How to take close up photos

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Ever wondered how the pro's do it?! I guess first of all, incase you aren't familiar with the term 'close up' we should explain what it is. A close up is a type of photo that tightly frames a person or an object. Close-ups are often used when taking photos of flowers or small animals, or pretty much anything that you can see up really close to the screen. For example, if you can see every petal or every vein in a leaf...that's a close up, like in the image below... All the images taken in this

Aug

Starting your own business

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Almost 3 years ago, I was lucky enough to be able to leave my 'proper' full time job and start my own business as a marketing consultant. I was so excited that I was finally able to start my dream of being able to work for myself.

Aug

Reasons flyer marketing is effective

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Don't forget the flyer! Whether you have a small, one person business or you run a multi million pound company you still want people to know about it. Ok so the budgets might be slightly different but you still want people to know you exist!  These days, there are many ways to do this, from word of mouth to printed flyers, print advertising campaigns (newspapers, magazines), radio, TV, outdoor, indoor, and online campaigns. Some of these methods of advertising however, seem to be a challenge

Aug

Working from home

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Make the dream a reality For many people working from home is the holy grail. Some have caring responsibilities that are eased considerably when they’re able to work from home: whether it’s children or an elderly or infirm relative, flexible working means you can be around for them when they need it and not pay for costly additional care. Some people have health conditions, mental or physical, that are much easier to manage at home, or for whom working a full time in an office or any external

Jul

Kodak Pixpro AZ652 Camera Review

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All you need to know Photography has been a passion of mine for many years now and something I don't think I will ever get bored of. The first camera I was ever given when I was much, much younger, was a Kodak camera. Ok, so it wasn't a digital camera (they weren't even in existence back then), it was a camera you had to put film in and then get developed and I LOVED it! I would take it everywhere with me and take snaps of pretty much everything and anything. I couldn't wait for the images to

Jul

How to Form an LLC

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What you need to know Forming an LLC is a good option for entrepreneurs who are considering starting their own business. This entity type will provide a business owner with protection from any lawsuits, debts of the business or other indiscretions. To have the protection an LLC can provide, certain documents must be presented to the state government before business dealings begin. When you apply for an LLC online, you will need to submit certain documents to begin this process. You may also

Jul

Make the Work from Home Dream a Reality

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Make your dream a reality! Whether you are years into a career that’s beginning to pall on you or only at the beginning of your working life, just trying to find your place in the world of work, the dream of escaping from the pressure of the commute is a persuasive one. If you run a business from home, you don’t have to deal with the daily grind of squeezing into a crowded bus or train, or sitting in a traffic jam to wait half an hour for a drive you could do in ten minutes outside of peak

May

The Best Apps For Bloggers

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Nowadays, there seems to be an app for everything. No matter whether you want to play a game, track the amount of calories you have consumed, or pay a bill, there is an app for it. As a blogger, you can make use of the apps that are available to boost the efficiency and quality of your blog. However, with so many apps to choose from, how do you select the best? Let’s take a look at some of the apps you should definitely consider using… Back-end operations Let’s start with the best apps for

May

Why you need to start a blog now

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If you love to write, what are you waiting for... Blogging is one of the great ways to make good money online, without restrictions in time and location, you can blog anytime. This can be a part-time side hustle or it can be a full-time job, whatever works for you. You can also do this anywhere: at work, at home or even when you are away for vacations. You can make a substantial income from advertising, sponsorship and partnership, e-books and many other ways. A blog is also good in the sense

Mar

Why Local Online Advertising is Key for Small Businesses

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Do you own a small business? For small businesses, the ever-growing world of digital marketing can be daunting and may seem like a pointless area to focus on, however, local internet advertising is a great way to reach your customers quickly and easily and should be considered by every small business looking to advertise to their local customers.  Not sure where to start? Display advertising is invaluable for businesses looking to generate brand awareness and sales from local customers within

Oct

Using a Blog to Build Your Brand

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For many people, blogging is a hobby. It’s a fun place to write about subjects close to your heart and keep family and friends up to date on what’s happening in your life. However, building a blog also has long-term benefits. Firstly, it’s an excellent way to show off your skills to prospective employers, and secondly, it can be a valuable brand-building tool. Creating a Blog To build a brand, you need a blog. There is a school of thought that says any blog will do, but strictly speaking, this

Oct

Photography for Ecommerce

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Making products look good is half the battle Owning or managing an ecommerce site is extremely challenging in 2017. Ten years ago, there were a lot more barriers to entry, the main one being the actual website build which could have cost anything from £10k to £100k. Nowadays, platforms like Shopify and Big Commerce make the actual design and management much more accessible, which ultimately means more competition. Pair that with the ever growing Amazon and making a success of an ecommerce store

Oct

Share Your Life With A Photography Blog

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Love taking photos? The internet is filled with all kinds of people sharing their experiences through photographs. With websites like Instagram and Pinterest and the blogging world taking off as it has, photography over the last few years has exploded! However, the ability to share the story behind the photo is limited and often at times, due to the bandwidth constraints, photographs don’t get uploaded in HD. Even photography at events has become more popular with people hiring photo booths to

Aug

How to Create the Perfect Home Office

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Make your home office feel homely Creating your own office within your home allows you the freedom to make it completely unique to your specification. From filing to decoration, you need an office that fits in with your projects and work requirements.  Although you should make your space unique, there are some basic ground rules you should always try and stick by to make the space you’re going to be working in as efficient as possible. With the freedom to work in your PJ’s, it can be difficult

May

Rule The World With A Wonderous Workstation

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So, you want to Blog full-time? If you want to make blogging a career, a source of income, or just a part of your personal branding efforts, you have to take it seriously. It’s about more than coming up with a schedule for developing posts and putting effort into the site and how you market it. It means creating a proper work environment, as well. Working on a blog might sound like it’s not very demanding, but that’s far from the truth. It can be physically taxing and stressful if you don’t

May

Awesome Blogger Assignments!

