The Big Event: The Journey, Episode 22

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=JY4_n5diAjI Watch The Journey: Episode 22 Episode 22 of The Journey follows Michae…

How to Add Labeled Dot Navigation to Elegant Themes’ Free 10th Anniversary Timeline Layout

The new Timeline Layout can be downloaded for free but ONLY during Elegant Themes’ 10 Year Anniversary Sale which ENDS TODAY. It’s a slick design that’ll help you showcase the timeline of your company or any other type of timeline you want to share with your visitors. On top of the free layout, we’re going […]

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How to Use a Facebook Messenger Bot for Lead Scoring Prospects

Are you using Facebook Messenger bots in your marketing? Wondering how scoring leads can help you deliver more effective messaging to your subscribers? In this article, you’ll learn how to add an automatic lead score system to your Facebook Messe…

How Amazon Polly Can Be Used to Create Spoken Versions of Your Posts

In a nutshell, text-to-speech technology is a powerful way to enable people to experience the web who otherwise couldn’t. As the technology has evolved, it works quite admirably – although it hasn’t gotten to the point where it sounds as natural as if someone were reading aloud to you. That’s where Amazon’s Polly project comes in, which […]

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How to Create a Facebook Ad That Works With WhatsApp Business

Do your prospects and customers prefer WhatsApp to Messenger? Wondering how to create a Facebook ad that integrates with WhatsApp Business? In this article, you’ll discover how to set up a WhatsApp Business account and use Facebook ads to let Wha…

How to Analyze Instagram Stories With Instagram Insights

Are you using Instagram Stories in your marketing? Wondering where to find metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for Instagram Stories? In this article, you’ll discover how to use Instagram Insights for Stories. Why Track KPIs on Instagra…

Introducing the Brand New Divi Nation Meetup Network

We are proud to announce the next evolution of Divi Community: the Divi Nation Meetup Network. This network is designed to provide a touch of central organization to an otherwise globally distributed community of web designers, developers, and DIYers using Divi. Before today we’ve attempted to organize all of our Meetups around the world via […]

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Buffer vs Hootsuite: Which Social Media Management Platform is Right for You?

Having a strong social media presence is a must for business success. Social media helps level the marketing playing field and creates a global market, allowing you to reach your audience where ever they are. There are a lot of social platforms to choose from and managing multiple social networks can be difficult. There are […]

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Twitter Expanding Verification

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, Erik Fisher and Kim Reynolds explore Tw…

An Introduction to the Domain Name System (DNS) And How it Works

Every website has an IP address that identifies it among all others. Theoretically, you could navigate the web using only IP addresses instead of domain names, but this wouldn’t be practical. To understand how IP addresses and domains relate to each other, you need to get to know the Domain Name System (DNS). The DNS […]

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How to Build a Facebook Ad Funnel

Do you want more conversions from your Facebook ads? Wondering how funnels can help? To explore how you can build Facebook ad funnels that improve conversions, I interview Susan Wenograd. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on…

How to Fill Text with Images for Creative Backgrounds using Divi

Filling text with images is a great way to add a modern design to your website. With Divi’s blend modes, you can show background images through any text you want. And, using custom margins within the Divi Builder, you can position the image-filled text to serve as a background for your content. In this tutorial, […]

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How to Manually Configure WordPress Browser Caching

Caching is one of the most effective ways to ensure your website loads faster for your visitors. However, for optimal results, your site should tell browsers exactly what content they need to cache. Caching plugins often don’t give you full control over these settings, so it’s up to you to configure them manually. Fortunately, WordPress […]

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Training Day: The Journey, Episode 21

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=1A6Rfq0ex9Y Watch The Journey: Episode 21 Episode 21 of The Journey follows Michae…

How to Use a Content Scorecard to Publish Better Blog Posts

Want to replicate the success of your best-performing blog content? Wondering how to review and rate content for quality and value? In this article, you’ll learn how to develop and use a content scorecard to ensure the content you publish consist…

How to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile for Better Visibility

Want to optimize your LinkedIn profile for visibility? Wondering which sections of your profile are most important? In this article, you’ll discover how to use your LinkedIn profile to make a strong first impression with prospects and connections…

How to Create a Mega Menu for Your Recipes Page using Divi’s Food Recipes Layout Pack

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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How to Integrate Shopify With Facebook

