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Matomo for WordPress Review: Why You Should Use This Open Source Analytics Alternative
Full review of Matomo for WordPress, an open source analytics plugin.
My Black Friday Picks for Small & Medium Businesses
Every year Black Friday rolls around and I get giddy with excitement exploring all of the different tools I can use to take my business to the next level. This year is no different and rather tha...
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How to Remove FBCLID From Your Analytics
If you spend enough time in your analytics and you receive traffic from Facebook you will inevitably start seeing duplicate page results with a strange fbclid parameter attached. In this article ...
The AD-MACE Process for WordPress GDPR Compliance
If you run a website then the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) should be on your radar. The rules cover how personal data is collected and controlled by organisations and there is a use...
How to Create AMP Email Opt-in Forms on WordPress
When WordPress announced their AMP plugin, the design was basic and you couldn't add forms. Tools soon came out to tackle the design issue but opt-in forms remained a problem. Luckily in Octobe...
Why you should use a CRM (no matter the size of your business)
I’ve always wanted to do my own thing. I think there’s a natural route to becoming a modern entrepreneur. Unless you’re born that way, the following is what I’d say is the route to being ...
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How to Add Google Analytics to Facebook Instant Articles for WordPress
To add Google Analytics to Facebook Instant Articles for WordPress then you will need to add some extra code to your website. The official Instant Articles for WP plugin allows you to add the s...
Why You Need Website Analytics For Your Business
Website analytics are the cornerstone of any data-driven marketing efforts. They are the key to understanding the impact of any website or marketing changes you make. Without analytics in place y...
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ActiveCampaign Review: From Email Marketing to Marketing Automation
Email is often said to be one of the most profitable marketing channels for online business. All the more reason to make sure that you choose the right platform. So before I begin the full Active...
Send Your Website Visitors Push Notifications With PushCrew
Recently you may have noticed a small notification encouraging you to receive our Push Notifications. It looks a little something like this… Push Notifications should be familiar to anyone wi...
How to Improve Your Marketing Automation With a Full Tagging Strategy for ActiveCampaign
Tags are one of the most powerful tools in marketing automation software such as ActiveCampaign. They bring key Contract Relationship Management (CRM) benefits to email marketing. To really t...
Awesome WooCommerce Extensions for Digital Entrepreneurs
When you build an ECommerce store with WooCommerce for WordPress you get some really powerful open source shopping cart software for free. However you'll want some some awesome WooCommerce extens...
Marketing is not a department…
If you’ve spent too much time working in an old school corporate environment, you may have been fooled into thinking that Marketing is a department. Many startups these days, especially those t...
Twitter Media Size Guide: Recommended Sizes For Your Twitter Profile Images & Tweet Cards
Compiled after devouring countless help pages, image cheat sheets and far too many social media blogs. This Twitter media size guide is intended to act as one-stop resource for quickly referencin...
The Ultimate List of Twitter Tools
On this page I'll be documenting all of the tools that I've tried and tested throughout my Twitter Advertising adventures. I will include both tools that I like but also those that weren't as gre...
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How to Build An Email Marketing List From Within The Facebook Newsfeed
Facebook can be a powerful tool for building an audience online and a recent update may have just bought things back to the “Good Ol' Days”. If you had a Facebook page several years ago you p...
The Best Google Analytics Apps For iOS
Whilst Google does have an official Google Analytics app for iPhones, it hasn't always been the best so there are many other high quality options on the market. I recently went in search for the ...
Email PayWalls: An Experiment …
Two Week Update: Originally this experiment only shared the first idea in this blog post and people would have to contact the paywall email to get the last four or five ideas. During the last two...
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Getting Started With Outsourcing
There is never enough time to get everything done in a day, but that doesn't always mean that you are ready to hire a full time employee for your business. For the work that falls in between the ...
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Wishlist Member Review: The WordPress Membership Site Plugin
Whilst drafting this Wishlist Member review, I realised I'd been using it for six years! It seems hard to believe but it has been 6 years great years using Wishlist Member for WordPress. I was on...
