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Welcome to the LRC. Here you'll find hundreds of videos, articles, and links to outside online learning resources to help you grow your web empire effectively. We've gone out and found the best of the best - so you don't have to!
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Design and Send an Email Campaign Using Mailchimp (2023)

We’ll get you up to speed on the basics of templates and walk you through the creation of an email campaign using Mailchimp’s drag-and-drop editor.

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Easily Style Your Gravity Forms!

Leveraging a little bit of CSS you can easily modernize your gravity forms style.

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Import + Organize Contacts in Mailchimp (2023)

We’ll walk you through how to import contacts into Mailchimp, as well as the basics of organizing them for efficient, effective marketing.

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Organize Your Subscribers Like a Pro: Understanding Tags, Groups, and Segments in Mailchimp (2023)

Your audience data is one of the most valuable tools you have for improving your marketing and growing your business.

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How to Manage Responsive Styling in WordPress with Cornerstone

In today's episode, we'll show you how to "waterfall" your responsive options (doesn't matter if you design mobile first or desktop first — Cornerstone can support you either way) in addition to some of the many user interface flourishes to help you identify and manage responsive styles.

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WordPress pricing table with toggled views!

Easily create a pricing table (or really anything else for that matter) that has two views and control those views with a modern toggle.

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How to Make Advanced Backgrounds in WordPress with Cornerstone

One of the great features of Cornerstone is the ability to take standard conventions and provide layers of native customization. This is no better on display than with the advanced background options available in Cornerstone.

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How to Configure Columns in Cornerstone

Cornerstone includes a cornucopia of configuration controls for columns (say that 5 times fast), and in this video we're going to show you just a taste of what you can do with this all-important structural element.

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Building out a fully functional mini-application on WordPress – A to Z

In today's video we are going to take a look at how to build another mini app just using some fundamental plugins and WordPress.

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How to Create (Incredible) Buttons in WordPress

Buttons are a staple in modern web design and arguably one of the most important parts of your page.

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Ultimate Gravity Forms Hack – Part II

This video takes your application to the next level allowing you to add the ability to easily copy text fields to the users clipboard and provide a smooth snackbar notification for enhanced UX.

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Ultimate Gravity Forms Hack – Part I

In this video we'll look at how to easily build mini applications / tools with nothing more than WordPress, Gravity Forms, and your handy-dandy-page builder.

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How to Make Equal Height Columns w/ Buttons Anchored to the Bottom in WordPress

Looking to align buttons in a column? This is a common convention in website building and especially helpful if you have variable height content in something like a pricing table or feature list.

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How to Round Corners in Cornerstone

One of the powerful features to Cornerstone is that it is part website builder part design tool. And that means doing things like rounding edges on your content containers is super easy.

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How to Create Clickable Containers in Cornerstone

Did you know that any container in Cornerstone can be made clickable? Mix and match with different Elements to create a more engaging (and better converting) experience.

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How to Copy & Paste Element Styles in Cornerstone

In this video, we're going to show you how to move Element styles from one place to another—not the content or the Element—just the styles!

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How to Copy & Paste in Cornerstone

This is one of those quality of life features that you simply won't find in most other WordPress themes or website builders and really makes a difference once you get into your workflow.

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Breakout Mode in Cornerstone

Breakout Mode allows you to quickly copy and paste across multiple control types. This is great for power users or if you like the look of simple inputs for managing your Element data.

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How to Use Dynamic Content in Cornerstone

In Part 5 of Getting Started w/ Cornerstone, we're going to dive into the world of dynamic content in WordPress. In short, dynamic content allows you to build highly custom and personalized websites through pre-populated bits of data (it's exciting, I promise).

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Native Website Effects in Cornerstone

It's Part 4 of Getting Started w/ Cornerstone, and it's time to talk about bells and whistles! Done right, effects and animations can give your WordPress website that perfect polished touch.

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Cornerstone Elements

In Part 3 of Getting Started w/ Cornerstone, we're going to show you the most impressive Element library of any website builder on the market today.

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The Cornerstone Website Builder

In today's episode learn all about Cornerstone's family of website builders and how to tailor the interface to your optimal set up. It's quite customizable!

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Meet Cornerstone

Welcome to Getting Started w/ Cornerstone! In this inaugural episode, we're going to give you a quick overview of Cornerstone — the most advanced website builder in WordPress.

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How to Use Components & Parameters in WordPress

In this preview episode from Web Design Magic, learn how to get started using Components and Parameters on your WordPress websites powered by Cornerstone.

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How To Customize The WooCommerce Cart Without Plugins

Easily customize the WooCommerce cart page with nothing more than a little bit of CSS. No need for bloated plugins, complex template editing, or even a single line of php.

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How to Schedule Multichannel Marketing Campaigns in Mailchimp (2023)

Campaign Manager helps you plan, execute, and analyze multichannel marketing campaigns, all in one place.

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How to Schedule Multichannel Marketing Campaigns in Mailchimp (2023)

Campaign Manager helps you plan, execute, and analyze multichannel marketing campaigns, all in one place.