Do you want to sell your Shopify products and services on Facebook? Looking for tips to help? In this article, you’ll find four tips to integrate a Shopify store with your Facebook (and Instagram) marketing. Why Integrate Your Shopify Store With …

How to Integrate Shopify With Facebook

Do you want to sell your Shopify products and services on Facebook? Looking for tips to help? In this article, you’ll find four tips to integrate a Shopify store with your Facebook (and Instagram) marketing. Why Integrate Your Shopify Store With …

How to Brand Your Mobile Facebook Live Streams

Do you stream Facebook Live video on your mobile device? Wondering how to add a branded image to your live stream? In this article, you’ll discover how to easily add a logo and call to action to your mobile Facebook Live broadcasts. What Are the …

How to Brand Your Mobile Facebook Live Streams

Do you stream Facebook Live video on your mobile device? Wondering how to add a branded image to your live stream? In this article, you’ll discover how to easily add a logo and call to action to your mobile Facebook Live broadcasts. What Are the …

Recreate a Trendy Hero Section for Your Next eCommerce Divi Project

The web design trends that emerge every year help expand design possibilities for designers and DIY users everywhere. More and more, asymmetrically positioned elements, bright colors, and font families traditionally used in print are being appreciated. In this post, we’re going to provide you with a tutorial that uses these elements. The design that we’ll recreate […]

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YouTube Adds New Live-Streaming Tools and Features

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 the new YouTube live tools a…

YouTube Adds New Live-Streaming Tools and Features

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 the new YouTube live tools a…

How to Beautifully Use a Slider Module for Testimonials with Divi

Testimonials are, without a doubt, a vital part of every website selling products or services. They provide your website with the social proof and credibility people need to form a positive impression about your company and/or product. In Divi, we have the Testimonial Module that specifically helps you showcase testimonials in a beautiful way. However, […]

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Should Theme and Plugin Developers Build For WordPress Multisite?

Being a theme or plugin developer is a tough gig. Between WordPress updates, bug fixes, PHP version incompatibilities, and customer support, you have a lot to deal with. And don’t forget about the bunches of potential users who ask, is this Multisite compatible?  It’s a pretty common question, and it may not be something every dev has […]

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Personal Branding: How to Create and Market Yourself

Want to reach more subscribers, fans, or prospects? Wondering how building a personal brand can help? To explore how to build and use a personal brand, I interview Chris Ducker. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand ta…

Personal Branding: How to Create and Market Yourself

Want to reach more subscribers, fans, or prospects? Wondering how building a personal brand can help? To explore how to build and use a personal brand, I interview Chris Ducker. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand ta…

How to Overlap Modules and Rows to Create Unique Layouts in Divi

Overlapping is a useful technique that is often used to create unique web designs and layouts. And it is easy to overlap content with Divi. The basic concept involves adding custom margins and spacing to your modules, rows and sections in a way that positions them to overlap each other. You may have already noticed […]

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The Final Ascent: The Journey, Episode 20

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=PX05lIIM-D4 Watch The Journey: Episode 20 Episode 20 of The Journey follows Michae…

How to Add Interactive Maps to Your WordPress Website

Admittedly, online maps are rather straightforward. If you use a service such as Google Maps, you simply pick a location and embed the map onto your website. However, you can’t edit regular maps on the fly, and neither can your coworkers – which is often necessary for collaborative projects. That’s where interactive maps come in. […]

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How to Remarket to People Who Watch Your YouTube Videos

Want to increase your YouTube subscribers? Wondering how to retarget YouTube video viewers with YouTube ads? In this article, you’ll discover how to create a YouTube remarketing campaign with Google AdWords. #1: Create Video Ads That Highlight Yo…

How to Remarket to People Who Watch Your YouTube Videos

Want to increase your YouTube subscribers? Wondering how to retarget YouTube video viewers with YouTube ads? In this article, you’ll discover how to create a YouTube remarketing campaign with Google AdWords. #1: Create Video Ads That Highlight Yo…

Download & Use 5 Asymmetrically Curved 1/2 Column Backgrounds with Divi

Combining asymmetrically curved background with vibrant gradient colors is a design trend that grew in 2017 and keeps existing and growing in 2018. To help you follow that trend seamlessly in 2018, we’ve created five different background images that you can use on 1/2 column backgrounds in combination with column gradient backgrounds. Further down this post, […]

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How to Whitelist an IP Address For Access to Your WordPress Dashboard (In 2 Steps)

