Blog Tips

Mom’s Monday Mingle #7

June 10, 2012 By Katie 18 Comments

Welcome to Mom’s Monday Mingle #7!! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Thank you to everyone for participating and sharing our button on your blog. The more people the better! So feel free to grab our button and share in on your sidebar or on your blog. Let the mingling begin!

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Rules:

1. Please follow each hostess.
Naptime Review-Hostess
At Home Take 2- Hostess
Little Becky Homecky-Hostess
Please comment on each blog. We do FOLLOW back and we really love all the comments!
2. Try to visit at least 4 blogs that interest you. Just don’t throw your name into the link up, hoping to gain followers. Participate, make friends, and have fun!
3. Grab our button and share with others.
4. If you review products or have a favorite product you want to share link back up on Friday. We will be hosting Favorite Product Fridays!
5. If you have a blog hop or giveaway please add it to THE BLOG LOG.

Filed Under: Blog Tips, Life in general Tagged With: Blog Hop

Free Printable Blog Planner

June 7, 2012 By Katie 20 Comments

I have been working on this for what feels like forever, tweaking and re-tweaking it to make sure it fits my needs as a blogger. I found so many printables out there, but they were always missing something. I am incredibly Type A and it’s really annoying;). OCD at it’s best! But, I have finally created a Blog Planner where everything I need is in one place and it makes sense in my head…which makes me happy:)

The Chevron Background was found here. There are so many other colors if you want to use some;)

1. Blogger Expense Tracker

I use this sheet to track the incoming money from sponsored posts and Ads and the money I pay out each month for sponsoring other blogs or giveaway items and their costs.

2. To-Do List

I made this a little while back to keep track of the different projects I have going on. Typically the 3 categories I have are sewing, crochet, and other…but right now that “other” is wedding projects for a friend that is getting married this fall.

3. Monthly Calendar

This is pretty self-explanatory.

4.& 5. Weekly Calendars
Each day has a section for the title of the post, the notes for that post, and keywords to use. In the same area, I have “Sponsor’s posts” so that I can keep track of the lovely ladies I have on my blog that are sponsoring me. If they have something going on that day, I write it down so that I can Tweet about it or post it to Facebook to promote them. On the far right, there are boxes for “Drafted”, “Scheduled”, and “Posted” to keep track of the status of each post. Also, below that is an area to check off if it has been posted to Twitter, Facebook and Google +. (Super anal right?… I can’t help it!)

6. Sponsor Information

I use this sheet to keep track of the sponsors at Little Becky Homecky. This includes the ad size, the name of the person and blog, their twitter handle, email, and what they are doing as part of their sponsor package (i.e. Guest Posting, Sponsor Spotlight, Group Spotlight, Giveaway, etc.) Then there is a column labeled “Mentions” where I write in how many are included in their price and then an area to tally up the mentions for both Facebook and Twitter.

7. Who I’m Sponsoring
I use this sheet to track who I am sponsoring. Not everyone uses Passionfruit Ads and so I like to have all the information in one area. Here I write down the name, how much I paid (or enter Swap if that is the case), whether or not I am doing a giveaway and the item, and what to expect. In the “What to expect” section, I write down what is included in the price that I purchased so that if it gets to be the end of the month and I have not been contacted when I am supposed to be doing a Guest Post as part of my sponsorship, I can be sure to contact them.

8. Giveaway Information

This one is also pretty self-explanatory, but it keeps things organized for me so that I don’t get too carried away with what giveaways I am participating in;)

9. Monthly Stats Tracker

Finally, we have the Stats Tracker. I keep track per week, and then also monthly. The information for the Pageviews and Unique Visitors comes from Google Analytics. Then, the other information is taken from each of my Social Media sites and totaled at the end of the row. I find this to be important for updating my Sponsor page to show those interested in sponsoring what my stats are so that they can determine if Little Becky Homecky is a good fit for them to reach their target audience.

