Salut! It’s Andie here — officially reporting back during my favorite time of the year! 🕸️🖤

And yes, I’m finally back (from the dead?). Considering the pain I went through before my recent surgery, I think that comparison is... eerily accurate. 😅

It took me nearly two extra months to get back on track — but hey, life had plans. Between moving to another country, having to remove yet another wisdom tooth (who even gets a new one in their 30s???), and juggling a million blog tasks… it’s no wonder my comeback took a little longer.

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💻 Life Behind the Blog

People often think blogging is just writing a few cute posts and snapping some pretty photos. Oh, if only! These days, most bloggers — myself included — are actually content and SEO managers disguised as writers.

There’s so much happening behind the scenes to keep a blog alive and thriving — and October was a prime example.

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The “Not-So-Unusual” Month of a Blogging Business Owner

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Here’s what I’ve been up to just with Be Productive Every Day (not even counting my other blogs — they’re older, more passive-income machines, so they mostly mind their own business now 😎):

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• Migrated Be Productive Every Day to a faster web hosting server (still on DreamHost 🖤).
• Fixed the last few LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) issues — everything’s finally green on my Core Web Vitals score!
• Tested 5 different premium image optimizers until I found THE ONE.
• Switched to a lighter cookies plugin (bye-bye, slowpoke).
• Wrote and replied to dozens of business emails.
• Spent way too long debugging GA4 issues that turned out to be… a platform bug (of course 🙃).
• Retired a few old email courses and launched a brand-new 89-page free course (yes, 89 pages — including bonus PDFs!). It cost me most of my weekends, but it was so worth it. You can check it out here — it’s completely free. 🔥
• Got my first new subscribers to that course! 🫶🏻
• Reviewed a post for a collab with none other than… Adobe! (coming the first week of November 👀).
• Published 7 new articles, totaling over 27,000 words (October was light on writing, heavy on tech SEO 🥲💔).
• And exchanged what felt like a million messages with my hosting support team — because website perfection doesn’t come easy!

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And I’m still not done — I have new mailing sequences to schedule, more business emails to answer, and a sponsored post draft due tomorrow. 🥴

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🕸️ Halloween Vibes + Little Victories

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But at least I did all that while binge-watching my favorite Halloween movies & specials, blasting spooky playlists (from Misfits to Tim Burton's movie soundtracks), and eating all the candy I can now that I’m allowed to again! 🍬

Because before the surgery? Yeah, I couldn’t eat anything. For weeks. Antibiotics, blood tests, endless checkups… it was a nightmare. But at least my surgeon had great music taste — I got to play Metallica and Slipknot during the entire surgery, which definitely improved the vibe. 🤘

Also:
✅ Finished Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest (102% baby ✨)
✅ Started Super Mario World​
✅ Went back to rereading When Marnie Was There

So honestly? No complaints.

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🎁 A Little Gift for You

To celebrate 4 years of Be Productive Every Day, I’m giving away some of my favorite blogging money-making resources — completely FREE. 💌

They’ve helped me so much throughout this journey, and it just feels right to share them with you as a thank-you for being here.

👉 Grab your free resources here — download as many as you want, get your free course, and happy Halloween! 🎃

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As for me, I’m crossing off the next item on my list: rest. I worked almost every weekend this month, so on October 31st, I’ll be offline — enjoying my cozy Halloween party, candy bowl in hand, and maybe binge-watching one or two more seasons of Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? by night. Just maybe.

Because sometimes productivity looks like… not working at all. 👻