Sequins in the South

Welcome Home Wednesdays Party 4

Corinne Schmitt — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 09:58:55 +0000

Hey y’all,

Welcome to the fourth ever fabulous Welcome Home Wednesdays link-party! Each week out little part has new guests… and we’re so glad you’re here to party with us! So bring your friends and link up something awesome… we love to see your smiling faces around here! Leave us a comment to let us know you stopped by and we’ll do the same when we visit your link! The party will start each Wednesday at 7am CST… and we’ll be here bright eyed, bushy tailed and ready to party! Stop by and share your fabulous posts… we would love to read them and share them with our friends!

Meet your Fabulous Hosts!

DIY Just Cuz @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

MidMichigan Mom @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

Sequins in the South @Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

At Home with Sweet T @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

Happily Ever After, Etc. @Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

Five Kids, a Dog & a Blog @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

The Spotlight! That’s right… Features!

These people were extra cool last week… so we’re featuring them this week! Sounds awesome huh?! For your chance to be featured make sure to follow all of your hosts on social media… then leave something awesome! We look at every single link so we don’t miss a beat!

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The Rules are there ain’t no Rules!

We ain’t your Mama… so we don’t have a strict rules list. View this more as party etiquette!

1. Be kind! Read and comment on your fellow party goers links!

2. We like to think we’re super fancy… we want our guests to feel fancy too so no link-party or affiliate links please!

3. If you want to be featured please follow your hosts on social media… then link back to the party with a text link… or our fabulous button!

4. Link to a specific post… not your home page! We want to see what you’ve been up to this week!

5. That’s it! Have fun and link up your best stuff! We can’t wait to see it!

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8 Gals, 6 Blogs & 1 Great Party! Link up once to appear on 6 Amazing Blogs!

An InLinkz Link-up

Pssst! Want to come back next week? Put your email in the box and we’ll remind you!

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Thanks so much for Stopping by!

Like any good hosts we’re sitting right by the present table waiting until our guests leave so we can go through the loot… the loot being your links! We can’t wait to check out what you’ve left for us. Trust me there will be a lot of pinning, tweeting and facebook sharing going on in the near future… we can’t wait to show off what you’ve left!

Welcome Home Wednesdays Party 2

Corinne Schmitt — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:55:06 +0000

Hey y’all,

Welcome back to the fabulous Welcome Home Wednesday link-party! We’re so glad you’re here to party with us! Last week we had such a good turn out… we were estatic that so many cool people wanted to party with us! Hopefully this week we’ll see the same smiling faces from last week… and a couple new faces as well! Either way we’ll be here each week at Wednesday at 7am CST… bright eyed, bushy tailed and ready to party! Stop by and share your fabulous posts… we would love to read them and share them with our friends!

Meet your Fabulous Hosts!

DIY Just Cuz @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

MidMichigan Mom @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

Sequins in the South @Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

At Home with Sweet T @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

Happily Ever After, Etc. @Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

Five Kids, a Dog & a Blog @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

The Spotlight! That’s right… Features!

These people were extra amazing last week… so we’re featuring them this week! Sounds awesome huh?! For your chance to be featured make sure to follow all of your hosts on social media… then leave something exciting! We look at every single link so we don’t miss a beat!

<div align="center"><a href="http://www.happilyeverafteretc.com" rel="nofollow" title="Welcome Home Wednesdays"></a></div>

An InLinkz Link-up

The Rules are there ain’t no Rules!

We ain’t your Mama… so we don’t have a strict rules list. View this more as party etiquette!

1. Be kind! Read and comment on your fellow party goers links!

2. We like to think we’re super fancy… we want our guests to feel fancy too so no link-party or affiliate links please!

3. If you want to be featured please follow your hosts on social media… then link back to the party with a text link… or our fabulous button!

4. Link to a specific post… not your home page! We want to see what you’ve been up to this week!

5. That’s it! Have fun and link up your best stuff! We can’t wait to see it!

<div align="center"><a href="http://www.happilyeverafteretc.com" rel="nofollow" title="Welcome Home Wednesdays"></a></div>

8 Gals, 6 Blogs & 1 Great Party! Link up once to appear on 6 Amazing Blogs!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks so much for Stopping by!

Welcome Home Wednesdays !!

Corinne Schmitt — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:42:07 +0000

Hey y’all,

For the last couple weeks the little elves in my head have been hard at work on a special new project… Welcome Home Wednesdays! A brand new link-party that I’ll be hosting with some very special friends every Wednesday at 7am sharp! (That’s central time for you hooligans out there!) These ladies are fantastic so the party should be super! Stop by and share your fabulous posts… we would love to read them and share them with our friends!

Meet your Fabulous Hosts!

DIY Just Cuz @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

MidMichigan Mom @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

Sequins in the South @Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

At Home with Sweet T @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

Happily Ever After, Etc. @Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

Five Kids, a Dog & a Blog @ Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram

The Spotlight! That’s right… Features!

Since this is the first week we don’t have any features… but share something awesome and maybe you can have this bright shiny button next week! Just make sure you follow your hosts and link back to the party… sharing is caring y’all!

<div align="center"><a href="http://www.happilyeverafteretc.com" rel="nofollow" title="Welcome Home Wednesdays"></a></div>

The Rules are there ain’t no Rules!

We ain’t your Mama… so we don’t have a strict rules list. View this more as party etiquette!

