Health Awareness Days for 2022

Here is a list of health awareness days, weeks, and months for 2022 put together for us by the beautiful blogger Barbara who blogs at Back Pain Blog UK. Barbara is a prolific health blogger who writes an article almost each and every day about a variety of health topics including Fibromyalgia, Alternative Therapies, Chronic Pain, and Back Pain.

So here, all in one place, is everything you need to know about health awareness for each month in 2022.

Please keep in mind that many of the links go to worldwide awareness campaign sites and that others may take you to UK sites as Barbara is based in the UK. Your country may have different sites available for these days and in some cases different dates or even months.

JANUARY…

DRY JANUARY – 1^st - 31^st January 

LOVE YOUR LIVER MONTH – 1^ST – 31^ST January

INTERNATIONAL PAGET’S AWARENESS DAY – 11^th January

CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION WEEK – 17^TH – 23^TH January

NATIONAL BLOOD DONOR MONTH – 1^ST- 31^st January

GOOD CARE MONTH 1^st - 31^st January

BLUE MONDAY – 17^th January

NATIONAL HUG DAY – 21^st January

FEBRUARY…

CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT AWARENESS DAY –  14^th February

TINNITUS AWARENESS WEEK – 7^th – 13^th February

NATIONAL HEART MONTH 1^st- 28^th February

RARE DISEASE DAY – 28^th February

WORLD CANCER DAY – 4^th February

TIME TO TALK DAY – 3rd February

EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS WEEK - 28^th February – 6^th March

 

MARCH…

PROSTRATE CANCER AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st – 31^st March

OVARIAN CANCER AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st – 31^st March

BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK – 14^th – 20^th  March

NO SMOKING DAY – 9^th March

WORLD SLEEP DAY – 19^th March

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HAPPINESS – 20^th March

WORLD ORAL HEALTH DAY – 20^th March

 

APRIL…

BOWEL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st – 30^th April

STRESS AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st – 30^th April

WALK TO WORKDAY – 1st April

EARTH DAY – 22^nd April

WORLD HEALTH DAY – 7^TH April

MS AWARENESS WEEK – 18^TH – 24^TH April

IBS AWARENESS MONTH – 1^ST – 30^TH April

 

MAY…

SPINAL CORD INJURY AWARENESS DAY – 14^th May

WORLD ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS DAY - 7^th May

WORLD RED CROSS DAY - 8^th May

INTERNATIONAL ME AWARENESS DAY – 12^th May

ACTION ON STROKE MONTH – 1^st – 31^st May

WORLD FIBROMYALGIA AWARENESS DAY -  12^th May

WORLD FIBROMYALGIA AWARENESS MONTH – May

SPONDYLOARTHRITIS (SpA) AWARENESS MONTH - May

NATIONAL OSTEOPOROSIS MONTH – 1^ST – 31^st May

DEAF AWARENESS WEEK – 4th – 9^th May

WORLD LUPUS DAY – 10^th May

ARTHRITIS CARE AWARENESS WEEK – 14^th – 21^st May

INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY – 12^th May

ACTION ON STROKE MONTH – 1^ST – 31^st May

MENTAL HEALTH WEEK – 13^th – 20^th May

WORLD MS AWARENESS DAY – 30^th May

 

JUNE…

MEN'S HEALTH WEEK – 13^th – 19^th June

SCOLIOSIS AWARENESS DAY – 1^st  June

SCOLIOSIS AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st June – 30^th June

NATIONAL CARERS WEEK – 7^th - 13^th June

WORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY – 14^th June

DIABETES AWARENESS WEEK – 10^th - 17^th June

 JULY…

SARCOMA AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st July - 31^st July

SAMARITANS AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st July - 31^st July

GLAD TO CARE WEEK – 5^th July – 11^th July

 

AUGUST…

CYCLE TO WORK DAY – 15^th  August

CBD AWARENESS DAY 8^th August

 

SEPTEMBER…

WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY – 10^th September

PAIN AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st – 30^th September

MIGRAINE AWARENESS WEEK – 5^th – 11^th September

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AWARENESS WEEK – 13^th – 19^th September

