Welcome lovely. Come on in, pull up a chair and have a cup of tea and a biscuit. Just don’t eat all the hobnobs, they are my favourite!
Thanks for stopping by my page. Apparently I am supposed to use this area to tell you a little about me so here it goes….
I’m Dee and I live in Kent, the sometimes sunny south of the United Kingdom.
I’ve been happily married for 8 years this year, and we have two wonderful and completely unique kids who are currently 9 and 6.
I’ve done numerous jobs over the years, but by far the hardest has been giving up regular 9-5 work and raising my little family, which I have done full time for the last 9 years, alongside obtaining a Humanities degree with the Open University.
I have loved the written word ever since I learned to read, and have been writing since I was around 8 years old. It looks like my eldest child is going to follow in my footsteps.
I love foreign travel, books, movies, good wine, good food and good conversation.
I have a very successful business as a freelance copywriter, content creator and marketing consultant. I love pretty much everything about my job and consider myself incredibly lucky to have a job I enjoy.
This blog contains everything from the serious to the obscene and everything in between. I hope you enjoy!
Dee 🙂
Good luck with the blog!
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thank you, still trying to get to grips with how WordPress works!
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I’m pretty new too but you get the hang of it! Everyone is really helpful! ☺
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Thanks for the follow! Good luck with your new blog. I subbed you back, and it should be fun to watch you settle in on blogging. You’ll do just fine and don’t be discouraged by lack of readers at first or a slow build up of followers. These things take time, and take off once you settle into a style all your own!
On the other hand, there are people who start one, and have hundreds of followers in short order! They are exceptional.
One thing that helps bring you readers is ticking categories. Of course, you will have to create your own category labels, for example: children, raising good kids, surviving kids. You know better what general topics you’ll regularly write about, and as your style establishes itself, you’ll think of new categories to add. Also, be sure to add tags. These can be a lot more specific, and they, too, help draw people in.
Another thing that’ll help you expand your readership and followers is following other blogs of interest. Many of the best blog finds I had were blogs I found randomly looking at blogs other people showed as “Blogs I Follow” as one of the the sidebar topics on their blogs. If you like a blog, there’s a good chance you’ll find you like some of the blogs their creators follow, too!
If you can, write daily or on a regular schedule. If you post frequently or at predictable intervals, you increase the chances someone will find your blog, like it, and sub it. There may be days you don;t feel like posting, which is OK, too, but try to avoid the habit of not posting.
Hope any of that helps!
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thank you, slowly getting my head around all this stuff! x
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Copywriter!!! Ritu never told me. You have my sympathies. (wrote ad copy for 20 years, still can’t speak without a header and a punchline.) Welcome to WP. If you need any help, don’t hesitate to ask, I’ve been here for some time. Oh, Hi! I’m Tom. 😉
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Hi Tom, I say copywriter – am in the early stages of my career. Recently wrote a couple of taglines for cancer awareness, only small stuff, but hoping to build an online profile and eventually – perhaps when I retire – get paid for it! Will give you a follow, lovely to “meet” you! Dee 🙂
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Hi! I did the ad agency route. “The horror…the horror” I’m now a blog writer. Much more fun! Doesn’t pay as much, but if you build up a good clientele and can make “hammers sound sexy” (those were the client’s words) it’s a fun life. Plus you get to work from home, which I appreciate right this moment, as we have snow storm going on outside.
🙂
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I have no idea how you even get into the realms of getting paid to blog about stuff, but I’m pretty sure I can make hammers sound sexy so maybe there is a future for me yet. Entering a few fiction writing competitions too and an idea in the pipeline for a series of children’s books #Icandream
Snow sounds more fun than freezing fog…. but only just!
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Sounds great. There are a number of freelance job sites that I use and a great way to get started and earn a bit. If you like I can send them to you, plus there is a wonderful book titled “How to be a freelance blogger” that I can send you as well. If you wish just email me and I’ll send them off. tvkapherr@outlook.com
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that would be awesome, thank you so much. I will drop you an email now, it might go into junk as its from a yahoo email address (for my sins!). Cheers 🙂
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I’ll look out for it! 😉
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I like wine too. A little too much…;-)
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strangely you might want to check out my latest blog post then lol! x
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Will do!
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I have been to Kent, in the ’80’s. I forget why exactly I went, but no matter. I lived in Cambridgeshire. Good days, long past. Your blog and you are far different than I and my blog, but a few of my “friends” stopped by, so I thought I would too. Thought I would give you another blip on your statistics. Have a good weekend.
Greg and his cats
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Thanks for the hello. Sadly I am not a cat lover (allergic) – how many do you have? I’ll be sure to stop by your blog after the kids have gone to bed and I can read in peace! Dee 🙂
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3 at the moment.
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Hi Dee,
I hope that you don’t mind, but I’ve nominated your blog for blogging awards. Don’t feel obligated to participate, but it’s a nice way to reach new bloggers.
Take care,
Rob
http://weight2lose2013.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/%f0%9f%8f-i-would-like-to-thank/
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Wow thanks Rob, I’ve never been nominated for anything before so I will have to look and see what I need to do! 🙂 thanks again, Dee x
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How do I “tag” people??!!!
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What I do is complete my response first. Then, I copy the URL of that response and visit all of my nominees. When I post in their comments section, I paste the URL with a notification that they’ve been nominated. I hope that this helps!
Rob
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Hi Dee
I’ve nominated/awarded you the Versatile Blogger Award!
Check out my blog post to read more about it 🙂
Eeeee xx
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Hi! I just nominated you for a Premio Dardos award. Check it out!
https://butismileanyway.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/premio-dardos-award/
Ritu
😊
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thanks dude!
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Look forward to reading Dee xxx
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thanks lovely xx
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Hello my lovely! I’m nominating you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award!!!
I know it’s not even that long ago since the last nomination of the Versatile Blogger, but I love your blog too much (it makes me giggle way too much) Check out my post:
https://boolaurene.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/yippee-very-inspiring-blogger-award-and-more/
Love Lauren x
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Awww thank you so much 🙂
I need to find some time to do it properly! X
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hello! Don’t know how you feel about awards but I just nominated you for the versatile blogger award. You can go check my post on it to learn the rules 🙂
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thank you so much! I don’t generally do the awards, but if I get time I will try to 🙂 thanks again hon xx
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Hey! I’ve nominated you for an award! Check it out!
https://butismileanyway.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/the-liebster-award/
Ritu
🙂
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I know that you don’t do awards often, but still nominated. you. 😀 No worries if you can’t join in, but here’s the link if you’d like to join.
https://weight2lose2013.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/the-cba/
Rob
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Aww thank you I will try and get to it over the weekend! How are you we haven’t caught up for ages?
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I Challenge you!
https://butismileanyway.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/love-in-ten-sentences-a-challenge/
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It’s been a few months since I’ve nominated you, so here goes! 😀
https://weight2lose2013.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/dreams/
Don’t feel obligated to join in, Dee. The details are on my blog if you want to.
Thanks,
Rob
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