The WordPress adventure usually starts with a simple, personal blog if you just want to write some thoughts down or create a community around a topic or hobby.
At the moment, there are over 75 million sites built on WordPress, and half of them are hosted on the free version of it: WordPress.com.
The rest is using WordPress.org. Which is the business-oriented platform, but more difficult to manage than the first one.
Difficult how?
You can start being productive by keeping yourself away from Facebook for a half an hour. That’s the real test!
Then, by really wanting to achieve great things. If you want to achieve great things, you’ll do what it takes.
Productivity is hard in a world with so many distractions. But if you really have a dream, you should start setting some rules that lead to self-discipline.
And try not to break them.
Landing pages are amazing. They are in the top of the best money-making strategies in marketing. Believe it or not, they have the power to make the customers interact with your content in a way or another. Landing pages are actually those pages that stand between your customer and their decision to either take the final step or not. If they decided to take action, then the landing page did its job.
If you look at the biggest companies in the world, there are just a few without blogs. I challenge you to go to their websites and find the blog. Also, you’ll notice that they’re posting regularly.
If brands like Samsung, Apple or Volkswagen have blogs, I think I just made my point. Most of the time they can be found under the name “Blog” but sometimes you’ll notice they are named “Latest News” or simply “News”, pages where these companies’ communicators are writing posts about the latest announcements and releases.
At a first glance, you may think they are not related. Because they are two different things. By content, I mean text – posts, articles, landing pages, ads etc. By design, I mean how you present your ideas visually.
Blogs have the power and all the big companies use them to monetize their work, inter alia. When it comes to marketing, if you don’t blog, you don’t exist.
Content and design should complement each other, but have they an equal value?
A couple of months ago, I made a post that lists some of the greatest sites that offer free photos you can use on your site without having to worry about their copyright.
Now it’s time for you to know where you can find free videos as well. As today’s websites tend to be more and more based on multimedia files, it’s good to have your own video “stash” somewhere, just in case.
WordPress is a large and feature-rich content management system and you can build everything you want with it. Even though it excels at so many things – that’s why it’s the best CMS on the planet these days and it always was – it has its own weaknesses. As everyone and everything does.
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