Growing your Instagram can be a long process if you don't know what you're doing. This daily checklist will help you narrow down your goals and help you get more focused on how to reach them!

The other day, I managed to grow my Instagram following by 50 followers. In ONE DAY.

So, here’s exactly how I was able to grow my following so quickly and why this won’t be happening again…

As a creative entrepreneur(bloggers, I consider you ladies entrepreneurs too!), it may be hard to think of what photos to take. Unlike lifestyle bloggers who can snapshots of their everyday life, you have to find a blend between taking photos that make sense with your business but at the same time still look beautiful and interesting. 

Are you a new or seasoned blogger that is feeling overwhelmed when it comes to creating helpful + sustainable content? Are you struggling with posting valuable content on social media? Are you tired of getting stressed over what you should post? Not sure if your content is reaching your audience? No worries, because you aren’t alone. 

What happens after you publish a post? Do you wait for it to magically receive tons of traffic or do you have a strategy in place to help market your new post?

Here are tips I use to get my posts seen by hundreds of people.

I'm terrified of Periscope. Just the thought of going on camera makes me feel a little lightheaded, but I know that it's something that I need to do to really take my business + blog to the next level. 

As a blogger, there are many things that we are great at or just pick up along the way. We know how to write (trust me, even if you think you’re a horrible writer - you aren’t), we learn how to market ourselves using social media (this comes naturally, tweeting new blog posts, commenting on others posts) but the one thing that we don’t really pick up is - design. 

Here are simple tweaks you can make to your blog sidebar to make it reader-friendly and organized. 

The number one rule for making your blog posts go viral is to make sure it is easily shared by others. When I launched my blog 3 weeks ago, I made sure to promote it using Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook Groups. This is called actively promoting your content, where you go out and do work to get others to read your content.

But, just this week I discovered something that made promoting my content so much easier. It’s something called Sumome and it’s freaking awesome. Why?

I knew the importance of Facebook groups though, but it never applied to me since I was stuck in a weird limbo - my business hadn’t launched yet and I didn’t have any blog posts to share.

How could you get readers from a Facebook group? How do you get clients from participating in threads? And most of all, how do you market yourself? If those are questions that are going through your head as you’re reading this… you’re in luck. 

I was able to attend Snap! The Instagram workshop held in Venice Beach this past Saturday. As it was my first workshop, I was so excited but at the same time very nervous. What if I didn’t meet anyone? What if everyone was in their own clique and I will be left standing alone? What if I want to leave early? 

If you’re just starting out on Twitter, and you’re looking for a way to grow your blog + gain new followers, then you have to participate in a Twitter chat. 

Why? Because not only can Twitter Chats offer insight into a problem you might be having, but they’ll also help you grow followers on Twitter, and create relationships with other bloggers!