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Looking for FREE Blogger Assignments? Our new Blogger Assignments Service connects brands and bloggers looking to work together on a number of projects and collaborations. It's totally free for bloggers to join and if you sign up to our newsletter, you will be sent updates each week with new opportunities to work with new and exciting brands. Your details will NOT be passed on to anyone else, they are purely so you can hear about the latest assignments as and when they come in. Oh and in the

Mar

Printing Your Own Stationery

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Where To Start? These days they are so many places to can go to create your own flyers, leaflets, business cards...etc that it's hard to know which company to use or whether you're getting good value for your hard earned money. Over the past year I have tried probably around 5 or 6 different printing places so I thought I would give you my in-put, hopefully it will help next time you come to deciding on where to get your awesome prints done.  Vistaprint is the place pretty much everyone knows

Feb

30+ Quality Guest Posting Websites

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Want To Start Guest Posting? I stumbled upon guest blogging on other peoples blogs not so long ago and it (among other things) has really helped in boosting referral traffic to my blog but it has also helped raise my Domain Authority Score consistently on a monthly basis. Most (99%) of the blogs listed here are high-quality blogs and only accept good quality guest posts so you will have to work hard to get a spot on their website, but it's so worth it. Make sure you research the blog websites

Feb

Increase Your Domain Authority (DA) Score

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How Do I Rank Higher?? Since the last Moz update, I have noticed many people, especially other bloggers complaining that their Domain Authority (DA) score has dropped significantly, some by over 5 or 6 which is huge to anyone and can be a kick in the teeth after putting your heart and sole into it. Domain Authority is the metric over all the hundreds of others that Google looks at when scoring your website, that has grown massively in importance over the last few years. Domain Authority is a

Feb

January Featured Bloggers...

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This Month's Featured Bloggers... Every month on my blog 'The Lifestyle Blogger UK' I will be promoting a few of the bloggers who are currently advertising their blogs on the Featured Bloggers Page. As part of their advertising package they get a Do Follow, Permanent backlink to their blog and will be featured in an article to further promote their blogs. This month we have some really awesome bloggers for you to check out including a blog that talks about issues facing young women, life in the

Jan

Blogger Hashtag Hours

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What hashtags do I use and when??? Over the years I have collected a huge list of hashtags to use at various points of the day/week to use to help promote my blog posts to a wider audience and an audience that may well be interested in my posts. Other bloggers mainly or blogging groups that do chats at certain times throughout the week. At one point I had them all as reminders in my phone but with it going off almost every hour I just had to stop it and now just have my main master list on my

Jan

Get Organised In 2017!

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It's time to get organised! I always find that towards the end of the year my tidiness has pretty much gone out of the window and it's more like organised chaos than anything else. Papers are lying all over the place and there are to do lists on post-it notes covering every inch of my desk, under the heaps of filing i've ben putting off for as long as possible! Sound familiar? It's at the start of the year that I like to put some tidy time aside, normally a day (depending on how bad it's got

Jan

Awesome Bloggers!

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Fancy Meeting Some Awesome Bloggers... There are so many awesome bloggers out there at the moment but finding them can be so difficult. I remember when I first started my blog, I was lucky if I would get 10 people reading my blog each day for the first few months...and that was with almost constant tweeting and posting my content out to all my various social media sites, it was almost impossible to get yourself heard in the overflowing pool of awesome bloggers. But slowly, after lots of hard

Nov

Social Media Organisers

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Social Media Planning & Organisation Whether, like me, you're in the blogging world or you just love to be on social media, finding out all the latest news as soon as it breaks, or following your idols to see what they have been up to, social media seems to be the focal point of many people's lives these days.

Aug

My Top 10 Instagram Hacks

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Tips & Tricks for Instagram Here are a few tips and tricks I have come across when it comes to managing your Instagram account. I found them really useful so i'm hoping you will too.

Aug

The Sony A6000 Camera Review

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Review - The Sony A6000 Camera I got my last Sony DSLR around 10 years ago and due to constant use, it has recently started to lag slightly, amazing really seeing as it's 10 years old and that's 10 years of everyday use. I have always really loved using Sony cameras, they seem so much sturdier than any other I have tried...and that's a lot over the years! So, after 10 years I began looking around to see what would be my new camera purchase. It probably took me a good 6 months to decide which

Aug

Free Desktop Calendars!

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Desktop Calendars for August 2016 Happy August!  Here are 11 FREE desktop calendars for you all to use as you wish. Lots of cute, simple and colourful designs to help you get inspired whilst sitting at your computer.

Aug

No Follow links are good too!

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Part of building a successful website is getting people to visit you by building awareness. With awareness comes traffic and with that comes a high domain authority score as Google will see your website as being relevant and important.

Jul

Lifestyle Blogging 101

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Sharing with you my tips and tricks for survival as a Lifestyle Blogger.

Jun

Simple ways to make money online

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There are so many ways to make a little extra cash online these days, the trick is knowing what/who to look out for and how to approach this. You do have to be a  bit careful though, if it seems to good to be true, it is!

Jun