#i have my own self-improvement based blog that i have been curating | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

nachoscheesy · 3 years ago

Text

Tumblr Revival

Tl;dr

Tumblr has a large interconnected community of artists and content creators, and should focus on its strengths and what it does right. Instead of trying to compete for space against Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Tumblr should focus on empowering its community and giving that community the tools to develop the site's unparalleled uniqueness.

Tumblr is the crossroads of the internet, with a monthly user traffic of 300 million it is the perfect space for artists, content creators, and small businesses to grow their following without having to fight for a seat at the table against companies with huge budgets.

Hi, I go by Nacho here on tumblr, and I'm sure as many of us on tumblr have noticed, the (hell)site is kinda going downhill. Tumblr was bought by Automattic in fall of 2019, and I am sure they have the best intentions to help tumblr stay afloat. However, I think it's time the community took a more deliberate approach to how tumblr is handled, and hopefully Automattic and @staff will hear us out. I think I have a solid solution to tumblrs money issues, that will help both the site and empower its online communities.

First and foremost, I am not involved with Tumblr or Automattic. I am just a simple blog trying to help out a place that I've been on since 2010, and I would hate to see it die here around 2023.

So, let's get to the root of the problem on tumblr right now. That being money, tumblr is currently costing more money that it produces, as we've seen with its 97% drop in value from 1.1 billion dollar sale to being sold at around 3 million dollars.

So the first thing that must be improved before anything else can be improved on tumblr is how much money they're bringing in a month. I don't think folks on tumblr hate monetization as much as we all collectively say we do, I think the issue is that most advertisers are completely disconnected from the groups they are trying to advertise to on here. Tumblr comprises roughly 65% millennials and 30% gen-z, the two generations that advertisers seem to have the hardest time advertising to for a myriad of reasons. The main one being that they don't fully understand what we want, and sometimes just don't listen to what we are saying.

Lets look at how tumblr makes its money, Tumblr has four main revenue sources,

Ads by sponsored posts

Display ads through video posts

Sponsored Day ads or banner ads

“Premium Themes”

I'll go into depth on all of these and how tumblr could make potential changes to improve their revenue anywhere from three to six months after it implements some or ideally all of these changes.

First tumblr ads and sponsored posts, these changes are going to be contingent on tumblr allowing its users to share, like, and comment on ads much like all other media sites currently allow. Or at least giving advertisers the ability to turn that on or off as a function.

The average tumblr post gets reblogged 14 times, that number increases significantly if the ad is engaging and actually caters to the communities wants and needs. My reasoning for giving users the ability to reblog ads is to increase user engagement while maintaining their current ad vetting process and all of the nonsensical ads that are run on tumblr 90% of the time.

The other reason for allowing tumblr users to share and comment on ads, or have it be an option for advertisers to turn on or off as they'd like, is that the appeal of tumblr is the ability to propagate and obsess over the most niche things (i.e OSHA.)

All the while allowing content that gets shared all over the internet bubble up to the top through the collective hand of the tumblr community. Along with this tumblr has no way for small users to share their own products or services, every single major site has a way for users to advertise their pages or products through the site.

Tumblr is a content machine that creates imagery and memes that get shared all the time across the internet, so the ability to share and curate its own ads is paramount to improving advertising and user engagement on tumblr.

My proposal here is for tumblr to expand its advertising capabilities to all users, while charging a flat rate fee to advertise on tumblr, with additional charges for popular tags or trending tags. Tumblr currently has no self service advertising system much like Facebook does for example. Where facebook charges a daily rate on cost-per-click(CPC) or cost-per-thousand(CPM)

Charging a flat rate fee at a rate of a day, week, month, or quarterly basis with variances in prices based on the lease term and what the advertisers would want to have their ads show up on certain tags. This would open up the doors for small businesses that don't want to advertise on places like facebook, twitter, or google with their complicated CPM and CPC models. Also bringing in more small locally owned businesses with the added value of less competition for ad space on tumblr.

This would also take some of the weight from tumblrs own advertising staff from having to explain a convoluted system to potential advertisers. Creating a simplified model with the the advent of tumblrs own infrastructure able to get a single post to a large variety of users. Where the current ad model uses a “shotgun” method to hit as many people as possible, the tumblr model could encourage advertisers to curate a more personalized and intimate experience that tumblr users would love.

Why not just advertise elsewhere? Tumblr still in fact gets over 300 million views a month as of June 2021 (Statosta), and the added benefit for users to be able to like, share, and interact with ads would allow ads that the community enjoys to be talked about more. Giving advertisers more honest feedback about their ads while increasing their SEO’s.

Also small businesses that can't compete with the vetting processes that are used on other sites, would have a better chance of developing their business and increasing their clientele on tumblr whose core demographics are approximately 60% millennial and 35% gen-z. This core demographic does in fact care about being able to shop at local stores, or even a store across the US that is trying to drum up its own online sales.

These ads could be placed inline on the tumblr dash while moving other sponsored ads to the right of the site on desktop, but making them alternate on mobile between user ads and sponsored ads.

Second, the display ads should be changed to allow tumblr users to share and further interact with ads to generate more user engagement, incentivizing more businesses and companies to build their brand status on tumblr. Tumblr has a good model for creating short diaries or daily vlogs for companies that wish to show off their products on social media. This includes smaller businesses and vlogers that want to post videos or tutorials of themselves on their blog.

Tumblr is a good site for user engagement with a pool of creative potential for anyone wanting to gauge the desire for a particular subject or piece of media, maybe even an upcoming show. Having the ability to share and comment on sponsored ads would also help advertisers by allowing them to get more bang for their buck with a considerable uptick on how users engage with that content.

Third, tumblrs sponsor day ads and banner ads are inexpensive and should be highlighted as a selling point over their competitors. Tumblr 24-hour banner ads are considerably more affordable for businesses when compared to places like twitter with their 200k price point. For the same amount of money on tumblr a business could have their company at the top of the dashboard or app for 8 whole days. Much longer and much better than the competition.

Keeping this price fixed, with a change in the price CPC is still a much more lucrative and attractive selling point than any of the competition on the internet today. I know this might not be exactly what tumblr wants to hear when it is hemorrhaging money right now, but let's look at the cost for these 24 hour daily ads and banner ads. If tumblr hypes up the price point on these ads they could see a significant rise in advertisers considering the lack of competition on tumblr and past success stories of companies who did advertise on tumblr.

At the same time larger advertisers should be encouraged to make engaging ads and blogs on tumblr that will make people want to actually go to their blogs, that then link to an external site or page. Not ads that instantly try to force you to go to some other site, by rewarding or offering special discounts for people who find a special code or something off of the actual blog. Or even for giving the same code to everyone who reblogs a certain post made by the advertiser.

Seems too good to be true? Look at “Asos” back in 2015 when they held a shirt design competition on their tumblr blog. Where they had 900 submissions, four of which were picked, and were sold out of the user generated shirts in 10 hours.

This is not the only case however, but FX ran their own campaign for the show “Man Seeking Woman” where they saw a 2.8% increase in user engagement, 86% increase in their tumblr followers, and they actually saved money through advertising on tumblr.

All this leads me to believe that tumblr actually was and continues to be the best place for brands, small businesses, and artists to develop themselves through genuine user engagement.

Finally, the “premium themes” that are available on tumblr that allow for unparalleled customizations that you hardly find elsewhere on the internet anymore. Tumblrs ability to take a variety of media sources, as well as having an unparalleled level of customization, user interconnectivity, and a vibrant artistic scene shows that it is ripe with potential.

Tumblr could still use its post+ feature, but in the same way that Discord uses its subscription service. For cosmetic changes that can be added modularly to the site or individual blogs for an additional monthly fee. In conjunction with partnering with community artists to bring small cosmetic additions to individual blogs, while paying the content creator and tumblr taking a small portion of the profits over a certain amount.

To be completely honest this is probably the hardest portion of this entire pitch to make changes to in a shorter period of time, considering all the testing and “under the hood” changes that must be made. However, I think that implementing this as well as the other changes I have proposed will bring back more foot traffic to tumblr as well as increase its revenue and profitability.

In closing, I am simply working with whatever information I was able to find online and a good amount of time invested on my part to do this. I think tumblr has a ton of potential still to return as a force for good for the communities that exist and want a change from what the internet has become. Time and time again when any company or public entity dies it was because it did not change and refused to adapt and innovate, oftentimes not at the hands of the people working everyday to keep the site running. Instead at the hands of people who dont see the value in what has fallen in their laps.

If you agree and think this is something that can be done, please reblog this post and follow me for more updates. If I don't hear back or this does not gain any traction by the end of the year, then tumblr can go to its inevitable end. I will be here sinking with the ship.

@support @engineering @music @wip @changes @photomatt

#tumblr plus #tumblr post plus #tumblr staff #advertising #marketing strategy #changes #tumblr premium #post plus protest #community #automattic

418 notes · View notes

yeoyokepeng3205 · 4 years ago

Text

NM3205 blog 7 - WeChat (media consumption)

In Zhang’s WeChat: Social Network and Smart City. International Linguistics Research (2019), his research revolved around WeChat and its digital activity for its advanced functionalities which build intelligent society in China. China’s ban of external influences of Western social network instigated the revolution of WeChat, from an instant messaging application to a hybrid including application, marketplace, payment method and operating system as an integrated means rather than just a social network. The new usage and the rapid expansion of its integrated functionality and impacts form the new communication consumption framework in China. This work shows how an intelligent society changes and develops through a social network, and detailed analysis of advanced technology and social networks of WeChat. Without a doubt, the boundaries between virtual social networks gradually dissolve, making WeChat a social and economic phenomenon. In this blog, i will also analyse how China had curated WeChat to suit their tastes and preferences in consumption of the internet.

Then, Zhang mentioned that “WeChat is the application of all applications.” and that in the Western world, there is almost no network that can be comparable to WeChat. Indeed, to a certain extent, I do believe this statement is accurate. In Singapore, we are generally influenced by Western factors, hence, our main mode of messaging is usually Telegram or WhatsApp. I realised i communicate mostly through Whatsapp but their functionalities are quite limited compared to WeChat. Evidently, I use GooglePay/PayNow for monetary transactions, WhatsApp for communication and Instagram for social media. There have been attempts by WhatsApp to include the Instastory function, for instance, taking pictures to update your status on WhatsApp but it is not a popular function, because in contrast to Instagram which has tons of amazing filters, WhatsApp status update seems boring and useless. In WeChat, it is a holistic platform whereby you can update people about your life, a recall platform to unsend unintended messages, passport visa application, make payments through Redpackets, “WeChat Purse” in Wechat Pay as an official access to the social insurance payment and other events like checking the balance of the public housing welfare fund. And last but the least, “WeChat Wallet” facilitates payment with the wallet for users to pay for goods and services which is so convenient compared to using multiple applications for different purposes. The only downside about this app is that it is monitored heavily by the China Government, and the data is readily accessible to them which makes it extremely dangerous, and possible infringement of citizens’ privacy. I asked one of my friends who is currently studying in China about her opinions on WeChat, she mentioned that it is definitely one “super” app that assists in daily activities and making connections since she was a foreigner in China which helped her better assimilate into the country. However, she also gets the paranoia of constantly being watched. Even though her account is private, she was shocked that when she was applying for Visa, the interview questions were very similar to certain personal topics that she shared with her friends via WeChat only (eg. stereotypes of China people). Despite fearing for her privacy rights, she said she is unable to live without “WeChat” because of how integrated the apps are into China social network.

Besides that, from my analysis of WeChat, the curation of the network to suit China’s consumers tastes and preferences are ostensible reiterating the ecology between the app and its citizens. Thereby, increasing its appeal and media consumption. Firstly, WeChat is a personal and professional network. Wechat is used for connection with friends, family and colleagues. This is because the Chinese prefer to approach things holistically and systemically, so they do not mind blurring the demarcation between work and leisure. In contrast, the West prefers to distinguish personal from professional, as clearly seen that Facebook and Instagram fall into the personal category as compared to Linkedin. This is reflective of the way Westerners think and work. They do so in a partial way by analysing systems separately, with rationality and clear boundaries as the basis for working well together.

Secondly, WeChat has no online status or read receipts. When it does come to making new connections, the Chinese are relatively more aloof and self contained. This is because collectivism and group harmony are preferred. With foreign connections, the Chinese prefer not share their personal opinions and feelings, but rather confide in their own trust circle. WeChat supports this social norm of refrain by protecting users’ privacy—not indicating of users’ online status or receipt of having read the messages. Another important cultural trait is the norm of saving one’s face or not losing face. If the read receipt is shown and one does not reply, it is highly embarrassing and one risks ruining the relationship. In contrast, Western culture is largely individualistic and control-oriented. Westerners are much more social from the outset of meeting new people. Social networking and messaging platforms on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp automatically provide the online status and read receipts function to facilitate and optimise conversations. The mentality of Westerners is much more focused on transparency and productivity. Any abrasions or offences in social interactions are seen as minor and quickly brushed away. As such, they do not mind being explicit and direct, with no need to hide, on social network platforms.

Lastly, WeChat is a closed network and does not suggest new connections. WeChat only shows interactions in one’s social network and among mutual connections. WeChat also does not have the function of suggesting new connections. This is because the Chinese often make a greater investment in deepening relationships within their social circles. They highly value intimacy and good relationships, no matter personal and/or professional. As such, the Chinese want to keep their connections private and would not naturally bring connections of different social circles together. They also prefer to expand their social network organically via personal introductions rather than reaching out to strangers. On the other hand, Western social network platforms operate with different logic because Western culture is more about openly interacting and sharing. Greater emphasis is placed on the extensiveness of one’s social network and receiving support and recognition from the relevant social circles. The Western approach to networking involves fewer moral obligations and emotional ties. As such, making new connections can be reduced to the click of a button. On my Linkedin, multiple connections pop up everyday, even international contacts. Hence, you could clearly see how Linkedin’s algorithm promotes interconnectivity regardless of backgrounds, location or race.

In a nutshell, the innovation of the social platform WeChat has helped to improve the information technology and services of the city thanks to the advantages of large data bases, artificial intelligence. It has propelled China towards a smart nation by streamlining all the various processes into a single network which improves the quality of life. Moreover, the curation of the app towards the consumers tastes and preference encourages them to indulge in media consumption. Thus, accentuating the fact that the internet is so deeply interwoven into our lives that we are unable to live without it.

References

Zhang, J., Muñoz, C. F., & Hänninen, L. I. (2019). WeChat: Social Network and Smart City. International Linguistics Research, 2(3), p11-p11.

Consulting, C. (n.d.). WeChat vs western social NETWORK Ecosystems. Retrieved March 12, 2021, from https://www.cebaconsulting.com/index.php/2019/11/19/wechat-vs-western-social-network-ecosystems/

#nm3205 #tw1

1 note · View note

academiceve · 6 years ago

Text

Let’s Discuss: Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation

Ever since my Emotion and Motivation course, I wanted to write a post about extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. I’ve discussed motivation before HERE; however, I haven’t touched the subject in more detail, nor shared how I motivate myself.

In psychology, we divide motivation into two types: extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic motivation is an environmentally curated reason (e.g. incentives or consequences) to engage in an action or activity. It’s a “Do this in order to get to this” or “What is in it for me?” type of motivation. Some of the most common needs (external factors) that lead a person to do certain things are:

Money

Praise

Competition

Threat of a punishment

Grades, class rankings, GPA

Extrinsic motives lead to individual benefits. These motivations can lead to behavior, which would have never been possible otherwise. For example, a student might never feel the intrinsic motivation to study, but external factors like medals or the need to improve one’s GPA might motivate the student to study harder.

Intrinsic motivation is the inherent desire to engage one’s interests and to exercise and develop one’s capacities. It emerges from a person’s psychological needs, curiosities and strivings for growth. It’s a “I am doing this because it is...” type of motivation. There is neither pressure nor any sort of reward for your actions, but you still do them because you want to or you believe it’s the right thing to do. The needs or causes that lead to intrinsic motivation are:

Autonomy: the need to have complete control over one’s own life.

Relatedness: the need to maintain companionship or connection with others.

Competence: the need to do be the best and/or succeed.

This form of motivation is not only long-lasting but also self-sustaining. For example, a student with intrinsic motivation focuses more on the subject rather than punishments or rewards and this helps them to learn better. The benefits of intrinsic motivation are

Engagement: the higher a person’s intrinsic motivation, the greater her engagement will be in that task.

Creativity: if people experience interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself then their creativity is higher.

Conceptual understanding/high-quality learning: flexible thinking, active information processing and learning in a conceptual way.

Optimal functioning and well-being: greater self-actualization, greater subject vitality, less anxiety and depression, greater self-esteem.

Now that you have a better understanding of the two types of motivation I can share some of my personal thoughts on this topic. Sadly, most of our educational systems are based solely on extrinsic motivation. At school it often felt like I was studying for a specific grade/or GPA and not because I was interested in the subject matter (for example, economy...). Therefore, I believe it to be one of the main reasons why students struggle with studying at school and why they lack motivation to learn new things.

Personally, when I started studying at university, I was finally learning about what I was interested in. Yes, I had to take courses that I didn’t enjoy (*cough* organisational psychology *cough*); however, I tried to shift my attitude and think about at least one new thing I could learn from the subject that I didn’t know before. It helped me to find some value in courses that I thought were wasting my time + money.

I continue to learn and grow and find new interests as I go along the way. Motivation is a difficult subject to write about because I figured out what I liked to learn/do by learning what I don’t like to learn/do first. I also believe that if you choose subjects to study because of felt pressure from parents/teachers/friends/society, you will not enjoy yourself... Ask yourself if doing a particular subject because you think it is prestigious or will secure you a place at a university/a job afterwards is worth the pain and suffering you will feel when you will have to study it for the next 3-4 years... If the answer is no (which I hope it is) don’t worry because you still have time to figure things out! Your interests may also change and that’s good! It means you’re learning and growing! And that’s all I expect from you!😌

I’m not sure if this post makes sense or provides you with good advice, so CLICK HERE to watch a video on how to study when you have 0 motivation and HERE to watch a video about motivational groundwork, both by Thomas Frank. If you would like to read more from me, click HERE to see other blog posts! You can also follow my studygram HERE for some inspiration!

#eveincollege #written #academiceve #motivation #motivation for college student #college motivation #college advice #back to school #back to school advice #study with me #study inspiration #study motivation #university #student

182 notes · View notes

sinesalvatorem · 7 years ago

Text

Long Term Acid Plans

So it seems some people interpreted the blog posts I made while I was on acid - when I was trying to immediately get down some novel information while being bad at communication - more seriously than I intended. So I should specify what has happened so far and what I plan to do:

All doses I took until last week were below the threshold for actually psychadelic effects. I just took moderate doses where the main effect is stimulating learning and improving creative thinking.

(Dose zero was a test I did about two months ago of an extremely tiny amount so I could be sure I wouldn’t have an unusual adverse reaction to it. Even then I had benzos on hand to bring me down. It mostly just made me slightly loopy and made everything around me nicer.)

The first time I did a large enough dose to noticably impact thinking was the afternoon after my abuser had kind of pushed me to a ‘last straw’ sort of moment, but I didn’t have the confidence to actually upend my life to escape. Then I had a change of perspective, realised how stupid I’d been being for months, and entirely noped out of that bullshit. Since then I’ve been living somewhat precariously (until now, when I’m actually decently stable and safe), but I’m vastly happier, and I think that indicates that I made the right choice. Had I not made that choice, I wouldn’t have a life worth living today, and I have little confidence I’d have had one later either.

