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“Good Moing” – a greeting that is dished out several times during the day. For some people, moing is at 6AM, for somebody else, it’sat 11AM. One of the most famous early risers is Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. Tim Cook wakes up at 4:30 AM. He’s done with almost an entire day’s work by 12PM. You might have read posts like this onesuggesting that waking up early has a lot of benefits. That’s because it does. So what are these benefits? Waking up early gives you: An early start on getting work done. A quieter time; the house/the city is quiet and peaceful. Your mind is the most clearin the moing and primed for handling the toughest tasks. So how do you become a moing person? 1. Prepare for the next day...

Do you know what a marketing fuel is? If you answered no, you might not be marketing as effectively as possible. Marketing fuels are all about moving users through a process (normally called the buyer’s jouey). The goal of moving them through the fuel is to get them to buy from you. They start out not knowing about your product, and by the end of the fuel, they can’t wait to give you their money. But to do this effectively, you need to structure your website properly. To be honest, it’s a tedious task & as a begier, you might find it confusing to get it right. Be it a blog, a business or a product, everyone needs marketing fuel. In today’s world, once you have the setup the marketing f...

Dreamhost was started in 1997 and then veryfirst time I used Dreamhost hosting in 2008.Dreamhost is one of those hosting companies that are known for their good work and adding value to the whole industry. TodayI will be sharing Dreamhost promo code that will help you to get a discount tot $50 and onefree domain. In short you will be paying only $69 for one year of unlimited web hosting and onefree domain. Technically a domain itself cost $12, so here you will be paying only $10 for one year of hosting. I have also updatedDreamhost WordPress installation guide, to match with their new dashboard and WordPress installation process. Dreamhost Promo Code and Tips for this discount: Dreamhost is...

Imagine if you could send an email to users based on the exact actions they take. What if you could automatically email anyone who visited a specific page or clicked on a certain button? That would be pretty cool, right? With SendinBlue’s WordPress plugin, you can do just that. Without needing to know any code or set up detailed tracking. It’s a really nice tool. SendinBlue also functions as a complete email marketing service, letting you build subscriber lists and create beautiful email campaigns. Why should you care about all that? Because email marketing is important. I think all smart bloggers need to take advantage of email. That’s why I’m sharing about SendinBlue with you. You can crea...

As a website owner, ideal content creation and content sharing is an important aspect of making your services effectively speak to your audience. A content marketing strategyinvolves many phases through which the right content is drafted and shared cleverly enough to its most relevant audience so as to increase sales. 1. Begin with an understanding of the right content and its importance to your business Whether you are an owner of aservice website or an eCommerce store,content has a lot to do with your business growth. One has to create content in many forms (including rich texts and graphics). Content is like a bridge that can coect your audience to what you sell. Content that is written...

The Clk.im Integrator monetization plugin is perfect for WordPress publishers looking to make money with their site. Many WordPress monetization plugins have limited functionality, which can be fatal for your monetization efforts. With Clk.im, the versatility of your ad serving goes to a whole new level. (The full functionality of the plugin is unlocked when you sign up for an “Expert”account.) In this article, we’ll go into greater depth of using these features to maximize the monetization potential of your WordPress site. We’ll also cover how you can create trackable shortened links for your entire site. These links will allow you to launch: Top-bar HTML ads Full-page interstitial ads Pop...

Checklists are essential for getting things done (especially for repeated tasks). A few weeks back, Kishen shared about theProcess Street checklist app& this is where the idea to add a checklist for our premium members came into my mind. We started creating checklists for our premium content atpro.shoutmeloud.com so that our members can keep track of tasks when leaing about making money from their blog. The checklist can also be used as a content upgrade & I’m sure you have heard about the importance of content upgrades for list building.Content upgrades can perform magic for your list building efforts, and you may now be consideringjoining the bandwagon and creating your own conten...

As a blogger, you’re probably always worried about writing interesting blog posts that your readers care about. But you can’t just spend time on blog posts – there’s another type of content that you need to focus on: Landing pages. If you ever want your readers to complete an action – like joining your newsletter or buying a product – you need a good landing page to convince them. In the past, you used to have to hire designers to create good landing pages. Luckily, you don’t have to do that any more thanks to some awesome services and WordPress plugins. There are now some great landing page creators that helpyou create beautiful landing pages for WordPress without the help of a designer. So...

You probably know about WordPress and Blogger and likely have a blog on one of them. Now, you are about to start a new blog and are looking for an alteative. So here’s the question: Are there any other viable options apart from WordPress and Blogger? Let’s find out. #1 Tumblr Yes, the first entrant on the list is a hybrid of sorts. At first look, it seems like a potent mix of WordPress and Twitter. It has the right amount of “coolness”. If you are a social butterfly,Tumblr might just do the trick for you. It’s fun to explore and has a magical quality that keeps you hooked with its beautiful UI. I spent a good 15-20 minutes exploring the site while researching for this post. If you are a fa...

Out of all the umpteen social chaels out there, one stands out for its simplicity: Medium was created to be a simple form of expression and displayer of content. The interface is minimal and lets the user focus on either writing or reading. There isn’t a platform like Medium elsewhere on the inteet because all other platforms are constantly looking to add more and more features. Medium seems to be content with its limited set of features. This is good. This is good for the reader, for the creator, and for the community as a whole. What Medium is doing to written content is akin to what Penicillin is doing to humanity: Keeping it alive. So why is the Medium blogging platform important for yo...

