(9223,4,'2015-11-14 09:35:39','2015-11-14 14:35:39','Did you know there is the perfect plugin for WordPress that lets you easily schedule appointments online? This handy appointment management plugin for WordPress can make your website even more convenient to you and your clients. It’s a hassle-free experience that poorly-made, expensive plugins of the past just haven’t been able to live up to. \r\n\r\nYour bookings can now be easily scheduled and managed with the Appointments plugin which is even free to users. Now that you’re saving time and money with the new plugin with this easy to install plugin, you can now focus on more pressing tasks that your business needs handled. Here is a look at what this great new plugin can do for you. \r\n\r\n<h2>About Appointments</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AppointmentsPlugin-300x90.png\" alt=\"Appointments Plugin\" width=\"300\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9220\" />\r\n\r\nThrough the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/appointments/\">Appointments plugin</a>, your clients can now book their own appointment with a few clicks of the mouse. It’s a timesaving option that is making clients happier and website owners happier because it’s saving on phone calls, emails and issues found with older, expensive plugins that didn’t work well. For companies booking manually, this is a great lifesaver. \r\n\r\nWho is using Appointments? Many industries are already seeing benefits from this feature like consultants, freelancers, photographers and hair salons. Any business that needs to book appointments with clients can benefit from the plugin for you and your users. The flexible tool has great features and it’s easy to use right from your WordPress site. \r\n\r\n<h2>Capabilities</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPressAppointments-300x218.png\" alt=\"WordPress Appointments\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9221\" />\r\n\r\nAlong with setting appointments in three easy clicks, the plugin is easy to for managing your clients, staff and bookings. You can even use it to collect payments automatically through PayPal and collect deposits on bookings. Let it help you with email reminders and confirmations as well as with customization of the calendar and styling. In addition, the plugin can do tasks including:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Create services and add staff members</li>\r\n<li>Book appointments one year in advance</li>\r\n<li>Integrate for any theme with shortcodes</li>\r\n<li>Autofill your repeat clients</li>\r\n<li>Set unavailable dates and times</li>\r\n<li>Supports multiple break times</li>\r\n<li>Manage appointments in Google Calendar</li>\r\n<li>Login with Facebook, Google+, Twitter and WordPress</li>\r\n<li>And much more!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>More about these great features</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AppointmentExample-300x157.png\" alt=\"Appointment Example\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9219\" />\r\n\r\nIf you’re accustomed to scheduling on Google calendar, you can easily integrate it into your new Appointments plugin. This will save you the time on custom development work and your clients will have a one click process to add their own Google calendar before booking. \r\n\r\nYou’ll be able to easily customize it so that your whole team of people has their own profiles, available time slots on display for clients to see and a useful way for streamlining your appointment management. Make your calendar customized to match your branding in order to keep visual consistency. \r\n\r\nThe new plugin will eliminate the need to go back and forth on emails or phone calls to schedule appointments. Simply create custom pages like a booking page for scheduling, a booking confirmation to remind your clients about the time they chose and cancellations for clients that can’t make it in. \r\n\r\n<h2>How do I get the plugin?</h2>\r\n\r\nYou can get started with Appointments in no time by installing the plugin. Make sure you backup your site before making changes or you can create a local installation to safely try it out before installing it. Once you have it installed, you can start customizing it to meet your company’s needs. You can configure the settings in the admin dashboard where tons of options are available like the time duration for appointments, color options and more. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why is there an option that costs money?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/PaymentForAppointment-300x230.png\" alt=\"Payment For Appointment\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9222\" />\r\n\r\nWhile the free plugin probably offers everything you need, some businesses may want to upgrade to the premium plugin for a small charge. It offers more features than the free version which may work better for some. Start off with the free option to see how it works for you and if you need more options, you can upgrade as your business grows. The premium plugin offers options like:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Blacking out dates and times</li>\r\n<li>Limited appointment booking</li>\r\n<li>Gravatar support</li>\r\n<li>Form autofill for your repeat clients</li>\r\n<li>Display weekly and monthly schedules </li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAppointments+ can do everything that Appointments can do plus these great features. You may want to upgrade if you find that you offer multiple services, your staff is growing and your customers are complaining of having to fill out a new form each time they book.\r\n\r\nCheck out the free WordPress plugin Appointments to make your business run a little smoother. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n','Use this Free WordPress Plugin for Easy Online Scheduling','','inherit','closed','closed','','9218-revision-v1','','','2015-11-14 09:35:39','2015-11-14 14:35:39','',9218,'https://itxdesign.com/9218-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9224,4,'2015-11-18 08:02:21','2015-11-18 13:02:21','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Bond.png\" alt=\"Bond\" width=\"179\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9225\" />Do you feel that your website and social media page don’t seem to be in sync? Unfortunately if they are not, this can be a huge problem. They really need to be connected well because that is the best way to grow your audience, be effective in reaching more people and developing a stronger customer loyalty. Why would social media matter when you already have a great website? \r\n\r\nWell, your website is the basis for your company’s online presence featuring your contact information, your “about” section, pricing information and your logo but your social media pages are for engaging with customers and drawing them to your website. \r\n\r\nBeing able to find your contact details is only a small part of the equation when it comes to your internet presence; you need a way to get people talking about you, talking to you and wanting to visit your website and that is where social media plays its part. Having a great bond between the two platforms is vital to a successful online presence and here is a further look into why. \r\n\r\n<h2>What your website is used for</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Website1.jpg\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"271\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9227\" />As mentioned, your website is crucial for your business because people want to find you online. they want your address, your phone number, and a contact form to ask questions. They want a customer service department online that they can reach out to when they aren’t happy. \r\n\r\nThey want to see pictures of your office, staff or product and they want to get familiar with your logo and tone. When you don’t have a website, people are forced to stop in, dig for your phone number or look to see if you’ve created a social media page and many people just won’t put that much effort in. \r\n\r\nInstead, having a great website will not only provide all of this information, but it will give you a professional image. In addition to having all of these basics on your website, you need to create a blog that you keep up with regularly or pay someone to write. Keep it relevant to your business, to the news or to the industry so that your customers can see that you are an expert in the industry. They need tips, advice and the latest updates in the field and they need a great source to find all of this. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why do I need social media then?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Social-Media.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media\" width=\"254\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9226\" />What better way to attract your audience to the website than to feature your blog on your social media? Promote your blog and your website on your social media page so that everyone has an easy way to find it. If you attract the right person to your blog, they are likely to share it with their friends which allows others to see a blog they may have never seen otherwise. \r\n\r\nYou should need a social media presence because it’s a huge way that customers want to engage with companies. They want a simple way to complain, compliment you or ask questions about your services or products. \r\n\r\nWith social media, they can reach out in the simplest way for them and when you respond with helpful advice or a solution, your other customers will be impressed at your attitude to help your customers. They will be more excited to work with you once they’ve seen how well you handle your customers and how much of an expert in your field you are with your blog. \r\n\r\nMake sure your social media page and website match with the same name, profile picture, logo, tone and colors. This helps your customers easily match up the website with the social media pages and allows them to follow your website’s blog and follow your social media page for the latest news. \r\n\r\nMake sure your website and blog have buttons that link to your social media page which is easy to do through WordPress plugins. Make the buttons match the brand and add an RSS feed to your home page. The goal is to make your content be a bridge between your website and social media page. \r\n\r\nUse these tips to develop better relationships between your social media nd website and watch how your new Facebook or Twitter pages and professional website increase your customer loyalty, increase your target audience connectivity and ultimately increase sales. \r\n','How can you Create a Better Bond Between Your Social Media and Your Website?','','publish','open','closed','','how-can-you-create-a-better-bond-between-your-social-media-and-your-website','','','2015-11-14 15:06:09','2015-11-14 20:06:09','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9224',0,'post','',0),(9225,4,'2015-11-14 15:04:52','2015-11-14 20:04:52','','Bond','','inherit','open','closed','','bond','','','2015-11-14 15:04:59','2015-11-14 20:04:59','',9224,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Bond.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9226,4,'2015-11-14 15:04:53','2015-11-14 20:04:53','','Social Media','','inherit','open','closed','','social-media-10','','','2015-11-14 15:05:45','2015-11-14 20:05:45','',9224,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Social-Media.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9227,4,'2015-11-14 15:04:53','2015-11-14 20:04:53','','Website','','inherit','open','closed','','website-3','','','2015-11-14 15:05:30','2015-11-14 20:05:30','',9224,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Website1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9228,4,'2015-11-14 15:05:51','2015-11-14 20:05:51','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Bond.png\" alt=\"Bond\" width=\"179\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9225\" />Do you feel that your website and social media page don’t seem to be in sync? Unfortunately if they are not, this can be a huge problem. They really need to be connected well because that is the best way to grow your audience, be effective in reaching more people and developing a stronger customer loyalty. Why would social media matter when you already have a great website? \r\n\r\nWell, your website is the basis for your company’s online presence featuring your contact information, your “about” section, pricing information and your logo but your social media pages are for engaging with customers and drawing them to your website. \r\n\r\nBeing able to find your contact details is only a small part of the equation when it comes to your internet presence; you need a way to get people talking about you, talking to you and wanting to visit your website and that is where social media plays its part. Having a great bond between the two platforms is vital to a successful online presence and here is a further look into why. \r\n\r\n<h2>What your website is used for</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Website1.jpg\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"271\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9227\" />As mentioned, your website is crucial for your business because people want to find you online. they want your address, your phone number, and a contact form to ask questions. They want a customer service department online that they can reach out to when they aren’t happy. \r\n\r\nThey want to see pictures of your office, staff or product and they want to get familiar with your logo and tone. When you don’t have a website, people are forced to stop in, dig for your phone number or look to see if you’ve created a social media page and many people just won’t put that much effort in. \r\n\r\nInstead, having a great website will not only provide all of this information, but it will give you a professional image. In addition to having all of these basics on your website, you need to create a blog that you keep up with regularly or pay someone to write. Keep it relevant to your business, to the news or to the industry so that your customers can see that you are an expert in the industry. They need tips, advice and the latest updates in the field and they need a great source to find all of this. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why do I need social media then?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Social-Media.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media\" width=\"254\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9226\" />What better way to attract your audience to the website than to feature your blog on your social media? Promote your blog and your website on your social media page so that everyone has an easy way to find it. If you attract the right person to your blog, they are likely to share it with their friends which allows others to see a blog they may have never seen otherwise. \r\n\r\nYou should need a social media presence because it’s a huge way that customers want to engage with companies. They want a simple way to complain, compliment you or ask questions about your services or products. \r\n\r\nWith social media, they can reach out in the simplest way for them and when you respond with helpful advice or a solution, your other customers will be impressed at your attitude to help your customers. They will be more excited to work with you once they’ve seen how well you handle your customers and how much of an expert in your field you are with your blog. \r\n\r\nMake sure your social media page and website match with the same name, profile picture, logo, tone and colors. This helps your customers easily match up the website with the social media pages and allows them to follow your website’s blog and follow your social media page for the latest news. \r\n\r\nMake sure your website and blog have buttons that link to your social media page which is easy to do through WordPress plugins. Make the buttons match the brand and add an RSS feed to your home page. The goal is to make your content be a bridge between your website and social media page. \r\n\r\nUse these tips to develop better relationships between your social media nd website and watch how your new Facebook or Twitter pages and professional website increase your customer loyalty, increase your target audience connectivity and ultimately increase sales. \r\n','How can you Create a Better Bond Between Your Social Media and Your Website?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9224-revision-v1','','','2015-11-14 15:05:51','2015-11-14 20:05:51','',9224,'https://itxdesign.com/9224-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9229,4,'2015-11-18 16:06:28','2015-11-18 21:06:28','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Quality-WordPress-Plugins.png\" alt=\"Quality WordPress Plugins\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9231\" />Is your WordPress site suffering from poor quality plugins and themes? People have been talking about the quality of the code in ThemeForest’s themes and now WordPress users are questioning the quality of the plugins and themes they are purchasing and downloading. A successful plugin and theme would be well-coded, secure and reliable. \r\n\r\nWordPress developers really need to work hard to create code that is up to these standards so that users aren’t suffering trying to use poor-quality themes or plugins they rely on to run their business. Here is a look at what makes quality code and how to improve the code of your themes and plugins. \r\n\r\n<h2>What makes it good quality?</h2>\r\n\r\nCode is considered of good quality when it runs well and is experienced by users browsing a website well. This means those codes need to be valid and standards-compliant to begin, meaning that it works with modern browsers on mobile devices and screen readers. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Quality-Themes.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Quality Themes\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9232\" />It should conform to WordPress coding standards, which include things like use of longhand PHP tags and naming conventions, and be maintainable to be easily built on. Quality code would not risk the security of websites that use it and it should enhance the performance of a site. A site using the code should not be vulnerable to attack and the code should actually improve the quality of the site. \r\n\r\nIn addition, efficient code shouldn’t have unnecessary bloat like repetition of code or not using filters to override an existing function, it should be logical so that it can be worked with on a later date rather than having it too hard to work with for others that will be working with it and it should be inclusive without discriminating against visitors with the aid of assistive technologies or sensory impairments. \r\n\r\nIt needs to have the correct use of WordPress APIs, hooks, functions and classes which means the code should be written to comply with WordPress coding standards. Finally, it needs to by international in that any language can interact with the theme or plugin. \r\n\r\n<h2>How can I actually improve the quality of my code? </h2>\r\n\r\nIf you find that you need to take steps to improve the quality of your code as a developer, you’ll want to make sure you follow a few steps. For starters, be sure to make your code valid and standards-compliant. Conform it to WordPress coding standards and make sure its accessible. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Quailty-WordPress-Plugins-and-Themes.jpg\" alt=\"Quailty WordPress Plugins and Themes\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9230\" />From there, make sure you are use the functions, classes and hooks of WordPress correctly to avoid any that might not be designed for theme plugins or those that are deprecated. The problem could be that you are using a logical structure for your files or limiting the template files in your themes. \r\n\r\nLook at whether or not you’re sticking to the DRY principles which uses functions, classes and files to avoid any duplication of code. Make sure you’re internationalized your code, provided documents for others to understand and work with your code, ensure the security and avoid bloat to ensure efficiency. \r\n\r\nThese are the areas to look at when it comes to quality code. 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People have been talking about the quality of the code in ThemeForest’s themes and now WordPress users are questioning the quality of the plugins and themes they are purchasing and downloading. A successful plugin and theme would be well-coded, secure and reliable. \r\n\r\nWordPress developers really need to work hard to create code that is up to these standards so that users aren’t suffering trying to use poor-quality themes or plugins they rely on to run their business. Here is a look at what makes quality code and how to improve the code of your themes and plugins. \r\n\r\n<h2>What makes it good quality?</h2>\r\n\r\nCode is considered of good quality when it runs well and is experienced by users browsing a website well. This means those codes need to be valid and standards-compliant to begin, meaning that it works with modern browsers on mobile devices and screen readers. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Quality-Themes.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Quality Themes\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9232\" />It should conform to WordPress coding standards, which include things like use of longhand PHP tags and naming conventions, and be maintainable to be easily built on. Quality code would not risk the security of websites that use it and it should enhance the performance of a site. A site using the code should not be vulnerable to attack and the code should actually improve the quality of the site. \r\n\r\nIn addition, efficient code shouldn’t have unnecessary bloat like repetition of code or not using filters to override an existing function, it should be logical so that it can be worked with on a later date rather than having it too hard to work with for others that will be working with it and it should be inclusive without discriminating against visitors with the aid of assistive technologies or sensory impairments. \r\n\r\nIt needs to have the correct use of WordPress APIs, hooks, functions and classes which means the code should be written to comply with WordPress coding standards. Finally, it needs to by international in that any language can interact with the theme or plugin. \r\n\r\n<h2>How can I actually improve the quality of my code? </h2>\r\n\r\nIf you find that you need to take steps to improve the quality of your code as a developer, you’ll want to make sure you follow a few steps. For starters, be sure to make your code valid and standards-compliant. Conform it to WordPress coding standards and make sure its accessible. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Quailty-WordPress-Plugins-and-Themes.jpg\" alt=\"Quailty WordPress Plugins and Themes\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9230\" />From there, make sure you are use the functions, classes and hooks of WordPress correctly to avoid any that might not be designed for theme plugins or those that are deprecated. The problem could be that you are using a logical structure for your files or limiting the template files in your themes. \r\n\r\nLook at whether or not you’re sticking to the DRY principles which uses functions, classes and files to avoid any duplication of code. Make sure you’re internationalized your code, provided documents for others to understand and work with your code, ensure the security and avoid bloat to ensure efficiency. \r\n\r\nThese are the areas to look at when it comes to quality code. 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Some people try to do ads and it ends up going horribly. \r\n\r\nYou don’t want to take away from your site’s content but for those that find a way to do it well, they can bring in a great income to cover the site’s expenses and more. If you want to try ads and see how it goes, make sure you understand the ins and outs of it since it’s a tricky territory. Here is a look at determining the best solution for you and the pros and cons of selling ads on your website. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why ads can be great</h2>\r\n\r\nIf you decide to try selling ads, it can be really beneficial for a few reasons. Selling advertising will allow you to have control over your income, leverage the site’s traffic, build relationships and evoke professionalism. For starters, you decide how much ad space you want to sell and when. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Sell-Ads-on-WordPress-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"Sell Ads on WordPress\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9236\" />You can be paid upfront and have it run for a set period of time and you’re not paid on the performance of the ad either. You’re simply renting out space on your website and allowing those that want to try it to renew their contracts as often as you’d both like. This fixed income is tough to beat. \r\n\r\nIn addition to the income, you are going to appear more professional. Having ads will make you look professional to visitors because they will assume things about your business based on the ads. They will think you have an advertising budget which makes you look more developed as a business, they will notice that people want to advertise on your site and they will think that what you offer is in demand enough to have advertising. \r\n\r\nThe other great perk to advertising is that you’ll leverage your site’s traffic in addition to products you may sell. It’s a great time to build your email list and diversify your revenue stream. Building relationships is a nice perk when you’re working with advertisers or potential advertisers. Take care of your people so that they will stay with in the long haul. Plus, if you approach someone and offer them a free trial, they may find that it’s beneficial and want to continue business with you. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why ads are harmful</h2>\r\n\r\nYou will definitely increase your bounce rate with ads. People hate ads and while you may increase your income, people may see ads and decide against looking at your content. An effective ad will cause a visitor to click away from your site. for a newer site, you want all of the visitors you can get and you want them to stay longer than a quick click and another click away. Your bounce rate is really important. \r\n\r\nYou will definitely reduce your site’s speed and ruin your design to an extent. Running ads will slow down the site and that deters users from stick around to check out your content you worked so hard on. Plus, your design is not going to look attractive when there are ads all over the place.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Advertising1.jpg\" alt=\"Advertising\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9238\" />It will look tacky to see a bunch of ads on display and it may make you look like you don’t have very high standards as you accept ads from just anybody with money. It may make you look high in demand but it will often show you have bad taste or you’re desperate for cash. \r\n\r\nAll in all, sites with ads typically don’t perform as well. They do bring in regular, steady income for advertisers that renew their contract with you, but you may consistently be looking for new advertisers and new readers at that. \r\n\r\nWhen you’re scaring away all of your readers that don’t want to deal with your slow site, the tacky design and the advertisements that are too annoying to look past, you’ll always be trying to find a way to get people to want to see your website. \r\n\r\nDon’t take the decision lightly; consider if you could somehow balance the look of advertisements, keep your speed up and still make money while not deterring your customer base before you decide to go for it. 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It’s one common way to monetize a website but it’s not always the best route for every user. If you need your site to be profitable, there are other solutions to monetize the site. Some people try to do ads and it ends up going horribly. \r\n\r\nYou don’t want to take away from your site’s content but for those that find a way to do it well, they can bring in a great income to cover the site’s expenses and more. If you want to try ads and see how it goes, make sure you understand the ins and outs of it since it’s a tricky territory. Here is a look at determining the best solution for you and the pros and cons of selling ads on your website. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why ads can be great</h2>\r\n\r\nIf you decide to try selling ads, it can be really beneficial for a few reasons. Selling advertising will allow you to have control over your income, leverage the site’s traffic, build relationships and evoke professionalism. For starters, you decide how much ad space you want to sell and when. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Sell-Ads-on-WordPress-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"Sell Ads on WordPress\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9236\" />You can be paid upfront and have it run for a set period of time and you’re not paid on the performance of the ad either. You’re simply renting out space on your website and allowing those that want to try it to renew their contracts as often as you’d both like. This fixed income is tough to beat. \r\n\r\nIn addition to the income, you are going to appear more professional. Having ads will make you look professional to visitors because they will assume things about your business based on the ads. They will think you have an advertising budget which makes you look more developed as a business, they will notice that people want to advertise on your site and they will think that what you offer is in demand enough to have advertising. \r\n\r\nThe other great perk to advertising is that you’ll leverage your site’s traffic in addition to products you may sell. It’s a great time to build your email list and diversify your revenue stream. Building relationships is a nice perk when you’re working with advertisers or potential advertisers. Take care of your people so that they will stay with in the long haul. Plus, if you approach someone and offer them a free trial, they may find that it’s beneficial and want to continue business with you. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why ads are harmful</h2>\r\n\r\nYou will definitely increase your bounce rate with ads. People hate ads and while you may increase your income, people may see ads and decide against looking at your content. An effective ad will cause a visitor to click away from your site. for a newer site, you want all of the visitors you can get and you want them to stay longer than a quick click and another click away. Your bounce rate is really important. \r\n\r\nYou will definitely reduce your site’s speed and ruin your design to an extent. Running ads will slow down the site and that deters users from stick around to check out your content you worked so hard on. Plus, your design is not going to look attractive when there are ads all over the place.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Advertising1.jpg\" alt=\"Advertising\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9238\" />It will look tacky to see a bunch of ads on display and it may make you look like you don’t have very high standards as you accept ads from just anybody with money. It may make you look high in demand but it will often show you have bad taste or you’re desperate for cash. \r\n\r\nAll in all, sites with ads typically don’t perform as well. They do bring in regular, steady income for advertisers that renew their contract with you, but you may consistently be looking for new advertisers and new readers at that. \r\n\r\nWhen you’re scaring away all of your readers that don’t want to deal with your slow site, the tacky design and the advertisements that are too annoying to look past, you’ll always be trying to find a way to get people to want to see your website. \r\n\r\nDon’t take the decision lightly; consider if you could somehow balance the look of advertisements, keep your speed up and still make money while not deterring your customer base before you decide to go for it. 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It’s hard to continue managing the spam when you need to be focused on your content and other business tasks. Plus, you don’t always have time to read and respond to the users that have taken the time to write positive things or ask great questions. There are now plugins that will help you with better managing your comments section. \r\n\r\n<h2><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Akismet</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Akismet-300x94.png\" alt=\"Akismet\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9241\" />\r\n\r\nFor starters, Akismet is probably the best choice for comment plugins. It’s already pre-installed in your WordPress and it works to filter out your spam comments without any work from you. You just need to activate it by getting an API key from their website and adding it to your settings. \r\n\r\nA simple blog can work just fine on the free account of Akisment but you may want to upgrade for a commercial site with thousands of comments coming in each month. Buy the premium account and feel at ease knowing that it’s dealing with your comment spam without you even dealing with it. \r\n\r\n<h2><A href=\"https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/comments-plus/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comments Plus</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CommentPlus-300x211.png\" alt=\"Comment Plus\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9242\" />\r\n\r\nYou could go with Comments Plus, a plugin that will work great for your readers. They can easily comment on your WordPress interface or they can sign with their social media accounts to comment. The comments post to their social media accounts which verifies they are a real person and will end up reach outside of your site to potential new readers that see the comments. You’ll just have to install it, enter your own credentials for your social media pages and customize it with features and add-ons. \r\n\r\n<h2><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Subscribe to Comments Reloaded</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SubscribeToCommentsReloaded-300x96.png\" alt=\"Subscribe To Comments Reloaded\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9243\" />\r\n\r\nCheck out this plugin if you’re looking for something that will allow your readers to subscribe to the comments on your posts without a third party commenting system or social media interference. This is the way to go and all it takes is you to install the plugin and your readers will be able to subscribe to the comments and replies. \r\n\r\nSign up for the replies to a specific comment or to all of the new ones. They just sign in to your site to do it with an email address. You may want to specify the double opt-in to avoid spamming though.\r\n\r\nYou can also more easily manage your comments with WordPress plugins including:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-control/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comments Control </a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20180614191922/https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/comment-indexer/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comment Indexer</a></li>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-recent-comments/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Better WordPress Recent Comments</a></li>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-images/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comment Images</a></li>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WP Ajax Edit Comments</a></li>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Disqus Comments System </a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nIf you’re struggling to keep spam out, letting people comment through third party services, manage and respond to your comments, as well as finding a way to enhance the commenting interface for your readers, you should definitely use one of these comment management plugins to solve all of these problems for your WordPress site. \r\n','Which WordPress Plugins Make it Easy to Manage Comments?','','publish','open','closed','','which-wordpress-plugins-make-it-easy-to-manage-comments','','','2018-07-10 05:45:32','2018-07-10 09:45:32','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9240',0,'post','',0),(9241,4,'2015-11-14 15:24:00','2015-11-14 20:24:00','','Akismet','','inherit','open','closed','','akismet-4','','','2015-11-14 15:24:06','2015-11-14 20:24:06','',9240,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Akismet.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9242,4,'2015-11-14 15:24:00','2015-11-14 20:24:00','','Comment Plus','','inherit','open','closed','','commentplus','','','2015-11-14 15:24:21','2015-11-14 20:24:21','',9240,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CommentPlus.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9243,4,'2015-11-14 15:24:01','2015-11-14 20:24:01','','Subscribe To Comments Reloaded','','inherit','open','closed','','subscribetocommentsreloaded','','','2015-11-14 15:24:35','2015-11-14 20:24:35','',9240,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SubscribeToCommentsReloaded.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9244,4,'2015-11-14 15:24:41','2015-11-14 20:24:41','When you run a WordPress site that has a comments section, do you find it hard to maintain it? Having the comments section activated on your blog is important because it allows your readers to give feedback, ask questions or congratulate you on your fantastic content. Comments even allow your users to talk to one another, get to know you and others, and essentially build a community because of your site. \r\n\r\nWith a booming site, your comments section might be getting out of control. It’s hard to continue managing the spam when you need to be focused on your content and other business tasks. Plus, you don’t always have time to read and respond to the users that have taken the time to write positive things or ask great questions. There are now plugins that will help you with better managing your comments section. \r\n\r\n<h2><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Akismet</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Akismet-300x94.png\" alt=\"Akismet\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9241\" />\r\n\r\nFor starters, Akismet is probably the best choice for comment plugins. It’s already pre-installed in your WordPress and it works to filter out your spam comments without any work from you. You just need to activate it by getting an API key from their website and adding it to your settings. \r\n\r\nA simple blog can work just fine on the free account of Akisment but you may want to upgrade for a commercial site with thousands of comments coming in each month. Buy the premium account and feel at ease knowing that it’s dealing with your comment spam without you even dealing with it. \r\n\r\n<h2><A href=\"https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/comments-plus/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comments Plus</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CommentPlus-300x211.png\" alt=\"Comment Plus\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9242\" />\r\n\r\nYou could go with Comments Plus, a plugin that will work great for your readers. They can easily comment on your WordPress interface or they can sign with their social media accounts to comment. The comments post to their social media accounts which verifies they are a real person and will end up reach outside of your site to potential new readers that see the comments. You’ll just have to install it, enter your own credentials for your social media pages and customize it with features and add-ons. \r\n\r\n<h2><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Subscribe to Comments Reloaded</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SubscribeToCommentsReloaded-300x96.png\" alt=\"Subscribe To Comments Reloaded\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9243\" />\r\n\r\nCheck out this plugin if you’re looking for something that will allow your readers to subscribe to the comments on your posts without a third party commenting system or social media interference. This is the way to go and all it takes is you to install the plugin and your readers will be able to subscribe to the comments and replies. \r\n\r\nSign up for the replies to a specific comment or to all of the new ones. They just sign in to your site to do it with an email address. You may want to specify the double opt-in to avoid spamming though.\r\n\r\nYou can also more easily manage your comments with WordPress plugins including:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-control/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comments Control </a></li>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/comment-indexer/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comment Indexer</a></li>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-recent-comments/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Better WordPress Recent Comments</a></li>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-images/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comment Images</a></li>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WP Ajax Edit Comments</a></li>\r\n<li><A href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Disqus Comments System </a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nIf you’re struggling to keep spam out, letting people comment through third party services, manage and respond to your comments, as well as finding a way to enhance the commenting interface for your readers, you should definitely use one of these comment management plugins to solve all of these problems for your WordPress site. \r\n','Which WordPress Plugins Make it Easy to Manage Comments?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9240-revision-v1','','','2015-11-14 15:24:41','2015-11-14 20:24:41','',9240,'https://itxdesign.com/9240-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9245,0,'2015-11-16 08:42:43','2015-11-16 13:42:43','','','','inherit','open','closed','','9245','','','2015-11-16 08:42:43','2015-11-16 13:42:43','',9196,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Scribbo-300x1421.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9246,0,'2015-11-17 07:06:30','2015-11-17 12:06:30','','','','inherit','open','closed','','9246','','','2015-11-17 07:06:30','2015-11-17 12:06:30','',9213,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-4.4-300x1601.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9247,0,'2015-11-17 16:28:52','2015-11-17 21:28:52','','','','inherit','open','closed','','9247','','','2015-11-17 16:28:52','2015-11-17 21:28:52','',9218,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AppointmentsPlugin-300x901.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9307,4,'2015-11-30 14:47:38','2015-11-30 19:47:38','If you haven’t heard of the “Always Remember Me” feature on WordPress, you are probably getting a lot of headache every time you log in. No matter how many times you’ve hit that check box to “remember me,” it seems that you always have to login once again when you get to the WordPress home page. \r\n\r\nYou exit the page and return later just to have to login again and tell it to “remember me” again. What you don’t know is that there is a way to get the box automatically checked to remember you through WordPress that will also extend the login cookie. You can finally access your admin area quick every single time by using this trick to make WordPress remember you. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to get it</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RememberMePlugin.png\" alt=\"Remember Me Plugin\" width=\"725\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9309\" />\r\n\r\nYou can get this feature on your WordPress by installing and activating the plugin called “<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-remember-me/\">Remember Me</a>.” You’ll activate it and then configure the plugin settings by visiting the “Settings” and “Remember Me” page. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RememberMeInMenu.png\" alt=\"Remember Me In Menu\" width=\"158\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9308\" />\r\n\r\n<h2>What options will I get to choose from?</h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nYou’ll be asked if you want to set “Remember Me” as a default in which you’ll need to check one of four options including:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>No default</li>\r\n<li>For all logins</li>\r\n<li>For logins from public websites only</li>\r\n<li>For longs from Admin panels only</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nTell it if you want it to remember your choice by checking the box and for how many days. You’ll have these various options on how you set up logins whether you want to enable is as the default or just from the admin area. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RememberMeSettings.png\" alt=\"Remember Me Settings\" width=\"1056\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9310\" />\r\n\r\nAllow users to manually check the “remember me” box as well so that your users won’t be logged out when they close the browser window. Choose the maximum number of days your users should remain logged in, such as their default 366 days, or reduce it to 30-60 days. Users can still log out if they want, and they can just log in once again. \r\n\r\nOf course this option is not meant for those that use the site on a public computer or share network, but for private computers and networks, this is a great way to make your WordPress experience much easier with just a few minutes of your time setting it up. \r\n','Can you Keep WordPress from Forgetting You?','','publish','open','closed','','can-you-keep-wordpress-from-forgetting-you','','','2015-11-30 14:47:38','2015-11-30 19:47:38','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9307',0,'post','',0),(9249,0,'2015-11-19 16:17:11','2015-11-19 21:17:11','','','','inherit','open','closed','','9249','','','2015-11-19 16:17:11','2015-11-19 21:17:11','',9240,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Akismet-300x941.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9251,4,'2015-11-20 17:25:33','2015-11-20 22:25:33','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Domains-for-Business.jpg\" alt=\"Domains for Business\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9253\" />Choosing your domain is a decision you should make very carefully. Selecting the right one for your business can mean the difference between being found on search rankings or not, being remembered, and being easy to find by your customers. Having a great domain can mean that you’ll have a great results for your sales while a bad choice can make your site lost out there on the web. \r\n\r\nYou need to focus on a few factors such as keywords, your location, being memorable, and being easy to find. When your customers try to search for you online, what is the most likely way they will search and be able to find you? Keep this in mind along with these tips for choosing the right domain for yourself and your business. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is the brand about?</h2>\r\n\r\nStart your brainstorming session with taking a look at what your brand is all about. If your business voice is meant to be serious and descriptive, then focus in on that while a playful business voice should keep that in mind when choosing the domain. At this point in the process, you may be more subjective while going forward you’ll have to be more objective. This is a good way to start filtering through your options. \r\n\r\n<h2>Keywords </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Business-Domain-Name.jpg\" alt=\"Business Domain Name\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9252\" />From there, you should start considering keywords that relate to your business. Do a keyword analysis to understand your category better. Keywords are going to be the terms that are being searched to find you and competitors in a category. Keywords shouldn’t be the only way you determine the right domain name but it’s a really useful way to form a domain and help make the decision. \r\n\r\nJust be sure when you search for a keyword analysis that you don’t get lost in big search categories. For example, having a domain with a widely searched term like “doctor” is going to make you less easy to find amongst thousands of other doctors. Make it something keyword related while being narrowed down. The goal is to get found in a sea of potential search results. \r\n\r\n<h2>Be memorable and easy</h2>\r\n\r\nAs mentioned, it’s important that your domain is easy to find and easy to remember. A longer domain is not search friendly for people even if it’s the perfect description of your business. People need short and sweet, memorable and easy to type. Make sure you’ve found a way to combine the ease of search with something memorable and powerful. What type of domain might make you memorable so that your customers don’t have to think too hard to remember it? \r\n\r\n<h2>Do some research</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Dot-Com.jpg\" alt=\"Dot Com\" width=\"296\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9254\" />Lastly, be sure to consider where your target audience is because it may help to include the city or community into the domain for an easier search. When generating local traffic, they may remember you when you have the neighborhood name in the domain. National and global companies would want something more universal. \r\n\r\nIn addition, you’ll need to do some homework around names and terms that you’re thinking about using because it could already be a trade name, competitor’s name or illegal to use otherwise. Finally, choose the right domain extension and then you’ll have everything you need to get your business started online. \r\n\r\nUse these tips to pick the perfect domain for your business that will capture your audience’s attention, be easy to find, be memorable, and will help potential customers find you when doing their own search for companies like yours. 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Selecting the right one for your business can mean the difference between being found on search rankings or not, being remembered, and being easy to find by your customers. Having a great domain can mean that you’ll have a great results for your sales while a bad choice can make your site lost out there on the web. \r\n\r\nYou need to focus on a few factors such as keywords, your location, being memorable, and being easy to find. When your customers try to search for you online, what is the most likely way they will search and be able to find you? Keep this in mind along with these tips for choosing the right domain for yourself and your business. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is the brand about?</h2>\r\n\r\nStart your brainstorming session with taking a look at what your brand is all about. If your business voice is meant to be serious and descriptive, then focus in on that while a playful business voice should keep that in mind when choosing the domain. At this point in the process, you may be more subjective while going forward you’ll have to be more objective. This is a good way to start filtering through your options. \r\n\r\n<h2>Keywords </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Business-Domain-Name.jpg\" alt=\"Business Domain Name\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9252\" />From there, you should start considering keywords that relate to your business. Do a keyword analysis to understand your category better. Keywords are going to be the terms that are being searched to find you and competitors in a category. Keywords shouldn’t be the only way you determine the right domain name but it’s a really useful way to form a domain and help make the decision. \r\n\r\nJust be sure when you search for a keyword analysis that you don’t get lost in big search categories. For example, having a domain with a widely searched term like “doctor” is going to make you less easy to find amongst thousands of other doctors. Make it something keyword related while being narrowed down. The goal is to get found in a sea of potential search results. \r\n\r\n<h2>Be memorable and easy\r\n\r\nAs mentioned, it’s important that your domain is easy to find and easy to remember. A longer domain is not search friendly for people even if it’s the perfect description of your business. People need short and sweet, memorable and easy to type. Make sure you’ve found a way to combine the ease of search with something memorable and powerful. What type of domain might make you memorable so that your customers don’t have to think too hard to remember it? \r\n\r\n<h2>Do some research</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Dot-Com.jpg\" alt=\"Dot Com\" width=\"296\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9254\" />Lastly, be sure to consider where your target audience is because it may help to include the city or community into the domain for an easier search. When generating local traffic, they may remember you when you have the neighborhood name in the domain. National and global companies would want something more universal. \r\n\r\nIn addition, you’ll need to do some homework around names and terms that you’re thinking about using because it could already be a trade name, competitor’s name or illegal to use otherwise. 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Having a great domain can mean that you’ll have a great results for your sales while a bad choice can make your site lost out there on the web. \r\n\r\nYou need to focus on a few factors such as keywords, your location, being memorable, and being easy to find. When your customers try to search for you online, what is the most likely way they will search and be able to find you? Keep this in mind along with these tips for choosing the right domain for yourself and your business. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is the brand about?</h2>\r\n\r\nStart your brainstorming session with taking a look at what your brand is all about. If your business voice is meant to be serious and descriptive, then focus in on that while a playful business voice should keep that in mind when choosing the domain. At this point in the process, you may be more subjective while going forward you’ll have to be more objective. This is a good way to start filtering through your options. \r\n\r\n<h2>Keywords </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Business-Domain-Name.jpg\" alt=\"Business Domain Name\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9252\" />From there, you should start considering keywords that relate to your business. Do a keyword analysis to understand your category better. Keywords are going to be the terms that are being searched to find you and competitors in a category. Keywords shouldn’t be the only way you determine the right domain name but it’s a really useful way to form a domain and help make the decision. \r\n\r\nJust be sure when you search for a keyword analysis that you don’t get lost in big search categories. For example, having a domain with a widely searched term like “doctor” is going to make you less easy to find amongst thousands of other doctors. Make it something keyword related while being narrowed down. The goal is to get found in a sea of potential search results. \r\n\r\n<h2>Be memorable and easy</h2>\r\n\r\nAs mentioned, it’s important that your domain is easy to find and easy to remember. A longer domain is not search friendly for people even if it’s the perfect description of your business. People need short and sweet, memorable and easy to type. Make sure you’ve found a way to combine the ease of search with something memorable and powerful. What type of domain might make you memorable so that your customers don’t have to think too hard to remember it? \r\n\r\n<h2>Do some research</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Dot-Com.jpg\" alt=\"Dot Com\" width=\"296\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9254\" />Lastly, be sure to consider where your target audience is because it may help to include the city or community into the domain for an easier search. When generating local traffic, they may remember you when you have the neighborhood name in the domain. National and global companies would want something more universal. \r\n\r\nIn addition, you’ll need to do some homework around names and terms that you’re thinking about using because it could already be a trade name, competitor’s name or illegal to use otherwise. Finally, choose the right domain extension and then you’ll have everything you need to get your business started online. \r\n\r\nUse these tips to pick the perfect domain for your business that will capture your audience’s attention, be easy to find, be memorable, and will help potential customers find you when doing their own search for companies like yours. There’s always more than one right answer so if you have a few ideas in mind, you could register a couple of additional domains to help additional customers find you. \r\n','How to Choose the Right Domain for You and Your Business','','inherit','closed','closed','','9251-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 17:25:25','2015-11-20 22:25:25','',9251,'https://itxdesign.com/9251-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9257,4,'2015-11-20 22:26:54','2015-11-21 03:26:54','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Viral-Content.jpg\" alt=\"Viral Content\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9260\" />Do you struggle to get your content to go viral? It makes you jealous to see big name bloggers get so many “likes” on Facebook and shares on Pinterest while you have a modest-sized following. Bloggers, entrepreneurs, business owners and artists all crave for their content to go viral someday but it’s so rare to make it big online. \r\n\r\nIt may look easy to go viral when you’ve seen videos of kids on YouTube get millions of views or debates over a color of a dress get talked about all over social media for an entire day. While these things may seem like they just happened without any effort, there is somewhat of a formula that needs to happen to have a shot at making something share-worthy. \r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to do and it’s not easy to explain, but there are some characteristics that most viral videos have in common. Here is a look at the elements to include in your content to have a chance of going viral. \r\n\r\n<h2>It should make a statement</h2>\r\n\r\nMost viral content makes a statement which causes people to either love it or hate it and want to tell others. With a content growing in popularity, it starts to take on a life of its own making people feel that they are in an exclusive group if they know about it while leaving those who haven’t yet out of the group. \r\n\r\nPeople love to feel part of a group and feel that they are part of something special. There is a sense of pride in sharing a statement piece because they are bringing others into the group. Creating viral content is about creating your “group” of exclusivity. What type of club do you want to create with this statement you are making? \r\n\r\nThe success of what you post will depend on people’s interest in joining the club and sharing the club with others. If they don’t want to associate with the club of people that have seen it, you won’t attract much audience. Find a way to be attractive to an audience. \r\n\r\n<h2>It should have an emotional element</h2>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Emotional-Element.png\"><img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Emotional-Element-300x65.png\" alt=\"Emotional Element\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9259\" /></a>Most viral posts are emotionally compelling in one way or another. People only share content they identify with, enjoy, or feel strongly about and that’s seen by the lack of “shares” on content like Facebook quizzes. In order for content to go viral, it must offer an emotional element that will strike a chord with an audience. It doesn’t even have to be a positive, happy and amusing piece; it can be something angry, outrageous, or scandalous. \r\n\r\nWhile positive pieces are more likely to pick up compared to negative ones, content with a statement and emotional element can go viral. Keep in mind what you’d enjoy sharing, like a funny video, compared to an honest infographic or some scary statistics. Being reliable, accurate, and putting an idea down that is hard to explain is a good recipe of going viral. People want to support a piece of content that captures their thoughts and helps them to be self-expressive. \r\n\r\n<h2>It has to have quality</h2>\r\n\r\nYou can’t just throw something out there that is positive and truthful and expect to go viral. Your content has to show quality and be well-executed. If not, you could have your content shared for the wrong reason.  In order to be considered a trustworthy source, you need to have a website with a modern design, regular content, and a quick site speed. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Content-Like-Water.png\" alt=\"Content Like Water\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9258\" />When viewers can’t identify with the source of the content, it’s not likely to go viral. If you’re hoping to make a photo go viral, make sure it’s shot well while a video should be well casted, filmed and edited. A Tweet needs to be well said while an infographic should be well-designed. All of these elements matter for a piece to be shared. Always remember that an image is the most likely thing to be shared compared to content without it regardless of the social media platform you use. \r\n \r\nLastly, keep in mind that it’s safe to step out of the box by being a little bolder, throwing away the rules, not being afraid to surprise, and being willing to be resilient. Make sure it’s easy to understand and share so that those that love your piece will be excited to share it with others. \r\n\r\nFollow this formula to create a killer blog and hope that one of these times it will be enough to go viral!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n','What Does your Content Need to Go Viral?','','publish','open','closed','','what-does-your-content-need-to-go-viral','','','2015-11-20 17:30:04','2015-11-20 22:30:04','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9257',0,'post','',0),(9258,4,'2015-11-20 17:28:47','2015-11-20 22:28:47','','Content Like Water','','inherit','open','closed','','content-like-water','','','2015-11-20 17:29:15','2015-11-20 22:29:15','',9257,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Content-Like-Water.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9259,4,'2015-11-20 17:28:47','2015-11-20 22:28:47','','Emotional Element','','inherit','open','closed','','emotional-element','','','2015-11-20 17:29:05','2015-11-20 22:29:05','',9257,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Emotional-Element.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9260,4,'2015-11-20 17:28:47','2015-11-20 22:28:47','','Viral Content','','inherit','open','closed','','viral-content','','','2015-11-20 17:28:53','2015-11-20 22:28:53','',9257,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Viral-Content.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9261,4,'2015-11-20 17:29:20','2015-11-20 22:29:20','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Viral-Content.jpg\" alt=\"Viral Content\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9260\" />Do you struggle to get your content to go viral? It makes you jealous to see big name bloggers get so many “likes” on Facebook and shares on Pinterest while you have a modest-sized following. Bloggers, entrepreneurs, business owners and artists all crave for their content to go viral someday but it’s so rare to make it big online. \r\n\r\nIt may look easy to go viral when you’ve seen videos of kids on YouTube get millions of views or debates over a color of a dress get talked about all over social media for an entire day. While these things may seem like they just happened without any effort, there is somewhat of a formula that needs to happen to have a shot at making something share-worthy. \r\n\r\nIt’s not easy to do and it’s not easy to explain, but there are some characteristics that most viral videos have in common. Here is a look at the elements to include in your content to have a chance of going viral. \r\n\r\n<h2>It should make a statement</h2>\r\n\r\nMost viral content makes a statement which causes people to either love it or hate it and want to tell others. With a content growing in popularity, it starts to take on a life of its own making people feel that they are in an exclusive group if they know about it while leaving those who haven’t yet out of the group. \r\n\r\nPeople love to feel part of a group and feel that they are part of something special. There is a sense of pride in sharing a statement piece because they are bringing others into the group. Creating viral content is about creating your “group” of exclusivity. What type of club do you want to create with this statement you are making? \r\n\r\nThe success of what you post will depend on people’s interest in joining the club and sharing the club with others. If they don’t want to associate with the club of people that have seen it, you won’t attract much audience. Find a way to be attractive to an audience. \r\n\r\n<h2>It should have an emotional element</h2>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Emotional-Element.png\"><img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Emotional-Element-300x65.png\" alt=\"Emotional Element\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9259\" /></a>Most viral posts are emotionally compelling in one way or another. People only share content they identify with, enjoy, or feel strongly about and that’s seen by the lack of “shares” on content like Facebook quizzes. In order for content to go viral, it must offer an emotional element that will strike a chord with an audience. It doesn’t even have to be a positive, happy and amusing piece; it can be something angry, outrageous, or scandalous. \r\n\r\nWhile positive pieces are more likely to pick up compared to negative ones, content with a statement and emotional element can go viral. Keep in mind what you’d enjoy sharing, like a funny video, compared to an honest infographic or some scary statistics. Being reliable, accurate, and putting an idea down that is hard to explain is a good recipe of going viral. People want to support a piece of content that captures their thoughts and helps them to be self-expressive. \r\n\r\n<h2>It has to have quality</h2>\r\n\r\nYou can’t just throw something out there that is positive and truthful and expect to go viral. Your content has to show quality and be well-executed. If not, you could have your content shared for the wrong reason.  In order to be considered a trustworthy source, you need to have a website with a modern design, regular content, and a quick site speed. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Content-Like-Water.png\" alt=\"Content Like Water\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9258\" />When viewers can’t identify with the source of the content, it’s not likely to go viral. If you’re hoping to make a photo go viral, make sure it’s shot well while a video should be well casted, filmed and edited. A Tweet needs to be well said while an infographic should be well-designed. All of these elements matter for a piece to be shared. 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Make sure it’s easy to understand and share so that those that love your piece will be excited to share it with others. \r\n\r\nFollow this formula to create a killer blog and hope that one of these times it will be enough to go viral!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n','What Does your Content Need to Go Viral?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9257-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 17:29:20','2015-11-20 22:29:20','',9257,'https://itxdesign.com/9257-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9262,4,'2015-11-23 08:54:53','2015-11-23 13:54:53','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Eduction-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"Eduction Blog\" width=\"272\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9265\" />Running an educational blog is a different ball game than running a regular blog. You may be thinking about starting one since supplementary education services making big money. The education industry is a huge money maker worth over $19 billion with up to 74 million students attending school up to 12th grade in the US. With education being a huge industry for the young and for working professionals, it seems like an obvious way to blog to a huge market. \r\n\r\nPlus, education is huge around the globe. You can create an education blog with the proper knowledge on what to include, how to target your audience and how to build your traffic. Here is a quick guide on what you’ll need to do. \r\n\r\n<h2>What are educational blogs?</h2>\r\n\r\nEducation blogs are designed to be used as a platform for educating for teachers or homeschool parents. They typically stay up to date on the current news about the state of education and some include online courses or tutoring opportunities. With so many niches, it’s easy to hit a multitude of topics and a huge market. You are best to narrow down your focus as to reach a more specific target demographic. \r\n\r\n<h2>What are the different types of education blogs?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Blog-about-Education.jpg\" alt=\"Blog about Education\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9263\" />You can go a few different ways with your education blog. You can make it a straight up tutoring blog for those that want to sign up for help or those that want to sign up to be paid tutors from those that need the help. You could make an education blog containing lesson plans or you could start one to train adults. Perhaps you want to start an education blog intended to be an advice guide on how to do well in school or get into college, or you’d like to be a review blog about educational products and curriculum.\r\n\r\nYou could also make your blog a resource for teachers and families to keep students and parents updated by the teachers. The blog could be a resource for information on technology in education or a blog about computer programs for education.\r\n\r\n<h2>Target audience and building traffic</h2>\r\n\r\nYou’ll want to determine your target audience for your education blog. In a regular blog, you’d choose your target audience by appealing to their interests and informing them on your industry. With an education blog, you’ll want to target people that are looking for an education, parents that want information on education or parents that are trying to improve their children’s education.  \r\n\r\nYou can build traffic by reaching out to parenting communities and informing them of what your blog can offer or you could visit online forums to inform your target audience about it as long as you don’t appear to be spammy. You could try advertising based on keywords in your niche by thinking about who might want to read your blog. Talk to influencers of organizations and schools that might want to review your blog and share it on social media. Try guest posting on another education blog as another way to get noticed as an authority in the industry. \r\n\r\n<h2>Can it make money?</h2>\r\n\r\nYou can make your education blog a profitable one by putting ads up, selling something, or getting donations. Just be sure that any ads you put up reflect your mission. With ads, you could use Google AdSense to place ads on your blog after you have told it what you will and won’t allow on your site. You won’t start making money until you hit a lot of traffic though. Consider banner ads that advertise local businesses that purchase a space on your page which gives you more control of what is advertised. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Education-Blogging.jpg\" alt=\"Education Blogging\" width=\"254\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9264\" />Another way to profit is through donations, sponsorships, grants and fundraisers. Add a donation button on your blog that your visitors can access. For blogs that offer free value to the education community, sponsorship from businesses and organizations is a possibility. \r\n\r\nRaise money through grants and fundraisers in the local community if you think your blog is really adding value to the community. If you have an educational product or service to sell like SAT study guides and lesson planning pages for teachers, this is an easy route to make some extra cash. \r\n\r\nThe best way to run an education blog is to stand out from the crowd through a creative approach, show an understanding for your audience, put in the effort and show your determination. 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You may be thinking about starting one since supplementary education services making big money. The education industry is a huge money maker worth over $19 billion with up to 74 million students attending school up to 12th grade in the US. With education being a huge industry for the young and for working professionals, it seems like an obvious way to blog to a huge market. \r\n\r\nPlus, education is huge around the globe. You can create an education blog with the proper knowledge on what to include, how to target your audience and how to build your traffic. Here is a quick guide on what you’ll need to do. \r\n\r\n<h2>What are educational blogs?</h2>\r\n\r\nEducation blogs are designed to be used as a platform for educating for teachers or homeschool parents. They typically stay up to date on the current news about the state of education and some include online courses or tutoring opportunities. With so many niches, it’s easy to hit a multitude of topics and a huge market. You are best to narrow down your focus as to reach a more specific target demographic. \r\n\r\n<h2>What are the different types of education blogs?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Blog-about-Education.jpg\" alt=\"Blog about Education\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9263\" />You can go a few different ways with your education blog. You can make it a straight up tutoring blog for those that want to sign up for help or those that want to sign up to be paid tutors from those that need the help. You could make an education blog containing lesson plans or you could start one to train adults. Perhaps you want to start an education blog intended to be an advice guide on how to do well in school or get into college, or you’d like to be a review blog about educational products and curriculum.\r\n\r\nYou could also make your blog a resource for teachers and families to keep students and parents updated by the teachers. The blog could be a resource for information on technology in education or a blog about computer programs for education.\r\n\r\n<h2>Target audience and building traffic</h2>\r\n\r\nYou’ll want to determine your target audience for your education blog. In a regular blog, you’d choose your target audience by appealing to their interests and informing them on your industry. With an education blog, you’ll want to target people that are looking for an education, parents that want information on education or parents that are trying to improve their children’s education.  \r\n\r\nYou can build traffic by reaching out to parenting communities and informing them of what your blog can offer or you could visit online forums to inform your target audience about it as long as you don’t appear to be spammy. You could try advertising based on keywords in your niche by thinking about who might want to read your blog. Talk to influencers of organizations and schools that might want to review your blog and share it on social media. Try guest posting on another education blog as another way to get noticed as an authority in the industry. \r\n\r\n<h2>Can it make money?</h2>\r\n\r\nYou can make your education blog a profitable one by putting ads up, selling something, or getting donations. Just be sure that any ads you put up reflect your mission. With ads, you could use Google AdSense to place ads on your blog after you have told it what you will and won’t allow on your site. You won’t start making money until you hit a lot of traffic though. Consider banner ads that advertise local businesses that purchase a space on your page which gives you more control of what is advertised. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Education-Blogging.jpg\" alt=\"Education Blogging\" width=\"254\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9264\" />Another way to profit is through donations, sponsorships, grants and fundraisers. Add a donation button on your blog that your visitors can access. For blogs that offer free value to the education community, sponsorship from businesses and organizations is a possibility. \r\n\r\nRaise money through grants and fundraisers in the local community if you think your blog is really adding value to the community. If you have an educational product or service to sell like SAT study guides and lesson planning pages for teachers, this is an easy route to make some extra cash. \r\n\r\nThe best way to run an education blog is to stand out from the crowd through a creative approach, show an understanding for your audience, put in the effort and show your determination. 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Guest posting introduces your work to an audience you may not have reached otherwise which will lead to an increase in your traffic and potential customers. Here is a look at how this powerful tool will help you more than you think. \r\n\r\n<h2>What exactly is guest posting?</h2>\r\n\r\nGuest posting refers to writing content that will be featured on another blog or website other than your own. This is typically done for free in order to be featured on a high profile blog or website in your niche. In return for your free work, you will be associated with a high authority website which will make you appear as an authority in the industry. It’s the perfect way to get qualified traffic to check out your website after reading something you’ve contributed by including backlinks throughout the post or within the author byline. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why is this a powerful strategy?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Guest-Posting.jpg\" alt=\"Guest Posting\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9270\" />People utilize guest posting as a strategy to increase their own traffic and ranking. It allows you to generate more subscribers and it’s costing you nothing but the time and energy you’ve put into coming up with quality content. As long as the blogger posts on a website that overlaps with the same ideal audience, the strategy is a great tool to leading potential readers to your website. Gaining new traffic could mean an increase in your following and profits. \r\n\r\n<h2>What strategies can I use to be successful? </h2>\r\n\r\nIt’s important to start by defining your goals so that you can get the right results out of the experience. Consider if your objective is to generate more traffic to your website, to build authority and your name to be known in the niche, or if the primary goal is to build high-quality backlinks for search engine rankings. \r\n\r\nYour plan should then follow by building an online persona so that when traffic is ready to check out more on your work, there is something to check out. Then, you should identify blogging opportunities and starting reaching out. You’ll need sites that have a sizeable audience that overlap with your niche and you can usually find these by doing a Google search of “guest blogging” and the title of your niche. You can reach out by submitting a post or ideas to any blog you’re interest in but be sure to follow their guidelines to avoid being rejected immediately. If you can find out who is in charge of editing or managing content, you might have a more direct route to get your chance at guest blogging. \r\n\r\n<h2>Create a great post</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Guest-Blog-Post.jpg\" alt=\"Guest Blog Post\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9268\" />Once you’ve got the gig, it’s time to write an amazing piece of work. Treat it as your best post yet because this is not the time to save your better work for later. You want to attract your audience and potentially be invited back so make sure your work makes a great impression. This is the opportunity to connect with an audience and send your best work rather than your secondary content. \r\n\r\nYou can continue to reach out for guest posting opportunities time and time again if you want a free way to reach more potential followers. 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Guest posting is a way for you to write content that will be featured on other peoples’ blogs and websites in the hopes of driving traffic to your site. \r\n\r\nWhile you may think that you are providing quality content for free and that it would be a waste of your resources, it’s actually an investment worth making. Guest posting introduces your work to an audience you may not have reached otherwise which will lead to an increase in your traffic and potential customers. Here is a look at how this powerful tool will help you more than you think. \r\n\r\n<h2>What exactly is guest posting?</h2>\r\n\r\nGuest posting refers to writing content that will be featured on another blog or website other than your own. This is typically done for free in order to be featured on a high profile blog or website in your niche. In return for your free work, you will be associated with a high authority website which will make you appear as an authority in the industry. It’s the perfect way to get qualified traffic to check out your website after reading something you’ve contributed by including backlinks throughout the post or within the author byline. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why is this a powerful strategy?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Guest-Posting.jpg\" alt=\"Guest Posting\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9270\" />People utilize guest posting as a strategy to increase their own traffic and ranking. It allows you to generate more subscribers and it’s costing you nothing but the time and energy you’ve put into coming up with quality content. As long as the blogger posts on a website that overlaps with the same ideal audience, the strategy is a great tool to leading potential readers to your website. Gaining new traffic could mean an increase in your following and profits. \r\n\r\n<h2>What strategies can I use to be successful? </h2>\r\n\r\nIt’s important to start by defining your goals so that you can get the right results out of the experience. Consider if your objective is to generate more traffic to your website, to build authority and your name to be known in the niche, or if the primary goal is to build high-quality backlinks for search engine rankings. \r\n\r\nYour plan should then follow by building an online persona so that when traffic is ready to check out more on your work, there is something to check out. Then, you should identify blogging opportunities and starting reaching out. You’ll need sites that have a sizeable audience that overlap with your niche and you can usually find these by doing a Google search of “guest blogging” and the title of your niche. You can reach out by submitting a post or ideas to any blog you’re interest in but be sure to follow their guidelines to avoid being rejected immediately. If you can find out who is in charge of editing or managing content, you might have a more direct route to get your chance at guest blogging. \r\n\r\n<h2>Create a great post</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Guest-Blog-Post.jpg\" alt=\"Guest Blog Post\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9268\" />Once you’ve got the gig, it’s time to write an amazing piece of work. Treat it as your best post yet because this is not the time to save your better work for later. You want to attract your audience and potentially be invited back so make sure your work makes a great impression. This is the opportunity to connect with an audience and send your best work rather than your secondary content. \r\n\r\nYou can continue to reach out for guest posting opportunities time and time again if you want a free way to reach more potential followers. Approach guest posting in this way and you could have an easy way to get your name out there. \r\n','Can you Boost Traffic and Ranking with Guest Posting?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9267-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 21:02:18','2015-11-21 02:02:18','',9267,'https://itxdesign.com/9267-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9272,4,'2015-11-24 09:02:39','2015-11-24 14:02:39','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Fashion-Store.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Fashion Store\" width=\"269\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9273\" />Running a fashion store online is a great opportunity to sell great products and reach a huge customer base compared to running a brick and mortar location. You can start a fashion right on WordPress and join the multi-million industry of online fashion retailers. \r\n\r\nIf you have a great idea for a fashion store and need to know the ins and outs of how to start one, you can do so easily through your very own WordPress site. Here is a look at how you should start one, what it should look like, and which plugins you’ll definitely want to consider adding to it. \r\n\r\n<h2>Where to begin</h2>\r\n\r\nWhen you’ve decided to take the plunge, you can look at popular and successful fashion stores that have launched before you for ideas. Farfetch is one fashion retailer that has really figured out how to be super successful as can be seen through their value reaching the “billion” mark this year. \r\n\r\nThey aren’t on WordPress but many successful WordPress fashion stores have taken their lead with ideas such as making one or two models the largest thing you see on their homepage, making the brand name small but clearly found and making the browsing options subtle and out of focus. \r\n\r\nThe viewer is so focused on the products, the people modelling the merchandise beautifully, and making the main banner in focus changing with new images every few seconds. Big sales are promoted over the main image front and center as well. \r\n\r\nThe key ingredients include:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Minimalism and no clutter whatsoever</li>\r\n<li>Multiple menu formats for customizability</li>\r\n<li>Easy check-out pages</li>\r\n<li>A great visual feel on the landing page</li>\r\n<li>Compatibility to eCommerce plugins and payment methods</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nDecide if your site is going to be for selling products or if you prefer to make it more about blogging because a good fashion retail theme can create a powerful blog while not compromising your website’s ability to sell products. \r\n\r\n<h2>What hosting should I use?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Plugins-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Plugins\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9275\" />You’ll want to get the right plugins for your site and definitely choose the right hosting. ITX Design provides the best hosting service for your new store. When you choose ITX Design, you are trusting your WordPress Fashion store to one of the top hosting choices in the industry. Plugins are not only needed but they will be really useful to you. Then, choose search engine optimization tools like WP Rocket or Yoast SEO to help you out. \r\n\r\n<h2>The real challenge</h2>\r\n\r\nWhile setting up a fashion site may seem challenging, the real challenge comes with trying to stand out in the fashion industry. You need to know how the business works and how to build a great brand. Make sure you do a lot of research and following up on the fashion industry, make a killer blog, figure out the best marketing strategies and develop a community. The most successful online fashion retailers see success because of their blog revenue and site traffic. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Fashion-Website-Guide.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Fashion Website Guide\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9274\" />Sometimes people buy clothes and fashion products because want to feel approval from others rather than it being something they actually like. Fashion can be a way that people perceive you so people want advice on how to dress and to be told what everyone should be wearing next. When people want to associate your brand as something they should associate their own identities with, you gain a good reputation and more power. Having a unique and genuine story to convey will make you stand out from others as well. \r\n\r\nConsider these tips for starting a fashion store online and make it easily through WordPress. 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You can start a fashion right on WordPress and join the multi-million industry of online fashion retailers. \r\n\r\nIf you have a great idea for a fashion store and need to know the ins and outs of how to start one, you can do so easily through your very own WordPress site. Here is a look at how you should start one, what it should look like, and which plugins you’ll definitely want to consider adding to it. \r\n\r\n<h2>Where to begin</h2>\r\n\r\nWhen you’ve decided to take the plunge, you can look at popular and successful fashion stores that have launched before you for ideas. Farfetch is one fashion retailer that has really figured out how to be super successful as can be seen through their value reaching the “billion” mark this year. \r\n\r\nThey aren’t on WordPress but many successful WordPress fashion stores have taken their lead with ideas such as making one or two models the largest thing you see on their homepage, making the brand name small but clearly found and making the browsing options subtle and out of focus. \r\n\r\nThe viewer is so focused on the products, the people modelling the merchandise beautifully, and making the main banner in focus changing with new images every few seconds. Big sales are promoted over the main image front and center as well. \r\n\r\nThe key ingredients include:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Minimalism and no clutter whatsoever</li>\r\n<li>Multiple menu formats for customizability</li>\r\n<li>Easy check-out pages</li>\r\n<li>A great visual feel on the landing page</li>\r\n<li>Compatibility to eCommerce plugins and payment methods</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nDecide if your site is going to be for selling products or if you prefer to make it more about blogging because a good fashion retail theme can create a powerful blog while not compromising your website’s ability to sell products. \r\n\r\n<h2>What hosting should I use?