Reader, Now that Halloween is past, the holiday season is officially upon us, and if you haven't started your holiday marketing, don't fret! We have a plan. We all know how hectic it can get during the holidays... Between planning, decorating, and keeping up with the end-of-year rush, who has time to create eye-catching graphics and beautiful content from scratch? That’s where we come in! Introducing: The Ultimate Holiday Template Toolkit! This bundle is everything you need to make your...
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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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read