Blogging ABCs show

Blogging ABCs

Summary: Expert advice from bloggers Deborah Carney, Tricia Meyer, Liz Fogg and the guests that they interview. Listen to get your blog up to speed, learn how to get traffic, learning from the people that are successful bloggers and marketers. Visit the website for comprehensive show notes and articles to support the podcast topics.

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 Sonia Pressman Fuentes Interview About Feminism and Her Memoir | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:06

Author Sonia Pressman Fuentes/a> joins BookGoodies hosts Deborah Carney and Karen Garcia to discuss writing, publishing and a lot of history. What inspired you to write your memoir? Several things inspired me to write my memoir. First, I was born i...

 WAHM-WHAD Podcast With Blogger Aldo Mencaraglia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:03

WAHMoms/WAHDads host Deborah Carney is joined by guest Aldo Mencaraglia. My name is Aldo and I live in Melbourne, Australia. Exactly one year ago I left my corporate job as a commercial analyst to dedicate myself full time to my blog, Italiansinfuga.com, an online resource dedicated to Italians wishing to live and work abroad. I started the blog 3 and half years earlier and it got to the stage where I could see it growing to a serious business. At the same time, my wife could then be able to concentrate more on her new profession of migration agent. I have recently started another site, xlninja.com, dedicated to sharing my Excel knowledge. Website http://www.italiansinfuga.com http://au.linkedin.com/in/aldomencaraglia Thanks to GeekCast.fm for hosting all of our podcasts. Visit them for more podcasts about marketing and working from home.

 Len Feldman eBook Consultant Interview with @BookGoodies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:49

Len Feldman of Klemfarb joins BookGoodies podcast host Deborah Carney to talk about the services he provides for authors. Klemfarb assists large and small publishers (including self-publishers) and book distributors with entering the eBook market. We specialize in genres such as children's picture books, that require a different approach than conventional trade fiction titles. We help our clients to select eBook platforms, identify production services and distribution partners, and keep ahead of industry changes. Website(s) Klemfarb Twitter Account Link to Book for sale via other sites Other places to find us: http://feldmanfile.blogspot.com Contact Information: Email us at info (at) klemfarb.com. Follow BookGoodies on: Twitter Facebook Thanks to GeekCast.fm for hosting our podcasts! Please also visit NightFire Publications for books published by Deborah and Friends. Other sites you may want to visit: Awesome Gang Author Marketing Club JoinWOMU Message Board for Women Entrepreneurs Support BookGoodies Projects - Help BookGoodies fund the books to help authors succeed.

 Podcast With Author and Blogger Fanny Seto | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:14

WAHMoms/WAHDads host Deborah Carney is joined by guest Fanny Seto who is a blogger and author who works from home. From Fanny: I've been working from home for about 7 out of the past 12 years. I run a frugal living blog Living Richly on a Budget and recently wrote an ebook Eating Organic on a Budget. My daughter is 15 months old. I've worked as a wedding videographer, in search engine optimization, and in online marketing. When I was laid off the 2nd time in a row, I found out that I was pregnant. And I knew that I wanted to stay at home with my child. So I worked at building up my blog to earn an income from it. I felt I had the skills and experience to make it happen. And although it's challenging at times, there's no other place I'd rather be than at home, raising my daughter. Here is a section of a transcript of the podcast: Deborah: What’s the biggest challenge that you think you face as a work at home mom? Fanny: Finding time to work. At this age she’s walking a lot and running and doing things and she won’t let me be on my computer. Every time I’m at my desk she’ll come over and start playing with my mouse and the keyboard and I really can’t get any work done while she’s awake. It’s not like when she was crawling or when she couldn’t move and I could just work a couple hours during the day when she was awake. Now all my attention is taking care of her during the day while she’s awake and when she sleeps that’s when I work. The challenge is actually finding time to work and being more productive with my time. Deborah: Yes, so time management is a big thing with you? Fanny: Yes. Deborah: That’s a challenge that probably every work at home mom and dad has even when their kids are older and off in middle school or high school. Then they don’t demand your attention by playing with your mouse and keyboard but all of a sudden they need to be driven here, there and everywhere. How are you balancing that? You said you work when she naps. Does she have a schedule that she keeps or do you just have to wait for her to get tired? Fanny: She takes one nap during the day so sometimes I do some social media work during that time and I also take a nap. I work at night when she’s asleep. I get most of my work done when she’s asleep. She sleeps at about eight or nine and then I get a few hours of work done. I kind of work two to four hours a day on my blog. Actually to get my book done it was challenging because I couldn’t do it on those time constraints. What I worked out with my husband is he would take her out during the weekend on a Saturday and I would get some writing done during that time. Writing a book you can’t just do one hour or two hours. You have to do a big chunk of time to get something done. That’s how we worked it out. Otherwise I don’t think I would have been able to complete the book. For the rest of the interview, listen to the podcast or download the pdf of our interview. Website https://www.facebook.com/livingrichlyonabudget Thanks to GeekCast.fm for hosting all of our podcasts. Visit them for more podcasts about marketing and working from home. Also visit the JoinWOMU Message Board for Women Entrepreneurs

