UPDATE: The winner for this giveaway is #28, Heather! Congratulations. You can still take advantage of the 15% discount. Simply purchase the eBook here and enter the discount code: ‘mamasave15‘ at checkout.
Have you always wondered what “RSS” means, but where too afraid to ask?
Do you want to start approaching companies for product reviews or advertising on your blog, but not sure where to start?
And do you have a vision for your blog to make an impact on your community and your world and need a little motivation and guidance?
If you answered yes to any of the above, you’ll be glad you happened upon this post.
My good friend Stephanie from Metropolitan Mama has just recently published her first eBook, Bloggertunity: A Mom’s Guide to Blogging.
In this 85 page book, Stephanie gives you simple but thorough step by step directions on creating a successful blog. The book is available for $19.99, with 20% of the proceeds going to World Vision, a humanitarian organization that is dedicated to building a better world for children effected by poverty.
I mentioned Steph’s book last week in my Stroll Around the Blogosphere and guess what? She has been kind enough to offer a 15% discount to the fabulous readers of The Pixel Boutique! Simply purchase the eBook here and enter the discount code: ‘mamasave15‘ at checkout.
And? You also have a chance to win a free copy! One reader will be randomly selected for a download of the eBook.
Here’s how to enter:
- Tell me in a comment below, what one aspect of blogging totally baffles you…a concept that alludes you. Or…if you’re a smarty and know everything, what blogging tip would you like to share with other bloggers?
- For extra entries, tweet about this giveaway up to once a day and leave a separate comment for each tweet.
- Giveaway ends Friday, Oct 2 at 11:59 p.m.
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I would love to read Stephanie’s book, she is one of my favorite bloggers! What aspect of blogging baffles me? It would probably be all the technical things about setting up a web page, etc. Oh yes, and how do you find the time!
I’d love to know more about making money blogging. That’s one area where I’m not very knowledgeable.
Tip: Don’t worry about the number of comments, always remember there will be way more lurkers than commentors.
I agree with Annette—I’m dumbfounded in regards to most of the technical aspects… even the simple stuff!!! I can’t even figure out how to add a button to my sidebar! I even purchased the book, “Building a WordPress Blog…” Still clueless…
I’m sure Stephanie’s book is jammed pack with valuable info!!!!!!
I am totally baffled by SEO and really hope to get some help.
It amazes me how some blogs get so much traffic.- I’d love to learn the tricks on how to get more traffic.
Hi, I am a blogging intern over at momstalknetwork.com on the http://www.familytvaddicts.com blog. I would love to win this book to learn more on SEO and how to get into doing product reviews. Thank you for the entry
I would love to learn more about selling ads on your blog. Thanks for the chance!
I don’t know about things like Digg, Technorati, Stumble, etc!
I would love to learn more.
Honestly, what about bloggin doesn’t baffle me? Themes, RSS, best blogs to follow, making money (??-really??) I enjoy sitting down each day to think of what I want to write about… and coming up with ideas, doing research. The book is a great giveaway chance. Thank you!
I don’t know a whole lot about blogging except mainly how to hit the publish button. I would love to read Stephanie’s insight into how to get a larger audience and attract more readers. Not to mention her tips on making all those great PR connections that she has!
Tweet! http://twitter.com/thxmailcarrier/status/4333114547
I want to learn more about product reviews.
I would like tips on changing my blog url so that I drop the “.blogspot.” from my url and use the domain name I’ve purchased. How do you change the address of your blog? What happens to your former address with .blogspot. in it? How do you make it easy for your established readers to find your new blog address? Is it worth it to make such a change? What are the Pros and Cons? Thanks!
The book sounds awesome. I guess I’m always trying to update my blog and make it look cool. I would love to have a different template, more customized to match my personality!
What about blogging ISN’T comfusing except for the writing! I use Typepad and am in the process of getting a blog “tune up.” And yes, it costs a few bucks, but it is so worth it to not have the frustration of trying to make changes to things that I cannot even comprehend! There was a reason why I was a Psychology major and not a Computer Science major! Thanks for the opportunity to win the ebook!
I’m confused about getting traffic to my blog and then keeping them coming back. I know I’m choosy about what I read and there are tons of better blogs out there.
hematopoiesis at hotmail dot com
I love the idea of starting my own blog but don’t know the first thing about how to get started. Would love to win the book!
Ooo…Stephanie is one of my favorite bloggers! I must admit that the notion of making money blogging is baffling. I wonder how much time it takes to do that.
I popped over from Scribbit. I love your blog name and ideas! I for one thing have no idea how one would go about advertising and making money off it. Perhaps I don’t have the reader base that you have – that’s probably it!