Security is an important part of running any type of website. Unfortunately, it’s likely that someone will eventually try to get into your dashboard without your consent. It’s up to you to put up enough defenses so they don’t succeed. There are plenty of ways to protect your WordPress website. In most cases, you’ll want […]

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How to Create a Digital Resources Page with Divi’s Design Conference Layout Pack

Designing a digital resource page with Divi is easy when you utilize the design elements of your layout to work for you. The visual builder has many helpful features that make this process rather enjoyable. But design isn’t everything. It is also important that your resource page functions. That’s why it is always a good […]

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How to Create a Digital Resources Page with Divi’s Design Conference Layout Pack

Designing a digital resource page with Divi is easy when you utilize the design elements of your layout to work for you. The visual builder has many helpful features that make this process rather enjoyable. But design isn’t everything. It is also important that your resource page functions. That’s why it is always a good […]

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WordPress Hosting: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing The Best Option

The single most asked question I see around the internet is some variation of What’s the best company for WordPress hosting? It’s nuts how often this comes up, but it shouldn’t be that surprising–there are so many options and choices out there, it’s almost impossible to not get bogged down. In many ways, the hosting […]

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3 Easy-to-Use Motion Graphics Tools for Marketers

Want to use more animated visuals in your marketing? Looking for affordable tools to create your own animated graphics? In this article, you’ll find three tools that create animated motion graphics for social media ads and posts. #1: Turn Images …

3 Easy-to-Use Motion Graphics Tools for Marketers

Want to use more animated visuals in your marketing? Looking for affordable tools to create your own animated graphics? In this article, you’ll find three tools that create animated motion graphics for social media ads and posts. #1: Turn Images …

How to Use Live Video in a Product Launch: 7 Ways

Do you use live video to sell products or services? Wondering how to grow an audience that will show up for your launch? In this article, you’ll discover seven live video tactics that will create a warm and engaged audience for your next launch. …

How to Use Live Video in a Product Launch: 7 Ways

Do you use live video to sell products or services? Wondering how to grow an audience that will show up for your launch? In this article, you’ll discover seven live video tactics that will create a warm and engaged audience for your next launch. …

How to Translate a WordPress Plugin

One of WordPress’ best features is the thousands of plugins for you to choose from. Whatever functionality you want to bolt onto your site, there’s likely a plugin available to help you do it. However, the vast majority are in English only, which means options are limited for non-speakers of the language. To help bridge […]

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How to Create a Vibrant CTA Section for Your Next Project with Divi

Websites exist to make engagement between companies or individuals and their website visitors happen more easily and effectively. The most effective way for a website to indicate which action they’d like visitors to take is what’s called a Call to Action (CTA). When you combine CTAs with a nice design, you can get an even […]

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How to Use Feedly to Follow, Curate, and Share the Best Content on the Web

Feedly is a free service (with advanced premium features available) that gives you the power to conveniently organize and streamline information. This information (i.e. content) is sourced from the rss feeds of blogs or other online resources. While most commonly used as a free, well designed, and easy way to keep up with a user’s favorite […]

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Instagram Stories: How Businesses Can Make the Most of Stories

Do you want to create more engaging and effective Instagram stories? Are you using all of the Instagram Stories features available to you? To explore how you can use the latest Stories features, I interview Sue B. Zimmerman. More About This Show The So…

Instagram Stories: How Businesses Can Make the Most of Stories

Do you want to create more engaging and effective Instagram stories? Are you using all of the Instagram Stories features available to you? To explore how you can use the latest Stories features, I interview Sue B. Zimmerman. More About This Show The So…

How to Use Google AdWords to Promote YouTube Videos

Do you want a specific audience to see your YouTube content? Wondering how Google AdWords targeting can help? In this article, you’ll discover five ways Google AdWords targeting can improve delivery of your YouTube video ads. #1: Use Placement Ta…

How to Use Google AdWords to Promote YouTube Videos

Do you want a specific audience to see your YouTube content? Wondering how Google AdWords targeting can help? In this article, you’ll discover five ways Google AdWords targeting can improve delivery of your YouTube video ads. #1: Use Placement Ta…

Repurposing What Works: The Journey, Episode 19

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=-GvAnICXe_I Watch The Journey: Episode 19 Episode 19 of The Journey follows Michae…

Repurposing What Works: The Journey, Episode 19

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=-GvAnICXe_I Watch The Journey: Episode 19 Episode 19 of The Journey follows Michae…

