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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

In our earlier guide, we leaedbasic, yet important things about SSL certificates. In this guide, you will lea about different types of SSL certificates. Knowingthis will help you to get the right SSL certificate for your blog, website, ororganization. The foremost thingthat you need to keep in mind is: SSL certificates areall about trust. Useful SSL Related Terms To Know: SSL: Secured Sockets Layer CA: Certificate Authority DV: Domain Validation OV: Organization Validation EV: Extended Validation CSR:CertificateSigning Request There are several types of SSL certificates. They can be grouped based on: Validation level Number ofsecured domains/subdomains Types of SSL certificates based on val...

Update: Web-push notifications arenow enabled for the Chrome browser. This article has been updated with new information. How many subscription chaels are you offering on your blog? If you haven’t already enabled themust-have subscription options, you should do that now. With recent advancements in technology, there are now a fewnew methods that you can use to notify your readers of latest posts or important updates from your blog. Today, I will be talking about PushEngage:Aweb-push notification service for WordPress. It alsosupports other platforms like e-commerce sites,BlogSpot,Joomla, Drupal, bbPress & much more. Using the PushEngage service, you give another subscription option to th...

Launching a blog is one of the best decisions you can make. This is because if nurtured very well, it might end up replacing your day job. Unlike most other businesses that require lots of capital to start, blogging is different. This is because, with a very meager amount of money, you can launch your own blog and if you’re serious and determined to make it work for you, it can be grown into a 6-figure per month business with time. The good thing is that today, anyone can make money from the Inteet especially through blogging. At the same time, it’s often very hard to manage especially when you have other things doing like having a joy job. This is what usually prevents most people from ven...

Wow, you’ve just gotten a new visitor on your blog. Congratulations! From the look of things, theyfound your blog posts very interesting and are now wondering if you’re someone they can coect with.Who knows? Maybe you’re a good fit for a potential business partnership. So theydecide to find out more about you. Obviously, the firstplace to start finding more about you is the About Page. (Interestingly, the “About Page” is also the most viewed page of many popular websites.) Unfortunately, your new visitor can’tlocate your “About Page”, or worse, they saw one which sucked. Because of this, theydecide to take theirbusiness proposalsomewhere else because they came to conclusion that you’re not ...

Online courses started a couple of years back, but they arenowbecoming the primary way many people are leaing and getting proficient in various fields. It is: The Rise of the Autodidact and DIY’ers “Autodidact” is a person who teaches themselves. “DIY”means “Do It Yourself”. When I started my first web development business, I had no idea how tocodeand I knew nothing of web development. Armed with a few courses and some online content, I taught myself Python. With this knowledge, I approached a client and closed my first $3,000 e-commerce website project.(I was a commerce major in school.) More and more people are picking up money making skills through online courses and content. A person ma...

Optimizing images & using aCDN has become essential for online publishing. A few days back, I talked about thebest image compression WordPress pluginswhere I highlighted some great solutions for compressing images on your blog. Butnot everyone is using the WordPress platform for their website. Many of us are blogging on various other platforms like BlogSpot, Tumblr, orsomething else. What’s the best image compression solution for these users? Well, this is whereonline image compression tools come into the picture. Whenyou search online for photo compressor tools, you will be awestruck bythe sheer number of tools available. To make your work easier andsave you some time, I’m listing some...

Is your business lacking sales due to the absence of a good writer? A good writer who can update your blog or write sales copies to convert traffic into the leads? Well, you are not alone in this quest of finding a good writer. Most of the online businesses often are in search of good writers. Having an engaging content on the website or blog has become the need of the hour for businesses. Here we are not talking about just any content, but high quality and user engaging content written by proficient writers. There are several sources you can tap into, for finding content writers for your business. However, before we look into these sources, first you should understand some of the basic qual...

