Before you sign up for any of these plans, it’s important to first understand what is shared web hosting and how it differs from other hosting plans. Here are the 5 most important things you need to know about shared web hosting plans. Shared Web Hosting Plans: 5 Things You Need to Know So now that we have a basic understanding of shared web hosting plans, let’s examine some of the best shared web hosting plans you can opt for....

Since its inception in 2010, AppSumo has been offering entrepreneurs, freelancers, and bloggers astounding discounts on popular business products. I owe a BIG thanks to Noah Kagan and team at AppSumo for helping me secure lifetime access to a plethora of tools that have been instrumental in growing my business and blog. Here are some of my favorite “lifetime access” deals I’ve been able to acquire over the past couple of years:...

Like machines were made to make physical tasks easier, tools are also available for marketers to make all the PPC work manageable. In this article, we feature 17 of the most dependable tools you can use for running PPC campaigns. We break it down to phases, starting off with: Keyword Research Tools Crucial to the setup is getting a grasp of the market, and that includes your audience and competitors....

In this post, you’ll find a collection of the best SaaS deals for entrepreneurs, bloggers, and content creators. We’ve done the heavy lifting for you and found the best deals for a variety of SaaS products and software. Whether you’re looking for a new SEO tool, landing page builder, or just some great deals on tools to help you run your business, you’re guaranteed to find them here. From amazing lifetime deals on some of the best SaaS tools on offer at AppSumo to exclusive discounts on your favorite SaaS software, here’s a curated list of the best SaaS deals you can grab....

Drip is unlike any other email marketing software on the market. Acquired by LeadPages in July 2016, Drip’s primary focus is on email marketing automation. Automation is a key aspect of email marketing, a premium feature offered by email marketing service providers (ESPs) from Mailchimp to ConvertKit. And why not? According to HubSpot, 37% of B2B marketers use marketing automation to generate leads and according to Marketo, 91% of users believe that marketing automation is “very important” to the overall success of their marketing across channels....

Creating reports in Excel is a laborious, time-consuming task. Wouldn’t it be better if you could spend a little less time navigating, formatting, and entering formulas for the data? Hence we’ve put together a list of keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Excel. [Exclusive Deals] 10 Best AppSumo Deals for Entrepreneurs & Bloggers Although you can perform these manually, knowing these shortcuts will help you save some time and let you focus on things that matter....

For this edition, we caught up with Ish Jindal (@jindalish), co-founder of TARS Chatbots. TARS is one of the most popular chatbot builders in the world with 9,000+ bot creators and 15,000 chatbots created using their platform. At 99signals, we designed our very own content marketing chatbot a few months back using TARS. We’d like to thank Ish for taking the time out of his busy schedule to answer our questions....

Fortunately, there are top-notch SEO tools like Serpstat that make this complex task easier. If you haven’t used this tool before, please check out our detailed review of Serpstat here and sign up for a free account. To put it briefly, Serpstat is essentially a marketing tool that allows you to perform various SEO (and PPC) tasks such as keyword research, competition analysis, backlink audit, and position tracking. But what really differentiates Serpstat from other SEO tools is its affordability factor....

Looking for business news podcasts to keep up to date with the latest news stories from the world of business? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll reveal 12 of the best business news podcasts. If you’d like to learn more about the global economy and keep your pulse on the latest financial and business news stories from around the world, make sure you subscribe to the podcasts listed here....

Drawing from my own experience, I’ve found myself seeking motivational quotes to overcome the tendency to procrastinate or to shrug off a bad day. Maybe you’ve felt the same while facing obstacles in your entrepreneurial path? As a result, in this post, I’ve compiled 125 of the best quotes for entrepreneurs. You’ll find quotes from entrepreneurs from all walks of life, famous authors, historical figures, philosophers, sports personalities, and other achievers....

For most bloggers and publishers, an email list is the biggest asset they have because it allows them to build deeper relationships with their readers and increase repeat traffic to their site. But here’s the problem: Your email list is going to get smaller every year if you don’t generate new subscribers on a regular basis. According to HubSpot, email marketing lists naturally degrade by about 22.5% every year. So as bloggers, it’s our job to have a strategy in place to constantly add fresh contacts to our email list to make up for the loss....

Just as I was about to quit my 9-to-5 job to embark on an exciting entrepreneurial journey, I started binge-reading tons of business books to get myself in the right frame of mind. A few of the books featured here played a huge role in giving me that much-needed encouragement while others helped me navigate the challenges of business. Ultimately, these books helped me grow, both professionally and personally, and now I’m recommending these books to you....

It’s 2019 now and hashtags continue to be widely used by individuals and businesses alike to connect and engage with their friends and followers. While they are used on almost all major social networks, they are more popular on Twitter and Instagram than on Facebook and LinkedIn where they are still used sparingly. Love them or hate them, hashtags have influenced our culture in more ways than we could have ever imagined....

BlueHost is a popular web hosting service and the official web hosting provider recommended by WordPress. BlueHost was founded in 2003 by Matt Heaton and Danny Ashworth and it currently powers over 2 million websites all over the world and adds a thousand more each day. For the most part, BlueHost still focuses mainly on shared hosting plans, despite launching additional types of hosting such as VPS, dedicated servers, and managed WordPress hosting....

Prospecting Influencer Marketing Guest Blogging Soliciting Reviews and Ratings Link Building But here’s the thing: All the aforementioned tasks are challenging. They involve countless amounts of research and time, not just to unearth the information you need, but to also arrive at an effective outreach template that’s going to accomplish the job at hand. If you’re not able to find the email address of the right person, or worse still, end up sending your email to invalid email addresses, all that time spent researching would be wasted....

But before I unveil the review and walkthrough, here’s a short story of how I stumbled upon this tool and how it helped me improve my rankings for a difficult set of keywords with tough competition. When I signed up for AppSumo Briefcase in late 2017, Textmetrics was one among the 35+ tools that were initially offered by AppSumo in the Briefcase suite. At the time, I didn’t think much of the tool and found many of its functionalities to be quite similar to the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin....

Semrush is a must-have tool in your SEO toolkit if you’re serious about increasing organic traffic for your website. What started as a simple keyword research tool is now the preferred online marketing tool of marketing professionals around the world. Semrush is the ultimate SEO tool that helps you get deeper insights into your competition, identifies your top organic keywords as well as paid keywords, allows you to do backlink analysis, and much more....

Seth Godin’s book All Marketers Are Liars is a must-read for all entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, and business leaders. The book explores the concept of storytelling and why it’s so important for marketers to tell authentic stories that resonate with consumers. Businesses, both large and small, are sometimes so engrossed in describing the various features and benefits of their products or services that they fail to tell a convincing story to their consumers....

The year 2020 was no different. I experimented with different SEO tools throughout the year. I liked a few and some were just meh! By and large, the tools featured in this article were my go-to SEO tools in 2020, and I firmly believe they will be setting the trend in 2020 as well. If you aren’t using them already, you are surely missing out. So without further ado, here are the 8 amazing SEO tools you must try in 2021....

All of these are great resources, but there’s another effective way to get the latest SEO scoop and expand your SEO knowledge at the same time: podcasts. In the last few years, podcasts have witnessed phenomenal growth. In Apple’s recent Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the company announced there were over 555,000 podcasts on their platform, including 525,000 active podcasts. At the same time, podcast listening has evolved into a hobby....