KNOW YOUR NUMBER AWARENESS WEEK – 6^th  – 12^th  September

WORLD LYMPHOMA DAY – 15^th September

EUROPEAN MOBILITY AWARENESS WEEK – 16^th – 23^rd  September

BALANCE AWARENESS WEEK – 12^th – 18^th  September

ORGAN DONATION AWARENESS WEEK – 20^th – 26^th September

WORLD REFLEXOLOGY WEEK – 20^th – 26^th September

WORLD ALZHEIMERS DAY – 21^st September

WORLD HEART DAY – 29^th September

CLEAN AIR DAY – 7^th September

 

OCTOBER…

BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st – 31^st October

NATIONAL CHOLESTEROL MONTH – 1^st – 31^st October

LUPUS AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st – 31^st October

BACKCARE AWARENESS WEEK – 3rd – 7^th  October

NATIONAL BONE AND JOINT WEEK – 12^th – 20^th October

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY – 10^th October

WORLD SPINE DAY – 16^th October

RESTART & HEART DAY – 16^th  October

WORLD OSTEOPOROSIS DAY – 20^th October

BREAST CANCER NOW WEAR IT PINK DAY – 23^rd October

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY – 10^th October

 

NOVEMBER…

LUNG CANCER AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st – 31^st November

PANCREATIC CANCER AWARENESS MONTH – 1^st – 31^st November

WHITE RIBBON DAY – 25^th November

WORLD DIABETES DAY – 14^th November

DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH – 18^th November – 18^th December

WORLD COPD DAY - 18^th November

DECEMBER…

WORLD AIDS DAY – 1^st December

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES – 3^rd December

INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS DAY – 5^th December

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY – 10^th December

 Many thanks to Barbara at 

BACK PAIN BLOG UK…

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7 inspiring quotes about accepting chronic illness

Over the years I have been collecting quotes that inspire me on this chronic illness journey and I hope you may find them helpful to you as well.  I especially like the first quote because it is so simple and to the point.

Please feel free to use or share these images however you wish. Today I am sharing the quotes on acceptance.

Acceptance is often confused with the notion of being OKAY with what has happened. This is not the reality. Most people don’t ever feel okay about having a chronic illness, like fibromyalgia. But we come to a place where we can accept our new reality. We learn to live with our new normal.  

I resisted this new norm for years, and tried to maintain my life as it was before I became ill. This made life very difficult, frustrating and exhausting. 

Then I came to the realization that I had to readjust. I asked for help and reorganized my daily life to be more in tune with how I could now live. I listened to my needs and the needs of those with whom I lived. I reached out and made new friends. I started to reach out to others and became involved in their lives. I changed, grew and evolved all because of the process of acceptance. 

I can never give up hope of a cure, but I could not begin to live again until I accepted my condition. 

Perfection is out of the question. ~ Ann Archer

I take a simple view of living. It is to keep your eyes open and get on with it. ~ Sir Laurence Olivier

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. ~ George Bernard Shaw.

Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ~ Dan Reeves

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. ~ Ugo Betti

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~ James A. Baldwin

We can let our circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ~ Earl Nightingdale

How to promote your blog post

Sometimes we are shy to sing our own praises and promote ourselves.

When you put so much time and effort into your blog this is not a sensible way to be.

Just for fun, I am suggesting we give the following a try...

Why not see how far you can boost one, just one, post?

WHY? - To drive traffic to your post and build awareness of your blog.

HOW? - Pick a post of yours, that you think is really good, and promote it like mad.

Get out of your comfort zone and share it more than you usually would.

Here are my suggestions:

• Share it on our group board on Pinterest

• Share it on all your social media more than once. 

• Send an email about it to your email list. 

• Write to someone who you think may be interested in publishing it eg The Mighty. 

• Share it at Fibro Friday. 

• Share it on facebook at Thursday's Sharathon on Fibro Blogger Directory.

• Share it on the Sunday Sharathon in our private facebook group. 

• Share it at bloglovin, Reddit, triberr, Digg, Scoop.it and anywhere else you can think of. 

