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5 Ways To Invest In Your Blog Right Now

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A while ago, I promised that I would give more blogging tips, so here we are today with five ways to invest in your blog right now. This post is for the bloggers and aspiring bloggers who want to take their blogs to the next level. If you are blogging just for fun, then you don't have to jump through these hoops. Okay, so a little bit of a back story for those who might be reading this blog for the first time. I started blogging in 2006, and I - like many others - was doing it just for fun. Read More

When Brands Want Bloggers To Work For Free – Part II

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I have written about this issue before TWICE because that's how much it hurts my feelings, and that's how much of an issue it is with fellow bloggers. My previous posts about working for brands explained how annoying this, but apparently, it did not explain enough, so let me try again. You can read those posts HERE and HERE. Today, I'm talking about brands who want bloggers to work for free. Although, to them, it's not free. I did not start blogging for money or for brand collaborations, and Read More

Biko, Stop Calling Me On Facebook!

Biko, Stop Calling Me On Facebook!

For a blogger - especially a lifestyle one who shares her life online - I have a love-hate relationship with social media. As you know (or maybe you're new and you don't know), when I started blogging, I was semi-anonymous. I blogged with my real name, but I never showed my face. There was no picture of me on the internet either. I know this because I searched very frequently. I used to do posts about what people searched for on Google that made them land on Verastic, and searching for my Read More

I’ve Been A Bad Blogger (And Vlogger)

I’ve Been A Bad Blogger (And Vlogger)

Sweet Potatoes! If you are a regular Sweet Potato, then you'd have probably noticed the embarrassing scarcity of new posts in the past few weeks. Please forgive me. I typically don't like to come here and give you half-news, unless I really, really have to. So I apologize for the half-news I'm about to deliver to you today, but I just need to explain my absence a bit.  Half-news = news that says something like, "I'm working on something, but I can't tell you about it yet ..." The Read More

Why You Shouldn’t Judge Bloggers For Working With Brands

Why You Shouldn’t Judge Bloggers For Working With Brands

Blogging has gone a long way from when I started blogging. When I started blogging, I don't know if any blogger was making money then, but I do know that blogging was more about telling your personal stories, like writing a journal online basically. I had blogged for 7 years before I started monetizing Verastic. For me, I took my time not because I didn't want the money, but because I wasn't really sure how to start, or if I was even big enough to start. Here's the thing about Read More

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