The second time I took acid I ended up having conversations with some friends and acquaintances that helped me realise the shape of the holes in my social presentation style. And, as such, why I was so bad at enforcing my boundaries (or having them in the first place). I also was able to make plans with some helpful people that will probably make it easier for me to unfuck my life in the long term.

The third time I took acid was in an actually controlled environment, at which point I took a full dose with psychadelic effects. This was the experience during which I tagged @aellagirl because I wanted to know more about fixing the effects in place. During this trip, I realised the extent to which being around other human beings causes their mental states to bleed into mine just in general, which allowed me to recognise the value of introvert time. I also learned to actually directly value maintaining my boundaries, which is admittedly not the stereotypical acid outcome, and expect to be a lot better at enforcing boundaries in the future.

I also ended up experiencing pain as pleasure, because I started interpreting all intense experience as euphoria. I was very good at sinking into specific experiences if I chose to, except that if my trip partner was in the room I would necessarily devote at least part of my mind to simulating theirs, which prevented total immersion (except that I could still do total-immersion in empathy). Furthermore, I saw entire worlds composed of beautiful shifting geometric patterns. I’m not under any illusions that this world exists, but it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen and I’d love to make art of it at some point.

But taking a full dose led me to be more confident of some of the things I’d noticed at lower doses but assumed would stop being true of me at higher doses. For one thing, I was entirely lucid and had no trouble switching between short/medium/long term planning. I was directly enjoying and paying attention to each experience, but also curating the music for my trip partner and I and thinking of songs to switch to based on apparent fluctuations in my partner’s mood. Plus I never lost track of what my post-trip plans were.

The other thing was maintaining enough internal emotional control to make bad trips in general exceedingly unlikely. Generally, any time I might be tempted to feel anxious, I just notice that getting anxious would be dumb and... Don’t do that. This is also what I do when I’m sober, which is why I didn’t see a lot of risk to taking pre-psychadelic doses of acid. I’m just more confident that my sober mental skills transfer to (at least one tab of) acid than I was before. The only time I got anxious throughout the whole trip was when I purposefully induced anxiety so I could enjoy it masochistically, and it ended the moment it was no longer the thing I wanted to explore.

I also had no trouble managing the emotions of my trip partner throughout (which I later realised might be its own issue) and, when she went nonverbal near the end, I started liveblogging aloud her thoughts and emotional state since it felt unfair that she could no longer do this for herself. (I was mostly right throughout this, which I could confirm because she reinforcement-learning!trained me by nodding and shaking her head.)

Having now experienced acid three times, with the most recent one having major (and mostly positive) effects, I want to figure out how to fix some of these effects in place. And my first step is... Not taking acid. In fact, I plan to avoid intoxicants in general for about a month.

My goal is to see how much of the temporary mental shifts due to acid I can fix in place into my sober life using just mindset-regulation. As is evidenced from the “Just don’t get anxious” thing, I’m reasonably good at altering mental states with just conscious attention. I’ve currently been working to keep the masochism on fulltime, which seems to be partially working. I’m hoping other aspects of sensory perception while tripping are also things I can bake in long term.

I think I’m unusually well poised to do this because, well, my baseline is actually unusually acid-like. I have near-unlimited patience in a lot of situations, like waiting for the train, because I have little difficulty immersing myself in my current sensory environment and appreciating each tiny fluctuation. I have a generally rose-tinted perception of, well, everything, because I mentally filter my attention to focus on the good over the bad, and to feel the good components of any experience more strongly than the bad ones. By default, I have whatever the reverse of depression is. Plus I have enough conscious control over this that I can hear the same piece of music five different ways sequentially just by adjusting my filter of what components of the piece are most salient. (It’s really fun to point out different elements of a piece to someone in real time and have their face light up as they notice it and their experience shifts :D)

I’m already a universal love kind of person and find it easy to fall into other people’s experiences through empathy. Plus, given time to zone out and self-focus, I can drastically alter my mental state at will using meditation-adjacent things I developed for myself. Oh, and since I was 12 I’ve been able to move sensations of heat around through my body basically at will in ways that have led the more woo-y people around me to declare that I’m close to “Awakening” while I rolled my eyes.

It’s worth noting that, despite having always been a human composed entirely of ecstasy and acid, I’ve never really fallen into mysticism because of this. I’m just not easy to convince of wishy-washy stuff, even if the wishy-washy stuff attempts to flatter my biases. Especially if the wishy-washy stuff flatters my biases. Oh, so my weird successes with meditation prove that I’m more awakened than other people? What reason do I have outside of my ego to possibly believe that?

See also: Me not thinking my acid visions depict a real place, and the fact that at no point on my trip did I lose the feeling that there was an important sense in which my trip partner and I were distinct people. (She lost that sense, though. Admittedly, I sort of trolled her by mimicking her motions and body language at times to increase this effect, because I’m a terrible person.)

However, at the same time, I’m certainly not convinced enough of my own uniqueness not to think I could possibly experience ego death, loss of lucidity, and a sudden devotion to glowing racoons. But, well, those aren’t things I particularly want? I mean, maybe very temporary ego death, but temporary is the key. I want to use acid to steal techniques for improving my existence, but I don’t want to experience values drift on what my goals are or even whether to have goals.

This is part of why I’m trying to see how much progress I can make during a period of sobriety (which I’m having while in a much more comfortable/stable environment), and why I want to know what the effects of acid-drift are from @aellagirl in as much detail as possible. (Do you have notes or blog posts you were writing during the process, so I can do timeline analysis?)

#tragic backstory #life goals #we are a crowdsourced search engine #drugs cw

80 notes · View notes

jvzooproductsclub · 6 years ago

Text

ViTraffic Review | Demo | Exclusive Bonus | Set and forget profit machine on autopilot

Learn more here: http://mattmartin.club/index.php/2018/07/16/vitraffic-review-demo-exclusive-bonus-set-and-forget-profit-machine-on-autopilot/

Welcome To MattMartin.Club!

Thank You So Much For Taking The Time In Checking Out My Review On "ViTraffic"

Hope You Will Enjoy It!

Know How Everything Is Automated In Just 3 Simple Steps!

Overview:

Product Creator Chris Jenkins Product Name ViTraffic Front-End Price $17.00 Niche WP PlugIn | Traffic Bonuses YES! Listed Below! Refund 30 Days Money Back Guarantee Recommendation Yes, 100%. Launch Date 2018 – July – 16th @ 11:00 AM EST Official Website Checkout "ViTraffic" Official Site

Click Here @ 11:00 AM EST on 2018-July-16th To Get An Early Bird Discount On "ViTraffic" Along With My Exclusive Bonus!

Hi there, As you know how newbie marketers finds it difficult and boring to write self posts and blogs for their pages. Even if you manage to write consistent posts it is not easy to get the viral traffic. To increase the traffic you need to have trending topics for your social media platform and an engaging content for your site.

Now you must be thinking how is it possible to apply for your business. No need to worry anymore… As I am here to introduce you with the product named “ViTraffic”, an ultimate plugin system for your online business. What is it? How does it work? Let’s check out my ViTraffic Review below to find out more details about it!

VITRAFFIC REVIEW – WHAT IS IT?

Looking for something that could help you get the most traffic on your social media and websites? Virtraffic is the best solution for you. With Virtraffic you get a dedicated website for your curated contents which you can share on your Facebook page.

Virtraffic combines the power of WordPress, Facebook, Amazon and eBay to give you a dedicated website, engaging fanpage that brings traffic and commissions through affiliate marketing.

This awesome traffic generating WordPress plugin allows expert and newbie marketers to build fanpage audience fast and generate massive engagement on websites.

ViTraffic Rating - 9.0/10

Quality - 9.0/10

Features - 9.0/10

Support - 9.0/10

Easy to use - 9.0/10

Bonus - 9.0/10

Summary

PROS - Find highly engaging and relevant content in an instant - Build commission sucking affiliate site on autopilot - Drive targeted traffic to your sites directly from the system - Monetize with inbuilt module that integrates relevant products automatically to your site CONS - This is a dimesale, the price increases with every sale made

WHO IS THE CREATOR?

The vendor of ViTraffic are Chris Jenkins and his partner Prady N. Chris has been a product creator for a while but the number of products he has successfully launched is incredible. Some of his products are Pixal Evolution, Snapify, DiscountPop, SociHub, Stack Video Pak, WP Spy Online, YouTube Probe, and more. Let’s take a look at the next part of the ViTraffic Review to find out the content!

FEATURES OF VITRAFFIC

Here’s What You’ll Get When You Purchase Vitraffic

Fetches the most viral content on the web

It goes out and curates most engaging and viral content in your niche.

Creates a sleek and professional website

Build your viral site in minutes and keep it updated with new content

Generate Income Automatically Integrated Affiliate Products

Integrates relevant Amazon products along with your affiliate ID so you can monetize it instantly

Sell Amazon Products

Vitraffic read the contents you have on your site and automatically fetches relevant Amazon products on the web and display it for your website viewers. Make profit through effective affiliate product implementation.

Monetize with Adsense and Banner Ads

You can easily add banner or adsense ads by using our easy to use options panel and start generating revenue instantly.

Build List and Sell Affiliate Products

Easily build your list through integrated newsletter options available for you to add in all the most converting places. Then utilize your list to cash in on product sales and affiliate promotions!

Dedicated WordPress Website

Post anything you like, from GIF, memes, high quality images to Amazon and eBay products. With the right contents, you can bring your traffic up and customer engagements in no time.

Seamless Facebook Integration

Easily share your images and Amazon and eBay products from your website to Facebook for your fanbase to see and direct clicks to your site.

Easy-To-Use WordPress Plugin

Use Vitraffic in an instant, set-up should only take you less than 10 minutes and you are ready to customize your site, curate your contents and build Facebook traffic.

Timely Search Results

Vitraffic gives you the best image results that are trending and with the most number of likes on the internet so that you’ll reach even more number of audience.

Fast and Easy Ecommerce Integration

You will not only get traffic but with Vitraffic you have the ability to turn your page into a money-making website through Amazon and eBay affiliate marketing.

Interactive Website Popup Option

Collect leads or promote products and services through specialized optin popups that are easily manageable through the ViralTraffic plugin interface.

And many more:

Find highly engaging and relevant content in an instant

Build commission sucking affiliate site on autopilot

Drive targeted traffic to your sites by right from the system

Monetize with inbuilt module that integrates relevant products automatically to your site.

Easy product installation, download and start using Vitraffic in minutes

SAAS based plugin, access and use it anywhere anytime

Modern and responsive website design for easy navigation and better content distribution

Timely search results, find the latest and trending images and blog posts on the web

Powerful Ecommerce integration, connect effortlessly on eBay and Amazon

Organic traffic generator through seamless Facebook integration

YouTube and Vimeo integration that lets you add top and current videos

Newsletter option that allows your customers to be notified about your latest posts and announcements

WHY YOU NEED VITRAFFIC

It is simple, with ViTraffic, you’ll be able to:

Sell Amazon Products

Monetize with Adsense and Banner Ads

You can easily add banner or adsense ads by using easy to use options panel and start generating revenue instantly.

Build List and Sell Affiliate Products

Easily build your list through our integrated newsletter options available for you to add in all the most converting places. Then utilize your list to cash in on product sales and affiliate promotions!

Now let’s take a minute to recap the huge benefits come up with:

Complete solution engine that takes care of everything from content creation to monetization on autopilot.

Set it up once and watch your income grow.

Curates content from all over the web automatically.

Manage and run it by itself, You don’t need to work on it daily once you set it up.

Monetize with automatically integrated highly relevant amazon product.

Easily monetize by integrating your adsense ads.

Automatic promotion engine that promotes your vitraffic site on Facebook on autopilot.

Tap on twitter and even Pinterest for wider audience.

High converting designs that improves your profit.

Collect leads from our attention grabbing optin forms

In Addition, You Will Be Getting Tons of The Vendor’s Greatest Bonuses For Your Last Action:

ViTraffic FE Fast Action Bonus #1

Zapdeals Agency ($197.00 Value)

Enjoy Zapdeals for personal use or use it for your clients.

Market Zapdeals to your own list and keep 100% of the profit

Rebrand the entire product and make it as your own

Recurring income, mean extra profit aside from your Vitraffic earnings

Complete autopilot business, no high maintenance needed

Get Zapdeals for $197 or have it for FREE when You Purchase Vitraffic Today!

ViTraffic FE Fast Action Bonus #2

DFY Facebook Ads from 6 High Paying Niches

FB Marketing is perfect fit for Vitraffic. These High quality graphic ads from the hottest niches in consultancy business that you can use for Facebook advertising will help you to boost your revenue with almost no efforts on your part.

ViTraffic FE Fast Action Bonus #3

Facebook Link WP Plugin

Create a Facebook Connect Button, collect leads and auto-add to auto-responder and capture verified email from the leads! Integrates with ANY auto-responder.

Enjoy Wide Range Features that Works well with Vitraffic Platform!

Get 10X Better and Faster Results by Adding Highly Engaging Video and Original Contents to Your Vitraffic Sites PLUS Developer’s Rights

Upgrade your purchase and enjoy these amazing OTO fast action bonuses!

ViTraffic OTO1 Fast Action Bonus #1

High Quality Social Covers

Easy to edit professional Facebook timeline covers that you can use for your clients’ business for free or at an extra cost. You can sell them for $97+ as well. This is one of the most in demand service. You can capitalize easily with our ready made designs to make profits.

ViTraffic OTO1 Fast Action Bonus #2

Branded Media WP Media Plugin

Creates brandable media players with your contents, your links, and let your visitors embed on their blog. You already know why that is super powerful in viral traffic, sales and lead generation.

Quit spending countless hours trying to find a solution that will allow you to create viral media players that have YOUR logo, your content and timed actions... you won't find it -- especially a plugin for wordpress.

Branded Media is a wordress plugin that anyone can use, because all they need to do is put it on there wordpress blog, and they are ready to go!

There is no complicated mySQL install process, it's just a simple upload process. This is designed this to be the easiest script you have plugin to installed, and started to use.

Here are the main reasons why you should start using Branded Media to create branded media players:

No skills required at all! You don't need any skills to get started..

Super Simple To INSTALL! Just upload to your blog and go!

Amazingly Beautiful WP Plugin! Detailed plugin and media player!

Manage Your Media Players! Create unlimited media players inside wordpress!

Short codes for Posts and Pages! Simply add to any page you want!

ViTraffic OTO1 Fast Action Bonus #3

FB Page Builder

Single tool that will not only get you on facebook, and Building your fanbase, social credibility and even making you MORE Money!STOP wasting your time - In only 30 seconds you can have your fully customized Fan Page with Profile picture created by you in a super-easy online graphic editor. No joke, this is as easy as it could possibly get for you to start today!

Full control over each detail, text, style and even which icon to display...

Easy to use, works right inside your web browser!

Absolutely noting to download - ONLY your custom created graphics...

Create UNLIMITED fan page graphics + profile images on the fly...

Get instant access to the graphic editor that is used inside your web browser, you do NOT need to download anything. Forget about long install process, Photoshop and writing any HTML.

How To Claim Your Bonuses

Step 1: Purchase product from this page.

Grab the product through the buttons found on this page to gain access to these awesome bonuses.

Step 2: Bonuses delivery.

The bonuses offered on this page will be automatically available to you for download on the Members Area after your purchase.

Give Me Access To Vitraffic Now!

PLUS, THESE FAST ACTION BONUSES LISTED BELOW FROM ME:

Bonus No: 1

Modern Video Marketing

With this video course...

You are going to understand the old elements that sill remain alive in video marketing.

You will learn to identify the new and old factors that make up modern video marketing.

You will understand the concept of return on effort.

You can begin to understand the KLT (know-like-trust) buying process.

You are going to learn exactly how to create a human connection with your prospects.

And much more!

Bonus No: 2

Modern Video Marketing Video Upgrade

Topics covered:

Effective Video Marketing In A Nutshell

Video Marketing: The Modern and Effective Way

Let Your Competitors Do Your Video Marketing Homework For You

Modern Video Marketing Essentials

Figuring Out The Different Types Of Video Marketing

Article-to-Video Marketing: Is It Right For You?

Video Scribe and Other Whiteboard Video Creation Tools: The Inside Scoop

Slideshow Creation Tools: Are They Right For You?

Personality-Focused Videos

Marketing Videos on Social Media

Bonus No: 3

Site Speed Secrets

Site Speed Secrets is a step-by-step blueprint about how to speed up your website and increase conversions.

Here's what you'll discover in this course:

How website speed optimization works and how you can use it to leverage your online success.

The one secret no one tells you about web caching and how it can change your site for the better.

The easiest ways to get Google to like your site and reward you with higher rankings on its search results pages.

Why it’s important to host your site with a reputable web host.

The 4 different caching plugins you can use to turbocharge your WordPress site.

How content delivery networks work and why your website needs to be on one.

The many different techniques for image optimization and why it’s important you reduce your image file sizes.

The different file types you can compress and optimize to help speed up your website.

What .htaccess is and how you can use it to improve your web pages’ load time.

And so much more!

Bonus No: 4

Site Speed Secrets Video Upgrade

Discover how you can finally speed up your website and increase your conversion rates. All the information you need is here, and nothing has been left out in this course!

You’ll learn so much just by going through this course. Here are some of the most powerful benefits you’ll gain:

Learn to build faster websites from now on.

Not all web hosts are created equal – make sure you sign up for a fast web host that will help you reach your business goals.

Know how to use and analyze the results of the best website speed testing tools out there.

Never underestimate the power of caching ever again – it will help your site load much faster than ever before.

Become a .htaccess expert and learn how to speed up your site with just a few extra lines added to this powerful file.

Be an expert at reducing and optimizing file sizes before uploading anything to your website.

Use the top WordPress plugins which will help supercharge your slow site and turn it into a speedy machine.

Topics covered:

3 Major Reasons Yours Site Is Slow and How You Can Fix It

3 Methods To Improve Your Websites User Experience

4 Benefits Of Using Accelerated Mobile Pages AMP For Your Website

4 Free Tools You Can Use To Speed Up Your Website

5 Benefits Of Having A Fast Website

6 Secrets To Speed Up Your WordPress Website

How Optimizing Your Images Can Help With Your Site

How To Choose The Rights Web Hosting Company

Why You Should Care About How Fast Your Website Load

WordPress vs Static HTML Websites Which Is Faster

Bonus No: 5

SuperCharged Productivity

Supercharged productivity is a guide that contains the world's best productivity hacks by the world's leading productivity experts.

Inside this guide, you'll discover mind-blowing productivity hacks you can use this instance to exponentially improve your productivity and crush all those stubborn projects that you've laid off for so long.

You'll discover incredible insight and profound knowledge that will enable you to operate with incredible energy beyond the average capability of a human being.

You will learn:

A list of powerful zero cost tools to practically increase your productivity by 20% in a snap of a finger!

Uncover the myth behind productivity and time management

Learn the difference between effectiveness and efficiency, critical for getting more things done in less time

The 1 thing that high performers focus on that enables them to accomplish critical task one after the other without suffering from burnout

An overall gameplan to achieve maximum productivity and overtake everyone else on your road to success

How to determine and eliminate unnecessary time -wasting activities so you'll regain full control over your time and maximize the results you want to achieve

The ULTIMATE secrets to supercharged productivity

Understand what is energy and how you can direct your energy in the right way so you'll achieve incredible productivity

The two most important powerful productivity hacks (Only one in a million people in this country knows this hacks)

Several things you need to ditch immediately to be happy and become hyper-productive towards finishing your grand projects or goals.

