5 ways to land clients offline
This is a post from a member of the Freelancers Union community. If you’re interested in sharing your expertise, your story, or some advice you think will help a fellow freelancer out, feel free to send your blog post to us here. Via the mighty power of the Internet, freelancers have endless places to search for new clients or gigs—LinkedIn, Twitter, Craigslist, Elance, Fiverr—and the list is constantly growing. But because anyone can access the Internet from anywhere, at anytime, the competition for finding gigs online can seem insurmountable, especially if you’re just getting started in the freelance world.
Calendrier en JS
How does it work? CLNDR takes your template and injects some data into it. The data contains everything you need to create a calendar. Here's what you get: Most notable is the days array, which contains an entire grid.
How to Choose Names for Your Products
You’ve finally done it: you’ve created a product. It’s perfect. It’ll change lives. It’ll sell like hotcakes and make you millions. And you’ve got absolutely no idea what to call it.
10 Tips for Designing Static Ads
Designing the perfect static ad is no easy feat. It might even be impossible. Designing ads can go against many of the things you think as a designer.
Highrise: Extras
iPhone Optimized & Mobile CompanionLink Sync with Outlook, Google, or devices like Android, iPhone, iPad, and BlackBerry. RiseOnGo Manage companies, contacts, tasks, emails, and notes from your Android phone.
CSS
Get the lowdown on the key pieces of Bootstrap's infrastructure, including our approach to better, faster, stronger web development. HTML5 doctype Bootstrap makes use of certain HTML elements and CSS properties that require the use of the HTML5 doctype.
How to Craft Engaging Email Marketing Campaigns for WordPress
For example, writing something like this can help your readers stay on track to achieve your overall goal: “P.S. You’re not going to want to miss my new free video series 22 Tools for Mastering Your Email Newsletter. It includes the tips I’ve used to make my first million dollars.” Of course, what you write should be tailored to your business and in this case, should include a link in the title that directs readers to the free video series. I have received many email newsletters that are several pages long when printed on paper.
Online Business Analysis: Six Important On-site Metrics (and How to Improve Them)
There’s a well-known phrase in the business world: “revenue is vanity, profit is sanity.” Because it’s a catchy quote, it’s easy to ignore the important point that it highlights – that most entrepreneurs prefer to chase eye-catching metrics that make them look good, rather than the metrics that truly matter. In my opinion, we can tweak this famous phrase to make it more applicable to the internet marketing world: “traffic is vanity, profit is sanity.” Whichever way you spin it, far too many marketers get caught up chasing relatively unimportant metrics. I don’t care if you’ve grown your website from one million to four million visitors, how has it impacted your bottom line?
The 100 Most Expensive Keywords on Google [Infographic]
Google has many different sources of revenue, but one of their most noticeable is the ads that appear next to search results for specific keywords. How much that keyword costs depends, in part, on how often people search for it -- the more people search for a certain keyword, the more expensive it is. If you've ever wondered what the most expensive keywords on Google are, then look no further than the infographic below from WebpageFX. With the help of the folks at SEMrush, WebpageFX figured out which keywords have the highest cost-per-click in Google AdWords. They found, for example, that 58% of keywords are location-sensitive -- like "Austin TX auto insurance" as opposed to just "auto insurance." They also found that a whopping 78% of the most expensive keywords relate to law firms and legal counsel, while only 1% relate to business services.
3 Minutes to Get 120% More Emails on Your WordPress Site
Email is extremely important to online businesses. It is the most effective and scalable way to communicate with your audience. For example, AppSumo is a seven figure business only from email. And my friend Ramit’s blog, I Will Teach You to Be Rich, is seven figures as well, mostly because of sales through email. Over the past year, I’ve learned there are three types of bloggers when it comes to email:
How to Build a Responsive WordPress Theme with Bootstrap
In this tutorial, we will learn how to make our own responsive WordPress theme using Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a responsive framework for building web sites and applications, and it’s a great starting point for building a responsive WordPress theme. Check out Zac’s other WordPress courses and enjoy a free, two-week trial of Treehouse. You don’t have to have built a theme from scratch before to successfully follow along. However, we do assume that you are comfortable doing things like adding and editing posts in the admin area or installing plugins.
Clients judge your website in a split-second. Here's what they look for.
Paul Jarvis is a best selling author, designer and gentleman of adventure. When you’re a freelancer, your website is one of your best sales tools. But just because it’s online 24/7 (hopefully) doesn’t mean it’s acting in your best interests.
