WordPress Performance Guides and Reviews
I do what I want. I think so many people don’t and that hurts their consistency in the long run. If you hate blogging, don’t force yourself to write. If you hate videos, don’t force yourself to get in front of a camera. Forcing yourself to do anything never works because you’ll quit in the… Read more How Do You Stay Motivated?
I’m incredibly happy with Linode VPS Hosting for the past 5 years. I honestly don’t even like telling people about them because I don’t want this company to grow, get bought out, or decrease their quality of service like GoDaddy or any of the EIG hosting companies. Linode has 0% downtime or constant upgrade/migration issues… Read more Linode – VPS Hosting Review – Updated 2017
I absolutely hate and never recommend MLM’s (multi-level marketing, aka “pyramid schemes”). None of them last long…and a business model built around saturating your market as quick as possible is never going to last. How long would Starbucks last if they put a franchise on every corner? Any business that makes more profit from enlisting… Read more MLM are SCAMS, not real businesses!
It isn’t creative but perhaps a bit non-conformity. I hate leveraging freebies as a way of getting the email. You stake the entire value of your newsletter on the freebie and many people would rather just search up the topic of your freebie than give their email address away. My thing is this: write amazing… Read more How do you collect customer emails?
This guide was intended to help beginner/non-experts find a good control panel for managing their websites and web servers. About myself…I’m extremely tech-savvy and know my way around many web technologies. Of the few things that I don’t do, programming and operating from the command line is one of them. When it comes to finding the… Read more FREE Web Hosting Control Panel Review
Which is better? The free-for-all community driven software or mature enterprise-grade production-ready commercial software? Those supporting open-source software claim it has the obvious advantage of being free but more importantly, is developed by more community experts with more contributing hands. It’s likely to grow and fork faster into more exciting projects. Those support proprietary software claim it’s… Read more Open-Source vs Proprietary (closed-source)
I’m very happy with it. It works out of the box. It’s not overly complicated or pricey like Gravity Forms, or as pretty as Ninja forms. But I like that it doesn’t try to over-stylize your form. Newbies may prefer something prettier but more web-savvy guys like myself prefer having a clean well-coded form that… Read more Caldera Forms – WordPress plugin review
Some people have asked which WordPress plugin is best for redirection, to avoid 404 errors, or maybe after a change in permalinnks (url structure), or migration to HTTPS. Of all the WordPress redirection plugins, IMO Safe Redirect Manager is the best. Other plugins are consumer grade, but this one is enterprise grade (and the fastest).… Read more WordPress Redirection Tips – HTaccess vs Plugins
QUESTION: How do I find a low-cost, reliable, AND trustworthy remote employee? There are numerous methods. Some business owners will try to find a remote staffing agency that vets all their employees. Others will try to hire directly via freelance sites like UpWork. Others prefer to search from word-of-mouth asking other friends in online communities. I’ve used all… Read more How to Hire Remote Employees
This is starting to become a big problem with many DAP websites being targeted. I’ve chatted personally with Veena, the author of the DAP plugin and she says the plugin is secure but I can’t help but notice other issues with the same problems I did. About 8 months ago, I was hacked every day… Read more DigitalAccessPass hacked – and changed address (PayPal IPN hack)
Time for an updated review of these two longstanding theme giants. What’s good, what’s bad, and who’s the winner. Let’s get on to it…
The best marketing was never email. The best way was being so amazing (having such a valuable presence) that everyone has to coming back to you to look you up. But since nobody wants to do that, they do the next best thing which is much easier…and that is to spam the crap and bombard… Read more Is Building an Email List still THE BEST WAY?
There’s only 3 good ones that I’ve found. They are all full-featured, updated (as of this writing), and highly regarded. 1. The SEO Framework This is the one I’m using currently on my site and I love it. Very clean and simple. All the necessary functions. Very fast, no bloat. And not obnoxious. It’s… Read more BEST WordPress SEO Plugins 2018
Need examples of what colors do for your brand? Use this… http://visual.ly/color-emotion-guide
Learn the basics…and then break all the rules. https://blog.crazyegg.com/2015/06/05/10-fill-in-blank-headlines/
Are you frustrated by having spent so much money on programs and not making any money out of it? How about you learn how to build a real business? Try to make money by offering value, not by offering promises, or catchy headlines, or gimmicks. Offer real things and people will give you real money for it.… Read more The problem with IM Marketing Products
A fast breakdown of the strategy I used to turn my WordPress into a multilingual site to target different readers and customers from all around the world. I go over many of the typical challenges you’ll face when trying to translate your website into other languages. Read to learn about different WordPress translation plugins, ideas… Read more WordPress Multilingual Guide 2016 – Plugin Review, Language Translation Strategy, and WPML Tips
AVADA is the clear winner for me. I’ve read reviews on both AVADA, DIVI, and X theme. I installed both AVADA and DIVI and played around for 15 minutes. My experience is mostly with Thesis but I do understand the idea of frameworks. DIVI for me is the weakest choice out of those 3, many… Read more AVADA vs DIVI vs X Theme – Premium WordPress Theme Framework 2016 Review
One thing I’ve come to notice about many people doing SEO is that they spend an awful lot of time chasing down keywords and then trying to rank for them. You will always have a problem with this if you’re not an influential figure in your industry. You’ll have to do a ton of work… Read more SEO TIP – Create the Keyword
Too many people are lost among-st a million “great” ideas. Here’s my advice: Pretend all the things you want to do are equally easy to do, and equally profitable. With that said, which would you choose? You should do THAT one.