Five Links to Help Small Business Owners Understand Their EU VAT and MOSS Obligations
If you sell digital products online such as ebooks and video courses then there is a good chance that a new EU VAT law brought in at the start of the year can and will affect your business. As I ...
Building a Killer Email Marketing List From Scratch
There is no doubt that building an email marketing list for your business is still one of the most effective ways to communicate online. If you don't have one for your business then you need to s...
5 Brands Marketing With Online Advent Calendars This Christmas
In the age of content marketing & social media, many brands are creating online advent calendars for the Christmas season. These five brands got creative.
The 7 Best Cyber Monday Deals for Business 2014
We've been searching for the best deals for Startups, Freelancers, and Entrepreneurs. Check out our curated list of Cyber Monday deals for business here.
The Smart Way to Play Black Friday
This Friday in America is Black Friday. One of the few days in the year where you can pretty much guarantee that millions of people are going to be on the hunt for good deals. But Black Friday do...
How to Remove Unwanted Referrers From Your Logs & Analytics
Learn how you can block unwanted referrers such as SEMalt from accessing your site and skewing your website analytics.
Gravity Forms Review – The Advanced Form Building Plugin for WordPress
We used Gravity Forms to build a 3,540+ marketing list and profit in the process, all with just a single form. Click for the full case study & review.
Grow Your Email Marketing List With Two-Step Optin Forms
Two-Step Optin Forms allow you to grow your email marketing list faster by practically removing the risk for your prospects whilst increasing commitment.
Business Lessons from Bali
Recently I took a trip to Bali for the first time and was thrown into a world where notes are worth hundreds of thousands just for a meal and everyone you meet on the street is selling something....
WordPress Gone Wild: How to Fix 90% of WordPress White Screen of Death Errors – P.S. I’m Sorry!
"Don't change anything on launch day. Better yet, don't change anything you haven't tested on a staging server before!" Click here to learn from my mistakes
The Benefits of Negative Keywords in Your PPC Campaigns
When paying for traffic with pay per click (PPC) placements every click counts and negative keywords can be the key to ROI by keeping the bad traffic out.
Affiliate Marketing Lessons Learned from Four Years of Click Tracking Data
There is a famous quote in the marketing world that states “half of my marketing is wasted, I just don't know which half”. The good news is, in the age of digital marketing this is much less ...
The Importance of Reviewing Your Customer Journeys
Any business that has been active for a while will start to develop certain complexities and some of them may be hurting your business. Whether it is the way that a customer signs up for your new...
Social Media Backups and Data Analysis For Marketers
One of the most overlooked parts of social media marketing is retaining full control of your content. This post isn't about checking the terms of conditions to understand copyright but actually t...
Local Marketing Listings
If you run a business with a physical presence or only service your local area then you will want to take advantage of Local Marketing Listings. These are the modern equivalent of the old school ...
Why We Enabled SSL And You Should Too
In a world where hacking attacks seemingly make the headlines weekly (almost daily if you follow tech circles!), it is more important than ever to take every step you can to protect your website...
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Connect With Your Audience: Introducing the Customer Persona Canvas
If you really want to connect with your audience online you need to be relatable and whilst that may happen by chance every now and then, to craft content and deliver products that continuousl...
Landing Page Optimisation Infographic from Quicksprout
I recently came across this infographic from QuickSprout on how to optimize a landing page and thought it was worth sharing. Once you've started driving traffic to a landing page it is important ...
Scribe SEO – Search Engine Optimisation Software
When writing content for your site the end goal should always be to deliver the content that your audience wants and needs. However with so much noise online it is more important than ever to als...
Little Customer Avatar Trick for Discovering Sites Your Audience Visits
I've spoken before about building your customer avatar so you can connect with your audience on a deeper level. Essentially you build up a profile of what your average customer looks like so you ...
Seasonal Marketing with Promotion Calendar for WordPress
Advent Calendars have been a popular tradition throughout the world since for years and their appeal is almost universal. Every day in the run up to an event like Christmas you open a door and ge...