An Introduction to Dropshipping With WooCommerce

These days, creating an online store is relatively straightforward, thanks to platforms such as WordPress and WooCommerce. The problem is that sourcing products and shipping them can still take a tremendous amount of work. This means that scaling your store is often a complicated process. Dropshipping solves this problem, through services that help you find […]

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14 Mobile Apps to Create Branded Visuals

Do you create visual images with your smartphone or tablet? Looking for tools to brand your images and video on the go? In this article, you’ll discover 14 mobile apps to help you make branded social media visuals. #1: Pick Up Brand Colors Whethe…

14 Mobile Apps to Create Branded Visuals

Do you create visual images with your smartphone or tablet? Looking for tools to brand your images and video on the go? In this article, you’ll discover 14 mobile apps to help you make branded social media visuals. #1: Pick Up Brand Colors Whethe…

How to Add Star Reviews to Profile Pages with Divi’s Babysitter Layout Pack

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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How to Use Snapchat Insights

Is your business on Snapchat? Looking for more robust analytics data on your snaps and stories? In this article, you’ll discover how to navigate and use Snapchat Insights to learn more about your Snapchat marketing activities. Access Insights Fro…

How to Use Snapchat Insights

Is your business on Snapchat? Looking for more robust analytics data on your snaps and stories? In this article, you’ll discover how to navigate and use Snapchat Insights to learn more about your Snapchat marketing activities. Access Insights Fro…

The Value of WordPress Designers and Developers in the Gutenberg Era

Gutenberg is coming. In the 2017 State of the Word talk at WordCamp US, Matt Mullenweg said that the Gutenberg editor would definitely become the default editor for WordPress in 2018 with the release of version 5.0. That announcement kind of has the WP community in an tizzy — specifically the developers and designers who […]

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How to Use Facebook Collections to Manage Curated Content

Do you save content and ads on Facebook? Wondering how to organize the Facebook posts and ads you’ve saved? In this article, you’ll learn how to use Facebook Collections to curate and organize saved content for easy access and sharing. Why …

How to Recreate Elegant Theme’s Section Divider Examples with Divi

Section dividers are part of a long-awaited Divi update that changes the entire look and feel of any website. Within the Divi update announcement blog post, a ton of design examples we’re included and they simply blew us away. To help you get started with these new section dividers, we’re going to show you how […]

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Twitter Cracks Down on Bots and Automation

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 cracking down on bot…

Twitter Cracks Down on Bots and Automation

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 cracking down on bot…

How to Design Custom Account Pages for WooCommerce, EDD, Memberpress, and more with the Divi Builder

If you have ever built an e-commerce site or membership site with Divi, you have probably run into the challenge of matching the design or your Divi site with the account pages generated by your plugin to handle membership or e-commerce functionality. These Account pages (also called front-end pages or reserved pages) handle things like… […]

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WordPress Plugin Conflicts: Your Ultimate Guide to Preventing Them, Identifying Them, and Resolving Them

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You: My computer went crazy. Support: Okay. Have you tried restarting it? You: Yes. And it’s still crazy. Maybe even crazier. Support: Well, let’s try it again. Just in case. Sound familiar? It should. It’s basically the first 15 seconds of every tech support call that’s ever […]

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WordPress Plugin Conflicts: Your Ultimate Guide to Preventing Them, Identifying Them, and Resolving Them

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You: My computer went crazy. Support: Okay. Have you tried restarting it? You: Yes. And it’s still crazy. Maybe even crazier. Support: Well, let’s try it again. Just in case. Sound familiar? It should. It’s basically the first 15 seconds of every tech support call that’s ever […]

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Twitter Engagement: How to Connect With People on Twitter

Wondering how to increase your reach on Twitter? Want tips for building your audience and boosting engagement? To explore the Twitter algorithm and creative ways to interact with others on Twitter, I interview Andrew Pickering and Peter Gartland. More …

Twitter Engagement: How to Connect With People on Twitter

Wondering how to increase your reach on Twitter? Want tips for building your audience and boosting engagement? To explore the Twitter algorithm and creative ways to interact with others on Twitter, I interview Andrew Pickering and Peter Gartland. More …

Organizing the “Client Side” of our Divi Web Design Business

Welcome to part 5, the final chapter in our series Scaling Your Divi Web Design Business where we’re exploring proven tactics and actionable strategies that will help you grow your Divi based web design business. In the final post of our series, we’re going to focus on the client-facing side of your business to be […]

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