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Blogging

Announcing Ella Media – Connecting Businesses with Today’s Digital Latina

I’m very excited to share with you a new venture that I’ve been working on for months, but that just launched late last night! Ella Media is my marketing and consulting business, through which I’ll be connecting businesses with today’s digital Latina. Ella Media also provides digital marketing and consulting services for large brands, small [...]

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Continuing the Blogging for Money Conversation

Blogging

After my post last week, Why Do Bloggers Continue to Work for Free?, I came across a few more blog posts on the same, or similar, topic. It seems several bloggers were on the same wavelength within days of each other. Because these posts have sparked a lot of conversation amongst my friends and blogging [...]

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Join me at Blogalicious 2010: Networking and a ¡Parranda! {Conference Pass Giveaway}

Blogging

In about four weeks, I’ll be heading down to Miami to attend the Blogalicious 2010 conference. I was unable to attend last year’s inaugural conference, but have heard so many good things about it: the content, the networking, the people. In case you’ve never heard of it or don’t know much about the Blogalicious conference: [...]

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Why Do Bloggers Continue to Work for Free?

Blogging

About five months ago, I shared with you how I was offered to work for food…literally. In exchange for seven blog posts for a brand (in one week), I was offered $200 worth of their food products. Promoting a brand for free – on that scale – was not something I could agree to do. [...]

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Latinas at BlogHer 2010

Blogging

A little over a week ago, I attended the BlogHer 2010 conference in New York City. It was wonderful for a variety of reasons: the husband and baby girl went with me, I was part of a group of seven Latina bloggers sponsored by Vme TV, and there was an amazing vibe present amongst the [...]

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Brands Leveraging Reach of Social Media Latinas

Blogging

This post was co-written with Ana Lilian Flores of SpanglishBaby. When I began blogging in 2006, it was hard for me to find other Latino bloggers. There were some, but in the last year and a half there has been an explosion in how many Latino-owned blogs are now published. In fact, the Blogs By [...]

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Friday Stumbles

Blogging

I’ve come across quite a few blog posts the past few days. I always seem to be sharing interesting articles with various people I think will like them, so I figured I’d share with everyone this time. Here are some posts I’ve either bookmarked or stumbled this week. For more, take a look at my [...]

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15 Tips for Attracting and Connecting With Non-blogging Readers

Blogging

Guest post: Tracy López is a writer of multi-cultural fiction living just outside the DC Metro area. She blogs in Spanglish about the joys and challenges unique to bi-cultural families at Latina-ish. Blogging without readers is about as much fun as throwing a party and having no one show up. Whether you’re blogging professionally or [...]