Goodbye Blogger

I’m not going to sit here and rant about the shortcomings of Blogger and the virtues of WordPress.  Blogger is great and I still use it for my private kid-blog.  Blogger served me well for the last three years here on Julie’s Jazz. The Blogger platform is free, simple, and easy to use.  In fact, I’ve…

The Business of Blogging (Statistics for June 2013)

June was no better, traffic wise, than May.  In fact, it was worse.  But, I am not discouraged. This analytics and traffic generating stuff is all just an experiment. Marketing and, the consumer psychology behind it, is so incredibly interesting to me. I am still in the process of redesigning my site. Hopefully it will be…

The Business of Blogging

When I started this blog almost three years ago I wanted a place I could store and share my thoughts about food, my photos of food, and my recipes.  I eventually wanted, and still want, to write a cookbook.   Along the way I have added posts about my weight loss and weight maintenance struggles. …