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…
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…
If you read my post, Installing your MainWP Dashboard on a DigitalOcean Droplet, you will notice 2 things, I am NOT a server admin and setting up a Digital Ocean for MainWP could be a pain in the neck. I’ve been constantly intrigued by cloud hosting and when I wrote the DigitalOcean post back in…
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.…
MainWP Side Menu The biggest user interface improvement in the MainWP Dashboard 3.4 is the MainWP Side Menu. The Side Menu has 3 top level menus: MainWP Dashboard, MainWP Extensions, and Child Site. MainWP Dashboard menu allows you to quickly navigate through all MainWP Pages. MainWP Extensions menu shows all installed extensions and provides you…
Today I’m proud to announce our partnership with PeoplesHost, the first host to offer automatic MainWP Dashboard setup! Notice: Neither myself nor MainWP receives any compensation for MainWP Dashboard sign-ups with Peopleshost. Who is PeoplesHost? I thought it was best for Gregg to give you a little background on the company in his owns…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
