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Hello there! I'm Diane and I have two grand passions: making crafts and making media. That's what I write about here, and sometimes, I get all thoughtful about internet culture and creative small businesses. Thanks for stopping by! Would you like some tea?   
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 Image by roboM8, via Flickr Today, I want to talk about an idea that’s actually pretty slippery and challenging to integrate into a blog, but is absolutely necessary to changing the conversation with your readers. The idea is this: as readers and consumers, we tend to pay more attention when we feel some kind of emotional … Read On! There’s More!  Image by Flavia_FF, via Flickr When Abby Glassenberg mentioned on Twitter that she’d been scheduling phone conversations with her blog readers, I was intrigued. What a wonderful way to better understand who you’re writing for, and therefore change the conversation with them! I’m so glad she agreed to share her experiences in this guest post. … Read On! There’s More!  Image by Alx, via Flickr In the last post, we talked about re-training your eyes and skill set to create a more professional online presence. In this post, I want to expand on this idea a bit: let’s talk about the professionalism inside your noggin. …Because you might have the most beautiful blog in the world, … Read On! There’s More!  Image by Mister Wind-Up Bird, via Flickr I want to kick off this month’s theme by sharing a question people ask me all the time: How do I get people to pay for this blogging I do? That question has about one bazillion answers, so let’s focus on the most important one right now. If you … Read On! There’s More!  Image by Steven Depolo, via Flickr Welcome to April! This month, we’ll be looking at ways you can change the conversation you’re having with your blog readers – changing it from purely Free to sometimes Paid. That doesn’t mean turning your blog into a forest of ads and squeeze pages, or becoming another peddler of digital … Read On! There’s More!  Image by Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS), via Flickr How long have you been blogging? How many posts have you written in that time? Do you ever look back at these old posts? I’ve been keeping this blog for about seven years now, and the more I look back at my old content, the more … Read On! There’s More!  Image by Usonian, via Flickr I believe that many of us think of the content of our blogs only in terms of the posts we write. But you know what? The content of your blog is actually everything on your blog – the photos you share with each post, your header, and every button and link … Read On! There’s More!  Image by Dan O’Leary, via Flickr With this post, I’m kicking off a new structure in the way I write about what I call “thinky things” on this blog. I love to ruminate on the intersection between crafters, the internet, and making a living. And I thought it might be fun (and good for my … Read On! There’s More!  Here’s my contribution to our blog hop this week! As I mentioned yesterday, good photography is increasingly becoming very important to building an online presence. Look at all the big aggregation blogs in the craft community. They share projects from all over, and what do those projects generally have in common? Good photos. Good tutorial … Read On! There’s More!  Psst: I just wanted to give you a heads up that I’m teaming up with a group of smart ladies for a week of photo tutorials! Our blog hop hopes to address one of my biggest challenges at CRAFT (and one that Haley continues to have), and one that’s showing up again as I … Read On! There’s More! |
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