MainWP Blog - WordPress Business

[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...

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...

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...

There are certain kinds of content that can bring in large amounts of traffic while also appealing to your target audience. Today we are going to dive into five types of content that will help you build the right kind of traffic to your website. Take a look at your Google Analytics. Is your traffic flat? Are you struggling to find a pulse on the number of visitors coming to your website? I can hear you. I feel the same Continue reading the post...

Don’t let a project closure steal your thrill! In fact, I say, celebrate your thrill and the project as well. Here are six steps to close your WordPress project without losing the thrill of a job well done. Just a few miles away, deep in the heart of the Delta, some of the best Blues artists were nurtured. There is an old legend about BB King. One night, while he was playing a juke joint in Twist, Arkansas, a fight broke Continue reading the post...

Just How many WordPress page builders are there? Here’s a big ole list. In recent years, page builders have become more and more part of the WordPress ecosystem. The idea of the front end, drag and drop builders have helped WordPress compete, slightly, with other website builders such as Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace. While page builders may never eliminate the need to have developers work on a WordPress website, they have helped make custom page building quicker helping developers get Continue reading the post...