Why I Must Hustle Harder To Achieve My Goal

How are you?This morning I sat down at my desk to work for the first time in a week. Nope, I wasn’t on vacation. Oh how, I wish that I had been.Nope, I had dental surgery. It was a real pain. Yes, a pain in every way. It kept me from work and it hurt […]

Thrive Leads Video Tutorial: How To Embed An Email Optin Form

Learn how to embed an email opt-in form directly into a WordPress blog post. In this tutorial you will learn how to create an opt-in form similar to the one below using Thrive Leads and self-hosted WordPress. Email marketing is a great way to connect with your audience. You can use it in a multitude […]

Thrive Content Builder Tutorial: How To Add Full Width Page Section

Are you creating landing pages for your business? This is something that I am doing more and more. The premium WordPress Plugin Thrive Content Builder makes it easy. In this tutorial, you will learn how to quickly and easily add a full width page section to your landing page. Adding a full width page section […]

Thrive Leads Tutorial: How To Change Opt-In Background Color

One of the advantages of using Thrive Leads to grow your email list is that you can easily change the look of the opt-in form without using code. Thrive Leads uses a what you see is what you get design feature. This means that it is easy to customize.In this tutorial, you will learn how […]

You Need To Know This Right Now Today

Owning a website is confusing. There are a lot of moving parts. There is a lot to keep up with. That is all aside from worrying about hacking and creating that pesky content.If you do own a website there are questions that you need to ask yourself today and they are urgent. Bonus: Is Your WordPress […]

Why You Really Should Give Up Blogging

We both know that you suck at writing. You will never write anything that is worthy of reading. There is absolutely no way that you will get any readers. Every single day that you log into your WordPress dashboard and look at your analytics you will see a flat line, a big fat 0.Admit it […]

Use This Quick Blogging Tip To Stand Out In The Crowd

Are you trying to find unique ways to promote your blog? I am constantly trying to find different ways to stand out AND promote my blog at the same time. Let’s face it, there is a lot of competition out there. The easiest way to promote your blog is to promote it to people that you […]

Recap: A List Of Aha Moments And Blogging Tips

Sometimes a tip or an “event” doesn’t make sense for a full podcast episode or blog post. That is why we are experimenting with a recap episode.What we discuss in this episode: Did you know that Canva can do this?Where did my blog post go?A client website went down.I got content out of sync A […]

Stop Trying To Be Like Everyone Else

Stop trying to be like everyone else.There are no rules to content marketing. Not for you. Not anymore.I just read a fascinating story about Chris Sacca in Tools of Titans. He talked about how wore a gaudy western shirt to an event and it made me him stand out in a unique way.After he had […]

Should You Punish Yourself When You Don’t Achieve Your Goal?

This morning I was listening to a podcast and the guest said something kind of fascinating. I have heard it before but that is true of most things that I hear.The only “heard” that really matters is when it makes you go Holy SH&!.The podcast guest shared a tip and the host said “That is […]

Here Is How To Get More Out Of Your Blog Today

So you have taken the time to write up a blog post and you published it. You may think, “great I am done now” BUT actually you are just getting started.You can get a lot more mileage out of a single blog post if you republish it on multiple platforms.Here are several ways to reuse […]

Are You Letting Your Freak Flag Fly?

I am also insanely boring. People tell me that I am wrong but if you lived with me you would know the truth.For me a darn good time is an evening in front of the tv. Right now I am binge watching Rizzoli and Isles. It is such a fun show!So when I ran across […]

What You Need To Know About 301 Redirect Vs Pretty Link

Do you need to change your permalink? As a note your permalink is the url for a page or a post. If you find yourself in this situation you need to do a 301 redirect.My first piece of advice:Do everything that you possibly can NOT to change your permalink.My second piece of advice:If you must […]

Are You Giving Up Too Soon?

Just Because you aren’t making the progress as fast as you think you should, doesn’t mean you’re not making progress. Keep going! ~UnknownWhen I saw this quote this morning it seriously resonated. It is so easy to say “I tried!” You can even feel good about that. You can say that you gave it your […]

How To Change The Order Of A Thrive Lead Optin

Are you trying to figure out why your Thrive Leads opt-in form isn’t showing up? It is possible that you need to set the order.Thrive Leads has what they call lead groups. Lead groups are lead by a hierarchy. Basically whichever one is on top is what will show up next. Check out this video […]