Blogging
I started Carrots ‘N’ Cake to keep me on track with eating well and exercising in preparation for my upcoming wedding. My blog started as a personal food and fitness journal. I really had no intention of anyone ever reading it, and I definitely didn’t think that it would become such a huge part of my life– let alone my job!
If you’re a new blogger and would like some tips, check out these posts:
Ways to Increase Your Readership
5 (More) Ways to Increase Your Readership
How to Market and Promote Your Blog
Tips and Takeaways from TECHmunch Boston
5 Tips for Photographing Your Pet
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This is very helpful, thank you Tina! I started a blog 3 days ago, so this couldn’t have been timed more perfectly!
This is so helpful, thank you so much Tina!
Just started a blog yesterday! I figured it was fitting – new year, new goals, new blog. Thanks for your help!
Great tips!! Thanks Tina, I esp. liked the photo tips!
E
I just started a food blog — thanks for your tips and helpful information…I look forward to reading more of your posts. Cheers!
This is great. I am going to check out those links now. It’s always nice to see the links – because otherwise I’d just ask you (and annoy) you with the questions answered there
A big thing with me is focus and name. What do I want to make my focus on? And do I want to change my blog’s name…? Not really sure if I like it…but if I did change it, would my (little) readership already go down more!?
Great links and posts. These are super helpful!
eeek. i just started my first blog today! thank you for including this section in your blog. it gave me the confidence to do it!
Thank you so much for the informaiton. I am a new blogger and appreciate the advice.
Nicole
Great advice. Inspired me to start my own blog! Check it out.
Thanks so much for this! I’m glad to see that the blogging community is so great! I’ve just started to really invest in my blog. I’ve dabbled in it a bit throughout the years but it never turned into anything. These tips are so helpful. I really enjoy your blog and I’ve learned a lot just by browsing through some great ones!
I just spent 30 minutes reading through all of your posts on starting and beefing up a blog. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your tips and ideas are very helpful! I can see why you’ve become so successful.
I’m new into this whole blogging world. Thanks for the inspiration. I really need to sleep, but……………….. I’m hooked. You’ve inspired me! Can’t wait to have fun in the kitchen with my babeis tomorrow morning!
Thanks for the tips – as they are helping me in my newest adventures of blogging!!!! If you ever get chance check out my new blog over at counrtycookingnsb.blogspot.com. I would love some feedback on how improve my website. Thanks
Have been following your blog religiously for months! You helped inspire me to start my own! Thanks for all this advice! your so kind!
Hi Tina,
LOVE your blog. Do you do the wordpress html coding? Or do you hire someone for that? I’m just getting into the grove of blogging, and would love to teach myself how to host, and design my own site. Wondered if this was a CRAZY idea
Cheers!
ps: oops, I by an accident posted this on another page. Was supposed to go here !
I am starting a blog and all this information was sooooo helpful- thank you!!!
Hi Tina,
Love your all around approach on health and fitness
Can one contact you directly?
Cheers
James
You’ve got the best job ever!
The articles you linked to for bloggers just starting out are priceless. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much for posting this, I love your blog and I just started one too!!
Thanks so much for these posts! My blog isn’t at all in the same genre (or the same level!) as yours, but many of these tip are applicable to any new or inexperienced blogger. Very helpful.
Hey Tina!!
Congrats on the book! Want to get together?? I went to IIN in 2008 and LOVED it. Did you ever find anyone to discuss it with you? I would be happy to help:)
Tara
Thank you for all of the helpful information – I’ve always wanted to start a blog after reading yours and others constantly over the past year. Your advice was really insightful and definitely helped me!
Thank you so much for giving back to all of us. I just started my blog, and love! all of your tips.
Tina,
I’m so thankful for finding this post today. Sometimes you find exactly what you need when you need it. I’m a blogger and in a short period of time my blog has gotten some good notoriety. I was featured on alicia silverstone’s website last month and now I’m a finalist in a blogging contest. It’s really awesome but a little overwhelming. I want the blog to grow but I feel like it’s my own uncertainty that hold me back from really going huge. I’m glad to have found your website so I can find some tips and someone who knows what this is like. How long after you started your blog before you wrote your book? Thanks for sharing!
Love,
B
bpositivebfree.blogspot.com
Tina- thats for mentioning Meal4Meal. We are working to make an impact on Boston community that needs support. Your support means a lot to us.
