TweetOur purpose, our reason for being and why we do what we do at IFB – is to help you make the most of your blog. For many of you, that means growing your blog from a publication into a business. You may be well on your way, wheeling and dealing, selling ad space and [...]

TweetUnless you’ve been living under a digital rock lately, you’re probably aware that Pinterest is pretty much the hottest social sharing site on the internet these days. Mashable announced in February that it drives more traffic than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined, and a recent study by sharing tool Shareaholic recently concluded that Pinterest even [...]

Tweet One of the things people ask when you say you are a “professional blogger” is “How do you make money from that?” It’s a good question because more often than not, people think advertising is the main way bloggers make a living. Perhaps highly trafficked blogs are able to make a living from banner [...]

Tweet  This is the third in a series of four posts to help you monetize your blog using affiliate marketing, sponsored by Fashion Traffic. (Read the first posts here.)    As with just about anything in this world of blogging (and often the broader world in general), you can’t get something for nothing.  This is something many [...]