Leverage Scheduled Content for Membership Sites
When creating a content focused website one of the first things you will need to decide on is the types of content that you will be offering your audience. This will have a big influence on the ...
Grandfathered Pricing: Launching With Built-In Retention
When it comes to subscription based sites there are a whole host of things that you can do to increase the length of time that someone remains subscribed. Most of these can be developed or added ...
Ashton Kutcher: Voice of The Modern Entrepreneur
Whilst it's not often you could say a Hollywood celebrity might just be the positive spokesman for entrepreneurship to the modern generation, however it seems like Ashton Kutcher may have just pu...
Bitcoin For Business: Is It Ready?
In recent news there has been a lot of buzz around an emerging digital currency called Bitcoin. If you're not already aware of Bitcoin, it is a cryptographic currency developed for creating secur...
Inside The Mind of a Startup Entrepreneur
Recently I get sent quite a few links to infographics however this one stuck out as an interesting analysis of the startup entrepreneur. It's true that one you get down to it there are different ...
Screen Capture Videos: The Ultimate Software Training & Demonstration Tool
If you've ever watched a video that shows somebodies computer screen as they demonstrate how to do something or the capabilities of a certain piece of software they are known as a screen capture ...
Contact Page Optimisation: 10 Steps to Increase Your Conversion Rate
Your contact page might not be the most exciting page to work on but contact page optimisation can offer certain rewards that make it worth your time. There are many reasons that people visit con...
We Now Accept Bitcoin
Bitcoin is an alternative virtual payment solution and we now accept bitcoins for all products in our store as well as our other methods including PayPal and Credit Cards. It is a decentralised ...
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Membership Spotlight: LifeMeetsWork.com – Work from Home and Life Balance Programs
In this article we take a look at a premium membership site designed for business owners that manage a flexible workforce to improve employee engagement. Membership Strategies in Use Annual Subsc...
On Working Remotely…
When all you need to work is a laptop and an internet connection the number of places you can work from almost anywhere these days. When compared to traditional jobs that require you to be based ...
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Membership Spotlight: OnlinePersonalFitnessTrainers.com – Online Personal Training
In this article we take a look at a membership site that brings the personal fitness training service online. Membership Strategies in Use Sequential Content Delivery Members get daily content in...
The Truth About “Internet Marketing” Launches #Infographic
If you've ever seen one of those “Internet Marketing” product launches where you are bombarded with emails about the latest opportunity that you must buy right now then you will probably find...
Membership Spotlight: WonderfulWebWomen.com – Passionate Women Entrepreneurs
In this article we take a look at a membership site based in Australia for female entrepreneurs to connect and help each other. Membership Strategies in Use Premium Training Multiple training cou...
The New Face of Search Engine Optimisation
Search Engine Optimisation is a rapidly evolving field at the best of times however Google has really been shaking things up over the past couple of years. Google Panda (February 2011) and Googl...
Membership Spotlight: UniversityOfMakeup.com – Online Makeup Courses
In this article we take a look at a membership site designed for people looking to work professionally in the field of makeup. Membership Strategies in Use Monthly or Annual Payments Premium cont...
Membership Spotlight: CBIClubhouse.com – Childrens Book Insider
In this article we take a look at a membership site that has been designed for a community that started as an offline newsletter for childrens book writers. Membership Strategies in Use Premium O...
Membership Onboarding: 3 Simple Steps to Retain New Members
Getting your first new members onto a site is always great but it is what you do next that will really set your site apart from your competition. One of the biggest keys to success with membershi...
Headway Theme Review: Drag & Drop Design for WordPress
Headway was the first of its kind in the Drag & Drop WordPress theme market and has had a long time to develop an active community around the platform. What Exactly is Drag & Drop Design? Headway...
WPtouch Pro Review – Mobilize Your Membership
Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are becoming the new normal and soon mobile traffic is set to overtake the number of desktop visitors on the web. Unfortunately for many website owners...