When you start a new WordPress blog, one of the hardest choices you have to make is whichtheme to use. Needless to say, it can be a little overwhelming… WordPress is so popular that there are tens of thousands of themes to pick from. And things geteven harder when you have to pick between free and premium themes. Thankfully,there are some high-quality theme providers who you can go to when you start your search. ThemeIsle is definitely one of those providers. They have some of the most popular free themes in the WordPress theme database. Their Zerif Lite theme is the fifth most popular theme and their ShopIsle theme ranks at tenth. To have two themes in the ‘Top 10’ of the WordPress.org pop...

India Affiliate summit is a must-attend event forevery affiliate marketer & digital agencies. This year marks the 2nd chapter of India affiliate summit. The tickets ae up for sale & I have few passes to giveaway for our regular readers. You can participate into the contest to win gold or silver passes. The wier will be aounced on 28th August. We have in total 16 passes to giveaway. So, this is a golden chance for you to win the passes which is worth INR 10,000 ($180) each for gold & INR 7500 ($110) each for silver passes. India Affiliate Summit Passes Use the above widget to participate & get a chance to win the contest. More information about India Affiliate Summit: 2016 i...

Here are the steps of writing a blog post: You sit in front of your computer. You grab a topic from your editorial calendar. You start writing your blog post. Is that all? NO! It’s the quality (and only the quality) of your blog post which matters. You’re not writing articles to just fill up your blog with content. You’re not bloggingfor the sake of making money. You’re supposed to be writing for one reason: To help your readers. You need also to create something new while writing up your blog post. Somethingthat will make it rock and stand out among those other resources that are available elsewhere online. For example, when I decided to write about ‘how to make money blogging’, I made sur...

I’m not a native English speaker and here’s my confession: I’m a trained translator with a degree in my pocket. I speak English fairly well, but I never thought I would ever create content on my own. When I got to the English-speaking world of content marketing, I was lost, frustrated, and paralyzed with insecurity. I strongly doubted if I could ever enter a league of those smart guys who create killer content. To be honest, I wasn’t even sure if I could write anything high-quality at all. If you’ve ever been in my shoes, this article is for you. I’m going to share the tips and tricks that have worked (and still work) for me. To begin with, there are only two points you need to consider wh...

A couple of yearsago, social media sites werea great source ofentertainment and ameans of coecting withfriends. In recent years, however, social media has become a haven for marketing, sales, and networking (i.e. making coections with like-minded people). If yourwork is in any way related to digital marketing, your presence on social media sites is a necessity. In a previous post, I wroteabout thesocial media sites on which an online marketer should haveapresence. Today I will be sharing tips that will help you to improve your personal brand on these sites. One of the most commonstatementsI hear from fellow bloggers or young entrepreneurs is: “I want my brand to be visible… not me”. In othe...

Whenever I publish my income reportor share how I ea money with my blog, I often use the term “affiliate marketing”. Bloggers and inteet marketerswho have beeninto online marketing foryears are familiar with affiliate marketing,and with the fact that it is themost lucrative way to ea money online. In this article, I will share the basics of affiliate marketing and all the details you need to know in ordertounderstand how affiliate marketing works. Lea all about Affiliate marketing in one eBook : Buy from ShoutMeLoud store Affiliate Marketing Explained: What is affiliate marketing ? Affiliate marketing is one of the oldest forms of marketingwhereinyou refer someone to any online product and...

Are you looking to move to managed WordPress hosting?If you’ve been using shared hosting but find it no longer powerful enough for you site, this post is for you. I’ve talked before about how shared hosting is best for a new blog. But as your blog traffic grows, you need to think about upgrading your hosting. Shared hosts can’t handle really high traffic sites, which means you’ll have to move up. All the way back in 2008, I started ShoutMeLoud on cheapshared DreamHost hosting. But as ShoutMeLoud grew, I knew I needed to upgrade my blog’s hosting to keep everything ruing smoothly. That’s why I eventually made the switch to managed WordPress hosting. I moved through a few managed hosts until ...

You don’t always need a website to build an email list (and make money from it). But trust me, if you have a website, you stand a much better chance at building one. You may have heard of the saying: “The Money Is In The List”. That is because the money really is in the list. Email marketing provides a way for you to reach your audience right in their inbox, unlike a blog post where people have to take the time to visit your blog before getting access to whatever you have to offer. An email list is so valuable that some inteet marketers refer to it as an ATM. But from a newbie’s point of view, the whole process of setting up a website just to generate email leads might seem like setting up ...

Do you want massive traffic on your blog? Of course! But I am sorry to say your dreams can not be a reality, As long as you just create only quality content. Don’t get me wrong. Indeed quality content is an essential power for a blog’s success but to get a quick victory you need to promote your content well. So that people know you and your work quickly. Below is the Magic 6 strategy I use to promote my content, take a look. 6 Tools to PromoteContent: A properly promoted good content can quickly come to be great content. And these 6 tools know the fact the finest. These tools are incredible on its own and highly recommended to use, to promote your content. Sumome: Sumome is a suite of smal...

Do you know you can change your domain name without losing search traffic? Yes, it’s possible. But once you have changed your web address, you need to do some post-site address change things to ensure you don’t lose organic traffic. If you don’t tell Google about this change of address,you might be putting your site’s organic ranking into danger. Let me help you with fixing this potentially big error. (In the below example, I have placed a URL change request using the Google Search Console. The process is the same for anyone needing to change their domain.) Let me first give you a background of why I had to change the URL of one of my popular niche blogs. If you are a regular reader of Shou...