RSS has decreased in popularity considerably over the last few years. I always assumed that this was due to the increase in usage in social media services such as Facebook and Twitter, however a Google survey with around 20,000 responses revealed that only 9.5% of people had ever used RSS. …
Love them or loathe them; Pop ups are one of the most effective ways of converting your visitors to subscribers. I have tried several solutions in the past. The last popup plugin I used actively on all my websites was Pippity, however I found it to be very buggy. The …
You have heard many times that “the money is in the list”. Whilst it has become somewhat of a cliche, it remains true. Having a large responsive email list is a great way to drive traffic to your website, products or services. For many affiliate marketers, seeing people unsubscribe from …
For years I have asked for a visitors name with my newsletter forms however when I relaunched this blog I questioned whether this was necessary. This may seem like a trivial issue however it will determine whether my newsletter list is built up with people’s names or not. I will …
If you’re came to this website, you’ve probably came across a blog post or feature length article that I’ve written for another website and wanted to know a little more about me. If you know nothing about me or my work online, I encourage you to have a quick read …
Whenever I gave advice to new bloggers about promoting their blog I always told them that ‘The first few hundred subscribers are the hardest’. This is something I have believed for years and something which I believe still holds true today. It can be very infuriating at the beginning of …
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 …
Maintaining a successful blog is a lot like driving a steam train. It takes a lot of energy to get it going, but even when you’re on the right track, you need to keep adding fuel to the fire or it will eventually grind to a halt. Failure to follow …
I signed up to my first affiliate program in 1999 (Commission Junction). I still recall my awe at the sheer volume of companies that would pay you to send them traffic. Although I don’t know the exact number, my guess is that I have signed up to thousands of affiliate …
Adobe Premiere Pro is an advanced video editor that comes with many great features. Those features do come at a price, with the software costing £19.97 per month here in the UK. Premiere Pro is included in Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite of apps, which costs £49.94 per month. I have …