Ask me anything about blogging! Live Q&A #2

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Channel: Suzi Whitford · 2018 · People & Blogs

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I do weekly Live Q&A on my Facebook page to help answer all of my reader's questions. I'm sharing the recordings here so you can watch the replay if you missed it!

Questions covered in this Q&A:
Question Blog Post
How can I start a freebie? https://www.startamomblog.com/how-to-create-printables-grow-email-list/
How long did it take you to start making money? 
Go over your health and fitness routines 
What would you suggest to gain excitement or attention to a product relaunch? 
What would be a good weekly Pinterest routine - how many pins to create? How often to pin? How many to schedule? https://www.startamomblog.com/pinterest-strategy-business-loop-pins-tailwind/
Should we create one pinterest account for more than one blogs? 
How often to repin old posts on Pinterest with Tailwind ? 
Were you making good money with just good content or is that when you started selling blogging products? 
Just getting traffic to my blog is hard 
I have a narrow niche and am struggling with getting more than 100 views a day. If I were to ever monetize my blog, I feel that I need more views. Or can I start monetizing now? 
What are the things that need to be set up in order for a blog to be able to start making money? https://startamomblog.teachable.com/.../free-first-month.../
I can not seem to narrow down my niche... 
A lot of strategies to grow traffic and mail lists includes reaching out to other bloggers in the niche. If my blog is super new and almost no traffic how do I decide who is a good option for me to reach out? How big or small should that other blogger be so I know he/she will help me. 
I’m starting a food blog but would love to add back to basics baby food - do you feel there is interest? 
Can you speak to the importance of generating a lot of content before aggressively marketing or is it better to it simultaneously? 
Is it silly to want to write about parenting and raising a child if I only have a 1.5 year old? 
I know nothing about FB live. So you have to pay or is it free. 
i'd love to know about republishing a guest post - how much of its content could i copy and paste on my own blog, or how much can i allow a guest blogger of mine to copy and paste on their blog ? 
When you go live with your new blog .... how do you join boards ? Do they accept new people ? https://www.startamomblog.com/boost-your-pinterest-traffic-how-to-find-the-most-active-group-boards/
After doing a freebie how do you choose the winner? 
would benefit or hurt both of us if somebody copies a content in multiple platforms ? what about changing (removing/altering) sentences, or paragraphs ? sorry for separating the questions in different comments 
what do you think of list posts linking to other blogs ? do i need to ask permission for this or not ? https://www.startamomblog.com/how-to-start-profitable-blog-earn-money-online/
When you say repin a pin once a week do you mean to your own board or group boards? 
To start on siteground do u have to pay the annual fee up front? So if I want the 5.95 plan do I have to pay 71.40? 
Any tips for being a more efficient writer? It takes me hours to write and edit each post and I know I should be spending more of that time creating images and promoting. https://www.startamomblog.com/products/
Do you have specific software programs that you uses to create forms, images, etc. that you post to the blog? https://www.startamomblog.com/how-to-create-printables-grow-email-list/
I got a message from convertkit that says I need to use an account other than gmail. I have my name at mydomainname.com. What else should I do? https://www.startamomblog.com/setup-domain-name-emails-siteground/
How do you promote to get email subscribers? https://www.startamomblog.com/how-to-build-email-list-beginners/

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