Thanks, MF
Your tips are great! Thanks for sharing! Just started my blog and your tips so helpful!
Thanks so much for this collection of tips and advice Tina – they’ve really helped me with getting my blog going!
Tina,
Thanks so much for sharing all this information with your readers. I really liked today’s blog (How to Market and Promoto Your Blog). Right now, my blog is hosted on blogspot but I’m finding some annoying limitations (like not being able to “reply” to comments). Any suggestions or tips on web hosting? I saw that you use Wordpress and started researching it. I’m just not sure how to go about getting started and moving my blog (and the readers with it!). Thanks again for taking such care to share your wisdom with us!
~Ang
This is great info for me, a new blogger! I really appreciate all the tips and how to’s you’ve given. Thanks!
Long time reader, first time commenter. Thanks for curating such useful tips! I’m fairly new to blogging and it can be so overwhelming, what with all of the widgets and recommendations about maximizing traffic. Do you have any “lessons learned” on web design services to use for taking a blog to the next professional level? Some are so much more costly than others.
@Groomed Journalism: I used Revive My Blog for my recent blog design (contact info is at the bottom of my blog), and they were great to work with! I highly recommend them!
Hi,
I saw an awesome t-shirt the other day – Front said: Drink Beer Be Happy-Boston. The back said: I’m The Reason The Beer Is Always Gone.
Does anyone know where I can get one?
Thanks,
Kevin
I just bought the book Carrots ‘n’ Cake before coming up to New Hampshire (taking a small vacation)….and I have to say that it resonates with me more than any other book on a similar topic has…for a long long time!
Hi Tina! I tried to look for this but I couldn’t find an answer anywhere on your site. Did ReviveMyBlog design your site so the first post is shown and the rest are condensed, or is that a plugin you use? I’d love to do the same on my site!
Thank you so much for all the information! I’m working on reading it through now. I just started posting on my blog pretty recently and all the tips are incredibly helpful.
Love your blog! Keep up the good work.
Hi Tina,
I wanted to write to you and tell you that I recently finished your book, Carrots n Cake, and although I’m a dude (the book seemed primarily geared towards girls) I did enjoy reading what you’ve put together.
I like your approach towards running & nutrition – that you have to make it a priority like “brushing your teeth” and that it’s easier to adapt to when you treat it as a lifestyle change and look at it as a way towards acheiving balance.
I read about your history going on and off from counting calories daily. I feel that counting calories does work when trying to overcome a plateau in your weight loss program. Otherwise, I generally agree with you that it’s also important not to obsess over the numbers to the point where you feel guilt when you want to have a nice desert from time to time.
The main reason I picked up your book was to see the recipes. I like that it included some very simple, quick & cheap recipes (Strawberry
Orange Shake is a favorite post-run smoothie of mine) along with a mix of more complex and creative recipes.
However, some of the posts I wouldn’t really classify as a recipe, per se (for example: coffee beans and water to make coffee). Otherwise, I thought the rest of the recipes were really creative.
Overall, I think many of your readers (including myself) can identify with your struggle to devote more time to your blog and treat it as a path towards a full time career. I hope you’ve found your way there (or at least closer to it since publishing your book).
Can’t wait to read some of your posts,
Drew
Thanks for the great tips. I just recently started blogging and I’m loving it so far and your tips will definitely come in handy! Love your blog by the way!
This information is FANTASTIC! I started my blog last month so I’m still very new to the blogging world and so far I love it. There’s so much to figure out and to play with to make your blog interesting and fun and I just can’t read enough tips and tricks that seasoned and successful bloggers provide! Thanks so much for sharing and I absolutely LOVE your blog
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Tina,
Thank you so much for these great tips! I just started my blog about 2 months ago after being inspired by your blog and a few others I’m constantly reading. i LOVE your photos! Did you always have a knack for photography?
Also, I was a little intimidated to reach out to my favorite companies, but after this post I am going to do it!
Thanks so much for the great advice, the way you’ve managed to turn your blog into your career is really inspirational!
it’s late tonight and I stumbled on this blog. Too late to read all the post but I can see that It’s lots of support on weight loss which I need. So without saying you’ll hear more of me.
thanks for this! I just started my own fitness, health and travel blog. And I needed some help.
Hope I am entering the right place…I’d love to try the Hydroxatone Facial Rejuvenation System, thanks for letting me enter for a free one. I am 61 and would love to take a few years off it.
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