Tap into your body's hidden energy reserve and gain the extra stamina to perform at peak level for a longer period of time.

Dive into the mindset of top productivity experts and learn how to 'tune' your mind to constantly hack yourself to be more productive

And many more!

Bonus No: 6

Supercharged Productivity Video Upgrade

Supercharged productivity is a video course that contains the world's best productivity hacks by the world's leading productivity experts.

It's an video upgrade of Supercharged Productivity ebook.

Topics covered:

The Myth Of Time Management

Effectiveness vs. Efficiency

Results - Fast Lane to Success

Your Gameplan to Success

The Secrets to Supercharged Productivity

Why Energy Is Everything

Supercharged Productivity Hacks

How To Be A One Man Army

Follow One's Cause Until Successful

So What's Next

Bonus No: 7

Survey Funnel

With this 9-part video course discover how to generate micro-targeted leads that are ready to buy your products & services, starting today!

These methods are based on a working system. There's no theory here!

Imagine if you could get micro-targeted leads ready to buy from you!

Topics covered:

Introduction and Getting Started

Why Surveys Are So Powerful

Your End Goal

Your Product & Service

The Buyer That Fits

The Typical Day

The Survey Form

The Mindmap

Implementation to Segmentation

Bonus No: 8

The Growth Mindset

The Growth Mindset is the mindset of world’s top achievers and successful people for achieving massive success.

You will learn the EXACT practices of world’s top achievers do to achieve greatness in their life. Change your mindset now to achieve great success and get ready to be mind-blown by your own transformation!

You will learn:

Proven Strategies Practiced By The World’s Top Achievers To Develop A Growth Mindset.

How To Reverse From Being Trapped In A Limiting Mindset (Get Out Of This Situation Asap Because This Will Slows You Down Or Worse... Prevents You From Attaining Success!)

7 Ways The Growth Mindset People Are Superior In Many Things.

The Most Effective Way To Change Your Behaviour And Anything In Life (Not The Easiest Way, But A 100% Sure Fire Way To Get Better At Anything In Life!)

10 Crucial Things You Will Learn From Failing… (Failing Is Not Bad After All).

Warning! 3 Types Of Mindset You Must Avoid At All Cost!

One Particular Trait That Enables Growth Mindset People To Improve Any Skills They Want (And How You Can Do The Same!).

Is Scarcity Even Real? Find Out The Shocking Truth About Scarcity In Chapter 1.

How Do People With Growth Mindset Think? Here’s How… (Chapter 3)

Performance Vs. Improvement. Which One Matters?

And much, much more!

Bonus No: 9

The Growth Mindset Video Upgrade

With this video course you will:

Be Positive, Creative, High-Energy, & Motivated

Deal With Failures, Setbacks And Challenges Differently From 90% Of The Population (No Stress Involved!)

Be At Your Very Best Self.

Have The Ability To Master Any Skills Or Areas Of Your Life

Become The Top Performer In Your Personal And Professional Life

Accomplish So Much More Than You Ever Thought Possible

Experience Exponential Growth In Your Character Values.

Have A More Fulfilling Life Knowing That You Are Progressing Every Day To Be Better.

Start Seeing Positive Results And Notice Incredible Changes When You Apply What You’re About To Learn In Growth Mindset As Fast As 30 Days.

Most Important, You Will Shortcut Your Way To Success!

Topics covered:

What is Mindset?

Why is Mindset Important?

Fixed vs Growth Mindset.

The Dangers of a Fixed Mindset.

The Power of a Growth Mindset.

Is it Possible to Change Your Mindset?

Strategies to Develop a Growth Mindset

Dealing with Setbacks

Bonus No: 10

Wholeness

Lifestyle provides input to the human body. If there are any problems with these inputs, you are sure to feel the consequences. We do not completely realize how important lifestyle choices are.

It’s about time for you to enjoy all-natural holistic wellness!

With this step by step guide...

You are going to understand the importance of Lifestyle.

You will learn to identify lifestyle inputs

You will understand the spiritual component of wellness.

You can begin to understand the body-and-mind connection.

You are going to learn exactly how to live a more empowered life.

You will learn about:

Rediscovering the Importance of Lifestyle

Lifestyle is Always a Choice

The 5 Key Benefits of a Holistic Focus on Wellness: The Power of Wholeness

Overcoming 5 Common Myths that Lead to Disease and Dysfunction

Begin with Your Most Powerful Bio-Organic Complex: Your Mind

Understand the importance of relational wellness

Explore physical wellness

Traditional wellness is not up to the job

Preventative Medical Wholeness

Claiming Environmental Wholeness

Bonus No: 11

Wholeness Video Upgrade

With this 10-part video course...

You are going to understand the importance of Lifestyle.

You will learn to identify lifestyle inputs

You will understand the spiritual component of wellness.

You can begin to understand the body-and-mind connection.

You are going to learn exactly how to live a more empowered life.

Topics covered:

Rediscovering the Importance of Lifestyle

Lifestyle is Always a Choice

The 5 Key Benefits of a Holistic Focus on Wellness: The Power of Wholeness

Overcoming 5 Common Myths that Lead to Disease and Dysfunction

Begin with Your Most Powerful Bio-Organic Complex: Your Mind

Understand the importance of relational wellness

Explore physical wellness

Traditional wellness is not up to the job

Preventative Medical Wholeness

Claiming Environmental Wholeness

Bonus No: 12

Affiliate Marketing Kit

AFFILIATE MARKETING PROFIT KIT solves the following common yet fatal problems hounding both newbie and veteran affiliate marketers.

You will learn:

How to pick a niche that is most likely to earn you money

How to pick a conversion platform that will produce the most money with the least effort

How to create content your niche audience will actually want to read and share

How to select affiliate offers the smart and efficient way

How to build an affiliate marketing business that will stand the test of time and fickle consumer trends

The AFFILIATE MARKETING PROFIT KIT delivers:

Plain ENGLISH instructions: you don’t have to have to be an affiliate marketing veteran to understand and carry out its powerful and effective instructions

Actionable information: you get any THEORY with this PROFIT KIT. Instead, you get solid practical step by step instructions you can carry out RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!

Scalable information: you don’t get a ONE TRICK PONY instruction set that works NOW but will be USELESS TOMORROW. The AFFILIATE MARKETING PROFIT KIT worked in the past, is working now, and will CONTINUE TO WORK long into the future!

Powerful traffic generation strategies: most other ‘online income’ blueprints or affiliate marketing ‘guides’ completely leave out the most important part of affiliate marketing success:

TRAFFIC. You will get powerful information you can use to both GENERATE FREE TRAFFIC and handle PAID TRAFFIC the right way!

And much more!

Bonus No: 13

Affiliate Marketing Profit Kit Video Upgrade

Discover How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing - Even If You Are a Complete Beginner!

With this video tutorials you can learn to get out of the gate well-positioned to succeed in the often DOG-EAT-DOG hypercompetitive world of affiliate marketing! You don’t have to settle for the crumbs LEFT OVER by the big players of your niche.

Topics covered:

4 Ways you are killing your passive income empire dreams

The money is in the list but not in the way you think

7 secrets of affiliate success most marketers will not tell you

7 Reasons why you should focus on niche selection

6 Ways your niche may be holding your affiliate income

5 Ways to find the best converting content

How to turbocharge your affiliate income in one step

What is the single most important factor to affiliate success

6 Ways to prevent your affiliate business from crashing and burning

The 5 Hallmarks of solid social media content

Bonus No: 14

Music Loops Pack 1

This music loops package contains 25 royalty-free music loops. You can use it in yours or your clients projects!

Bonus No: 15

Music Loops Pack 2

This music loops package contains 25 royalty-free music loops. You can use it in yours or your clients projects!

Bonus No: 16

Music Loops Pack 1

This music loops package contains 25 royalty-free music loops. You can use it in yours or your clients projects!

Bonus No: 17

Modern Affiliate Marketing

The key to affiliate marketing success is to focus on what works. The mechanics of affiliate marketing have not changed. What has changed, however, are the strategies that enable you to become a successful affiliate marketer.

With this step by step guide...

You are going to understand the importance of modern affiliate marketing strategies.

You will learn to identify niches based on ROI and other crucial factors.

You will understand modern conversion systems.

You can begin to understand different monetization methods.

You are going to learn exactly how to put a heavy focus on the commercial value of your niche.

Topics covered:

Picking Your Niches Based on ROI and Other Crucial Factors

Picking the Right Affiliate Program to Maximize Conversions

How to Create Niche-Focused Conversion Systems

Traffic Generation Strategies

Traffic Optimization Strategies

The Key to Affiliate Marketing Success in 2018 and Beyond

Bonus No: 18

Modern Affiliate Marketing Video Upgrade

Picking the Right Affiliate Program to Promote all Boils Down to ROI.

Make no mistake, if you want to succeed with your affiliate marketing business, you have to focus on ROI. If you have a fuzzy idea of what return on investment means, you're playing the game wrong.

With this video course you will learn the secrets of modern affiliate marketing!

Topics covered:

Picking Your Niches Based on ROI and Other Crucial Factors

Picking The Right Affiliate Program to Maximize Conversions

How To Create Niche-Focused Convertion Systems

Traffic Generation Strategies: Category 1 - Direct Traffic To Your Link

Traffic Generation Strategies: Category 2 - SEO (backlinks)

Traffic Generation Strategies: Category 3 - Social Media

Traffic Generation Strategies: Category 4 - Forums

Traffic Generation Strategies: Category 5 - Question and Answer Platforms

Traffic Generation Strategies: Category 6 - Third-party blog traffic

Traffic Optimization Strategies

Bonus No: 19

Video Playbook

Video is the fastest growing type of media online. Even companies that were founded on other types of broadcasting—such as Twitter and Instagram have begun to embrace video in order to improve visitor engagement and better connect with their target audience.

However, incorporating video content on your blog or website hasn’t always been an easy task.

For many, uploading videos to their own hosting account is time-consuming and expensive, and while embedding videos from third-party services simplifies things, you’ll often end up losing a lot of control over how the videos are displayed.

In this guide, you’re going to learn some of the best ways to use video on your websites profitably, and just how easy it is to get around some of the biggest issues you might face when using it.

Topics covered:

Why Use Video?

How to Make Money with Videos

Creating Your Own Videos

Video Storage Services

Using Other People’s Videos To Maximize Exposure

MonkeyPlayr

Powerful Video Ideas

Bonus No: 20

HIIT 2 FIT Video Upgrade

HIIT is also known as High Intensity Interval Training. It means exercising at an intense pace for a short period… and scientists have found that this workout method is MILES better than a moderate pace workout.

Studies show that the intensity of exercise is one of the greatest factor in rapid fat loss.

HIIT is:

Fun

Efficient

Minimalistic

Location-independent

A brain booster

A muscle-builder

Customizable

With this video course you will:

Save precious time by working out the most efficient way possible for fat loss and building muscle at the same time. That means more time for you to spend with family and friends,

Look good without giving up your soul. You don’t have to give up sports night or your favorite six-packs of beer to have an aesthetic physique.

Enjoyable exercises that will get you excited for your next workout

Bonus No: 21

Ecom Mastery

With the advent of systems like Shopify and WooCommerce that make it easier than ever to set up an online store without vast programming knowledge or deep pockets, and the prevalence of drop shipping companies that have affordable prices, e-commerce is booming like never before.

E-commerce is one of the only systems you can use to make money online that is truly long-lasting and sustainable, and, in a profitable niche, can keep making you money for many years to come.

With this report you will learn basics about how to start your own online store.

Topics covered:

Choosing a Profitable Niche

Finding Your Passion

Going Deep

Sourcing Products

Marketing Your Store

Bonus No: 22

Niche Market Discovery

If you don’t know the process for discovering hot niche markets, then you will continue to work hard and never achieve the success you are looking for.

If you want to find the right niche market, that is proven to be profitable, you have to learn the process for niche market discovery.

Here is a comprehensive guide that will provide you with the process successful niche business owners follow to find the hot niche markets that will make them money.

You will learn why finding your niche is so important.

You will learn what you need to do to choose the right niche to make the most money.

You will learn how to locate your ideal customer.

You will learn how to build relationships within your chosen niche.

You will learn how to analyze your competition.

And much, much more...

Finding the hottest niche markets that are profitable can be done with time, a bit of hard work, and some diligent research.

Here are just some of the many benefits you’ll gain when you decide to follow the process of niche market discovery.

Learn how to start your business with affiliate marketing.

Learn how to get started with your niche research.

Learn the secret to finding hot keywords that have high profit potential.

Learn how to research and survey your target market.

Learn how to create your ideal customer profile.

Learn how to research and evaluate your competition.

Bonus No: 23

Surfire WP Boost

With this 9-part step by step video course you will discover how to speed up your WordPress sites so that your visitors can get a better user experience which will give you higher search engine rankings.

You will learn methods that have been working for decades.

Topics covered:

Advantages of Fast Site Speed

Reasons Why Your Site Is Slow

Too Much in Your Site

Is Your Web Hosting Slowing You Down?

Image Optimization

Parasite Protection

WordPress Caching

Content Delivery Networks

Bonus No: 24

Online Business Systematization

One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a business owner is to create a company that is wholly dependent on your daily involvement for its success. There are several problems with this approach.

The first is redundancy. You are effectively paying your employees to carry out tasks that you will eventually complete.

The second, poor time management. You are spending your time on tasks as they arise, leaving you little room to work on the essential business tasks for growing your business. The solution lies in the effective systemization of your business.

Learn how systemizing and automating your online business can finally free up your time so you can focus your energy on growing your business!

Online Business Systemization is a is a step-by-step blueprint for how to systemize and automate your online business so you can free up your time and watch your business continue to run smoothly, even when you’re not in the office.

Here's what you'll discover in this course:

You will learn about the many benefits you can gain by systemizing your online business.

You will learn what it takes to start systemizing your business.

You will discover a whole host of tools that you can use for systemizing your online business.

You will learn how to create Standard Operating Procedures, so you can finally document your business systems.

You will learn how to outsource tasks like a pro.

You will learn how to systemize your business using simple automation tools.

You’ll learn how to scale your business to the next level.

Bonus No: 25

Online Business Systematization Video Upgrade

The good news is, you can start to systemize your online business today and immediately start to experience its powerful benefits.

Systemizing your online business will take some effort up front, but once your policies and procedures are fully documented you’ll be able to begin to focus your time and energy on tasks that will allow you to scale and grow your business.

Here are just some of the many benefits you’ll gain by building a fully systemized business.

You’ll reduce costs

Increase efficiencies

Improve employee performance

Improve business communications

Have the time to scale and grow your business

Be able to measure your progress

Meet all your deadlines

Free up more time

Be able to finally take time off

Discover the best tools to use to systemize your business

Discover the best software programs and apps to automate your business

And much more

Bonus No: 26

Shopify Blueprint

Revolution of business evolves from physical shop to internet.

Perks of online shopping are: Deliver to your door step, cheaper than market price, shop anytime, anywhere 24/7, more variety.

Selling on internet cuts down 50% of the operation expenses such as office lot rental and utilities bills. Therefore, seller is able to offer a price lower than the market range for products. Getting a same product for lower price is what most of the people are seeking for and this is why people are addicted to online shopping.

The revolution has elevated online business to a wider and higher level.

Besides, having an online business ensures that you’re able to work from home, budget friendly, save operation cost (such as inventory, office, utilities bills etc), flexible working hours, most importantly, you will be able to generate more cash flow rather than having a fixed, conventional full time job.

Shopify Blueprint is a series of training course teaching you how to build your e-commerce empire with Shopify and generate up to 6 figures or more every month!

You will learn:

Shopify At A Glance

Getting Started With Shopify

Shopify Dashboard

How To Set Up Your Shopify E-Store

How To Identify Hot Selling Products

How To Create Buy Button / Shopping Cart

Launching Your E-Store

Other Money Making Ideas

How To Migrate Your Shop From Bigcommerce To Shopify

Bonus No: 27

Shopify Traffic

Simple and Easy Methods to Attract Your Prospects Effectively Without Spending Top Dollars for Advertisement!

How Would You Like to Draw Massive Traffic to Visit Your E-Store Every Day and Increase Conversion for 400%.

Shopify Traffic is a series of training course where it will teach you how to generate traffic to your Shopify e-store with effective methods and platform with my personal experience and culmination of my researches together with years of studies.

Bonus No: 28

Build Your Audience

The single most important asset that any business has when it comes to promoting itself online and making profit is its audience.

If a business doesn't have an audience, then that means no one will know about it when that company releases an amazing product.

It also means no one to read your posts and no one to click on your ads.

In other words, without an audience, your business exists in some kind of purgatory where it's pretty much waiting to die.

Here's what you'll discover in this guide:

What makes certain brands so successful when it comes to building massive audiences

How to create your own audience, starting from the beginning

How to inspire trust and authority and why this is crucial

How to create a brand that people can believe in

How to gain more exposure to widen your audience

How to target your audience and engage with the right customers

How to communicate with your audience and keep it growing

...and much, much more!

Bonus No: 29

Email List Management Secrets

List maintenance is one of the most important subjects in online marketing. Your list is your number one and most basic bottom level output for your promotions.

It’s expensive and time consuming to gather, but forms one of the most powerful resources and profit potential you have.

Depending on your business, there are several solutions that might be right for you. With this ebook you will learn the big five solutions to allow you to decide which one is going to make you the most cash.

Topics covered:

Understanding List Management

Personal List, Affiliate and Ad Content

List Building Methods

And much more!

Bonus No: 30

Buy & Sell Using Bitcoin

Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money. With this 9-part video course find out all you need to know about buying and selling Bitcoins.

You will learn about:

How to set up a Rocketr

How to set up a Bitcoin in Rocketr

How to add a product

How to add a pay button

Affiliate marketing

Coupons

Email marketing

Blacklisting buyers

Bonus No: 31

Writing Tips Made Easy

If you run a blog or website you understand the need for writing regular content. While this may sound easy, it is not always easy to come up with ideas of what to write about.

Even then you need to know how to write a compelling blog post that will attract attention.

When it comes to writing online there are a few differences which you must be aware of. Writing this type of content is different than writing a novel or non-fiction book.

Inside this ebook you will find a compilation of 25 writing tips which have been designed to help you become a better writer.

Bonus No: 32

Copywriting Expert

Copywriting is one of the most important parts of internet marketing.

Once you get visitors to your site, you must depend largely on your sales copy to convert the visitors into customers.

Copywriting truly is an art, but have a checklist of important points is also helpful.

With this report learn all the known tactics about copywriting and how to become an effective content writer.

You will find out 'must known' copywriting secrets that guarantee success.

Bonus No: 33

Affiliate Advantage

There are a couple of incredibly powerful strategies that can change the way you promote products so that you are instantly maximizing not only your outreach, but your bottom line. Doing this will catapult your efforts, and land you at the top of the affiliate leaderboards.

This report will teach you exactly how to go from new (or even intermediate) affiliate marketer to super affiliate in just a matter of a few short days.

It will show you how you can break through the prospect-to-customer barrier and generate unstoppable sales, 24-7–all without having to spend a lot of time, or money building sustainable affiliate campaigns

Topics covered:

Connect, Entice, Convert

Bribe Your Way To The Bank

Creating Killer Bonus Content

Instant Bonus Packages

Bonus No: 34

Dropshipping Speed Bumps

With drop shipping, most of the heavy-lifting has been done for you. In fact, not only is it one of the easiest business formats to get involved in, but it’s also one of the lowest-cost startup solutions you’ll ever find.

With little upfront work involved, you can build your very own ecommerce store within minutes, fully loaded with high-quality products that your customers will love.

