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  • How to Backup a WordPress Site Easily

    How to Backup a WordPress Site Easily

    For all the work that you’ve put into your WordPress site, it is a terrifying reality that everything can be lost in an instant due to hardware failure or some other misfortune. Imagine how difficult it would be to lose a website that has consumed so much of your … read more.

  • Want More Opens and Fewer Unsubscribes? Fix These 35 Email Mistakes

    Want More Opens and Fewer Unsubscribes? Fix These 35 Email Mistakes

    An email pops up in your inbox. It’s from the company where you purchased a gift for a family member’s birthday almost a year ago. It reminds you it’s almost time to celebrate again. The brand made a smart email marketing move – delivering personalized, relevant, and timely content … read more.

  • 3 Strategies to Connect With Your Audience (Hint: Start With Mutual Truths)

    3 Strategies to Connect With Your Audience (Hint: Start With Mutual Truths)

    “I thought I’d start off by telling you a little bit about myself,” the presenter begins. “This is where I grew up. Beautiful, small, lovely.” She shares details about her personal life and professional career. The introduction for Liz High’s presentation, Social Truth: Revealing What Truly Matters to Your …

  • 10 Tips From Best-Selling Authors That Will Polish Your Content

    10 Tips From Best-Selling Authors That Will Polish Your Content

    The one thing fiction and content marketing writers share is the desire to write something both beautiful and true. Beautiful content marketing captivates readers for years; it’s evergreen , always relevant, and continues to rank in Google’s top three results. It’s the equivalent to a beautiful and true piece …

  • Must-Have Checklist to Creating Valuable Content

    Must-Have Checklist to Creating Valuable Content

    Editor’s note: A lot of people love checklists and all marketers love valuable content. That’s why we’re bringing back this post from a few years ago. “Every day, there is more and more to manage and get right and learn.” Who said that? It’s definitely someone in content marketing, …

  • 7 Social Media Metrics That Should Really Matter to Your Brand

    7 Social Media Metrics That Should Really Matter to Your Brand

    Your social media pages have thousands of “likes” and followers. You think, “Awesome, this seems to be working.” But sooner or later you think: “Why aren’t we getting more sign-ups on the website? Why are additional sales not coming in? Something must be wrong.” You celebrated the vanity metrics …

  • 7 Easy Ways to Super Boost Your Newsletter Open Rate

    7 Easy Ways to Super Boost Your Newsletter Open Rate

    You probably realize your newsletter ain’t the beans. You can’t sprout the open rate overnight. However, if you lay the groundwork with targeted and well-researched strategies, your newsletter will grow uncannily fast just like bamboo shoots. Let me ask – how do you measure the success of your newsletter?

  • CSS Text Effects: 116 Cool Examples That You Can Download

    CSS Text Effects: 116 Cool Examples That You Can Download

    You came here for some really cool CSS text effects that will help you make amazing web typography for your websites. In order to successfully give a website a look that is more visually impressive, designers always concentrate on placing more emphasis upon typography that is both stylish and …

  • Cool Fonts: 100 Free And Unique Fonts To Download

    Cool Fonts: 100 Free And Unique Fonts To Download

    There are many free cool fonts out there, complex and different styles, and it can be difficult to choose a font for a project. How do you actually do that? Firstly, you will have to imagine the impression of the audience, what they will think about it if it’s …

  • Website Header Design: 44 Examples and What Makes Them Good

    Website Header Design: 44 Examples and What Makes Them Good

    Making an excellent website header design is very important. That’s because the website header is the first place that your visitors will probably look in order to decide if your site can really be useful for their needs. With this in mind, the header design needs to be very …

  • What is a font vs. a typeface?

    What is a font vs. a typeface?

    One of the things we get asked all the time, from designers and non-designers alike, what is the difference between a font and a typeface . The difference between a font & a typeface is this — the typeface is the design of the letters, the…

  • How to Improve Google Pagespeed User Interaction Metrics in WordPress

    How to Improve Google Pagespeed User Interaction Metrics in WordPress

    User Interaction is one of the critical aspects you need to concentrate on if you want to deliver a welcoming user experience. Unfortunately, you can’t sit down in their place and see your site from your visitors’ point-of-view, so you need a way to figure out how your site responds to input… read more

  • How to Manage a Large-Scale WordPress Site (5 Best Practices)

    How to Manage a Large-Scale WordPress Site (5 Best Practices)

    Every website owner and developer hopes their site takes off and becomes successful. High levels of traffic, engaged users, and a steady stream of content from multiple contributors sound great when you’re managing a small site. Of course, the reality is that handling a large-scale WordPress website is no […] read more

  • Can’t Get That Click? 5 Simple Strategies for CTAs That Convert [Examples]

    Can’t Get That Click? 5 Simple Strategies for CTAs That Convert [Examples]

    Analytics show many visitors on your website. But that sizable traffic isn’t reflected in your conversions. What could be happening? Could the most important individual element – the call-to-action button – be the culprit? Perhaps. But you don’t need magic to make your visitors convert. You need to apply […] read more.

  • Get Rid of These 25 Phrases and Words From Your Content

    Get Rid of These 25 Phrases and Words From Your Content

    Editor’s note: Useless words abound in text. That’s why Julia updated this article originally published in 2017, adding more words that you should avoid . In online writing land, clarity is your best friend. The clearest prose is the type anyone can understand, learn from, and enjoy. Stuffing your […] read more.

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