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Plugins-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Plugins\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9275\" />You’ll want to get the right plugins for your site and definitely choose the right hosting. ITX Design provides the best hosting service for your new store. When you choose ITX Design, you are trusting your WordPress Fashion store to one of the top hosting choices in the industry. Plugins are not only needed but they will be really useful to you. Then, choose search engine optimization tools like WP Rocket or Yoast SEO to help you out. \r\n\r\n<h2>The real challenge</h2>\r\n\r\nWhile setting up a fashion site may seem challenging, the real challenge comes with trying to stand out in the fashion industry. You need to know how the business works and how to build a great brand. Make sure you do a lot of research and following up on the fashion industry, make a killer blog, figure out the best marketing strategies and develop a community. The most successful online fashion retailers see success because of their blog revenue and site traffic. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Fashion-Website-Guide.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Fashion Website Guide\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9274\" />Sometimes people buy clothes and fashion products because want to feel approval from others rather than it being something they actually like. Fashion can be a way that people perceive you so people want advice on how to dress and to be told what everyone should be wearing next. When people want to associate your brand as something they should associate their own identities with, you gain a good reputation and more power. Having a unique and genuine story to convey will make you stand out from others as well. \r\n\r\nConsider these tips for starting a fashion store online and make it easily through WordPress. Then, figure out how to make yourself stand out from the rest. \r\n\r\n\r\n','A Quick Guide to Starting a Fashion Store with WordPress','','inherit','closed','closed','','9272-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 21:08:18','2015-11-21 02:08:18','',9272,'https://itxdesign.com/9272-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9277,4,'2015-11-24 18:08:44','2015-11-24 23:08:44','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Monetize-a-WordPress-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"Monetize a WordPress Blog\" width=\"237\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9279\" />Most people treat their blog as a source of income but it can be challenging to make money from blogs with so much competition to get noticed. Anyone with an internet connection can create a blog which makes it more challenging to beat others in search rankings and build your following. Earning a living online is challenging but it can be done. \r\n\r\nSometimes you have to resort to multiple sources of income to make a living wage from your online businesses and now there are some creative ways to make your blog more profitable. It’s not enough to simply get clicks; you need to keep your readers interested to monetize your traffic. From writing an Ebook to selling email promotions, here is a look at creative ways to make money from your WordPress blog that you may not have thought of before. \r\n\r\n<h2>Online coaching services or online courses</h2>\r\n\r\nOne route to make money from your blog is to offer online coaching services or online courses. Coaching is a lucrative business of any kind because you can charge up to $100 per hour for your coaching services. Coaching gives you a chance to create bonds with students, build your reputation as an authority on a topic, and you can understand more deeply your audience’s biggest needs. Plus, after some time you can take a break from coaching or raise your rates. You can do this over the phone and plan to do some research before speaking again to help them solve their problems. \r\n\r\nCreating an online course is a great way to make money because you can sell them to people that need their hand held through the process, trust your knowledge enough to buy it, want more access to you, and want the results of the teaching faster. You’ll just need to make sure you provide logical steps to achieve the objectives, have them take action through downloading worksheets, incorporate videos, and provide the information orally and visually. \r\n\r\n<h2>Write an Ebook</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Blog-Monetization.jpg\" alt=\"Blog Monetization\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9278\" />Perhaps you have enough information to share with the world that requires an Ebook to have a place to say it all. This is an easy way to make money because you only create the book one time and it doesn’t cost you anything to do it, you are sharing knowledge you’ve already acquired, and you can sell them on multiple platforms like Amazon. \r\n\r\nYou’ll build your authority and your Ebook will give you a passive income. Just choose a topic, create an outline, block out time daily to write, transfer it to an ebook template and design or photoshop your cover to a 3D ebook image. Promote the ebook and you’ll be making money on a regular basis for work that is already done. \r\n\r\n<h2>Promote affiliate products</h2>\r\n\r\nWhen you recommend products online, you tell your audience why they need something in their life that relates to your niche. This is an easy way to work with an affiliate to promote products you already like to get others to buy it and receive a commission. Do you have current content where you’ve mentioned a product or service that you could add an affiliate’s page? Start finding opportunities for products you use or want to use and go from there. When you use a product, promote it, and work with sites that sell it, you can receive income for mentioning it and referring your audience to buy it too. \r\n\r\n<h2>Selling email promotions</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Blog\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9280\" />Maybe you’d like to try selling email promotions. With a nice size email list, you can work with that traffic anytime you’d like under your control. Offer to promote others’ content to your email list for a fee. Filter the content to make sure it’s the best quality for your readers. Warn subscribers that you’ll be promoting other people’s posts so that they feel a sense of transparency and then list it as your sponsored blog post. You’ll be helping other bloggers get their name out there while giving your audience even more content to enjoy. \r\n\r\nLastly, consider adding a membership area to your blog where members get premium content for their monthly fee, start a private form, host surveys from other websites, or start selling your own physical products. These are great ways to add income along with your advertising space that will allow your blog to make a profit in multiple ways. \r\n\r\nImplement these changes slowly but surely and your viewers won’t even notice that their visits are making you a profit; they will simply view it as more ways that you are helping your visitors through your blog’s content, advertisements, coaching possibilities, ebooks, online courses, and great new products for sale. \r\n\r\n','Creative Ways to Monetize your WordPress Blog','','publish','open','closed','','creative-ways-to-monetize-your-wordpress-blog','','','2015-11-20 21:12:15','2015-11-21 02:12:15','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9277',0,'post','',0),(9278,4,'2015-11-20 21:11:25','2015-11-21 02:11:25','','Blog Monetization','','inherit','open','closed','','blog-monetization','','','2015-11-20 21:11:44','2015-11-21 02:11:44','',9277,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Blog-Monetization.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9279,4,'2015-11-20 21:11:25','2015-11-21 02:11:25','','Monetize a WordPress Blog','','inherit','open','closed','','monetize-a-wordpress-blog','','','2015-11-20 21:11:32','2015-11-21 02:11:32','',9277,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Monetize-a-WordPress-Blog.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9280,4,'2015-11-20 21:11:26','2015-11-21 02:11:26','','WordPress Blog','','inherit','open','closed','','wordpress-blog-3','','','2015-11-20 21:11:54','2015-11-21 02:11:54','',9277,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Blog.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9281,4,'2015-11-20 21:12:00','2015-11-21 02:12:00','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Monetize-a-WordPress-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"Monetize a WordPress Blog\" width=\"237\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9279\" />Most people treat their blog as a source of income but it can be challenging to make money from blogs with so much competition to get noticed. Anyone with an internet connection can create a blog which makes it more challenging to beat others in search rankings and build your following. Earning a living online is challenging but it can be done. \r\n\r\nSometimes you have to resort to multiple sources of income to make a living wage from your online businesses and now there are some creative ways to make your blog more profitable. It’s not enough to simply get clicks; you need to keep your readers interested to monetize your traffic. From writing an Ebook to selling email promotions, here is a look at creative ways to make money from your WordPress blog that you may not have thought of before. \r\n\r\n<h2>Online coaching services or online courses</h2>\r\n\r\nOne route to make money from your blog is to offer online coaching services or online courses. Coaching is a lucrative business of any kind because you can charge up to $100 per hour for your coaching services. Coaching gives you a chance to create bonds with students, build your reputation as an authority on a topic, and you can understand more deeply your audience’s biggest needs. Plus, after some time you can take a break from coaching or raise your rates. You can do this over the phone and plan to do some research before speaking again to help them solve their problems. \r\n\r\nCreating an online course is a great way to make money because you can sell them to people that need their hand held through the process, trust your knowledge enough to buy it, want more access to you, and want the results of the teaching faster. You’ll just need to make sure you provide logical steps to achieve the objectives, have them take action through downloading worksheets, incorporate videos, and provide the information orally and visually. \r\n\r\n<h2>Write an Ebook</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Blog-Monetization.jpg\" alt=\"Blog Monetization\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9278\" />Perhaps you have enough information to share with the world that requires an Ebook to have a place to say it all. This is an easy way to make money because you only create the book one time and it doesn’t cost you anything to do it, you are sharing knowledge you’ve already acquired, and you can sell them on multiple platforms like Amazon. \r\n\r\nYou’ll build your authority and your Ebook will give you a passive income. Just choose a topic, create an outline, block out time daily to write, transfer it to an ebook template and design or photoshop your cover to a 3D ebook image. Promote the ebook and you’ll be making money on a regular basis for work that is already done. \r\n\r\n<h2>Promote affiliate products</h2>\r\n\r\nWhen you recommend products online, you tell your audience why they need something in their life that relates to your niche. This is an easy way to work with an affiliate to promote products you already like to get others to buy it and receive a commission. Do you have current content where you’ve mentioned a product or service that you could add an affiliate’s page? Start finding opportunities for products you use or want to use and go from there. When you use a product, promote it, and work with sites that sell it, you can receive income for mentioning it and referring your audience to buy it too. \r\n\r\n<h2>Selling email promotions</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WordPress-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Blog\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9280\" />Maybe you’d like to try selling email promotions. With a nice size email list, you can work with that traffic anytime you’d like under your control. Offer to promote others’ content to your email list for a fee. Filter the content to make sure it’s the best quality for your readers. Warn subscribers that you’ll be promoting other people’s posts so that they feel a sense of transparency and then list it as your sponsored blog post. You’ll be helping other bloggers get their name out there while giving your audience even more content to enjoy. \r\n\r\nLastly, consider adding a membership area to your blog where members get premium content for their monthly fee, start a private form, host surveys from other websites, or start selling your own physical products. These are great ways to add income along with your advertising space that will allow your blog to make a profit in multiple ways. \r\n\r\nImplement these changes slowly but surely and your viewers won’t even notice that their visits are making you a profit; they will simply view it as more ways that you are helping your visitors through your blog’s content, advertisements, coaching possibilities, ebooks, online courses, and great new products for sale. \r\n\r\n','Creative Ways to Monetize your WordPress Blog','','inherit','closed','closed','','9277-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 21:12:00','2015-11-21 02:12:00','',9277,'https://itxdesign.com/9277-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9282,4,'2015-01-15 18:53:30','2015-01-15 23:53:30','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Slack.png\" alt=\"Slack\" width=\"128\" height=\"67\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9283\" />Slack, the popular WordPress app, is becoming a great source for productivity boosting. It has over 80 integrations for services like Google Drive, Trello, and GitHub, and now you can use these integrations to become a more productive person at work. \r\n\r\nSlack is used for chatting, searching, user groups, and third party integrations so it’s becoming an easy way to manage your calendar, communicate quickly through social media, and so much more. Get Slack and your work day will become simply, efficient, and way more fun. \r\n\r\n<h2>What can Slack do for me?</h2>\r\n\r\nSlack offers chat options to send instant messages to individuals, private groups, and public channels while the search feature lets you easily find chats, messages and the history of your channels to be able to access. Integrating with other services that businesses are using on a regular basis is becoming one of the most important features of the app because teams can more easily communicate. \r\n\r\nYou can improve your workflow by using WordPress and Slack together because the integration posts WordPress notifications to your Slack channels for improving team collaboration. With a remote team or multi-author site, communication just improved immensely making the work way easier to accomplish. \r\n\r\n<h2>Which productivity interactions should I use on Slack?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SlackApp.png\" alt=\"SlackApp\" width=\"745\" height=\"359\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9284\" />\r\n\r\nStart with the Google Calendar + Slack integration. Since your business already uses calendar events on Slack, you can automate your workflow by bringing your Slack and Google Calendar together. Post an event to your calendar in Slack or post project deadline reminders on Google Calendar and they will be integrated together. \r\n\r\nThen, check out how your social media accounts just simplified. When you use Twitter to respond to clients, Slack can now post tweets at you or about you into a Slack channel. Now you can finally track every mention and communicate with your staff on how you should respond. The Twitter + Slack integration is a win. \r\n\r\n<h2>Other great integrations</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SlackforProductivity.png\" alt=\"Slack for Productivity\" width=\"152\" height=\"104\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9285\" />Check out project management services like the Trello with Slack integration. It’s great for organizing and managing project tasks, keep track of changes on cards in large projects, and staying up to date on changes that need addressed. With this integration, communication and efficiency are even smoother. Try the Asana with Slack integration or Blossom with Slack integration for even more great features like organizing team’s conversations or getting notifications on task comments. \r\n\r\nFor file sharing, you can now use Google Drive + Slack and you team can more easily collaborate through the file sharing system. Dropbox and Slack have teamed up as well to share files even better than before. \r\n\r\nCheck out integrations such as:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Mention with Slack for improving communication and productivity for your team</li>\r\n<li>Hubot + Slack for alerts and fun polls that will streamline work in a creative way</li>\r\n<li>Google Hangouts + Slack to make conversations even easier</li>\r\n<li>Help Scout + Slack will notify you of conversations replies when you need help in your customer support area</li>\r\n<li>GoSquared + Slack is perfect for your analytics and performance needs</li>\r\n</ul>	\r\nIf you’re looking for ways to make the workflow a little smoother and more efficient for your team, these Slack interactions are the perfect solutions for productivity hacks. \r\n','How can you use Slack Interactions to Become More Productive?','','publish','open','closed','','how-can-you-use-slack-interactions-to-become-more-productive','','','2016-01-15 18:52:38','2016-01-15 23:52:38','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9282',0,'post','',0),(9283,4,'2015-11-20 21:16:23','2015-11-21 02:16:23','','Slack','','inherit','open','closed','','slack','','','2015-11-20 21:16:28','2015-11-21 02:16:28','',9282,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Slack.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9284,4,'2015-11-20 21:16:23','2015-11-21 02:16:23','','SlackApp','','inherit','open','closed','','slackapp','','','2015-11-20 21:16:35','2015-11-21 02:16:35','',9282,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SlackApp.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9285,4,'2015-11-20 21:16:24','2015-11-21 02:16:24','','Slack for Productivity','','inherit','open','closed','','slackforproductivity','','','2015-11-20 21:16:50','2015-11-21 02:16:50','',9282,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SlackforProductivity.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9286,4,'2015-11-20 21:16:58','2015-11-21 02:16:58','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Slack.png\" alt=\"Slack\" width=\"128\" height=\"67\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9283\" />Slack, the popular WordPress app, is becoming a great source for productivity boosting. It has over 80 integrations for services like Google Drive, Trello, and GitHub, and now you can use these integrations to become a more productive person at work. \r\n\r\nSlack is used for chatting, searching, user groups, and third party integrations so it’s becoming an easy way to manage your calendar, communicate quickly through social media, and so much more. Get Slack and your work day will become simply, efficient, and way more fun. \r\n\r\n<h2>What can Slack do for me?</h2>\r\n\r\nSlack offers chat options to send instant messages to individuals, private groups, and public channels while the search feature lets you easily find chats, messages and the history of your channels to be able to access. Integrating with other services that businesses are using on a regular basis is becoming one of the most important features of the app because teams can more easily communicate. \r\n\r\nYou can improve your workflow by using WordPress and Slack together because the integration posts WordPress notifications to your Slack channels for improving team collaboration. With a remote team or multi-author site, communication just improved immensely making the work way easier to accomplish. \r\n\r\n<h2>Which productivity interactions should I use on Slack?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SlackApp-300x145.png\" alt=\"SlackApp\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9284\" />\r\n\r\nStart with the Google Calendar + Slack integration. Since your business already uses calendar events on Slack, you can automate your workflow by bringing your Slack and Google Calendar together. Post an event to your calendar in Slack or post project deadline reminders on Google Calendar and they will be integrated together. \r\n\r\nThen, check out how your social media accounts just simplified. When you use Twitter to respond to clients, Slack can now post tweets at you or about you into a Slack channel. Now you can finally track every mention and communicate with your staff on how you should respond. The Twitter + Slack integration is a win. \r\n\r\n<h2>Other great integrations</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SlackforProductivity.png\" alt=\"Slack for Productivity\" width=\"152\" height=\"104\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9285\" />Check out project management services like the Trello with Slack integration. It’s great for organizing and managing project tasks, keep track of changes on cards in large projects, and staying up to date on changes that need addressed. With this integration, communication and efficiency are even smoother. Try the Asana with Slack integration or Blossom with Slack integration for even more great features like organizing team’s conversations or getting notifications on task comments. \r\n\r\nFor file sharing, you can now use Google Drive + Slack and you team can more easily collaborate through the file sharing system. Dropbox and Slack have teamed up as well to share files even better than before. \r\n\r\nCheck out integrations such as:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Mention with Slack for improving communication and productivity for your team</li>\r\n<li>Hubot + Slack for alerts and fun polls that will streamline work in a creative way</li>\r\n<li>Google Hangouts + Slack to make conversations even easier</li>\r\n<li>Help Scout + Slack will notify you of conversations replies when you need help in your customer support area</li>\r\n<li>GoSquared + Slack is perfect for your analytics and performance needs</li>\r\n</ul>	\r\nIf you’re looking for ways to make the workflow a little smoother and more efficient for your team, these Slack interactions are the perfect solutions for productivity hacks. \r\n','How can you use Slack Interactions to Become More Productive?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9282-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 21:16:58','2015-11-21 02:16:58','',9282,'https://itxdesign.com/9282-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9287,4,'2015-11-20 21:17:25','2015-11-21 02:17:25','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Slack.png\" alt=\"Slack\" width=\"128\" height=\"67\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9283\" />Slack, the popular WordPress app, is becoming a great source for productivity boosting. It has over 80 integrations for services like Google Drive, Trello, and GitHub, and now you can use these integrations to become a more productive person at work. \r\n\r\nSlack is used for chatting, searching, user groups, and third party integrations so it’s becoming an easy way to manage your calendar, communicate quickly through social media, and so much more. Get Slack and your work day will become simply, efficient, and way more fun. \r\n\r\n<h2>What can Slack do for me?</h2>\r\n\r\nSlack offers chat options to send instant messages to individuals, private groups, and public channels while the search feature lets you easily find chats, messages and the history of your channels to be able to access. Integrating with other services that businesses are using on a regular basis is becoming one of the most important features of the app because teams can more easily communicate. \r\n\r\nYou can improve your workflow by using WordPress and Slack together because the integration posts WordPress notifications to your Slack channels for improving team collaboration. With a remote team or multi-author site, communication just improved immensely making the work way easier to accomplish. \r\n\r\n<h2>Which productivity interactions should I use on Slack?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SlackApp.png\" alt=\"SlackApp\" width=\"745\" height=\"359\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9284\" />\r\n\r\nStart with the Google Calendar + Slack integration. Since your business already uses calendar events on Slack, you can automate your workflow by bringing your Slack and Google Calendar together. Post an event to your calendar in Slack or post project deadline reminders on Google Calendar and they will be integrated together. \r\n\r\nThen, check out how your social media accounts just simplified. When you use Twitter to respond to clients, Slack can now post tweets at you or about you into a Slack channel. Now you can finally track every mention and communicate with your staff on how you should respond. The Twitter + Slack integration is a win. \r\n\r\n<h2>Other great integrations</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SlackforProductivity.png\" alt=\"Slack for Productivity\" width=\"152\" height=\"104\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9285\" />Check out project management services like the Trello with Slack integration. It’s great for organizing and managing project tasks, keep track of changes on cards in large projects, and staying up to date on changes that need addressed. With this integration, communication and efficiency are even smoother. Try the Asana with Slack integration or Blossom with Slack integration for even more great features like organizing team’s conversations or getting notifications on task comments. \r\n\r\nFor file sharing, you can now use Google Drive + Slack and you team can more easily collaborate through the file sharing system. Dropbox and Slack have teamed up as well to share files even better than before. \r\n\r\nCheck out integrations such as:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Mention with Slack for improving communication and productivity for your team</li>\r\n<li>Hubot + Slack for alerts and fun polls that will streamline work in a creative way</li>\r\n<li>Google Hangouts + Slack to make conversations even easier</li>\r\n<li>Help Scout + Slack will notify you of conversations replies when you need help in your customer support area</li>\r\n<li>GoSquared + Slack is perfect for your analytics and performance needs</li>\r\n</ul>	\r\nIf you’re looking for ways to make the workflow a little smoother and more efficient for your team, these Slack interactions are the perfect solutions for productivity hacks. \r\n','How can you use Slack Interactions to Become More Productive?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9282-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 21:17:25','2015-11-21 02:17:25','',9282,'https://itxdesign.com/9282-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9288,4,'2015-11-25 17:17:34','2015-11-25 22:17:34','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/New-Blog-Post-Idea.jpg\" alt=\"New Blog Post Idea\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9291\" />It’s time to work on that blog and you’re fresh out of ideas. Whether you haven’t updated in a few months or even a few years, you’ve probably already discussed all of your industry’s major talking points and everything your business has to offer. \r\n\r\nWhat more is there to say? If you haven’t covered frequently asked questions or repeated a topic all over again with a fresh set of eyes, it might be a great place to start. It can be difficult to maintain a blog because people start to run out of ideas and lose their creative abilities after feeling burnt out. Here are a few ways to get your blog back up and running with fresh ideas. \r\n\r\n<h2>Go through old posts and rewrite them</h2>\r\n\r\nIt is always a good idea to nix blog posts that flopped and promote the ones that seem to be readers’ favorites. When you have old posts that didn’t do so well, maybe it’s time to rewrite them. You could have a fresh take on the idea or there could have been updates in the industry on how this topic is viewed. It is a great place to start to clean up the blog, give you topic ideas, and to get the ball rolling. \r\n\r\n<h2>What’s going on in the news?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Blog-Post-Ideas.png\" alt=\"Blog Post Ideas\" width=\"241\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9289\" />Once you’ve cleaned up your old posts, you could start following your industry’s updates in the news to write about the hot topics being talked about. If you can find the right sources of updates and be one of the first ones to write about the story, you may rank higher in search rankings. Eventually, readers will realize that you are going to be a blog that has the latest news first and they’ll want to follow you for updates first. It will give you things to talk about on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis. \r\n\r\n<h2>What do people always ask you about?</h2>\r\n\r\nDo you get frequently asked questions on your website’s comments section, on social media, in your inbox, or face-to-face? It might be time to cover these questions in an explanatory blog post to help other readers get informed. You have be able to answer these questions less often when the information is out there and others may have had the same questions and didn’t know who to ask. This may be a great way to show you are an expert in the field. \r\n\r\n<h2>Stir up the creativity</h2>\r\n\r\nSometimes when you step away from the computer and start living life, creativity finds you when you least expect it. Most people notice their creativity and clearest thinking moments are when they aren’t distracted, whether that’s lying in bed before you fall asleep or in the shower when there is nothing to do but cleanse. When you are distracted by lights, sounds, people and multi-tasking, you tend to lose your ability to come up with new ideas. Your freshest ideas may come on an afternoon walk through the park or enjoying a long bath. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is the competition writing about?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Fresh-Blog-Post-Ideas.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh Blog Post Ideas\" width=\"273\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9290\" />If you’re not following your competitions’ work already, start doing so now. Look at what they are writing about to get new ideas for yourself. While you can’t copy their work, you can write about the same topics with your fresh take on the idea. You also may notice that something they write triggers your brain to think of something else you weren’t expecting to come up with. Use them as your own resources for ideas.\r\n\r\nWhen you find yourself in a creative rut, use these tips to get the creative juices flowing again. 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Whether you haven’t updated in a few months or even a few years, you’ve probably already discussed all of your industry’s major talking points and everything your business has to offer. \r\n\r\nWhat more is there to say? If you haven’t covered frequently asked questions or repeated a topic all over again with a fresh set of eyes, it might be a great place to start. It can be difficult to maintain a blog because people start to run out of ideas and lose their creative abilities after feeling burnt out. Here are a few ways to get your blog back up and running with fresh ideas. \r\n\r\n<h2>Go through old posts and rewrite them</h2>\r\n\r\nIt is always a good idea to nix blog posts that flopped and promote the ones that seem to be readers’ favorites. When you have old posts that didn’t do so well, maybe it’s time to rewrite them. You could have a fresh take on the idea or there could have been updates in the industry on how this topic is viewed. It is a great place to start to clean up the blog, give you topic ideas, and to get the ball rolling. \r\n\r\n<h2>What’s going on in the news?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Blog-Post-Ideas.png\" alt=\"Blog Post Ideas\" width=\"241\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9289\" />Once you’ve cleaned up your old posts, you could start following your industry’s updates in the news to write about the hot topics being talked about. If you can find the right sources of updates and be one of the first ones to write about the story, you may rank higher in search rankings. Eventually, readers will realize that you are going to be a blog that has the latest news first and they’ll want to follow you for updates first. It will give you things to talk about on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis. \r\n\r\n<h2>What do people always ask you about?</h2>\r\n\r\nDo you get frequently asked questions on your website’s comments section, on social media, in your inbox, or face-to-face? It might be time to cover these questions in an explanatory blog post to help other readers get informed. You have be able to answer these questions less often when the information is out there and others may have had the same questions and didn’t know who to ask. This may be a great way to show you are an expert in the field. \r\n\r\n<h2>Stir up the creativity</h2>\r\n\r\nSometimes when you step away from the computer and start living life, creativity finds you when you least expect it. Most people notice their creativity and clearest thinking moments are when they aren’t distracted, whether that’s lying in bed before you fall asleep or in the shower when there is nothing to do but cleanse. When you are distracted by lights, sounds, people and multi-tasking, you tend to lose your ability to come up with new ideas. Your freshest ideas may come on an afternoon walk through the park or enjoying a long bath. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is the competition writing about?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Fresh-Blog-Post-Ideas.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh Blog Post Ideas\" width=\"273\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9290\" />If you’re not following your competitions’ work already, start doing so now. Look at what they are writing about to get new ideas for yourself. While you can’t copy their work, you can write about the same topics with your fresh take on the idea. You also may notice that something they write triggers your brain to think of something else you weren’t expecting to come up with. Use them as your own resources for ideas.\r\n\r\nWhen you find yourself in a creative rut, use these tips to get the creative juices flowing again. Always take a pad of paper with you wherever you go because you never know when something brilliant may pop in your mind. \r\n','Where can you Find Fresh Ideas for Your Blog Posts?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9288-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 21:20:54','2015-11-21 02:20:54','',9288,'https://itxdesign.com/9288-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9293,4,'2015-11-26 07:25:26','2015-11-26 12:25:26','When you’re trying to decide the best code editor to use for modifying your WordPress files, people typically tend to use plain text editors like Notepad. There are better editors out there though with features like advanced finding and replacing, syntax highlighting, and even FTP integration.\r\n\r\nFor Mac and Windows users, you need to know which code editors are going to be compatible and the best for you. Here is a look at the best ones to check out starting with the obvious Notepad all of the way to options you may not have realized like Sublime Text and BBEdit. \r\n\r\n<h2>Notepad</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/NotePad.png\" alt=\"NotePad\" width=\"699\" height=\"562\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9296\" />\r\n\r\nUse Notepad for a free and open source option for a code editor option in Windows. It’s something a beginner could easily use while an advanced user would still find highly powerful. You’ll have access to the built-in FTP plugin to connect to your server up to edit files without leaving the editor, as well as syntax highlighting in languages like HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS. \r\n\r\n<h2>Sublime Text</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Sublime-Text.png\" alt=\"Sublime Text\" width=\"1107\" height=\"605\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9297\" />\r\n\r\nSublime Text is a great choice if you need a cross-platform code editor for Windows and Mac. You’ll have powerful code features you’d expect along with advanced features like autofill, reference function in a file, autocomplete, and split editing. It has a great appearance and you’ll find it to be comfortable to use. \r\n\r\n<h2>TextMate</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/TextMate.jpg\" alt=\"TextMate\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9298\" />\r\n\r\nCheck out TextMate if you need something easy to use on Mac. It brings Apple’s approach to operating system into a text editor with easy clip board management, autocompleting, foldable code blocks and sophisticated find and replace. It is free to download but you may want the $60 version. \r\n\r\n<h2>Coda</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Coda.jpg\" alt=\"Coda\" width=\"586\" height=\"553\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9295\" />\r\n\r\nCoda is one of the most popular choices for Mac featuring an appealing interface, powerful features, and a great value. You’ll be able to manage projects, edit files, work on multiple files at once, and a built in debugger. Get it for $99 for a single license. \r\n\r\n<h2>BBEdit</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BBEdit.jpg\" alt=\"BBEdit\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9294\" />\r\n\r\nBBEdit is a great choice for Mac because of the hard-to-beat advanced features. You’ll get advanced find and replace, autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and splittable editing windows. Get it for just $49.99 along with a free trial version. \r\n\r\nAlso be sure to check out Brackets, CoffeeCup HTML Editor, Vim, UltraEdit, and Espresso. These are all the perfect solutions to your Windows or Mac code editor needs that will offer you more advanced options. \r\n','Which WordPress Code Editors are Best for Windows and Mac?','','publish','open','closed','','which-wordpress-code-editors-are-best-for-windows-and-mac','','','2015-11-20 21:27:41','2015-11-21 02:27:41','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9293',0,'post','',0),(9294,4,'2015-11-20 21:26:21','2015-11-21 02:26:21','','BBEdit','','inherit','open','closed','','bbedit','','','2015-11-20 21:27:16','2015-11-21 02:27:16','',9293,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BBEdit.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9295,4,'2015-11-20 21:26:21','2015-11-21 02:26:21','','Coda','','inherit','open','closed','','coda','','','2015-11-20 21:27:09','2015-11-21 02:27:09','',9293,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Coda.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9296,4,'2015-11-20 21:26:22','2015-11-21 02:26:22','','NotePad','','inherit','open','closed','','notepad','','','2015-11-20 21:26:50','2015-11-21 02:26:50','',9293,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/NotePad.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9297,4,'2015-11-20 21:26:22','2015-11-21 02:26:22','','Sublime Text','','inherit','open','closed','','sublime-text','','','2015-11-20 21:26:34','2015-11-21 02:26:34','',9293,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Sublime-Text.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9298,4,'2015-11-20 21:26:23','2015-11-21 02:26:23','','TextMate','','inherit','open','closed','','textmate','','','2015-11-20 21:27:01','2015-11-21 02:27:01','',9293,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/TextMate.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9299,4,'2015-11-20 21:27:20','2015-11-21 02:27:20','When you’re trying to decide the best code editor to use for modifying your WordPress files, people typically tend to use plain text editors like Notepad. There are better editors out there though with features like advanced finding and replacing, syntax highlighting, and even FTP integration.\r\n\r\nFor Mac and Windows users, you need to know which code editors are going to be compatible and the best for you. Here is a look at the best ones to check out starting with the obvious Notepad all of the way to options you may not have realized like Sublime Text and BBEdit. \r\n\r\n<h2>Notepad</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/NotePad.png\" alt=\"NotePad\" width=\"699\" height=\"562\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9296\" />\r\n\r\nUse Notepad for a free and open source option for a code editor option in Windows. It’s something a beginner could easily use while an advanced user would still find highly powerful. You’ll have access to the built-in FTP plugin to connect to your server up to edit files without leaving the editor, as well as syntax highlighting in languages like HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS. \r\n\r\n<h2>Sublime Text</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Sublime-Text.png\" alt=\"Sublime Text\" width=\"1107\" height=\"605\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9297\" />\r\n\r\nSublime Text is a great choice if you need a cross-platform code editor for Windows and Mac. You’ll have powerful code features you’d expect along with advanced features like autofill, reference function in a file, autocomplete, and split editing. It has a great appearance and you’ll find it to be comfortable to use. \r\n\r\n<h2>TextMate</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/TextMate.jpg\" alt=\"TextMate\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9298\" />\r\n\r\nCheck out TextMate if you need something easy to use on Mac. It brings Apple’s approach to operating system into a text editor with easy clip board management, autocompleting, foldable code blocks and sophisticated find and replace. It is free to download but you may want the $60 version. \r\n\r\n<h2>Coda</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Coda.jpg\" alt=\"Coda\" width=\"586\" height=\"553\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9295\" />\r\n\r\nCoda is one of the most popular choices for Mac featuring an appealing interface, powerful features, and a great value. You’ll be able to manage projects, edit files, work on multiple files at once, and a built in debugger. Get it for $99 for a single license. \r\n\r\n<h2>BBEdit</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BBEdit.jpg\" alt=\"BBEdit\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9294\" />\r\n\r\nBBEdit is a great choice for Mac because of the hard-to-beat advanced features. You’ll get advanced find and replace, autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and splittable editing windows. Get it for just $49.99 along with a free trial version. \r\n\r\nAlso be sure to check out Brackets, CoffeeCup HTML Editor, Vim, UltraEdit, and Espresso. These are all the perfect solutions to your Windows or Mac code editor needs that will offer you more advanced options. \r\n','Which WordPress Code Editors are Best for Windows and Mac?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9293-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 21:27:20','2015-11-21 02:27:20','',9293,'https://itxdesign.com/9293-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9300,4,'2015-11-26 20:27:52','2015-11-27 01:27:52','If you haven’t heard of the Smush Plugin in WordPress, this is a great tool for speeding up the site for you. It works as an image compression plugin and having the ability to compress images is a key component to making your site run faster. Obviously pages with many bulky, large images load slowly which is a huge problem for your bounce rate. \r\n\r\nYour search ranking is based on things like your site’s speed and mobile-friendliness so it’s of utter importance that you take every precaution to avoid errors like content that doesn’t load properly on phones or sites that load too slowly for users with limited time in their day to look at your blog. When you’re ready to make changes to increase your site for users, start with the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/\">WP Smush Plugin</a> to start with improving your speed. \r\n\r\n<h2>How does it work?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WP_Smush_Plugin.png\" alt=\"WP_Smush_Plugin\" width=\"719\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9302\" />\r\n\r\nThe image compression plugin works by minimizing redundancy and irrelevancy of an image’s data that wouldn’t really be perceptible to the human eye anyhow. You can store and convey your images much more efficiently just by simply taking advantage of this plugin. In addition, the plugin will work to reduce image sizes so that there is a balance between the highest image quality possible with the lowest possible file size. \r\n\r\nImage compression can take place through an algorithm of many varieties. The simplest one would be the run-length encoding which analyzes every image “bit” to locate a pattern. