Hey There, Coronavirus

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Hey There, Coronavirus

I think it’s safe for me to say what we may all be thinking: I’m ready for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) to go away. And I don’t mean the polite kind of going away. I don’t want the departure that comes with a few prolonged hugs and walk out of your house like a visiting relative.

Hello, Twenty-Twenty

In case you don’t know, today is January 1st, 2020. Chances are you’re fully aware, but let’s pretend that you aren’t. It’s the start of a new year and a new decade and it gives us the time to get things moving in a positive direction. It may be corny, but I love the opportunity

3 Types of Emails to Send When You Don’t Have a Product

The last few months I’ve been extremely busy. I started a new job, traveled through London and Berlin for a few weeks, and then photographed restaurants between it all. When I came back I was beyond jetlagged. A functioning zombie I barely managed to get through the day, let alone get through the day and

Why You Need an Email List and 3 Email Marketing Providers to Check Out

Running a website isn’t easy. There are a handful of terms and programs to learn that can seem like a never ending list of things to figure out. What’s a domain? Is SEO important? How do I come up with blog posts? With everything involved, running a website can be overwhelming. Not to make things

How to Stay Motivated as a Blogger When Life Gets Hard

Earlier this month I got some bad news while at work. It wasn’t bad like, “You suck at your job we’re firing you, Danielle” but it was more like “You’re doing a great job but we have to cut your hours, Danielle.” To be honest, the latter sentence was actually the bad news. The minute

4 Things You Should Know When Hosting Your Website with Bluehost

A while back we discussed how to pick the best blog name when you don’t know where to start, and later how to create the best branded material for your blog. If you’re at the point in your blogging career where you’re ready to move into the self-hosting space and create your very own website

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What to Do When Your Web Hosting Expires

Here’s something scary that can happen to you: what if your web hosting expires? What if you’re going about your life daily and weekly and then out of nowhere you forget to renew the hosting for your website and you lose your entire site? Gone, poof, vanish, buh-bye to all the content you created? It

Website Hosting Explained for You to Start Your Blog

Starting a website may not be easy, but it also shouldn’t be hard. Sure most of wish we could snap our fingers and suddenly a website of our very own appear online as we want it to be. Unfortunately, the internet doesn’t work that way. Instead, when it comes to making a website, we have

Nonstop Laughs and Talking About Food, Race, and More on the “I Know But…” Podcast

I could not stop laughing during this podcast interview. Honestly, I could not stop laughing and if I did, it was probably to breathe. Last week I spent the day in Orange County on a food tour with Niyaz Pirani, founder of Knife and Spork PR. In between eating and photographing food at Meat Up

Everything You Need to Know About Web Domains

Sometimes the internet is confusing as hell. For instance, remember when Beyonce dropped Lemonade in 2016 and we were all confused as to which Rachel was Becky with the Good Hair? All the bee emoji’s left under photos on Rachael Ray’s Instagram account instead of Rachel Roy was such a dark time. What can be