We’ve talked about building a community from the ground up. But where do you go once that task is complete? You have dozens to hundreds (if not thousands) of people who love you. Each of whom now wants their moment of attention from you and your brand. That’s where...
Do you want to do more with your organic social media activities? Is working with many different team members and departments slowing you down? In this article, you’ll discover how to increase the success of your organic social activities while working with many...
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. For this week, Kenny and his team have created a HVAC Layout Pack. This...
Cold calls and emails are directed at potential customers who have not expressed interest in you. They may be in the same industry as your other core clients and they may even be actively looking for what you offer, but they don’t know you and didn’t expect to be...
Wondering how to sell your eCommerce products with Facebook ads? Looking for an easy-to-follow Facebook ad funnel you can adapt to your business? In this article, you’ll find a step-by-step guide for creating a complete Facebook ad funnel that works. #1: Set Up Your...
It’s no secret that blend modes can help you give some extra attention to the aesthetics of the design you’re working on. In the past, we’ve covered blend mode tips and tricks that help you create some unique and gorgeous designs. Now, since the column update has come...
One of the hardest parts about being a content creator is coming up with ideas for content. What’s even harder is when you have fantastic ideas for content, but it’s based around a product or service that you don’t have and potentially can’t pay for. That’s when it’s...
I’ll admit it. I’m a fan of coffee shops. Not only are they a great place to get amazing coffee and pastry, but they’re also a great place for meetups. Like any good business, coffee shops need amazing websites. And as you’ve already guessed, Divi is an amazing theme...
Emailing with clients back and forth to figure out the best time for you to get together, either virtually or in person, can get tedious and confusing. When you have an appointment booking interface on your website, both parties can communicate their availability...
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 updates to Facebook Group privacy with Dana Malstaff and...
Text marquees provide a scrolling area of text to your website that engage readers with useful snippets of content.They are also called tickers (or news tickers) and are often used to show a steady stream of news updates at the top or bottom of a page. Usually the...
If you’ve spent enough time on the web, you’ve probably noticed that some sites have pages dedicated to ‘media kits’. If you have your own brand, you may have even been asked for one by journalists or potential promotional partners. However, the term can come across...
Do you use videos to sell your products or services? Looking for a proven model to help you sell with videos? To explore how to create videos that sell, I interview Owen Video on the Social Media Marketing Podcast. Owen is a speaker, live-stream host, and event MC....
WordPress and Divi do a lot of wonderful things out of the box to make it easy for us to build a website. But sometimes we need more advanced functionality that can only be accomplished with JavaScript. With Divi, you can easily add JavaScript or jQuery snippets...
Today’s professional isn’t the stuffy, buttoned-up, yawn of a person from the past. For the sake of stereotype-breaking, let’s talk about a different, more modern type of professional. He or she engages employees, clients and colleagues instead of making them check...
Divi’s animation options have helped bring tons of website to life without the need for custom code. The built-inanimation settings are highly adjustable and they allow you to create really unique designs. One of the things you can do, for example, is creating an...
Blogs and podcasts have stiff competition. There are so many out there that are competing for practically any keyword combination you can come up with. Unless you want to completely forgo your dreams of launching your project, though, you’ll need to choose a name –...
Do you really know which of your Facebook ads produce customers and revenue? Is Facebook telling you one thing and Google Analytics saying something different? In this article, you’ll discover how to use Facebook and Google Analytics together to reveal how your...
A circular icon menu is an elegant solution for adding a simple menu to your Divi site. This style of menu is intuitive and works really well as a fixed menu for your mobile devices. Today, we will show how to create a circular icon menu in Divi in a way that really...
We’ve all made a rookie mistake at work that still makes us cringe. Sent a department-wide email with a typo that entirely changes the context. Spilled coffee on a crisp white shirt right before an important meeting. Mumbled something incoherent when greeting an...
Wondering how to stop Instagram Stories viewers from skipping your content? Looking for quick tips to help? In this article, you’ll find four easy ways to create Instagram Stories content that gives your viewers a reason to keep watching. #1: Give Viewers More to See...
Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative where each week, we give away brand new, free Divi Layout Packs from our design team to you. This time around, Kenny and his team have created a beautiful and engaging...
Keeping your bounce rate down is important. Making sure visitors return to your site can be equally important. With both of those metrics combined (a user engaging with your topic multiple times), the likelihood of conversion is much higher than it would be otherwise....
Do you use Facebook ads to generate leads? Want to convert more Facebook leads into customers? In this article, you’ll discover five effective tips to increase the chances your Facebook leads will become customers. The Importance of Lead-to-Customer Conversion All too...
Creative hero sections make websites memorable and special. This polaroid hero section design evokes a sense of vintage wanderlust. By using column transform options, the polaroids can be arranged in any way you want, as if they were spread on a table. You can...