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why should I use image compression?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SmushingImages.png\" alt=\"Smushing Images\" width=\"533\" height=\"321\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9301\" />\r\n\r\nIt’s so important to have image compression because it can affect your mobile users, your conversion rates, your search engine rankings, and of course, your speed.  Websites tend to be too slow without it which affects people’s opinion of your site and their ability to access it on mobile. Your conversion rate is then affected and having a site without mobile ability or a fast speed will put you lower on Google’s search engine rankings system. \r\n\r\n<h2>Lossless and Lossy Compression</h2>\r\n\r\nYou may have heard these terms used in previous attempts at image compression tools but you may not know the difference. Lossless compression refers to the type of image compression in which every single bit of the image can be recovered after a file is uncompressed like a PNG. \r\n\r\nWP Smush offers several ways to take out every last byte from an image for the best possible lossless compression. A Loss compressions is going to work to permanently remove the data during compression which means that decompression will only restore part of the data. JPEG files typically use lossy compression.   \r\n\r\nThe differences between JPEGs, PNGs, and another option of GIFs, are:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>GIFs have small file sizes, a limited color palette, and support transparency mode, and their lossless compression doesn’t allow for much optimization</li>\r\n<li>PNGs have excellent image quality, full transparency support, and they provide lossless compression</li>\r\n<li>JPEGs display photographic images in a large range of colors and can go under heavy optimization due to lossy compression</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>How Smush is going to improve site time</h2>\r\n\r\nWhen you decide to get WP Smush, your site speed can improve due to its powerful functionality. Your image quality can be maintained in the process. There are a few ways that it will improve your site speed between the automated smushing, lossless compression, and bulk smushing. Through the automated route, you don’t have to know how to optimize an image because the smushing will happen for you with just a few clicks. \r\n\r\nThe plugin also has an advanced lossless compression technique to produce amazing results without compromising quality which can be done while you back up the originals. Bulk smushing comes in handy when you have several images stored on the server that are uncompressed because you can upload them in batches of 50 at a time to compress them. \r\n\r\n<h2>The regular plugin vs. the premium</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WPSmushPro.png\" alt=\"WP Smush Pro\" width=\"408\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9303\" />\r\n\r\nChoose between this regular plugin option or go for WP Smush Pro for a premium experience. The Pro version offers features like:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Smushing up to 32MB instead of just 1MB on the regular plugin</li>\r\n<li>Double the compression with the multi-pass lossy compression giving you 2 – 10 times more compression than lossless</li>\r\n<li>Bulk smushing in one click if you have way more than 50 images in your library to compress</li>\r\n<li>Backup of all the smushed images for you </li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou’ll love this handy WordPress plugin for increasing your site speed and maintaining the beauty of your images. Check out the regular and pro versions of the plugin. \r\n','Will Using the WP Smush Plugin Speed Up WordPress?','','publish','open','closed','','will-using-the-wp-smush-plugin-speed-up-wordpress','','','2015-11-20 21:33:04','2015-11-21 02:33:04','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9300',0,'post','',0),(9301,4,'2015-11-20 21:32:04','2015-11-21 02:32:04','','Smushing Images','','inherit','open','closed','','smushingimages-2','','','2015-11-20 21:32:27','2015-11-21 02:32:27','',9300,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SmushingImages.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9302,4,'2015-11-20 21:32:05','2015-11-21 02:32:05','','WP_Smush_Plugin','','inherit','open','closed','','wp_smush_plugin','','','2015-11-20 21:32:09','2015-11-21 02:32:09','',9300,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WP_Smush_Plugin.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9303,4,'2015-11-20 21:32:05','2015-11-21 02:32:05','','WP Smush Pro','','inherit','open','closed','','wpsmushpro','','','2015-11-20 21:32:37','2015-11-21 02:32:37','',9300,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WPSmushPro.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(9304,4,'2015-11-20 21:32:46','2015-11-21 02:32:46','If you haven’t heard of the Smush Plugin in WordPress, this is a great tool for speeding up the site for you. It works as an image compression plugin and having the ability to compress images is a key component to making your site run faster. Obviously pages with many bulky, large images load slowly which is a huge problem for your bounce rate. \r\n\r\nYour search ranking is based on things like your site’s speed and mobile-friendliness so it’s of utter importance that you take every precaution to avoid errors like content that doesn’t load properly on phones or sites that load too slowly for users with limited time in their day to look at your blog. When you’re ready to make changes to increase your site for users, start with the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/\">WP Smush Plugin</a> to start with improving your speed. \r\n\r\n<h2>How does it work?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WP_Smush_Plugin.png\" alt=\"WP_Smush_Plugin\" width=\"719\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9302\" />\r\n\r\nThe image compression plugin works by minimizing redundancy and irrelevancy of an image’s data that wouldn’t really be perceptible to the human eye anyhow. You can store and convey your images much more efficiently just by simply taking advantage of this plugin. In addition, the plugin will work to reduce image sizes so that there is a balance between the highest image quality possible with the lowest possible file size. \r\n\r\nImage compression can take place through an algorithm of many varieties. The simplest one would be the run-length encoding which analyzes every image “bit” to locate a pattern. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why should I use image compression?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SmushingImages.png\" alt=\"Smushing Images\" width=\"533\" height=\"321\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9301\" />\r\n\r\nIt’s so important to have image compression because it can affect your mobile users, your conversion rates, your search engine rankings, and of course, your speed.  Websites tend to be too slow without it which affects people’s opinion of your site and their ability to access it on mobile. Your conversion rate is then affected and having a site without mobile ability or a fast speed will put you lower on Google’s search engine rankings system. \r\n\r\n<h2>Lossless and Lossy Compression</h2>\r\n\r\nYou may have heard these terms used in previous attempts at image compression tools but you may not know the difference. Lossless compression refers to the type of image compression in which every single bit of the image can be recovered after a file is uncompressed like a PNG. \r\n\r\nWP Smush offers several ways to take out every last byte from an image for the best possible lossless compression. A Loss compressions is going to work to permanently remove the data during compression which means that decompression will only restore part of the data. JPEG files typically use lossy compression.   \r\n\r\nThe differences between JPEGs, PNGs, and another option of GIFs, are:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>GIFs have small file sizes, a limited color palette, and support transparency mode, and their lossless compression doesn’t allow for much optimization</li>\r\n<li>PNGs have excellent image quality, full transparency support, and they provide lossless compression</li>\r\n<li>JPEGs display photographic images in a large range of colors and can go under heavy optimization due to lossy compression</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>How Smush is going to improve site time</h2>\r\n\r\nWhen you decide to get WP Smush, your site speed can improve due to its powerful functionality. Your image quality can be maintained in the process. There are a few ways that it will improve your site speed between the automated smushing, lossless compression, and bulk smushing. Through the automated route, you don’t have to know how to optimize an image because the smushing will happen for you with just a few clicks. \r\n\r\nThe plugin also has an advanced lossless compression technique to produce amazing results without compromising quality which can be done while you back up the originals. Bulk smushing comes in handy when you have several images stored on the server that are uncompressed because you can upload them in batches of 50 at a time to compress them. \r\n\r\n<h2>The regular plugin vs. the premium</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WPSmushPro.png\" alt=\"WP Smush Pro\" width=\"408\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9303\" />\r\n\r\nChoose between this regular plugin option or go for WP Smush Pro for a premium experience. The Pro version offers features like:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Smushing up to 32MB instead of just 1MB on the regular plugin</li>\r\n<li>Double the compression with the multi-pass lossy compression giving you 2 – 10 times more compression than lossless</li>\r\n<li>Bulk smushing in one click if you have way more than 50 images in your library to compress</li>\r\n<li>Backup of all the smushed images for you </li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou’ll love this handy WordPress plugin for increasing your site speed and maintaining the beauty of your images. Check out the regular and pro versions of the plugin. \r\n','Will Using the WP Smush Plugin Speed Up WordPress?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9300-revision-v1','','','2015-11-20 21:32:46','2015-11-21 02:32:46','',9300,'https://itxdesign.com/9300-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9361,4,'2015-12-07 16:13:46','2015-12-07 21:13:46','When you’re new to WordPress or hoping to improve your knowledge of using the site, it’s important to know what resources are available to you. Setting up a new blog for the first time is a great idea for business owners to improve their credibility and attract visitors to their site, but it’s challenging when you don’t know how this all works yet. \r\n\r\nRather than trying to seek out training websites, you can take a WordPress course or online class. People used to be forced to hack through Codex while figuring things out during live projects, but now, there are excellent resources that will save you time including Skillshare, Udemy, Treehouse, and Lynda. If you’ve decided to join the WordPress wagon but aren’t sure how it works yet, check out these resources to help you learn it inside and out. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why are these resources the right guides for me?</h2>\r\n\r\nNot only are these resources offering high-quality information at really affordable prices, but they offer other perks too. They are a steal compared to what you would pay for a course like this in a higher educational setting. \r\n\r\nYou’ll have the best quality production without random background noise, poor-quality audio, or blurry images like you might find through the use of YouTube tutorials. Plus, it’s self-paced to allow you to do it on your schedule and you’ll learn by doing which takes out the boring element to listening to a long-winded lecture. These resources will suit a wide range of needs from a non-technical newbie to an experienced user that wants to advance their skillset. \r\n\r\n<h2>Treehouse</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/TreeHouse.png\" alt=\"TreeHouse\" width=\"175\" height=\"72\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9365\" />\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://teamtreehouse.com/library/topic:wordpress\" rel=\"nofollow\">Treehouse</a> is an obvious choice for the beginner looking for a great resource. It was created in 2011 by Ryan Carson in order to offer a large range of online training. There are introductory courses for WordPress website owners, more advanced options for experienced users like the WordPress Customizer API course, and learning options are broken out in different modalities. Plus, it only runs around $25-$49 per month. \r\n\r\n<h2>Lynda</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Lynda.png\" alt=\"Lynda\" width=\"505\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9363\" />\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.lynda.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lynda</a> has become the new go-to for an online resource for WordPress. It was actually just purchased by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion putting it in the news as an industry pioneer. You’ll find over 4,000 video courses covering tons of topics and much of the information comes from top experts in each topic. Enjoy features like advanced bookmarking, custom playlists, beginner’s guides, and advanced training. \r\n\r\n<h2>Skillshare</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/SkillShare.png\" alt=\"SkillShare\" width=\"197\" height=\"56\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9364\" />\r\n\r\nIf you’re looking for something affordable and general, <a href=\"https://www.skillshare.com/classes/wordpress\" rel=\"nofollow\">Skillshare</a> is a great option for just $10 per month. You’ll find WordPress topics that are perfect for someone brand new to the site. You’ll cover areas from how to use popular themes like Avada or Divi and learning more advanced skills like how to build custom themes with Bootstrap. \r\n\r\n<h2>Udemy</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Udemy.png\" alt=\"Udemy\" width=\"122\" height=\"47\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9366\" />\r\n\r\nCheck out <a href=\"https://www.udemy.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Udemy</a> if you are looking for another provider of tons of educational resources. They are a big player with offering over 35,000 courses and only being around since 2010. It works to allow independent experts offer their own topics and courses priced individually which means WordPress users will have unlimited possibility. Check out Andrew Williams’ “WordPress for Beginners,” Michael Shen’s “Create Your Website with WordPress,” or “Ultimate WordPress Plugin Course” by Joel Funk. \r\n\r\n<h2>WPSessions</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WPSessions.png\" alt=\"WPSessions\" width=\"334\" height=\"68\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9367\" />\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://wpsessions.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WPSessions</a> is another good one and it’s exclusively related to WordPress information. Most people pay a flat rate of $299 for all of the content but you can also buy individual courses. 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No matter how many times you’ve hit that check box to “remember me,” it seems that you always have to login once again when you get to the WordPress home page. \r\n\r\nYou exit the page and return later just to have to login again and tell it to “remember me” again. What you don’t know is that there is a way to get the box automatically checked to remember you through WordPress that will also extend the login cookie. You can finally access your admin area quick every single time by using this trick to make WordPress remember you. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to get it</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RememberMePlugin.png\" alt=\"Remember Me Plugin\" width=\"725\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9309\" />\r\n\r\nYou can get this feature on your WordPress by installing and activating the plugin called “<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-remember-me/\">Remember Me</a>.” You’ll activate it and then configure the plugin settings by visiting the “Settings” and “Remember Me” page. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RememberMeInMenu.png\" alt=\"Remember Me In Menu\" width=\"158\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9308\" />\r\n\r\n<h2>What options will I get to choose from?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RememberMeSettings.png\" alt=\"Remember Me Settings\" width=\"1056\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9310\" />\r\n\r\nYou’ll be asked if you want to set “Remember Me” as a default in which you’ll need to check one of four options including:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>No default</li>\r\n<li>For all logins</li>\r\n<li>For logins from public websites only</li>\r\n<li>For longs from Admin panels only</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nTell it if you want it to remember your choice by checking the box and for how many days. You’ll have these various options on how you set up logins whether you want to enable is as the default or just from the admin area. \r\n\r\nAllow users to manually check the “remember me” box as well so that your users won’t be logged out when they close the browser window. Choose the maximum number of days your users should remain logged in, such as their default 366 days, or reduce it to 30-60 days. Users can still log out if they want, and they can just log in once again. \r\n\r\nOf course this option is not meant for those that use the site on a public computer or share network, but for private computers and networks, this is a great way to make your WordPress experience much easier with just a few minutes of your time setting it up. \r\n\r\n','Can you Keep WordPress from Forgetting You?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9307-revision-v1','','','2015-11-30 14:46:57','2015-11-30 19:46:57','',9307,'https://itxdesign.com/9307-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9312,4,'2015-11-30 14:47:38','2015-11-30 19:47:38','If you haven’t heard of the “Always Remember Me” feature on WordPress, you are probably getting a lot of headache every time you log in. 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Once you activate it, you’ll go to settings and then “reading” to create your “reading group.” \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ReadingGroups.png\" alt=\"Reading Groups\" width=\"643\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9315\" />\r\n\r\nYou’ll enter the name for your group, such as “Family” or “My Staff” and then click on the button that says “Add New Reading Group.” Repeat this step as much as needed to add more reading groups, such as one for your department, one for your floor, or one for your Tuesday night gathering group of friends. \r\n\r\n<h2>What’s next?</h2>\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve entered all of your reading groups, you’ll add your users to the reading groups. Simply go to your WordPress admin area, go to the Users page, and edit the user you want to add to your group. The WP JV Reading Groups section is going to be towards the bottom of the page where you can check the box next to the user group that you want to add a user in to. Add a user to multiple groups and then click on “update user button” when you’re done. \r\n\r\n<h2>How do I share the post with my group?</h2>\r\n\r\nOnce you are ready to share something with your group, you’ll want to learn how to share posts privately with the right group. You’ll create a new post or edit an existing one and when you do, this time you’ll get a WP JV Reading groups meta box. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ReadingGroupInPost.png\" alt=\"Reading Group In Post\" width=\"298\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9314\" />\r\n\r\nYou’ll have the option to click a checkbox next to the group names you own and you can choose which one it was intended for. 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Once you activate it, you’ll go to settings and then “reading” to create your “reading group.” \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ReadingGroups.png\" alt=\"Reading Groups\" width=\"643\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9315\" />\r\n\r\nYou’ll enter the name for your group, such as “Family” or “My Staff” and then click on the button that says “Add New Reading Group.” Repeat this step as much as needed to add more reading groups, such as one for your department, one for your floor, or one for your Tuesday night gathering group of friends. \r\n\r\n<h2>What’s next?</h2>\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve entered all of your reading groups, you’ll add your users to the reading groups. Simply go to your WordPress admin area, go to the Users page, and edit the user you want to add to your group. The WP JV Reading Groups section is going to be towards the bottom of the page where you can check the box next to the user group that you want to add a user in to. Add a user to multiple groups and then click on “update user button” when you’re done. \r\n\r\n<h2>How do I share the post with my group?</h2>\r\n\r\nOnce you are ready to share something with your group, you’ll want to learn how to share posts privately with the right group. You’ll create a new post or edit an existing one and when you do, this time you’ll get a WP JV Reading groups meta box. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ReadingGroupInPost.png\" alt=\"Reading Group In Post\" width=\"298\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9314\" />\r\n\r\nYou’ll have the option to click a checkbox next to the group names you own and you can choose which one it was intended for. Set your post to private by clicking on the “Edit” link next to “Visibility.” You’re all set to update or publish the post that will only be visible to the group you chose. \r\n\r\nKeep in mind that your user group won’t give any special permission to your users because the capability of your WordPress site users stays the same. \r\n\r\nIf you’re tired of never feeling a sense of privacy when you want to share something with your team members, your relatives, or your boss, set up groups on WordPress to divide your users into the right categories. 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It’s a great idea for bloggers but it takes some strategizing to make it a successful situation. \r\n\r\nYou need to be aware of some rules and etiquette while strategizing to make this a successful marketing campaign. Running a blog giveaway is a great idea, so here is a look at how to do it in order to get what you need out of it and keep your followers happy. \r\n\r\n<h2>You can’t use current followers as entries</h2>\r\n\r\nThere was a time when you could use all of your \"likes\" as entries for giveaways but in 2014, Facebook disallowed it. Google+ followers can’t be automatically used as entries either. While you need a way to build up followers on social media, you don’t have to give up on the idea of blog giveaways entirely. \r\n\r\nThey are such a successful advertising tactic as long as bloggers find new ways to have them benefit blogs and brands that are represented instead of as a way to drive social media followers. Make it exciting and earn followers without requiring an entry by making it meaningful, having a prize, and promoting it right. \r\n\r\n<h2>Make it meaningful</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pinnable-Post.png\" alt=\"Pinnable Post\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9320\" />People love to participate in a cause that is meaningful, especially when there is little work involved to do so. If you can find a way to create a meaningful post around your giveaway, this is a great route to go. Generate a pinnable post that is interesting and you may be able to go viral. \r\n\r\nMake it relatable, like a common parenting problem that you are solving, and make your giveaway the solution to the problem. Share it with relevant sites, whether that’s mommy blog sites, travel sites, or food sites (depending on the giveaway) and you’ll generate the right traffic during the content. 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A contract put in place is always best, choosing the right brands from the start, and having a backup plan to make sure your winner gets their prize. \r\n\r\n<h2>What prize will you pick?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Prize.jpg\" alt=\"Prize\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9321\" />You need to be wise about the giveaway prize you choose. For example, a CD or book may not be a hot item while lotions or children’s toys may be the perfect idea. Find something that compliments your blog and excites readers. For example, don’t give out a chemical-filled product if you are running an organic promotion site. check out sites like Rafflecopter that will follow the laws of giveaways and make sure you are only offering prizes to adults over 18 and just in the US to avoid any legal headaches. \r\n\r\n<h2>Promotion</h2>\r\n\r\nLastly, be sure to promote it by making a great giveaway page to draw traffic, listing it on giveaway sites, and promoting it with hashtags, social media updates, and tags. 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Make a product that is environmentally friendly, holiday-friendly, kid-friendly, and fun and you may be able to be featured on holiday sites, non-toxic sites, parenting sites, and more. \r\n\r\nJust make sure you choose your giveaway vendors carefully because the last thing you want is a winner that didn’t receive their prize. A contract put in place is always best, choosing the right brands from the start, and having a backup plan to make sure your winner gets their prize. \r\n\r\n<h2>What prize will you pick?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Prize.jpg\" alt=\"Prize\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9321\" />You need to be wise about the giveaway prize you choose. For example, a CD or book may not be a hot item while lotions or children’s toys may be the perfect idea. Find something that compliments your blog and excites readers. 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These are necessary ways to engage with the world through social media and attract more of your target audience in the process. \r\n\r\nThe problem is that these social media platforms were the start to the idea and some new concepts have developed since then. They may someday be “out with the old” and you’re going to want to become “in with the new.” \r\n\r\nWe can all agree that businesses see more success when they have a strong social media presence in their marketing strategies but it turns out that becoming more active on lesser known social media networks is turning out to have some unique advantages. Here is a look at the up-and-coming social platforms you should start to check out. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why not stick with the common social media platforms?</h2>\r\n\r\nWhile it’s important to have a solid Facebook page or active Twitter account, it’s becoming beneficial to stay on trend by being a part of the up-and-coming platforms. There are already so many using those sites that the competition is steep and the uniqueness is gone. \r\n\r\nBeing active on a lesser known site that is quickly growing could give your audience a different impression of you, such as that your company is innovative, intelligent, and in-the-know. It looks good for a company to make a home on a platform where your customers are trying to make a home too, and brings you in as part of a community. Have a stronger voice early in a new platform and you may have some influence on the direction the site ends up going. \r\n\r\n<h2>Slideshare</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Slideshare.jpg\" alt=\"Slideshare\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9324\" />Check out Slideshare if you haven’t seen this site yet. The site started in 2006, the same year as Twitter, and was later bought by LinkedIn in 2012. 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Make sure you are sharing images and infographics to get higher ratings. \r\n\r\n<h2>Snapchat</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Snapchat.jpg\" alt=\"Snapchat\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9325\" />You may have tried the app Snapchat, a fun way to send images and videos to other users that will only be available for a set determined amount of time. It’s not a new site; the site started in 2011 as a college course’s final project and turned into a $20 billion company by 2015. This is one of the most popular and growing social media platforms that has around 100 million daily users from high school to college students and young adults up to age 24. 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Here is a look at what exactly this means, why it’s important, and great examples of those successful with it. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is viral marketing exactly?</h2>\r\n\r\nThis form of marketing is another name for advertising done by “word of mouth.” Since people don’t typically advertise through their actual face-to-face, word of mouth interactions, the new word of mouth refers to someone’s online interactions and communication. Now that social media is such a huge part of everyone’s daily lives, that has become the modern way of sharing something through word of mouth. \r\n\r\nIt’s a great way for individuals to reach one another, online communities to form, and companies of any size to reach their potential audience. Viral marketing is meant to be a strong digital message to be passed through internet channels, spreading just like a regular advertising message through word-of-mouth, and once spread is to be voluntarily passed along to more and more individuals in a short time. Those that share your message become like a brand ambassador since they are now a free source of building our reputation. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why is it important?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Social-Media.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media\" width=\"248\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9330\" />Viral marketing is so important because just like you would like to share something unique and interesting to your friends and family, you want others to do the same with your campaigns. Your success will depend on how much you can excite people and get them to want to engage with others about it. 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Viral marketing is often found on YouTube because of how popular it is as a video platform, and is proven through the massively shared Gangnam style video a few years ago. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Guide-to-Viral-Marketing.jpg\" alt=\"Guide to Viral Marketing\" width=\"321\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9329\" />Blendtec got people talking about blenders by starting a viral marketing campaign called “Will it Blend?” with videos of the company’s blenders destroying items that wouldn’t normally go in a blender. This hilarious campaign got people talking about the brand, proved that their blenders were no joke, and were hilarious to share with others. \r\n\r\nAnother brand that succeeded with viral marketing is Threshers, a wine chain that ran a viral marketing campaign by sending 40% off wine and champagne electronic vouchers on accident to a select number of customers. While they told everyone it was an accident and intended for suppliers only, it made them an overnight success. Heinz, the popular bean product company, did a viral marketing campaign on Facebook called “Which Bean are you?” to get fans to take their quiz. Those that shared the quiz got a goodie bag and the interaction with fans made Heinz a huge success. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to do it</h2>\r\n\r\nYou can create your own campaign by making a video, creating content, targeting current events or trends, and incorporating visual content. 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If you aren’t familiar with the terms “viral,” “shared,” or “interviewed,” you’ll get familiar with them as you start work on your website and social media marketing campaigns. These terms are a concept you’ll start to understand and implement as you become a viral marketing expert. Here is a look at what exactly this means, why it’s important, and great examples of those successful with it. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is viral marketing exactly?</h2>\r\n\r\nThis form of marketing is another name for advertising done by “word of mouth.” Since people don’t typically advertise through their actual face-to-face, word of mouth interactions, the new word of mouth refers to someone’s online interactions and communication. Now that social media is such a huge part of everyone’s daily lives, that has become the modern way of sharing something through word of mouth. \r\n\r\nIt’s a great way for individuals to reach one another, online communities to form, and companies of any size to reach their potential audience. Viral marketing is meant to be a strong digital message to be passed through internet channels, spreading just like a regular advertising message through word-of-mouth, and once spread is to be voluntarily passed along to more and more individuals in a short time. Those that share your message become like a brand ambassador since they are now a free source of building our reputation. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why is it important?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Social-Media.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media\" width=\"248\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9330\" />Viral marketing is so important because just like you would like to share something unique and interesting to your friends and family, you want others to do the same with your campaigns. Your success will depend on how much you can excite people and get them to want to engage with others about it. 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It’s actually really easy to do on WordPress and it will add a lot to the user’s interactive experience. Timelines are capable of being added without any need to change the WordPress theme too. \r\n\r\nYour timeline will appear as a vertical image on your website where you can display the years of progress from start to finish. Here is a look at who should use a timeline post in WordPress, how to add one, and how to display the final product. \r\n\r\n<h2>Who benefits from the event timeline feature?</h2>\r\n\r\nThe visual representation of time on your WordPress page is perfect for anyone that needs to show a timeline of events visually. You can display it with images, video, text, and other forms of content to make it interactive for the user and attractive to look at. \r\n\r\nIt’s a popular concept for companies that want to show off their history from where they began as a small company with a few employees to the present with all of the growth they’ve seen. It’s not just for the big companies either; personal site owners like to use it for their blog page or “about” page too. A travel photographer may love this feature for showing off photographs in a vertical timeline of a journey in progress. Event coordinators may want to show off a timeline on their blog to show the event taking place live or to talk about past events. \r\n\r\n<h2>How do I get a timeline?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/TimelineExpress.png\" alt=\"Timeline Express\" width=\"742\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9335\" />\r\n\r\nYou can get a timeline to display something about an event or history by getting the plugin called “<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/timeline-express/\">Timeline Express</a>.” It needs to be installed and activated. Once you do this, you’ll need to visit Timeline Express where it says “Add New Announcement” which allows you to add your first event or announcement. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NewAnnouncement1.png\" alt=\"New Announcement\" width=\"837\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9337\" />\r\n\r\nYou’ll get options such as an area to add more information, to choose a color, to enter the date, and to include an image. The plugin comes with great fonts by using Font Awesome already built-in to the program. Decide if you’d like to add an announcement image used as the banner and then edit the details of the announcement with information or adding videos. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/TimelineExpressSettngs.png\" alt=\"Timeline Express Settngs\" width=\"757\" height=\"659\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9336\" />\r\n\r\nYou can display it on your timeline by publishing the final product and continuing to repeat the process for each new announcement you’d like to include. Display it on your website by creating a new page in WordPress, giving it a title, adding the shortcode [timeline-express] in post editor, and clicking the publish button. \r\n\r\nAdd an event timeline to your WordPress to enhance your site even further. \r\n','Adding an Event Timeline in WordPress','','inherit','closed','closed','','9333-revision-v1','','','2015-12-01 10:45:47','2015-12-01 15:45:47','',9333,'https://itxdesign.com/9333-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9339,4,'2015-12-03 08:48:06','2015-12-03 13:48:06','When you’re getting ready to launch a new website, building a “coming soon” page is probably on your mind. It’s a great way to launch the website with a bang rather than to prevent momentum from building. How can you make it a great user experience until your WordPress site is ready to launch? \r\n\r\nWith careful planning, hard work, and implementing ways to help with your user engagement, you can build the perfect momentum to your site launch before it even occurs. Here is a look at what steps to take to build your perfect “coming soon” page and where to focus your efforts to maximize your results on your actual launch day!\r\n\r\n<h2>Where to begin</h2>\r\n\r\nIt’s important to start by picking your objective and setting your metrics. What is the objective of the “coming soon” page exactly? While it’s just temporary, it still will have a huge impact on the launch. You should already have an idea of what your objective is and the only thing you need to figure out is how to see it come to life. The objective is to gain traffic through fans and customers which can be achieved by opening communication with your customers on your launch status. \r\n\r\nAlong with telling them about the exciting things to come, it’s crucial that you actually provide the information on when you will launch and how to contact you until the site is up and running. This could be through your social media page or it could be an email list, just as long as it’s a convenient way to contact you. \r\n\r\nIt may be difficult to decide between offering a social media page or an email list since building your email list should be the focus right now, but sometimes starting the social media page may be an easier way to convert your fans to followers. Perhaps you could build an email list of a few thousand before launching your social media page and website. \r\n\r\n<h2>Build the page</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WPMaintenanceMode.png\" alt=\"WP Maintenance Mode\" width=\"743\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9341\" />\r\n\r\nNow that you know what you’re trying to achieve, you need to build the page to show your statement of intent. WordPress lets you do this easily through plugins with options like <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance-mode/\">WP Maintenance Mode</a> and <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/\">Coming Soon by SeedProd</a>. Known as one of the best “coming soon” pages, Coming Soon by SeedProd is a plugin offering an easy way to create your page with tons of rich features. Check it out for free or go with the premium for a charge. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ComingSoonbySeedProd.png\" alt=\"Coming Soon by SeedProd\" width=\"733\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9340\" />\r\n\r\nYou can also use the WP Maintenance Mode as it’s one of the most popular choices for creating the page. It’s easy to use, quick to use, and you’ll find the most important features with ease. There are many more plugin options through WordPress, but these are some of the best. \r\n\r\n<h2>What do you want it to say?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/coming-soon.png\" alt=\"coming soon\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9342\" />It’s time to determine what your message is going to say. A “coming soon” page is already a deterrent as it lets people know that your website isn’t ready for them yet. With no content to read, they aren’t going to stick around for long but you can get right to the point when people land on your page with a “coming soon” message. \r\n\r\nHow do you deliver the message concisely and quickly to a reader that is click-happy? Put an incentive out there right away that will make readers want to stick around for a moment and check back in when you’re up and running. Use your email list and social media followers to offer the promotion along with posting it on the website. \r\n\r\nYour message should have a financial incentive like a free credit, be interesting in the unique design using few words and clear communication, and should have a form for entering an email address for notifications on when the site is ready. The email signup and invite to join social media will be an easy way to gain a future follower and keep it from being too overwhelming. \r\n\r\n<h2>The launch </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Coming-Soon-Page.jpg\" alt=\"Coming Soon Page\" width=\"309\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9343\" />Now, you can launch your “coming soon” page early in the pre-launch process so that momentum for the actual site can start to build. Give it 6-12 months as long as you’re willing to keep people engaged until the actual site launch. One site that found success with this method was Mint.com, in which people were begging to use the product before the launch. That is because they promoted like crazy and kept users engaged throughout the pre-launch. \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve chosen your objective, built your page, and launched your page, just be sure to keep users engaged, updated, and prepped for the website launch. Once your website launches, you should have thousands of users eager to see the site, ready to tell their friends, and ready to spend money with you from memberships to product purchasing. 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It’s a great way to launch the website with a bang rather than to prevent momentum from building. How can you make it a great user experience until your WordPress site is ready to launch? \r\n\r\nWith careful planning, hard work, and implementing ways to help with your user engagement, you can build the perfect momentum to your site launch before it even occurs. Here is a look at what steps to take to build your perfect “coming soon” page and where to focus your efforts to maximize your results on your actual launch day!\r\n\r\n<h2>Where to begin</h2>\r\n\r\nIt’s important to start by picking your objective and setting your metrics. What is the objective of the “coming soon” page exactly? While it’s just temporary, it still will have a huge impact on the launch. You should already have an idea of what your objective is and the only thing you need to figure out is how to see it come to life. The objective is to gain traffic through fans and customers which can be achieved by opening communication with your customers on your launch status. \r\n\r\nAlong with telling them about the exciting things to come, it’s crucial that you actually provide the information on when you will launch and how to contact you until the site is up and running. This could be through your social media page or it could be an email list, just as long as it’s a convenient way to contact you. \r\n\r\nIt may be difficult to decide between offering a social media page or an email list since building your email list should be the focus right now, but sometimes starting the social media page may be an easier way to convert your fans to followers. Perhaps you could build an email list of a few thousand before launching your social media page and website. \r\n\r\n<h2>Build the page</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WPMaintenanceMode.png\" alt=\"WP Maintenance Mode\" width=\"743\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9341\" />\r\n\r\nNow that you know what you’re trying to achieve, you need to build the page to show your statement of intent. WordPress lets you do this easily through plugins with options like <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance-mode/\">WP Maintenance Mode</a> and <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/\">Coming Soon by SeedProd</a>. Known as one of the best “coming soon” pages, Coming Soon by SeedProd is a plugin offering an easy way to create your page with tons of rich features. Check it out for free or go with the premium for a charge. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ComingSoonbySeedProd.png\" alt=\"Coming Soon by SeedProd\" width=\"733\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9340\" />\r\n\r\nYou can also use the WP Maintenance Mode as it’s one of the most popular choices for creating the page. It’s easy to use, quick to use, and you’ll find the most important features with ease. There are many more plugin options through WordPress, but these are some of the best. \r\n\r\n<h2>What do you want it to say?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/coming-soon.png\" alt=\"coming soon\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9342\" />It’s time to determine what your message is going to say. A “coming soon” page is already a deterrent as it lets people know that your website isn’t ready for them yet. With no content to read, they aren’t going to stick around for long but you can get right to the point when people land on your page with a “coming soon” message. \r\n\r\nHow do you deliver the message concisely and quickly to a reader that is click-happy? Put an incentive out there right away that will make readers want to stick around for a moment and check back in when you’re up and running. Use your email list and social media followers to offer the promotion along with posting it on the website. \r\n\r\nYour message should have a financial incentive like a free credit, be interesting in the unique design using few words and clear communication, and should have a form for entering an email address for notifications on when the site is ready. The email signup and invite to join social media will be an easy way to gain a future follower and keep it from being too overwhelming. \r\n\r\n<h2>The launch </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Coming-Soon-Page.jpg\" alt=\"Coming Soon Page\" width=\"309\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9343\" />Now, you can launch your “coming soon” page early in the pre-launch process so that momentum for the actual site can start to build. Give it 6-12 months as long as you’re willing to keep people engaged until the actual site launch. One site that found success with this method was Mint.com, in which people were begging to use the product before the launch. That is because they promoted like crazy and kept users engaged throughout the pre-launch. \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve chosen your objective, built your page, and launched your page, just be sure to keep users engaged, updated, and prepped for the website launch. Once your website launches, you should have thousands of users eager to see the site, ready to tell their friends, and ready to spend money with you from memberships to product purchasing. ','Can you Create a Great Coming Soon Page in WordPress?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9339-revision-v1','','','2015-12-01 10:54:05','2015-12-01 15:54:05','',9339,'https://itxdesign.com/9339-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9345,4,'2015-12-03 15:56:38','2015-12-03 20:56:38','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/404-error-page.jpg\" alt=\"404 error page\" width=\"288\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9346\" />If you’ve run into trouble with broken links on your WordPress website, you are not alone. You can now remove or fix the broken links with this helpful guide on where to begin. Finding a broken link that leads you to one of those “404 errors” may make you panic, but it’s really common and just means you need to fix the link to lead users to the right page. \r\n\r\nThese dead links are common, occur often, and helps you with the error message in order to correct the problem. Keep your site credibility in tact by improving the user experience with no error messages and all links working smoothly. Here is a look at how to fix them and a reminder to check them occasionally so that you can fix any broken links before a user ends up on an error page. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to spot a broken links</h2>\r\n\r\nBroken links or “dead” links are those that take you to a 404 error page when clicked on. It means that your visitors were forced to be redirected since a page was missing or a source didn’t exist. They can happen because the URL leads to a domain that doesn’t exist anymore or because of an unusual firewall setting. In some cases, it could be the result of a hacking. \r\n\r\nYou may have even failed to maintain proper hosting which led to an error. Broken links can be easily fixed if it was a matter of a URL written incorrectly. It’s important to include the http://www at the beginning of URLs in order to avoid an error. \r\n\r\n<h2>Check out WordPress Link-checking solutions </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Broken_Link_Checker_plugin.png\" alt=\"Broken Link Checker plugin\" width=\"753\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9348\" />\r\n\r\nThe best way to avoid problems is to use WordPress link-checking solutions in order to recognize anymore that need modified or deleted. Locating broken links is the most difficult part of the process depending on the frequency of your posts and how dense your content is. \r\n\r\nA smaller site with a few links will be able to manually test for this every month and fix them in no time, but a huge site with regular links will have difficulty testing each and every link. Checking tools will save you hours of time by checking in a few seconds and it shouldn’t cost you a thing. Check out the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/\">Broken Link Checker plugin</a> for WordPress for a great option. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to correct the problem</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Broken-Link.jpg\" alt=\"Broken Link\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9347\" />Once you’ve used a tool to find broken links, you can start setting email notifications for broken links, changing the frequency in which existing links get checked, and apply custom formatting to broken or removed links. You can also make sure search engines are stopped from following these links. \r\n\r\nTo correct the links, simply click the link at the top of the plugin window that appears broken, hover over the URL, and choose between options to edit, unlink, mark as not broken, dismiss, or recheck. \r\n\r\nYou can correct your broken or bad links by checking to make sure you’ve done everything on your part to make sure you’ve paid for hosting, typed it in correctly, and there hasn’t been a hacking problem, before you correct the problem and remember to start checking daily, weekly, or monthly. 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You can now remove or fix the broken links with this helpful guide on where to begin. Finding a broken link that leads you to one of those “404 errors” may make you panic, but it’s really common and just means you need to fix the link to lead users to the right page. \r\n\r\nThese dead links are common, occur often, and helps you with the error message in order to correct the problem. Keep your site credibility in tact by improving the user experience with no error messages and all links working smoothly. Here is a look at how to fix them and a reminder to check them occasionally so that you can fix any broken links before a user ends up on an error page. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to spot a broken links</h2>\r\n\r\nBroken links or “dead” links are those that take you to a 404 error page when clicked on. It means that your visitors were forced to be redirected since a page was missing or a source didn’t exist. They can happen because the URL leads to a domain that doesn’t exist anymore or because of an unusual firewall setting. In some cases, it could be the result of a hacking. \r\n\r\nYou may have even failed to maintain proper hosting which led to an error. Broken links can be easily fixed if it was a matter of a URL written incorrectly. It’s important to include the http://www at the beginning of URLs in order to avoid an error. \r\n\r\n<h2>Check out WordPress Link-checking solutions </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Broken_Link_Checker_plugin.png\" alt=\"Broken Link Checker plugin\" width=\"753\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9348\" />\r\n\r\nThe best way to avoid problems is to use WordPress link-checking solutions in order to recognize anymore that need modified or deleted. Locating broken links is the most difficult part of the process depending on the frequency of your posts and how dense your content is. \r\n\r\nA smaller site with a few links will be able to manually test for this every month and fix them in no time, but a huge site with regular links will have difficulty testing each and every link. Checking tools will save you hours of time by checking in a few seconds and it shouldn’t cost you a thing. Check out the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/\">Broken Link Checker plugin</a> for WordPress for a great option. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to correct the problem</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Broken-Link.jpg\" alt=\"Broken Link\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9347\" />Once you’ve used a tool to find broken links, you can start setting email notifications for broken links, changing the frequency in which existing links get checked, and apply custom formatting to broken or removed links. You can also make sure search engines are stopped from following these links. \r\n\r\nTo correct the links, simply click the link at the top of the plugin window that appears broken, hover over the URL, and choose between options to edit, unlink, mark as not broken, dismiss, or recheck. \r\n\r\nYou can correct your broken or bad links by checking to make sure you’ve done everything on your part to make sure you’ve paid for hosting, typed it in correctly, and there hasn’t been a hacking problem, before you correct the problem and remember to start checking daily, weekly, or monthly. Use these tips to make sure the problem is always prevented on your end. \r\n','Fixing and Removing Broken Links on a WordPress Website','','inherit','closed','closed','','9345-revision-v1','','','2015-12-01 11:00:14','2015-12-01 16:00:14','',9345,'https://itxdesign.com/9345-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9350,4,'2015-12-04 07:00:42','2015-12-04 12:00:42','Can a personal blogger become a niche blogger? Personal bloggers are those that can write freely, feel free to dream, and may have a great deal of free time. It turns out that they can focus their energy on being a niche blogger without limiting their freedom.\r\n\r\nA blogger, copywriter, or freelance writer can run a niche blog while considering themselves a personal blogger too. You’ll never really grow out of personal blogging because you’ll always have a personal touch on the writing and you’ll always make it personal by letting your true self speak.\r\n\r\nWhen you speak freely and become easy to connect with, you can still be a niche blogger while writing as a personal blogger. Here is a look at how the two are intertwined and how you can move your personal blogging ways to a more serious, niche-blogging experience.\r\n<h2>Why you can’t part from personal blogging</h2>\r\nYour blog is always going to feel personal and inspire you to give it a personal touch, whether that be through adding anecdotes, adding real emotion, or your need to write freely and openly. Personal blogging is a lot like storytelling to trigger real emotion in people in which your readers will feel like they love you through your work. When you need to write a more serious niche blog, it’s going to require you to shut down the personalization, the emotion, and keep it focused on topic and with the facts.\r\n\r\nA personal blogger is easy to connect with, writes well and often, speaks freely about what they like, and isn’t afraid to get deep. They are also likely to engage with readers through comments and appears to be a friendly, communicative blogger.\r\n<h2>How do I move to a niche blog?</h2>\r\nYou’re going to have to focus in one niche and make that the main focus of the niche blog. For example, if you blog about pets most of the time, use these posts as a way to launch a pet blog. Look for patterns on what you blog about the most, what drives you to write, and what you would like to continue blogging about.\r\n\r\nStart developing your research skills to their maximum capability. You already research for your blog posts, things that you want to purchase online, and book reviews, so it’s not going to be difficult to research for your niche blog posts. Look up information, reviews, and case studies, or start emailing relevant people for your research. You don’t want to be another generic blogger, but rather, offer an informed opinion, so start honing your research skills and learn how journalists do their research.\r\n<h2>Engage and get personable</h2>\r\nOnce you’ve got that down, it’s important to start engaging your readership and getting personable with readers. Personal blogs thrive when there is a close relationship with readers and people that could almost be your friends. You should care what your readers think, feel upset when their opinions of your work is negative, and you should enjoy long conversations with engaged readers.\r\n\r\nThis interaction is crucial for a niche blogger as your blog won’t thrive without feedback. Be sure to get personable as your blog is like an online diary but open to the public, so make sure you are listening to your readers’ needs, you are replying to comments, and you are emailing those that wish to speak privately.\r\n\r\nLastly, be sure you continue to have fun with your niche blog, you don’t give up on your own interests, and you keep those personal anecdotes comings to build reader connections. Use these tips to go from a personal blogger to a niche blogger.','How can a Personal Blogger Become a Niche Blogger?','','publish','open','closed','','how-can-a-personal-blogger-become-a-niche-blogger','','','2016-03-30 18:06:09','2016-03-30 22:06:09','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9350',0,'post','',0),(10227,1,'2016-03-30 18:06:09','2016-03-30 22:06:09','Can a personal blogger become a niche blogger? Personal bloggers are those that can write freely, feel free to dream, and may have a great deal of free time. It turns out that they can focus their energy on being a niche blogger without limiting their freedom.\r\n\r\nA blogger, copywriter, or freelance writer can run a niche blog while considering themselves a personal blogger too. You’ll never really grow out of personal blogging because you’ll always have a personal touch on the writing and you’ll always make it personal by letting your true self speak.\r\n\r\nWhen you speak freely and become easy to connect with, you can still be a niche blogger while writing as a personal blogger. Here is a look at how the two are intertwined and how you can move your personal blogging ways to a more serious, niche-blogging experience.\r\n<h2>Why you can’t part from personal blogging</h2>\r\nYour blog is always going to feel personal and inspire you to give it a personal touch, whether that be through adding anecdotes, adding real emotion, or your need to write freely and openly. Personal blogging is a lot like storytelling to trigger real emotion in people in which your readers will feel like they love you through your work. When you need to write a more serious niche blog, it’s going to require you to shut down the personalization, the emotion, and keep it focused on topic and with the facts.\r\n\r\nA personal blogger is easy to connect with, writes well and often, speaks freely about what they like, and isn’t afraid to get deep. They are also likely to engage with readers through comments and appears to be a friendly, communicative blogger.\r\n<h2>How do I move to a niche blog?</h2>\r\nYou’re going to have to focus in one niche and make that the main focus of the niche blog. For example, if you blog about pets most of the time, use these posts as a way to launch a pet blog. Look for patterns on what you blog about the most, what drives you to write, and what you would like to continue blogging about.\r\n\r\nStart developing your research skills to their maximum capability. You already research for your blog posts, things that you want to purchase online, and book reviews, so it’s not going to be difficult to research for your niche blog posts. Look up information, reviews, and case studies, or start emailing relevant people for your research. You don’t want to be another generic blogger, but rather, offer an informed opinion, so start honing your research skills and learn how journalists do their research.\r\n<h2>Engage and get personable</h2>\r\nOnce you’ve got that down, it’s important to start engaging your readership and getting personable with readers. Personal blogs thrive when there is a close relationship with readers and people that could almost be your friends. You should care what your readers think, feel upset when their opinions of your work is negative, and you should enjoy long conversations with engaged readers.\r\n\r\nThis interaction is crucial for a niche blogger as your blog won’t thrive without feedback. Be sure to get personable as your blog is like an online diary but open to the public, so make sure you are listening to your readers’ needs, you are replying to comments, and you are emailing those that wish to speak privately.\r\n\r\nLastly, be sure you continue to have fun with your niche blog, you don’t give up on your own interests, and you keep those personal anecdotes comings to build reader connections. 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They are also likely to engage with readers through comments and appears to be a friendly, communicative blogger. \r\n\r\n<h2>How do I move to a niche blog?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Niche-Bogging.jpg\" alt=\"Niche Bogging\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9352\" />You’re going to have to focus in one niche and make that the main focus of the niche blog. For example, if you blog about pets most of the time, use these posts as a way to launch a pet blog. Look for patterns on what you blog about the most, what drives you to write, and what you would like to continue blogging about. \r\n\r\nStart developing your research skills to their maximum capability. You already research for your blog posts, things that you want to purchase online, and book reviews, so it’s not going to be difficult to research for your niche blog posts. Look up information, reviews, and case studies, or start emailing relevant people for your research. You don’t want to be another generic blogger, but rather, offer an informed opinion, so start honing your research skills and learn how journalists do their research. \r\n\r\n<h2>Engage and get personable</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Niche-Blogger.jpg\" alt=\"Niche Blogger\" width=\"295\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9351\" />Once you’ve got that down, it’s important to start engaging your readership and getting personable with readers. Personal blogs thrive when there is a close relationship with readers and people that could almost be your friends. You should care what your readers think, feel upset when their opinions of your work is negative, and you should enjoy long conversations with engaged readers. \r\n\r\nThis interaction is crucial for a niche blogger as your blog won’t thrive without feedback. Be sure to get personable as your blog is like an online diary but open to the public, so make sure you are listening to your readers’ needs, you are replying to comments, and you are emailing those that wish to speak privately. \r\n\r\nLastly, be sure you continue to have fun with your niche blog, you don’t give up on your own interests, and you keep those personal anecdotes comings to build reader connections. Use these tips to go from a personal blogger to a niche blogger. \r\n','How can a Personal Blogger Become a Niche Blogger?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9350-revision-v1','','','2015-12-01 11:03:55','2015-12-01 16:03:55','',9350,'https://itxdesign.com/9350-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9355,4,'2015-12-04 15:04:22','2015-12-04 20:04:22','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Social-Media1.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9357\" />The Swift Bar is a great feature on WordPress because it can help with user engagement. If you haven’t added one yet, it’s time to do so because it’s proving to really work. While using the point system and post reactions are common ways to boost engagement, add the swift bar can encourage your users to share your content on their favorite social media pages as well as share their thoughts on what you have to say. \r\n\r\nThe simple sticky footer at the bottom of your posts is the simplest way to motivate your users to share your work on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, so why wouldn’t you take advantage of such a simple tactic for increasing user engagement? Here is a look at why it’s working and how to get it. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is the Swift Bar exactly?</h2>\r\n\r\nSwifty Bar handy little tool is a favorite on WordPress because it offers a quick shortcut to users for sharing your content on social media. It works like a sticky footer at the bottom of a post showing the post category, the author, and the easy links for sharing the post on your favorite social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. \r\n\r\nIt will even show you the estimated time it’s going to take to read through the post with a progress bar moving forward as your users is scrolling down a post! It’s a great feature for the user with limited time or that wants to save it to read later today. Plus, the easy share buttons for social media is really increasing user engagement. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why you need this</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Pinterest.jpg\" alt=\"Pinterest\" width=\"172\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9356\" />One handy feature of this WordPress option is that it will stay visible as your user is scrolling through a post. While your users are used to seeing share buttons hidden while they read only for them to have to search for it after they’ve read the article, there is no need to look around the page for the share buttons any longer. Your user won’t be deterred from sharing your content anymore as it will be easier than ever to engage with your content. \r\n\r\nYou can get a plugin for a similar feature by adding sticky floating social bar at the top of your WordPress posts, but people find that this Swift bar is a step up from that option. This is because you gain the category and author information when you use the Swift bar. Your mobile users will thank you too because it looks great on their mobile devices and it’s fully responsive. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to get it</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Swifty_Bar.png\" alt=\"Swifty Bar\" width=\"767\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9358\" />\r\n\r\nYou can set it up in no time by installing and activating the plugin called <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/swifty-bar/\">Swifty Bar</a>, head over to the settings section to configure the plugin settings, and customize it to what you need. You’ll first need to uncheck the “disable bar” option, then you’ll need to check the box that says “show on which post types” to make sure it’s going to show up on your site, and then you can choose the rest of the options to fit your needs. \r\n\r\nIt will ask you to set the “time to read,” what the author’s name is, the words per minute for the average read time, and the comment box ID. Choose from 7 built-in color schemes to compliment your WordPress site’s colors and then save all of your changes. You can start seeing the Swifty bar in action on any of your posts on the website. \r\n\r\nYou’ll definitely want to add the Swifty bar to your WordPress because your users will love seeing which of their favorite authors write the piece, how long it will takes them to read, and an easy way for them to share it with their friends on social media. 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If you haven’t added one yet, it’s time to do so because it’s proving to really work. While using the point system and post reactions are common ways to boost engagement, add the swift bar can encourage your users to share your content on their favorite social media pages as well as share their thoughts on what you have to say. \r\n\r\nThe simple sticky footer at the bottom of your posts is the simplest way to motivate your users to share your work on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, so why wouldn’t you take advantage of such a simple tactic for increasing user engagement? Here is a look at why it’s working and how to get it. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is the Swift Bar exactly?</h2>\r\n\r\nSwifty Bar handy little tool is a favorite on WordPress because it offers a quick shortcut to users for sharing your content on social media. It works like a sticky footer at the bottom of a post showing the post category, the author, and the easy links for sharing the post on your favorite social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. \r\n\r\nIt will even show you the estimated time it’s going to take to read through the post with a progress bar moving forward as your users is scrolling down a post! It’s a great feature for the user with limited time or that wants to save it to read later today. Plus, the easy share buttons for social media is really increasing user engagement. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why you need this</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Pinterest.jpg\" alt=\"Pinterest\" width=\"172\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9356\" />One handy feature of this WordPress option is that it will stay visible as your user is scrolling through a post. While your users are used to seeing share buttons hidden while they read only for them to have to search for it after they’ve read the article, there is no need to look around the page for the share buttons any longer. Your user won’t be deterred from sharing your content anymore as it will be easier than ever to engage with your content. \r\n\r\nYou can get a plugin for a similar feature by adding sticky floating social bar at the top of your WordPress posts, but people find that this Swift bar is a step up from that option. This is because you gain the category and author information when you use the Swift bar. Your mobile users will thank you too because it looks great on their mobile devices and it’s fully responsive. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to get it</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Swifty_Bar.png\" alt=\"Swifty Bar\" width=\"767\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9358\" />\r\n\r\nYou can set it up in no time by installing and activating the plugin called <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/swifty-bar/\">Swifty Bar</a>, head over to the settings section to configure the plugin settings, and customize it to what you need. You’ll first need to uncheck the “disable bar” option, then you’ll need to check the box that says “show on which post types” to make sure it’s going to show up on your site, and then you can choose the rest of the options to fit your needs. \r\n\r\nIt will ask you to set the “time to read,” what the author’s name is, the words per minute for the average read time, and the comment box ID. Choose from 7 built-in color schemes to compliment your WordPress site’s colors and then save all of your changes. You can start seeing the Swifty bar in action on any of your posts on the website. \r\n\r\nYou’ll definitely want to add the Swifty bar to your WordPress because your users will love seeing which of their favorite authors write the piece, how long it will takes them to read, and an easy way for them to share it with their friends on social media. ','How will Adding a Swifty Bar Help with User Engagement on Your WordPress Site?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9355-revision-v1','','','2015-12-01 11:11:36','2015-12-01 16:11:36','',9355,'https://itxdesign.com/9355-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9362,4,'2015-12-07 16:12:21','2015-12-07 21:12:21','When you’re new to WordPress or hoping to improve your knowledge of using the site, it’s important to know what resources are available to you. Setting up a new blog for the first time is a great idea for business owners to improve their credibility and attract visitors to their site, but it’s challenging when you don’t know how this all works yet. \r\n\r\nRather than trying to seek out training websites, you can take a WordPress course or online class. People used to be forced to hack through Codex while figuring things out during live projects, but now, there are excellent resources that will save you time including Skillshare, Udemy, Treehouse, and Lynda. If you’ve decided to join the WordPress wagon but aren’t sure how it works yet, check out these resources to help you learn it inside and out. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why are these resources the right guides for me?</h2>\r\n\r\nNot only are these resources offering high-quality information at really affordable prices, but they offer other perks too. They are a steal compared to what you would pay for a course like this in a higher educational setting. \r\n\r\nYou’ll have the best quality production without random background noise, poor-quality audio, or blurry images like you might find through the use of YouTube tutorials. Plus, it’s self-paced to allow you to do it on your schedule and you’ll learn by doing which takes out the boring element to listening to a long-winded lecture. These resources will suit a wide range of needs from a non-technical newbie to an experienced user that wants to advance their skillset. \r\n\r\n<h2>Treehouse</h2>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://teamtreehouse.com/library/topic:wordpress\" rel=\"nofollow\">Treehouse</a> is an obvious choice for the beginner looking for a great resource. It was created in 2011 by Ryan Carson in order to offer a large range of online training. There are introductory courses for WordPress website owners, more advanced options for experienced users like the WordPress Customizer API course, and learning options are broken out in different modalities. Plus, it only runs around $25-$49 per month. \r\n\r\n<h2>Lynda</h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.lynda.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lynda</a> has become the new go-to for an online resource for WordPress. It was actually just purchased by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion putting it in the news as an industry pioneer. You’ll find over 4,000 video courses covering tons of topics and much of the information comes from top experts in each topic. Enjoy features like advanced bookmarking, custom playlists, beginner’s guides, and advanced training. \r\n\r\n<h2>Skillshare</h2>\r\n\r\nIf you’re looking for something affordable and general, <a href=\"https://www.skillshare.com/classes/wordpress\" rel=\"nofollow\">Skillshare</a> is a great option for just $10 per month. You’ll find WordPress topics that are perfect for someone brand new to the site. You’ll cover areas from how to use popular themes like Avada or Divi and learning more advanced skills like how to build custom themes with Bootstrap. \r\n\r\n<h2>Udemy</h2>\r\n\r\nCheck out <a href=\"https://www.udemy.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Udemy</a> if you are looking for another provider of tons of educational resources. They are a big player with offering over 35,000 courses and only being around since 2010. It works to allow independent experts offer their own topics and courses priced individually which means WordPress users will have unlimited possibility. Check out Andrew Williams’ “WordPress for Beginners,” Michael Shen’s “Create Your Website with WordPress,” or “Ultimate WordPress Plugin Course” by Joel Funk. \r\n\r\n<h2>WPSessions</h2>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://wpsessions.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WPSessions</a> is another good one and it’s exclusively related to WordPress information. 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Setting up a new blog for the first time is a great idea for business owners to improve their credibility and attract visitors to their site, but it’s challenging when you don’t know how this all works yet. \r\n\r\nRather than trying to seek out training websites, you can take a WordPress course or online class. People used to be forced to hack through Codex while figuring things out during live projects, but now, there are excellent resources that will save you time including Skillshare, Udemy, Treehouse, and Lynda. If you’ve decided to join the WordPress wagon but aren’t sure how it works yet, check out these resources to help you learn it inside and out. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why are these resources the right guides for me?</h2>\r\n\r\nNot only are these resources offering high-quality information at really affordable prices, but they offer other perks too. They are a steal compared to what you would pay for a course like this in a higher educational setting. \r\n\r\nYou’ll have the best quality production without random background noise, poor-quality audio, or blurry images like you might find through the use of YouTube tutorials. Plus, it’s self-paced to allow you to do it on your schedule and you’ll learn by doing which takes out the boring element to listening to a long-winded lecture. These resources will suit a wide range of needs from a non-technical newbie to an experienced user that wants to advance their skillset. \r\n\r\n<h2>Treehouse</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/TreeHouse.png\" alt=\"TreeHouse\" width=\"175\" height=\"72\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9365\" />\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://teamtreehouse.com/library/topic:wordpress\" rel=\"nofollow\">Treehouse</a> is an obvious choice for the beginner looking for a great resource. It was created in 2011 by Ryan Carson in order to offer a large range of online training. There are introductory courses for WordPress website owners, more advanced options for experienced users like the WordPress Customizer API course, and learning options are broken out in different modalities. Plus, it only runs around $25-$49 per month. \r\n\r\n<h2>Lynda</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Lynda.png\" alt=\"Lynda\" width=\"505\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9363\" />\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.lynda.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lynda</a> has become the new go-to for an online resource for WordPress. It was actually just purchased by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion putting it in the news as an industry pioneer. You’ll find over 4,000 video courses covering tons of topics and much of the information comes from top experts in each topic. Enjoy features like advanced bookmarking, custom playlists, beginner’s guides, and advanced training. \r\n\r\n<h2>Skillshare</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/SkillShare.png\" alt=\"SkillShare\" width=\"197\" height=\"56\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9364\" />\r\n\r\nIf you’re looking for something affordable and general, <a href=\"https://www.skillshare.com/classes/wordpress\" rel=\"nofollow\">Skillshare</a> is a great option for just $10 per month. You’ll find WordPress topics that are perfect for someone brand new to the site. You’ll cover areas from how to use popular themes like Avada or Divi and learning more advanced skills like how to build custom themes with Bootstrap. \r\n\r\n<h2>Udemy</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Udemy.png\" alt=\"Udemy\" width=\"122\" height=\"47\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9366\" />\r\n\r\nCheck out <a href=\"https://www.udemy.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Udemy</a> if you are looking for another provider of tons of educational resources. They are a big player with offering over 35,000 courses and only being around since 2010. It works to allow independent experts offer their own topics and courses priced individually which means WordPress users will have unlimited possibility. 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Sometimes sites look and work great at first and then at some point down the road, they seem outdated and lacking features that other sites have. \r\n\r\nWhen you’re ready to launch a brand new site and you are overwhelmed by the huge range of possibility through other technologies and tools, here is a look at why WordPress is the obvious winner for website owners and bloggers looking for a place to go with their site. \r\n\r\n<h2>It’s so easy to use</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WordPress-CMS.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress CMS\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9373\" />One of the draws towards WordPress is that it’s so easy to use. It’s easy to set up one of the many WordPress themes, customize it to your needs, and no coding is required. Since their themes typically come with administrative interfaces and page building tools, you’ll have everything you need at the click of a button. 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Whether you already have a web presence for your business or not, it might be time to upgrade or look into other possibilities. Sometimes sites look and work great at first and then at some point down the road, they seem outdated and lacking features that other sites have. \r\n\r\nWhen you’re ready to launch a brand new site and you are overwhelmed by the huge range of possibility through other technologies and tools, here is a look at why WordPress is the obvious winner for website owners and bloggers looking for a place to go with their site. \r\n\r\n<h2>It’s so easy to use</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WordPress-CMS.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress CMS\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9373\" />One of the draws towards WordPress is that it’s so easy to use. It’s easy to set up one of the many WordPress themes, customize it to your needs, and no coding is required. 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Whichever theme you choose, you’ll have options for ones that best show off your portfolio, best appear like a magazine, or best work for your online store, just depending on what need you’d like it to meet for you. \r\n\r\n<h2>Responsiveness</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Responsive-Design.png\" alt=\"Responsive Design\" width=\"345\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9372\" />It’s so important that website owners get on the mobile device-friendliness train. Responsiveness is key to website building because most of your users will be trying to look at your site from a phone or tablet. WordPress offers plenty of responsive designs to optimize your website and allow it to work great on a mobile device. \r\n\r\n<h2>Updates and growth</h2>\r\n\r\nYou’ll love how WordPress is always updating its software with new updates and the latest releases of new features. You’ll be able to stay up to date with updates without any hassle through WordPress. Plus, it will serve to help you grow your business by offering the best features, ease of use, and flexibility. 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This term refers to the amount of time your website’s been available to visitors, up and running, and not in downtime.  \r\n\r\nYou may have come across this term and have seen guarantees about it when you’ve looked up a web host, but you may not have fully grasped why it’s so important. Downtime means that your visitors can’t reach your site which could cost you in sales, revenue, and traffic; so the guarantee of uptime is a big deal. Here is a closer look at why tracking your uptime is really important to a successful website.\r\n\r\n<h2>What happens during uptime vs. downtime?</h2>\r\n\r\nDowntime happens when you are no longer in uptime, or active time of being up and running, available to visitors. Being in downtime means that your potential visitors can’t reach your site and they will inevitably be frustrated and give up forever. Hosting providers are forced to guarantee uptime to their potential customers for a certain percentage of the day, typically around 99.9%. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why is it that important?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Uptime.jpg\" alt=\"Uptime\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9378\" />You may think the occasional downtime is no big deal but in reality, your customers will hold you responsible for a lack of service and website access. You have to be the one to monitor and make sure your provider is holding up their end of the bargain. \r\n\r\nYou need to have a tracking system so that as soon as the site goes down, you can respond immediately. Your web host will monitor uptime but you are smart to track it yourself rather than trusting your hosting provider to be honest and quick in informing you. It’s always better to have more people paying attention to it than the minimum. \r\n\r\n<h2>How do I track uptime?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Website-Uptime.jpg\" alt=\"Website Uptime\" width=\"255\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9379\" />You can track your uptime practically with monitoring tools. There is no need to check your website every 5 minutes looking for an error notice saying your webpage is not available; simply use some auto-check tools to check uptime. \r\n\r\nOptions for tracking tools are plentiful and typically free. You can pay for a premium option too. They can check your HTTP or have it go more complex checking your back-end functions. Here are a few of the most popular tools that are free and easy to us:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>HTTP Monitor for monitoring information about the HTTP traffic between internet and computer with advanced options available\r\n</li><li>Ping Monitor for always checking if your website is up and running with advanced options to advise you on internet connection speeds and downtime stats\r\n</li><li>TCP Port Monitor for transferring data between network devices with notifications if a connection problem takes place\r\n</li><li>DNS Server Monitor which translates the address online to a numerical address which can lead to in-depth data on your uptime, protocol failures, and network outages\r\n</li></ul>\r\nCheck out other options like Monitor Scout, Got Site Monitor, Service Uptime, and Host Track for additional options. \r\n\r\nCheck out these solutions to tracking your uptime and ensuring you don’t deter any potential customers or subscribers from your website due to downtime issues. \r\n','How can you Track the Uptime of your Website?','','publish','open','closed','','how-can-you-track-the-uptime-of-your-website','','','2015-12-10 17:54:00','2015-12-10 22:54:00','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9376',0,'post','',1),(9377,4,'2015-12-10 17:53:03','2015-12-10 22:53:03','','Track Uptime','','inherit','open','closed','','track-uptime','','','2015-12-10 17:53:08','2015-12-10 22:53:08','',9376,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Track-Uptime.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9378,4,'2015-12-10 17:53:04','2015-12-10 22:53:04','','Uptime','','inherit','open','closed','','uptime','','','2015-12-10 17:53:18','2015-12-10 22:53:18','',9376,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Uptime.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9379,4,'2015-12-10 17:53:04','2015-12-10 22:53:04','','Website Uptime','','inherit','open','closed','','website-uptime','','','2015-12-10 17:53:27','2015-12-10 22:53:27','',9376,'https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Website-Uptime.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(9380,4,'2015-12-10 17:53:32','2015-12-10 22:53:32','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Track-Uptime.jpg\" alt=\"Track Uptime\" width=\"399\" height=\"126\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9377\" />You may have not considered the importance of tracking your uptime with your website but it’s actually really important that you do. 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Hosting providers are forced to guarantee uptime to their potential customers for a certain percentage of the day, typically around 99.9%. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why is it that important?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Uptime.jpg\" alt=\"Uptime\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9378\" />You may think the occasional downtime is no big deal but in reality, your customers will hold you responsible for a lack of service and website access. You have to be the one to monitor and make sure your provider is holding up their end of the bargain. \r\n\r\nYou need to have a tracking system so that as soon as the site goes down, you can respond immediately. Your web host will monitor uptime but you are smart to track it yourself rather than trusting your hosting provider to be honest and quick in informing you. It’s always better to have more people paying attention to it than the minimum. \r\n\r\n<h2>How do I track uptime?