 Amy Weber – Making it in Show Business – Author Interview | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:59

Hollywood personality Amy Weber joins BookGoodies host Deborah Carney to discuss her recently published a guide to Making it in Show Business aimed at helping newcomers avoid some of the potentially dangerous traps lurking just behind the scenes of this glamorous industry. The book is based on lessons she learned, both as a model, and as the owner of a successful modeling agency. Amy is a successful Hollywood personality who has found ways to help others. Amy took some time out from her success as a model & actress to start her family (with the birth of her twins - who are coming up on their third birthday). Instead of the traditional I had a baby, look at me now approach we see so often these days, Amy has instead concentrated her efforts on finding a way to help others. In addition, Amy is producing and hosting a new reality series called GOOD SAMARITANS which focuses on the people we meet every day and just how we look at and help out those who are in need. GOOD SAMARITANS is airing on DISH Network, DirecTV, and starting on syndicated stations across the country shortly. She is also producing and starring in CROSSROAD, a faith based family film which will be in theatres later this year, plus her first album is making a rapid rise through the BILLBOARD charts! Amy's Twitter: @TheRealAmyWeber Amy's Facebook Page Follow BookGoodies on: Twitter Facebook Thanks to GeekCast.fm for hosting our podcasts!

 Weebly Website Building Platform – Blogging ABCs #26 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:17

Blogging ABCs host Deborah Carney is joined by Karen Garcia of GTO Management to present an updated platform that bloggers and webmasters can use to easily create a new website. Why do over 10 million people & businesses use Weebly? For the easiest, most powerful, and affordable website-building service! Building a website on Weebly is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. Our drag & drop website builder makes it dead simple to create a powerful, professional website without any technical skills. Named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites, Weebly has helped many millions of people create a professional website, blog, or online store and is the leading innovator in the website creation space. Weebly.com http://gtomanagement.com http://twitter.com/karengarcia Affiliate program: http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=37723&source=abcs Find Us On Twitter: Blogging ABCs Loxly Many thanks to Geekcast.fm for hosting our podcasts and many other educational and entertaining podcasts related to all things geeky.

 Inbound Writer Blogging Tool – Blogging ABCs #25 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 14:35

Blogging ABCs host Deborah Carney is joined by Karen Garcia of GTO Management to present a cool tool that bloggers and webmasters can use to optimize their blog or page content. InboundWriter is a content optimization app that helps you blend art and science to reach and engage your audience. It is available as both a web app and a WordPress plugin and makes it easy for content marketers and professional writers of all types to create more relevant and web-friendly content by integrating real-time search and social intelligence directly into the writing process. http://inboundwriter.com http://gtomanagement.com http://twitter.com/karengarcia Affiliate program: Join the Inbound Writer Affiliate Program Find Us On Twitter: Blogging ABCs Loxly Many thanks to Geekcast.fm for hosting our podcasts and many other educational and entertaining podcasts related to all things geeky.

 Author Interview with Stacy Juba – @BookGoodies @StacyJuba | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:40

BookGoodies host Deborah Carney interviews author Stacy Juba about publishing as a teen by a big publishing house, and later with a smaller publishing label and eventually independently publishing. We also discussed collaborative book promoting and KDP Select vs expanding to other ebook platforms. There is also a discussion about whether we want children reading ebooks or staying with print books. Would enjoy your comments on that issue as well! Here is a short bio from her site, you can read the longer version here: Although Stacy Juba specializes in writing adult novels, she has also authored books for children and young adults – she pursues whatever story ideas won’t leave her alone. Stacy’s titles include the mystery novels Twenty-Five Years Ago Today and Sink or Swim, the mystery short story Laundry Day, the children’s picture books The Flag Keeper, Victoria Rose and the Big Bad Noise, and the Teddy Bear Town Children’s E-Book Bundle (Three Complete Picture Books), and the young adult novels Face-Off and Dark Before Dawn. She is a former journalist with more than a dozen writing awards to her credit and is currently working on a contemporary fiction/romantic comedy novel, as well as a new mystery novel. Many of her titles have appeared as #1 on various Amazon Kindle Top 100 lists. Stacy's Website Stacy's Twitter April 19th 2012 – Give Your Child A Free Kindle Book Day BookGoodies Twitter Thanks to Geekcast.fm for hosting our podcasts.

 Interview With Author Mike Bove About Self Publishing and Cooperative Promotions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:52

BookGoodies is pleased to publish our interview with mystery writer Mike Bove, who you can find more out about at MikeBove.net Mike is involved in a really cool free book promotion day - Friday the 13th! 13 mystery and suspense authors are going to be offering a scary book for your Kindle or Kindle apps to enjoy on Friday April 13th. Deborah Carney interviewed Mike after he contacted BookGoodies about the Friday the 13th book promotion. Join us to hear his story about publishing independently and how he got involved with the group that is sponsoring the spooky giveaway. The event is being sponsored by Stacey Juba and their press release will be posted below. In the meantime, have a listen to Mike as we explore the town and characters of Willowtree and his journey to get there. Show Links: Mike Bove's Website Stacy Juba's Website BookGoodies Page About the Friday the 13th (April 2012) Book Giveaway Thanks to Geekcast.fm for hosting our podcasts, please visit them for more podcasts and screencasts about all things geeky.