• Share it all again... 

• Check your numbers and see what impact you have made... decide was it worth it and will you do this again?? 

I think you may find that you get many more views to your post than you normally do if you spend at least as much time promoting your posts as you do writing them.

I hope you use these strategies to increase visibility, engagement, and ultimately drive more traffic to your blog. Let me know what happens when you do promote your blog post in these ways.

Assessing an increase in viewers is easy and straightforward, but building awareness of your blog can be more challenging to measure. However, with the right strategies in place, you can improve visibility and attract more readers.

It would be great to hear back from you, in the comments, if these tactics work for you.

Monetize Your Blog

Many people will tell you to follow their formula and you will make money from your blog but I do not think there is a one size fits all approach. There are just so many variables such as what topic you are blogging about and how many readers you have and if those readers are buyers and if you are well-liked and if your product is what they are looking for...

I think it is a matter of trying an idea to see what works for you and if it does not work then try something else. In my experience AdSense only really works if you get huge amounts of traffic to your blog so I have not even included it in the list of ways to monetize your blog.

It is probably the same for advertising banners - they may bring you some small income but is it enough for the fact that you are bombarding your audience with ads. Most people ignore ads, (They even have a name for it - Banner Blindness) and these ads take them off your site?  Is it worth it?
What are you blogging for is a big question for me. It boils down to helping people and connecting with people and I don't think banner ads do either of those things.

So here are some monetization strategies to explore:

1. Coaching
2. Create an online course
3. Write a book
4. Create an online summit
5. Create a membership site
6. Create a Resource page on your blog
7. Get sponsors
8. Crowd Funding
9. A PayPal Donate Button
10. Become a ghostwriter or a freelance writer.
11. Be an affiliate.
12. Pay for a course and follow the advice.

1. Coaching: Yaro Starak is one of my mentors and he believes that the quickest way that everyone can make money is to be a coach. You can coach through emails, skype or phone. His attitude is that you always know something more than other people if you choose your area of expertise well. Those people are the clients that you should then gear your posts to. Be an authority in your chosen area and write posts to attract those people that you can help.

RESOURCES: Clarity is a site that allows you to become an expert, talk to your clients online, have a promo on their website, and get a widget for your blog.

2. Create an online course: Finding out what your readers want is crucial to be able to sell an online course. One thing I have found extremely useful is to survey your current readers. You can do this in an informal way, in your comments, in your emails, on your social media or in a more formal way using a tool like SurveyMonkey. I recommend them as I love free tools and I also love the way they analyze your surveys with graphs and it is very clear to see your results and then get ideas. If you want to create a course or book and you are not sure the topic, do a survey, see that 50 people want the course on teaching your child to be potty trained (if you are in the parenting niche) and only 10 wanted the course on fussy eaters then you know which course to create.

RESOURCES: Teachable helps you create and sell online courses.

3. Write a book.
The easiest book to create is an ebook because you have everything you need already to do so - a computer that allows you to turn a document into a PDF.

RESOURCES: Self Publishing on Amazon made easy by Christopher Fielden

4. Create an online summit. These can be podcasts or videos from experts in a field around a specific topic. They are usually a series that starts out for free and then turns into an optin payment to get access to all the videos.

To truly succeed at a virtual summit launch, you need to make it a win/win for the experts who will share their knowledge.Choose a topic that will inspire people to action, and make sure you have a product to sell at the backend. NEIL PATEL

5. Create a membership site. This relies on having a lot of information and resources that your readers want from you. The key is having something that people will not be able to find easily elsewhere for free or that they want to hear from you and how you do things.

6. Create a Resource page on your blog. A page where you recommend things that you love and that you have affiliate links to. This should relate to your niche. Here is an example.

7. Get sponsors. In the past sponsors have approached me and they all seemed to want the same thing - my unique visitors, where my visitors are, my social media numbers and my email list numbers. (they obviously do their research) So if you are thinking of looking for sponsors I would suggest getting your numbers up in these areas. This can be hard work.

