Anyone who’s ever managed to create a successful blog will tell you that building an audience involves hard work, plenty of perseverance and a whole lot of time. Basically, it doesn’t just happen overnight. Of course, to build this audience you need to deliver fresh, quality content — on a consistent basis. And crucially, there’s … Read more
There’s a few things I hate about OptimizePress, and a few things I love. I’ll get to that soon, but let me be transparent on the front end. While it’s the bread butter and sweet brown sugar for some of the best copywriters, digital marketers, and content curators in the game, it’s only one of the many software … Read more
An IDE is a piece of software that helps developers code and create websites. The acronym is derived from the longer term Integrated Development Environment. Typically, it contains tools such as a source code editor and a debugger. The purpose of an IDE is to streamline the development of languages such as PHP. The developers … Read more
Managing a blog is very tedious, detailed work. Different pieces of a blog need tracking consistently, which is why most bloggers use editorial calendars. This type of tracking mechanism makes blogging work more manageable. There are several types of calendars; software-based, cloud-based and plug-ins. Deciding what is/is not needed in an editorial calendar really depends … Read more
TaskerDev is a new WordPress theme from SiteMile. What the developers of this theme hope will separate it from the countless other WordPress themes released every day is its specific set of features. These features give site owners the ability to turn a WordPress installation into a fully functioning job marketplace. The employment marketplace that … Read more
We’ve all been there – that moment when you realize you made a big old blogging mistake. I think that because of the way blogs work – how they instantaneously publish thoughts, perspectives and ideas to the internet – it would be impossible to go through your entire blogging career without a few mistakes. I … Read more
Facebook Advertising is something that still intrigues way. There is no other advertising platforms that allow you to target people in the way that Facebook does. This is because Facebook knows everything about its members. It knows their name. It knows their email address. It knows their age, their likes, their dislikes, their interests, their … Read more
Over the years I have used a number of different email marketing services, including Aweber, MailChimp, and FeedBlitz. They all have their pros and cons. My current email marketing provider is GetResponse. I’ve been using them for around two years now. They are far from perfect, however I liked their user friendly interface and their … Read more
Despite taking a holiday for 12 days in June, it ended up being my profitable month since I started publishing income reports on this blog. I did not do as much freelancing in July, therefore my freelancing income dropped considerably. However, I am far from disappointed. July represents a major transition in me rebuilding this … Read more
MotoPress is a content editor solution for WordPress. This type of plugin is sometimes referred to as a visual page builder as it allows you to customise your website pages using a simple drag and drop interface. The developers of the plugin kindly sent me a demo copy of MotoPress to test the plugin out. … Read more