Here are some tough questions every online marketer needs to ask: • If your website gets hacked, how will you recover? • If your hosting company goes under, how will you recover? • If your server crashes, how will you recover? • If your hosting company give you poor support, how will you escape to a better host? In all these cases, you need a good backup of your website, made in advance, stored at an offsite location that you can use to restore your site to normal. Offsite is important. Don’t entrust your backup to the same server that holds you site. In a disaster, you... [...]

Fachrul Stream is a WordPress product developer, focusing on products that help marketers present their business online in a favorable light so their offers get the best possible response. His latest marketing tool is his new Mega Builder WordPress Theme package. This is a theme that is so flexible that it seems like a dozen themes in one. Whether you are building a simple blog for yourself or a client or a major corporate site, Mega Builder WordPress Theme can get you the look and feel of a high-priced design studio with a few minutes of set up and without any tech skills. When building your sites,... [...]

This product is no longer available. Until now, building review sites for Amazon products was a painfully slow process. First you need to find the right keywords and the you need to choose the right products to review for these keywords. OJ James has released a new WordPress plugin called Azon Review Hero that removes the pain, leaving only the gain. Azon Review Hero allows you to: • Insert your Amazon affiliate id, API and country into your offers • Automatically change product categories based on the Amazon country your visitor buys from • Get product reviews (including reviewer... [...]

If you are looking for an elegant theme for building video sites, Yoedi Wahyudi has a new theme that can simplify your work and improve your monetization. WP VidPress is new WordPress theme that allows you create elegant video sites quickly and easily and then quickly populate them with relevant videos captured from YouTube and turn them into video posts. There’s a lot to like about WP VidPress. For example, you will find these features helpful: It will automatically pull YouTube videos into your site. It will automatically create posts with the videos. It’s 100% Fully Responsive... [...]

If you are using an expensive service to collect leads, there’s now an alternative that can match the performance of the expensive solutions without the high price tag. Matthew McDonald has just released DIY Squeeze Pages, software that can build your squeeze pages with drag-and-drop ease. McDonald has created a Squeeze Page Video that shows how easy it is to build compelling, attractive squeeze pages with his new software. DIY Squeeze Pages is a WordPress plugin that enables you to quickly set up high-converting squeeze pages, without leaving your familiar WordPress dashboard. When you... [...]

Sam Robinson and his partners have spent the last 9 months developing new software for Amazon affiliates. It’s a WordPress plugin called Azon Store Builder, and it’s the most advanced Amazon affiliate store builder software available. Azon Store Builder creates an attractive, and easy to use, Amazon store right on your site. This powerful plugin builds Amazon affiliate stores with advanced features such as: • 90 Day Cookies, so you can earn if the visitor buys anything within 90 days • Auto Price Updater that allows you to not worry about manually tracking and updating... [...]

Carly Stec says, “40,296. That’s the number of plugins on WordPress. With so many available, it’s tough to figure out the best ones to use — especially when you’re strapped for time. Here’s the good news: We’ve done the work for you. Below you’ll find 17 fantastic plugins every marketer using WordPress should know about. From writing to SEO to analytics, these plugins will help you arrive at the solutions you’re seeking while saving you a ton of time in the process. 17 Essential WordPress Plugins for Marketers 1) Jetpack Jetpack is an all-in-one... [...]

There’s a feeling among many people that spending more gives you a better product. But that’s not always true The squeeze page (also called a lead page) is one thing that distinguishes a professional marketer from someone who just has something to sell. The squeeze page is the page where you collect a visitor’s contact information, so that you can deliver information about a current need or related products over time. You want a squeeze page that invites people to share their information with you, rather than scaring them off. Some marketers fall for the fallacy that expensive... [...]

Ken Reno has been working in the internet marketing training and tools arena for many years. He is well-known for his Internet marketing products. This week, he is giving away three WordPress plugins that will make any WordPress site stronger. First is SnapShot Pro . This plugin creates automated backups of your site. And with a single click, you can restore the site if you have a crash or if your site is hacked. Now, you can backup everything without fiddling with servers or signing up for expensive third-party services. You choose how frequently you back up your site, every week, every day, even... [...]

In the last week we have had a focus on Periscope, Twitter’s new live streaming video service. If you haven’t read the introduction to Periscope we placed in the Curmudgeon’s Corner, I urge you to do so, because Periscope is the best friend a marketer has acquired in a long time. For a marketer, the most important facts about Periscope are: 1. Periscope lets marketers (and users, in general) broadcast live, for free, with nothing more than a smartphone. 2. These broadcasts are automatically recorded but the recordings are destroyed after 24 hours. 3. The direct integration of... [...]