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Website-Uptime.jpg\" alt=\"Website Uptime\" width=\"255\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9379\" />You can track your uptime practically with monitoring tools. There is no need to check your website every 5 minutes looking for an error notice saying your webpage is not available; simply use some auto-check tools to check uptime. \r\n\r\nOptions for tracking tools are plentiful and typically free. You can pay for a premium option too. They can check your HTTP or have it go more complex checking your back-end functions. 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There are some common mistakes people make when they use this social media platform that they don’t even realize. \r\n\r\nFor example, it’s easy to treat Google+ like another version of Facebook which it’s really quite different in how it should be used. Some people forget to utilize the Circles feature and separate their followers by the appropriate groups. Others forget to engage customers and simply use it as a promotional tool. When you think you are a rock star on Google+, check out these common mistakes that many are making to make sure you are not actually using the platform all wrong. \r\n\r\n<h2>You forget to share direct links to your blog</h2>\r\n\r\nYou have probably heard that posting content with an image is the most effective way to use social media, but did you know that never naturally loading directly from your blog is a big mistake? Always uploading images with your post may start to look unnatural after a while. 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Google+ on the other hand is designed to be more about promoting a niche blog in which you’ll want to develop relationships, promote your articles, and limit who you are connected to compared to Facebook. \r\n\r\n<h2>Not using the Circles feature</h2>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts of Google+ is the hangouts or Circles feature where you can organize members into one circle to separate how you relate to them. You can have one for that group of friends you meet with on Thursdays, each side of your extended family, one for networking purposes, and one for your customer base. Then, send posts targeted to the right circles and engage your audiences for different purposes. \r\n\r\n<h2>Promoting vs. engaging</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Common-Google-Mistakes.png\" alt=\"Common Google+ Mistakes\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9382\" />Sometimes people want to use social media strictly for their own promotional needs. Google+, along with other social media platforms, is really meant to be a way to engage with people. It’s meant to be a way to convert followers to subscribers or to customers while you can promote in other platforms like email newsletters. Use Google+ to build relationships, share your content, and share interesting content from others. \r\n\r\nBe careful not to use the site for promoting a content or promotion as it’s against their Terms of Service, don’t forget to embed posts on your blog, and be sure to use relevant keywords. 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There are some common mistakes people make when they use this social media platform that they don’t even realize. \r\n\r\nFor example, it’s easy to treat Google+ like another version of Facebook which it’s really quite different in how it should be used. Some people forget to utilize the Circles feature and separate their followers by the appropriate groups. Others forget to engage customers and simply use it as a promotional tool. When you think you are a rock star on Google+, check out these common mistakes that many are making to make sure you are not actually using the platform all wrong. \r\n\r\n<h2>You forget to share direct links to your blog</h2>\r\n\r\nYou have probably heard that posting content with an image is the most effective way to use social media, but did you know that never naturally loading directly from your blog is a big mistake? Always uploading images with your post may start to look unnatural after a while. 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Google+ on the other hand is designed to be more about promoting a niche blog in which you’ll want to develop relationships, promote your articles, and limit who you are connected to compared to Facebook. \r\n\r\n<h2>Not using the Circles feature</h2>\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts of Google+ is the hangouts or Circles feature where you can organize members into one circle to separate how you relate to them. You can have one for that group of friends you meet with on Thursdays, each side of your extended family, one for networking purposes, and one for your customer base. 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It can translate local or current phrases into English which is not only really helpful for writing but it can be pretty hilarious. \r\n\r\n<h2><a href=\"http://www.hemingwayapp.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hemingway App</a></h2>\r\n\r\nAnother great editor option is Hemingway App, used as a personal editor app that will thoroughly check your grammar for things like use of a passive voice, overused adverbs, and run-on sentences. \r\n\r\n<h2><a href=\"https://www.zoho.com/docs/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zoho Docs</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ZohoDocs.png\" alt=\"Zoho Docs\" width=\"158\" height=\"63\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9390\" />Another interactive site is Zoho Docs, designed to help you collaborate with clients or other members of your team. Just create a document online and you can access it from your laptop or smart phone. \r\n\r\nThese are the best bets for your writing needs online. 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When you decide to write online for a new blog or website, it helps to have some basic skills in writing and researching but it will make a big difference when you have some tools at your disposal to make sure you are covering your bases. \r\n\r\nWhether you struggle with proper grammar or simply need some motivational help for your productivity needs, here is a look at the online tools you won’t want to live without when it comes to your writing. \r\n\r\n<h2><a href=\"http://750words.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">750 Words</a></h2>\r\n\r\nBloggers love to use 750Words.com with help when writing new content. It actually turns blogging into more of a game than work which is great for those bloggers that don’t love the actual writing part and wish they could focus on more of the behind-the-scenes aspects of it. The game gives you points for everything you write through a score card that imitates a bowling game. It will keep you motivated while you compete with yourself for the top score. \r\n\r\n<h2><a href=\"https://www.grammarly.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grammarly</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Grammarly.png\" alt=\"Grammarly\" width=\"227\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9387\" />You can have your own online editor with Grammarly, a simple-to-use app for editing your work. Just upload your text or drag and drop it to make sure you didn’t misspell or misplace your punctuation. Plus, it’ll make sure you aren’t plagiarizing. They call themselves the “world’s best grammar checker.”\r\n\r\n<h2>Synchro Edit/h2&gt;\r\n\r\nCheck out Synchro Edit if you need another set of eyes to see your work. You’ll work with other writers on a group editing platform in which multiple people can edit the work to help you with insight on what you may need help. \r\n\r\n<h2><a href=\"http://writtenkitten.co/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Written Kitten</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WrittenKitten.png\" alt=\"Written Kitten\" width=\"314\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9389\" />Do you need a little extra motivation as you work? Cat lovers are all about Written Kitten, a fun app that will send you an adorable cat photo after you’ve completed an interval of words written. You can set it to pop up after 100 words, 500, or even 1000 word intervals. 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It can translate local or current phrases into English which is not only really helpful for writing but it can be pretty hilarious. \r\n\r\n<h2><a href=\"http://www.hemingwayapp.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hemingway App</a></h2>\r\n\r\nAnother great editor option is Hemingway App, used as a personal editor app that will thoroughly check your grammar for things like use of a passive voice, overused adverbs, and run-on sentences. \r\n\r\n<h2><a href=\"https://www.zoho.com/docs/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zoho Docs</a></h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ZohoDocs.png\" alt=\"Zoho Docs\" width=\"158\" height=\"63\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9390\" />Another interactive site is Zoho Docs, designed to help you collaborate with clients or other members of your team. Just create a document online and you can access it from your laptop or smart phone. \r\n\r\nThese are the best bets for your writing needs online. 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These have been around for a while and have proven to be reliable and popular choices for your slider plugin needs. \r\n\r\n<h2>Huge-IT Slider</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Huge-IT_Slider.png\" alt=\"Huge-IT Slider\" width=\"736\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9541\" />\r\n\r\nCheck out <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/slider-image/\">Huge-IT Slider</a> where you’ll have a ton of features and a straight-forward setup. It has over 100,000 active installs because it’s been slowly licking the ranks for one of the most popular choices. You’ll find there is excellent support and user friendly admin. You’ll have a fully responsive plugin with unlimited sliders and even a widget slider. \r\n\r\nPlus, you’ll have the options of YouTube, Vimeo, and Post sliders. 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Plus, you can upgrade to go pro for just $19 per year if you want even more options. \r\n\r\n<h2>Soliloquy Lite</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Soliloquy.png\" alt=\"Soliloquy\" width=\"754\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9543\" />\r\n\r\nIt’s hard to beat this simple set-up plugin called <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/soliloquy-lite/\">Soliloquy Lite</a>. This responsive WordPress slider allows you to configure the look and feel, add your own custom CSS, and enjoy even more premium features if you choose the pro version. \r\n\r\n<h2>Other great options </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CycloneSlider2.png\" alt=\"Cyclone Slider 2\" width=\"768\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9540\" />\r\n\r\nCheck out <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/cyclone-slider-2/\">Cyclone Slider 2</a> for another great, simply option that offers more internationalized options than most. Master Slider is the choice for many that like a pretty, simple, and fun plugin option featuring drag and drop for your images and probably the least intrusive when it comes to ads interfering with your site. Slider WD is the choice for many that want tons and tons of options. 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While everyone is talking about their worry of being hacked, spammed, or even dealing with identity theft, it’s time to take proactive steps to avoid this happening to you. While you’re on the subject of enhancing your security and protecting your privacy, take action with these steps to keep your domain name information private. \r\n\r\n<h2>Taking a look at WHOIS</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Domain-Name-Privacy.png\" alt=\"Domain Name Privacy\" width=\"288\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9395\" />WHOIS is a term that refers to a query that a user can submit in search of specific information of domains. In your situation, you would purchase a domain name and during the process, you’ll have to register the domain with your contact information. This means that anyone who wants to search through WHOIS for the domain name information would be given access to the contact information you provided since it becomes available to anyone online. When you purchase your domain name with your contact information registered, it’s available to the public for anyone who wants to do a WHOIS search.\r\n\r\n<h2>What to know</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Keep-Domain-Info-Private.jpg\" alt=\"Keep Domain Info Private\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9396\" />It can be beneficial to have your contact information available in association with your domain name. Customers can more easily find you which leading many businesses to prefer their contact information is available on the WHOIS information. For others, the lack privacy is a problem. 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This means that anyone who wants to search through WHOIS for the domain name information would be given access to the contact information you provided since it becomes available to anyone online. When you purchase your domain name with your contact information registered, it’s available to the public for anyone who wants to do a WHOIS search.\r\n\r\n<h2>What to know</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Keep-Domain-Info-Private.jpg\" alt=\"Keep Domain Info Private\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9396\" />It can be beneficial to have your contact information available in association with your domain name. Customers can more easily find you which leading many businesses to prefer their contact information is available on the WHOIS information. For others, the lack privacy is a problem. 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Unlimited bandwidth would be impossible for a hosting company because it’s too expensive. Unlimited packages assume a user is going to fall within the normal range. You need to look at your own bandwidth required to determine if the unlimited packages can handle the amount you need. \r\n\r\n<h2>Determine amount of bandwidth you need</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Your-Bandwidth-Needs.png\" alt=\"Your Bandwidth Needs\" width=\"276\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9401\" />You’ll need to take the time to determine how much bandwidth you need. You could think of it like a pair of pants; you can’t go too small but going a size too high may be a waste. Don’t purchase up either; find someone who can offer scalable options to get right on to the amount you need. 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A data transfer refers to simply the amount of data that can be transferred compared to the rate of the data transfer which is what bandwidth means. \r\n\r\nWhile data transfer is like the measure of the amount of water flowing through a water pipe, the bandwidth would be like the width of that pipe. The width would determine how fast the data or water could flow. Once you understand this, you need to look at how much bandwidth a hosting company serves to determine if their bandwidth will be high enough, and how their speed, connectivity, network, and systems are based on this. \r\n\r\n<h2>Unlimited bandwidth</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Bandwidth.png\" alt=\"Bandwidth\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9400\" />If you choose an unlimited hosting company, you are actually purchasing a flat cost from the buyer that is what a general user would need with penalties that will come about when you go over the norm. 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You’ll need to estimate the average page size of your site in kilobytes, look at monthly average number of visitors to multiply with the average page size, and then take that number and multiply it by the average number of page views per visitor. \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve figured this out, you can start shopping for a web host. 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Once you’ve done this, you simply need to transfer that passion into connecting with your readers so that a community can form. \r\n\r\nThis eventually leads to a profit as can be seen by the recent purchase of the Warrior Forum by Freelancer.com for $3.2 million. With an active and strong community in Warrior Forum, it’s clear that building a solid community can pay off. Here is a look at how to start building your community to create profit. \r\n\r\n<h2>Where to start</h2>\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve realized building your online community is the key to creating massive profit, it’s time to get started. Your customers want to feel a part of a community and tell people they know about your site. \r\n\r\nPlus, when a site has a successful online community, word-of-mouth advertising will increase by up to 35% according to some marketing studies. 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For example, your site could be their top resource for information in your industry or niche. It could be the place they go to learn something or it could be a place they visit to converse with like-minded people. \r\n\r\nPeople also love a place that feels like a safe zone, like a community where people can feel safe to share their opinions without the fear of being attacked, so establishing boundaries to protect members on your site may make it easy for them to want to visit, contribute, and come back regularly. \r\n\r\nHaving a specific niche is always a great way to build a solid online community, whether it’s a common religion, a common goal like weight loss, or a site for golf enthusiasts. Having a specific niche will give those with this common interest an obvious place to look for news updates, helpful tips, and a sense of community for questions or advice. \r\n\r\n<h2>Challenges you may need to overcome</h2>\r\n\r\nThe hardest part of building an online community is that even if you follow all of these rules, you still don’t know if people will get involved in your community. It takes a lot of time to manage a community and it’s challenging to attract newbies to the community. By doing things like welcoming your new members, starting discussions, planning events like a contest, and answering your members’ questions, you’ll have an easier time getting people involved. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Community.jpg\" alt=\"Community\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9404\" />You can grow by encourage people to share your site with their friends, making sign-up really easy, and starting a social media page with links to the page’s sign-up. Manage the upkeep of it by having a way for members to report abuse, keeping an eye on regularly posting and knowledgeable members that could potentially start contributing for you, and automatically approving members’ posts that have posted over a dozen times in the past. \r\n\r\nYou’ll soon see that building an online community can bring massive profits, from an increase in traffic to a higher ranking on search engines, and even a potential chance that the community chooses to purchase products and services from you compared to a competitor. Use these tips to build a great online community and watch as it grows and becomes something really great. 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If you are running a website, you’ve probably seen your traffic build and reader loyalty increase. This is what drives you to keep creating great content and form a solid blog. Once you’ve done this, you simply need to transfer that passion into connecting with your readers so that a community can form. \r\n\r\nThis eventually leads to a profit as can be seen by the recent purchase of the Warrior Forum by Freelancer.com for $3.2 million. With an active and strong community in Warrior Forum, it’s clear that building a solid community can pay off. Here is a look at how to start building your community to create profit. \r\n\r\n<h2>Where to start</h2>\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve realized building your online community is the key to creating massive profit, it’s time to get started. Your customers want to feel a part of a community and tell people they know about your site. \r\n\r\nPlus, when a site has a successful online community, word-of-mouth advertising will increase by up to 35% according to some marketing studies. What better way to connect with your customers and interact so that they feel more inspired to purchase your service or product from you rather than a competitor they have way to relate to? \r\n\r\n<h2>The keys to a good online community </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Online-Community.jpg\" alt=\"Online Community\" width=\"332\" height=\"134\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9406\" />There are a few keys to creating a successful online community. Your members should feel part of the group which can be done by welcoming new members, asking them to introduce themselves, and recognizing birthdays. For example, Spark People is a diet website that has grown in popularity because of the tools for dieting and recipes, as well as the perks like featured member pages and birthday wishes. \r\n\r\nYou’ll also want to make sure members feel valued with benefits that will make them want to visit you regularly. For example, your site could be their top resource for information in your industry or niche. It could be the place they go to learn something or it could be a place they visit to converse with like-minded people. \r\n\r\nPeople also love a place that feels like a safe zone, like a community where people can feel safe to share their opinions without the fear of being attacked, so establishing boundaries to protect members on your site may make it easy for them to want to visit, contribute, and come back regularly. \r\n\r\nHaving a specific niche is always a great way to build a solid online community, whether it’s a common religion, a common goal like weight loss, or a site for golf enthusiasts. Having a specific niche will give those with this common interest an obvious place to look for news updates, helpful tips, and a sense of community for questions or advice. \r\n\r\n<h2>Challenges you may need to overcome</h2>\r\n\r\nThe hardest part of building an online community is that even if you follow all of these rules, you still don’t know if people will get involved in your community. It takes a lot of time to manage a community and it’s challenging to attract newbies to the community. By doing things like welcoming your new members, starting discussions, planning events like a contest, and answering your members’ questions, you’ll have an easier time getting people involved. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Community.jpg\" alt=\"Community\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9404\" />You can grow by encourage people to share your site with their friends, making sign-up really easy, and starting a social media page with links to the page’s sign-up. Manage the upkeep of it by having a way for members to report abuse, keeping an eye on regularly posting and knowledgeable members that could potentially start contributing for you, and automatically approving members’ posts that have posted over a dozen times in the past. \r\n\r\nYou’ll soon see that building an online community can bring massive profits, from an increase in traffic to a higher ranking on search engines, and even a potential chance that the community chooses to purchase products and services from you compared to a competitor. Use these tips to build a great online community and watch as it grows and becomes something really great. Make time every day for your community and set up automation to make it easier on yourself. \r\n','Why can an Online Community Create Massive Profits?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9403-revision-v1','','','2015-12-14 15:25:57','2015-12-14 20:25:57','',9403,'https://itxdesign.com/9403-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9408,4,'2015-12-15 17:26:35','2015-12-15 22:26:35','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Link-Building-for-SEO.jpg\" alt=\"Link Building for SEO\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9410\" />A backlink is a link that is placed in content to refer readers to the original source of what is being discussed. For example, a negative backlink can be placed on a blog in which an author wants to show their readership that you are a horrible writer or did something unprofessional. A positive backlink on the other hand, can lead to an increased credibility. \r\n\r\nAs long as your backlinks aren’t there simply as part of a list of useful resources and nothing more, backlinks can really work in your favor. Link building is a great marketing tool but not to be confused with SEO. Here is a look at what link building is all about for those looking to up their marketing game. \r\n\r\n<h2>It goes farther than your Google popularity</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Link-Building-for-Marketing.jpg\" alt=\"Link Building for Marketing\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9409\" />You may think link building is simple to gain popularity on Google and rank higher with search engines. It turns out, regardless of your links’ popularity or SEO, it’s really about the popularity you gain from visibility. This is why link building has nothing to do with SEO and it’s really just a great marketing strategy. \r\n\r\nYour visibility is increased because backlinks to your blog or website are placed on others’ websites which sells those readers on your site. Your product or service is being sold to your target audience as the solution they needed all along. \r\n\r\nStop thinking it’s just used for ranking purposes and expand your horizons to realize that link building is more about being seen and fulfilling a need that results in an increased following or increase in sales. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to do it</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Link-Building.jpg\" alt=\"Link Building\" width=\"294\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9411\" />If you’ve decided to try link building, you can start by understanding your link building is a way to build connections which means you’ll have to get in touch with people that could be interested in your product or service. This means that you need to build a great reputation so that people will be interested in your service or product so get connected to prospects on social media and visit related blogs to build relationships with interesting bloggers.\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve started finding people, engage in conversation to interact with people. Encourage conversation by sparking conversation through a well-placed link and spark curiosity by sending your prospect directly to your homepage with a freebie. \r\n\r\nYour link building should create a bridge between the web and your website by getting your site known and hoping to get the chance to do business. You can use it as advertising, outreach, and for visibility. It existed well before link-based searches and Google so it’s definitely not an SEO technique. \r\n\r\nYou can build links by:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Reaching out to webmasters to offer useful content they can link to </li>\r\n<li>Doing a link exchange</li>\r\n<li>Requesting to sponsor content</li>\r\n<li>Sharing freebies</li>\r\n<li>Reaching out on social media</li>\r\n<li>And many other ways!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nConsider that link building is a great marketing tool and not to be thought of in regards to SEO or Google. 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For example, a negative backlink can be placed on a blog in which an author wants to show their readership that you are a horrible writer or did something unprofessional. A positive backlink on the other hand, can lead to an increased credibility. \r\n\r\nAs long as your backlinks aren’t there simply as part of a list of useful resources and nothing more, backlinks can really work in your favor. Link building is a great marketing tool but not to be confused with SEO. Here is a look at what link building is all about for those looking to up their marketing game. \r\n\r\n<h2>It goes farther than your Google popularity</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Link-Building-for-Marketing.jpg\" alt=\"Link Building for Marketing\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9409\" />You may think link building is simple to gain popularity on Google and rank higher with search engines. It turns out, regardless of your links’ popularity or SEO, it’s really about the popularity you gain from visibility. This is why link building has nothing to do with SEO and it’s really just a great marketing strategy. \r\n\r\nYour visibility is increased because backlinks to your blog or website are placed on others’ websites which sells those readers on your site. Your product or service is being sold to your target audience as the solution they needed all along. \r\n\r\nStop thinking it’s just used for ranking purposes and expand your horizons to realize that link building is more about being seen and fulfilling a need that results in an increased following or increase in sales. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to do it</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Link-Building.jpg\" alt=\"Link Building\" width=\"294\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9411\" />If you’ve decided to try link building, you can start by understanding your link building is a way to build connections which means you’ll have to get in touch with people that could be interested in your product or service. This means that you need to build a great reputation so that people will be interested in your service or product so get connected to prospects on social media and visit related blogs to build relationships with interesting bloggers.\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve started finding people, engage in conversation to interact with people. Encourage conversation by sparking conversation through a well-placed link and spark curiosity by sending your prospect directly to your homepage with a freebie. \r\n\r\nYour link building should create a bridge between the web and your website by getting your site known and hoping to get the chance to do business. You can use it as advertising, outreach, and for visibility. 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You don’t want potential customers to loathe your social media promotions while you don’t want to miss out on the promotional opportunity. \r\n\r\nMost people sign up for sites like Facebook and Twitter to keep in touch with old friends or have an easier way to send new pictures of your family to relatives, so when people start seeing advertisement, it gets really frustrating and deters them from using the platform. Here is a look at why people don’t care for social media promotions and what you can do to make yours better. \r\n\r\n<h2>How do we know people dislike social media advertising?</h2>\r\n\r\nStudies are showing that when people sign up for communications with a company, less than 5% of them want to see promotions from the company on Facebook and only 1% want them on Twitter. 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For example, don’t do what the self-promoting sites are doing; engage your audience in more effective ways. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Social-Media-Promotions.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media Promotions\" width=\"237\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9418\" />For every five posts of content that you share with your audience that’s not your work (i.e. images or funny quotes), three posts should be unique content from your company that isn’t working to sell your product like personal greetings, facts, or interesting insights and two posts should by simply personal and unrelated to your company, such as news of the birth of your child. \r\n\r\nAnother formula you could try is to make 60% of your content gathered from other sources such as the news and interesting quotes, making 30% of your content created by you, and 10% of your content being promotional in which you ask for subscriptions to the newsletter or other calls to action. \r\n\r\nWhen you know your audience doesn’t want to see promotional material on social media, use this information to better utilize social media as a change to engage and reach customers in other ways. 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When you first shop for hosting, you’ll see flashy offers and amazing features being offered but in some cases, it may not be what you thought it was. \r\n\r\nSorting through the features that each provider offers can be overwhelming and frustrating. Rather than letting the great providers get lost in the shuffle, it’s a good idea to start understanding the hosting myths before you choose who to work with. From thinking a free host is the best way to go to thinking any hosting provider will do, here is a look at these myths and more that could end up with you using a bad hosting service. \r\n\r\n<h2>Any hosting provider will work just fine</h2>\r\n\r\nIt may seem that there is no real difference between hosting providers and that anyone will do just fine. In reality, you need to be very thorough before you choose a provider. 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Irritating your audience will deter them from even purchasing your product or service. The good news is that if you can find ways to make a social media business page and make it seem personable by having a real person with personality updating it, it can make your audience find your company your relatable and you’ll be able to reach more people. \r\n\r\nCompanies like BufferApp.com and Huffington Post have already put this into action. For example, BufferApp.com actually runs a #BufferChat weekly chat to engage readers by having executives in the company talk on Twitter where a following can ask questions and interact. Huffington Post will share interesting content and images, typically by posting a large, intriguing photograph with an engaging headline and it’s caused them to gain a following of over 3,000,000 on Facebook. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to strategize better and promote successfully</h2>\r\n\r\nYou can use social media better by making it a place to build your email list and only promote interesting content. Using email for promotional material is a safer bet because social media is better utilized as a way to convert leads into subscribers. Offer special content that is only available for free via email registration. You can also start using bloggers to promote your brand. \r\n\r\nIf social media is not the place to promote and it’s really a place to connect, use this information to your benefit. 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Why do people hate it? When you find it a good way to promote yourself, it feels like you’re stuck between a rock and hard place. You don’t want potential customers to loathe your social media promotions while you don’t want to miss out on the promotional opportunity. \r\n\r\nMost people sign up for sites like Facebook and Twitter to keep in touch with old friends or have an easier way to send new pictures of your family to relatives, so when people start seeing advertisement, it gets really frustrating and deters them from using the platform. Here is a look at why people don’t care for social media promotions and what you can do to make yours better. \r\n\r\n<h2>How do we know people dislike social media advertising?</h2>\r\n\r\nStudies are showing that when people sign up for communications with a company, less than 5% of them want to see promotions from the company on Facebook and only 1% want them on Twitter. Part of this is because a majority of people would prefer promotions be done through email. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Social-Media-Promo.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media Promo\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9417\" />A company has no choice but to focus on good social media promotional decisions. Irritating your audience will deter them from even purchasing your product or service. The good news is that if you can find ways to make a social media business page and make it seem personable by having a real person with personality updating it, it can make your audience find your company your relatable and you’ll be able to reach more people. \r\n\r\nCompanies like BufferApp.com and Huffington Post have already put this into action. For example, BufferApp.com actually runs a #BufferChat weekly chat to engage readers by having executives in the company talk on Twitter where a following can ask questions and interact. 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For example, don’t do what the self-promoting sites are doing; engage your audience in more effective ways. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Social-Media-Promotions.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media Promotions\" width=\"237\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9418\" />For every five posts of content that you share with your audience that’s not your work (i.e. images or funny quotes), three posts should be unique content from your company that isn’t working to sell your product like personal greetings, facts, or interesting insights and two posts should by simply personal and unrelated to your company, such as news of the birth of your child. \r\n\r\nAnother formula you could try is to make 60% of your content gathered from other sources such as the news and interesting quotes, making 30% of your content created by you, and 10% of your content being promotional in which you ask for subscriptions to the newsletter or other calls to action. \r\n\r\nWhen you know your audience doesn’t want to see promotional material on social media, use this information to better utilize social media as a change to engage and reach customers in other ways. 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It can be challenging to automatically know the best ways to utilize social media when it comes to your marketing efforts. What once started as a platform for casual interactions has transformed into something much more. Social media is now one of the most important marketing platforms for businesses and has become the people adults and teenagers show off to the world what they enjoying, what they are doing, and what is going on in their lives. \r\n\r\nOne of the reasons it’s become a marketing platform is that everybody’s on it and it’s the easiest way to connect with your customers to find out what they like, what they hate, and to introduce them to your brand. Since this trend isn’t going away anytime soon, it’s time to embrace social media marketing and learn how to do it better. Here are some tips from the experts on how to better market via social media. \r\n\r\n<h2>There are more options than Facebook</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Facebook-Marketing.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Marketing\" width=\"275\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9422\" />Many companies lean towards Facebook for social media marketing needs. Being one of the first platforms out there for social media, it’s become the easiest go-to for creating a business page and promoting the brand. Many fail to realize that your Tweets and Google+ updates may be more likely to be seen rather than getting lost in the shuffle of Facebook news feed. \r\n\r\nFacebook is a great place to start but don’t forget to work on different platforms to ensure you are reaching more people. People may want to pin your stuff on Pinterest, see your new product line on Instagram, or re-tweet you on Twitter, so be sure to get set up with most of the major social media platforms. Schedule out your updates through HootSuite to have your different sites updated when you’d like.\r\n\r\n<h2>Analyze your efforts and invest more time</h2>\r\n\r\nYou should definitely the time to analyze where you’re at now with social media marketing and where you could improve. If you feel that you’re doing a great job already, take a look at your customer conversion rate, your number of followers, how much interaction is taking place, and which platforms seem to do the best. Perhaps you don’t need to be on Pinterest but you do really well on Facebook. Investing the time to really analyze where you’re at and to dedicate more time into improving. The average amount of time you should be working on social media each week would be 6-11 hours. \r\n\r\n<h2>Build a following and plan ahead</h2>\r\n\r\nPart of the reason you need a social media account is because you need to develop your fan base. Increasing your exposure to customers through social media is one of the most important benefits behind utilizing this tool. It’s important to take the time to engage with your following, share interesting posts, respond to complaints, and to show gratitude to happy customers. \r\n\r\nMake sure you plan out time each week to work on social media from scheduling in blocks of time to keep it up to date to making sure your blog posts and other content are easily sharable on social media. \r\n\r\n<h2>Videos and podcasts</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Social-Media-1.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9424\" />Another way to really market well on social media is to start promoting videos and podcasts. While you might be used to sharing news stories in the industry, funny photos, tips and advice from your company, or updates on what the company has been up to, it would be wise to start implementing more photos and videos when you post. \r\n\r\nPeople are more likely to read your post if there is an image and they are even more likely to stick around if there is a video to see. 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Unfortunately, marketing takes a little bit of extra thought, research into consumers’ wants and needs, and work to stand out from competitors and consumers’ mindset to avoid spending the money on new products or services. \r\n\r\nDecision-making is done through personal preferences and emotions which means marketers have to find a way to tap into what consumers’ prefer and have an emotional reaction towards. When a marketer has found a way to get consumers to go against their better judgement and to react through emotions and preferences, there is a better chance at gaining a consumer. Here is a look at how your competitors might be tapping strongly into your customers’ emotions that is causing them to overlook logic and make the purchase. \r\n\r\n<h2>Use of the Anchoring effect</h2>\r\n\r\nSome marketers are using the Anchoring Effect in their campaigns. This strategy is using the psychology where sometimes people will rely on just one piece of information for their decision-making. This means that people want to compare a product rather than to judge it based on the information presented solely on what this product can offer. \r\n\r\nFor those that have a more expensive product to sell, if you can put it next to a similar product costing more or next to a product at a similar price but offering less features, you are more likely to make the sale as people will use the comparisons to determine yours makes the most sense. They will be mesmerized by how much more value yours offers or how the competitor’s is so much more expensive rather than to look at your product’s value alone. \r\n\r\n<h2>Using the Halo effect</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Psychology.jpg\" alt=\"Psychology\" width=\"208\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9429\" />Another route where psychology can affect marketing strategies is through the Halo Effect. The Halo Effect focuses on what looks good by showing consumers that if something or someone looks good, it must be good. For example, more attractive people tend to make more money and get more opportunities compared to ordinary-looking people. \r\n\r\nMarketers use this concept to show off a product in the most attractive way possible so that people will trust that it’s a good product. They will also make their marketing materials attractive, build a beautiful website, and put the most attractive products in the spotlight. \r\n\r\n<h2>Hyperbolic Discounting method</h2>\r\n\r\nSince people love instant gratification, many people will try the “buy now, pay later” strategy to make a sale. People want that product now but they don’t always have the money for it now. You can make the sale and they can get what they want right now, which will cause you to lock in a customer for a monthly or yearly payment plan. \r\n\r\n<h2>Bandwagon Bias</h2>\r\n\r\nYou could also try the bandwagon bias effect for an easy marketing technique. This means that people can see that everybody wants this product or service which means they will want it even more. You may notice that if many people “like” something on Facebook, you are more tempted to “like” it too. \r\n\r\nPeople are more likely to make the purchase if there are hundreds of great reviews, if a brand has a huge fan base, and if there is enough proof from other people that it’s a great product. Brands should make sure every customer leaves a review after they’ve made a purchase to build that fan base. \r\n\r\n<h2>Picture Superiority</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Psychology-marketing.jpg\" alt=\"Psychology marketing\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9428\" />Lastly, check out the picture superiority concept. Marketers use this to score customers knowing that people are more likely to remember something based on an image compared to text. Adding images to marketing material is a simple way to boost sales. 