Website History & Domain Research Tools
When you consider buying a new domain, whether it is currently registered or not, it is useful to know it's history. There are three tools that can help you to find information on the history and...
Ninja Affiliate Link Management + Christmas WordPress Promotion
If you work or run a business online there is a pretty good chance that affiliate marketing makes up a percentage of your business activities no matter how small or large that percentage may be. ...
LeadPlayer – Using Videos to Build Your List
YouTube is a powerful force for video marketing and is definitely the dominant player for creating viral videos with unknown video creators managing to reach millions of viewers seemingly overnig...
OptimizePress Review: Internet Marketing Theme for WordPress
OptimizePress is very different from your traditional WordPress theme and it was the first theme that really understood what Internet Marketers were looking for in a theme and bundled it all into...
Online Payment Systems
When you first want to start accepting payments on the internet it can be quite confusing with traditional business advice stating you need to open a business bank account with merchant facilitie...
Membership Spotlight: DigitalMarketer.com – Learn From Ryan Deiss!
Digital Marketer is headed by Ryan Deiss who is considered by many to be one of the best digital marketers training people today. Membership Strategies in Use Free Blog The front end of the site ...
An Introduction to Thesis 2.0 & Thesis Skins
The Thesis Theme was one of the first premium theme frameworks that I used and it’s been my first choice for many years. They recently just bought out version 2.0 and have completely rebuilt ev...
Managed WordPress Hosting
As you will know if you have been through the full Membership Maximizer training, WordPress is one of the best content management systems on the web right now and there are lots of plugins to hel...
Gravity Forms Review – Form Building Plugin
When building a membership site, it is far too easy to create your site without building in enough personal interaction with your members. If you really want to run a successful membership site, ...
Seven Apps For Highly Effective Modern Entrepreneurs
These days it seems almost everyone has an iPhone or Android based smartphone and if you consider yourself a modern entrepreneur, there is an even higher chance that you are already using one. Th...
How to Make Membership Sites For Free & More…
Membership Sites have long been considered the ultimate information marketing business model. You create a core product once – You run a promotion once – You get a subscriber once – You get...
WordPress Frameworks & The Genesis Theme
In this article we introduce the topic of WordPress Theme framworks and the specifc framework that this site has been launched on. Introduction to ‘Theme Frameworks’ When styling a WordPress ...
Membership Spotlight: Mixergy.com
In this post we are going to take a look at Mixergy. It is hands down one of the most well known membership sites for entrepreneurs of any discipline as Andrew attracts such a wide variety of exp...
OptinSkin Review – List Building Plugin for WordPress
However your membership site is set up you need to be generating leads for your business and the most popular way online is by capturing email addresses. There are many ways to collect email lead...
Epic Customer Support Software
When starting any business you need to start and end with the customer in mind. There is no point creating a site that people won’t use but once you get them in you also need to make sure that ...
ManageWP Review: Update All of Your WordPress Sites in One Click with ManageWP
In this article I'm going to share with you the simple but powerful tool I use to update and manage all of my WordPress sites from a single dashboard. The tool I use is called ManageWP and I've b...
The Evolution of SEO & Why Keyword Research Still Matters
> Click Here to Pick Up a Free Trial of Market Samurai < If you have been following marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) news recently you might think that SEO is all but dead. Lucki...
Strive For Perfection In Everything You Do
“Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist. Design it.” – Quote from Sir Henry Royce
10 Powerful Pinterest Marketing Tips & Tools #Infographic
Pinterest is now one of the top 10 largest social networks boasting well over 11.7 million unique users and has been seen to drive more traffic than industry giants; LinkedIn, YouTube and Google+...
From Building a Job to Building a Business…
I have been living a lie. I've been in “business” since 2009 and in that time I've achieved a lot by my own standards. But I haven't built a business… Now don't get me wrong; I do earn a l...
