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137 Best Free Blogging Tools: How to Boost Blog Management Now

November 4, 2018 by Janice Wald 21 Comments

I equate blog management to having a natural childbirth.

You could forego assistance that will ease your struggles, but why would you?

No need to answer that. Just use these 137 free blogging tools and make your life as a blogger easier.

Blogging tools are as essential to a person who wants to have an easy time with blog management as pain relievers are to a woman who wants to have an easy time in labor.

I have personally used these tools and can recommend them unless otherwise stated. Although I’m sure there are many more tools out there to improve blog management, these are the tools I use. Therefore, I can recommend them based on personal experience.

Since I am an Apple iPhone user, the apps mentioned here are available for the iPhone. You can check the availability for Android users by going to Google Play.

Although there may be many uses for these apps and websites, in this post I share the way I use them.

The best part: These 137 blog management tools are all free. It costs you nothing to try them but you could lose a great deal of time by not trying them.

For your convenience, the functions of these tools are in alphabetical order.

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Best Data Recovery Software: How to Restore Important Lost Data

September 24, 2018 by Janice Wald 15 Comments

Panic.

A client asked me to send the screenshots I was using in a paid guest post.

I needed to please.

Return business to my freelance writing service depended on it.

Panic crept over me when I realized I deleted the screenshot I mistakenly thought I wasn’t using in the post.

Fortunately, I had the best data recovery software in place.

If you can relate to my experience of accidentally deleting a file, you’ll be interested in this post about how to recover data using the best data recovery software.

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How to Easily Get the 19 Best iPhone Apps of 2018

September 9, 2018 by Janice Wald 4 Comments

Lucky.

My reaction to discovering the Fall 2018 issue of iPad and iPhone Life magazine full of the best apps of the year.

After all, apps save us time.

Isn’t that what bloggers need in hot commodity? Time?

Mostly Blogging recommends tools for bloggers so this post will describe the best apps of 2018 and how bloggers can benefit from using them.

However, anyone can use these amazing iPhone apps.

If you want to see if these Apple apps for Android users, check the Google Play Store.

Apple users can get these apps at the iOS App Store. Just do an App Store search.

These apps are free unless otherwise noted.

Note: Some of these apps are not yet available but will soon be available on the iOS 12 scheduled to be released in September of 2018.

This post will describe the app and how the tool can benefit you as a blogger.

Make sure you read to the end since this post has a bonus tip.

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Do You Need an Instagram Quote Maker? Here Are 35 Free, Easy Tools

August 25, 2018 by Janice Wald 16 Comments

Many people find growing your Instagram followers a mystery.

There’s no science involved contrary to popular belief.

Emotional appeals win the day on this popular social media site.

Can you believe Instagram boasts 800 million users according to statistics?

Instagram is still growing. You should use it to promote your blog post content.

How?

The Instagram crowd loves visually pleasing inspirational quotes. You should use these tools to market your blog post content on Instagram.

Use these Instagram quote maker tools to make your quote posts and you’ll wow the Instagram crowd and your followers will grow.

Other helpful Instagram tools are covered as well.

In addition, this post contains tutorials on how to use two of the tools, Linktr.ee and Typorama.

Did I forget to mention?

These 35 tools are easy to use and are all free.

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How to Make More Money with a Pricing Table Template

June 26, 2018 by Janice Wald 6 Comments

Data.

An expression states, “Nothing is certain but death, taxes, and data.”

You need to present data in your blog posts.

Data gives your blog post information credibility.

Numbers don’t lie. People can’t argue with numbers.

How do you present the data?

Has data presentation been a problem for you?

It’s been a problem for me.

My post offering beginner blogging tips was a study designed to reassure bloggers that disappointing page views do not mean they need to abandon their blogs and quit blogging.

Gary Jefferies, my co-author, compiled the research while I was in charge of presenting them in our blog post.

Ouch! No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get the numbers to align.

Gary suggested I align the numbers but as hard as I tried, I couldn’t get the numbers straight, one over the other.

If you’d like to see the messy numbers I published, click the link to This Is Why Seasonal Blogging Factors Never Have to Be the Kiss of Death, 12 Tips and scroll down to “What the Research Shows.”

I was embarrassed and frustrated!

If I only had known about plugins that allow you to use tables on your site, I could have put the numbers in a table and avoided the negative emotions that interfered with what was an otherwise fun experience.

After reading this post, you’ll be able to avoid having my bad experience since you’ll be able to put tables in your blog posts.

This post will enable you to present data in an organized, professional manner and even boost your income by using the WordPress table plugins to make a pricing table template.

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Client Testimonials: How to Successfully Boost Your Brand

June 22, 2018 by Janice Wald 8 Comments

Do you have a page with client testimonials?

I do. It’s my Hire Me page.

You can make money with your testimonial examples.

I monetize this way. I send my Hire Me page to brands thinking about hiring me.

When they see my client testimonials, the companies realize I have good word of mouth.

The Bandwagon Effect kicks in. The Bandwagon Effect claims if other people like something or someone, it must be good.

Scroll down to Testimonials and you can see my customer testimonial examples. I have testimonial examples from brands as well as blog coaching clients.

Client testimonials provide you with social proof.

I also have social proof in my sidebar under “As Seen On.”

This post will offer plugin suggestions so you can also have the social proof that client testimonials bring.

Even if you don’t monetize, social proof can bring you more blog subscribers.

Bring on the plugins!

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Do You Need to Find the Perfect Gifts for Bloggers? Now You Can!

June 7, 2018 by Janice Wald 15 Comments

Father’s Day.

Is your dad as hard to buy for as mine?

If he’s a blogger, never worry about finding a gift he needs again.

This post offers 6 best tech gadgets that make the perfect gifts for bloggers.

by Amreen Makhani

The blogging industry has seen a tremendous change from what was to simply write and post your thoughts online to being able to earn money. These days bloggers invest in their writing and their chosen platform to bring in businesses and clients. Apart from that, bloggers take their niche segment and spin articles, videos, and a lot more about the same on their blogs.

The Vlogging industry has changed too with the introduction of YouTube, everyone can be a star with the number of views and hits a particular video makes on YouTube.

If your passion is all about writing, blogging or even making a video, where the content plays the king, then rest assured as we have you covered on the best tech gadget accessories you must have.

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Do You Need a New, Awesome Blogger App for the Mac? These 8 Are the Best

May 30, 2018 by Janice Wald 4 Comments

8 Awesome Blogging Apps for Mac Users

by Ali Dino

Desktop tools are very helpful because you will not be distracted by anything as you blog. Also, desktop tools do not require one to use the internet since you can use them offline. Most online users will agree that while blogging, working with plenty of open tabs can make us lose concentration. For this reason, it is good to work offline so that you can concentrate solely on your blogging work.

If you are a Mac user, we have good news for you. We will present 8 of the best blogging apps for Mac users.

Continue reading to learn more about the blogging apps for Mac users.

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