I’m still figuring out the best way to get information out to my blog network. Even though my blog is part of Technorati…I don’t exactly know how to use that to push out more info…same with Stumble, Digg, and how to effectively promote a post at Kirsty. I’ve submitted stuff before…but, it feels like a waste of time.
I’m a subscriber to Metropolitan Mama…love Stephanie’s blog, and I think I’d learn a ton from her book.
There are still some functions of my blog dashboard I don’t know much about – do I want no-follow or follow…?
I would love to win the book, thanks.
Dagmar
Time management is something that baffles me….how do I find time to manage a blog and life???
I have trouble with some of the areas of Blogger like digesting my daily blog entries.
I twittered.http://twitter.com/jdaniel4smom/status/4475633092
I have been slowly but surely amping up to get my own blog started, so, following Stephanie’s blog, it would be wonderful to read her e-book. I wish I had funds to actually buy it. 20% to a good cause too! So wonderful. As for a question, I’m still pondering which platform to use, blogger, wordpress, typepad…and that’s just the beginning.
Everything baffles me…
jswandrn @ gmail.com
I am so glad I stumbled onto you tonight! I would love to learn more about blog formatting. I feel like I have been working on my blog for two years but the traffic should be higher. I would also love to learn more about getting effective advertising going.
Hi Nicole!
I just wanted to comment real quick to say thank you for featuring my book on your blog. You are a great friend – in the blogosphere and “in real life.”
Stephanie
I have many things about blogging that baffle me. I need to learn how to get traffic to my site and increase my ranking. My goal is to get free products in exchange for honest reviews and I feel like I’m a thousand miles away from that. This ebook would really help me understand how to get from point A to B.
Im a new blogger, but Im having trouble actually getting visitors to my blog.
Whats a good way to promote it?
FeedBurner confuses me and how to figure out the stats for your blog. Would love to win…
Everything mystifies me – is this written like blogging for dummies? lol? But for the sake of this entry I’ll say driving traffic to my blog.
The one thing that gets me is what do I need to do to host giveaways!
I tweeted http://twitter.com/jdaniel4smom/status/4550326192
I need help just getting started and having time!
I don’t “know it all”, but I do have three suggestions (sorry, four — the list could probably keep expanding almost indefinitely):
One: your font choice makes a difference. In particular, little things like being able to tell the difference between a lower-case “Oh” and a zero — presented here in alternation: 0o0o0o0o0o0 — can prevent a certain amount of confusion, particularly with usernames and email addresses that purposefully swap one for the other (wh0, m3?).
Two: many bloggers only use one browser — and therefore have no clue what their webpage actually looks like when viewed in a DIFFERENT browser (giving yourself a choice of browsers isn’t trivial, but it is fairly straightforward). Or in a different version of the SAME browser, or with different versions of FLASH player, etc (NOT so straightforward).
Three: be cautious with the use of third-party ad-servers displaying banners on your webpage(s) — YOUR security-awareness and browsing-safety factor may be just fine, but third-party ad-servers are ONE of the more common methods for malware distribution on otherwise-secure websites. You have to be able to rigorously justify ANY scripting enabled on your pages.
Four: find some comment-acceptance mechanism which folds entries over onto multiple webpages — nobody will want to visit and contribute if your existing commentary a) crashes their browser when opening your page or b) gives the impression that THEIR comment will never be seen in the crowd.
This qualifies as only one entry?? Hope it’s helpful… Thanks!
I’d love to know how these other bloggers that are moms get to do these giveaways. How are they contacted by companies to do reviews, to giveaway their products, etc.? I would LOVE to do similar!
Thank you for this giveaway.
Designing a blog is totally beyond me! I don’t know how to get the sidebars to line up right, or make buttons appear on not just the main page but every page. I think I could figure out what to blog about and PR and all that, it’s the mechanics that baffle me. I could use some help!! I think MetropolitanMama is the blog-BOMB and I know I could learn a lot from her ebook.
RT here
http://twitter.com/tnshadylady/status/4570377097
I am baffled by everything, how to set up a blog people are interested in and how to attract sponsors.
Okay, here’s what baffles me! How do you fit everything in a day, especially having the time to review, write and publish, take a SHOWER and actually do your hair and face, make the kids look clean and still have time to correspond with a majority of the comments posted?! I must move at a turtle pace over here. Blathering aside, I do wonder how she gets such awesome products to review.
How to come up with new blogging ideas?
I tweeted:
http://twitter.com/donnak4/status/4573795536
One aspect of blogging that totally baffles me is coming up with interesting things to write about.