I was having a look around earlier today for blogs that tend to write content about television shows and even though I found a fair few I couldn't find anything specifically that I was looking for and it got me thinking ...
Being a freelancer myself I know how difficult it can be to be as active as you need to be in between working and keeping up with deadlines for orders that come in, sometimes it can be really difficult to get up and be a...
As a freelancer one thing I always look forward to at the end of the day when I have been working is some downtime. Since I also have children and I am also working as a freelancer it is always nice to be able to relax a...
One thing I always found when I ran a forum was how not so easy it was to promote my forum. I tried a few different niches when running forums and I always found each time it was just as difficult as the last to promote ...
I enjoy posting on blogs and I have in the past come across a lot of blogs that have allowed guest blog posting which is sometimes more convenient than registering to a lot of blogs. The only downfall to guest blog posti...
Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are a good place to share your blog posts for extra exposure and to gain more traffic and even potential readers however, sometimes sitting and manually placing links to your ...
One thing I learned quickly was that it's not good to just sit anywhere and work on either a PC or laptop. I tend to do a lot of work on my laptop and a lot of the time I was spending my time on the sofa or stood up in t...
It seems that nowadays people love to read about other people's personal experiences whether they be good or bad or even their personal lives. I guess it's just something that interests people nowadays. I myself used to ...
Whenever I create a new forum I always place a staff section in the forum list. This forum will be hidden away from members and only visible to staff on the forum. I feel that having a staff section/forum is essential to...
I couldn't believe it when I heard that Nokia was bringing back their 3310! I remember having a Nokia 3310 when I was younger and man, that phone was amazing. It wasn't overly big but the battery life on that thing was a...
Freelancing isn't something everyone does, it's something that is done by choice and for some people freelancing is not ideal for them. For others freelancing is perfect for them because of their lifestyle because let's ...
Running forums is a difficult task, often you need staff to help you run a forum so that you don't get run down dealing with all the problems that can arise on your own. Unfortunately staff will become inactive whether i...
Running a forum has it's fun moments but it also has it's challenging moments, I know, I have run many forums and have always hit the challenging once quite often. The most challenging things about running a forum I f...
I have been running forums now for around 10 years and one thing I learned back in my early days was to not allow members to hard delete posts on your forum. I learned this the hard way after I had a member come onto my ...
Finding the right kind of theme with the right kind of colours on a forum can sometimes be a struggle. You never want to go to bright or too dark but you also want something that will work well with the niche of your for...
Having a successful forum takes a lot of time and patience. I have come across forums where the owners feel like if they set it up, post a few times and then leave it, it will become successful over night. Unfortunately ...
Blogging seems to be getting more and more popular. Over the last few weeks I have seen more newer blogs created all of different niche's. It is nice to see newer blogs created especially if you do like browsing blogs an...
Hashtags were something that became more popular when Twitter opened, I remember people using them for the most craziest of reasons. Since Twitter has grown more popular now people tend to use hastags to gain more exposu...
There are so many ways nowadays to get the word out about your business from advertising on similar websites to your niche to adding the link to your website in directories. One other way to get the word out there is off...
As a current forum owner there are a lot of things that get my back up when it comes to members posting around the forum. I like them to feel like they belong and I don't mind them posting new posts of just a few words i...
When it comes to being a parent we all know that your child relies on you being there at their beck and call which is how it should be however, we all have to work and when it comes to working children can feel like they...
We all have something that inspires us to write, whether it be personal experiences or something that we have seen in the news there is always something that inspires us to write. For me I tend to go by personal exper...
Building backlinks for any kind of site is always a challenge, getting the backlinks to stick is always the hardest part to creating backlinks but also findin sites of a similar niche to which you can place those backlin...
One thing I have learned from past experience of owning my own forums is that so many genre's of forum are now overly done, meaning that depending on the kind of niche you choose for your forum you could have high compet...
Being a stay at home parent is a difficult job in it's own right even though many may not see it that way. Having jobs such as washing dishes, washing clothes, cleaning floors, cooking, getting the kids ready for school,...
When running a forum one of the main priorities is to keep content flowing whether it be new content or just replies to current content it is always wise to keep your forum looking active. The problem with running a foru...
