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[clickToTweet tweet=”Suffering from isolation? Here are nine ways you can beat freelancer isolation.” quote=”Suffering from isolation? Here are nine ways you can beat freelancer isolation.”] How can we help fight the feelings of isolation, loneliness and the lack of community? Here are nine ways you can beat freelancer isolation. Long before I was a freelancer, self-employed, I wrestled with depression. No, I do not mean the feeling or the emotion of being depressed, but the diagnoses of Major Depressive Disorder. Continue reading the post...

There are three ways you can execute an email outreach campaign, CRM, regular one by one emails, and email outreach software. Think about it. You have decided to launch a new product or service for your business, you know, something like a WordPress website maintenance service. Naturally, you are going to reach out to people you know to find clients, but you may choose to do a little cold email outreach. In a perfect world, you will have an inbound Continue reading the post...

WordPress developers can really make a difference in the e-learning industry with the use of various WordPress LMS products. The internet has changed everything. Wouldn’t you agree? I mean, now, you can work from anywhere you want, run a business wherever you are, and you can learn from a remote location in any country in the world. For most of us, that is where we are, running a business and working where we want. You probably even learn what you Continue reading the post...

WordPress aggregator websites can be a very valuable solution for delivering excellent content to your audience and adding value. Once a month, we create a roundup post here at MainWP. I have created roundup posts before and they often get good engagement. People share those posts, especially when they find themselves in that post. It is a good piece of content for engagement. Some of you may be wondering, how do you find those posts? Well, honestly, sometimes it is Continue reading the post...

For a freelance business to run well, it needs to have good planning, the ability to grow, client expectations, and social proof of your successes. Last week, I shared a letter to my younger freelancer self. Today, I am writing my follow up letter. What would you say to your younger freelancer self? So, my younger freelancer self, I wanted to go over a few more things while following up on my letter I recently sent. For a freelance business Continue reading the post...

There have been a number of tools available for WordPress for years to help digital publishers. Today, I want to highlight some of those tools. Imagine, if you will, Clark Kent taking over the Daily Planet in 2017. Lois Lane would be his top reporter and maybe Bruce Wayne would help back the newspaper financially.  One thing I am sure of, Kent would take the paper totally digital. If he does that, the digital publication would be built on top Continue reading the post...

I am going to talk to my younger self about being a full-time freelancer and some of the things I might do differently. I think, for many of us, there is always this burning in our hearts, that if we could go back and change something, we would do so. Look, I know that our experiences forge our character and, if we have an appreciation where we are, we find with our history. Nevertheless, we look back at our freelance Continue reading the post...

Just one day removed from our beloved day of celebration, I bring you the May the 4th edition of the MainWP WordPress Roundup. “You were the chosen one!” Obi-Wan Kenobi yelled at Anakin Skywalker. Maybe you remember the scene in the movie Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith. via GIPHY “You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them,” he cried. “You were supposed to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.” We celebrate Continue reading the post...

Today we are going to explore ten different content promotion strategies that can help increase traffic to your website.  Creating compelling content is only part of the battle to get traffic to your website. Your content has to have a distribution strategy, mostly known as a content promotion strategy, to get readers to your blog. Today we are going to explore ten different content promotion strategies that can help increase traffic to your website. 1. Social Triggers Social trigger is Continue reading the post...

One of the techniques that online marketers have used for years now is the lead magnet. The lead magnet has shown to be an effective means for building an email list. What is a lead magnet? Barry Feldman says, A lead magnet is a free offer you make in exchange for an email address (and possibly additional information). There are lots of ways to create an email lead magnet. In fact, according to Danavir Sarria, the Copy Monk, there are Continue reading the post...