Make It With Michael

By Cynthia Dora Every year, I greet January with new resolutions. Often, I never end up fulfilling them. But that doesn’t stop me from making new ones every year. One of the resolutions I made at the start of 2017 – one I thought would be easy to keep – was to write a blog post every week on WordPress. Easy, right? But it’s May already and I am way behind schedule. Not that there isn’t a heap to write about – there’s U.S. politics, the immigration debate, racial justice and healthcare rights. There’s easily enough to have me raring to go every morning. But like I said, I am failing miserably. What’s the big deal about slacking off from time to time, you ask? Well, I recently came across a WordPress statistic that says its users produce almost 80.7 million new posts every month . I will admit that made me feel pretty slack! So a bit of introspection, research and discussion with like-minded bloggers inspired me to come up with this list of ways to motivate yourself to blog when...

By Dara Fontein According to Adobe’s Social Intelligence Report, Tumblr ranked No. 1 in social sentiment towards brands. Not only that, but 70 percent of users say the Tumblr dashboard is their favorite place to spend time online. With over 200 million active blogs publishing 80 million posts every day on Tumblr, your brand has a huge opportunity to reach an engaged audience. But, that kind of volume means you also need to find ways to stand out from the crowd. Continue reading to find out how you can best advertise on Tumblr to benefit your business and reach new customers. A guide to advertising on Tumblr marketing Sponsored Posts Tumblr’s Sponsored Posts are ads that appear in users’ dashboards but maintain the look and feel of organic content. For example, television network FX developed a Tumblr Sponsored Posts campaign to promote their new show. They created “ editorial content including GIFs, illustrations, and original photography that aligned with the brand’s messagin...