1. Be kind! Read and comment on your fellow party goers links!

2. We like to think we’re super fancy… we want our guests to feel fancy too so no link-party or affiliate links please!

3. If you want to be featured please link back to one of your hosts with a text link… or our fabulous button!

3. That’s it! Have fun and link up your best stuff! We can’t wait to see it!

<div align="center"><a href="http://www.happilyeverafteretc.com" rel="nofollow" title="Welcome Home Wednesdays"></a></div>

8 Gals, 6 Blogs & 1 Great Party!

Link up once to appear on 6 Amazing Blogs!

An InLinkz Link-up

Pssst! Want to come back next week? Put your email in the box and we’ll remind you!

Thanks so much for Stopping by!

This will be a awesome link up yall and we will manage it so that everyone that links up gets noticed !!!

Sequins Spotlight #7

Corinne Schmitt — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:58:30 +0000

This week I am loving !!!

Maggie is the amazing person behind Less House More Home. Go Check her out. My favorite part of blogging is connecting with others. I am super lucky to have met so many amazing women.

I started my blog when my husband and I recently moved to Colorado from North Carolina. I’ve always loved doing crafty projects around the house and giving thriftstore finds a new life & purpose! I finally started the blog as a way to keep track of all my projects and show others how easy and fun it can be to Do-it-Yourself

I have a (MAJOR) sweet tooth so I post my favorite dessert recipes on the blog too! It gives me a great reason to bake a batch of cookies lol If I had my way, people would be eating dessert after every meal

Less House, More Home isn’t my full time job but it gives me an escape and helps me stay creative (and get projects done!). The blogging community is ah-mazing! And I love how much I’m learning from others and connecting with bloggers who are just as obsessed with thrift stores as I am. Follow me on Instagram to see sneak-peeks of projects I’m working on!!

Check out my blog here:

Lesshousemorehomeblog.com

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Thanks so much for stopping by !!

Why Bloggers Need Instagram.

Corinne Schmitt — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:59:04 +0000

Now that I have been blogging for a while I’m finding out what social media outlets I like and which ones are not the best for me. Instagram is so hard to track as far as if it’s sending people to your blog.

But here I will explain why bloggers need Instagram and all the details !!

Okay I’m starting here with my 1st #1 tip cause yes it’s that important. Post your pictures on Instagram when you have time to stay for a min. Cause once you post that new photo you need to return the love. I try and practice what I preach. What I do is when someone like my picture I go back and like 3 of there’s. That keeps them as your follower and keeps you and your blog on peoples radar. This works y’all try it for one week and see the difference.

How many “likes” your pictures get is not always important. Some people only like what they want to come back to later cause you can go and click on “pictures I likes lately” and once you “like” so many it starts deleting some. So I have decided that there is probably a lot of people like me that normally have a a pen and note book close by and will not down a bloggers URL to visit when they have more time. That’s the #1 reason its almost impossible to track traffic from Instagram, unless you have the help of marketing companies like NGP Integrated Marketing Communications to find the right routes you should take if you are serious about growing your audience and being able to eventually hit your business goals. You can also boost your like counts with an instagram bot. But I know for a #1 fact it definitely gets me readers. See below at an example as how you can have tons and tons of followers that see your feed but don’t always stop to “like”. Nonetheless, it is very important that you try to get as many instagram followers as possible.

EXAMPLE:

I love this account on Instagram that I now follow but she has almost 20K followers with a pic that has 280 likes. That’s tells me one thing people love her and her work but don’t always have to ” like” everything but they follow her cause they want to see everything. Makes sense right?

Instagram for me is definitely part of my blog but also a chance to show people quick views of my family life, hobbies and so on.

Proven Tips:
-Instagram is strictly for eye candy and people treat it as such. They want to see pretty pictures with very little wording.
– When people take time to comment on your pictures take time to reply. Even if you have to say thanks or whatever over and over.
– when your building your blog/brand follow people that follow you. That’s social media respect.
– Find your community of like minded people and those that have the same interest.
– With Instagram you don’t have to be on a strict posting schedule. It’s way more forgiving.
– Always Always Always put your blog URL in the link section of your bio. You would be surprised how many blog accounts I have seen without this and it definitely matters.
– If your a blogger and want to use Instagram to your benefit your profile should DEFINITELY be set to public view. People do not want to follow accounts they can’t see if they like 1st.
– DO NOT put every single picture you put on Instagram on your Facebook & Twitter give people something new to look at.

See that app where the blue arrow is pointing. That’s the Instagram app I use this is why… It helps me understand why people un-follow me when they do and when I host Giveaways it helps me weed out the goat accounts people use to only enter giveaways. I do not use this app to un-follow every single person that un-follows me. Some people say when they have a Instagram app it drives them insane and they get obsessed with it. I don’t I’m the opposite of OCD and use it strictly as a tool. You will have to see what works for you.

Now why #hastags ??? Cause this is how people discover you when they are not already following you and people with the same interest find you as well but #hashtags. When it comes to blogging I have found for me the best ones to use are: #blog #blogger #todayontheblog #connect #prfriendly #creat #diy #supoort and they depending on what you post there is also #hastags that would need to be used. The a look at my feed and this is some that I use a lot…. #create #glitter #pink #outside #georgia #outside #porchlife #momlife #fun #adventure

When you get on a roll and start getting more followers use the search button to find people you will like to follow. Instagram does a pretty good job of showing us pictures and people they think we will like. Just like with anything good it takes time and work. So get to it !!!

Hope all this helped and like always ask me any questions you may have. And click below to go straight to my Instagram.