This special report will help you to ensure a smooth customer experience from start to finish, significantly reduce the number of returns, and make the process easier for both you and your buyers.

You will learn all about:

Avoiding Scams

Reducing Returns

Handling Returns

Refunds and Chargebacks

Bonus No: 35

Modern Social Media Marketing

A step-by-step guide to unleash the power of modern social media marketing in 10 steps!

Here is what you will learn:

What Social Media Marketing is and What it Isn't

8 Reasons Why You Need to Do Social Media Marketing

You Need to Modify Your Social Media Marketing Campaign Based on Your Online Business Type

The Classic Way to Do Social Media Marketing and Why it is a Waste of Your Time

10 Steps to Faster and Easier Modern Social Media Marketing

How to Do Niche Research and Targeting the Right Way

Content Curation: Your secret Social Media Marketing Weapon

Reverse Engineer Your Competitors' Top Content

Fine Tune Your Payload Content

Market Your List Right

Unlock the Power of Repurposed Content

Use Automatic Content Sharing

Scale Up Your Targeting

Sell to Your List Differently

Reinvest Your Profits the Right Way

You are going to understand that whatever the case may be, the endgame is to get people to join your list. You will know how to call to action to the people through social media so they join your list and much more!

Bonus No: 36

Modern Social Media Marketing Video Upgrade

A lot of marketers have all sorts of wrong ideas about social media marketing. Maybe you spend a lot of time, effort and money only to end up with a whole lot of nothing.

With this video course you can find the right way to do Effective Social Media Marketing.

Topics covered:

What Social Media Marketing Is And What It Isn't

8 Reasons Why You Need To Do Social Media Marketing

You Need To Modify Your Social Media Marketing Campaign Based On Your Online Business Type

The Classic Way To Do Social Media Marketing And Why It Is A Waste Of Your Time

10 Steps To Faster And Easier Modern Social Media Marketing

How To Do Niche Research And Targetting The Right Way

Content Curation:Your Secret Social Media Marketing Weapon

Reverse Engineer Your Competitors' Top Content

Fine Tune Your Payload Content

Market Your List Right

Unlock the Power of Repurposed Content

Use Automatic Content Sharing

Scale Up Your Targeting

Sell to Your List Differently

Reinvest Your Profits the Right Way

You will learn which platforms you should focus on in order to be successful and what is the secret to effective modern social media marketing.

Bonus No: 37

On-Page SEO Blueprint

With this 9-part, step-by-step video course you will discover how to get better search engine rankings by making your WordPress website more SEO friendly.

Whether you are trying to rank for a specific term in Google or other search engines, most businesses forget one crucial thing, which is on-page search engine optimization.

That technical term simply means that you help the search engines know what your site is all about.

The reality is that most businesses forget this crucial piece of the puzzle and simply don’t know why they’re not getting traffic from Google.

With this blueprint you will learn:

Introduction to On-Page SEO

The Main Focus

5 Important Factors

URL Structure

Body Text Structure

Image Optimization

Title Optimization

Meta Optimization

Top 2 WordPress Plugins

Bonus No: 38

Social Traffic Rush

Discover How You Can Get A Rush Of Targeted Traffic From Social Media In This 10-Part Course!

Many business owners find it hard to go at it alone on social media.

There are too many platforms to choose from. There are far too many ‘gurus’ giving out bad advice.

If you’ve never tried your hand at social media marketing, or if you have, but you failed miserably, then you need all the help you can get.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this course:

You’ll uncover the power of organic Facebook posts as well as Facebook Ads, and how you can use both to drive highly targeted traffic to your website.

You’ll find out just how easy it is to go viral on Twitter!

You’ll discover the benefits of video marketing on YouTube, and how you can use this powerful platform to gain new subscribers and drive traffic to your site!

You’ll see why celebrities and VIPs are going gaga over Instagram. Nope, you don’t need to be a celeb to succeed on this platform. Many businesses have found massive success here!

You’ll understand why writers and bloggers love Medium. This popular blogging platform will help you in more ways than you can ever imagine.

You’ll learn the power of marketing on Reddit. It’s not exactly known as being a business-friendly site, but in the course, you’ll learn exactly what you need to do to succeed on the platform!

You’ll uncover the benefits of answering questions on Quora and giving as much value as you possibly can.

You’ll find out why many marketers love Pinterest and how they use it to drive traffic to their website and landing pages!

You’ll see the benefits of marketing your content on both SlideShare and LinkedIn.

And so much more!

Bonus No: 39

Google Plus Money Making Tactics

This is the most complete and easy to follow blueprint for making money with Google Plus.

You will learn:

How to uncover a profitable market and keywords

How to uncover a profitable market/niche you can monetize

How to find a product to promote

How to decide on the type of keyword you should target

And much more!

Bonus No: 40

Build Your Tribe

Discover How to Utilize Social Media to Build Your Tribe and Grow Your Business!

This simple step-by-step guide will show you how to build a loyal following on social media.

Building your social media profiles to attract more followers takes time, but it can be done. And you don't need a fancy degree or expert knowledge in social media marketing to accomplish this.

Anyone is capable of creating an optimized social media profile that will attract followers and build an audience.

The key to learning how to utilize the various social media platforms to build your tribe and grow your business is within your reach.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this guide:

How to utilize the features and tools on Facebook to broaden your reach and gain more exposure for your business.

What it takes to utilize YouTube and increase your followers.

How you can use Twitter to tweet your way to a broader audience.

How your business can capture more followers on Instagram.

How to keep your success going with simple, practical tips.

And much, much more...

Is it enough awesomeness for you? Because you will be also receiving my ULTIMATE huge bonuses. Those treasures are waiting for you at the end of this ViTraffic Review. And even though you do nothing but only read my ViTraffic Review, to thanks for your kind support, I still give you free bonuses. So keep reading then scroll your mouse down!

Click Here @ 10:00 AM EST on 2018-July-12th To Get An Early Bird Discount On "Vidfuse" Along With My Exclusive Bonus!

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

ViTraffic is wordpress system with detailed training on how to install and create vitraffic sites. With the detailed knowledge base even newbie can create sites. I just wanted to mention that one of my favorite things is the the Auto Curation part and it really allows me to set things up then just let them run. Things that are hands off are the best to me because I do not to login my websites daily and add manual content soyou really solved that problem for me!

Now I can do all my little ecom niches or at least most of them hands off. I admit I have a couple of them that are my babies that I enjoy tweaking constantly but most of them I just want to set n forget and cash in. Then of course being able to build a list and market to them again and again with the easy integrations you have in place is good stuff.

This system was designed for people just like you and me! People who can’t afford to blow hundreds on website creation before they’ve even started. People who want to attract FREE leads from Google, social media and other search engines. The creators’ll show you how to deliver the services your website offers, and if you don’t have time, you can outsource it!

HOW VITRAFFIC WORKS

The Vitraffic plugin searches the web to find the most engaging and latest image, GIFs or blog entry that matches your niche. All you have to do:

Step 1: Search for a keyword

Step 2: Choose what posts to show

Step 3: Customize and publish to your website

Checkout The Demo Video Below To See It In Action!

Click Here @ 11:00 AM EST on 2018-July-16th To Get An Early Bird Discount On "ViTraffic" Along With My Exclusive Bonus!

WHO IS VITRAFFIC FOR?

Who Can Use Vitraffic? Everyone! Anyone can use this software and the business strategy that they have formulated! Whether you are a skilled marketer or complete newbie you should find this system useful and greatly beneficial.

Newbie Marketers: Easily setup your very first and even personal site in minutes, add and curate contents and start getting traffic in a day.

Facebook Marketers: Vitraffic reads the contents you have on your site and automatically fetches relevant Amazon products on the web and display it for your website viewers.

Affiliate Marketers: In order to sell your affiliate products you don’t need to built your affiliate site from scratch and write update content manually. Vitraffic does it all on autopilot.

Bloggers: Monetize your personal or niche blog entries by adding appropriate products to your site, you don’t even have to rely on advertisement to earn.

PRICE OF VITRAFFIC

For a limited time, you can grab Vitraffic with early bird discount price in these options below. Let’s pick the best suited options for you before this special offer gone!

⇒⇒⇒ Front-end: Vitraffic ($17)!

Content Curation from Buzzfeed, Viralnova, Distractify, Boredpanda, Many More,…

Posts curated content to FB, Twitter, Pinterest

Fetch relevant products for the content from Amazon and builds affiliate site in minutes

Unlimited Personal Licenses

⇒⇒⇒ Upgrade 1: Vitraffic PRO ($57)!

Upgrade version of Vitraffic includes FE offer with great features and most advanced features with extra and important items to get you to your success fast!

All the FE Vitraffic features and items presented

Curates highly engaging videos from all over web according your selected niche.

Pro Content Spinner curates highly engaging content, SPINS it, makes it unique and post it on your Viral site

Convert your viral site into a lead generation machine using our action based pop up solution. Facebook compatible so you can integrate it with Facebook as well.

Double your profit by Automatically integrating Ebay and Amazon affiliate stores.

Create Highly Engaging Facebook Memes with Our Built-In Image Editor

Curate blogs from tumblr for better posts selections that more audience

Vitraffic Pro comes with developer’s license that means you can create your viral sites using Vitraffic Pro for yourself or your clients

And Much More

⇒⇒⇒ Upgrade 2: Done-for-You Vitraffic ($87)!

Vitraffic OTO2 offer helps you build your very own online commerce enterprise at the least amount of time. Each item and niches included on this offer contains all the basic and advanced features they have. They have built 10 powerful and highly engaging online stores you can install and operate within minutes.

10 DFY sites in High in Demand Niches: Babies, Entertainment, Dogs, Cats, Travel, Make Up, Health, Sports, Relationship, Food.

Let’s act now, don’t delay and grab it now while it’s still at the lowest price possible! And Just feel free to give it a try, because You have a full 30 days to put this to the test and make sure that this is for you. If you do not see any results within this period then please reach out to them. The Helpdesk Team is always there to help you out and make sure that you have been following the correct procedures.

VITRAFFIC REVIEW – CONCLUSION

In summary, I hope that all of the information in this Vitraffic Review can help you gain more understanding about this product and then be able to make a wise choice. If you’re ready to start making a real online income in the most passive way possible then click the button below before the price rises. I am look forward to seeing your success.

However, in case you are in need of any advice, please feel free to keep in touch with me anytime. Regardless, thank you for reading my Vitraffic Review. Goodbye, and see you again!

Click Here @ 11:00 AM EST on 2018-July-16th To Get An Early Bird Discount On "ViTraffic" Along With My Exclusive Bonus!

PLUS THESE ADDITIONAL UNIQUE BONUSES BELOW:

"2018 WordPress Ultra-Mega Plugin Bundle" As Bonuses For Your Fast Action:

The 2018 WordPress Ultra-Mega Plugin Bundle

A rare once-in-a-lifetime Super Mega Bundle on all the best WordPress Plugins to take your site to the next level and beyond.

For the 1st time, we are including all 4 our of Mega WordPress Plugin Bundles into one Super-Mega Bundle. This will be the only chance to get $4000 worth of Premium WordPress Plugins for a one off price that is 98% off of the regular pricing.

Volume 1: includes all the Social Media and Engagement plugins you will ever need for any type of WordPress based site

Volume 2: includes all the Marketing Plugins you would need

Volume 3: expands on all these by offering additional tools

Volume 4: Includes everything else that is necessary for fast loading sites.

Volume: 1 Includes: ($3785 Value)

Volume: 2 Includes:

Volume: 3 Includes:

Click the BUY NOW button BELOW to get informed today!

Click Here @ 11:00 AM EST on 2018-July-16th To Get An Early Bird Discount On "ViTraffic" Along With My Exclusive Bonus!

4 SIMPLE STEPS TO CLAIM YOUR BONUS PACKAGE

1. Clear Your Cookies in your Web Browser (Ctrl + Shift + Delete) 2. Purchase Products Through My Email/Website 3. Contact Me ⇒⇒ Here On FB with the receipt of your purchase 4. ALL The Listed Bonuses is Yours & You will receive them within 12-48 hours.

#Affiliate_Marketing, #Affiliate_Marketing_WordPress_Plugin, #Affiliate_Marketing_WP_Plugin, #Facebook_Marketing, #Internet_Marketing, #Internet_Marketing__ECommerce, #Jvzoo, #JvzooProductReview, #JvzooProducts, #List_Building, #Marketing, #Online_MArketing, #SEO, #Social_Media, #Traffic, #Traffic_General, #ViTraffic, #ViTraffic_Affiliate_Marketing_Plugin, #ViTraffic_Bonus, #ViTraffic_Demo, #ViTraffic_Launch, #ViTraffic_Review, #ViTraffic_Traffic_Plugin, #ViTraffic_WordPress_Plugin, #ViTraffic_WP_Plugin, #Wordpress_Plugin, #WordPress_SEO_Plugin, #WordPress_Traffic_Plugin, #WP_Plugins, #WP_SEO_Plugin

1 note · View note

blognchowdhury · 4 years ago

Text

Nature Manifesto

First, I want to start with how amazing the journey has been in this course. The assignments, the research, and the experience I had over the semester have been fun and worthwhile. This course has so far been self-inventing. Over the time, I have found what I like, what interests me, and it has also improved my writing skills along with paying attention to details. Along with that having all the assignments in one place under my own blog account has been very beneficial for me. As an example, for this assignment, I had to look over all of the posts I have written while doing the semester and find a theme that connects all my blogs. As I was looking at the blogs, it was mostly nature related or something that is a part of the nature. I instantly realized that my theme is going to be nature.

I have always been a nature lover. However, with work and study, it has been tough for me to take a break from my daily schedule to spend some time to appreciate nature. During each assignment in this Humanity class has helped me to bring out the inner artist in me who admires nature. Although not all my blogs have the same theme, but there are a few of them that has nature as a common theme. To start with, the first blog that reflects nature as a theme was the public art assignment where I chose to write about Scorpion in a blog. The Scorpion is a sculpture that has been donated to Baker’s Park near Downtown Naples. The purpose of choosing the Scorpion sculpture was to show the connection between nature and creatures that resides in it. The Scorpion itself represents the nature and because of that, we humans are able to interact with nature in some way. Second blog that made it easier for me to choose a theme for my manifesto assignment was the Module 8 assignment. In that assignment, I had to make a musical playlist consisting of at least songs from different genres based on a theme. For that particular assignment, I chose my theme to be Sea which also represents nature. All the songs had used sea in unique way, but no matter what the songs conveyed in terms of the meaning because at the end of the day it was the theme that made them a great musical playlist. The third assignment that made me finalize nature for my final manifesto assignment was the Photographer’s Eyes assignment. In this assignment, I actually dedicated my entire blog to nature. Each photo was related to nature. Whether to show the different shades of nature or different seasons of nature, the whole blog was staunched to nature. And finally, this assignment itself made me realize that how important nature is and all the writings I have done was nature centric.

There were times where I had no opportunity to write or choose nature as a blog’s topic. However, every time I had the opportunity to write about something of my own choice, nature was the first thing that would appear in my head. This is the final assignment that made me think how important nature is to me. I have learned a lot about arts and artists throughout the course. It is definitely true that I am not an artist, but all the readings and writings I have done over the time has helped me to become a curator of the arts. And I believe in the fact that, one who loves the nature is an artist herself/himself. I want to use all the knowledge I have gained in this class to further escalate my understanding of different forms of art. Even though, this is probably going to be the last blog I am going to publish on this account, but I want to use it as a constant reminder of how this class has assisted me to become a better writer and made me appreciate the love I bear for nature.

0 notes

nicholasmaltby · 4 years ago

Text

2020 hindsight

This has been my best cycling season yet. No longer working in London, I was able to get out on the road more often than I have in the past and I’ve enjoyed the certainties that cycling has offered in a world in which much seems in flux. I got a PB over 25 miles and equalled my PB over 10 miles but, possibly more importantly, I trained regularly for the first time since I started cycling, and the bike took on a new importance for me. It’s become a personal symbol for the worthiness of life’s ups and downs.

Cycling is a rich culture of endless possibilities – one that changes people’s lives. I first got a road bike (part-owned with my two brothers) eight years ago, around the time Bradley Wiggins was riding his way to a TUE-enhanced Tour de France victory. Since getting that bike in 2012, cycling has made me more practical (unless you’re willing to throw money around, learning basic bike mechanics is an essential part of long-term participation in the sport), it’s made me more humble (acknowledging that I’m emphatically mediocre at the sport), more scientific (beginning to get my head round drag coefficient and wattage), and cognisant that cycling is revolutionary. A recent Dutch documentary - Why We Cycle – makes grand claims for the role of the bike in Dutch society, including a claim that in the Netherlands (where bikes outnumber people), children are happier than any other nation in the world because of the liberty afforded by a bike-friendly infrastructure. Who knows? But it’s a credible claim that cycling affords children greater liberties and therefore contentment.

Coming from long distance running, cycling is a funny sport. There is a whole load of ego that seems to come with placing one’s arse on a bike saddle. Cyclists are often people who have come from other sports where they’ve not excelled. The training to performance output in cycling is high; by that I mean – train hard, invest mental energy in it, and the chances are you’ll improve significantly on the bike. The take-it-or-leave-it nature of competition in cycling means it’s a great place to curate a damaged ego. At an amateur level, I’m often amused by the scowling Strava entries of cyclists struggling with their natural lot (one recent TT appraisal from a former clubmate who was just outside his PB – ‘Dreadful. Must do better’, or the member of Reading CC who posts rides led by others with titles such as, ‘Tring and tedium’ or ‘terrible choice of route. Head wind all ride’). Does cycling have a unique claim on mature sports-based self-delusion? Additionally, the marginal role of cycling among professional sports means cultish, often unquestioning worship of its stars. Even successful cyclists nationally are often damp, uninspiring people, tending to fractured sense of selves (David Millar and Bradley Wiggins are obvious candidates). But the nature of having a marginalised (doping-scandalised) professional side to the sport, means where anomalies exist, they can be inspirational.

Among the pros, my all-time cycling hero is Nicole Cooke. She embodies much of what I love about the sport and reading her book – The Breakaway – taught me a lot and created a mould for how I wanted to go about cycling. Her connection of cycling with family. Her extraordinary and precocious attention to detail. Her zero tolerance of the cheats destroying the sport, as well as her obvious actions to distance herself from anyone doping-related. Her zero fucks given about offending male chauvinists. And her intelligence both in and outside of cycling. As a young teenager her level of professionalism was far in advance of the majority of male riders doing grand tours. Like many true outliers, she’s never really been embraced by her (now former) profession in the way that she deserves.

At an amateur level (albeit very much on the elite side of it) Tejvan Pettinger is the other beacon in my cycling life. Pettinger – a former national hill climbing champion who writes a painstakingly researched blog, Cycling Uphill – gives precious advice on how to train and how to keep your bike. Whenever I want a start point on something cycling-related (how to do interval training, the best rain jacket, 16mm fabric rim tape for the inside of my city-bike wheel) I look at Tejvan’s blog. He’s local to me (based in Oxford) and I enjoy the local community element to his writing; whilst I’ll never come close to what he’s achieved on the bike, I feel some spiritual kinship with him and his cherishing of the Corinthian ideal.

