Trouble with low resolution

I am new to Lightroom 3.6. After I export my photos, I usually upload them to Picasa or Snapfish. I have noticed that the file sizes of my photos are much smaller than I would have thought after being exported. For example, I tried to print an 8 x 10 recently and it was 555 x 800 pixels, 151 KB. Snapfish recommended that I didn't print it, but I did anyway to see how it would look and the picture looked very pixelated. I had read online about jpeg files being compressed in Lightroom and causing them to become much smaller file sizes and my question is, "How do I avoid this?"
WIth the 8 x 10 that I recently printed, I had exported it at 2400 X 3000 pixels, with resolution 300 pixels per inch. Format was JPEG, Quality set at 76, color space sRGB. Are these the wrong settings?
I had read that I should not "resize to fit" my file to JPEG and instead, keep it at "orignal" when exporting. I did this, but it did not make any difference.
What can I do when exporting so that I am able to print photos larger than 5 x7 without lessening the resolution and file size?

All of these sizing issues are completely under your control.
If you exported a photo at 555X800, there are only two ways to get that ... either the original was 555x800, or you told LR to give you 555x800 on export. Can you check to see what the size of the original was?
WIth the 8 x 10 that I recently printed, I had exported it at 2400 X 3000 pixels, with resolution 300 pixels per inch. Format was JPEG, Quality set at 76, color space sRGB. Are these the wrong settings?
This can't be the photo that you said was 555x800, unless you made a mistake somewhere.
So, in order for us to see what happened, we need to know the number of pixels of the (cropped) image that is in Lightroom, and we need to see a screen capture of your Export Dialog box showing the Image Sizing section.
I had read online about jpeg files being compressed in Lightroom and causing them to become much smaller file sizes and my question is, "How do I avoid this?"
Any program, not just LR, compresses JPGs. There is no such thing as an uncompressed JPG. You cannot avoid this when you export a JPG. However, you can export a JPG such that the image will appear to be high quality when printed or viewed at a certain size.
More to the point, you are now confusing "file sizes" with pixel dimensions. These are not the same. In this discussion, the relevant information is pixel dimensions. The file size is meaningless. Compressing a JPG does not change the pixel dimensions.

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