Email signatures may seem insignificant, especially with more prominent branding elements in play, but they can make a big impact on how professional your brand appears to subscribers. Plus, creating your custom signature with a tool such as WiseStamp can even boost...
Borders and Background images continue to be popular design assets when building websites. Using the right background images can add personality and style to your site without having to spend time and money on custom graphics. And borders are helpful for adding...
A brand identity kit is essential to the success of any company, both online and off. There are two main purposes of a brand identity kit: 1) For clients and followers to recognize a brand easily; and 2) As a set of rules for content creation. If you are here it’s...
Divi is an excellent theme for musicians and anyone providing musical services. Fortunately, you don’t have to start from scratch when making your music-focused website with Divi. In this article, we’ll look at 7 Divi layouts for musicians to help you get a head start...
Being a web professional means your day is filled with software that does everything from cutting screencaps into pieces to streaming videos on a second monitor. Because of the multitude of apps we use over the course of a work-week, the smartest move we can make is...
Do you want to know more about running ads on Amazon? Wondering what advertising options and services Amazon offers? To explore what marketers need to know about advertising on Amazon, I interview Brett Curry on the Social Media Marketing Podcast. Brett is CEO of OMG...
Adjust Content On Different Devices, Swap Content On Hover And Enjoy Native SRCSET Support Creating Responsive Websites Has Never Been Easier Today we are excited to introduce Responsive Content and Hover Content to Divi, including native SRCSET support for responsive...
Image markers are a great way to showcase a product’s special features. In this post, we’ll show you how to create image markers using a text module and a vertical divider. Thanks to the transform settings inside the columns, an image marker can be placed anywhere you...
What is a white paper? Is it an extra-long blog post? An ebook in PDF form? A promotional tool to sell a product? Not quite. White papers have a purpose, format and style that are all their own. Today, white papers are used by marketers to go in-depth on a topic – any...
Do you work with a social media team? Wondering how to create a social media content approval process? In this article, you’ll learn how to set up a workflow to manage, schedule, and publish pre-approved social media content. #1: Share Social Media and Brand Assets...
Every week, we provide you with new and free Divi layout packs which you can use for your next project. For one of the layout packs, 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...
Let us be frank. The simple answer to can you still make money blogging today? is absolutely, 100% yes. The better answer, however, is it depends or even sure, if you work really hard. Don’t let that reality discourage you. In fact, we are starting out that way to set...
Are you struggling to get great results from your Facebook ads? Wondering if you’re making mistakes that are hurting your campaigns? We asked some of the industry’s top Facebook advertising experts to share the mistakes they see most often and how you can avoid making...
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. For this week, Kenny and his team have created an elegant Cake Maker...
You’re acing this interview. You showed up early, you didn’t spill coffee on your shirt and you remembered to print out a fresh copy of your resume. Not only are you totally qualified for this position, but you’ve even made the interviewer laugh. Then you’re asked a...
Ever wish you could post to Instagram directly from your desktop instead of your mobile device? Did you know Instagram is rolling out this functionality? In this article, you’ll learn how to schedule and publish posts to Instagram via your desktop without any...
Sharing video previews on your website can increase interactivity and help visitors understand your products and/or services better and faster. Now, on the Elegant Themes website, we’ve taken on this approach for ourselves and created a straight-forward click video...
Sketch is a digital design app that you can use for a number of projects, including icons, prototyping and wireframing. (There are some things you can’t do with Sketch, too, such as heavy 3D rendering.) Many people use Photoshop for these types of design, and Sketch...
One of the best things about building a site with Divi is that each building block is packed with design options. Every module, column, row, and section contains design settings for both the default and the hover state. This opens the door for triggering multiple...
Journalists get asked the same question over and over: “How do I get a story in the news?” The answer is: you can’t. Or, you can’t force a media outlet to cover your story. Usually, the process includes pitching a journalist, ideally one you already have a...
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 what marketers need to know about changes coming from...
Divi is an excellent theme to build websites for fitness businesses. Thanks to the Divi community, there are lots of fitness child themes for Divi to build websites for gyms, blogs, stores, trainers, and lots more. In this article, we’ll look at 11 fitness child...
Whether a client asks for a retro-futuristic design for their new site, an organization is promoting a STEM event in their local community, a science-fiction author requests a sleek book cover, or a new research firm needs a cutting-edge website to match their...
Do you want to create superfans for your business? Wondering how to develop the kind of connected community that elevated your brand? To explore how to develop superfans who will gladly evangelize anything for you and your business, I interview Pat Flynn. Pat is an...
Divi’s new column filter settings can be used in many creative ways. In this post, we’ll show you how to blend one main row background image with column content. We’ll add different color gradients to the modules and a column “screen” blend mode to create a stunning...
