Hello Everyone,
Great to see you here 🙂
This is the page where I share (and update) my favourite blogs/products/services/plug-ins/apps – anything which has helped me with my life, my style or blogging journey.
I hope you’ll find some of these links useful too. Please drop a comment below if you click through to any, as I’d love to know which help you the most.
There are some affiliate links on this page, but these are all products I highly recommend. I won’t put anything on this page that I don’t use or love.
Websites I use often
Hotels Combined for booking great places to stay at reasonable prices.
The Business of Blogging
Quill Engage: free Google Analytics reports sent to your inbox – all the info is summarised in an easy to read format.
Pic Monkey: I love this programme for photo editing/collaging and adding text to photos.
Canva –  Easy designs on-the-go with hundreds of professionally designed templates to choose from and a fully stocked library of over 1 million images, stock photos, illustrations & vectors. Cross-platform workflow between the Web, iPad or iPhone.
Wordswag : Great for adding quotes in designer text to photos … especially for Instagram or Pinterest
Blogsy: An iPad app – makes blogging from your iPad easy. I use this for blogging offline on my iPad, and then send my posts through to WordPress when I’m online to edit and finalise on my laptop.
How Many Shares: plug in your specific URL and find out how many social shares your post has received.
Wisestamp: create super slick email signatures – first one is free 🙂
Trello: a great tool to organise your to do lists and projects – easy to use and free.
ODesk: to find great virtual assistants to help you with one off projects or ongoing work.
Unroll Me:Â enter your email address to find out what you are subscribed to and easily unsubscribe. I LOVE THIS!
Blogs that offer help
Journey Jottings – my blogging friend Linda Fairbairn creates the most delightful travel products on which you can visually record your journeys, holidays and road trips.
Digital Nomad Wannabe – Sharon has tons of information about how to become a digital nomad and how to make money from blogging – “How to create your dream life online.”
Styling You – Nikki is the oracle when it comes to everyday style.
yTravel Blog – Probably the biggest travel blog in Australia, great hands-on advice for Australia and worldwide.
Amanda Kendle – Amanda’s travel writing is softly philosophical, and her social media consultancy business offers great tips plus an online Travel Journal School.
Blog Tyrant – Tons of useful advice about blogging.
ProBlogger – There’s always something to read about the business of blogging on this site.
Website Help
Chris Richardson – For anything WordPress or Website Related and problems with Google Analytics – he is super helpful and has helped me out of sticky “Oh Crikey Help Me!” situations. Here’s what he can do: “My main service is managed WordPress setup. Where I essentially become the tech support for the blog/business. I do backups, updates and deal with your host etc on your behalf should things go bad. I also do small tech fixes and so on for a monthly fee but can also do bigger coding work if needed. That service is setup as a monthly fee and gets me there on call should things go wrong saving people from googling for hours and hours trying to fix things themselves.”
Kristy Morton – Â Google Analytics support.
Tips and Advice on where to go in Western Australia
The ZigaZag Mag – I couldn’t leave out my own travel blog about Western Australia, could I 😉 Pop over for a slice of West Australian life and tips and advice on where to go and what to see and do.
Life Images by Jill – This is a great guide to everything West Australian.
Disclaimer: There are some links to affiliate sites on this page, and if you purchase from them I stand to earn a small commission but at no cost to you. Thank you for supporting my blog.