8. Crowd Funding: Go Fund Me or a similar site. This works for some people if they have a project in mind and explain it well people may give you money. The site takes a small percentage of the funds you raise. Seth Godin, Marketing writer,  has funded some of his books this way, very quickly.

9. A PayPal Donate Button. This relies on the generosity of your readers. But if you don't try, you won't know. By offering them something they may donate eg a checklist. You need a PayPal Business account and PayPal show you here how to add the button and customize it.

10. Become a ghostwriter or a freelance writer. This is not really making money from your blog but using your blog, as part of your bio, to display your writing skills. There are many blogs and websites looking for writers. One place you can get work is Up work or Fiverr both of which are very reliable and have been around for ages. You can also see jobs at Pro Bloggers Job Board. Be sure to read their Tips For Applying Safely Online.

11. Be an affiliate. This in its most basic form is recommending products. Hopefully, products that you like and really want to recommend. If someone clicks your link to the product and buys, you earn a commission. You could start with Amazon, which pays a very small percentage, or look on sites like ShareASale or ClickBank for specific products in your niche, that offer higher reimbursements. You need to find a product you like then drive traffic to it. The good thing about affiliate marketing is that you do not have to fulfill the orders or deal with the returns.

12. Pay for a course and follow the advice. Choose an expert that suits you and follow their advice to the letter. Following is a small list of people who I recommend because I've followed them for years, read their posts and income reports and done some of their courses. Also, they are all in the top 50 bloggers earning money online so they don't just talk about making money - they do it.

David Risley's Academy Lab Membership is $39.00 a month. David teaches how to make a business around your blog, and has been blogging for around 19 years. I have done many of his courses, years ago when he didn't have The Lab (Which is what I would do if I was starting out now), and he is extremely thorough in explaining everything. One thing though he may expect you to change the niche you are in

Yaro Starak can help you set up a profitable blog. He has a few courses and you can get to know him on his free webinar here How To Launch Your Online Platform, Grow Your Email List Without Buying Ads, And Turn Your Knowledge Into A Real Business.

Melyssa Griffin, teaches how to create courses and use an email funnel to sell them, as well as using Pinterest to get traffic. (In 2022, I'm not sure if she is still doing this but you may be able to find her courses from previous years)

Of course whatever route you choose to make money with your blog you must then promote, promote promote what you are doing.

I hope this list has got you thinking of what you can do on your blog to make some money.

Please remember that the biggest thing you can do to make money is to start trying something today.

Good Luck and I would love to hear what works for you or what you are thinking of trying to make money with your blog.

Check out the other posts to help bloggers:

• What should I send in my emails?
• How to promote your blog post.
• An easy to follow guide on How Often To Share On Social Media
• What is a pillar post?
• Using Pinterest to get traffic to your blog
• Your Pre Publish checklist (or what to do before you hit the Publish button)
• How to revamp your old blog posts (with step by step instructions)
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Your Pre Publish checklist (or what to do before you hit the Publish button)

When I get to the end of writing a post I am really excited and want to just get the post out into the blog- a-sphere...
BUT
over all the years of blogging, I have learnt to curb my impatient nature and double check a few things before I publish my post.

I've actually created a Pre Publish Checklist and thought that you too may find it useful too.

1. TITLE : Is the Title catchy?

2. KEYWORD: Have you included a keyword or keyword phrase in the title or in the beginning of your article?

3. IMAGE: Have you included one (or more) relevant images? Have you added it's ALT Text.

4. PROOFREAD: Double check the spelling and grammar.

5. INTERNAL LINKING: Is it possible to link another one of your relevant posts to this post?

6. CALL TO ACTION: Can you include a call to action at the end?

7. REFERENCES: Can you include quality references?

8. LINKS: Check all the links.

If you have any questions about my checklist, that I can help you with, I'd love you to leave a comment.

Blogging Prompt: write a letter to your future self.

WHAT IS A BLOGGING PROMPT? It is a suggestion for you to blog about, if you are looking for ideas. It may give you an idea to get you started on a blog post. It may spark ideas to get you past a writer's block.  

