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Writing high-quality text isn’t just a matter of combining well-researched facts and insightful commentary. In fact, many people make the mistake of overlooking a very simple aspect of good writing: your text must be easy to read. Put simply, if readers find your text difficult to understand or follow, all your hard work could be ...

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Will Morris

woocommerce shopify featured
Spoiler alert – I’ve written a big post on WooCommerce vs Shopify, but for most people, the whole comparison really comes down to one question in the end: Which do you value more – simplicity or flexibility? You’ll certainly find smaller differences – like how one platform calculates shipping rates, or how the other handles ...

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Colin Newcomer

Affiliate Marketing with GoWP
If you’re reading this, how to affiliate market or how to be an affiliate marketer is probably one of those techniques you’ve heard of but haven’t explored. After all, it’s difficult to know where to start. What is an affiliate marketer anyway? How do you find all those people to make referrals, promote your products, ...

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Will Morris

Growing coins
Crowdfunding is an excellent way to generate funds for a project, since it enables you to speak directly to your intended audience of would-be customers. It’s also easier than ever, thanks to dedicated sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. However, these external sites take a share of your generated income, and require you to adhere to their ...

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Will Morris

WordPress SEO Featured
Implementing a strong Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy can help improve the amount of traffic to your site, and positively affect both your brand awareness and conversion rates. This article will look at WordPress SEO and why it's important. We’ll also show you how to implement it on your own site!

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Will Morris

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If you have even a moderately successful site, you’ll be visited by all kinds of people every day. However, you may have inadvertently alienated a large portion of your potential audience, by designing your site in a way that makes it difficult (or even impossible) for them use it. Accessibility is an often overlooked but ...

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Will Morris

Enter to Win
In the beginning, there was robot. Well, since GoWP’s beginning in 2014, our robot has always been part of our identity. When we started GoWP, I wanted a “mascot” incorporated into the logo. I worked at a startup many years ago that had a dog (“Rover”) as a part of its company brand and I ...

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Brad Morrison

Brand Strategy v2
When I was introduced to the concept of Micro-Branding, I didn’t know what to expect. Here’s why I’m so glad we embraced it, and why I think you should too. My friend Bruce likes to say that the one element that has to link and unify every decision in your company; scaling, communications, operations, hiring, ...

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Brad Morrison

10 Helpful Tools to Boost WordPress Agency Productivity in 2018
With the right tools and processes in place, we save at least an hour of time, per staff member, every week. Here’s how… Last month, I was having a discussion with one of our long-term clients and I asked if they used Trello for managing their content creation process. His response surprised me, “I’ve just ...

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Brad Morrison

Social Sharing
There are plenty of free or inexpensive WordPress plugins that simplify social sharing, however, selecting the one that’s right for you can be quite overwhelming. To help you sort through the madness, we recommend these five solutions, in no particular order. They’re easy to install, easy to maintain, and will encourage your readers to share ...

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Daniel Morrison