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If marketing could be more simple and a no-brainer, it would be great for small business owners. Unfortunately, marketing takes a little bit of extra thought, research into consumers’ wants and needs, and work to stand out from competitors and consumers’ mindset to avoid spending the money on new products or services. \r\n\r\nDecision-making is done through personal preferences and emotions which means marketers have to find a way to tap into what consumers’ prefer and have an emotional reaction towards. When a marketer has found a way to get consumers to go against their better judgement and to react through emotions and preferences, there is a better chance at gaining a consumer. Here is a look at how your competitors might be tapping strongly into your customers’ emotions that is causing them to overlook logic and make the purchase. \r\n\r\n<h2>Use of the Anchoring effect</h2>\r\n\r\nSome marketers are using the Anchoring Effect in their campaigns. This strategy is using the psychology where sometimes people will rely on just one piece of information for their decision-making. This means that people want to compare a product rather than to judge it based on the information presented solely on what this product can offer. \r\n\r\nFor those that have a more expensive product to sell, if you can put it next to a similar product costing more or next to a product at a similar price but offering less features, you are more likely to make the sale as people will use the comparisons to determine yours makes the most sense. They will be mesmerized by how much more value yours offers or how the competitor’s is so much more expensive rather than to look at your product’s value alone. \r\n\r\n<h2>Using the Halo effect</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Psychology.jpg\" alt=\"Psychology\" width=\"208\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9429\" />Another route where psychology can affect marketing strategies is through the Halo Effect. The Halo Effect focuses on what looks good by showing consumers that if something or someone looks good, it must be good. For example, more attractive people tend to make more money and get more opportunities compared to ordinary-looking people. \r\n\r\nMarketers use this concept to show off a product in the most attractive way possible so that people will trust that it’s a good product. They will also make their marketing materials attractive, build a beautiful website, and put the most attractive products in the spotlight. \r\n\r\n<h2>Hyperbolic Discounting method</h2>\r\n\r\nSince people love instant gratification, many people will try the “buy now, pay later” strategy to make a sale. People want that product now but they don’t always have the money for it now. You can make the sale and they can get what they want right now, which will cause you to lock in a customer for a monthly or yearly payment plan. \r\n\r\n<h2>Bandwagon Bias</h2>\r\n\r\nYou could also try the bandwagon bias effect for an easy marketing technique. This means that people can see that everybody wants this product or service which means they will want it even more. You may notice that if many people “like” something on Facebook, you are more tempted to “like” it too. \r\n\r\nPeople are more likely to make the purchase if there are hundreds of great reviews, if a brand has a huge fan base, and if there is enough proof from other people that it’s a great product. Brands should make sure every customer leaves a review after they’ve made a purchase to build that fan base. \r\n\r\n<h2>Picture Superiority</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Psychology-marketing.jpg\" alt=\"Psychology marketing\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9428\" />Lastly, check out the picture superiority concept. Marketers use this to score customers knowing that people are more likely to remember something based on an image compared to text. Adding images to marketing material is a simple way to boost sales. Images are much more powerful than text, so be sure to have images in your marketing campaigns, advertisements, and social media updates. \r\n\r\nUse these tools to market best considering the simple psychological impact that works well with consumers. \r\n\r\n','How does Psychology Play a Role in Your Marketing?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9426-revision-v1','','','2015-12-21 15:13:54','2015-12-21 20:13:54','',9426,'https://itxdesign.com/9426-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9431,4,'2015-12-22 08:14:50','2015-12-22 13:14:50','Have you considered using sites like YouTube, Vine, or Vimeo for your content marketing? YouTube is probably the most popular site to view videos especially since it was popular before social media really came to the forefront. Vimeo focuses on a high-quality standard and Vine was created as an iOS application making it focused on mobile users. \r\n\r\nAdding video to your content marketing strategy is important because you can get the words across to your readers better, create an emotional bond for your customers, and you’ll increase your chance of your content getting shared on social media. Here is a look at choosing between these three main video websites and apps when trying to make the right choice for your company. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why YouTube?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube\" width=\"211\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9434\" />YouTube is a great choice for those who are comfortable with the platform. It has been around since 2005 and has over a billion users that use it and are familiar with the site. it’s commonly used for sharing music videos, having tutorial videos on how to do something like set-up your new electronic device, and has the latest trending videos as well. In fact, there are around hundreds of hours of video uploaded to it every second. \r\n\r\nYouTube is a great choice if you like that it’s owned by Google making it higher ranked in search listings and if you prefer that has the biggest reputation being the most popular video sharing service. The average session is 40 minutes compared to the other sites that only give you a few minutes and it’s really easy to use. The downside is that it can be difficult to moderate and it’s really competitive. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why Vine?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Vine.jpg\" alt=\"Vine\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9433\" />You may choose to go with Vine, especially if you like that it’s more of an app-based video service. It’s not created to be a website and it’s heavily focused on the mobile user. Vine makes it easy to shoot your video, edit, and publish it one spot compared to having to shoot a video with a camera, edit with some software program, and upload it on another site. \r\n\r\nIt’s the newest platform only around since 2013 and it’s going to require you to keep it short at six seconds or less. Many celebs use it to show off new music and journalists may use it to show a natural disaster. The perks of Vine are that it’s really easy to share on blogs, websites, or social media and it’s really user-friendly with no skills required to use it. The time limit can be a challenge for some businesses while others find that the editing process is a bit limited in what can be done. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why Vimeo?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Vimeo.jpg\" alt=\"Vimeo\" width=\"463\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9432\" />If you’re not sold on those two, perhaps Vimeo is the way to go for you. It tries to be different than YouTube especially since it came out before YouTube and has a different style. The focus on Vimeo is to have higher quality standards and this is appreciated by the smaller community behind it. 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YouTube is probably the most popular site to view videos especially since it was popular before social media really came to the forefront. Vimeo focuses on a high-quality standard and Vine was created as an iOS application making it focused on mobile users. \r\n\r\nAdding video to your content marketing strategy is important because you can get the words across to your readers better, create an emotional bond for your customers, and you’ll increase your chance of your content getting shared on social media. Here is a look at choosing between these three main video websites and apps when trying to make the right choice for your company. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why YouTube?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube\" width=\"211\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9434\" />YouTube is a great choice for those who are comfortable with the platform. It has been around since 2005 and has over a billion users that use it and are familiar with the site. it’s commonly used for sharing music videos, having tutorial videos on how to do something like set-up your new electronic device, and has the latest trending videos as well. In fact, there are around hundreds of hours of video uploaded to it every second. \r\n\r\nYouTube is a great choice if you like that it’s owned by Google making it higher ranked in search listings and if you prefer that has the biggest reputation being the most popular video sharing service. The average session is 40 minutes compared to the other sites that only give you a few minutes and it’s really easy to use. The downside is that it can be difficult to moderate and it’s really competitive. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why Vine?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Vine.jpg\" alt=\"Vine\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9433\" />You may choose to go with Vine, especially if you like that it’s more of an app-based video service. It’s not created to be a website and it’s heavily focused on the mobile user. Vine makes it easy to shoot your video, edit, and publish it one spot compared to having to shoot a video with a camera, edit with some software program, and upload it on another site. \r\n\r\nIt’s the newest platform only around since 2013 and it’s going to require you to keep it short at six seconds or less. Many celebs use it to show off new music and journalists may use it to show a natural disaster. The perks of Vine are that it’s really easy to share on blogs, websites, or social media and it’s really user-friendly with no skills required to use it. The time limit can be a challenge for some businesses while others find that the editing process is a bit limited in what can be done. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why Vimeo?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Vimeo.jpg\" alt=\"Vimeo\" width=\"463\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9432\" />If you’re not sold on those two, perhaps Vimeo is the way to go for you. It tries to be different than YouTube especially since it came out before YouTube and has a different style. The focus on Vimeo is to have higher quality standards and this is appreciated by the smaller community behind it. There is no specific demographic like YouTube but tends to draw the 20-35 year old crowd. \r\n\r\nIt’s great for targeting a narrow audience and it offers more professional standards than the others. \r\n\r\nOn the other hand, you’ll need some skills to meet the quality it requires, even if that means bringing in a professional, and it has some strict guidelines for commercial businesses. it has to be a timeless video with no messages or comments to push sales of your product or service. \r\n\r\nConsider the pros and cons behind these three platforms before deciding which one would make the most sense for your content marketing. \r\n','Which is Better for Content Marketing: Vimeo, YouTube or Vine?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9431-revision-v1','','','2015-12-21 15:17:45','2015-12-21 20:17:45','',9431,'https://itxdesign.com/9431-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9436,4,'2015-12-21 15:17:57','2015-12-21 20:17:57','Have you considered using sites like YouTube, Vine, or Vimeo for your content marketing? YouTube is probably the most popular site to view videos especially since it was popular before social media really came to the forefront. Vimeo focuses on a high-quality standard and Vine was created as an iOS application making it focused on mobile users. \r\n\r\nAdding video to your content marketing strategy is important because you can get the words across to your readers better, create an emotional bond for your customers, and you’ll increase your chance of your content getting shared on social media. Here is a look at choosing between these three main video websites and apps when trying to make the right choice for your company. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why YouTube?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube\" width=\"211\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9434\" />YouTube is a great choice for those who are comfortable with the platform. 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The downside is that it can be difficult to moderate and it’s really competitive. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why Vine?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Vine.jpg\" alt=\"Vine\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9433\" />You may choose to go with Vine, especially if you like that it’s more of an app-based video service. It’s not created to be a website and it’s heavily focused on the mobile user. Vine makes it easy to shoot your video, edit, and publish it one spot compared to having to shoot a video with a camera, edit with some software program, and upload it on another site. \r\n\r\nIt’s the newest platform only around since 2013 and it’s going to require you to keep it short at six seconds or less. Many celebs use it to show off new music and journalists may use it to show a natural disaster. The perks of Vine are that it’s really easy to share on blogs, websites, or social media and it’s really user-friendly with no skills required to use it. The time limit can be a challenge for some businesses while others find that the editing process is a bit limited in what can be done. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why Vimeo?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Vimeo.jpg\" alt=\"Vimeo\" width=\"463\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9432\" />If you’re not sold on those two, perhaps Vimeo is the way to go for you. It tries to be different than YouTube especially since it came out before YouTube and has a different style. The focus on Vimeo is to have higher quality standards and this is appreciated by the smaller community behind it. 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When you first shop for hosting, you’ll see flashy offers and amazing features being offered but in some cases, it may not be what you thought it was. \r\n\r\nSorting through the features that each provider offers can be overwhelming and frustrating. Rather than letting the great providers get lost in the shuffle, it’s a good idea to start understanding the hosting myths before you choose who to work with. From thinking a free host is the best way to go to thinking any hosting provider will do, here is a look at these myths and more that could end up with you using a bad hosting service. \r\n\r\n<h2>Any hosting provider will work just fine</h2>\r\n\r\nIt may seem that there is no real difference between hosting providers and that anyone will do just fine. In reality, you need to be very thorough before you choose a provider. They will not all be the same which will reflect poorly on you when your site is slow or unreliable to your visitors. \r\n\r\nYou wouldn’t pick just any pair of shoes or just any home builder, so don’t rely on just any hosting provider. You’ll need to look at the reviews and experience of any potential hosts to see who meets the expectations when it comes to:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Server reliability</li>\r\n<li>Price</li>\r\n<li>A site’s response speed</li>\r\n<li>The number of allowed domains</li>\r\n<li>The services offered after the sale</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou want a host that keeps your visitors happy by guaranteeing at least a 99.9% uptime rate because visitors that can’t access your site may never try again. Don’t choose anyone that is known for having a slow site response speed because your visitors won’t wait around for long when a site is slow. \r\n\r\nWatch for inflated pricing by comparing multiple hosts and check to see if they are going to offer you support and educational services after the sale showing that customer service doesn’t end after you’ve signed up. Make sure you’ve considered how many domains they allow and determine if you will need more than one. \r\n\r\n<h2>A free host is best while a cheap host won’t deliver</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Free-Hosting-isnt-Good.jpg\" alt=\"Free Hosting isn&#039;t Good\" width=\"271\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9438\" />Some people believe that free hosting is the way to go because they are saving money and getting the same service as they would paying for it. It turns out that free hosting will be anything but professional which could affect your ability to serve your customers. \r\n\r\nYou’ll end up with a poor appearance, slow load times, advertisements showing up on your site that the hosting provider is using to make their money off of you, and your site could shut down at any time which is dangerous for business owners. \r\n\r\nOn the other hand, you may think a cheap host won’t deliver but there are actually many hosts that offer affordable packages and offer everything you need. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune to get a great hosting company. You’ll get more advantages to a more expensive hosting provider but definitely choose an affordable one rather than a free one. 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Thinking about the type of skills you have and the type of niche you’d be good at, you can start a business with the right strategies in place. \r\n\r\nIf you look at some that have done it before you and become a successful WordPress entrepreneur, here is a look at some successful business owners that were able to do it thanks to WordPress and what their advice is to those trying to build something that people will love. \r\n\r\n<h2>Starting your own WordPress business</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Building-a-WordPress-Business.jpg\" alt=\"Building a WordPress Business\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9443\" />You may know for sure that you want to start a business but you aren’t sure what to create. Trying it alongside your current job will allow you to test it out and see if it could possibly work as a full-time career. Using your talents, experience, vision, and an opportunity, you can try a business on WordPress that may make you a business owner in no time. \r\n\r\nFirst, look at what your idea is or what niche you are already experienced in. Look at what need or ideas might be there and if it’s something that you feel confident about. When you’ve come up with something that could solve a problem or fulfill a need and nobody is already doing it, you have a great place to start. In some cases, people start businesses in areas they are not already experts in, like a banker that invents something in the real estate world. \r\n\r\nYou have to be prepared to spend a long time working at learning the area you are trying to create something for. You have to learn a ton on the product you are trying to produce, such as an app. You’ll need funding to create the product and you’ll need a partner or someone to work with to create it. \r\n\r\n<h2>Marketing and building your team</h2>\r\n\r\nYou’ll have to get ready to launch the product and market it. Even if you think your product isn’t ready, launch it anyhow because your product can always be improved and will never be done being “ready.” If you have final touches to add, take a few days off to solely focus on that so that you can launch. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WordPress-Team.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Team\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9445\" />Take any and every marketing opportunity you find and always work on developing your channels to find more opportunity. You’ll want to start building your list of emails, your contacts, your memberships, and your networking opportunities. \r\n\r\nStart building your team based on the contacts and outreach you’ve started. You could find a place that is working with the software you want to work with and spent a lot of time there. Help anyone you can that may want to help you out in return whether by working for you or introducing you to the right people. Check out sites like Freelancer.com and Upwork.com to find people to work with. \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve made it this far, create your WordPress site with the perfect theme relevant to your business, then work with some guidebooks on managing your site as best you can, have everything backed up, optimize the performance, add features through plugins, and work on the client experience by making sure your site is admin client-proof, restrict plugin access, and simplify it to be client-friendly. 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What will people love? Thinking about the type of skills you have and the type of niche you’d be good at, you can start a business with the right strategies in place. \r\n\r\nIf you look at some that have done it before you and become a successful WordPress entrepreneur, here is a look at some successful business owners that were able to do it thanks to WordPress and what their advice is to those trying to build something that people will love. \r\n\r\n<h2>Starting your own WordPress business</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Building-a-WordPress-Business.jpg\" alt=\"Building a WordPress Business\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9443\" />You may know for sure that you want to start a business but you aren’t sure what to create. Trying it alongside your current job will allow you to test it out and see if it could possibly work as a full-time career. Using your talents, experience, vision, and an opportunity, you can try a business on WordPress that may make you a business owner in no time. \r\n\r\nFirst, look at what your idea is or what niche you are already experienced in. Look at what need or ideas might be there and if it’s something that you feel confident about. When you’ve come up with something that could solve a problem or fulfill a need and nobody is already doing it, you have a great place to start. In some cases, people start businesses in areas they are not already experts in, like a banker that invents something in the real estate world. \r\n\r\nYou have to be prepared to spend a long time working at learning the area you are trying to create something for. You have to learn a ton on the product you are trying to produce, such as an app. You’ll need funding to create the product and you’ll need a partner or someone to work with to create it. \r\n\r\n<h2>Marketing and building your team</h2>\r\n\r\nYou’ll have to get ready to launch the product and market it. Even if you think your product isn’t ready, launch it anyhow because your product can always be improved and will never be done being “ready.” If you have final touches to add, take a few days off to solely focus on that so that you can launch. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WordPress-Team.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Team\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9445\" />Take any and every marketing opportunity you find and always work on developing your channels to find more opportunity. You’ll want to start building your list of emails, your contacts, your memberships, and your networking opportunities. \r\n\r\nStart building your team based on the contacts and outreach you’ve started. You could find a place that is working with the software you want to work with and spent a lot of time there. Help anyone you can that may want to help you out in return whether by working for you or introducing you to the right people. Check out sites like Freelancer.com and Upwork.com to find people to work with. \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve made it this far, create your WordPress site with the perfect theme relevant to your business, then work with some guidebooks on managing your site as best you can, have everything backed up, optimize the performance, add features through plugins, and work on the client experience by making sure your site is admin client-proof, restrict plugin access, and simplify it to be client-friendly. Lastly, get it on social media and continue marketing like crazy. \r\n\r\nIf you follow these tips, you can create an excellent WordPress business and people will love it since you’ve taken the time to optimize the experience and make it known through marketing. Work with the right people and do your research to make sure you are crossing your t’s and dotting your i’s. \r\n\r\n','How can you Build a WordPress Business People will Love?','','inherit','closed','closed','','9442-revision-v1','','','2015-12-22 15:38:45','2015-12-22 20:38:45','',9442,'https://itxdesign.com/9442-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9447,4,'2015-12-23 14:39:45','2015-12-23 19:39:45','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WordPress-Website.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Website\" width=\"337\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9448\" />Sometimes you need to find the right boost for your WordPress website. It doesn’t seem to have enough going on or you aren’t sure how to market it quite right. WordPress is one of those platforms that has endless options, tons of plugins, and a world of possibility for users. \r\n\r\nWhen you look at your marketing efforts, making your content awesome, and implementing some useful WordPress tools, you’ll start to see a world of difference. You can give it a boost with just a few clicks sometimes. Here is a look at how else to boost your WordPress website when you’re feeling stuck. \r\n\r\n<h2>Marketing</h2>\r\n\r\nFor starters, you should increase your marketing game. When you focus on setting yourself apart from the competition, being educational to your visitors, narrowing your focus by concentrating on a specific niche, and generating leads for your business, you’ll have all of the principles you need for the perfect marketing platform. \r\n\r\nTry to appeal to a group of people in a specific niche, do the research to see how you can differentiate yourself from the competition, provide value to your visitors through educational materials, and generate leads to make sure you are finding people that would want what you have to offer. \r\n\r\n<h2>Great content </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Add-Great-Content-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Add Great Content\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9449\" />Perhaps your content could use a boost. If you thought you were doing great before, perhaps you could make it more awesome by investing more time and quality into your work. Are you being informative and conveying a message that entertains or educations your audience? \r\n\r\nIs your work shareable on social media where people will want to tell their friends and colleagues about the great piece they read? Is it easy to read, organized, and full of images, broken up information, and sub-headers? Make sure it fits your brand’s voice and feels consistent all the way through.\r\n\r\n<h2>Plugins</h2>\r\n\r\nFrom here, it might be time to start implementing some important plugins to give it an extra boost. For example, the Editorial Calendar is a free plugin that will help you schedule out your blog better and make a posting schedule. Try the Scribe plugin if you are struggling with your marketing efforts because it will give you the ability to research keywords, related subjects for your content, and it will analyze that your writing matches your intended focus. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WordPres-Plugin.jpg\" alt=\"WordPres Plugin\" width=\"389\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9450\" />Listly is a popular plugin for those that need a better element of community in their blog because it gives your viewers a way to contribute to your lists. Jetpack is the plugin for those that need a social media marketing boost because it syncs up your social accounts with the WordPress dashboard. Lastly, check out Slide-In for your lead generation needs as it creates slide-in messages used to entice your site visitors to take action. \r\n\r\nConsider making these changes if you are struggling with your WordPress website. 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It doesn’t seem to have enough going on or you aren’t sure how to market it quite right. WordPress is one of those platforms that has endless options, tons of plugins, and a world of possibility for users. \r\n\r\nWhen you look at your marketing efforts, making your content awesome, and implementing some useful WordPress tools, you’ll start to see a world of difference. You can give it a boost with just a few clicks sometimes. Here is a look at how else to boost your WordPress website when you’re feeling stuck. \r\n\r\n<h2>Marketing</h2>\r\n\r\nFor starters, you should increase your marketing game. 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When you focus on setting yourself apart from the competition, being educational to your visitors, narrowing your focus by concentrating on a specific niche, and generating leads for your business, you’ll have all of the principles you need for the perfect marketing platform. \r\n\r\nTry to appeal to a group of people in a specific niche, do the research to see how you can differentiate yourself from the competition, provide value to your visitors through educational materials, and generate leads to make sure you are finding people that would want what you have to offer. \r\n\r\n<h2>Great content </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Add-Great-Content.jpg\" alt=\"Add Great Content\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9449\" />Perhaps your content could use a boost. If you thought you were doing great before, perhaps you could make it more awesome by investing more time and quality into your work. Are you being informative and conveying a message that entertains or educations your audience? \r\n\r\nIs your work shareable on social media where people will want to tell their friends and colleagues about the great piece they read? Is it easy to read, organized, and full of images, broken up information, and sub-headers? Make sure it fits your brand’s voice and feels consistent all the way through.\r\n\r\n<h2>Plugins</h2>\r\n\r\nFrom here, it might be time to start implementing some important plugins to give it an extra boost. For example, the Editorial Calendar is a free plugin that will help you schedule out your blog better and make a posting schedule. 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When you focus on setting yourself apart from the competition, being educational to your visitors, narrowing your focus by concentrating on a specific niche, and generating leads for your business, you’ll have all of the principles you need for the perfect marketing platform. \r\n\r\nTry to appeal to a group of people in a specific niche, do the research to see how you can differentiate yourself from the competition, provide value to your visitors through educational materials, and generate leads to make sure you are finding people that would want what you have to offer. \r\n\r\n<h2>Great content </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Add-Great-Content-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Add Great Content\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9449\" />Perhaps your content could use a boost. If you thought you were doing great before, perhaps you could make it more awesome by investing more time and quality into your work. 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It’s vital to your sales and revenue efforts. \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve identified your targets and established a lead generation timeline based on your resources, you’ll be ready to take it to the next level. Most people are forced to increase their bottom line in order to generate leads regardless of the type of business they are in. LinkedIn has become a major lead generation tool and more effective than sites like Twitter and Facebook. \r\n\r\nAlong with being a professional network, it’s a platform for generating leads and you may be wise to get their premium account in order to fully take advantage. Here is a look at how to use it to create new leads for your business. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is LinkedIn Premium all about?</h2>\r\n\r\nThe upgraded membership is called a Premium account and features five options to choose from. You could either use the one for business professionals, the one for recruiters, or the one for job seekers. There is also an option for sales professionals and an option for talent finders. Lead generation will make the most sense under business or sales categories.\r\n\r\nYou’ll have different membership categories to choose from at different upgrade levels depending on how much access you need to the various features offered. Once you’ve determined how much access you’ll need, here is a look at the perks you’ll enjoy with Premium LinkedIn. \r\n\r\n<h2>Features you’ll get to access</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LinkedIn-Premium-Account.jpg\" alt=\"LinkedIn Premium Account\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9455\" />You’ll get wonderful features when you sign up for a premium account. You’ll get to do advanced searches like searching for small businesses that have an interest in what you sell. Everyone has access to InMail but the free accounts have limited access. Your premium account will allow you to message anyone instead of being limited to only your contacts. \r\n\r\nAnother great perk is you’ll get to see who has viewed your profile and you’ll be able to view a full profile of anyone in your network. See a full list of people who have viewed your profile in the last 3 months and find out what keywords people used to search when they found your profile. \r\n\r\nView the full profiles of everyone in your network like group members and 3rd-degree connections. Lastly, you can save particular searches, receive alerts for your searches every week or month, and it will help you to avoid wasting time with disconnected results. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to generate leads </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LinkedIn-Premium-Profile.jpg\" alt=\"LinkedIn Premium Profile\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9456\" />How are people using their premium accounts to generate more leads? For starters, you can build a targeted list by your advanced search. Search the company size, the interested in field, the groups in common field, when they joined, the seniority level, and much more. You can narrow down your leads too. \r\n\r\nSet alerts for new leads so that it will remember your search and send you weekly notifications of new members that are a part of the network you had searched for before. Save up to 7 searches and view 500 more profiles displayed in the search listings; perfect for including new leads in your potential leads. \r\n\r\nSearch for more leads on the “Who’s Viewed your Profile” page that is only available to members. Check out the “Views by Industry” section to highlight the top industries consisting of individuals who looked at your profile. 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It’s actually a great way to generate new leads for little cost to you. It’s always a great idea to stay ahead of the competition when it comes to locating new leads. It’s vital to your sales and revenue efforts. \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve identified your targets and established a lead generation timeline based on your resources, you’ll be ready to take it to the next level. Most people are forced to increase their bottom line in order to generate leads regardless of the type of business they are in. LinkedIn has become a major lead generation tool and more effective than sites like Twitter and Facebook. \r\n\r\nAlong with being a professional network, it’s a platform for generating leads and you may be wise to get their premium account in order to fully take advantage. Here is a look at how to use it to create new leads for your business. \r\n\r\n<h2>What is LinkedIn Premium all about?</h2>\r\n\r\nThe upgraded membership is called a Premium account and features five options to choose from. You could either use the one for business professionals, the one for recruiters, or the one for job seekers. There is also an option for sales professionals and an option for talent finders. Lead generation will make the most sense under business or sales categories.\r\n\r\nYou’ll have different membership categories to choose from at different upgrade levels depending on how much access you need to the various features offered. Once you’ve determined how much access you’ll need, here is a look at the perks you’ll enjoy with Premium LinkedIn. \r\n\r\n<h2>Features you’ll get to access</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LinkedIn-Premium-Account.jpg\" alt=\"LinkedIn Premium Account\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9455\" />You’ll get wonderful features when you sign up for a premium account. You’ll get to do advanced searches like searching for small businesses that have an interest in what you sell. Everyone has access to InMail but the free accounts have limited access. Your premium account will allow you to message anyone instead of being limited to only your contacts. \r\n\r\nAnother great perk is you’ll get to see who has viewed your profile and you’ll be able to view a full profile of anyone in your network. See a full list of people who have viewed your profile in the last 3 months and find out what keywords people used to search when they found your profile. \r\n\r\nView the full profiles of everyone in your network like group members and 3rd-degree connections. Lastly, you can save particular searches, receive alerts for your searches every week or month, and it will help you to avoid wasting time with disconnected results. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to generate leads </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LinkedIn-Premium-Profile.jpg\" alt=\"LinkedIn Premium Profile\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9456\" />How are people using their premium accounts to generate more leads? For starters, you can build a targeted list by your advanced search. Search the company size, the interested in field, the groups in common field, when they joined, the seniority level, and much more. You can narrow down your leads too. \r\n\r\nSet alerts for new leads so that it will remember your search and send you weekly notifications of new members that are a part of the network you had searched for before. Save up to 7 searches and view 500 more profiles displayed in the search listings; perfect for including new leads in your potential leads. \r\n\r\nSearch for more leads on the “Who’s Viewed your Profile” page that is only available to members. Check out the “Views by Industry” section to highlight the top industries consisting of individuals who looked at your profile. In some cases, you may find that people coming from industries you aren’t selling to could be an untapped market you should start seeking out. \r\n\r\nReach out directly to leads in your list through you InMail abilities. They could convert from a lead to a sale. 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It can be easy to look at someone successful and doing something that you want to do in order to observe what they must be doing right. With the vast amount of blogs out there, it’s a great time to reevaluate what makes a blog great in order to implement those techniques into your work. \r\n\r\nIn fact, just last year it was estimated that there are about 43 million blog posts published on WordPress alone. Making your blog stand out from the crowd is a challenge but it can be done with a few key techniques. Make yours stand out and be considered great by implementing a few key ingredients. \r\n\r\n<h2>The grand opening</h2>\r\n\r\nFor starters, it’s important that your blog start off with a bang. From the catchy headline with an eye-catching title to the intriguing opening paragraph, make sure you start it off hot. Before anyone reads your content, they will look at the headline and successful bloggers have mastered the art of making it intriguing for readers to stick around for more. \r\n\r\nYou may want to keep a headline template handy for reference on all of your blog posts. Then, keep in mind that your readers will only stick around for 2-3 sentences while deciding if they want to continue reading. Make sure that you really make it count for those first 2-3 sentences. \r\n\r\n<h2>Images and segments</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Great-Blog-Post.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blog Post\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9461\" />The next thing that your readers are going to look for is how well you made the blog look in appearance. Did you use engaging images to excite readers into learning more? Articles with images will attract more views and back link, while simultaneously giving the reader a better understanding of the piece. \r\n\r\nDid you use proper post segmentation? This means that you have to incorporate bullet points when relevant, sub-headlines when possible, quotes, tables, or images to help people have an easier time scanning through. They will better understand your content with an image or a chart, quotes or bullet points. Remember that your readers are likely to scan your blog and the more you can make it scannable and segmented, the more likely they will stick around to read more and come back for future posts. \r\n\r\n<h2>Did you make it shareable?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Shareable-Posts.jpg\" alt=\"Shareable Posts\" width=\"389\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9462\" />Another key ingredient is that you made your blog post shareable and asked for a call-to-action from your reader. If your reader likes what they read, they will want to let you know with a “like” or sharing it on social media. Make it easy by including social media buttons like Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter and your readers will be more likely to share your work with more potential readers. \r\n\r\nDid you include a call-to-action? It’s important that you direct your readers to share your blog with their friends, to give you a “like” if they enjoyed what they read, or to leave feedback. Some readers will want to leave you a comment while others may just want to give you a “like.”\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve covered all of these elements that make a blog great, make sure you’ve made your blog really come off as your own voice. It’s what will make your blog unique and offer personality. No one can copy you and your uniqueness, so make sure that stands out in your work. 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It can be easy to look at someone successful and doing something that you want to do in order to observe what they must be doing right. With the vast amount of blogs out there, it’s a great time to reevaluate what makes a blog great in order to implement those techniques into your work. \r\n\r\nIn fact, just last year it was estimated that there are about 43 million blog posts published on WordPress alone. Making your blog stand out from the crowd is a challenge but it can be done with a few key techniques. Make yours stand out and be considered great by implementing a few key ingredients. \r\n\r\n<h2>The grand opening</h2>\r\n\r\nFor starters, it’s important that your blog start off with a bang. From the catchy headline with an eye-catching title to the intriguing opening paragraph, make sure you start it off hot. Before anyone reads your content, they will look at the headline and successful bloggers have mastered the art of making it intriguing for readers to stick around for more. \r\n\r\nYou may want to keep a headline template handy for reference on all of your blog posts. Then, keep in mind that your readers will only stick around for 2-3 sentences while deciding if they want to continue reading. Make sure that you really make it count for those first 2-3 sentences. \r\n\r\n<h2>Images and segments</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Great-Blog-Post.