Kristen Fischer: Creatively Self-Employed: How Writers and Artists Deal with Career Ups and Downs
Gail McMeekin: The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor
Rice Freeman-Zachery: Living the Creative Life: Ideas and Inspiration from Working Artists
Meg Mateo Ilasco: Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business
Chances are, if you own a business and I had five minutes alone
with you, I probably tried to convince you to start your own blog (as some of these poor women can attest).
Here's a list of readers who started blogging with a little push from me and/or freshblogtips.com!
The Roux (also inspired by her friend, Mary from pretty good)
If you recently started a blog and found that my blogging tips were helpful, please let me know and I will add it to the list.
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Colleen,
I studied your tips over and over again and have put every single one of them into action with the start of my new blog. My question is: I have had one giveaway and am about to post another for next week....what is the best way to have a giveaway that involves people telling everyone they know about my site and they win based on 'most people they emailed' etc.? Any ideas? THANK YOU http://savorthethyme.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Jennifer | January 11, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Hi Colleen, I have enjoyed your blog Fresh Vintage for over a year now and your fresh blogtips has inspired me to jump in. I have read most of your tips at least once and have now made three posts. Tutorials will be forthcoming. Thanks for the inspiration and your irreverent sense of humour.
Posted by: Jenifir | March 02, 2009 at 06:14 PM
YES! Bullied and proud of it. Thanks again to you and Mary! I think I'm finally gaining some momentum on posting regularly. And I'm really enjoying connecting with other bloggers through links, etc. In my posts, I like linking to someone else's blog rather than a product's website, for example. It's a great way to get my blog fans - which are mostly family and friends - to see what else is being done out there. I'm often in awe of the creativity in the blog world. And imagining someone quietly at their desk putting together a beautiful little post to make others think and smile is just so inspiring.
Posted by: Alana | June 01, 2009 at 03:03 PM
I am making an attempt to go at blogging the "Colleen" way. I've started a new blog and I'm re-reading all of your lovely fresh blog tips. I feel so much better this time around.
www.chicksandchaps.blogspot.com
Posted by: Rachel @ Chicks&Chaps | June 09, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Colleen!
I love your sites!
My mother in law actually forwarded me your blogging tips post(s) and I'm thrilled to find direction in the blogosphere world. So thank you very, very much.
On a side note, I'm a huge fan of dooce.com and am thrilled to know that someone else out there is also just as quirky and willing to write the way they speak. It's very refreshing.
Katie
Posted by: katie | June 20, 2009 at 08:41 PM