My understanding of this Corinthian ideal is that it celebrates sport as a means of a kind of self-fulfilment. But it’s also associated with a kind of wilful amateurism that is criticised by Clive Woodward as cause of delayed development in British sports at a professional level. When I celebrate Corinthian ideals, I’m certainly not endorsing the lazy, self-indulgent view of sports as something resting on natural, untrained talent - the view that Woodward criticises (see his book, Winning!). For me, the Corinthian spirit is kind of the inverse of what Woodward is criticising: it’s the pursuit of professional levels of training by those who are not paid to compete. With that dedication comes deep respect for others’ achievements. In a world where professional sport is basically an extension of corporatized entertainment, Corinthian values – or, at least, the amateur ideal – are pretty much the vessel for all that’s vibrant about sport. In pro cycling, even the appearance of a genuine hero like Tao Geoghan Hart is undermined by the large ugly grin of Dave Brailsford at his side. I’m more interested in watching the performances at a local level, where people with day jobs can turn up to local TTs and do over 30 miles an hour for 25 miles.

At time trials, road races, hill climbs, etc. you basically find the people who keep the sport alive. They might be watching, competing, writing about it, or organising it. The last of these gets the least respect but is also the most integral. Competition would simply not exist without organisation. The team at my club, Reading, organised about 2 months’ worth of weekly TTs during a pandemic. We used the same course – an intelligent practical step to minimise chaos but the organisation was impeccable. For the first week, payments were made with a contactless machine on the day but this quickly changed to pre-event payment online. A full recce of the course was put up on YouTube to show newcomers the way and we even got a video highlights package one week. I don’t think people appreciate how much these guys do. They basically make the amateur sport possible.

I’m not claiming that cycling is the greatest sport. I think it’s rather like being into poetry. The environment is not large, but the dedication is of a high level. Its denizens inspire or infuriate. What you see is hardly any of it. You stick with it till it breaks you, then stick with it till it fixes you.

#tao cycling giro tourdefrance timetrialling wiggins covid sport doping

0 notes

coopdigitalnewsletter · 4 years ago

Text

19 Oct 2020: Keeping retail within the last mile. Second-hand Ikea. Remote work panopticon.

Hello, this is the Co-op Digital newsletter - it looks at what's happening in the internet/digital world and how it's relevant to the Co-op, to retail businesses, and most importantly to people, communities and society. Thank you for reading - send ideas and feedback to @rod on Twitter. Please tell a friend about it!

[Image: Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash]

Keeping retail within the last mile

Subship is a “weekly drop of local goods. Delivered free to your door, every Thursday.” It’s South-east London only at the moment. You might think of it as a different take on Near.St, which wants to make all of local shop inventory searchable - Subship makes a curated list (local, ethical, independent etc) and delivers from it.

Elsewhere in delivered goods, a one-woman food-to-offices delivery service has reinvented itself as Pedalling Pantry, a plastic-free, fruit and veg delivery service.

Second-hand IKEA

With resale, Ikea is trying to find new ways to acquire customers - IKEA is testing out a new way to incentivise customers to come to its stores during the holiday season. It will host a Black Friday event called Buy Back in 27 countries, where it will encourage customers to bring in old furniture for Ikea to resell. “All products must be returned completely assembled” says the website, which might cause a few rueful chuckles.

Remote work panopticon

74% of ~1,000 companies plan on maintaining the increase in home working. And San Francisco hits highest office vacancy rate in nearly a decade as workers stay home.

Stripe will pay workers $20,000 to leave New York and San Francisco. But there’s a catch: the workers who take up the offer will have to take a 10% cut to their compensation. This might make sense if you’re only planning to stay employed at Stripe a short while. But if your share options are based on your salary though, it might make less sense.

Some employers don’t trust their people working from home. 'I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots' and Corporate snitches are using screen monitoring to find and fire slackers. Maybe a second team could monitor whether the first team’s productivity monitoring is itself ruining productivity and trust.

“Omni-shopping”

“We’ve updated the Walmart signage on the exterior and interior of stores to reflect the Walmart app icon, creating an instant omni-shopping experience in the customer’s mind.” - Walmart’s deploying a new look in stores that emphasises their app, and adds self-checkout and contactless payments. One thing all retailers want the customer to think is “Omni-shopping”.

Platforms

A government service running well:

Been a busy few days for GOVUK Notify... With almost no notice, we helped the NHS send nearly 40 million emails and text messages to help in the fight against coronavirus.

If you ever needed a case study on the value of common platforms...

A government service running less well: that Test and Trace numbers thing with the Excel file. It shouldn’t have happened, and it’s not good using spreadsheets to move data around. (No disrespect intended to the spreadsheet gods, who will receive an offering so their dream-like grid continues to watch over us and admit all calculations.)

The underlying cause may have been some historic organisational make-do meeting a new public health need which suddenly turned every dial to eleven. From the outside it is hard to tell, and too easy to judge - we do know that many working on these services will be doing their utmost.

Disability

Plastic straws and cotton buds banned in England. Businesses can no longer sell or supply the single-use items as part of efforts to reduce pollution - this is great for the environment. Except that there are unintended consequences: it will disproportionately affect disabled people for whom single-use straws are the way they drink fluids :(

In thinking about how to create services or a world for inclusion, this is very simple but profound: ability is temporary. Or putting it another way:

I need access, accommodation and equity. These are not special needs. They are the needs of every human being.

Working conditions

“We’re building the first comprehensive data set about the quality of hourly work in the UK and helping workers use that information to make decisions about what work they want to do and for whom.” - How Breakroom uses data to make hourly work better for everyone.

Regulation

“Today, the rules come from Apple, or California, both of which are increasingly becoming America’s privacy regulators by default. But they will also come from the EU, which is increasingly writing laws that, intentionally or not, change how American companies do business in America, and the more different rules we have in different places, the more fragmented and complicated things get. Regulation is an export industry, and a competitive industry.”

Co-operation

“Cooperation Town is a new network of community-led food co-ops, providing free and affordable food” - it also helps you start your own co-operative.

Co-op Digital news and events

How dividing into smaller delivery teams has improved delivery.

Switching to a career in digital is the best decision I ever made.

Co-op is extending free school meals through half term at its 25 academies.

Free of charge events at Federation house (and elsewhere):

Allegory calling for participants to inform green economic recovery. Allegory is working with Icebreaker One to connect private and public sector leaders to help deliver net-zero and transform the climate crisis into economic innovation. They’re holding a panel discussion to discuss how to drive a green economic recovery from Covid-19 but are keen to understand the views and policies of local government. They are reaching out for those interested in engaging with the project, through research interviews, sharing details of local initiatives, events or future panels. They are preferably looking for councillors, or officials from local government with an interest in green recovery. If you know anyone who could represent Greater Manchester email [email protected].

Social Media for Business Influence – Webinar – 21 Oct – 1.30pm

Volunteer with Code Your Future – Meet Up – 21 Oct – 6pm

Federation presents: Wellbeing During Uncertain Times – 4 November – 5pm. A new event series by The Federation, focusing on navigating wellbeing through 21st century challenges. In this first session in the series we will be joined by Amity CIC, which will coach us on how to maintain positive wellbeing. Sign up here.

Paid for events

Tech Ethics – Meet Up – Various Dates & Times

Ales & Alleyways – Virtual Tour of Manchester – 21 Oct - 5pm

Book Club – Discussion on Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch – 22 Oct – 5.30pm

More detail on Federation House’s events.

Thank you for reading

Thank you friends, readers and contributors. Please continue to send ideas, questions, corrections, improvements, etc to @rod on Twitter. If you have enjoyed reading, please tell a friend! If you want to find out more about Co-op Digital, follow us @CoopDigital on Twitter and read the Co-op Digital Blog. Previous newsletters.

0 notes

whenislunch · 7 years ago

Video

tumblr

This summer I saw my favorite artist perform live on an island off of Manhattan that used to serve as a jail/mental health institution.

When Frank Ocean came out with his screen grabbed text file posted as a “photo” on Tumblr in 2012, I knew the platform was something special - the one niche he could safely post something so revealing and vulnerable and still not open himself to the direct hate-filled or homophobic comments of any other forum. I had signed up for Tumblr the year prior. I joined with the fantasy of becoming a famous food blogger (and later as a nail artist) so I could quit my publicity job and score all of the PR perks that I so readily dished out to any 'mommy' with a touch of digital pretense.

Personal space on the vast internet was never my craving. I resisted being too present, and enjoyed the ability to control how much I “put myself out there” on facebook, twitter, and later Instagram. With my original two tumblrs, like Frank, I could focus on sharing and following the things I cared the most about: in early cases, it was fan art of Bill Murray, gifs of Daft Punk, and mostly photos of food I had eaten from the everyday life of a new New Yorker discovering the cult nature of the restaurant scene (a similar practice to my behavior as a teen taking shitty photos at punk shows in St Pete, Florida to pin on my bedroom wall). Tumblr became my collection of “curated cool," and nobody cared how hard I was trying or what I put up there, except for me, and it became my favorite place on the internet. Eventually, I realized all of the writers I was admiring on The Awl were including their Tumblrs in their bios, and I was there to follow them. I saw Rebecca Black become a meme before her one-hit would become a wedding band wonder. If sitting at the open kitchen counter at an edison bulb-lit restaurant was the closest you could get to a food industry version of “backstage”, then a Tumblr dashboard filled with all of the blogging generation of the “fake news media” was the analogy. It’s human nature to want to be seen and understood. Selfies perform better than friendies on Instagram - and GPOY’s on Tumblr… well I challenge anybody on music.ly to define the acronym without that peeking at the Childish Gambino Genius page first.

And that’s the tip of the iceberg for where I stand with Tumblr now. After three years of hanging out in the same field, they invited me to meet them at the dugout. After four months of interviewing and pitching challenges and pretending like I was at a digital optimization workshop, I was offered a job. After five years, or nearly, I’m ready for another one. I had the BEST time and the BEST TEAM working at Tumblr. Sentiment is incalculable, and being the Comms professionals that we are, we can swear to the moon that the effect of press results on a brand is unquantifiable when one piece can qualitatively alter the nature of the public’s perception versus the reality of a goal. And I had the the immeasurable luxury to be surrounded by the smartest, most creative, intensely productive, and to borrow a food world phrase - hardiest colleagues in the history of the internet.

My first day at Tumblr also belonged to six others - together we endured a questionable onboarding interaction and then were sent with laptops and branded hoodies to our respective seats at our superdesks on various floors. There were dogs everywhere. I was told that I’d be introduced to the company on Friday and to submit two truths and a lie to help them get to know me. Here they are:

I have photo credits in the New York Times and New York Magazine

I appeared as a backup dancer in a rap video in high school

I watercolor paintings of crustaceans as a hobby

Leave your guess in the comments (oh wait, it’s Tumblr, you can’t).

Friday lunches were my lifeblood for a couple of months. Every week for at least seven thereafter unloaded a new set of amazing humans to be introduced in some absurd way by Sean from recruiting. I remember @sexpigeon vs Homer’s owner in game of pictionary, Johnny and Jake quickly competing for my heart as #1 engineer dudes, and of course, the instant classic game of Mark Coatney/ Marc Cote/ Marked Coat. Tumblr ramped up fast thanks to Lee, a fundraising series and at the tireless behest of my personal champion, Lindsey Dole.

Meanwhile, more magic was brewing in the cauldron. I heard @amandalynferri talking about some game she invented called Pretty Little Lasagna box, or I heard Maddie recalling the time she had her palm read in 14th street psychic's booth seeking refuge from a snowstorm, or @lexkap who sat on the other side of the building with a dog on her lap DM’d me on hip chat to show me her own nail art blog. Then a few of us won a chance to see a sneak preview of a new arthouse film by Harmony Korine and featuring an ensemble cast of former Disney talent that had been filmed in my hometown with a y2k airbrushed aesthetic - there was something innately emotional tied to each of us with this first viewing of Spring Breakers. When we left the midtown theater alongside the ATL Twins, I realized that this company had curated a community to match the intended behavior of its user base. We all connected on a level beyond any workplace I had experienced before.

And there was the professional side to the job - the work wins came quick because I was so lucky to sit under leaders who wanted the team to succeed. Rick Webb and Katherine encouraged me to dig in, and get deep with these shiny new toys called “evangelists” - Valentine, Nate, Liba, Annie, Max, Rachel, Jen, and briefly DCH. An enviable group of brilliant minds and creative energy who have all gone on to accomplish even more for their respective industries than a marketing budget at a start up could have enabled - and I had the pleasure to help share their Tumblr stories with the world - from a puppy bowl to annual southby's to groundbreaking art auctions to thirteen fucking fashion weeks to 35+ art and music shows (brrr)?

And then Tumblr got acquired and the Jenna Wortham turned the New York Times blue, and I got to do something I’m sure will never happen again in my entire career: I threw a party where the goody bag included a free tattoo, and multiple brave souls got them (Tyler, @bryanasortino, Megan & Johnny, among others).

And then Karen (aka #takingitallin aka @beautifulliving) joined, and me and Katherine gained a new teammate at the same time that I gained a new soul sister (and because of her self-described passion for advertising I never had to write an announcement about a new ad product ever again.) I’ve never been more challenged to succeed as I have over the three years I sat next to Karen - a generous and driven woman with endless dreams of supporting others (literally, ask her about the gap in the undergarment sector), who will always find a spot to squeeze me into a photobooth. Even at her wedding.

And lucky us, because then we invited @lilders into the #teamcomms fold and wow, wow, wow was life good. It was my honor working with Lily as she grew from FIT intern into somebody we should all aspire to work for someday.

Which leads to me to the poker faced improv master of all - Katherine. Allora @alittlespace! I am so lucky she believed that this girl who came into talk about a hypothetical strategy to get Eleven Madison Park on Tumblr and then pitched her a fantasy football launch party hosted by Nick Kroll and Mark Duplass could fit in and have the privilege to join the Tumblr Communications team. KB - I’ve already written you the dopiest thank you letter and shared my orchid growing miracle secrets - but it can’t be said enough - I am so grateful to have worked for you for all of these years. You are the best boss, and we will always be the #bestteam.

Because of Tumblr (and @david), I had the pleasure of working with so many additional incomparable people on projects outside of my designated Marketing Comms position, wearing more hats than we even produced for branded activation swag:

Designing and contenting for months with the relaunch of the precious Staff blog with David, Peter, Damien, Tag, Toph, among others

Setting the inaugural year in review with Danielle, Amanda, Christine loose (and then doing it again and again and again, with the wonderful team at DKC - especially that time we added a serving Kale to America’s breakfast.

Marathoning dozens of events with amazing producers like Julia, Suzanne and Magic - and encountering the native talent that thrives on Tumblr like Humans of New York, Chloe Wise, Sam Cannon, Johnny McLaughlin, Jillian Mercado, to a point where I can honestly say “I knew them when.”

Participating in the first ever Sales Offsite aka the greatest bar mitzvah ever thrown by Lee Brown, Dan Walsh and Sarah Won and the rest of the coolest sales team ever assembled (here’s to you @katemaxx, @jeffdtaylor, Meredith, Ari, Kira, and so many more)

Reaching back into my fashion bag of tricks and launching three different clothing lines.

Creating partnerships to show off super surprises at nerd parties at Comic Con and another breaking the internet for Art Basel

Interviewing the CEO of Shake Shack for the one-time-only live episode of “5 with a side of fries" in front of the whole company.

Urgently dealing with Legal, Ads, Trust and Safety on one of the definitive news story of a generation after nine months of back channeling and reporting.

DOING IT FOR THE CULTURE: Racing with the content and analytics teams for stats on the contentious day of #thedress, and then bling rings, witches, boneghazi, superwholockians, wholesome memes, studyblr, emojis, and of course, the toe thing! Thus redefining what it means to “go viral.”

Cleaned a ball pit for the dude from the 1975 to make a splash into them and trolled a legacy music publication

And wow - it took me this long to mention Post It Forward…I am so proud of everyone who helped make Tumblr the most empathetic community on the internet: Nicole Blumenfeld, Jeff D’Onofrio, @skiphursh “Dolphin", @dougrichard, Andy Sebela, Jess Frank, Sarah Won @swon, @pauwow, the brilliant and diligent Michelle Johnson. From building the blog, commissioning the art, recruiting and onboarding the partners, writing the endless number of give/gets, planning the sponsored posts and social content, running the day to day on the blog (and bequeathing that role to Lily), then doing it again with the Mental Health Quilt and IRL with the Post It Forward Summit - I’ve found my new track as a special projects person who can take on any issue, even suicidal teens. If this is my legacy, I’ve planted seeds in the garden I might never see. And special thanks to Victoria, who allowed me to speak at Obama’s White House about why kids need a place on the internet that can help heal - so long as they can find each other.

As it turns out, adults need that, too. From tailing Frank Ocean’s Ferrari to the most woke, mentally aware community and on to, thank god, a bonafide company to match - I will forever cherish my time at Tumblr and I’ll forever been asking #whenislunch. But from every tomorrow on, it will be somewhere else. And you can find me on the internet!

Here’s my LinkedIn, I’m looking.

#bye tumblr #good luck david karp #this is my job #this is my life #memes #tumblr hq #tumblr staff

8 notes · View notes

asfeedin · 5 years ago

Text

A Step-by-Step Guide [+ Free Blog Post Templates]

You probably already know how integral the process of blogging is to the success of your marketing efforts. Which is why it goes without saying it’s exceptionally important to learn how to effectively start and manage a blog in a way that supports your business.

Without a blog, you’ll find yourself experiencing a number of problems such as poor search engine optimization (SEO), lack of promotional content for social, little clout with your leads and customers, and fewer pages to share your lead-generating calls-to-action (CTAs) on.

So why, oh why, do so many marketers I talk to still have a laundry list of excuses for why they can’t maintain a blog?

Maybe because, unless you enjoy writing, business blogging might seem uninteresting, time consuming, and difficult.

Well, the time for excuses is over and this guide is here to help you understand why. We’ll cover how to write and manage your business’s blog as well as provide helpful templates to simplify your blogging efforts.

Let’s get started with an important question.

What is a blog post?

Blog pots allow you and your business to publish insights, thoughts, and stories on your website about any topic. They can help you boost traffic, brand awareness, credibility, conversions, and revenue.

Today, people and organizations of all walks of life manage blogs to share analyses, instruction, criticisms, product information, industry findings, and more. There are many popular blog formats but, here are six of the most common:

The “How-To” Post

The List-Based Post

The “What Is” Post

The Pillar Page Post

The Newsjacking Post

The Infographic Post

Save time and download six blog templates for free.

So, how do you ensure your blog post catches the eyes of your target audience, buyer personas, and customers?

What makes a good blog post?

Before you write a blog, make sure you know the answers to questions like, “Why would someone keep reading this entire blog post?” and “What makes our audience come back for more?”

To start, a good blog post is interesting and educational. Blogs should answer questions and help readers resolve a challenge they’re experiencing — and you have to do so in an interesting way.

It’s not enough just to answer someone’s questions — you also have to provide actionable steps while being engaging. For instance, your introduction should hook the reader and make them want to continue reading your post. Then, use examples to keep your readers interested in what you have to say.

Remember, a good blog post is interesting to read and provides educational content to audience members.

(Want to learn how to apply blogging and other forms of content marketing to your business? Check out HubSpot Academy’s free content marketing training resource page.)

So, how do you actually go about writing one of these engaging and informational pieces?

How to Write a Blog Post

Here are the steps you’ll want to follow while writing a blog post.

1. Understand your audience.

Before you start writing your blog post, make sure you have a clear understanding of your target audience.

Ask questions like: What do they want to know about? And, what will resonate with them?

This is where creating your buyer personas comes in handy. Consider what you know about your buyer personas and their interests while you’re coming up with a topic for your blog post.

For instance, if your readers are millennials looking to start a business, you probably don’t need to provide them with information about getting started in social media — most of them already have that down.

