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The Fairy Blog Mother’s blog is born!

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Hi all my subscribers (and those who aren’t and really should be!)

This blog has been very quiet recently because it has been usurped by a rival! The Fairy Blog Mother has finally got her own blog, and I want all of you to move to and subscribe to it.

This poor blog has been plagued by spammers and malware since last summer, and it has worn me down. It also is a remnant of my business which succumbed to the recession last November. It’s time for a new beginning, and now that my health is beginning to be restored, I want to put all my energies into my new persona, perfect for my aim to help all bloggers to obtain blogging perfection!

So move right now to my Fairy Blog Mother blog and see what I’ve done! Let me know what you think, give me your suggestions, send me a question through the Fairy Blog Mother logo, and subscribe to keep up with what we’re doing! I will continue to upload all my visual e-courses on Wordpress.com blogging, and in the coming months I will give you a step-by-step visual account of how I create a Wordpress.org blog for my friend so you can create one too!

See you on the other side!

Alice

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Use a header to personalise your blog

Monday, January 18th, 2010

The first paragraph of my post Elements for a successful blog states your blog should suitably publicise its chosen subject or niche, and include a visual method of recognition through a designed header or banner.

You probably would have noticed this blog doesn’t have a personalised header with a photo of me on it. This is because my theme doesn’t allow it at the moment, due to being hacked into last summer, but I soon hope to rectify this.

To get round this problem, and for those who don’t have the techie know-how to resolve this situation themselves, popping a photograph into a text widget in the sidebar will provide recognition of the author (how to do this will be revealed through an e-course I’m writing very soon), and you can always make sure the title of the blog and its accompanying tagline is suitably descriptive, easily accomplished through the Settings menu from the Dashboard (learn how from the e-course ‘Setting the dashboard settings’).

How to personalise your header or banner of your Wordpress.com blog is the subject of the latest blogging e-course to be downloaded on this blog: ‘Creating a blog’s visual identity’. In it you will learn how to change the theme of your blog to something more suitable or to your liking, and how to adapt a theme, which has the provision of changing the header, to something that reflects your corporate identity.

It will certainly help to have the banner designed through Photoshop or some other similar software, and I stress it is important to make sure the final product is the correct size and resolution for your blog (Wordpress do provide information on how many pixels the banner should be) to make it easier to upload it successfully. My e-course provides those instructions too.

And keep an eye on my ever-growing e-course library list on my sidebar, which reveals the latest additions as soon as they are uploaded onto this blog, or subscribe to be kept informed of new information as it happens!

Oh, and if anybody does like my e-courses, don’t forget to send me a review through the fairy blog mother logo or in the comment box below.

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Want a Wordpress.com blog the easy way?

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Hooray!

After months of promising, I have finally done it. I have created the first sixteen of my blogging e-courses on how to create a Wordpress.com blog the really easy way – using visual e-courses that show you, step by step, with screen-shots of each procedure, the simplest way to create a fully functional blog – and they’re now ready to buy at incredibly reasonable prices! Just go to my make a blog! page to find out more.

And that’s not all, I still have two more e-courses to create, and I will be dotting around free pdfs with relevant top tips, time-saving methods and inside knowledge nuggets of how to make your blog and its posts all that more successful.

So if you know any start-up businesses, people who haven’t got a blog yet and are scared about starting one, or those who already have a blog and want to find out more about maximising its potential, then send them to my make a blog! page.

Oh, and leave a comment! I would really value your thoughts, and any questions are more than welcome!

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How many of you can cope with blogspeak?

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I’ve just listened to a video about blogging. Normally I would be very excited and would take voracious notes, but this time I just sat there bemused.

As a result I am determined to develop my new niche. Since the end of May, when I developed Bell’s Palsy, I had to take a back seat from my business to recover, and I used the time to rethink my strategy and where I was going with my business. This is an important activity to do now and again, and there’s nothing like having half a face to focus on what’s doing well and what isn’t.

I’ve decided to adapt my business in stages, and the first stage will be explaining how to create and maintain a blog for British non-techie females. The ‘British’ part is as relevant as the ‘non-techie’ and ‘female’ parts, because there are so much stuff out there that is American – sorry those from the other side of the pond, but American is not the same as English. The ‘female’ part is apt because, after coping with my dear, wonderful and thoroughly techie brother who sorted out minor problems with my blog, I realised that there is another vocabulary out there that isn’t tuned in to women or mumpreneurs.

So I would like to boost my ‘marketing research’ I’ve been doing at networking events lately, and ask for questions from equally bemused ‘would-be-bloggers’ what they would like to know, which bits they don’t understand, what is holding them back from setting up a blog, and how would they like their ‘lessons’ to be presented to them in the best way for them to learn.

Oh, and for those ’starting out’ bloggers, I will be working with a ‘free’ blog from Wordpress.com so you can get to grips with blogging the easy way, and don’t have to worry about all that nasty techie stuff needed for self-hosting blogs. (Once you have begun to understand blogging, then you can try your hand at the more advanced stuff at a later date.)

Come on girls, let’s have some questions… leave your contributions in the comments box below.

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