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November 17, 2023 by Carrie

Friday flâner: all the freebies

Well this is fun. I have two freebies to tell you about today. One: I decided to make my Making Money Blogging course, formerly $47, free. Click on the image below to access it! Two: I also made my ebook, The Temporary Tightwad: How to Radically Reduce Spending, Meet a Money Goal, and Change Your […]

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September 12, 2022 by Carrie

Notes from my first FinCon

My first FinCon: meeting Erika Kullberg

It’s Monday and I have a mile-long to-do list from my first FinCon notes. If you’ve considered going to FinCon or are just curious about what it’s all about, read on! What is FinCon? FinCon is an annual conference for content creators in the personal finance space to come together for networking, learning and connecting […]

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March 24, 2017 by Carrie

How to Make Money at Home Blogging: 4 moms tell all

How to make Money at Home Blogging

This newest post in the series on how to use your tax return to start a business at home is about… blogging! Of course, this one is near and dear to my heart since I’ve been blogging for about 20 years and love it. If you’ve ever wondered how to make money at home blogging, […]

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March 14, 2017 by Carrie

How to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle: a simple tutorial

Although I’ve been writing on the internet since 2002, publishing an ebook for Amazon was brand new to me. The process was initially intimidating, but I learned how to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle and went on to write 6 ebooks for the Amazon marketplace. It isn’t as difficult as you may think. This […]

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March 14, 2017 by Carrie

How to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle: marketing your ebook

Part Two of this tutorial on how to publish an ebook for Amazon Kindle. 6) Format your ebook for Kindle Your ebook has to be formatted in such a way so as to read cleanly in an e-reader. Word processing programs add code of their own that can cause the ebook to appear wonky. No […]

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February 21, 2017 by Carrie

A bit of random, influenza version

What I learned from a spending fast

A nasty virus (probably the flu, since the stricken are bedridden for days with high fevers and severe joint/muscle aches), is currently making its way through my family. I haven’t slept properly in nearly a week, thanks to a feverish, coughing baby who has made me the human pacifier (I’ve been nursing and carrying him […]

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January 23, 2017 by Carrie

100 Free Top Blogging Tips

100 Top Blogging Tips via CarrieWillard.com

100 Free Top Blogging Tips is a collection of the best bits of advice I’ve learned in 14 years of blogging. Yes, it’s been that long, and I have the Wayback Machine archives to prove it! You can have it for free simply by entering your name and email address below. I don’t write often […]

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November 7, 2016 by Carrie

You cast your vote…

… in my survey. Thanks for doing that! (Wait, you thought I was talking about something else?) I learned a lot about you and why you come to this little spot on the ‘net. And just when I was worried that I was boring you with my tales of frugality, you reassured me that “that’s […]

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July 11, 2015 by Carrie

Technical difficulties

I won’t spend too much time discussing this, lest I engage in that internet faux pas known as metablogging. It’s been very hard to come here lately. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but because of various hardware and software problems. By hardware, I mean my brand new Chromebook was destroyed by a […]

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May 23, 2015 by Carrie

When blogging is difficult

For weeks now, there have been many things I wanted to say here. My head is very loud with all the things. But when I sit down to write a post (if I get that far, even), they all seem so silly and unimportant. I don’t want to bore people with tales of my feelings. […]

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