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This past week one of our good friends, Jim Kukral , sent us his newest book called “ Attention: This book will make you money: How to use attention-getting online marketing to increase your revenue ” which is published by Wiley. Even though the title might sound a bit sketchy, it certainly does a great job grabbing the attention. Jim has been mentioned in some of the known sources like: Forbes, Brandweek, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BusinessWeek, Inc., Small Business Trends, and others. So you can see that this guy know what he is talking about. Here is our short review of this book: ATTENTION! This book will make you money, is a 277 page running case study on grabbing attention wherever you can find it. Written by Jim Kukral, an online entrepreneur and internet marketer, this book seeks to educate small and large businesses in how to stand up and stand out in a saturated economy. This book teaches you how to go beyond whoring your product around the … [Read more...] about Attention! This Book Will Make You Money (Book Review)

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There are a many ways to grow your WordPress website and increase your visitor numbers. However, while choosing the best WordPress themes and on-site optimization is widely covered, the off-site options are not discussed as often. This is a shame because your off-site activities can play a large role in helping to grow your WordPress website and its audience.  This can be particularly true if you have a brick and mortar business, or a website that’s focused on servicing the local community. In short, your off-site activities can drive traffic to your WordPress website, generate leads, and increase sales. In this article, we will look at how to grow your WordPress website with off-site activities. We will discuss what you can do offline, as well as what you can do online, but still offsite. Go to Meetups in Your Local Area Depending on your niche, industry, or the purpose of your website it can be beneficial to be visible offline and in real life as well as online. Start … [Read more...] about Off-Site Activities to Grow Your WordPress Website

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Take a look at your website(s) and think about how many blog posts are available for easy access on the homepage. I’m sure you can see maybe four or five, or maybe even up to ten or a few more, but once your blog posts leave the homepage they become similar to a link moving to the second page of results on Google: useless. Now, with blog posts you can still gain traffic with organic search results and from those people who scan through your website to checkout your archives, so not everything is lost. However, once a year or two passes by you have a huge repository of WordPress blog posts that rarely see the light of day. This is a problem, because you’ve already put in the work or paid other writers to create the content. Why can’t you reuse the posts to engage your readers or make money? Let’s take a look at how you can reuse your old WordPress posts. 1. Recirculate Them Through Social Media If you run a website you probably have some social media accounts, right? The thing … [Read more...] about Recycle Old Blog Posts to Drive Traffic

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Welcome to the second post in the Ultimate Guide to Image Management in WordPress . The first post was about getting start on the right foot. We learnt when to use a JPG or a PNG image format (albeit with rigorous examples), and a couple of tips on properly uploading a stock image. In today’s post, we’ll look at some of the more technical aspects of image maintenance and management in your WordPress site. What happens to your images when you change the site URL or move servers? What if you have multiple authors in your site, and some of them link to external images? How do you get those images to be hosted to your server? What happens when someone hotlinks your images? Btw what is hotlinking? These are some of the questions we’ll answer in today’s post. As always with our post series, we start with why and then move on to the how. Let’s get started!. Tip #1: Image Management with Site URL Updates This is one of the most common mistakes we see across with WordPress … [Read more...] about 3 Lesser Known Image Management Tips in WordPress

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A call to action (CTA) is nothing but fancy marketing jargon for a button that motivates the user to take a desirable action, leading them down your set conversion funnel. Consider this: you must have at least once, in your life, signed up for some or other subscription service (Spotify, Amazon Prime, etc.) or downloaded a free resource (e-book, templates, etc.) from a website in exchange for our personal details. Amazon Prime CTA Well, a powerful call to action facilitated your “action”. These enthralling little buttons are an indispensable part of a marketer’s utility belt. They can make all the difference between converting a prospect and losing a potential patron. Why is a CTA so Crucial? A well-made CTA is an asset for both sides of the coin: For the website: This is your chance to explicitly prompt people who visit your site or read your email newsletter to do something profitable, like making a purchase, downloading a gated e-book, consuming more of your content, … [Read more...] about How to Add a Call to Action to WordPress

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