracting new people towards what our business can provide. Continue reading

How to Start a Blog

Tips for Blogging Newbies Who Want to Make Real Money While Staying at Home

Of course, no blogging beginner is truly interested in how to start a blog and only that. The real questions are how to start a good blog, how to make a blog grow, how to become an expert in your niche, how to attract followers and, the most important one of them all: how to make money blogging. Continue reading