For me, traveling is freedom. If you are a travel blogger, Igive you a standing ovation. Being a digital nomad, I understand how tough it is to blog while traveling. I also know that it’s even tougher tomonetize your travel blog. There are many travel bloggers who often get sponsorship for traveling (like free tripswithall expenses covered), but not everyone is so lucky at the begiing of their blogging career. Travel blogging is a popular & profitable niche that can generategreat amounts of revenue using various monetization methods. Some of the most popular monetization methods are: *** Today I will be telling you aboutsome of the best affiliate programs that you can use for your travel...

Marketing is one of those things in life that can be a mystery if you don’t dive deep. Even the self-portrayed marketing gurus do not know an ounce of marketing. People think marketing is about putting in money somewhere and seeing people come to your website or application in droves. If this was true then everybody would be successful. I would actually like you to do an experiment on Facebook marketing and see how that works for you. By the time you get the hang of it, it will take a lot of time. It’s a guarantee. Why is marketing hard? Let’s rephrase that. Why is marketing challenging? Marketing is challenging because it’s constantly changing. That’s the truth. Platforms of marketing chan...

Newsletters and email campaigns are a great way to establish rapport with potential and existing customers and improve brand loyalty. This is because for email campaigns, you’re targeting a sort-of pre-qualified base: people who are willing to receive information from you. It’s likely that most of these people have already conducted business with you, and as we know, retaining old customers is much easier and cheaper than getting new customers. This is why it is extremely important to conduct A/B tests if you want to try out new layouts of techniques on your email marketing campaigns. When done correctly, email marketing can greatly improve conversion rates that will significantly raise you...

What is your definition of financially stable people? Well, according to me, financially stable people are those who are in control of their money instead of the money goveing them. Their revenue doesn’t essentially decide how financially successful they are, their selections and significances do.This is one rule which is followed by all the successful people around the world. If you want to be one of them, read below to know the traits present in rich and successful people. 1. They occupy themselves with positivity and escape from negative thoughts Do you know negative philosophy makes it more difficult to find an iovative way out of the difficulties you may be facing? When you reside on ne...

Our lives are becoming addicted to our laptops, mobiles, tablets and other gadgets. Smart technologies get smarter, and a new IT certainty must grow with technological designs and stages to sustain the iovation of a digitally associated world. One of the paramount means for those conceed with technology to progress their careers is to attend world-class technology conferences. It provides leading figures with the opportunity to lea from world-class speakers, and to link with business influencers. But finding exactly the right tech event to attend can be difficult, so is a description presenting only the top of the top tech events happening in 2016. Top Tech Events of 2016 1. Digital Publishi...

There was a TED talk that was given by a doctor from Harvard Medical School, Atul Gawande. In his talk titled ‘How do we heal medicine?’ he says that the answer to performing successful surgeries on a continuous basis was using Checklists. [embedded content] An important piece of content from the video talks about the power of using a checklist. We implemented this checklist in eight hospitals around the world, deliberately in places from rural Tanzania to the University of Washington in Seattle. We found that after they had adopted it the complication rates fell 35 percent. It fell in every hospital it went into. The death rates fell 47 percent. This was bigger than a drug. This was so p...

Sometimes market researchers classify a generation based on their characteristics to help understand how that generation is going to have an Impact on the world. These sorts of classifications mostly comprise of young teenagers to young adults who are in their early 30’s. This is because most teenagers and young adults will have an Impact on companies and the economy in the future. To understand the characteristics of this generation will be beneficial for whoever is involved in dealing with them. Around the 1950’s the ‘Baby Boomers’ were a generation that was touted to be the most impactful in America’s history. There was truth to this because Steve Jobs was and Bill Gates is from the baby ...

Arghh…The Smart man syndrome! This one is long yet very interesting. I can’t live without oxygen, food, books and most important gadgets. It will be all right for me to live without food and books for a few days. But if anyone will try to keep me away from my mobile, tablet and laptop, I will hit in his face with a club. I am a lifelong leaer. I don’t know how to sit idle and do nothing at all. I don’t gossip. Idon’t watch movies. But I love spending time with gadgets. I am a tech-embracing consumer. Ithink I’ve spent my time on my mobile, tablet, kindle and laptop more than anyone else on this planet — 10 hours a day, sometimes 13 hours a day or even more. I am not mad.I am a normal being l...