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Embracing Imperfections in Marketing: How to Embrace Flaws Using the Pratfall Effect
Welcome to Creator Columns , where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. Here’s something difficult for a marketer to admit. Sometimes, marketing is incredibly glib. It’s so intensely focused on highlighting positives that marketing often comes across as superficial. Advertising campaigns, slogans, and product launches all use the same rhetoric
7 Steps to Remove Malware from WordPress
If you’ve ever had your website compromised by malware, you know the sheer panic it can cause. But don’t worry, you’re not alone. More importantly it’s something you can fix! In this guide, we’ll walk you through seven essential steps to remove malware from your WordPress site. From backing up your website to removing the last security warning, we’ll make sure you know exactly what to do to clean
A next frontier for spam and scams
Please be on the alert for: Spam that includes your name, address, phone number and other personal details. Phone calls that are from human-sounding bots that pretend to be from friends or trusted brands. Job offers. Video mashups that include AI-generated people that seem to be made just for you. Security alerts that are actually precisely the opposite. Links that sure look trustworthy,
15 Growth Marketing Tactics to Turbocharge Your Startup
Welcome to Trends , a weekly newsletter with the zestiest business trends and actionable insights for entrepreneurs. Julian Shapiro is the founder of numerous startups, including Demand Curve , a growth marketing training program that began life as a Y Combinator investment. He’s also a former marketing columnist for TechCrunch. You can follow him on his website or podcast . Shapiro graced the Tr
Persistent, connected and kind. Most visions of the internet in 1995 were about individuals interacting with content online. It turns out that the internet (inter plus net) is actually about connection. The apps and businesses that were most successful connected people–to ideas, to things or mostly, to each other. The current range of AI feels like content creation. You can have an AI write your
WordCamp US 2024 Kicks Off On September 17!
Hey there, WordPress fans! I am checking in today to let you know that WordCamp US 2024 is about to kick off!
How to Fix Excessive DOM Size in WordPress (11 Expert Tips)
The ‘Avoid an excessive DOM size’ warning can appear in Google Lighthouse or other website speed testing tools. It basically means your website has too many elements, which can slow down loading times and frustrate visitors. Luckily, there are a few things you can do to reduce the DOM size and improve your WordPress performance. We have tried out a bunch of methods to speed up our own websites, s
The Power of Partnerships and Innovation, according to New Balance’s Calvin Goncalves
You don‘t need to be a sneakerhead to know about New Balance—I know I’m not. The 118-year-old footwear company is everywhere, from TV to film to neighborhood cookouts, despite changes in fashion, consumers, and how people find and purchase new products. So, what‘s the brand’s secret sauce to staying relevant longer than we’ve been alive? New Balance Marketing Associate Calvin Goncalves says thoug
7 Top AI Market Research Tools in 2024
Market research i s the backbone of all marketing , and we can’t skip it. After all, how can you promote any products and services if you haven’t dug deep into your market, audience, and competition? Nevertheless, market research eats up a ton of time. So many marketers take it for granted and settle for superficial research. To avoid this, make use of AI market research tools. Which? I tested se
Getting Started With Midjourney: Creating Advanced AI Images
Want to take your AI image creation to the next level? Wondering how to leverage Midjourney for your visual content needs? In this article, we explore creating advanced AI images using Midjourney. Why Choose Midjourney? Midjourney has emerged as a powerful tool for creators and marketers, offering several advantages over competitors like DALL-E 3, such […]
Most of us talk, some of us do it for a living. When your voice is on the fritz, it can affect your entire body as well as the way you approach your day. I’ve read all 25+ of my audiobooks myself, and I used to be able to complete each one in a day or two. Now it takes months. I wanted to share some of what I’ve learned the hard way. First, a hack: Grether’s pastilles are a miracle. Not cheap, wo
SEO in 2025: Adapting to Google’s New Reality
In the latter half of 2023 and throughout 2024, the SEO landscape has been thrown into upheaval. Monumental updates and changes have left many small- and mid-size websites reeling, especially in niches where they once outperformed larger competitors. The reality is, SEO results almost never happen in a vacuum. Every action you take on your site is influenced by a web of concurrent developments —
Eureka Surveys Review : Earn Money for Surveys with the Eureka Surveys App
Are you looking to earn money from online surveys? There are platforms where you can make money by simply sharing your opinions after surveying. But with Eureka Surveys, you can get paid in cashout sent to your PayPal within a few business days. But, Is Eureka Surveys Earn Money Legit or a Scam? Yes, you can earn money from the Eureka surveys vary from user to user experience. Let’s explore the E
Cost Of Goods For WooCommerce Review: Accurate Profit Tracking for Your Store
When managing an online store, WooCommerce offers many features to handle everything from setting prices to managing inventory. Yet in terms of estimating your true profit, the default features don’t provide a complete view. This is where the Cost of Goods for WooCommerce plugin swoops in like a superhero for your profits. We will see […]