One of the most common types of plugin on the WordPress.org repository is the form builder. From Gravity Forms, Caldera Forms, Ninja Corms, Contact Form 7, and so on, the choices that you have are nearly endless. However, not all form builders are created equal. Each...
Animated Scroll buttons have a simple yet important job of grabbing a users attention and leading them down your web page. These type of buttons are normally found above the fold so that a visitor can simply click the button without having to scroll to the next...
InVision Studio is a prototyping and animation tool that lets you create advanced, vector-based screen designs fast thanks to flexible layers and an infinite canvas. It’s considered one of the best high-fidelity prototyping tools out there. With InVision Studio, you...
Looking for a fun way to engage people on social media? Have you considered using memes in your marketing? In this article, you’ll discover how your business can use memes to engage and connect with people. 4 Reasons to Include Memes in Your Social Media Content In a...
Whether we are preparing a meal or designing a website, the ingredients alone will not guarantee a tasty dish or a beautiful site. It is how well we combine those elements together that makes all the difference. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to combine...
The customer journey is the process that your customers take when interacting with your company. It starts at the beginning, when they first learn about your company, and goes through to the end, when they complete your ultimate goal, like making a purchase or...
Want to learn more about the professional traits of your website visitors? Are you using LinkedIn’s Website Demographics tool? In this article, you’ll discover how to use LinkedIn Website Demographics to reveal useful information about people who visit your website....
Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative where each week, we give away brand new, free Divi Layout Packs from our design team to you. This time around, Kenny and his team have created a vibrant DJ Layout Pack...
Ask the Egghead, Inc. Awarded by Clutch.co for Position Among Top Performing Developers in Massachusetts At Ask the Egghead, Inc., we pride ourselves on our work, our employees, and most importantly our customers’ success. Our dedicated, client-oriented team is not...
Underhanded sales tactics are nothing new. Experiences salespeople know all the tricks to convince you to make a purchase, and some approaches are sneakier than others. For example, the use of ‘weasel’ words can imply something that isn’t the case, which could leave...
Are you wondering which Facebook ad placements you should choose? Looking for some guidance to improve your ad performance? In this article, you’ll find a guide to all of Facebook’s advertising placements and discover how to edit your placements to deliver the best...
Since Divi’s new sizing options have come out, we’ve created a few tutorials that show you how to create hover reveals. In those tutorials, the hidden content was placed vertically. In some cases, however, you might want to create a horizontal reveal instead. In this...
Founded by Alexander Adam, Gravit Designer is an HTML-based application for designing high-quality vector graphics. Corel acquired Gravit Designer in mid-2018, adding it to their portfolio of applications for digital media. You can create an assortment of projects...
Creating a spinning menu wheel on hover is a fun way to showcase helpful links on your website. This would be a great way to provide multiple calls to action in a header to direct users where they need to go. And it would also be a cool sub category menu for your...
Hello to our beautiful Divi community! July has come to an end, and it’s been a jam-packed month! We’ve been super busy onboarding new groups and supporting current groups. Our theme this summer is consistency. Summer months can be slow for folks in our industry, but...
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 details of the FTC settlement agreement with Facebook...
Online radio has been popular for many years and now it’s easier than ever to create your own radio station. Of course, it’s also easy to embed your radio station’s stream into your Divi website. In this article, we’ll look at how to create a streaming radio station...
As professional writers, we all have deadlines and clients expecting good work from us. But sometimes the words just don’t flow as fast as we want them to and it’s hard to be as efficient as our schedules require. Thankfully, there are some tested and proven...
Do you want to create successful LinkedIn ad campaigns? Wondering how to get started with LinkedIn ads? To explore how to succeed with LinkedIn ads, I interview AJ Wilcox. AJ is the world’s leading LinkedIn ads expert and author of LinkedIn Ads Demystified. He’s also...
Team pages are often underestimated. Before purchasing a product or hiring a service, many users navigate to team or about pages to get a better idea of the company and the people behind it. If your team page leaves a positive first impression, it could lead towards...
Sketch is a vector-based tool used for desktop and mobile UI design, mockups and prototypes, and today it’s considered an industry standard. You can also edit and manipulate photos with Sketch. Sketch is so user-friendly that you can learn it fast even if you’ve never...
Divi’s new column options have brought a ton of new design possibilities to our workflows. They help unite multiple modules without having to touch any single line of CSS code. In this post, we’re going to turn columns into pricing plans using Divi’s built-in options...
Podcasting is attracting a lot of attention. In 2019, the podcast advertising is projected to exceed $470 million dollars. A lot of people see that number and want their share of it. They start a podcast, make fantastic content, but the dollars don’t roll in. Like...
Want better results from your Facebook ads? Looking for ways to optimize your ads? In this article, you’ll explore five free Facebook tools to help you improve your Facebook ads’ performance. #1: Facebook Creative Hub Tool The creative you use in your Facebook ads has...
