The 27 tools I use to grow my online business

People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put together a list of my favorites. These are not necessarily the best and trendiest tools, some may even be considered old-fasshioned. But they are the tools that help me build and grow my business. Here they are! Basic tools you need to grow your online business Tech stack The French Together and Grow With Less blogs run on WordPress....

October 30, 2022 · 7 min · 1427 words · Benjamin Houy

The 8 Best Free Blogging, SEO and Marketing Courses

Blogging is hard and the COVID-19 epidemic is not making things easier. Luckily, several businesses have started offering their blogging, SEO or marketing courses for free to help bloggers and small business owners who are struggling because of the pandemic. This page lists the best courses I have found. If you know of another blogging course, please post a comment below the article and I will add it to the list....

March 24, 2020 · 4 min · 740 words · Benjamin Houy

7 Lessons Every Blogger About to Quit Should Know

As someone who has been blogging for 10 years, I find most articles designed to encourage people to start blogging infuriating. They paint blogging as this wonderful activity that will free you from your 9 to 5 job and solve all your problems. They show you pictures of happy bloggers working on the beach. What bothers me is that while blogging is wonderful, it has pros and cons like any other job....

March 11, 2020 · 10 min · 2076 words · Benjamin Houy

9 Inspiring Examples of Successful Blogs (And How They Got There)

Looking at blog income reports from popular blogs, you could think that the only way to make money blogging is to blog about blogging. Luckily, you would be mistaken. The reality is that there are successful blogs in all kinds of niches. You simply hear more about the make money online blogs because they are the ones sharing revenue numbers and posting income reports. While make money blogging bloggers are highly visible, thousands of bloggers earn a living by helping their audience in niches such as dating, automotive, grooming or ultralearning....

February 27, 2020 · 29 min · 6062 words · Benjamin Houy

The Do's and Don'ts of Finding Your Blog Niche

There is a lot of bad advice when it comes to finding a blog niche. “Write about your passion.” “Choose the most profitable niche.” “Don’t choose a crowded niche.” This advice is well-intentioned but ignores key psychological principles and causes many bloggers to give up blogging after a few months. That’s a shame because finding what you want to blog about is simply finding the intersection between what people want and what you want....

January 21, 2020 · 13 min · 2628 words · Benjamin Houy