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blog Post\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9461\" />The next thing that your readers are going to look for is how well you made the blog look in appearance. Did you use engaging images to excite readers into learning more? Articles with images will attract more views and back link, while simultaneously giving the reader a better understanding of the piece. \r\n\r\nDid you use proper post segmentation? This means that you have to incorporate bullet points when relevant, sub-headlines when possible, quotes, tables, or images to help people have an easier time scanning through. They will better understand your content with an image or a chart, quotes or bullet points. Remember that your readers are likely to scan your blog and the more you can make it scannable and segmented, the more likely they will stick around to read more and come back for future posts. \r\n\r\n<h2>Did you make it shareable?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Shareable-Posts.jpg\" alt=\"Shareable Posts\" width=\"389\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9462\" />Another key ingredient is that you made your blog post shareable and asked for a call-to-action from your reader. If your reader likes what they read, they will want to let you know with a “like” or sharing it on social media. Make it easy by including social media buttons like Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter and your readers will be more likely to share your work with more potential readers. \r\n\r\nDid you include a call-to-action? It’s important that you direct your readers to share your blog with their friends, to give you a “like” if they enjoyed what they read, or to leave feedback. Some readers will want to leave you a comment while others may just want to give you a “like.”\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve covered all of these elements that make a blog great, make sure you’ve made your blog really come off as your own voice. It’s what will make your blog unique and offer personality. No one can copy you and your uniqueness, so make sure that stands out in your work. 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Here is a look at what you need to know about domain privacy to decide what measures are important for you to take. \r\n\r\n<h2>What exactly is domain privacy?</h2>\r\n\r\nIt’s important to first understand what domain privacy is. When you first select a domain name for your website, your domain name and your contact information will enter a public directory known as WHOIS. This is a requirement of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN.  \r\n\r\nYour information will be public including your phone number, mailing address, name, and email address. This is done so that those who violate copyright laws or spam customers can be located for their illegal activity. Being a public database, it puts individuals’ information accessible to anyone which isn’t always a safe idea. \r\n\r\nYou can purchase domain privacy as a service to protect your personal information in the WHOIS system. Some company’s like that customers can more easily find them through WHOIS while others would prefer to have their personal information replaced with the company’s information. You’ll still be the owner of the domain with the company’s information in your place but it gives you a level of privacy you didn’t have before. \r\n\r\n<h2>Do I need domain privacy?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Domain-Privacy.jpg\" alt=\"Domain Privacy\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9467\" />If you want to protect yourself against spammers, hijackers, identify thieves, consumers, and domain name shoppers, you are wise to get domain privacy. \r\n\r\nYou may want to get the word out about your new small business and use the WHOIS system to collect information on your target market. Those that requested to be contacted another way or didn’t realize their address was available online may get angry with your company. If you’re on the other end of this situation and a large corporation was sending you mailings multiple times per day due to finding your information on WHOIS, you’d be irate. It can easily be used as a spammer’s marketing tool. \r\n\r\n<h2>Identity Thieves</h2>\r\n\r\nAnother example of domain privacy coming into play is when it comes to hijackers and identity thieves. Websites can be hacked and identity’s stolen due to sophisticated technology. A simple way to add a little protection to your life is to remove your personal information from being available on WHOIS in case you become a target. \r\n\r\nFor example, the name, mailing addressing, email address, and phone number listed on WHOIS combined with a person’s photo or birthday found on social media could be the perfect recipe to hack you or steal your identity. \r\n\r\nWhen it comes to consumers, you may find that the controversial product you sell online or the strong opinions you put out there are enough to make you a security threat online with consumers. If you have your address listed, your phone number available, and your email address listed, you could receive angry phone calls, hate mail, or a visit to your home. On the other hand, having a large fan base due to a popular blog could end you up with stalkers or excessive contact from fans. \r\n\r\n<h2>Domain Name Shoppers</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Domain-Name.jpg\" alt=\"Domain Name\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9466\" />Lastly, you should consider protection from domain name shoppers. When you’ve chosen your company name, registered the perfect domain, and everything is about to take off until someone tries to contact you to purchase your domain, they may hassle you until you go through with it. You could lose your dream over a small amount of money. Don’t let yourself be put in an awkward situation. \r\n\r\nConsider these scenarios when you are deciding about domain privacy so that you don’t have to deal with a breach of your security. 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When you sign up with web hosting or update your current web hosting plan, you have to consider your domain security. Domain privacy is really popular with web hosting companies and website owners and has become an add-on feature that can cost more each year. Is it worth it add domain privacy, also refer to as WHOIS privacy or WHOIS guard? Here is a look at what you need to know about domain privacy to decide what measures are important for you to take. \r\n\r\n<h2>What exactly is domain privacy?</h2>\r\n\r\nIt’s important to first understand what domain privacy is. When you first select a domain name for your website, your domain name and your contact information will enter a public directory known as WHOIS. This is a requirement of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN.  \r\n\r\nYour information will be public including your phone number, mailing address, name, and email address. This is done so that those who violate copyright laws or spam customers can be located for their illegal activity. Being a public database, it puts individuals’ information accessible to anyone which isn’t always a safe idea. \r\n\r\nYou can purchase domain privacy as a service to protect your personal information in the WHOIS system. Some company’s like that customers can more easily find them through WHOIS while others would prefer to have their personal information replaced with the company’s information. You’ll still be the owner of the domain with the company’s information in your place but it gives you a level of privacy you didn’t have before. \r\n\r\n<h2>Do I need domain privacy?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Domain-Privacy.jpg\" alt=\"Domain Privacy\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9467\" />If you want to protect yourself against spammers, hijackers, identify thieves, consumers, and domain name shoppers, you are wise to get domain privacy. \r\n\r\nYou may want to get the word out about your new small business and use the WHOIS system to collect information on your target market. Those that requested to be contacted another way or didn’t realize their address was available online may get angry with your company. If you’re on the other end of this situation and a large corporation was sending you mailings multiple times per day due to finding your information on WHOIS, you’d be irate. It can easily be used as a spammer’s marketing tool. \r\n\r\n<h2>Identity Thieves</h2>\r\n\r\nAnother example of domain privacy coming into play is when it comes to hijackers and identity thieves. Websites can be hacked and identity’s stolen due to sophisticated technology. A simple way to add a little protection to your life is to remove your personal information from being available on WHOIS in case you become a target. \r\n\r\nFor example, the name, mailing addressing, email address, and phone number listed on WHOIS combined with a person’s photo or birthday found on social media could be the perfect recipe to hack you or steal your identity. \r\n\r\nWhen it comes to consumers, you may find that the controversial product you sell online or the strong opinions you put out there are enough to make you a security threat online with consumers. If you have your address listed, your phone number available, and your email address listed, you could receive angry phone calls, hate mail, or a visit to your home. On the other hand, having a large fan base due to a popular blog could end you up with stalkers or excessive contact from fans. \r\n\r\n<h2>Domain Name Shoppers</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Domain-Name.jpg\" alt=\"Domain Name\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9466\" />Lastly, you should consider protection from domain name shoppers. When you’ve chosen your company name, registered the perfect domain, and everything is about to take off until someone tries to contact you to purchase your domain, they may hassle you until you go through with it. You could lose your dream over a small amount of money. Don’t let yourself be put in an awkward situation. \r\n\r\nConsider these scenarios when you are deciding about domain privacy so that you don’t have to deal with a breach of your security. Consider leaving your personal information available if you already have the same information plastered on the internet through your website or social media or if you think it will give others the confidence to work with your business. 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Search engines may even flag your site and penalize you for this practice. \r\n\r\nYour readers won’t enjoy reading it and it will be obvious that you stuffed it with the same keywords over and over again. Think of it this way; Google wants to reward their content providers by ranking them higher when they follow the rules, which includes avoiding keyword stuffing. \r\n\r\nInstead, it’s time to start utilizing the practice of Latent Semantic Index keywords or LSI keywords. This practice is a better way to target your readers and stay on track with search engines. Here is a look at why using LSI keywords will rank your content faster. \r\n\r\n<h2>What are LSI keywords?</h2>\r\n\r\nLSI keywords, sometimes called long-tail keywords, are latent semantic indexing which involves identifying plurals and synonyms to your main keywords. When you find similar words for your primary keywords, it will allow you to still use keywords while keeping your piece sounding natural. \r\n\r\nSearch engines will be able to find an analogy between your LSI keywords and your main keywords while being able to maintain the natural relevance. The LSI keywords will help search engines determine what your content is about. \r\n\r\nFor example, if you are writing about “Smith’s Birthday Cakes,” you wouldn’t want to be associated with other shops like “Frank’s Baked Goods.” You would want to terms in your content to relate to it such as “bakery,” “candles,” or “vanilla frosting.” Being more specific with keywords can guide search engines without saying the phrase “Smith’s Birthday Cakes” over and over again. Your piece will flow naturally without over-stuffing your keyword. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why use LSI keywords?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LSI-Keywords.png\" alt=\"LSI Keywords\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9472\" />People are seeing the benefits of LSI keywords because it’s improving rankings, avoiding search engine penalties, increasing readers’ interest, and you can use as many LSI keyphrases as you wish. Search engines will check for LSI keywords when they index the content of a site, so if they are using this determine your content’s quality, having variations of LSI keywords will increase your chances of ranking high. \r\n\r\nIt won’t be marked as spam due to keyword stuffing since you aren’t repeating the main keywords multiple times in your piece. The various keywords that rephrase the main keyword will keep readers more interested while making it easier to skim through in a hurry, and you can use as many LSI keyphrases as you want to keep your content unique and relevant to the industry. \r\n\r\n<h2>Choosing the best LSI keywords</h2>\r\n\r\nIt’s important to try a few tools to choose the best LSI keyphrases to relate to your main keyword. First, try Google search for suggestions and results. Go to google.com and write your primary keywords in the search bar but don’t hit “enter.” You’ll see additional queries automatically that could make the perfect LSI keywords. When you search for “the best cake,” Google may give you suggestions such as “best cakes ever” or “best cake recipes.” \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LSI-Keywords-for-Ranking.jpg\" alt=\"LSI Keywords for Ranking\" width=\"323\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9471\" />Then, check the bottom of the search results page where it says “searches related to the best cake” and you’ll have other suggestions to choose from.  You could also try Google Keyword planner which will give you a list of LSI keywords to use in your piece. It will show you how high or low the competition is and the average cost per click. \r\n\r\nLastly, you could go with a paid tool for your LSI keyword needs. Tools like Long-Tail Pro and Market Sumari are great resources for LSI keyphrases that go with your keyword. Check out LSI plugins like SEOPressor for $30-$50. \r\n\r\nUtilize the LSI keywords to rank your content faster because it doesn’t violate search engine’s violations, it makes your piece more interesting to read, and makes your piece more memorable to the reader. This is a great way to improve your ranking and avoid the old days of keyword stuffing. Your content will be valuable to both search engines and people. 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In fact, that is now referred to as keyword stuffing and it makes company’s content look awkward and unnatural. Search engines may even flag your site and penalize you for this practice. \r\n\r\nYour readers won’t enjoy reading it and it will be obvious that you stuffed it with the same keywords over and over again. Think of it this way; Google wants to reward their content providers by ranking them higher when they follow the rules, which includes avoiding keyword stuffing. \r\n\r\nInstead, it’s time to start utilizing the practice of Latent Semantic Index keywords or LSI keywords. This practice is a better way to target your readers and stay on track with search engines. Here is a look at why using LSI keywords will rank your content faster. \r\n\r\n<h2>What are LSI keywords?</h2>\r\n\r\nLSI keywords, sometimes called long-tail keywords, are latent semantic indexing which involves identifying plurals and synonyms to your main keywords. When you find similar words for your primary keywords, it will allow you to still use keywords while keeping your piece sounding natural. \r\n\r\nSearch engines will be able to find an analogy between your LSI keywords and your main keywords while being able to maintain the natural relevance. The LSI keywords will help search engines determine what your content is about. \r\n\r\nFor example, if you are writing about “Smith’s Birthday Cakes,” you wouldn’t want to be associated with other shops like “Frank’s Baked Goods.” You would want to terms in your content to relate to it such as “bakery,” “candles,” or “vanilla frosting.” Being more specific with keywords can guide search engines without saying the phrase “Smith’s Birthday Cakes” over and over again. Your piece will flow naturally without over-stuffing your keyword. \r\n\r\n<h2>Why use LSI keywords?</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LSI-Keywords.png\" alt=\"LSI Keywords\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9472\" />People are seeing the benefits of LSI keywords because it’s improving rankings, avoiding search engine penalties, increasing readers’ interest, and you can use as many LSI keyphrases as you wish. Search engines will check for LSI keywords when they index the content of a site, so if they are using this determine your content’s quality, having variations of LSI keywords will increase your chances of ranking high. \r\n\r\nIt won’t be marked as spam due to keyword stuffing since you aren’t repeating the main keywords multiple times in your piece. The various keywords that rephrase the main keyword will keep readers more interested while making it easier to skim through in a hurry, and you can use as many LSI keyphrases as you want to keep your content unique and relevant to the industry. \r\n\r\n<h2>Choosing the best LSI keywords</h2>\r\n\r\nIt’s important to try a few tools to choose the best LSI keyphrases to relate to your main keyword. First, try Google search for suggestions and results. Go to google.com and write your primary keywords in the search bar but don’t hit “enter.” You’ll see additional queries automatically that could make the perfect LSI keywords. When you search for “the best cake,” Google may give you suggestions such as “best cakes ever” or “best cake recipes.” \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LSI-Keywords-for-Ranking.jpg\" alt=\"LSI Keywords for Ranking\" width=\"323\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9471\" />Then, check the bottom of the search results page where it says “searches related to the best cake” and you’ll have other suggestions to choose from.  You could also try Google Keyword planner which will give you a list of LSI keywords to use in your piece. It will show you how high or low the competition is and the average cost per click. \r\n\r\nLastly, you could go with a paid tool for your LSI keyword needs. Tools like Long-Tail Pro and Market Sumari are great resources for LSI keyphrases that go with your keyword. 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How can you better understand your target audience and provide them the great content you are trying to create? \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve figured out that you are hungry for readership and you have great content you want to share, it’s important to understand what type of audience you need to be reaching out to and then format your content in a way that would make them able to find you and join your reader following. Here is a look at finding your target audience and understanding what they want from you. \r\n\r\n<h2>Your audience</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Content.jpg\" alt=\"Content\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9479\" />Who is your ideal reader? Are you trying to appeal to entrepreneurs, students, or perhaps the retired? Are you trying to reach out to new moms and dads, those that are running small businesses or maybe women in their 20’s? Whatever you demographic is, that is the first place to start. What would your ideal readers have in common and be able to connect about? \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve thought this through, consider gathering data through surveys, interviews, and polls with your current readership to understand their age, gender, interests, and occupations to find some commonalities. \r\n\r\n<h2>Targeting your content to this audience</h2>\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve determined who your audience might be, it’s time to look at how you can appeal to them best through your content. If you’ve learned that your target audience is a group of people that tends to be social resisters or those that resists authority, you may make your content best suited to them by writing about productivity tips, how to be more efficient in their work and time, or offering reviews of products they may like since they are the type of people that work to provide rather than to fit in with social standards. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Content-for-Target-Audience.jpg\" alt=\"Content for Target Audience\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9478\" />Do you readers have in common a sense of belonging? These types of people like to make choices based on approved lifestyles, acceptable behaviors, and religious or parental obligations. 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If you’ve learned that your target audience is a group of people that tends to be social resisters or those that resists authority, you may make your content best suited to them by writing about productivity tips, how to be more efficient in their work and time, or offering reviews of products they may like since they are the type of people that work to provide rather than to fit in with social standards. \r\n\r\nDo you readers have in common a sense of belonging? These types of people like to make choices based on approved lifestyles, acceptable behaviors, and religious or parental obligations. 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How can you better understand your target audience and provide them the great content you are trying to create? \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve figured out that you are hungry for readership and you have great content you want to share, it’s important to understand what type of audience you need to be reaching out to and then format your content in a way that would make them able to find you and join your reader following. Here is a look at finding your target audience and understanding what they want from you. \r\n\r\n<h2>Your audience</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Content.jpg\" alt=\"Content\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9479\" />Who is your ideal reader? Are you trying to appeal to entrepreneurs, students, or perhaps the retired? Are you trying to reach out to new moms and dads, those that are running small businesses or maybe women in their 20’s? Whatever you demographic is, that is the first place to start. What would your ideal readers have in common and be able to connect about? \r\n\r\nOnce you’ve thought this through, consider gathering data through surveys, interviews, and polls with your current readership to understand their age, gender, interests, and occupations to find some commonalities. \r\n\r\n<h2>Targeting your content to this audience</h2>\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve determined who your audience might be, it’s time to look at how you can appeal to them best through your content. If you’ve learned that your target audience is a group of people that tends to be social resisters or those that resists authority, you may make your content best suited to them by writing about productivity tips, how to be more efficient in their work and time, or offering reviews of products they may like since they are the type of people that work to provide rather than to fit in with social standards. \r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Content-for-Target-Audience.jpg\" alt=\"Content for Target Audience\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9478\" />Do you readers have in common a sense of belonging? These types of people like to make choices based on approved lifestyles, acceptable behaviors, and religious or parental obligations. 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Determine what your audience has in common and target your content to be relevant to the group as a whole. \r\n','How to Better Understand Your Target Audience and Provide Great Content for Them','','inherit','closed','closed','','9476-revision-v1','','','2015-12-31 16:52:14','2015-12-31 21:52:14','',9476,'https://itxdesign.com/9476-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9482,4,'2016-01-04 10:15:35','2016-01-04 15:15:35','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FAQ.jpg\" alt=\"FAQ\" width=\"254\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9486\" />An FAQ page is a great way to help your customers get answers to questions you get all of the time. It helps them to quickly get an answer to a question without having to specifically contact someone and wait for a response. Every website could benefit from a Frequently Asked Questions page because of the convenience to customers and the fact that it ranks websites higher on search engines. \r\n\r\nIt’s not always easy to setup, especially for new businesses that aren’t flooded with common questions, but it’s an effective addition to any company website. Here is an easy guide to creating your website’s FAQ page that your customers will thank you for later!\r\n\r\n<h2>How to begin</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FAQ-Page.jpg\" alt=\"FAQ Page\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9485\" />A great place to start is to start with some general questions that anyone may have about your industry. If you sell a special type of jewelry, your first place to start might be to discuss what makes your jewelry unique and why people want yours over someone else’s. \r\n\r\nIs it made from natural sources? Is it made with rare gems? Are you the go-to business for engagement and wedding bands? Do you offer something that no one else does? Start with questions on your FAQ page like “Why do I need this jewelry?” “What makes this jewelry unique?” “What types of pieces can I get?”\r\n\r\n<h2>Then focus it on your company specific </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Creating-a-FAQ-Page.jpg\" alt=\"Creating a FAQ Page\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9484\" />From there, you may want to go deeper into what your company does for your customers. Add questions such as “When will my order ship?” and “When will an item be back in stock?” You could discuss questions of payment such as “What methods of payment are accepted?” and “How do I send a product as a gift?” \r\n\r\nJust be sure that your questions go in a logical order and are easy to follow along as a consumer.  Complicated questions may need to stay brief but have a link to a longer explanation underneath the short answer. \r\n\r\nJust remember that your FAQ page may grow as you develop as a company. When new questions start coming in over time, you can start adding to the page until before you know it, you have a lengthy and helpful FAQ page for your customers. \r\n\r\n','An Easy Guide to Creating a FAQ Page','','publish','open','closed','','an-easy-guide-to-creating-a-faq-page','','','2016-01-02 17:18:34','2016-01-02 22:18:34','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9482',0,'post','',0),(9483,4,'2016-01-02 17:16:23','2016-01-02 22:16:23','An FAQ page is a great way to help your customers get answers to questions you get all of the time. It helps them to quickly get an answer to a question without having to specifically contact someone and wait for a response. Every website could benefit from a Frequently Asked Questions page because of the convenience to customers and the fact that it ranks websites higher on search engines. \r\n\r\nIt’s not always easy to setup, especially for new businesses that aren’t flooded with common questions, but it’s an effective addition to any company website. Here is an easy guide to creating your website’s FAQ page that your customers will thank you for later!\r\n\r\n<h2>How to begin</h2>\r\n\r\nA great place to start is to start with some general questions that anyone may have about your industry. If you sell a special type of jewelry, your first place to start might be to discuss what makes your jewelry unique and why people want yours over someone else’s. \r\n\r\nIs it made from natural sources? Is it made with rare gems? Are you the go-to business for engagement and wedding bands? Do you offer something that no one else does? Start with questions on your FAQ page like “Why do I need this jewelry?” “What makes this jewelry unique?” “What types of pieces can I get?”\r\n\r\n<h2>Then focus it on your company specific </h2>\r\n\r\nFrom there, you may want to go deeper into what your company does for your customers. Add questions such as “When will my order ship?” and “When will an item be back in stock?” You could discuss questions of payment such as “What methods of payment are accepted?” and “How do I send a product as a gift?” \r\n\r\nJust be sure that your questions go in a logical order and are easy to follow along as a consumer.  Complicated questions may need to stay brief but have a link to a longer explanation underneath the short answer. \r\n\r\nJust remember that your FAQ page may grow as you develop as a company. 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It helps them to quickly get an answer to a question without having to specifically contact someone and wait for a response. Every website could benefit from a Frequently Asked Questions page because of the convenience to customers and the fact that it ranks websites higher on search engines. \r\n\r\nIt’s not always easy to setup, especially for new businesses that aren’t flooded with common questions, but it’s an effective addition to any company website. Here is an easy guide to creating your website’s FAQ page that your customers will thank you for later!\r\n\r\n<h2>How to begin</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FAQ-Page.jpg\" alt=\"FAQ Page\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9485\" />A great place to start is to start with some general questions that anyone may have about your industry. If you sell a special type of jewelry, your first place to start might be to discuss what makes your jewelry unique and why people want yours over someone else’s. \r\n\r\nIs it made from natural sources? Is it made with rare gems? Are you the go-to business for engagement and wedding bands? Do you offer something that no one else does? Start with questions on your FAQ page like “Why do I need this jewelry?” “What makes this jewelry unique?” “What types of pieces can I get?”\r\n\r\n<h2>Then focus it on your company specific </h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Creating-a-FAQ-Page.jpg\" alt=\"Creating a FAQ Page\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9484\" />From there, you may want to go deeper into what your company does for your customers. Add questions such as “When will my order ship?” and “When will an item be back in stock?” You could discuss questions of payment such as “What methods of payment are accepted?” and “How do I send a product as a gift?” \r\n\r\nJust be sure that your questions go in a logical order and are easy to follow along as a consumer.  Complicated questions may need to stay brief but have a link to a longer explanation underneath the short answer. \r\n\r\nJust remember that your FAQ page may grow as you develop as a company. When new questions start coming in over time, you can start adding to the page until before you know it, you have a lengthy and helpful FAQ page for your customers. \r\n\r\n','An Easy Guide to Creating a FAQ Page','','inherit','closed','closed','','9482-revision-v1','','','2016-01-02 17:18:05','2016-01-02 22:18:05','',9482,'https://itxdesign.com/9482-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(9488,4,'2016-01-04 17:19:26','2016-01-04 22:19:26','<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/New-Blog-Ideas.jpg\" alt=\"New Blog Ideas\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9491\" />The New Year has arrived and it’s time to start taking your blog more seriously. You already know it’s the best way to attract customers and retain your current ones, but it doesn’t make it any easier to know what to write about. Some days you have the best blog topic to cover and other days, you feel a total creative block. \r\n\r\nThe best way to tackle this problem is to make a plan for a new blog idea each day this year so that when you are ready to start writing, you have a list of topics to go off of. Since you don’t have to update the blog every day, simply coming up with new blog posts daily for a list to work off of will be perfect. \r\n\r\nYou already have a great blog with beautiful photos, you’re active on social media, and you have a few followers, so now all you need to do is make the effort to keep up the momentum. Here is a look at how to stock up your blog to drive traffic this year. \r\n\r\n<h2>How often should I blog?</h2>\r\n\r\nFor starters, it’s a good idea to understand how often your blog should be updated to not be overbearing while still keeping your readers interested. Big blogs like “Zen Habits” update their blog just twice per week while others would argue a more frequent update is necessary. Updating regularly without being overbearing is the balance you’ll have to strike. Having a list of blog ideas updated daily is where you should start. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to come up with a new blog idea daily</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Blog-Ideas.jpg\" alt=\"Blog Ideas\" width=\"258\" height=\"196\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9490\" />If you have found yourself in a creative bind when it comes to thinking of new blog ideas, it’s time to start making it a daily habit. You’ll need to start sourcing blog ideas from outside sources and a great place to start is by polling your readers. \r\n\r\nAsking your readers what they want to hear about is the perfect way to show you care about their opinions and when you address the topics they’ve requested, they’ll be even more excited to visit and follow-up with your response. Simply send out a poll to your site visitors using options like Easy Polls, Survey Monkey, or WP Polls to conduct your survey. \r\n\r\nYou could also keep an eye on your comments section to see what people are talking about, asking about, or seem to be uninformed about. It can be a great basis for what you need to cover and inform your audience about. Are there trending topics on Google, Twitter, or the news right now? Those are great places to talk about current events that relate to your industry and eventually, you may find readers go to you first for news and trends. \r\n\r\n<h2>Writing prompts</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Blog-Idea.jpg\" alt=\"Blog Idea\" width=\"263\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9489\" />Another great way to think of a blog idea every day this year is to use writing prompts or title prompts. Title prompts may get your thinking cap on by starting with phrases to spur ideas. Common title prompts include “How To ___,” Top 10___,” and “Review of ____.” Writing prompts give you an idea to build off of and can be found at sites like Daily Post or No 2 Pen. \r\n\r\nLastly, be sure to keep up with topics in your niche, keep a journal on you at all times in case an idea pops up, and check out blogging events to help you stay focused on meeting your goal. 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You already know it’s the best way to attract customers and retain your current ones, but it doesn’t make it any easier to know what to write about. Some days you have the best blog topic to cover and other days, you feel a total creative block. \r\n\r\nThe best way to tackle this problem is to make a plan for a new blog idea each day this year so that when you are ready to start writing, you have a list of topics to go off of. Since you don’t have to update the blog every day, simply coming up with new blog posts daily for a list to work off of will be perfect. \r\n\r\nYou already have a great blog with beautiful photos, you’re active on social media, and you have a few followers, so now all you need to do is make the effort to keep up the momentum. Here is a look at how to stock up your blog to drive traffic this year. \r\n\r\n<h2>How often should I blog?</h2>\r\n\r\nFor starters, it’s a good idea to understand how often your blog should be updated to not be overbearing while still keeping your readers interested. Big blogs like “Zen Habits” update their blog just twice per week while others would argue a more frequent update is necessary. Updating regularly without being overbearing is the balance you’ll have to strike. Having a list of blog ideas updated daily is where you should start. \r\n\r\n<h2>How to come up with a new blog idea daily</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Blog-Ideas.jpg\" alt=\"Blog Ideas\" width=\"258\" height=\"196\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9490\" />If you have found yourself in a creative bind when it comes to thinking of new blog ideas, it’s time to start making it a daily habit. You’ll need to start sourcing blog ideas from outside sources and a great place to start is by polling your readers. \r\n\r\nAsking your readers what they want to hear about is the perfect way to show you care about their opinions and when you address the topics they’ve requested, they’ll be even more excited to visit and follow-up with your response. Simply send out a poll to your site visitors using options like Easy Polls, Survey Monkey, or WP Polls to conduct your survey. \r\n\r\nYou could also keep an eye on your comments section to see what people are talking about, asking about, or seem to be uninformed about. It can be a great basis for what you need to cover and inform your audience about. Are there trending topics on Google, Twitter, or the news right now? Those are great places to talk about current events that relate to your industry and eventually, you may find readers go to you first for news and trends. \r\n\r\n<h2>Writing prompts</h2>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Blog-Idea.jpg\" alt=\"Blog Idea\" width=\"263\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9489\" />Another great way to think of a blog idea every day this year is to use writing prompts or title prompts. Title prompts may get your thinking cap on by starting with phrases to spur ideas. Common title prompts include “How To ___,” Top 10___,” and “Review of ____.” Writing prompts give you an idea to build off of and can be found at sites like Daily Post or No 2 Pen. \r\n\r\nLastly, be sure to keep up with topics in your niche, keep a journal on you at all times in case an idea pops up, and check out blogging events to help you stay focused on meeting your goal. 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Your new icon fonts will allow you to add vector icons and they won’t even slow down your website. Here is a look at how to easily add these icon fonts to your WordPress theme.\r\n<h2>A look at Icon Fonts</h2>\r\nIcon fonts are pictograms or symbols that are used in the place of letters and numbers. They are resizable and won’t hurt your page’s download size. You may see an icon font as a symbol such as a music note, telephone, or camera. These commonly used symbols can be used for your shopping cart, your feature boxes, your sliders, or your navigation menus. You can get hundreds of them to choose from for free as WordPress’s installation already includes a set of dashicons.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9496\" src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FontAwesome.png\" alt=\"FontAwesome\" width=\"711\" height=\"243\" />\r\n\r\nYou can get a great load of options from <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/font-awesome/\">FontAwesome</a> which are supported by WordPress plugins. Plugins make it easy to add icons to font in any WordPress theme without changing the code. Just install Better Font Awesome plugin, go to your settings to configure your plugin settings, and then you can add font icons using shortcodes or selecting it in post editor.\r\n<h2>Adding them manually</h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9497\" src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Icon-Fonts.jpg\" alt=\"Icon Fonts\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" />You can add icon fonts to your site just like you would a custom font. You can link them from your WordPress theme directly or upload the font directory to a folder in your theme and use them in your stylesheet.\r\n\r\nThe first method is the easiest option which allows you to add a single line of code in your theme’s header: .php file just before your &lt;/head&gt; tag. You could simply load stylesheets or scripts in WordPress to ensure you don’t have conflicts with other plugins.\r\n\r\nThe other method is to download the icon fonts and unzip the package, connect to your website using a FTP client, and go to the directory of the WordPress theme. Create a new folder, uploading the contents of the icon fonts folder and then you can simply add code to your theme’s functions or plugin.\r\n\r\nUse this guide to easily add icon fonts to your WordPress theme and you’ll find it makes navigating a bit easier for you and your visitors.','Can you Easily Add Icon Fonts within Your WordPress Theme?','','publish','open','closed','','can-you-easily-add-icon-fonts-within-your-wordpress-theme','','','2016-01-02 17:27:09','2016-01-02 22:27:09','',0,'https://itxdesign.com/?p=9493',0,'post','',0),(9494,4,'2016-01-02 17:23:20','2016-01-02 22:23:20','Have you tried to add icon fonts in your WordPress theme? It’s really easy to do if you haven’t tried it yet. As long as you know how to do it, it’s really easy to add to your theme. Your new icon fonts will allow you to add vector icons and they won’t even slow down your website. Here is a look at how to easily add these icon fonts to your WordPress theme. \r\n\r\n<h2>A look at Icon Fonts</h2>\r\n\r\nIcon fonts are pictograms or symbols that are used in the place of letters and numbers. They are resizable and won’t hurt your page’s download size. You may see an icon font as a symbol such as a music note, telephone, or camera. These commonly used symbols can be used for your shopping cart, your feature boxes, your sliders, or your navigation menus. You can get hundreds of them to choose from for free as WordPress’s installation already includes a set of dashicons. \r\n\r\nYou can get a great load of options from FontAwesome which are supported by WordPress plugins. Plugins make it easy to add icons to font in any WordPress theme without changing the code. Just install Better Font Awesome plugin, go to your settings to configure your plugin settings, and then you can add font icons using shortcodes or selecting it in post editor. \r\n\r\n<h2>Adding them manually</h2>\r\n\r\nYou can add icon fonts to your site just like you would a custom font. You can link them from your WordPress theme directly or upload the font directory to a folder in your theme and use them in your stylesheet. \r\n\r\nThe first method is the easiest option which allows you to add a single line of code in your theme’s header: .php file just before your  tag. You could simply load stylesheets or scripts in WordPress to ensure you don’t have conflicts with other plugins. \r\n\r\nThe other method is to download the icon fonts and unzip the package, connect to your website using a FTP client, and go to the directory of the WordPress theme. 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It’s really easy to do if you haven’t tried it yet. As long as you know how to do it, it’s really easy to add to your theme. Your new icon fonts will allow you to add vector icons and they won’t even slow down your website. Here is a look at how to easily add these icon fonts to your WordPress theme.\r\n<h2>A look at Icon Fonts</h2>\r\nIcon fonts are pictograms or symbols that are used in the place of letters and numbers. They are resizable and won’t hurt your page’s download size. You may see an icon font as a symbol such as a music note, telephone, or camera. These commonly used symbols can be used for your shopping cart, your feature boxes, your sliders, or your navigation menus. You can get hundreds of them to choose from for free as WordPress’s installation already includes a set of dashicons.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9496\" src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FontAwesome.png\" alt=\"FontAwesome\" width=\"711\" height=\"243\" />\r\n\r\nYou can get a great load of options from <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/font-awesome/\">FontAwesome</a> which are supported by WordPress plugins. Plugins make it easy to add icons to font in any WordPress theme without changing the code. Just install Better Font Awesome plugin, go to your settings to configure your plugin settings, and then you can add font icons using shortcodes or selecting it in post editor.\r\n<h2>Adding them manually</h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9497\" src=\"https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Icon-Fonts.jpg\" alt=\"Icon Fonts\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" />You can add icon fonts to your site just like you would a custom font. You can link them from your WordPress theme directly or upload the font directory to a folder in your theme and use them in your stylesheet.\r\n\r\nThe first method is the easiest option which allows you to add a single line of code in your theme’s header: .php file just before your &lt;/head&gt; tag. 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