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Why you should read Pet Blogging for Love and Money

We met Carol online a few years ago when she was one of the leaders of the Blogpaws blogger community : we benefited from her dynamism, her experience and advice with thousands of others.

Carol Bryant is a celebrity in the pet industry. Her expertise in social media, public relations, digital marketing and professional blogging is recognized far and wide. She’s also president of the Dog Writers Association of America. Carol and her cocker Dexter blog at Fidose of Realty ; Fidose of Realty’s fundraising arm, Wigglebutt Warriors, raises funds for homeless dogs through various events.

Maggie Marton is also an expert in social media and digital marketing for pets. She blogs at Oh My Dog Blog, and is notably the author of The Zero-Waste Pet.

Carol and Maggie decided to share their knowledge and experience in order to benefit the highest number of people : Pet Blogging for Love and Money was born.

Pet Blogging for Love and Money with Zorro

Over the pages, you will discover how to start a blog, how to structure it, how to grow it, and for those who want it, how to turn it into a business. This book will also be very useful for shelters to optimize their online communication, to help them give their protégés the best chance of finding a forever home.

Chapter after chapter, Carol and Maggie guide you through all stages of creating and developing a blog. At the end of each chapter, you’ll find a summary list of the most important points, and a case study that illustrates the material presented. This book is easy to read, and we have discovered plenty of tips that we can still implement to improve our blog. It’s available in paperback or Kindle format on Amazon.

Why should you read Pet Blogging for Love and Money ?

Here are 5 preconceived misconceptions that could cross your mind and make us advise you to read this book :

I don’t have a blog yet

This is the best time to read this book ! You will be accompanied in your first steps as a blogger and will be able to avoid the mistakes that most beginners make.

I have a blog, but I don’t have a pet

No problem ! The tips you will find in this book are valid for any kind of blog.

I blog for fun, I’m not a pro

This is no reason to have a mediocre blog : we don’t monetize our blog, but we do care about having a blog that people enjoy visiting and in which it’s easy to navigate.

You can’t make a living with a blog

Wrong ! But it doesn’t happen alone : it takes a strategy and time. Monetizing your blog is a real job (believe us, we tried a few years ago, but we gave up because we didn’t have enough time to devote to it).

I am already an experienced blogger

Analyze your practices ! Do the words “lifelong learning” ring a bell ?

Pet Blogging for Love and Money is the perfect gift to put under every blogger’s Christmas tree !

Pet Blogging for Love and Money with Pixie

WARNING : no one has asked us for an article about this book, and we are not paid to do so. We wrote it because we think it’s really worth it.

Do you know Splat the cat ?

I would like to introduce you to Splat the cat : it’s the story which so much tempts me to go to school with Claire. And it’s the story she loves to tell her pupils the first school day.

The character of Splat was created by the Englishman Rob Scotton. He’s the hero of several children books.

In his first story, Splat goes to school for the first time. He’s a little afraid, then to feel reassured, he takes his best friend, Seymour the pet mouse, with him.

But releasing a mouse in a cat school causes a certain agitation …

What happened to Seymour ? Why is Splat delighted to go back to school the next day ?

To know that, read the book !

Book review : Au pays des Marrakech’Chats by Fabienne Gajda

PIXIE : Zorro, do you like my belly dancing ?
ZORRO : Of course, and you have an adorable little belly … But why this exotic touch ?
PIXIE : It’s to put our readers in the mood of the book that we’re going to present them.

We have the pleasure to introduce you to the work « Au Pays des Marrakech’Chats » : it’s about a book of photos with little text. All the cats were photographed in Marrakesh by Fabienne Gajda-Baril.

Wife, mom, active woman, art lover, reader, nature enthusiast, Fabienne travels a lot, especially in Africa. A few years ago, she takes photos of cats with her small camera during a stay in Marrakesh. Her husband, professional photographer, likes the atmosphere of these photos, and encourages Fabienne in this way. The idea of a book makes its path, and Fabienne returns several times to Marrakesh with professional photographic equipment to concretize her project.

The book « Au Pays des Marrakech’Chats » takes you in streets and alleys of Marrakesh, in Morocco, on the meeting of his four paws inhabitants, into a poetic Mediterranean atmosphere. We liked a lot travelling in the set of the everyday life of Marrakesh thanks to these magnificent cats portraits.