WP Briefing: Episode 86: My First WordPress Experience
Join us this week as Josepha takes a personal journey down memory lane to her first encounters with WordPress. In this episode, she shares the story of her very first WordPress website, the excitement of getting involved with WordCamps, and how those early discoveries shaped her rewarding path in the WordPress community. Whether you’re a seasoned user or new to the platform, Josepha’s reflections
Stumped by AI in Public Relations? Here Are 6 Ways It Can Boost Your Strategy
I know. “AI public relations” (PR) kind of sounds like an oxymoron. Public relations is about shaping and sharing your human stories with other humans . It’s about capturing and creating genuine human excitement and resonance. How can we ever leave that to the robots ? Well, we can’t — at least not entirely. Like applying AI to digital marketing or any other field, you must be selective and thoug
How to Create Multilingual Forms in WordPress (2 Methods)
If you have visitors from all over the world, then multilingual forms can help you engage with a diverse audience, improve the user experience, and increase your website’s accessibility. Luckily, multi-language forms are super easy to set up using WordPress form builder plugins. And in this article, we will show you how to create multilingual forms in WordPress using 2 popular plugins: WPForms an
The difference between ‘buy now’ and ‘bye now’ is very thin. Sometimes, when we push very hard for a commitment, we break the trust we’ve earned. For a while, you might not notice the broken trust, because we’re encouraged to keep pushing, treating every individual as a walking ATM, not a relationship to be nurtured and a person to be helped. Soon, though, you run out of the gullible and all you’
Our New Tickets Feature Makes Communicating with Clients a Breeze
We’re launching a new feature on The Hub: Tickets . Now you can effortlessly communicate with your clients entirely within The Hub, with an easy-to-use instant ticketing system. Plus, it’s entirely white label so it’ll appear to clients as part of your own site. Why We Created Tickets At the moment, you’re probably using email or other 3rd party software to communicate with your clients and manage
The AI driven voice mail system said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand you.” Of course, there is no “I” and by most definitions of sorry, it’s not. But it made me feel better. The overworked and slightly bitter front desk person who was the frontline flotsam in a poorly designed system couldn’t be bothered. Even though the person they worked for was cancelling the appointment, and I had just spent
It looks like this: data information knowledge understanding wisdom Which do we measure the most, spend the most obtaining and argue about most often? We might have it backwards. HT Russ Ackoff.
The reimagined Learn WordPress experience launched just over a month ago. It introduces Learning Pathways, a new approach to educational content from the Training team. In case you haven’t explored the updated Learn WordPress site yet, take a peek at what you’ve been missing in this short and sweet virtual tour: The reception of the new experience and Learning Pathways courses has been positive,
Six Steps to Acing Your Startup’s Content Strategy
Kris Hughes is a content strategy and storytelling wizard. He: ?? Wrote (and sold) blogs before it was cool ? Spent years ghostwriting daily social content for clients, from agencies to CEOs ?? Runs his own digital strategy consulting firm (on track to hit 30% YoY revenue growth) Here are Kris’ six tips for nailing your content strategy — to generate solid, authentic leads. 1. If You Don’t Tell
Best Cheap WordPress Hosting: 7 Options That Are Both Cheap and Efficient
I’ve been working with WordPress hosting for years, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about “cheap” WordPress hosting plans, it’s that they’re only cheap for the first year. After that, the renewal rates kick in, and suddenly…well, tough luck, pay up!
7 Best WordPress Event Ticketing Plugins for 2024 (Tested)
An event ticketing plugin helps you provide a smooth event booking and purchasing process. It also lets you easily organize and manage all the events on your WordPress website. At WPBeginner, we’ve talked to and worked with many small businesses to find out what they need from an event ticketing plugin. From their feedback, we researched and tested different options to find the best fit for our u
Product Management vs. Program Management vs. Project Management: Key Differences
Welcome to Creator Columns , where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. I started my career as a Designer before transitioning into Project Management, and I’ve now been in this field for over 15 years in which 10 of them I worked as a Program Manager. It’s amazing to reflect on how much the landscape has evolved and matured, with new roles an
Bananas are (slightly) radioactive. The banana equivalent dose (BED) is a measurement of radiation. It’s definitely not enough to hurt you. When we think about risk, the BED is a useful way to find perspective. Is the exposure this new thing will cause on the order of a banana? If so, perhaps we shouldn’t worry about it so much. A chest x ray might be like eating 100 bananas… it gives us a scale
Woo Skimmer Uses Style Tags and Image Extension to Steal Card Details
This post starts the same way many others do on this blog, and it will be familiar to those who keep up with website security: A client came to us having been notified by their payment processor that credit cards were being
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