I think it would be cool to write a letter to your future self and actually send it.

I would write about what is important to me right now, my fibromyalgia symptoms and what things I am currently trying to help reduce them, my interests and my goals.
I would love to read this in the future... in maybe 10 years or maybe 5.

What would you write about to inform your future self?

There is a really cool app that lets you do this here and it's called futureme.org and they actually email you your letter on the date and year you specify. I am going to write a letter to my future self there using the app but I also think it is a great idea for a blog post.

If you agree with me and write a blog post about it please let me know so I can come and read it. Thanks from Lee.

How to grow your newsletter subscriber list

We all want our mailing list to be full of avid readers who are interested in what we have to say and what we have to promote. So how do we attract the right readers? How do we get the people who are reading our posts to sign up to our newsletter?

First of all remember this relies on getting traffic to our blog in the first place (but that is a whole different issue).

Secondly think about your reader and what they want

• Write good content on a regular basis geared to that reader.
• Ask permission to send content to people’s emails. This could be an opt-in form on your blog. Try different places and if the sidebar opt-in does not work try one at the top of your page or on your about page etc.
• Promote your newsletter through your social networks i.e. twitter, facebook etc.
• Use a Facebook newsletter signup.
• Offer a free item for people who subscribe to your list - it could be a free guide, resource, or template that solves a problem that your readers might have.
• Place a postscript at the bottom of your most popular posts that invites people to sign up to your newsletter if they enjoyed your post. 
• Hold a contest or a giveaway that people join in by leaving their email.
• Provide a series of articles or videos and ask for an email address after the first post to unlock the rest.
• Try different approaches and test which works best.
• If you use a great email marketing product like Aweber (my favourite) you get to easily see what emails are working best as well as access to hundreds of opt in forms,  email automation and autoresponder follow ups. You can start a free trial of Aweber with access to every feature by clicking my affiliate link. (you know I only recommend products I use and love)

We'd love to hear what has worked well for you in growing your email list, so please let us know in the comment section.

On this same topic of emails you might also like to read What should I send in my emails? which offers ideas for WHAT to write.

Blogging prompt: What is fibro fog

Fibro fog is the feeling of being in a haze. When I have it I say my head feels like it is full of cotton wool and on those days I just can't think straight. I have difficulty concentrating, finding the right words and remembering things. If I am at work then I have to concentrate really hard to have a conversation and appear normal.

According to a 2015 review in Rheumatology International, some patients report that the loss of mental clarity can be even more devastating than the pain and fatigue associated with fibromyalgia. Fibro fog can manifest itself in different ways in different people but some of the most common symptoms include:

• short term memory loss
• misplacing objects
• becoming easily distracted
• forgetting plans
• difficulty carrying on conversations
• inability to remember new information" ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION

Describing how Fibro Fog affects you or a humorous story about it might make a good post. Here are some memes that make light of this cognitive problem and there are over 50 more here : Fibro Funny Quotes   Hopefully they may inspire your post...
Happy blogging.

Blogging prompt: Pain perceptions

"We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and create a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice.” ~ Jacob Held

Hopefully this quote may inspire your blogging whatever aspect of it resonates with you - choosing, giving in, the relentless dance with pain, the choices we all have, how you create a life for yourself with chronic illness and what it looks like now. These are all universal topics that will be of interest to a wider population and could open your blog up to a larger audience.

If you do write about this topic or use the image quote (please feel free to use it) let me know here in comments so we can all visit and read what you have written.
Best blogging wishes to you from Lee.

Blogging prompt: being happy in challenging times

Living with chronic illness does not mean being unhappy. It means we have the extra daily challenge of looking beyond the imperfections of our body, in order to be happy. I have included the following quote and flowers as reminders of this. The quote says it well and the flowers are a reminder of the small but amazing things we can find around us to make us happy. I love flowers, especially in a garden.

WHAT IS A BLOGGING PROMPT? It is a suggestion for you to blog about if you are looking for ideas. It may give you an idea to get you started on a blog post. They may spark ideas to get you past a block.  

Beautiful grape hyacinths make me happy.



