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The Journey, a Social Media Examiner production, is an episodic video documentary that shows you what really happens inside a growing business. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZLFF_v_y8 Watch The Journey: Episode 15 Episode 15 of The Journey follows Michae…

Need the perfect pattern background to spice up your WordPress site? Used well, background patterns allow you to improve your site’s design without distracting from your content. But they take a little more effort to use than a solid color. That is, you’ll need to actually find a pattern background that you like before you […]

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Do you want more business from your blog posts? Looking for tips to qualify leads more effectively? In this article, you’ll discover how to warm up and convert prospects by turning blog posts into a three-part video funnel. Building Awareness, En…

Do you want more business from your blog posts? Looking for tips to qualify leads more effectively? In this article, you’ll discover how to warm up and convert prospects by turning blog posts into a three-part video funnel. Building Awareness, En…

Amazing Designs At Your Fingertips Now you can get quick access to all of our pre-made Divi Layout Packs right inside the Divi Builder. Just pick your favorite design and start building! Today we are bringing some absolutely incredible value to Divi in the form of over 140 beautifully designed premade layouts that you can […]

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Want to drive Facebook traffic to your website without using ads? Wondering how your Facebook cover image can help? In this article, you’ll discover how to use your Facebook cover image to generate clicks that convert into leads. Why Use Your Fac…

Want to drive Facebook traffic to your website without using ads? Wondering how your Facebook cover image can help? In this article, you’ll discover how to use your Facebook cover image to generate clicks that convert into leads. Why Use Your Fac…

Every week, we provide you with a new and free Divi layout pack which you can use for your next project. Along with every layout pack, we also share a use case that’ll help you take your website to the next level. This week, as part of our ongoing Divi design initiative, we’re going to […]

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Headings are easily one of the most important and most misunderstood features of a website. For most people, they’re just ways to break up their content. Instead of having walls of text and paragraph after paragraph of content, WordPress headings allow you to create chunks of content that give your readers easy breaks. But that’s […]

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Headings are easily one of the most important and most misunderstood features of a website. For most people, they’re just ways to break up their content. Instead of having walls of text and paragraph after paragraph of content, WordPress headings allow you to create chunks of content that give your readers easy breaks. But that’s […]

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Need more qualified leads from Facebook? Have you used Facebook lead ads? With the arrival of Facebook Zero, pages will effectively see little or no organic reach without some form of ad budget. The money you spend needs to show a return. In this artic…

Hey Divi Nation, thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. This week Kenny and his team have created a beautiful SEO Layout Pack with eight different pages that provide […]

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If you click on any given Facebook ad, clickbait article on making money online, or read almost anything about monetizing a website, you’ll get two pieces of advice in every single one: to start an email list as soon as humanly possible and to launch a membership site. Thanks to Patreon, both are easy and […]

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Want more sales from your Facebook ads? Wondering which type of Facebook custom audience works best at each stage of the customer journey? In this article, you’ll discover how to pair Facebook custom audiences with different types of prospects to…

With all various Divi built-in options and regular feature updates, the quality of the websites designs you create can go up quickly. One of the feature updates that was long expected was the filters and blend modes one. We’ve already shared some great examples that you can recreate and we’d like to add one to […]

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Adobe Lightroom is a great tool for both professionals and amateurs. While photographers are the primary users of Lightroom, it has a few benefits for web designers as well. One of the main advantages of Lightroom is the ability to organize your entire photo library. As a web designer, you can use this to organize […]

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Business websites, such as coaching, design, sales, corporate, etc., are some of the most popular websites on the web. Divi has lots of child themes and layouts to build any type of business website you need. Layouts are a great choice because you can incorporate them into your theme. You can use as much or […]

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Remember back in 1981 when MTV launched, and the first video they showed was “Video Killed the Radio Star”? It was, like, super meta and on-the-nose. Well, YouTube and Vimeo are still riding that wave. They’re not so much killing the radio star (podcasting is super popular), but they’re definitely gaining traction over old-school, written […]

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore we explore YouTube monetizat…

It’s that time again for our monthly Divi Showcase where we take a look at 10 awesome Divi websites made by our community members. Every month we showcase the best Divi websites that were submitted from our community and today we want to share with you the top ten websites for the month of January. […]

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So much of the internet is video. You can barely use a search engine without some part of the results being video. News articles are short on written copy and heavy on embedded video. And if you’re scrolling around any social media platform, your feed is likely saturated with video clips and snippets from TV […]

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Want to use video to help more people know, like, and trust you? Wondering how to create episodic video content that keeps people watching? To explore how and why we produce a weekly video documentary, I pull back the curtain on our show, The Journey. …

Every Barber shop needs a great looking website. And with the power of Divi behind you (and those wonderful free Divi layout packs) you can easily create a website any Barber would be proud to have. Today, I’m going to show you how to build a website for a barber shop using Divi. I’ll be […]

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The Journey, a Social Media Examiner production, is an episodic video documentary that shows you what really happens inside a growing business. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ6WgPz5u5Y Watch The Journey: Episode 14 Episode 14 of The Journey follows Michae…

If you’re a web designer, you might be used to working with Adobe Photoshop. It’s a powerful tool for creating a website design or any custom graphics for websites, such as background images or patterns. But over the years Photoshop has become about a lot more than simply editing photos. Creating a narrower photo editing […]

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Wondering how live video can help you make money? Looking for ways to increase the return on your investment in live video? In this article, you’ll discover six ways to develop leads and boost sales using live video. #1: Generate Leads via Teaser…

Learndash is a learning management system (LMS) that lets you create your own courses for your WordPress website. It’s easy to use and learn, but the design capabilities are somewhat limited. Courses with better designed layouts will be more attractive to potential customers, so having the ability to design your own course layouts could set […]

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WordPress errors are somewhat rare, but the platform is so popular that almost all of them are well-cataloged. For example, the WordPress secure connection error pops up rarely, but when it does, it can hinder you from installing new plugins and themes. If you have full access to your server, fixing this error isn’t overly […]

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Wondering how to market with video without being in front of the camera? Have you thought about creating video from product and brand images you already have? In this article, you’ll find two affordable ways to create engaging videos for your bus…

Divi’s built-in options allow you to create endless stunning and unique designs. Whatever type of website you might be building, you can adjust the settings to meet your website’s and visitors’ needs seamlessly. In this post, in particular, we’re going to show you how to make use of the new opacity filter to achieve a […]

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It goes without saying that your branding is what sets you apart from your competitors. Your brand may consist of a logo paired with a recognizable color scheme but it should be much more than that. It’s how your customers feel when they interact with your business, how they perceive your products and services, and […]

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Want to learn more about your website visitors? Have you heard of Facebook Analytics? In this article, you’ll discover how to install and use Facebook Analytics to reveal data about the Facebook users who visit your website. #1: Create a Facebook…

Happy Monday Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. This week Kenny and his team have created a very elegant Digital Payments Layout Pack with eight different […]

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We aren’t all designers. That’s a good thing for job security, obviously, but when you’re poking around the internet, you can definitely see the bad side of that, too. People simply misunderstand design terms and, because of that, design itself. Especially beginners in the field. With the current culture of self-taught professional development, we wanted […]

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Are you concerned about the impact of Facebook’s recent announcement on changes to the news feed? Wondering how these news feed changes will affect your marketing? In this article, you’ll find out what to expect from the changes and learn h…

Divi includes all the tools you need for building artisans and crafters’ websites. You can build your site from the ground up, use a child theme, or you can use one of the high-quality layouts available to help you get started quickly. Layouts allow you to use as many of the layout elements as you […]

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