I am so excited to be sharing this with you because it has made my life so much easier! I printed out the pages, added dividers and a cover, and took them to be bound at a local print shop. I could not be happier.

Click on the links below for each page to download and print.

Blogger Expense Tracker

Monthly Stats Tracker

**Additionally, I have included the following link which is a PDF of the documents all-in-one for each month. It is set up to be printed dual sided (duplex) so you will have to print out the file 12 times (one for each month:))

Full Monthly Blog Planner

Let me know what you think! I hope you find it useful!!

**These Free Printables are for personal use only. Please do not replicate them and sell them. Thank you.**

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Where I’m linking up

MondayMad Skills Tutorial Link Party Make Something Mondays CraftOManiac Monday Market Yourself Monday A Marvelous Mess Inspire Me Monday Sew Chatty Made by You Mondays More the Merrier Monday What’s in The Gunny Sack Serendipity & Spice Destination:Craft Show Off Monday Moms Monday Mingle Tuesday Show Me What Ya Got Tell Me! (Tuesdays) Tutorial Tuesday with Hope Studios Rook No. 17 Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays Handmade Tuesdays {Too} cute Tuesday Terrific Tuesdays Trick or Treat Tuesday’s Tuesday Timeout Take A Look Tuesday’s One Project at a Time Tuesday To-Do Part Tuesday Tutorials From Dream to Reality Wednesday Create and Share We Did It! Wednesday Your Whims Wednesday Today’s Creative Blog Look What I Made Wow Me Wednesday! Sugar and Dots Someday Crafts Fine Craft Guild Homemade by You Wednesday Uncommonly Yours I Made This Whimsy Wednesdays Thursday A Glimpse Inside Somewhat Simple House of Hepworths A Crafty Soiree Transformation Thursday Creative Thursday live laugh {linky} Thursdays are Your Days Spread the Love Friday Friday Favs Delicately Constructed Fridays Flaunt it Friday Lolly Jane Free for All Friday The Shabby Nest Handmade 52 Cindy’s Romantic Home Creation Corner Pity Party Lovely Crafty Weekend Find Your Craft Friday Whipper Berry A Little Knick Knack Simply Designing Fun Stuff Fridays Feature Friday Free For All Friday Fun Party Fabulous Fridays Shine On FridaysWeekends Show And Tell Saturdays Saturday Spotlight Weekend Wrapup Party Sundae Scoop DIY Showoff Scout’s Sweet Sundays Sunday Blog Love It’s Overflowing Think Pink Sundays Sister Sunday Link Party A Pinteresting {Link} Party Pinning and Singing on the Weekend Twigg Studios Sweet Talkin’ Sunday Wayward Weekend Sunday {Fun}day Sew Crafty Saturday

Filed Under: Blog Tips, Organization Tagged With: free printable

Totally Social Link-Up: Hellocotton!

June 5, 2012 By Katie Leave a Comment

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I am so excited to be Co-Hosting with Jennifer from Mommy Huh!!

Link-ups are all kinds of awesome. You get new followers and some new super-cool people to follow.

Each week the Totally Social Link-Up will have a different focus. This is your one-stop-shop for linking up various social media accounts and similar interests.

This week we are linking-up Hellocotton pages!

Next Week: Bloglovin’

Simple Rules:

* Follow my Hellocotton page

* Follow the Hellocotton pages for our lovely co-hosts:

Breanna @ My Beautiful Crazy Life

Julie @ The Funny Thing of It Is

Katie @ Little Becky Homecky

Megan @ Semi-Charmed Kind of Life

* Follow 3 or more others and get to know them!

* Grab the button and share!

* LINK-UP & ENJOY!

Filed Under: Blog Tips Tagged With: Blog Hop

Mom’s Monday Mingle #6

June 3, 2012 By Katie 8 Comments

Welcome to Mom’s Monday Mingle #6!! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

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Rules: