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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...

Imagine if ong>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...

ong>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...

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...

Do ong>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...

Promoting ong>your website is as important as designing it. After all of your developing efforts are done, you need to attract an audience towards your website and its services. Branding through social media is considered as the best way for redirecting a relevant crowd to a website. Twitter, specifically, is a great means of advertisement and brand promotion. Tweeting is an incredible way to get in touch with your customers. But here’s the major challenge of marketing: Creativity Grab the opportunity to promote your websites through Twitter with these 7 creative ways! 7 Creative ways to dramatically increase your Twitter engagement: 1. Insert Links Into Your Tweets Who says social media market...

The whole world is moving their websites from HTTP to HTTPS! Why? Because it makes their sites secure &rumor has it thatsearch engines favor websites using the “https” protocol. Sooner or later, you will be moving your site to HTTPS. But before you do, you need to consider a few factors in order to make a successful migration from HTTP to HTTPS. In this article (& in upcoming articles), I will cover migration techniques for different scenarios. Here’s our first scenario: The site is hosted on a Nginx server. DNS is managed by CloudFlare. SSL certificate by Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt + Nginx + CloudFlare : Scenario 1 In this case, my hosting people configureda free SSL certificate ...

Customer fuels are things every marketer knows about. Specific to each project, they help to understand how visitors tu into clients, and if visitors leave before then, precisely when and why they leave. Every stage of a customer fuel lets ong>you catch a client and retu them to the website. Understanding why they leave and retargeting them accordingly, you can build trust and push up your sales. It’s like trying to restore a lost happiness. Retargeting your customers reminds them of stories from romantic films where everyone lives “happily ever after”. Let’s explore this film and marketingrelationship. “50 First Dates”: Clients visit your website 50 First Dates is amovie where a girl has short...

When a blogger starts looking for the option to make money from their blog, the first recommendations are usuallyAdSense,Adsoptimal, CPM ads & other similar ad networks. This kind of monetization used to work well… until last year. In recent times, with the increasing adoption of ad blocker tools, using a contextual ad network is no longer an ideal choice. Many bloggers have already moved to other monetization methods such as sponsored content, affiliate marketing & putting their content behind apaywall. Most webmasters, when theythink of apaywall, think aboutrequiring readers to buy a monthly subscription in exchange for access to allof the website’s content. They are not wrong, bu...

Here at ShoutMeLoud, I use theOptinMonster WordPress pluginfor list building. I have been using this plugin for the last eight months. It’s the only email capture that I use on all my other blogs as well. If you are looking for a perfect email marketing plugin, well you are in luck, as you still have a chance to save 60% of your money. This plugin has been featured multiple times on SML. Read about it here: The guys behind OptinMonster are increasing the price by 60%. This doesn’t come as a surprise because they have added a plethora of new features to make it the best lead capture WordPress plugin. This is one of the reasons I highly recommendthe OptinMonster plugin. They ensure that their...

Here at ShoutMeLoud, I use OptinMonster WordPress pluginfor list building. I have been using this plugin for last eight months & now this is the only email capture that I use on all other blogs as well. If you are looking for a perfect email marketing plugin, well you are in luck as you still have a chance to save 60% of your money. This plugin has been featured multiple times & you can read about it in below posts: The guys behind OptinMonster are increasing the price by 60% & it doesn’t come as a surprise because they have added a plethora of new features to make it best lead capture WordPress plugin. This is one of the reasons I recommendOptinMonster plugin, asthey ensure tha...

When a blogger starts looking for the option to make money from their blog, the first recommendations are usuallyAdSense,Adsoptimal, CPM ads & other similar ad networks. This kind of monetization used to work well… until last year. In recent times, with the increasing adoption of ad blocker tools, using a contextual ad network is no longer an ideal choice. Many bloggers have already moved to other monetization methods such as sponsored content, affiliate marketing & putting their content behind apaywall. Most webmasters, when theythink of apaywall, think aboutrequiring readers to buy a monthly subscription in exchange for access to allof the website’s content. They are not wrong, bu...

Customer fuels are things every marketer knows about. Specific to each project, they help to understand how visitors tu into clients, and if visitors leave before then, precisely when and why they leave. Every stage of a customer fuel lets ong>you catch a client and retu them to the website. Understanding why they leave and retargeting them accordingly, you can build trust and push up your sales. It’s like trying to restore a lost happiness. Retargeting your customers reminds them of stories from romantic films where everyone lives “happily ever after”. Let’s explore this film and marketingrelationship. “50 First Dates”: Clients visit your website 50 First Dates is amovie where a girl has short...

Tweet ong>your post multiples times! Keep tweeting your old evergreen posts! Stop your old posts from dying by resharing it on social media! These are all pieces of advice you have likely heard before in order to keep driving traffic to your old blog posts. In fact, I have written several guides myself to help you overcome “dead, old post syndrome”. Today, I have an interesting Twitter plugin to share with you which will not only drive traffic to your old posts, but doesn’t make it look like you are tweeting the same thing over. Before we move ahead, I suggest you read these few posts to master the art of overcoming“dead, old posts syndrome”: If you have already used the popular Revive Old Post...

Note: This post is a little long, but if you give me 15 minutes of your attention, I guarantee I can make your online appearance more professional. My name is Eric and I’m an editor. I’ve been a freelancer for many years working with various companies, marketplaces, students, professionals, joualists, entrepreneurs, copywriters, travel portals, bloggers, musicians, and all other facets of writers. If you’vesubmitted a post here at ShoutMeLoud, you may have had an encounter with me. Some of those encounters may have been favorable, and others, well, maybe not so much. First, let me start off by answering this question: What is an editor? Editors are essentially grammar nerds. We seek to make ...