The new Divi global defaults update helps you apply certain designs styles to elements throughout your entire website. It saves you time, helps you keep an overview of your website and style each global setting the way you’re used to it; inside the Divi Builder...
Once upon a time, marketers would spend all of their time creating and sharing promotional campaigns only to wonder if they even worked. Traditional marketing efforts were often un-trackable. You could form a shaky connection between marketing and how well the company...
Want to improve your engagement on social media? Wondering how to keep the conversation going with your followers? In this article, you’ll discover how to get your audience to engage with your social media posts, videos, and live videos. The 3 Rules of Social Media...
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. For this week, Kenny and his team have created a Donut Shop Layout Pack...
It’s a common belief that flexibility is the same as being unrestrained, that to be creative you also have to be unbridled. To complete a project, though, especially one that’s as intricate as web design, creating structure can actually give you more flexibility. You...
Do you want to improve your organic Instagram content? Looking for an Instagram content marketing guide to follow? In this article, you’ll find out how to plan, create, and optimize Instagram content for your business. #1: How to Establish a Content Theme for Your...
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. Each month we showcase the best Divi websites that were submitted from our community and today we want to share with you the top ten...
If you are looking for how to get sponsored, you likely rely on donations or sponsorships for funding. And making sure that you are asking the right way is integral to your success. You must make sure that you lead your sponsors to the decision to hand you their money...
There are lots of nonprofit organizations across the globe. Just about every one of them needs a well-designed website to tell their story and receive donations to help their causes. Divi is an excellent theme for nonprofits such as charities. Fortunately, you don’t...
Work-from-home can mean a lot of things. Work-in-your-pajamas, work-when-you-feel-like-it, work-when-the-rest-of-the-world-is-sleeping. However you approach a remote work lifestyle, it has to be dependable and organized in some way so management can depend upon and...
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 Twitter’s newly enhanced and improved conversation...
In one of the latest Divi updates, we added some pretty amazing controls to columns in the builder. It’s now easier than ever to create column overlaps. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create a testimonial section with three overlapping columns using Divi’s...
Sometimes, one image just isn’t enough. In some cases, two photos can create one much better composition. In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to blend images in Photoshop. We’ll look at how to make creative compositions with textures as well as double exposure...
Is YouTube video part of your marketing plan? Want more people to find and watch your videos on YouTube? To explore how to get your videos discovered on YouTube, I interview Tim Schmoyer. Tim is a YouTube expert whose channel has 500,000 subscribers. He hosts the...
Most companies will need to showcase services on their website to their visitors. And one way to showcase services above the fold is to use a slider. This allows you to highlight each service one by one, but the downside is that the user will have to navigate back and...
We’ve all been there. That moment when we stare at the screen, our fingers on the keyboard, and the words just aren’t flowing. They aren’t even making an appearance. A lot of the time the feeling is short-lived and after a cup of tea or a chat with a friend, we’re...
I believe communities are essential for businesses. When I heard Mark Zuckerberg say, “Groups are at the heart of the experience” at the 2019 F8 conference, I wondered, “What’s Mark’s real objective here?” Today, I’d like to explore whether marketers, creators, or...
When you decide to create a one-pager, the navigation user experience becomes entirely different. Although people aren’t meant to leave the page, you do want to make their stay user-friendly. That’s why most one-pagers use in-page anchor links. You can place these...
Knowing how to crop in Illustrator seems to be a bit of a confusing topic for new Adobe Illustrator users. It’s not surprising, due to how in older versions before the Creative Cloud, there was no easy cropping option apart from clipping masks. Thankfully, the newest...
Wondering how to create an effective social media strategy? Looking for a current, proven guide to follow? In this article, you’ll find a step-by-step plan for developing a social media marketing strategy that really works—all based on modern marketing principles. How...
Divi’s text and list style options are a common feature available within most Divi Modules. This opens new opportunities to design creative content and list designs within modules (like the toggle and accordion module) that were previously only possible within the...
There’s a high chance that if you’re reading this, you work on a computer for most, if not all of the day. Even if you don’t, there’s still a high chance you’re looking at a screen of some kind for the majority of the day. And that makes you tired. More specifically,...
Want better Facebook ad conversions? Wondering how to write compelling Facebook ad copy? In this article, you’ll learn how to write Facebook ad copy that improves your conversions. #1: Use the “So That” Statement The most common Facebook ad copy mistake I see is...
Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative where each week, we give away brand new, free Divi Layout Packs from our design team to you. This time around, Kenny and his team have created a stunning Cyber...
Helping kids with their homework at a tutoring center. Catering in mid-August heat for a senior citizen’s summertime luncheon. Topping sundaes with all the fixings at a group home’s ice cream social. For all of the time, patience and hard work required, volunteering...
