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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Promoting 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 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...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

Facebook is one of the biggest advertising networks on the planet with over one billion people on it. In addition to the network size, it also offers some of the best targeting options among advertising networks to narrow in on your ideal target. With this advanced targeting, Facebook is rapidly becoming a go-to advertising chael for marketers as well as small business owners. Due to that uptick in advertisers coming on board, Facebook is also rapidly becoming more and more competitive. As this happens, cost per clicks go up while click through rates go down. It can lead to expensive campaigns that fail miserably if you don’t know what your doing or you don’t follow Facebook’s best practices...

On 15th August 2016,India celebrates its 70th Independence Day &being an Indian, here is how we are celebrating this day with our readers around the globe. This year celebration is going to be different for ShoutMeLoud readers around the globe, as we are offering Up to50% discountfrom 13th-16th August. The discount is on all of our products & I have listed the discount offer, coupon that you can avail right now. 70Th Independence day Discount from ShoutMeLoud Affiliate marketing eBook -50% flat discount ShoutMeLoud’s affiliate marketing eBook is the most desired & popular product from our store. We are offering 50% discount on Affiliate marketing eBook until 16th August 24.00 I...

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...