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Simplifying Design: Set achievable goals

Thursday | December 7, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. It's about that time to start planning and setting your blogging goals! We like to map out our goals before we take some time off for the holidays. It's a LOT easier to jump back in with your game plan come January versus starting from scratch during such a critical time for re-engagement. In this week's blog post, we're sharing our strategy for how we set...

5 months ago • 1 min read

Thursday | November 9, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. QR codes are becoming an incredibly effective marketing tool for bloggers. They boost conversions, traffic, and engagement which means you have a consistently warm audience. Another added benefit is simplifying the customer journey. In other words, fewer hoops for your consumers to jump through. In this week's blog post, we'll show you how to use QR codes in...

6 months ago • 1 min read

Thursday | November 2, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. Having a cohesive look is an essential part of your blog's unique brand identity. It's vital for recognizability and builds trust with your readers. In fact, studies show that a person must "hear" about a product approximately seven times before they feel comfortable investing in it. We think the same holds true for blogs in general. We firmly believe a person...

6 months ago • 1 min read

Thursday | October 26, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. When creating our business plan for Simplifying DIY Design, we knew that once we got a reader to our site, our avatar-driven content and lead magnets would easily get them on our email list. Until our SEO efforts with Google would kick in, we decided to focus on a traffic source we were VERY familiar with as consumers: Pinterest. Turns out, Pinterest was the...

6 months ago • 1 min read

Thursday | October 19, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. We completely understand the pushback that some bloggers have about incorporating AI into their blogging strategy. Truth be told, we were a little hesitant about it as well. We've built a relationship with our readers using OUR words. But AI-created copy is just a fraction of what's out there for us to use to grow our blog. In this week's blog post, we're...

6 months ago • 1 min read

Thursday | October 12, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. As a blogger, do you have a Black Friday marketing strategy? Even if you don't have a big shop or rely solely on affiliate sales, you can still leverage Black Friday's traffic to bring in some just-in-time holiday funds! Learn to plan out your most epic Black Friday promotion yet to dramatically boost your blog's income, whether you have your own products, use...

7 months ago • 1 min read

Thursday | October 5, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. If there was a way to do something faster, would you do it? What if that way would show you things you probably wouldn’t have seen on your own? A combination, perhaps, that your mind wouldn’t have thought of. That’s how we feel about these design generators. We can design faster so we have more time to spend on high ROI tasks AND see pairings and combinations...

7 months ago • 1 min read

Thursday | September 28, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. We’re not going to lie, we seriously underestimated exactly how much work goes into blogging. It’s easy to think that to start a blog, all you have to do is write good content and publish a few Pinterest pins or social media posts, and boom! Instant traffic. But there’s much more to it than that. Like, x100 more. In this week's blog post, we're sharing how...

7 months ago • 1 min read

Thursday | September 20, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. When we started our first blog back in 2015, we couldn't figure out why our site wasn't getting any traffic. There are quite a few vanity metrics when it comes to blogging, but website traffic (measured in pageviews or users) is the lifeblood of your blog. No traffic = no subscribers = no income. We FELT like we were doing all the things. And yet, crickets....

7 months ago • 1 min read

Thursday | September 14, 2023 Simplifying Design for Bloggers newsletter: A weekly dose of all things Canva to go from blog to business. When we first launched Simplifying DIY Design back in October 2017, we had a monthly budget of $100. Aside from our web hosting, ConvertKit, and stock photo membership, we were using free tools for everything – including Canva! We had to make miracles on a very limited budget (and fast!) to make our dream of working from home a reality. Within four months,...

8 months ago • 1 min read
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