Improving your Blog: Improving your Images with Picmonkey and Organization with Trello – Blogging eBook Reviews

These ebooks were given to me in exchange for an honest review.  Despite this, the opinions stated herein are 100% my own.

Creating Awesome Images with Picmonkey

Title:  Creating Awesome and Sharable Images with Picmonkey

Author:  Rebecca Flansburg

Year of Publication: 2013

Creating Awesome and Shareable Images with Picmonkey is a thorough comprehensive guide for creating better images for your blog.  Personally, I never took the time to explore Picmonkey – and I have been using it a little over a year.  The guide really helped me to see how things work, and allowed me to implement changes easier.  Using the guide, it wasn’t a time-consuming task.    The tutorials are clear and concise.  Have you ever tried to use a guide, duplicate the steps, and not obtain acceptable results?  I have.  But this guide is different.  It’s easy to follow and you get great results.

I have been using the guide for about 2 weeks, and I have improved!  Here are some images that I created.

My images were much improved within a short amount of time.  As we know, the better the pictures, the more they are clicked on and shared!

I have a very small window of time.  With me being a homeschool Mom, anything extra is a lot.  This guide is 20 pages of great pictures!  It is a really great resource for bloggers who want to enhance and improve their graphics/images.

Eliminate Overwhelm and Stay Organized with Trello

Title:  Eliminate Overwhelm and Stay Organized with Trello

Author:  Rebecca Flansburg

Year of Publication: 2013

Have you heard of Trello?  I hadn’t.  Eliminate Overwhelm and Stay organized with Trello is valuable.  Anyone that knows me, knows I need to put an organization system in place.  I am terrible.  I need to keep track of deadlines, I need constant reminders, and  I need a system that will track all the steps in multiple projects.  When a review comes in, I need to be able to map it out – what activities need to be completed, when the review needs to be written, when the box arrives, etc.   Trello does all this and more! I must say that this ebook – very timely!  I love this program because it’s free, it’s powerful, and has all the components necessary for me and my blog.  It’s adaptable for a single blogger like me – to a group of bloggers or small company.

Rebecca lays it out clearly!  She explains concisely what you need to do for sign-up.  I love how she takes everything step by step.  You  learn the program right along with the book.  It’s only 20 pages that are filled with pictures.  It doesn’t take a long time.  There is not a lot of reading.  I think it’s a great tool for bloggers – and did I mention it’s free?

I have signed up and am using this very powerful tool.  With the guide, it only took an hour to set up and get going.

The Blogging Essentials Giveaway

Rebecca Flansburg of Franticmommy has very generously donated a copy of both books for The Blogging Essentials Giveaway, Running April 13-23.  In addition to the 2 wonderful blogging ebooks, we are offering 1 year subscription to Picmonkey, 1 year subscription to Inlinkz, 1 year of ad swaps from Passionfruit Ads, a 1-hour blog consultation with Amazing Success Academy, and a choice between a blog design, resdesign, SEO work-up or Graphic Overhaul from Amber Galore Designs.  Together, this package is worth over $400.00 and is open worldwide.

About Rebecca Flansburg, owner of…

Becky Flansburg is author and co-creator of FREElance FREEdom and owner of LAMS Communications. Becky is a blogger, writer, virtual assistant, and social media junkie. The main goal of Mom Squad Marketing is to shine the spotlight on local moms/women in business and provide info, tips, and ideas to make women entrepreneur’s lives EASIER. You can find Rebecca Online at FranticMommy  Or on Twitter.