How To Deliver Secure Video Content With WordPress & Amazon S3
I build most (almost all) of my sites with WordPress, but it doesn't mean that it's the only solution that you will ever need. One of the first hurdles I had to come over was how to deliver secur...
Web Domination: 10 Entrepreneurs & Internet Marketers That Crush It Online
If you want to be the best at something you associate and learn from the best and the world of Internet Marketing is no different. In this post I'm going to introduce you to 10 entrepreneurs that...
The EU E-Privacy Directive: Where It’s At Now
The EU E-Privacy directive was originally introduced in 2009 with a deadline for transition into law by the member states in May 2011. As things currently stand eight member states including; Bel...
Official OptinSkin Review – The WordPress Plugin For Email Marketers
In this OptinSkin review video you will see how you can easily set up integrate beautiful optin forms to your site in less than 15 minutes.
Five Minute Fan Pages Discount – Get Powerful Fan Pages Set Up Fast
If you've heard about all the changes to Facebook pages there is a good chance that you're already starting to think about making some changes to the way you run your fan page, maybe you even bou...
How to Activate The New Facebook Timeline for Facebook Pages
Just ahead of the Facebook Marketing Conference today Facebook rolled out the new Timeline feature for business pages. This layout will become required for every business page as of March 3oth 20...
YouTube Google Hack: How to Rank #1 on Google for Any YouTube Video in Just 3 Days
If you've been involved in the internet marketing world for any length of time there is a pretty good chance that this report has already found it's way into your inbox. The report I'm talking ab...
Organic Viral Marketing Hit from Sainsburys
Viral marketing doesn't always mean some creative agency spends hours planning some convoluted video in a lounge style office. Digital word of mouth can come from any level of your business and e...
The Google+ Project Review – How Search Got Social!
Google is evolving. Earlier this year they released the Google+ project to much fanfare. The question in everyones mind was “Is this a Facebook killer?” but really this may have been the wron...
12 Secrets For Converting Traffic Into Sales
There is no point in getting viewers who simply click through to your site and pass on. This isn't any more productive than window shoppers in the high street, except if you're advertising via PP...
Freemium: The Online Business Model of The Future
As technology has evolved the cost of providing many products and services has fallen to practically zero leading to the dawn of the Freemium era. Forward thinking companies have embraced a busin...
Should You Learn to Build Websites?
If you are seriously interested in making websites. Your best bet for learning HTML is using http://www.w3schools.com/ as a reference and getting hold of a decent walkthrough. Have a clear idea...
AuthorRank Explained: The New Rules of Search Engine Optimization
AuthorRank is a term that was first coined by Matt Cutts in an interview earlier this year. The general concept as I understand it is that every content creator on the web will have their own pr...
(CPA) Cost Per Action Marketing: What’s it All About?
If you are involved in the world of affiliate marketing then it is likely you've heard of CPA as some underground secret society where people are making fortunes online. Indeed this was the view ...
How much PLR (Private Label Rights) content can I use in my website?
Private Label Rights content is content that is licensed for use by another entity. It can be a useful addition to a website and a great way to provide additional value without creating more cont...
The Death of Forced Continuity
If you've been involved in interner marketing for any amount of time it's likely that you've come across one or more of these offers. Their distinctive features are usually a free or low cost pac...
Twitter Gets Linked In – The Social Networks for Professionals
Today LinkedIn announced Twitter integration between user profiles and Twitter feeds. Not only will you be able to make your Twitter account visible on your profile you will now be able to share ...
Go Try This: Dynamic URL Redirection for The Modern Marketer
When sharing content online you won't always want to be using the full url of a website. That's why if you have any social media profiles at all it's likely you've come across a link that looks s...
Using Non-Standard Fonts in Web Development
If you've ever actually sat down and created your own website you will be more than aware of the font limitations of current technology. The main problem is that any users who don't actually have...
The Contract is Your Friend… (Yep Small Print Too!)
To some degree everyone tends to get that feeling of dread when handed a huge contract to crawl through. Some of us suck it up and read it all, others scan and often the majority have grown so we...