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Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly. A quick heads up to start: Next week, the doors to Digital Commerce Academy will be reopening. They will stay open for a week, and the price will go up the next time we reopen to a new group of students. So there is good reason to consider if now would be a good time for you to supercharge your training and education when it comes to building a thriving online business around digital products. The best action to take right now is to join the … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: How to Get Traffic When You’re Just Starting Out

Could it really be possible? Well, back in March of 2017, no less an authority than Brian Clark wrote a blog post on Copyblogger with that very headline. Let’s hear him out before we make our judgment. http://rainmaker.fm/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sites-season-1-episode-12.mp3 Important links from this episode: Try StudioPress Sites Sites Weekly Newsletter Subscribe to Sites on Apple Podcasts @JerodMorris on Twitter Original blog post: What if You Could Simply Eliminate SEO from Your Life? by … [Read more...] about [12] What if You Could Simply Eliminate SEO from Your Life?

Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly. I’ve spent the last handful of weeks taking on full-time childcare responsibilities for my one-year-old daughter since my wife went back to work. It’s been fun, tiring, rewarding, confusing, amazing, difficult, and priceless all at once. I wouldn’t change it for anything. But it certainly has provided me with a challenge when it’s come to being productive … because I’ve also maintained a full-time, work-from-home job … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: New Research on How Audiences Respond to Podcasts

What can you do, as a site owner, to protect your website from the evildoers who will stop at nothing to harm your site for their own nefarious purposes? The first step is the most important. http://rainmaker.fm/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sites-season-1-episode-11.mp3 Important links from this episode: Try StudioPress Sites Sites Weekly Newsletter Subscribe to Sites on Apple Podcasts @JerodMorris on Twitter Transcript Jerod Morris: Welcome to Sites, a podcast by the teams at StudioPress and … [Read more...] about [11] 5 Steps to Website Security You Can Trust

Henrik is getting ready to launch a new website, but he is wondering if he actually should split his content up on two separate sites. He also wonders about options for an ecommerce plugin to get started with. http://rainmaker.fm/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sites-season-1-qa-2.mp3 Important links from this episode: Try StudioPress Sites Sites Weekly Newsletter Subscribe to Sites on Apple Podcasts @JerodMorris on Twitter Submit your question Transcript Jerod Morris: Welcome to Sites, a podcast … [Read more...] about Q&A: Keep it all on one site or split?

Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly. Let’s begin this week with two recent posts from Copyblogger that contain essential information you need to know. The first is from Sonia Simone, who clearly articulates the important difference between features and benefits. The lines about Jimmy Choo shoes and hybrid cars sum up the differences perfectly. Even if you’ve been creating content for a while, and know the difference between features and benefits, it can be easy to fall into … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: Inspiration Is Everywhere

Creating a positive user experience is very important, but it should not — in fact, can not — trample on your business goals. Even the greatest user experience in the world isn’t worth it if the cost will cause you to be unprofitable. http://rainmaker.fm/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sites-season-1-episode-10.mp3 Important links from this episode: Try StudioPress Sites Sites Weekly Newsletter Subscribe to Sites on Apple Podcasts @JerodMorris on Twitter How User Experience Design Pays … [Read more...] about [10] How User Experience Design Pays Back to the Business

Our first Q&A episode is based on a question from Rene, who wants to know how to increase conversions from all digital media. That’s a broad question! So I enlisted the help of our remarkably capable marketing maven Loryn Thompson to answer. http://rainmaker.fm/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sites-season-1-qa-1.mp3 Important links from this episode: Try StudioPress Sites Sites Weekly Newsletter Subscribe to Sites on Apple Podcasts @JerodMorris on Twitter Submit your question transcript Jerod … [Read more...] about Q&A: How do I increase conversions?

Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly. First up this week, a quick plug for two recent episodes of my new podcast Sites, which I hope you’ve had a chance to listen to. As you’ll see when you peruse this week’s links, SEO ended up becoming a hot topic. So let me also point you in the direction of this Sites episode, in which I take a deep dive into an SEO mindset mistake that plagues too many website owners. And I will also point you toward this episode about goals for … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: Are Your Landing Pages Leaving Conversions on the Table?

Launching a website is an articulation of your dreams and ideas to a specific audience — people who will visit and, hopefully, be moved by what they see. Moved to call, moved to subscribe, and even moved to buy. Boss Pro, designed by our friends at Bloom, is the theme that helps you turn your dreams into plans. This “posh yet minimalist” theme offers a warm welcome that is streamlined and full of light, and it was designed to take your business to the next level and help you … [Read more...] about Boss Pro: Turn Your Dreams Into Plans