 The Changing Landscape of Book Publishing with @JimKukral | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:01

BookGoodies hosts Deborah Carney and Vinny O'Hare talk to successful author Jim Kukral about the way book publishing is changing. There is a major shift from publishers and agents as gatekeepers of published books to authors being able to publish whatever they want. Is this good or bad? Listen to us to find out! More links to Jim: Business Around a Lifestyle Author Marketing Club Digital Book Launch JimKukral.com About BookGoodies: BookGoodies.com BookGoodies Facebook Contact us to be our guest or suggest topics to cover. All of us on Twitter: JimKukral BookGoodies Deborah Carney Vinny O'Hare Many thanks to GeekCast.fm for hosting our podcasts. Visit them for more podcasts and screencasts about marketing and much more.

 BookGoodies Interviews Recipe Book Author Kent Lorentzen | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:52

BookGoodies hosts Deborah Carney and Vinny O'Hare talk to Recipe Book Author Kent Lorentzen about his book, his photography, his farmer's market and why he self published. Find Kent Lorentzen on the web: http://kent-lorentzen.artistwebsites.com/ http://www.pixbykent.com/ http://twitter.com/NiftyGaloot http://www.amazon.com/author/kentlorentzen About BookGoodies: BookGoodies.com BookGoodies Facebook Contact us to be our guest or suggest topics to cover. All of us on Twitter: BookGoodies Deborah Carney Vinny O'Hare Many thanks to GeekCast.fm for hosting our podcasts. Visit them for more podcasts and screencasts about marketing and much more.

 How Bloggers Can Utilize Gift Guides – Blogging ABCs #24 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:39

Blogging ABCs hosts Tricia Meyer and Deborah Carney talk about how bloggers can use gift guides to build traffic and possibly test out affiliate marketing and see if it is right for them. Regardless of whether you choose to monetize your blog or not, gift guides throughout the year can give you a topic to write about that people search for and need help with. Find Us On Twitter: Blogging ABCs Loxly SunshineTricia Many thanks to Geekcast.fm for hosting our podcasts and many other educational and entertaining podcasts related to all things geeky.

 BloggingABCs #23 – Why Don’t Many Bloggers Want to Monetize Their Sites? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:12

Rick Calvert and Karen Garcia join Blogging ABCs hosts Tricia Meyer and Deborah Carney to discuss the dilemmas faced by bloggers about whether or not they should monetize their blogs and if yes, how. It's a candid discussion covering both sides of the issue. Find Us On Twitter: Blogging ABCs Affiliate ABCs Loxly SunshineTricia GTO Affiliate Management Many thanks to Geekcast.fm for hosting our podcasts and many other educational and entertaining podcasts related to all things geeky.

 ABCs Plus – Being Prepared for Worst Case Scenario | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:27

Blogging ABCs and AffiliateABCs hosts Deborah Carney, Liz Fogg and Tricia Meyer discuss what bloggers and affiliates can learn from Tricia's experience being unexpectedly dropped from two networks (described in her post The Ugly Side of Affiliate Marketing). The issues discussed apply when you have problems with the Affiliate Nexus Tax, Google AdSense, merchants closing, and many other aspects of affiliate marketing. Our Four Main Tips: 1) Diversify. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.  Have different types of sites in different niches. Work with different merchants across different networks. 2) Separate Accounts. Use separate network accounts when you have multiple sites or especially different types of sites (incentives, coupons, gambling, etc). It will come in handy if one of your sites gets flagged or if you decide to sell a site. 3) Use link redirecting. Redirecting will help you change out links quickly if you need to. In addition, you can use shorteners so that your domain shows up instead of someone else's when you post your links in other places. 4) Network. Meet in person with as many people as possible. Further, after you connect with them, follow up, reinforcing your connection. When you need help, those connections may be the difference between keeping and losing your business.  . Some Resources we mention: Pretty Link Lite YourLS Open Source shortener that you can install on your own website Find Us On Twitter: Blogging ABCs Affiliate ABCs Loxly SunshineTricia TeamLoxlyLiz Many thanks to Geekcast.fm for hosting our podcasts and many other educational and entertaining podcasts related to all things geeky.

 Blogging ABCs #22 – Blogger Profile – Epilepsy Moms | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:10

Blogging ABCs hosts Deborah Carney, Liz Fogg and Trica Meyer are joined by Arlene Martell of Epilepsy Moms. Arlene started her site over 3 years ago in order to pay forward the information that she has gained over the years.  Her son was diagnosed at 4 years old with both Epilepsy and Autism and has been drug and seizure free for over 10 years. Arlene's Free Ebook Information on the Ketogenic Diet Information on Neurotherapy Find Us On Twitter: Blogging ABCs Loxly SunshineTricia TeamLoxlyLiz Epilepsy Moms Many thanks to Geekcast.fm for hosting our podcasts and many other educational and entertaining podcasts related to all things geeky.  

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