You might, however, want to give them information about how to adjust their social media approach (for example — from what may be a casual, personal approach to a more business-savvy, networking-focused approach). That kind of tweak is what helps you publish content about the topics your audience really wants (and needs).

Don’t have buyer personas in place for your business? Here are a few resources to help you get started:

2. Create your blog domain.

Next, you’ll need a place to host this and every other blog post you write. This requires choosing a content management system (CMS) and a website domain hosting service.

Choose a CMS.

A CMS helps you create a website domain where you’ll actually publish your blog. CMS platforms can manage domains (where you create your website) and subdomains (where you create a webpage that connects to an existing website).

HubSpot customers host web content via CMS Hub. Another popular option is a self-hosted WordPress website on WP Engine. Whether you create a domain or a subdomain to start your blog, you’ll need to choose a web hosting service after you pick a CMS.

Your blog’s domain will look like this: www.yourblog.com. The name between the two periods is up to you, as long as this domain name doesn’t yet exist on the internet.

Want to create a subdomain for your blog? If you already own a cooking business at www.yourcompany.com, you might create a blog that looks like this: blog.yourcompany.com. In other words, your blog’s subdomain will live in its own section of yourcompany.com.

Some CMSs offer subdomains as a free service, where your blog lives on the CMS, rather than your business’s website. For example, it might look like this: yourblog.contentmanagementsystem.com. However, to create a subdomain that belongs to a company website, register the subdomain with a website host.

Most website hosting services charge very little to host an original domain — in fact, website costs can be as inexpensive as $3 per month.

Here are five popular web hosting services to choose from:

3. Customize your blog’s theme.

Once you have your domain name set up, customize the appearance of your blog to reflect the theme of the content you plan on creating and your brand.

For example, if you’re writing about sustainability and the environment, green might be a color to keep in mind while designing.

If you already manage a website and are writing the first post for that existing website, ensure the article is consistent with the website in appearance and subject matter. Two ways to do this are including your:

Logo: This can be your business’s name and/ or logo — it will remind blog readers of who’s publishing the content. (How heavily you want to brand your blog, however, is up to you.)

“About” Page: You might already have an “About” blurb describing yourself or your business. Your blog’s “About” section is an extension of this higher-level statement. Think of it as your blog’s mission statement, which serves to support your company’s goals.

4. Identify your first blog post’s topic.

Before you write anything, pick a topic for your blog post. The topic can be pretty general to start. For example, if you’re a company that sells a CRM for small-to-enterprise businesses, your post might be about the importance of using a single software to keep Marketing, Sales, and Service aligned.

Pro tip: You may not want to jump into a “how-to” article for your first blog post.

For instance, if you’re a plumber writing your first post, perhaps you’d write about modern faucet setups, or tell a particular success story you had rescuing a faucet before it flooded a customer’s house. Here are four other types of blog posts you could start with:

List (“Listicle”): 5 ways to fix a leaky faucet

Curated Collection: 10 faucet and sink brands to consider today

SlideShare Presentation: 5 types of faucets to replace your old one (with pictures)

News Piece: New study shows X% of people don’t replace their faucet frequently enough

If you’re having trouble coming up with topic ideas, check out this blog post by my colleague. In the post, she walks through a helpful process for turning one idea into many. Similar to the “leaky faucet” examples above, she suggests you “iterate off old topics to come up with unique and compelling new topics.”

This can be done by:

Changing the topic scope

Adjusting your time frame

Choosing a new audience

Taking a positive/negative approach

Introducing a new format

5. Come up with a working title.

You might come up with a few different working titles — in other words, iterations of approaching that topic to help you focus your writing.

For example, you may decide to narrow your topic to “Tools for Fixing Leaky Faucets” or “Common Causes of Leaky Faucets.” A working title is specific and will guide your post so you can start writing.

Let’s take a real post as an example: “How to Choose a Solid Topic for Your Next Blog Post.” Appropriate, right? The topic, in this case, was probably “blogging.” Then the working title may have been something like, “The Process for Selecting a Blog Post Topic.” And the final title ended up being “How to Choose a Solid Topic for Your Next Blog Post.”

See that evolution from topic, to working title, to final title? Even though the working title may not end up being the final title (more on that in a moment), it still provides enough information so you can focus your blog post on something more specific than a generic, overwhelming topic.

6. Write an intro (and make it captivating).

We’ve written more specifically about writing captivating introductions in the post, “How to Write an Introduction,” but let’s review, shall we?

First, grab the reader’s attention. If you lose the reader in the first few paragraphs — or even sentences — of the introduction, they’ll stop reading (even before they’ve given your post a fair shake). You can do this in a number of ways: tell a story or a joke, be empathetic, or grip the reader with an interesting fact or statistic.

Then, describe the purpose of your post and explain how it will address a problem the reader may be experiencing. This will give the reader a reason to continue reading and offer a connection to how it will help them improve their work/lives.

Here’s an example of a post we think does a good job of attracting a reader’s attention right away:

7. Organize your content in an outline.

Sometimes, blog posts can have an overwhelming amount of information — for the reader and the writer. The trick is to organize the info in a way so readers aren’t intimidated by length or amount of content. This organization can take multiple forms — sections, lists, tips — whatever’s most appropriate. But it must be organized!

Let’s take a look at the post, “How to Use Snapchat: A Detailed Look Into HubSpot’s Snapchat Strategy.” There’s a lot of content in the piece, so it’s broken up into a few sections using descriptive headers. The major sections are separated into sub-sections that go into more detail, making the content easier to read.

To complete this step, all you really need to do is outline your post. This way, before you start writing, you’ll know which points you want to cover and the best order to do so in. And to make things even easier, you can download and use our free blog post templates, which are pre-organized for six of the most common blogs. Just fill in the blanks!

8. Write your blog post!

The next step — but not the last — is actually writing the content. We can’t forget about that, of course.

Now that you have your outline/template, you’re ready to fill in the blanks. Use your outline as a guide and expand on all points as needed. Write about what you already know, and if necessary, conduct additional research to gather more information, examples, and data to back up your points, while providing proper attribution when incorporating external sources.

(Need help finding accurate and compelling data to use in your post? Check out this roundup of sources for inspiration.)

If you’re having trouble stringing sentences together, you’re not alone. Finding your “flow” can be challenging for a lot of folks. Luckily, there are a ton of tools you can lean on to help you improve your writing. Here are a few to get you started:

Power Thesaurus: Stuck on a word? Power Thesaurus is a crowdsourced tool that provides users with a number of alternative word choices from a community of writers.

ZenPen: If you’re having trouble staying focused, check out this distraction-free writing tool. ZenPen creates a minimalist “writing zone” designed to help you get words down without having to fuss with formatting right away.

Cliché Finder: Feeling like your writing might be coming off a little cheesy? Identify instances where you can be more specific using this handy cliché tool.

For a complete list of tools for improving your writing skills, check out this post. And if you’re looking for more direction, the following resources are chock-full of valuable writing advice:

9. Proofread and edit your post.

You’re not quite done yet, but you’re close! The editing process is an important part of blogging — don’t overlook it.

Ask a grammar-conscious co-worker to copyedit and proofread your post. You may also consider enlisting the help of The Ultimate Editing Checklist or using a free grammar checker like Grammarly.

If you’re looking to brush up on your self-editing skills, turn to these helpful posts for some tips and tricks to get you started:

When you’re ready to check your formatting, keep the blog elements in mind …

Featured Image

Choose a visually appealing and relevant image for your post. As social networks treat content with images more prominently, visuals are more responsible than ever for the success of your blog content.

In fact, it’s been shown that content with relevant images receives 94% more views than content without relevant images. For help selecting an image for your post, read “How to Select the Perfect Image for Your Next Blog Post” and pay close attention to the section about copyright law.

Visual Appearance

No one likes an unattractive blog post. And it’s not just pictures that make a post visually appealing — it’s the formatting and organization of the post, too.

In a well-formatted and visually-appealing blog post, you’ll notice that header and sub-headers are used to break up large blocks of text — and those headers are styled consistently.

Here’s an example of what that looks like:

Screenshots should always have a similar, defined border so they don’t appear as if they’re floating in space — that style should stay consistent from post to post.

Maintaining this consistency makes your content look more professional and easier on the eyes.

Topics and Tags

Tags are specific, public-facing keywords that describe a post. They also allow readers to browse for more content in the same category on your blog. Refrain from adding a laundry list of tags to each post. Instead, put some thought into a blog tagging strategy.

Think of tags as “topics” or “categories,” and choose 10-20 tags that represent all the main topics you want to cover on your blog. Then stick to those.

10. Insert a CTA.

At the end of every blog post, insert a CTA that indicates what you want the reader to do next — subscribe to your blog, download an ebook, register for a webinar or event, read a related article, etc.

Your visitors read your blog post, they click on the CTA, and eventually you generate a lead. But the CTA is also a valuable resource for the person reading your content — use your CTAs to offer more content similar to the subject of the post they just finished reading.

In the blog post, “What to Post on Instagram: 18 Photo & Video Ideas to Spark Inspiration,” for instance, readers are given actionable ideas for creating valuable Instagram content. At the end of the post is a CTA referring readers to download a comprehensive guide on how to use Instagram for business:

See how that’s a win-win for everyone? Readers who want to learn more have the opportunity to do so, and the business receives a lead they can nurture … who may even become a customer!

11. Optimize for on-page SEO.

After you finish writing, go back and search engine optimize your post.

Don’t obsess over how many keywords to include. If there are opportunities to incorporate keywords you’re targeting, and it won’t impact reader experience, do it. If you can make your URL shorter and more keyword-friendly, go for it. But don’t cram keywords or shoot for some arbitrary keyword density — Google’s smarter than that!

Here’s a little blog SEO reminder about what you should review and optimize:

Meta Description

Meta descriptions are the descriptions below the post’s page title on Google’s search results pages. They provide searchers with a short summary of the post before clicking into it. They are ideally between 150-160 characters and start with a verb, such as “Learn,” “Read,” or “Discover.”

While meta descriptions no longer factor into Google’s keyword ranking algorithm, they give searchers a snapshot of what they’ll get from reading the post and help improve your clickthrough rate from search.

Page Title and Headers

Most blogging software uses your post title as your page title, which is the most important on-page SEO element at your disposal. But if you’ve followed our formula so far, you should already have a working title that will naturally include keywords and/ or phrases your target audience is interested in.

Don’t over-complicate your title by trying to fit in keywords where they don’t naturally belong. With that said, if there are clear opportunities to add keywords you’re targeting to your post title and headers, feel free to take them. Also, try to keep your headlines short — ideally, under 65 characters — so they don’t get truncated in the search engine results.

Anchor Text

Anchor text is the word or words that link to another page — either on your website or on another website. Carefully select which keywords you want to link to other pages on your site because search engines take that into consideration when ranking your page for certain keywords.

It’s also important to consider which pages you link to. Consider linking pages that you want to rank for a specific keyword. You could end up getting it to rank on Google’s first page of results instead of its second page — and that ain’t small potatoes.

Mobile Optimization

With mobile devices accounting for nearly two-of-three minutes spent online, having a website with a responsive design is critical. In addition to making sure your website’s visitors (including your blog’s visitors) have the best experience possible, optimizing for mobile will score your website some SEO points.

To make sure your site is getting the maximum SEO benefit possible, check out this free guide: How to Make a Mobile-Friendly Website: SEO Tips for a Post-“Mobilegeddon” World.

12. Pick a catchy title.

Last but not least, it’s time to spruce up that working title of yours. Luckily, we have a simple formula for writing catchy titles that will grab the attention of your reader. Here’s what to consider:

Start with your working title.

As you start to edit your title, keep in mind that it’s important to keep the title accurate and clear.

Then, work on making your title sexy — whether it’s through strong language, alliteration, or another literary tactic.

If you can, optimize for SEO by sneaking some keywords in there (only if it’s natural, though!).

Finally, see if you can shorten it at all. No one likes a long, overwhelming title — remember, Google prefers 65 characters or fewer before it truncates it on its search engine results pages.

If you’ve mastered the steps above, learn about some ways to take your blog posts to the next level. Want some real examples of blog posts? See what your first blog post can look like, below, based on the topic you choose and the audience you’re targeting.

Blog Post Examples

List-Based Post

Thought Leadership Post

Curated Collection Post

Slideshare Presentation

Newsjacking Post

Infographic Post

How-to Post

Guest Post

1. List-Based Blog Post

List-Based Post Example: 10 Fresh Ways to Get Better Results From Your Blog Posts

List-based posts are sometimes called “listicles,” a mix of the words “list” and “article.” These are articles that deliver information in the form of a list. A listicle uses sub-headers to break down the blog post into individual pieces, helping readers skim and digest your content more easily. According to ClearVoice, listicles are among the most shared types of content on social media across 14 industries.

As you can see in the example from our blog, above, listicles can offer various tips and methods for solving a problem.

2. Thought Leadership Post

Example: What I Wish I Had Known Before Writing My First Book

Thought leadership posts allow you to indulge in your expertise on a particular subject matter and share firsthand knowledge with your readers.

These pieces — which can be written in the first person, like the post by Joanna Penn, shown above — help you build trust with your audience so people take your blog seriously as you continue to write for it.

3. Curated Collection Post

Example: 8 Examples of Evolution in Action

Curated collections are a special type of listicle blog post. Rather than sharing tips or methods for doing something, this type of blog post shares a list of real examples that all have something in common in order to prove a larger point.

In the example post above, Listverse shares eight real examples of evolution in action among eight different animals — starting with the peppered moth.

4. Slideshare Presentation

Example: The HubSpot Culture Code

Slideshare is a presentation tool owned by the social network, LinkedIn, that helps publishers package a lot of information into easily shareable slides. Think of it like a PowerPoint, but for the web. With this in mind, Slideshare blog posts help you promote your Slideshare so that it can generate a steady stream of visitors.

Unlike blogs, Slideshare decks don’t often rank well on search engines, so they need a platform for getting their message out there to the people who are looking for it. By embedding and summarizing your Slideshare on a blog post, you can share a great deal of information and give it a chance to rank on Google at the same time.

Need some Slideshare ideas? In the example above, we turned our company’s “Culture Code” into a Slideshare presentation that anyone can look through and take lessons from, and then promoted it in a blog post.

5. Newsjacking Post

Example: Ivy Goes Mobile With New App for Designers

“Newsjacking” is a nickname for “hijacking” your blog to break important news related to your industry. Therefore, the newsjack post is a type of article whose sole purpose is to garner consumers’ attention and, while offering them timeless professional advice, also prove your blog to be a trusted resource for learning about the big things that happen in your industry.

The newsjack example above was published by Houzz, a home decor merchant and interior design resource, about a new mobile app that launched just for interior designers. Houzz didn’t launch the app, but the news of its launching is no less important to Houzz’s audience.

6. Infographic Post

Example: The Key Benefits of Studying Online [Infographic]

The infographic post serves a similar purpose as the Slideshare post — the fourth example, explained above — in that it conveys information for which plain blog copy might not be the best format.

For example, when you’re looking to share a lot of statistical information (without boring or confusing your readers), building this data into a well-designed, even fun-looking infographic can help keep your readers engaged with your content. It also helps readers remember the information long after they leave your website.

7. How-to Post

Example: How to Write a Blog Post: A Step-by-Step Guide

For this example, you need not look any further than the blog post you’re reading right now! How-to guides like this one help solve a problem for your readers. They’re like a cookbook for your industry, walking your audience through a project step by step to improve their literacy on the subject.

The more posts like this you create, the more equipped your readers will be to work with you and invest in the services you offer.

8. Guest Post

Example: Your Bookmarkable Guide to Social Media Image Sizes in 2020 [Infographic]

Guest posts are a type of blog post that you can use to include other voices on your blog. For example, if you want to get an outside expert’s opinion on a topic, a guest post is perfect for that.

Additionally, these posts give your blog variety in topic and viewpoint. If your customer has a problem you can’t solve, a guest post is a great way to solve that problem.

If you begin accepting guest posts, set up editorial guidelines to ensure they’re up to the same standards as your posts.

Ready to blog?

Blogging can help you build brand awareness, become a thought-leader and expert in your industry, attract qualified leads, and boost conversions. Follow the steps and tips we covered above to begin publishing and enhancing your blog today.

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in October 2013 and has been updated for comprehensiveness.

Source link

Tags: Blog, Free, Guide, post, StepbyStep, Templates

from WordPress https://ift.tt/2Wj8HsB via IFTTT

#IFTTT #WordPress #Asfeed.in #asfeed #asfeedin #asfeed blog

0 notes

thedateranalyst · 5 years ago

Text

LA Bae

Ok, so Brazilian Bae may not have turned out to be the absolute love of my life but he was definitely a vast improvement on Interchangeable Bae. I seemed to be on a steady incline and, feeling rather bolstered from the experience, decided that my plan to venture into the more international waters of the dating pool was worth sticking with. Enter Brody. I matched with Brody on Bumble. His profile told me he was from LA and an Art Director in Television. The smouldering looks and wide brimmed hats in his pictures, combined with the fact that his bio also stated his year 5 teacher would describe him as “filled to the brim with rebellion”, suggested that he was going to fit every stereotype I could mentally concoct of someone from LA. I swiped right. It was a match.

The cyber small talk commenced and things got better and better from the word go. Not only was Brody from LA and working in television, he was currently travelling around Europe working as a videographer and a tour manager from an American band called Twin Peaks. London was the last stop of their tour and he had decided to stay on for three days to explore the city before heading home. Now, my rule so far with The Dater Analyst has been to go into every date with an open mind and the hope that the person I am about to meet could be the love of my life. The fact that Brody was only in the UK for three days strongly suggested that even if this was the case, geographically, a blossoming romance was going to be challenging. Come on though, a Californian videographer on a European tour with a band - that shit’s got perfect blog fodder written ALL over it, it was too good an opportunity to miss.

The cyber small talk continued and I asked what he was doing with his time off in London. A photo pinged back to me. I have never received a photo on Bumble before, how modern! Well, technically, I didn’t immediately see the photo. The Bumblebees clearly aren’t naive to the genre of pictures one might find on a dating app so you actually get a blurred out square with directions to “tap to view image”. An attempt to avoid being blindsided by a big willy. I had only just matched with this man though, how did I know that that wasn’t what I was going to get. Tentatively, I tapped to view the image with one hand whilst using the other to shield my innocent eyes. I peaked through splayed fingers and what greeted me was so much more entertaining than a dick pic. It was a carefully staged cafe scene - a scrubbed wood table, a bunch of flowers and a cup of coffee next to an open window overlooking a quaint London street. It gets better. Front and centre of the photo was a watercolour painting of the scene and a box of paints. Brody was proud enough of his artistic endeavours to not only admit to the fact he was spending his day painting (which, let’s be honest, sounds a bit wanky) but to actually send a picture so I could see his skills for myself. How very LA!

Right, I thought, two can play at that game. I happened to be working from home that day so I curated my own still life. I moved a vase of lilies to my own scrubbed wood table, in front of a gilded mirror and placed a lit candle, open laptop and notebook in the foreground. Even sexier than a tasteful nude, some might argue. I sent it off and told him I was just doing a bit of writing. “What are you writing?” came the response...

Rule two of The Dater Analyst is that I never tell the datees about the blog. In this instance though, I was willing to bet money on the fact that Brody’s ego was a big enough that he would see a dating blog as a challenge rather than a deterrent so I told him the truth. Within two minutes I had a response: “A dating blog! Can I steal you away for a date night? You can write about it. What if we meet for just two hours and you write while I paint. We don’t even have to talk.” Boom! Hook, line and sinker!

