Hello my long-lost email subscribers!
Apparently, 2016 will forever go down in blogging history as the-year-I-never-got-around-to-sending-my-monthly-newsletter-every-single-month.
#sorrynotsorry
I do feel bad. But I'm only one person. And this year I have been doing a LOT of other blogging-related stuff like BUILDING MY PINTEREST PAGE and REDOING OLD GRAPHICS and WRITING MY FIRST TWO EVER SPONSORED POSTS and GAINING TRACTION ON INSTAGRAM and um....
Living my life.
So, I promise that between now and January 1st, I will be sending you a wonderful, all-the-cute-photos, end-of-the-year recap for your enjoyment. Until then...
Christmas is a wonderful time, isn't it? My emotions are running HIGH with ALL THE HAPPY FEELINGS and, as my son says, "I HAVE SO MUCH LOVENESS IN MY HEART!"
I hope you are feeling it too. The magic. The wonder. The crazy. The enjoying-the-moments-more-than-usual. The kissing those baby cheeks and holding them all a little tighter and a little longer.
Christmas is a time for giving. For buying too many presents for the ones you love and getting excited along with the squeals over the simple pleasures like a bowl full of marshmallows, Christmas lights, or raging fires.
So, this is the one time of year I feel like I can prey (ever so slightly) on your feelings and tell you what bloggers want for Christmas.
Now, don't get me wrong. I would love a cute #bloglife tshirt or coffee mug just like the next blogger. But here's what I really want for Christmas:
Second of all, let me give you a brief lesson in Facebook analytics:
You know that wonderful "like" button under every post? It used to mean, "I LIKE THIS POST." Simple, huh?
But now, here's what it means:
"Dear Facebook. I like this post. I like the person who posted this. I follow this person. Can you keep showing me stuff this person posts? Because I like it. Pretty pretty please? Oh, and while you are at it, the other people who like this page might want to see this too, so can you show it to them, too?"
And then MAYBE, just maybe, Facebook will show you 50% of the stuff that person posts.
If you don't click "like" on posts, here's what Facebook hears:
"Dear Facebook. I don't like this post. I don't like the person who posted it. In fact, you should probably just NEVER show me stuff this person posts, like EVER. You probably shouldn't show it to anyone else either."
And Facebook says, "SURE! SOUNDS GREAT! LET ME SHOW YOU THIS OTHER THING INSTEAD!!!"
I hate that it's this way. So does every other blogger out there. But it's just the reality. Facebook does this because they want my money. So Facebook says, "Hey, Aprille, want your fans to see your stuff? GIVE US YOUR MONEY, and we will show it to them!"
And then I'm all like, "What do I look like I'm made out of, money?"
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So, here's the deal. Because Facebook is DUMB, but we all still keep using it, because, um...reasons... here's what you can do to make Facebook slightly less dumb (IN FOUR EASY STEPS):
STEP 1: Go to Beautiful In His Time on Facebook. (I'll wait...)
STEP 2: Hover over the "Following" tab just under the header image:
STEP 3: Select "See First" under the IN YOUR NEWS FEED part.
STEP 3.5 (BONUS POINTS ONLY): Select "On" under "NOTIFICATIONS" (This will notify you ever time I post - which could get really annoying really fast. BUT even if you only do it for a week, it will tell Facebook that you mean business about what you want to see in your feed.)
STEP 4: Take 1 minute (a literal 60 seconds) to scroll through the feed and click "like" on a few posts. I timed myself, and I was able to "like" 22 posts in 60 seconds. (This will tell Facebook that you want to see posts from Beautiful In His Time. It will also increase the likelihood that other people who like my page will see the posts too.)
See, wasn't that easy?
Thank you so much, and I love you all forever! You are the best readers in the world and I'm SO excited to keep building community with you in 2016!!!
Love,
Aprille
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