Rise Forums is the internet community I launched in 2013. It focuses on many topics including affiliate marketing, WordPress, website development, hosting and domains, video and audio, and more. As with any website, over time that good looking website design you once loved will start to look old and dated. …
In today’s video, I talk about how you can brand a website. I also touch upon how you can monetise a blog. The question came from Ben from How to Learn About. It is the second part of a question Ben recently asked. The first part of the question was …
Teaching was not something I was seriously considering. As a timid introverted child I stayed mostly in my room, playing video games. My friends and colleagues were outside, playing basketball or football and generally socializing. Time went by and I discovered that all the hours I had spent inside were …
You know that you are not going to be in Google’s good graces if you are in the business of selling links and manipulating search engines. One of the pioneers of the text link selling industry is Text Link Ads (commonly referred to as TLA). I was surprised to see …
I started developing discussion forums very early on in my career. I can’t recall whether I tried any free scripts first however I do remember that my first discussion forum was built using vBulletin. I continued to use the forum software for around 10 years. Unfortunately, the development of vBulletin …
I came across a list of the Best Global Brands of 2008 today. What surprised me was that out of the whole list, there were only 2 which I hadn’t heard of before (SAP & UBS). It just highlights how much advertisers infiltrate our lives, whether we like it or …
Growmatik is a feature-rich marketing service that helps you convert visitors into customers. The service describes itself as an “Omni-Channel Marketing” solution, which means that the focus is on providing users with the right content at the right time. The overall goal is to give people value. In practice, what …
I have been a happy Dropbox user since the service launched in the late 2000s. The company was a pioneer in the world of cloud storage hosting and it continues to be one of the best cloud storage solutions available online. Although I was an early adopter of Dropbox, for …
WordPress remains the most popular platform for building websites. There are great alternatives available online, but I truly believe that when it comes to creating content, nothing beats WordPress and its revolutionary post type system. The introduction of the block editor has also improved the experience of creating content with …
Even if you didn’t realise it, if you have bought anything online, you’ve bought something that was “Dropshipped” to you. This means that the seller never held the goods. They simply received your order and then shipped the product to you via a third-party dropshipping company. Dropshipping has always been …