There are other Blog Prompts here.
I would love you to post in comments a link to a post you may have written from this blog prompt.

Blogging prompt for fibro & chronic illness bloggers

This blogging idea is about PAIN. Everyone gets it, even babies, but how do you explain it to others especially your family and do you think they understand or even believe you?

Do you find this image true? Have you ever felt this from a loved one? Did you verify the feeling with them? Many of us with fibromyalgia get looks of doubt or doubting comments from family and friends about our levels of pain. Some doctors even still question whether fibro pain is real! I think this is because they don't yet fully understand what causes fibro pain and what makes it continue and not go away. After all most people will just take a painkiller and their pain will go away and not come back so this is their expectation with pain.
How do you convey your pain to others? Do you even think it is important to tell those around you or do you keep it to yourself?

I hope you get some ideas here for creating a post around pain.

Sidebar design ideas for your blog

Before we get started let me confess that in most instances I believe that Less is More and I go for an uncluttered look. This is unless you have a magazine style blog.

What you post in your sidebar is important. It should do two things:

• It should relate directly to the goals of your blog. 
• It should help your readers.

It should lead your visitors through your pages and help them with what you want them to do.

Blogs have different purposes and different designs. So there is no 1 size fits all approach but read on and you will find my must haves for your sidebar.

First of all decide what your blog's ultimate goal is at the moment: get more readers, get readers to subscribe to a newsletter, sell a product, get more pageviews.

Secondly decide what your visitor is looking for.

MUST HAVES FOR A GOOD VISITOR EXPERIENCE:
1. Search bar
2. A short profile with your credentials. Credentials could be where you have blogged or books you have written that relate to your niche.
3. Further reading - this could be called 'Popular Posts' "Latest Posts'  "Recent Posts' etc and will take the visitor to other posts in your site.
4. If you have many readers from other countries they may appreciate a translate button.

WHAT YOU WANT IS DIFFERENT THAN YOUR VISITOR.
If you want visitors to subscribe to your course or email them you should have an Call to Action i.e an email capture e.g.

Sign Up for my Latest Posts

Get my Newsletter each week

Get my pdf on ....

Sign up for my course on ... 

If you want visitors to connect with you on social media you could add your icons (if they are not somewhere else on your site)

If you are trying to make money with your blog - your product could be in the sidebar. If you are trying to make money with adsense/ another network or affiliate marketing place 1 or 2 of these in the sidebar. Personally I find more than this becomes a little overwhelming. remember these all take readers off your blog and away from you and they may never return.

WHAT TO REMOVE FROM YOUR SIDEBAR
1. Mega Data - if you are on wordpress this is automatically on your site and must be removed as it
can affect how search engines see your site, as it creates a link to your log in page from every page of your blog. This may be why you have not been getting much organic search traffic.

2. Archives - that are just a list of date. Who is using this? No one! When I come to your site I cannot use it to search by as it does not give me a list of topics, just a list of dates. The only thing it tells me is how long you have been blogging. If this is important to you put it in your profile i.e "blogging since 2011".

EXAMPLES OF SIDEBARS from the experts. ( I figure they have researched and tested what works over many years and are up to date with current trends). So check these out:

copyblogger - currently has a call to action, affiliate add link, search bar, social media icons and Popular articles. (They do not have a profile as they are a business)

microsoft - has only 2 things - More News and Stay Connected (They do not have a profile as they are a business)

Maria Forleo - Call to Action, followed by a luverly profile pic with Oprah (giving her massive credibility) and then Top Picks (of her blog). That's it.

Chris Brogan - cleverly combines his picture in his Call to Action right at the top of his sidebar, then Most Recent blog posts, then his Supporters (really his affiliate links).

Retro Housewife Goes Green - Lisa has her profile, social media icons, 1 add and her top posts.

The Great Fitness Experiment - Charlotte has her book and 1 other credential and that's all.

A Cup of Jo - Joanna has her pic and Call To action, social media icons, an add, This Month Most Popular, and 1 other add.

Did you find this article helpful? I would love to hear your thoughts on what should be in a sidebar in the comments.