Let It Shine

Are you on Tsu ?  Have you even ever heard of tsu (pronounced Sue)?  I didn't until the other day when I was visiting someone's blog they mentioned it.  I clicked on their shortcode and within minutes I created my account.  So what is  Tsu  and why should you sign up? Tsu is a social media platform but there is a difference. It pays you for your content!  The more relevant a user’s content and the larger their network, the proportionally greater the monetization is. You can only sign up for tsu through invite or by using a member’s shortcode . The beauty of it? You receive your own shortcode when you sign up and you can invite all your friends and family! Your content is not hidden from your friends and followers as it is on Facebook. If you post content on Facebook about 5% of your friends see it. On tsu ? ALL your friends see it!  I spend a good portion of my time advertising my content, not only, on Facebook but ...

A little while ago I wrote a post asking Is Your Blog Mobile Friendly?  Well I am finally writing a follow up post. Right now I use AddThis on my blog. I like it for several reasons. One reason is how easy it is to install it onto my blog. In fact I just received an email from AddThis with this subject line -  Deliver a Beautiful Mobile Experience. I wonder if they read my post? Or reading my mind?  Either way, I didn't have to go searching for a mobile bar for blogger because they brought the answer to me. Oh, and I did check out my blog on a phone and it looks blog friendly to me. Anyway, I clicked on the link that took me to  https://www.addthis.com where I selected add mobile bar. I entered my sharing site information and clicked on add this. Tah dah. DONE! I immediately checked the phone and there it was. A sharing and follow me bar floating at the top of the page. How wonderful is that?  If only everything was this easy. What a wonderfu...

If you're like me, you're always wondering if your blog is set up to be reader friendly, easy to navigate and well pretty. You change the colours, the template, the share buttons. And you judge your choices by examining it on the device you worked it all out on. And if you're like me, you have been mindlessly oblivous to your blog's appearance on other devises and more or less content with the way your blog is set up. Then I read an article by  Greg Hickman . Is Your Blog Mobile Friendly? Awww! What do you mean I may be losing up to 50% of my traffic? Is my blog mobile friendly? Apparently more people are accessing the internet on some sort of mobile device than ever before and that number will continue to rise. So you better be sure your blog is user friendly on mobile devices. How can you tell if your blog is set up properly? Greg explains it all in his article. That is if you're using wordpress. If you are interested click  HERE  to read the who...

Hi. I'm so glad you decided to stop by. I thought the best way to end the year would be to review my top three posts.  There are two reasons. One, I have a reason to share my posts again. :)  And two, we can figure out what I may have done right so we replicate it. Will you help me figure out why these are my top three posts? The Top Three Posts Are: No Sew T-Shirt Transformation 36 Fun Projects Made From Old Denim Jeans Make Your Own Rag Rug This Weekend Possible Reasons for The Popularity of The Top Three Posts Great posts will usually answer a question, solve a problem, make the audience laugh or cry. I guess you could say they answer the question how.  All three posts are tutorials. The topics can appeal to a large audience. The images are appealing. The titles are attention grabbing. Headlines, numbers and bullets are used strategically. These posts were promoted at a lot of Linky Part...

Please Share the Love One of the things that I love most about blogging is visiting my fellow bloggers and checking out their amazing posts. Of course when I find something particularly interesting I want to share it. I want to know more about the blogger and I want to be able to follow them.  Sometimes it can be so frustrating. But more importantly, that blogger is missing out - missing out on the sharing and following. Not that I am a super star blogger but every bit helps right. 7 Things I Look For When I Visit Your Blog 1. Awesome Images No matter where I start from, whether it is a Linky Party, Pinterest, Google Plus, what ever, I am first and always attracted to your post by the image you have on display. Everyone knows that. And that is something I am definitely working on.  I started off with my regular digital camera but have upgraded to a Nikon DX. Mind you I love taking photographs and I wanted a better cam...