Farewell, working from home
After five years of working from home, I am SO FUCKING SICK OF BEING STUCK IN MY HOUSE. That’s why I’m so excited to be exporting my work brain to a place occupied by adults. Starting last week, I’ve got a full-time desk at the new coworking space upstairs/behind Ada’s Technical Books.
Weeping angels and taint weeks: behind Offbeat Home & Life’s highest traffic spike ever
While y’all were off enjoying your long holiday weekends, Offbeat Home & Life was busy having its highest week of traffic EVER. Forget fucking basil, you guys… Offbeat Home & Life’s traffic spike was all about making Weeping Angels out of hacked up Barbies
Offbeat Bride’s weekly reach: Facebook vs. our own website
Here’s a mind-blower for you: Offbeat Bride’s weekly reach on Facebook is now about 370k people. Our weekly reach on our own website is about 250k people. This means that Offbeat Bride is now reaching more people via Facebook than we are via our own website.
There but for the grace of pageviews go I: where blogging and my business are going
Last week, I sent an email to all the Offbeat Empire staffers with the subject line: Required reading. The email contained a link to this post: State of the blog union: how the blogging world has changed. This post was written six months ago, but whatever: it’s a big fucking deal. It spawned this enormous post.