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Robbi Hess

Professional Blogger ~ Social Media Consultant ~ Speaker ~ Ghostwriter

Interests: reading, writing, editing, my poodle-extraordinaire, Henrietta

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Last Minute Tips For Preparing For BlogPaws 2013 Success!

In less than 48 hours, BlogPaws 2013 will be officially underway. Eeeeppp! Are you ready? Of course you are... probably. If you aren't though, I have some last minute tips you can keep handy to make sure you make the most of your time at BlogPaws 2013. Naturally, you want... Continue reading

Posted May 14, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Making A Go Of It As A Part Time Pet Blogger: It Can Be Done!

In a perfect world, all of us who love pets and pet blogging would be able to quit our day jobs and simply blog about pets all day, right? Sigh. It's not a perfect world, but you can still have it all! The reality for most pet bloggers is they... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Packing Your Bags For BlogPaws 2013

I have never been very good at packing for a trip. Whether I am going away for an hour, an overnight or a week, I grossly overpack. For some reason I am convinced that no matter the location, it is in the vicinity of the moon and likely there is... Continue reading

Posted May 9, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Is Your BlogPaws 2013 Elevator Speech Ready?

"What do you do?" That's an easy question to answer, right? Well, maybe not so much, especially if you're at a networkign meeting or a pet blogging conference like BlogPaws 2013 conference and you want to make an impression. When someone asks what you do you want to have a... Continue reading

Posted May 6, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Psst Want To Know The Secrets To Great Pet Blogs?

Psst! I've got a secret! Truly, there are no secrets to a great blog post, but there are steps you can take to get more eyes on your post and help bring readers to your blog on a regular basis. Settle in and check out my "secrets." “You” is one... Continue reading

Posted Apr 30, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Take Your Pet Blogging Career To New Heights at BlogPaws 2013

Blogging is a technology that is here to stay and in fact enhancements are made to the platform and the way we pet bloggers spread the word on an almost daily basis! Consider that many bloggers have moved away from posts that are all words and have starrted vlogging (video... Continue reading

Posted Apr 23, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Rule of Ten For Aspiring Pet Bloggers

Rules for blogging? Of course! There are rules for everything, but just as that has been said, there are rules that are meant to be broken! But for every pet blogger out there, chances are you don't want to be writing in a void and these rules might just help... Continue reading

Posted Apr 16, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Business Card Etiquette For Meeting And Greeting At BlogPaws 2013

There's nothing better than going to a networking event or a conference and coming home or back to your hotel room with a stack of business cards, right? Not so much! When you break it down, business cards offer you and the person you're interacting with a unique opportunity to... Continue reading

Posted Apr 12, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Preparing For Your BlogPaws 2013 'Pitch'

Many of the pet parents that attend BlogPaws 2013 do so because they want to mix and mingle with like-minded pet bloggers/lovers, there are those though with the goal of making a pitch to a service provider, a fellow pet lover or a product provider. Your pitch could involve a... Continue reading

Posted Apr 8, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Update, Upgrade Your LinkedIn Profle

According to news reports, LinkedIn has seen major revenue earnings increases and that leads me to believe there are more business professionals taking advantage of this professional business social media site. LinkedIn profiles can help you stand out from the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 20, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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Writers Block? Writing Anxiety? Can You Move Past It? Yes!

Several years ago I taught adult writing classes at a local literary center. The classes I taught focused on magazine writing, fiction, confession magazine writing and blogging. Whenever someone came to class with the story that they didn't do their... Continue reading

Posted Feb 11, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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What Do You Know About When To Be Social?

Creating great content for your social media pages and your blog posts isn’t always a walk in the park so when you’re sitting down you need to make certain you’re optimizing your time and your efforts. Here are a few things I’ve discovered during my time as a pet blogger... Continue reading

Posted Feb 7, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Are Your Marketing Efforts Reaping Results?

How often do you look at your marketing and promotion plan for your business? Just as you track the financial health of the organization, so too should you monitor the health and rate of return on your marketing efforts. Are... Continue reading

Posted Feb 4, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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Want Media Attention? Don't Do These 3 Things

I've spent time on both sides of the public relations/journalist desks and let me tell you, these roles to NOT go hand in hand. I've worked as both as a public relations manager for a hospital and as a journalist that received press releases from various businesses and individuals –... Continue reading

Posted Jan 31, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Grow Your Business: Find An Accountability Partner

Working from home as a solopreneur is something that brings with it the luxury and freedom of setting the schedule (and wearing the wardrobe!) of my choosing. There is also the isolation and void of having no one to bounce... Continue reading

Posted Jan 30, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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Five Tips To Stay On Track With Pet Blogging Duties

You must make your pet blogging a priorty! Right... once you complete all of your other daily priorities. Let's face it, there are sometimes just not enough hours in the day to get done what you need to get done. I get it. It’s easy to lose focus when you’re... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Will Your Pet Blog Benefit From Pinterest? My 3 Tips

How much time do you spend on Pinterest? Be honest! You know you should be working, but once you get there you simply get drawn in further and further! If you're like me, you check out Pinterest and the boards of those whom you follow... and then... you get lost... Continue reading

Posted Jan 26, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Just Say No To Being Perfect!

A recent Mastermind conversation with Mary Cravets. the Business Speed Networker led to the discussion about how individuals don't start their projects because of: Perfection Stagnation. Bottom line... you feel your every word, your every project, your every webpage has to be perfect before you release it to the public.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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Get Your Blog Some Google Love: 7 tips

Google, it sometimes seems, is the be all and end all for business owners looking to be found on the Internet. While the rules change, sometimes before you’ve even implemented them, there are ways to remain relevant, be found and... Continue reading

Posted Jan 22, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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Wrestling Control Of Your Blogging Time And Your Day: 5 Tips

Many pet bloggers that I speak with wrestle with the facts of life -- they're juggling work, family, life and of course, snuggling their pets. For those who hold down a job outside of the home, how do you find the time to blog? Chances are your pet blogging time... Continue reading

Posted Jan 19, 2013 at My Divas Dish

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7 Steps To A Great How-To Post

Do you read blog posts because you want to learn something from the blogger? Chances are, that is why you read. In a world crammed full of work, life, spending time with family and pets, giving your time to a... Continue reading

Posted Jan 15, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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Energy? Energy, Where Are You?

There are days when I am faced with the blank page, the blank screen and words simply do not want to come out. It doesn't matter though, as a full time writer I have no choice but to write whether... Continue reading

Posted Jan 11, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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Does Blogging Drain Your Mental Energy?

Today's blogging prompt is to research what blog tasks take the most energy and which ones drain you. This one took me a while to determine (lol maybe that's what my post should be about!) When I stepped back and... Continue reading

Posted Jan 10, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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Pinpointing Energy Drainers

NaBloPoMo prompt: Talk about a time when you used up an extraordinary amount of energy and were exhausted. This question/prompt brought up a lot of "stuff." To say the past eight months have been trying and challenging and energy-draining would... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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Seven Steps To A Better Blog Post

Has anyone ever asked you: How do you blog? That question was asked of me recently during a blogging seminar I was leading, prompted me to go through my blogging process to try and break down the process. This is... Continue reading

Posted Jan 8, 2013 at Robbi Hess

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