I actually had plans that night so sadly the artistic date did not take place. I was free the following afternoon though so we agreed to meet then in a microbrewery in Coal Drops Yard, obvs! I’m about to break a third rule of The Dater Analyst here. I never normally divulge the contents of the cyber small talk but I feel it would be beneficial here in order to give a more rounded impression of the character we are dealing with. The reason I couldn’t make the original date was because I had Book Club. This got us on to the topic of literature and what Brody liked to read. I quote: “I do love Christopher Hitchens, it’s truly stimulating and chillingly current how he addresses the inevitable collapse of capitalism and things like the likelihood of Trump and Brexit but this is stuff he wrote in the 1990s...Huxley fucked me up. Have you read Doors of Perception? That book and its encouragement to experiment with hallucinogens changed my life for the better...I have done my share of experimenting and consciousness expanding but all that is only as valuable as your intention and your mentality”. You get the idea.

I arrived at the arranged microbrewery and there was absolutely no mistaking Brody. The paints were still with him but thankfully stored in his man bag. He also had a baker boy hat and a multi-coloured patterned scarf with a gold thread running through it which I’m sure had a deep meaning and was a gift from a Sharman on a yoga retreat in India but looked more like one of those ones you can buy for a fiver in Camden Market.

As his messages should have highlighted, Brody did not do small talk. We quickly covered both of our career ambitions, an extended American history leading up to the civil war, my neurological disorder and the fact that he could relate to this because his cat also had a neurological disorder. Surprisingly though, he wasn’t as wanky as I had expected. He actually came across as more self-assured than self-righteous. Conversations were two-way and he would quite often start saying something and then say “sorry, I interrupted you, carry on”. This sounds small but is amazingly rare, especially on dates.

Although it’s not something I have discussed a lot on this blog so far, I’m normally quite open about talking about the neurological disorder I was diagnosed with last year on dates (this is largely because it causes me to have shaking fits at random moments - I remain totally compos mentis through these but I kind of have to pre-warn people in case I suddenly start manically shaking with no advance warning). I don’t normally tell strangers though that one of the things I do to help manage it is Qi Gong, a movement based meditations which I do every morning. You can see why, it sounds hippy dippy, fairly out there and a difficult one to explain on a date whilst still sounding halfway normal. I thought it might be Brody’s cup of tea though. Indeed it was, he already knew all about Qi Gong. We had a long discussion about it and a specific type of yoga he used to practise which involved getting up at 4:30am and lots of chanting. It sounded suitably on brand and soul-searching for Brody. Then I realised though, that the way I judged him for his yoga routine was exactly how I was nervous that people judged me for my Qi Gong. Brody didn’t care or judge me though, he was comfortable with what he enjoyed doing, happy to talk about it and open-minded to different interests.

One beer down and I felt I hadn’t got all the details I could out of Brody so I agreed to show him a bit of London. We walked along Regent’s Canal, through Camden Lock and Camden Markets, past the zoo where you can see the warthogs and lions from the canal path, through Regent’s Park and up Primrose Hill for a sunset view of the city (I smashed it as a tour guide). I was right though; I had only seen the tip of the iceberg. Brody’s family life sounded suitably wacky. In brief: he had grown up on a ranch somewhere in the mid-west, which was sold when his parents, Steven and Angela, had split up. Steven currently holds a world record - he had a heart attack and was officially dead for fifty-two minutes whilst they did CPR. That is one of the longest times someone has been technically dead for and been resuscitated with no long-term physical or mental implications. Steven now lives on a houseboat with his new girlfriend. Pretty cool! Angela met her first boyfriend when he moved to America from Greece to avoid conscription. Their next-door neighbour reported him for selling weed though so he had to move back to Greece and Angela went with him, travelling around Greece for two years. It was all a pretty colourful past.

There were other parts of our date that were slightly more dubious. I’m all in favour of vegetarianism but wasn’t quite prepared for an in depth discussion on the perception of an animal’s soul. I swiftly moved the conversation along. I do which I had proved more on one of his more recent ventures though. He told me he was currently involved in the art direction of an all-male feminist magazine. The more I think about this, the more questions I have. I am under no doubt that men can be feminists but to make an exclusively male feminist magazine sounds slightly counter-intuitive to me? Surely this is just more men excluding women from a conversation that is about them, men mansplaining feminism to women? Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick but this seemed to be the patriarchy jumping on the zeitgeist to maintain their control? You never know though, maybe I’m being defensive; maybe this is going to be the next big thing. If you suddenly hear about a new and trendy male feminist publication do let me know, it could be Brody.

Eventually it began to get dark so the tour came to an end and I dropped Brody off at the nearest tube station and bid farewell before he flew back to LA the following day. I came away thinking that Brody really hadn’t been as narcissistic as I had expected. In many way, I had drunk the Californian Koolaid: as much eye-rolling as there was at the LA cliches Brody embodied, he also had that American confidence that made him totally comfortable in his own skin and with his own interests. He was unashamed in discussing his flaws and his strengths and skipping straight past the small talk to try and really get to know a person.

That would a sickeningly soul-searching end to the post though and absolutely not the light-hearted, scathing judgement that any of you read this blog for. If I’m being totally honest, what really happened was that I just enjoyed the opportunity to be as wanky as he was. For an afternoon I could happily discuss humanitarian politics, the benefits of meditation and what I felt fulfilment looked like rather than dissecting Love Island and complaining about commuting. It’s quite fun to be a knob every once in a while and I would happily spend a similar afternoon with Brody if he were to find himself back in the UK. If distance wasn’t an issue though, would Brody be The One? I think, realistically, probably not. I had had an engaging and enlightening afternoon but there weren’t exactly many lols. I think I’m looking for someone who can chat shit rather than chataranga. Or at least a bit of both.

0 notes

evanvanness · 5 years ago

Text

Week in Ethereum news, annotated edition

Now that Gitcoin grants is over, this is a shill-free intro. Thanks to those who donated. Still have a bunch of thank you notes to send, and don’t have contact info for some.

I’ve been doing the annotated edition the day after, this one is 2 days after. Not sure what cadence I like. Perhaps it should be before?

Meanwhile I asked (on Twitter, naturally) whether I should create a separate Twitter account for Week in Ethereum News. The early vote was solidly yes, but overnight it became no.

Eth1

Latest core devs call. Tim’s notes: lots of ungas talk

Geth v1.9.10 – light client checkpoint oracle, higher propagated transaction cap, bug fixes

Multiaddr, ENR and enodes: network addresses explainer

The notes/call are an interesting read. They always are, but particularly this week if you think ungas and account versioning are interesting subjects.

Eth2

Latest what’s new in eth2

Latest Eth2 call. Notes from Mamy and Ben

Hsiao-Wei: Attestation aggregation in Eth2

Attestant: understanding the validator lifecycle

Runtime Verification formally verified the eth2 deposit contract

eth2stats

It’s been amusing to me how some parts of the investor community have gotten obsessed with the deposit contract. Given how many people have been holding their ETH from the sale, I imagine that hitting 7 figures will not be difficult, so I don’t understand the obsession with deploying the deposit contract. It’s not the limiting factor and never has been.

As I re-read Ben’s What’s New in Eth2, I realize that i’d like the annotated edition to be more like that. But it’s not.

Layer2

Fuel’s testnet is in open beta, fraud proofs under 1m gas. Using colored coins (!)

Miner challenges Arbitrum is dealing with

How Loopring aims to make its zk rollup transactions composable on layer1

Jordi Baylina’s Iden3 zk rollup slides

Layer2 has been hard so far. ETH and BTC’s original Raiden and Lightning channel networks have been slow to ship and failed to gain traction. Plasma has mostly fallen by the wayside, though there are teams finally putting Plasma variants into production that may produce interesting lessons.

It’s all rollup this week. In part because rollup seems to offer an easier environment for app devs, and with less of the problematic “but” problems that Plasma had. Channel networks are still coming (channels are already here), though I think it’s become clear to everyone that channel networks are quite complicated to get right.

It is a little amusing that Fuel is using colored UTXO coins, a la Bitcoin 2013.

Stuff for developers

Better Solidity debugging: console.log and stack traces

ABDK’s online tools: key of an address, calculate address pre-deploy, RLP encoder/decoder, encode/decode raw signed/unsigned transactions

Securify v2, free security scanner

Auditing your code with Web3j and its EVM

Sam Sun caught a vulnerability in Curve, which was solved by moving front end to a fixed version.

What are Burner Wallet Plugins? Customizing your popup event/economy

How to run your own xDai chain with arbitrary message bridge

web3connect v1beta.26 – a single web3 provider for all wallets

What does Truffle and WalletConnect mean?

a lightweight directory access protocol

Using CREATE2 explainer

Smart contracts on Austin Griffith’s eth.build

AirScript v0.6 and genSTARK v0.7 AirScript compiles to AirAssembly, which genSTARK uses to create a STARK

Lots of tools. Mostly self-explanatory - good open source projects spin off tools.

Every Solidity developer is excited about better debuggers. That’s been an issue for awhile.

Ecosystem

Year in Ethereum 2019 by Josh Stark and I

Scalability estimates for Waku (Status’s Whisper alternative)

A style guide for ethereum.org

<obligatory Jeb Bush please clap gif for Year in Ethereum> And when I say “please clap” I mean “literally hold down the clap button on Medium” so that people see it outside of Eth diehards.

I’ve said it before, but as soon as Status is a viable alternative, I’m planning to delete my other messengers. Messengers catch on because of “intolerant minorities” (to use Taleb’s phrase) who make others download a new messenger to communicate with them.

Enterprise

Key factors in choosing between Clique, Raft, and IBFT for private chains

Commodity giants consortium (Cargill, ADM, Glencore, Bunge, Dreyfus) chooses Quorum, Orchestrate and Kaleido for their tech stack

Governance and standards

EIP2315: JUMPSUB and RETSUB for simple EVM subroutines

EIP2489: deprecate GAS opcode

EIP2488: deprecate CALLCODE opcode

ERC2477: NFT metadata integrity

The DigixDAO voted for dissolution. TheLAO wants a DigixLAO

Social choice theory and voting on multiple outcomes

What to expect when summoning a MolochDAO

SignalDAO, a signalling DAO for Metacartel/MolochDAO using a Telegram bot doing web3 calls via Abridged SDK

Someone should write a history of DigixDAO. One of the first big 3 ETH token sales (Augur, Digix, Maker), it just never really happened. Probably some lessons in there about how early idealists gradually bump up against real world regulartions and with that much money at stake always choose the risk-averse path. Given how much DGX the founders hold, they’re going to get a nice payday. But who else remembers when the Digix founders were giving away 1 eth via a Reddit tip bot they created?

Application layer

Set Social Trading is live on mainnet. Automatically copy what your favorite trader is doing.

a URL shortener using ENS + the lightweight director access protocol referenced above in dev tools

How people are using Pepo, crypto’s TikTok

Ethernal: a text-based MUD. die and you lose your items!

There’s now over 100 million Dai

Rocket: get a loan against your NFTs, live on Ropsten testnet

Rho: a spec for a float to fixed automated market maker swap protocol

Synthetix: the state of Synthetix and 2020 roadmap adding ETH as collateral

This was a microcosm of what is happening on Ethereum at the app layer: DeFi, games, payments, and tokenization, and some mismash therein.

I’m pretty excited about interest rate swaps. Hope someone builds it.

Tokens/Business/Regulation

Davos was this week, so WEF issued a framework for Central Bank digital currencies in the age of blockchain

An onchain NFT for accredited investors

POAP event NFTs as a sybil-resistant identity layer

Tokenized real estate: purchase to settlement in 15 minutes with RealT

Bitcoiners often say things like “tokenized real estate doesn’t provide any benefits,” and they’re not entirely wrong, but getting to settlement in 15 minutes is a real benefit.

General

How not to critique Ethereum: a guide for Bitcoiners

A curated list of blockchain research papers

Benchmarking Brave vs Chrome/Firefox/Opera for speed and battery use

Chris Dixon: blockchains are computers that make commitments

This first said “a guide for lazy Bitcoiners,” but taking that out was my last edit before pressing send. Magnanimity is a virtue.

Chris Dixon’s blog post is interesting to me because it’s nice to see people writing again for broader audiences. In cryptowinter, the hype completely died. The talent flowing into this space has slowed way down. This isn’t bad in and of itself - things happen in cycles, no big deal, and it was time to deliver on some of the hype. But with scalability solutions hitting, tooling much improved, and key management that is ready for mass adoption, it seems like the hype cycle is about to get started.

0 notes

clarencenicholsonata · 5 years ago

Text

7 Unconventional Lead Generation Techniques for Brick and Mortar Businesses

The whole lead generation process for physical brick-and-mortar stores is not only tedious but also laborious if you’re relying on traditional methods.

Cold emails and cold calls by scraping through local address books just don’t cut it anymore.

But, what if you could still accomplish your lead generation goals using methods that add value to your prospects?

To walk you through some of the different methodologies, we’ve curated 7 unconventional lead generation techniques for local businesses.

1.Embed know-how videos

Video marketing is the future of the internet. Video content improves SEO, increases conversion rate, generates a direct sales lead and more.

Web users spend more time watching videos. This has proven to be highly beneficial for marketers and local businesses.

Videos are an effective lead generation tool. Consider using high-quality, informative content as gated content, adding videos on landing pages, and adding CTAs at the end of the video with a related offer can help to generate leads.

Consider platforms like YoutTube and Vimeo to get millions of views every single day. YouTube is the second most popular search engine as of today.

Users get on to YouTube to find potential answers to their questions. If a video is linked to the answers at the bottom that directs them to your website, that is a potential client in the pipeline.

Forbes predicts that 90% of customers say a video helps them make decisions to buy and 64% of customers say that watching a video makes them more likely to buy a product.

Add dynamic QR Codes at the end of the videos for the potential lead to scan and are directed to your website’s top landing pages or social media handle.

Beaconstac here, for example, leverages know-how videos to educate their users on how to create PDF QR Codes. Videos serve as a great interactive tool and simplify the process on the whole for users.

For more on using video for business, check out our guide on six types of video ideas to supercharge your social media.

2. Leverage app-less marketing

Deploy QR Codes and NFC Tags to generate leads to your local business and automate your marketing strategy.

QR Codes and NFC tags are cost-effective, work out-of-the-box, and is extremely efficient in generating leads.

This allows businesses to analyze, track and retarget their consumers by engaging with third-party applications exclusively meant for analyzing and retargeting by studying their click behavior.

Macy’s, the largest retail chain in the US has deployed beacon and NFC technology to strategize an engaging shopping experience for its users.

By opting for these technologies, Macy’s has amped the customer experience by rolling out loyalty programs, an enhanced customer service, segregating the layout merchandise in their stores, and offering personalized shopping experience.

Using QR Codes and NFC Tags on print marketing medium such as flyers, brochures, OOH advertisements, incentivized coupons and offers can be leveraged to promote the product, and, in turn, effectively increase leads.

McDonald’s used QR Codes on their paper packages after learning that their customers wanted to know more about their food by sharing nutritional information about their hamburgers.

This not only instilled a blanket of trust amongst the customers but also helped the company to highly target and retarget their customers to send out personalized messages and offers.

3. AMA (Ask Me Anything)

One of the most powerful and unique techniques to generate leads to your local business is by reaching out to pioneers in the market industry for their thoughts.

Take advantage of social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and even LinkedIn to post these Q&As. Send out a planned invite to your customers and followers notifying them about the Q&A session.

The questions could either be asked by an employee or you could even leverage consumers in this case with questions to ask the expert.

Awario states that companies who engage in social selling get 199% better ROI.

DataVLT, a data analytics platform ran an AMA session on Twitter by using the hashtag #AskDVLTAnything. By keeping their hashtag unique, the company was able to gather questions from different parts of the world and answered them during the session.

4. User-generated content

User-generated content and review platforms have a powerful foothold in organic search, making them an eminent opportunity to expand your brand name and get noticed by the right consumers.

When a business encourages its consumers to leave a review behind on a third-party platform with strong SEO, they are exponentially increasing the chances of being discovered by qualified prospects in search; without paying a penny.

FinancesOnline is an online B2B solutions finder service that works purely on customer reviews and ratings. The platform segregates companies based on the maximum quality content reviews and helps consumers find the solution they need.

Google acknowledges their independent role in helping consumers what they want and seems to approve review sites in search engine results.

Businesses can also outmaneuver their competitors in high-value keyword searchers. Considering the Google/CEB study found that 71% of B2B searchers start with a generic keyword phrase, this is crucial.

5. Answer questions on Quora

Quora is a Q&A based social networking site that reaches more than 100 million users per month. Quora can be taken advantage of to build yourself as a thought-leader in your particular niche.

Quora is primarily a user-generated content platform. But with that being said, there are ways to get the formula right on Quora. Quora is best used as a method to open up communication threads as you engage and help out users who are looking for a particular solution.

By answering questions related to my niche, and offbeat content, I can categorize myself as an expert on the subject matter garnering more attention to the company. This, in turn, will help the company get more users to at least click on the link, open a loop, and get them interested in the platform.

Quora doesn’t allow overly self-promoting content to generate leads and bring in revenue. The laws of reciprocity come into light and consumers will reach out to you after establishing yourself as a trusted source on the platform.

6. Offer free trials and giveaways

Giveaways, free trials, and sample products are the ideal method for getting potential users excited and letting them use your brand’s product to have an insight into it.

Free trials of a brand’s features can hels to capture potential consumer. If the trial helps them greatly, they are more likely to purchase the product and become a customer.

Sephora offers a plethora of free giveaways and trial products for their customers. In fact, Sephora is hugely popular for its giveaways, coupons, and discounts which get consumers flocking to their website and physical stores.

This lead generation process for Sephora has been hugely successful and has helped the company to retarget their potential customers to turn into qualified leads.

Touchless buying can also be employed for businesses that have an online presence.

In addition to that, consumers who have tried free samples are the most qualified leads because they have actually reached out to try your products.

By offering free trials and giveaways, a brand can do its own selling and encourage people to buy their products in a low-pressure manner.

7. Optimize email marketing

According to a report by DemandGen, lead-nurturing emails get as much as 10X the response rate as opposed to standalone mails.

Marketing automation is one of the biggest trends in email marketing at the moment, thus generating great results for businesses. Marketing automation tools are constructively hybrid email marketing tools that connect with your CRM that automatically pushes you to send highly personalized targeted emails to leads.

Email marketing plays a massive role in content marketing success. It plays the role of the concept of direct engagement. Some of the clues to develop a successful email content to generate leads must include -

Subject line

Concise content

Integrate social media handles in the mail

Include high-quality and lightweight images in the mail to explain the content better

Incorporate a CTA at the end of the mail

There are several tools that integrate email marketing to send out timely emails with highly engaging content such as Drip, Aweber, and Constant Contact to name a few.

Drip is an end-to-end email marketing platform that gives an incomparable insight into the customers’ behavior; right from their click behavior, emails they’ve opened, and purchases made to help build a brand from email to social media.

Most users open emails from businesses they want to connect with. This makes email marketing as one of the best tools for lead generation.

Experiment what’s best for your business

As a recap, the seven unconventional lead generation tactics are -

Embed know-how videos

Leverage app-less marketing

AMA (Ask Me Anything)

User-generated content

Answer questions on Quora

Offer free trials and giveaways

Optimize email marketing

A well-thought-out established process and subsequent focused strategy to generate leads can be wholesome and have the power to grow and sustain a business.