Finding a good coder can take a ton of time and money. The problem is not so much about getting the job done but finding a good coder. For the first job you ever post…always offer based on a fixed price. Over time after you’ve tried out many different coders. Just come back to the… Read more How to Find an Affordable Programmer
A beautifully written article on the benefits and rewards of self-discipline! http://www.raptitude.com/2013/10/the-elegant-secret-to-self-discipline/
After getting bombarded by mentorship requests from people sending me PM’s asking for help like the one below: Hi, My name is Billy and I’ve yet to to find success online but I know a lot about IM. I need a mentor to help me. I am willing to learn and start working and making… Read more How to Get an IM Mentor – help us help you
It really depends on what options you have out there OUTSIDE of college. You should leave college if you have a better option and clearer direction in life. Otherwise, being lazy and staying at home and waking up whenever you feel like is not going to do you any good. It also depends on… Read more Should You Quit College?
You can definitely use testimonials and/or other kinds of social proof. I’ve noticed testimonials will run along 2 different types: The big name – Somebody with a name, CEO of a well-known company or somebody with a high position. The emotional story – Somebody with a great ability to write and articulate and connect with others.
Pick an interesting part of the story and then inject emotion into it. Many people fail in storytelling because they don’t pick an interesting part of the story. They focus on the part of the story that’s all too familiar, all too predictable. Or they pick the part of the story that is more the… Read more How to Write an Interesting Story
The answer is VERY LONG! Every now and then people get this genius idea of copying a really large site and thinking it’s easy to do. I remember once developing a Yelp clone but for bars. It took forever! Somebody on WarriorForum asked…”how long will it take to copy quidco.com?” Here was my reply: This… Read more How long does it take to copy another website?
Which one is the better and more cost-effective solution? In the short run? In the long run? I’ve pasted my answers below from a discussion I had with a PPC-advocate at the WarriorForums. Here is the heated discussion I had with another member over the topic of SEO vs PPC…
It’s a common thing to want to offer a service or product that fulfills a need but doesn’t guarantee happiness. You might feel like you’re not being honest or that you’re not really selling a truly useful product because it doesn’t get the customer to his end goal but the reality is, you definitely can!… Read more How to Market a Service or Product WITHOUT Guaranteeing Success
I saw this link posted on WarriorForum and loved it. So many great resources in here. Read this if you really want to get your feet wet in copywriting. http://www.warriorforum.com/copywriting-forum/729604-1000th-post-quick-links-new-copywriters.html
Just do it. really, just do it stop worrying about it, and do it it doesn’t matter what others think, do it anyway it doesn’t matter that you’re good at it, it matters that you did it it’s not gonna be perfect, nothing is, just do it stop lagging and do it stop thinking about… Read more Favorite motivational quote
There have been people saying that SEO isn’t worth it anymore. That it’s too hard to do. It’s hard to rank for smaller websites. That Google algorithms are too unpredictable. Costs so much more time and money than PPC. I’ve been an SEO expert for years and every one of my website benefits highly as… Read more Is SEO worth it anymore?
Great article. Learn the difference: http://www.inc.com/shelley-prevost/5-ways-to-distinguish-your-calling-from-your-ego.html
Adsense is the WORST WAY to monetize your website. I’ve used Adsense for years (and still do on my less-developed websites) and also sell my own products. Adsense is by far the WORST OPTION in terms of monetizing a website. Of all the banner ads you could place on your site, Adsense might be the highest… Read more Don’t use Adsense – You’re LOSING Money!
Honestly, I would pay an SEO expert to coach you on skype. You could learn a lot within 5 skype lessons at $100/hr. It’s better than wasting hours of your time reading conflicting guides on the internet about SEO. I learned so much about SEO that don’t even use anymore. It would have been nice… Read more The FASTEST Way to Learn SEO
The first breakthrough is creating an online presence where you don’t have to spend all your efforts getting regular traffic (creating content, advertising, self-promotion). It can be on a website (SEO), social media (VIRAL CONTENT), or Youtube (SUBSCRIBERS). For me the best way is to have such great content that it sells itself and gets… Read more What was your first breakthrough in making money online?
I used to be so afraid of getting on camera and you know what…it turned out to be one of the best things for my business. I used to worry about not looking comfortable enough, confident enough, professional enough, etc, etc. But as it turns out, me shooting videos in my living room and having… Read more Overcoming Fears of Getting on Camera (Youtube)
The answer is YES! Oh man…at first I thought it was impossible. Like making money online was some secret only others figured out. I started scheming and trying to come up with magical ideas, which were all a total waste of time. It wasn’t until I understood making money online (or doing anything, really) AS… Read more Everything is work!
I would have hired out more often. Starting out, I always tried to save money and learn how to do things myself. This is important but even better is to hire a pro and learn by watching his formula and seeing how he works. There were so many steps of the process that took out… Read more What is One Advice You Would Have Given to Yourself If You Started Over
Should you be an affiliate or sell your own product? Being that I have my own product and make a nice bit of coin on it, I can tell you it’s SOOOOO worth the effort to make your own stuff. I can bet you all the other product-creators never regretted making the effort to sell… Read more Be an Affiliate VS Sell Your Own Product