People seem to love to know what plugins I am using. I talk about a lot of plugins in the videos and articles of the Blog Marketing Academy, but I’ve never just outright listed every single one of them. At this time, I am currently running 53 active plugins. Is that a lot? Well, for…
Online courses are obviously big business. A ton of people create and sell online courses. Yet more plan to and are busy creating their own with dreams of selling them for big money. But, I think it pays (literally) to keep things in perspective. I am currently in the middle of a complete re-do of…
As you may know, I have been a strong advocate for Cloudways web hosting for awhile now. I have referred many people to Cloudways and I work with a lot of clients on Cloudways. Me likey some Cloudways. 🙂 But, something disappointing happened last week without any announcement at all. Cloudways quietly dropped support for…
Lots of people in the corporate media have been saying that we’re on the verge of an economic recession. Frankly, I think it has already begun. They just redefine terms and kick the can because they don’t want it to look too bad before the next election, but the numbers don’t lie. In my view,…
The other day, I tried to reach out to a company for some help. I was having an issue with their website and I wanted to simply let them know about it. The only way to contact them was via this “live chat” bot in the lower right. Long story short, it was clearly AI….
Being a perfectionist is extremely counter-productive. And it is bad for business. Might seem weird to say, but think about it… I have worked with a lot of people over the years. I’ve worked with a lot of folks who were starting from scratch and busy getting things ready to launch. I’ve also been involved…
How do you actually create value in the things you want to sell on your site? Let’s talk about that. You can use this to brainstorm new offers and/or to “sweeten” an offer you’re already making. And as a reminder, an offer and a product are NOT the same thing! This is something I cover…
Slowly, but surely… I am cancelling pretty much every cloud drive and service I was paying for. That includes Dropbox, Microsoft 365, iCloud, Google Drive… and even Evernote. It isn’t as if I don’t have these accounts anymore, but I’m stopping paying for them. Everything is getting downgraded. I’m moving to my own “cloud” that…
Most of us perceive a lack of time in our own lives. Never seems like we have enough time to get things done. It’s a bit of an illusion, really. You’ve probably heard this before… but the most successful people you can possibly think of have the same amount of time that we do every…
If you’re not learning, you’re dying. Sounds brutal, but it is something I believe. There’s no such thing as just coasting… and if you stay the same, then you’re actually shrinking. I’ve been blogging for about 25 years now. I’ve been running an online business almost that entire time. I’ve been using WordPress since it’s…
OK, I know. I know. Almost any time there’s a headline that talks about something being “dead”, it is just clickbait. But… It is possible that page builders like Elementor, Thrive Architect, Beaver Builder and others… just might become irrelevant. As I’ve mentioned in earlier issues of The Edge and my last blog post, I decided to convert…
Right on my about page, I list out one of my core values: Power lies in simplicity. Complexity is a symptom of a system breakdown. As I am now in the process of doing a large content audit across the Blog Marketing Academy… and that has now also morphed into a theme change, I am reminded of my…