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Email List BuildingEmail Deliverability: The Simple Guide To How To Ensure Your Best Deliverability MetricsHow do you make sure the emails you send to your list actually get delivered? How do you get into the inbox? This guide will walk you through what you need to know to ensure good email deliverability so you can reach your subscribers.
Getting StartedWhy Wordpress? Why Not Wix, Weebly or Squarespace?Heard you should be using Wordpress? Here’s why it is better than Wix, Weebly and Squarespace. And how you can make Wordpress just as simple to use.
Membership SitesShould You Offer A Lifetime Membership To Your Membership Site? Don’t Make These Mistakes…Offering a lifetime subscription to a membership is seen as a way to increase sales, but is it a good idea? When can you use a lifetime membership, and when it is a REALLY bad idea?
Site BuildingRocket.Net Hosting Review: I Switched And Here’s What I ThinkI switched from Cloudways to Rocket.net hosting. I’ve now been using Rocket for over a month. What do I think? Here’s my experience with Rocket.Net hosting…
Site BuildingWeb Hosting Change: Moving From Cloudways To Rocket And Here’s WhyI’m moving sites from Cloudways to Rocket. In this post, let me spell out the reasons for making this web hosting change.
Membership SitesVideo Hosting For Your Membership And Online Courses: How To Securely Embed Videos And Ensure Protected AccessHow can you securely embed videos on your membership site in a way which they cannot be stolen? How do you protect your videos?
Email List BuildingSubscriber-Only Content: How To Ensure Only Your Subscribers Can Get Your Lead MagnetsHere’s how you can secure content (like lead magnets) on your site for subscribers only, but without requiring them to log-in to see it.
Business SystemsFluentBooking Review: Why This Scheduling Plugin Stands Out Above The CompetitionFluentBooking certainly isn’t the first scheduling plugin for WordPress. So, why do I think THIS one matters?
Site BuildingStop Using Thrive Suite. This Sucks.I no longer recommend Thrive Themes and I recommend people stop using it. This is a sad video to make, but… you need to know.
Membership SitesMembership Site Community: Should You Have One? Best Platform?When it comes to membership site community, I have made the rounds. I went from a Facebook group, to a forum, to BuddyBoss, and then back to nothing. Should YOU build a community for your membership site? And what are your options?
Marketing AutomationHow To Increase Your Email Open Rates And Get Your Emails DeliveredIt is one thing to build your email list. It is quite another to ensure the emails you send actually arrive and get opened. This guide provides multiple tactics to increase your email open rate and deliverability.
Marketing AutomationLead Magnets With BeeHiiv: How To Deliver Them And Set Up Your AutomationsHow’s how to set up multiple lead magnets with BeeHiiv and use automations to deliver them.
Marketing AutomationBeeHiiv Integrations: How To Connect Your Own Forms To BeeHiiv (Using The API)In this post, I will show you how to integrate any forms on your site with BeeHiiv. Including the PHP code needed to use the BeeHiiv API to subscribe leads to your BeeHiiv newsletter.
Marketing AutomationBeeHiiv Review: Why I Switched To It (And Later Switched Back To FluentCRM)I switched to BeeHiiv, then switched back to FluentCRM four months later. What BeeHiiv is genuinely great at, how it compares to Substack and Kit, and why I went back.
Site BuildingHow To Automatically Import Posts From Multiple Sources Into One SiteI created a “hub” site which I wanted to automatically list content from my other sites. Here’s how I built it using “off the shelf” plugins.
Business & EntrepreneurshipBranding And Product Names: Changes In My Business And WhyChoosing brand names and product names for your business… and how I am re-working my own business (and why).
Site BuildingHow To Create Online Courses On WordPress Without An LMS Plug-inIn this video, I will show you how to create online courses on WordPress without using an LMS plugin. We will just use custom post types.
Site BuildingHow To Show Your Site Analytics Inside WordPress (Without Big Tech)Here’s how to get your site analytics in the WordPress admin panel using an alternative to Google Analytics.
Membership SitesMembership Site Domain: New Domain, Sub-Domain Or Same Site? How To Avoid My Mistakes.Should your membership site domain be the same as your blog? Should you use a sub-folder, sub-domain or an entirely new domain? Here’s what I learned
Site BuildingHow To Build A Calculator Form Easily Without Any CodingCalculator forms can be useful for online calculators, free tests for lead generation, client reporting, etc. Here’s how you can easily create powerful calculator forms on your WordPress site and use them to really grow your business.
Site BuildingChoosing An Ecommerce Platform For Your Online Business (And My Only Recommendation)I’ve been through a lot of ecommerce platforms. Now, I pretty much have only one recommendation. Here are my criteria for choosing a platform and the tool I recommend.
Content CreationHow To Do A Blog Content Audit (Without Nasty Spreadsheets). My Custom System For Managing Content In Wordpress.Doing a content audit on your blog archives is useful for optimizing your marketing, SEO and traffic. But, how we can we do one without getting head deep into spreadsheets?
Content CreationBlog Content Strategy: How To Structure Your Entire Blog (So It Will Actually Work)This guide will show you how to plan a blog content strategy that will serve you into the future by providing a structure and global plan for your entire blog.
Getting StartedOnline Business Startup Costs: How Much Should You Expect To Spend To Start A Money-Making Blog?How much does it cost to start up a new online business? What should you expect to pay? Here are my recommendations and what you can expect.