When it comes to businesses, the agenda “one size fits all” doesn’t hold good; what might work for a SaaS company might not work very well for a grocery shop.

Although lead generation is the numero uno challenge in this present day, identifying the bottlenecks in the funnel and tweaking strategies to take a technology-first approach always helps.

About the Author

Apoorva Hegde is a Content Marketer at MobStac. Apart from writing articles and blog posts related to QR Codes and all things related to it, she enjoys simple pleasures of life like going on long walks with her dog, eating carbs all day, and alike.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8230801 https://ift.tt/34whucB via IFTTT

#IFTTT #RSSMix.com Mix ID 8230801

0 notes

joelpreston · 5 years ago

Text

Traffic ContentVid Reviews - 1-Click on Plugin Creates Excessive Changing Video Websites

Are you sick & bored with losing hours of your time establishing websites and paying a ton of cash getting the content material for them, solely to by no means see them get any site Traffic?

You KNOW that folks devour video now greater than EVER earlier than. Reality is: in case you use videos Google will get you ranked larger, AND your conversion will increase by over 80%.

Plus - it comes with distinctive content material in addition to videos and is absolutely monetized utilizing a revolutionary approach, so all you need to do is push a button and luxuriate in extra site Traffic, Traffic ContentVid Review #1 rankings and improved gross sales!

My good friend Radu & his accomplice Ezzaky created a WP platform that has been ready to usher in actually hundreds of thousands of holiday makers to their customers.

TrafficContentVid premium WP plugin means that you can create a number of high-ranking video area of interest websites with 100s of curated videos.

With simply 1 click on you get a fully-fledged video web site that may:

Totally Monetized

WordPress Based mostly, Cell Responsive

Distinctive videos & Articles w/ Decide‐in Kinds Constructed In

Web optimization Optimized & Passive Site Traffic Constructed-In

TrafficContentVid is a unbelievable WP plugin that builds you 1-click video websites like by no means earlier than. They’ve received top quality templates, probably the most superior video curator in the marketplace and a totally responsive design, all based mostly on their breakthrough structure.

With Site Traffic ContentVid, you will have probably the most highly effective know-how on the planet at your fingertips, Traffic ContentVid permitting you to immediately create authority video websites FULL with highly effective content material that Google loves.

The best way that is totally different is that you may “lock” every video and pressure your guests to enroll to your listing, click on adverts or share it on social media earlier than they'll see the videos.

On prime of that they add 100% distinctive content material beneath every video by curating the audio and changing it to textual content (it is insanely environment friendly at getting straightforward rankings)

This implies you may setup total websites that get you viral AND Web optimization site Traffic, construct your lists on autopilot and will get you gross sales. It’s a real all-in-one cash making system.

STEP#1 - Add their premium WP plugin to your web site

STEP#2 - Merely insert your key phrases and with a click on have a totally fledged video web site full with distinctive articles, DFY site Traffic & monetization

STEP#3 - Take pleasure in a totally automated video web site that will get you #1 rankings, assured site Traffic and simple gross sales

Finest video curator on Earth routinely provides videos that CONVERT

Groundbreaking 1-Click on Autopilot Cash Making Websites

Lock any video and ask guests to carry out sure actions (like, share, subscribe, click on advert)

100% distinctive content material Web optimization-optimized created for you

Constructed-In Lead Era System Builds Your Listing On Autopilot

Get viral site Traffic & gross sales with the push of a button

Totally built-in with Amazon

Promote ANY product with stunning banners

Web optimization Constructed-In Turning Your Web site Right into a #1 Rating Beast

Skilled Stats + Reporting Inside The Admin Panel

Cell Responsive Design

Right here’s why TrafficContentVid is healthier than the rest in the marketplace proper now:

1. You possibly can “lock” a video and pressure your guests to share it on social media, click on adverts or signal as much as your listing earlier than they'll view it. This will get you automated passive site Traffic and will increase your income all organically, all on autopilot.

2. It comes with 100% distinctive content material

TrafficContentVid routinely provides distinctive content material subsequent to every video by curating the audio and changing it to textual content (it’s insanely environment friendly at getting straightforward rankings)

Lastly You Can Now Press A Easy Button And Immediately Get Your OWN Totally Automated Video Advertising and marketing System That Will get You... Extra Site Traffic, Extra Leads and Extra Gross sales…

With out ever having to waste cash on establishing your web site, shopping for an costly theme or paying for content material!

Good means to assist your self to larger income and extra gross sales!

In reality, customers to this point have been ready to usher in 1000's of results in their websites AND get a ton of gross sales.

And that’s as a result of TrafficContentVid routinely monetizes these websites with presents from the likes of Amazon, which means… You might be getting PAID to BUILD your listing!

Right here’s a pleasant warning although…I used to be talking to Radu who advised me that this one-time payment is accessible for a restricted time solely. After which it's going to TRIPLE in value – and even then individuals will purchase it.

However I need you to test this out and seize entry now as there’s no level ready for one thing that will get you highly effective outcomes – proper?

Homepage: https://senseireview.com/traffic-contentvid-review

https://medium.com/@vokhanhtoan7399/traffic-contentvid-reviews-guaranteed-traffic-generating-video-niche-sites-654a4819a51

https://sites.google.com/view/trafficcontentvid-reviews/home

https://senseireviewblogs.wordpress.com/2019/09/22/traffic-contentvid-reviews-finally-create-profit-pulling-sites-in-2-minutes-or-less/

https://senseireview.weebly.com/blog/traffic-contentvid-reviews-1-click-plugin-forces-traffic-contentvid-reviews-1-google-rankings

https://sharonwright132.blogspot.com/2019/09/traffic-contentvid-reviews-1-click.html

http://groupspaces.com/senseireviews/pages/traffic-contentvid-reviews-readymade-video-sites-organic-traffic-true-passive-profits

http://joelpreston.over-blog.com/2019/09/traffic-contentvid-reviews-1-click-video-plugin-builds-list-on-autopilot.html

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/traffic-contentvid-reviews-video-email-first-ever-marketing-review/

0 notes

onlinemarketinghelp · 5 years ago

Photo

These are the Best Types of Social Media To Use for An Online Business https://ift.tt/34MBvgk

With so many types of social media platforms out there it’s difficult to know which would be most beneficial.

Sure, we all know having an understanding of social media is important when starting an online business. But with so many kinds of social media, it can be hard to figure out exactly how many of them can be helpful.

We all know Facebook is great for connecting with customers and Instagram is the perfect place to show off products, but have you ever considered how Reddit could be useful for your business? Or even Yelp?

It may sound far-fetched, but stick with me because these slightly off-the-wall social media categories can be treasure troves of information that can help elevate your business.

So, which social media is best? We believe there are seven types of social media categories that are worth considering as an online business owner:

Social networking sites

Image sharing sites

Video sharing sites

Microblogs

Discussion forums

Blogs

Review sites

But before you can start using these types of social media to improve your business, first it’s crucial to have an understanding of what they are, who uses them, and how they can benefit you

Let’s get started.

1. Types of Social Media: Social Networking Sites

When you think about the types of social media, it’s generally social networking sites that spring to mind first. Social networking sites connect users to people and information of all varieties, and obviously, Facebook and LinkedIn are the big examples.

Why Do People Use Social Networking Sites?

Social networking sites make users feel as though the platform is oriented around them. They are the sun in the social media solar system and the sites work to connect them with what they want to see: posts from friends and family, news and lifestyle content, or updates from brands.

On social networking sites, the spread of information is highly encouraged through users interacting with content and sharing it in their circles. People can also create their content through posts, statuses, and albums and all types of media are welcome, including video, text, and image posts.

How Can I Use Social Networking Sites for My Online Business?

This is the ideal place to grow a community and brand. Creating a page for your business is a great way to reach potential customers, giving them a place to connect with others who like the same things they do while getting familiar with your brand.

With so much data on its users, social networking sites are also fantastic places to advertise your products. Using this data, you can target very specific audiences and figure out who’s the most interested in what you’re selling.

2. Types of Social Media: Image-Sharing Sites

The saying goes that a picture’s worth a thousand words and image-sharing sites have certainly ceased on that notion. Platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Imgur allow people to quickly access visual content they’ve curated from various sources.

Why Do People Use Image-Sharing Sites?

Being so simple to use but so visually pleasing, image-sharing sites easily capture people’s attention and imagination. These sites give users insights into the lives of their friends and people they admire, as well as showing off brands, companies, destinations, and events.

Many image-sharing sites having an endless scrolling feature, as well as filters that make it easy to find more content on topics that interest users, basically providing infinite new content.

How Can I Use Image-Sharing Sites for My Online Business?

These kinds of social media sites can be a great way to showcase your products – or get others to showcase them for you. Influencers are a major part of image-sharing sites and those with dedicated, engaged followings can be extremely helpful in driving customers to your business.

Image-sharing platforms can also be a great way to both see and show off your customers using your product after they’ve purchased it, providing great social proof. Creating a specific hashtag for customers to use is an easy way to encourage this and you could even display the posts directly on your website.

Image-sharing sites can also be used to engage with potential customers, posting content relevant to your business, as well as the lifestyle of your audience. If you have a large following, image-sharing sites can be the perfect place to test new products as users give quick, honest feedback.

3. Types of Social Media: Video-Sharing Sites

Video-sharing sites have exploded in recent years and become thriving communities with millions of engaged users. Launched in 2007, YouTube still dominates as the most well-known video-sharing site, but TikTok, Periscope, and Vimeo are other big players.

Why Do People Use Video-Sharing Sites?

Naturally, people primarily use video-sharing sites to be entertained. Heck, there are even different sites depending on how long you’d like to be entertained for. Under 60 seconds? Head to TikTok. Long form content more your style? YouTube is where you want to be.

People also use video-sharing sites to be informed and learn new skills. This has given rise to formats such as review, tutorial, and unboxing videos. Users of video-sharing sites actively seek out knowledge from those they deem trustworthy and authoritative on certain topics or products.

How Can I Use Video-Sharing Sites for My Online Business?

Filming a demonstration or review video is a fantastic way to show off your products. This works particularly well if you have a hard-to-photograph item, something that requires instructions to use, or a feature that you want to highlight.

Alternatively, engaging with video influencers can be a great option. This can work particularly well if an influencer is trusted and well-liked by your target audience, as you can capitalize on their social proof.

Video-sharing sites also offer you the chance to learn about your audience, as well as build a community and good reputation using the comment system. Comments on videos can reveal a lot, including any questions or concerns about your product that potential customers have.

4. Types of Social Media: Microblogs

Where do you go when you want to express an opinion or thought, but don’t want to spend hours crafting a long editorial or journal entry? Microblogs, of course! Websites like Twitter and Tumblr let users quickly fire off short posts and connect with wider communities.

Why Do People Use Microblogs?

Microblogs not only allow users to express their opinions and thoughts, but also become part of conversations with other users – or simply observe it.

For websites like Tumblr, users particularly enjoy the ability to share and bond with various communities, as well as the creativity of other members. Its community is artistic and often have niche interests, making the platform the perfect place to meet like-minded folk.

Twitter users make the most of being able to interact with brands and celebrities with ease, as well as sharing and spreading pictures and videos. The site is also useful for discovering breaking news, as it’s easy to filter and search for updates.

How Can I Use Microblogs for My Online Business?

Microblogs can be a good place to engage with customers and gain a deeper understanding of your target audience. Many brands use microblogs to offer support and give updates.

Being genuine and not coming across as stiff and corporate is important to microblog users. People are generally happy to engage with brands and companies, but also want to be entertained and informed.

By cultivating a feed that shares useful and entertaining content that isn’t just self-promotion, users will be more inclined to like, share and engage with your account. You can also team up with influencers to make the most of their following to promote your product.

5. Types of Social Media: Discussion Forums

Discussion forums are one of the OG forms of social media, originating from bulletin boards and used to talk about very specific topics. Home to over a million different communities, Reddit is the most well-known discussion forum, with Quora and Digg also very popular.

Why Do People Use Discussion Forums?

Discussion forums are extremely community-based with people seeking information and discussions around specific topics, questions and ideas. Forums often offer a degree of anonymity, with people identified by usernames rather than real names.

Users embrace discussion forums because they offer a sense of community and can be a source of knowledge that a user may not have been able to find in their offline life.

How Can I Use Discussion Forums for My Online Business?

Discussion forums are the ideal place to learn more about your target audience as they can be an absolute wealth of information. They’re a space where you can easily discover your potential customers’ pain points so you can be sure your product will adequately solve them.

One example of this is the image-hosting website Imgur. After Reddit user Alan Schaaf noticed problems with other image hosting sites, he created Imgur as an alternative that solved the issues users had with the other services. It was an instant success.

There’s also room to advertise on discussion forums, though it requires a level of finesse to appear organic. Posting in relevant subreddits in a subtle manner or answering applicable questions on Quora could be ways to promote your business. However, forum users are the types of social media users who will quickly sniff out self-promotion over genuine participation, so tread carefully.

6. Types of Social Media: Blogs

Although it might not seem like a type of social media site on first thought, a blog can definitely function as a form of social media, particularly if it covers queries the community has, has a strong following, or encourages discussion in its comment section (and on that note, feel free to leave your own comments in the section below). Spaces such as WordPress, Blogger, and Medium all fit into the blog category.

Why Do People Use Blogs?

Blogs let people learn more or be entertained on a particular topic. People choose to follow specific blogs because they enjoy the author’s writing style, connect with an author’s situation, or because they know they provide useful and insight information.

Blogs can be a great place to discover likeminded people and comment sections offer a chance to discuss and clarify related topics.

Unlike social networking sites or microblogs, when people read blogs they generally expect a longer, more in-depth piece of writing.

Blogs also offer the chance for a series of posts to be written on a single topic that can then be easily categorised so newcomers can find them with ease. This is something that can be difficult to do on other kinds of social media.

How Can I Use Blogs for My Online Business?

Blogs are a smart way to market your business, build your brand, and connect with your target audience at the same time.

You can construct posts explaining decisions, new products, special features, or upcoming events that you feel are important for your audience to know about. You can also post articles related to your product, things your audience enjoys, or would be interested in knowing more about – like the Oberlo blog.

In addition to this, well-optimized blog posts are a fantastic way to reach potential customers who otherwise may not have found your store. Writing insightful and useful SEO posts can set your business apart from similar ones as your website then becomes a destination people visit for a reason other than purchasing an item.

7. Types of Social Media: Review Sites

Used to recommend and educate users on products, services, and experiences, review sites are something that might not immediately jump to mind when considering different types of social media platforms. However, the undeniable social element to sites such as Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Foursquare ensure they fall into the social media category.

Why Do People Use Review Sites?

First and foremost, people use review sites to gain information so they can make well-informed choices about where the choose to spend their time and money.

Review sites make it easier to get details that are otherwise hard to know without experiencing something first hand. This can be great for those who want or need to be sure of particular options – vegetarian cuisine, accessibility, ability to pay with a credit card, and so forth.

Review sites often have a community aspect and users enjoy the feeling of contributing something useful to the wider group. Many review sites have features where community members can engage with submitted reviews, indicating their helpfulness or asking follow-up questions.

How Can I Use Review Sites for My Online Business?

Although review sites like TripAdvisor or Foursquare might not be the perfect fit for an online business, on-site user reviews can be extremely powerful.

Asking customers to review items they’ve purchased and displaying these reviews on your website is great social proof, which can help sway future customers. Obviously positive reviews are the ideal outcome from, but negative reviews can also be helpful in building a trusted brand, as they highlight issues that need to be addressed, make the review section look genuine, and let you know what you should fix with your store.

Conclusion

Feeling more informed, or perhaps even a little overwhelmed?

Don’t worry! This social media categories business is a lot to take in. The good news is that you don’t need to become an expert on everything straight away.

As you’ve just read, each of these seven types of social media can benefit your business, but if you’re more familiar with constructing Facebook ads than tackling an entire blog post, make it something you work up to over time.

Setting up a content and social media strategy could be a good step to ensure that you properly investigate all of your social media options in due course.

The most important thing is being aware that there are many different types of social media and understanding how they can all help your business in their own way.

Want to Read More?

10 Social Media Statistics You Need to Know

Social Media Tools for Ecommerce Store Owners

How to Create a Killer Social Media Marketing Plan

Social Media Tips to Build an Audience for Your Store

The post These are the Best Types of Social Media To Use for An Online Business appeared first on Oberlo.

from Oberlo

With so many types of social media platforms out there it’s difficult to know which would be most beneficial.

It may sound far-fetched, but stick with me because these slightly off-the-wall social media categories can be treasure troves of information that can help elevate your business.

So, which social media is best? We believe there are seven types of social media categories that are worth considering as an online business owner:

Social networking sites

Image sharing sites

Video sharing sites

Microblogs

Discussion forums

Blogs

Review sites

But before you can start using these types of social media to improve your business, first it’s crucial to have an understanding of what they are, who uses them, and how they can benefit you

Let’s get started.

1. Types of Social Media: Social Networking Sites

Why Do People Use Social Networking Sites?

How Can I Use Social Networking Sites for My Online Business?

2. Types of Social Media: Image-Sharing Sites

Why Do People Use Image-Sharing Sites?

Many image-sharing sites having an endless scrolling feature, as well as filters that make it easy to find more content on topics that interest users, basically providing infinite new content.

How Can I Use Image-Sharing Sites for My Online Business?

3. Types of Social Media: Video-Sharing Sites

Why Do People Use Video-Sharing Sites?

How Can I Use Video-Sharing Sites for My Online Business?

4. Types of Social Media: Microblogs

Why Do People Use Microblogs?

Microblogs not only allow users to express their opinions and thoughts, but also become part of conversations with other users – or simply observe it.

How Can I Use Microblogs for My Online Business?

Microblogs can be a good place to engage with customers and gain a deeper understanding of your target audience. Many brands use microblogs to offer support and give updates.

5. Types of Social Media: Discussion Forums

Why Do People Use Discussion Forums?

Users embrace discussion forums because they offer a sense of community and can be a source of knowledge that a user may not have been able to find in their offline life.

How Can I Use Discussion Forums for My Online Business?

6. Types of Social Media: Blogs

Why Do People Use Blogs?

Blogs can be a great place to discover likeminded people and comment sections offer a chance to discuss and clarify related topics.

Unlike social networking sites or microblogs, when people read blogs they generally expect a longer, more in-depth piece of writing.

How Can I Use Blogs for My Online Business?

Blogs are a smart way to market your business, build your brand, and connect with your target audience at the same time.

7. Types of Social Media: Review Sites

Why Do People Use Review Sites?

First and foremost, people use review sites to gain information so they can make well-informed choices about where the choose to spend their time and money.

How Can I Use Review Sites for My Online Business?

Although review sites like TripAdvisor or Foursquare might not be the perfect fit for an online business, on-site user reviews can be extremely powerful.

Conclusion

Feeling more informed, or perhaps even a little overwhelmed?

Don’t worry! This social media categories business is a lot to take in. The good news is that you don’t need to become an expert on everything straight away.

Setting up a content and social media strategy could be a good step to ensure that you properly investigate all of your social media options in due course.

The most important thing is being aware that there are many different types of social media and understanding how they can all help your business in their own way.

Want to Read More?

10 Social Media Statistics You Need to Know

Social Media Tools for Ecommerce Store Owners

How to Create a Killer Social Media Marketing Plan

Social Media Tips to Build an Audience for Your Store

The post These are the Best Types of Social Media To Use for An Online Business appeared first on Oberlo.

https://ift.tt/2NkLIv7 September 17, 2019 at 07:20AM https://ift.tt/303TTTn

0 notes