Blogging Tutorials

Tips and tutorials to help increase your proficiency with free blogging software from Wordpress.com and Blogger.

Visme Review

Give Your Blog’s Graphics a Lift with Visme [Review]

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Many bloggers struggle to give their content some pizzazz. We all know how important quality content is but you also need quality visuals to capture attention. That’s where Visme comes in. It’s a web application that helps you to create online presentations, Infographics and all kinds of interactive visual content – and it’s laughably easy to use. I first reviewed it a few months ago on the Crazy Egg blog, but a lot has changed since then so I thought it was time for a new look at this tool.

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Blogger Interviews: Amazon Author, Udemy Instructor and Web Designer Rob Cubbon

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Rob Cubbon is a London-based blogger that I connected with several years ago through blogging communities and social media networks. It’s been a pleasure to watch Rob build his reputation and authority online through his blog, freelancing and web design expertise. To date Rob has published several Kindle books on Amazon covering WordPress, passive income, home-based business and more. It’s been several months since the last time an interview was posted here on the blog, but I really wanted to share some of Rob’s story here because I know you will get inspired by what he’s done just like I did.

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The Best Email Marketing Tips For Beginners

Email Marketing Tips For Beginners

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Email marketing is important simply because it’s a way that you can create a community around your target niche. That’s the “correct” way to say it. The real reason why marketing through email is so important is because every successful marketer knows that it’s a license to print money. The rules of business and marketing have changed, and those changes have killed many businesses. But the changes have also created enormous opportunity for thousands of others. If you understand the new playing field, grabbing your prospects attention and building a relationship with him or her has actually gotten a lot simpler in many ways.

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Why You Should Develop Personas for Your Blog

Killer Tips to Help You Develop Personas For Your Business Blog

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Though you can craft well-trafficked blog entries that will inevitably help your brand, failing to understand who you want to be landing on your pages could mean you’re not getting the most out of your investment. Buyer personas are, in short, archetypal (but research-based!) characterizations of people you hope to read your blog – your ideal customers or clients, with all their unique behaviors and needs. Knowing who they are is crucial to developing frame and context in blog writing and, ultimately, to pinpointing (and segmenting) your desired audience, generating sales leads and – you guessed it — improving your bottom line.

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Animate Social and Blog Scheduling with Coschedule

Animate Social and Blog Publishing with CoSchedule Editorial Calendar

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I’ve tried a few WordPress editorial calendars over the years, but none of them really stuck. Then I started using CoSchedule, a blog editorial calendar that costs $10 per month per blog. Six months after my original review (which netted me a one year trial account), I’m still using it – and it’s because of one killer feature: the integration of social publishing with the editorial calendar. Let’s have a look at how the rest of CoSchedule works.

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5 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic With Pinterst

5 Tips to Increase Traffic to Your Blog With Pinterest

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Still not on Pinterest? If you’re a blogger it might be time to get serious about marrying Pinterest with your blog. Pinterest can provide a hand full of benefits for those that are ready to take their blog to the next level.5 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic with Pinterest. One of the main benefits of Pinterest is that it could provide massive amounts of traffic to your blog, whether it’s through Pinterest promotions, or by creating that one amazing Infographic that get’s pinned hundreds of times. So how do you get more traffic from Pinterest back to your blog? Here are 5 tips that can help.

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Are Businesses Still Creating Websites Specifically for Mobile?

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Creating a specific website just for mobile can still work for many companies. Unfortunately, creating a website that favors the small screen is quite different than a website you would create for a desktop. This puts extra pressure on web designers because they have to create a website for both a desktop as well as a mobile-optimized version. If you do not have a web designer, then thinking about these different ways customers get information will be important. A website is usually the first thing a startup company creates, so there are a few things to bear in mind.

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