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Customize the WooCommerce Checkout – No Plugins Required!

In today's video we are going to take a look at how to customize the WooCommerce checkout page.

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Create Elegant Hover Effects In WordPress – No Code!

In today's video we are going to take a quick look at how to build some easy but elegant hover effects.

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Easy WordPress Drag and Drop Mega Menu! – Cornerstone Builder

Easily turn the native Cornerstone dropdown menu element into a mega menu element with some simple tweaks and a small line of CSS

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Customize The WooCommerce My Account Page In 30 Minutes – No code!

In this tutorial we'll take a look at how to level-up the WooCommerce Account page easily and effectively using nothing more than Themeco's Cornerstone Builder & a sprinkle of modern design.

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Global Blocks to Components in Cornerstone Explained

Looking to see how Global Blocks work alongside the new Component Builder in Cornerstone? You've come to the right place! This seamless transition will allow you to continue to use your old Global Blocks but with an entire new set of Component features.

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Cornerstone Guided Tour for Theme.co Pro

What is Cornerstone? Only the most advanced website builder in WordPress and powerhouse behind X and Pro — our two popular WordPress themes. X customers have access to limited Cornerstone features in a separate plugin whereas Pro users have access to everything natively (no extra plugin needed).

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Effortlessly translate complex code into plain English

In today's video
we are going to take a quick look at a
Nifty little tool called fig stack now
fig stack is a great tool for those of
you coders out there who frequently
search forums...

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This is the future of the WordPress Admin

Easily customize the WordPress Admin for your clients. Not a typical admin theme, this is a straight up admin framework.

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Image lightbox for your ACF Galleries – Cornerstone Modal Element

In today's video we are
going to take a quick look at how to use
the modal element as a light box for
your ACF image galleries.

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Themeco Cornerstone V6 (Beta1) Preview

We are actually going to shake things up a little bit and take a look at what the future holds for Cornerstone.

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Custom Layouts 101 | Building layouts for your WordPress custom post types from start to finish

In this video we'll take a look at how to setup a custom post type on your WordPress site from creation and configuration to front-end presentation

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The Great Google Analytics GA4 Migration of 2022

Google has done it again. They’ll officially sunset yet another product that millions of website owners rely on every day but in this case – and in the Googlest way...
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Data Privacy Laws – How To NOT Get Sued

Data Privacy Compliance is VERY important, and being sued or fined thousands of dollars really sucks. In this article, I’ll explain why data privacy matters, which laws apply to your...
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Building Authentic Customer Relationships Through Branding and Content

In this class, you’ll learn how to create consistent branding and content across all your marketing channels to help you stand out from the crowd during the highly competitive holiday season.

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Automating Your Sales Funnel: How to Drive More Conversions With Email

In this class, you’ll learn how to use automations to personalize your marketing, keep messages relevant and timely, and potentially increase your sales.

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Easily setup custom sorting capabilities in WordPress with zero plugins.

You can find an example of the custom query string used in the Looper Provider

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How to Build Sliders in WordPress

Learn about Cornerstone's powerful new Slider Element and build native sliders in WordPress, all without 3rd party plugins or extra code! Cornerstone is the world-class page builder behind two of the most popular WordPress themes on the market — X and Pro.

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Build an incredibly flexible WordPress events calendar without any code

Base query string (this works to pull in a custom post type and sort it by a specific meta field). Full query used in video (this works to pull in custom post type, sort it by a specific meta field and then add the greater than or equal to today's date parameters)

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How to Use Mailchimp’s Content Optimizer for Higher Email Open Rates (2023)

Mailchimp’s Content Optimizer is a paid feature in your email campaign report that helps make your email content more engaging to your customers.

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Create a Customer Journey in Mailchimp (2023)

You'll learn how to choose starting and journey points, set delay and weight rules, and create separate paths for your contacts based on their actions.

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Improve Email Deliverability with Mailchimp: How to Authenticate Your Custom Domain (2023)

Learn how to authenticate your custom domain with Mailchimp to improve email deliverability and avoid spam folders.

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How to Use the Creative Assistant in Mailchimp (July 2021)

In this video, you’ll learn how you can use Mailchimp’s Creative Assistant to quickly generate a stylish set of graphics for your marketing content.

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Create, Add, or Remove Tags in Mailchimp (June 2021)

In this video, you’ll learn how to create, add, or remove tags to organize contacts in your Mailchimp audience.

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View & Understand Your Mailchimp Email Campaign Report (June 2021)

In this video, learn how to view and understand your Mailchimp email campaign report.

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How to Set Up a Custom Automated Email in Mailchimp (2023)

In this video, we'll walk you through the process of creating a custom automated email in Mailchimp.

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Connect or Disconnect Calendly with Mailchimp

In this video, you’ll learn how to connect or disconnect Calendly with Mailchimp.

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Connect or Disconnect Canva with Mailchimp

In this video, you’ll learn how to connect and disconnect Canva with Mailchimp, so that you can begin to import designs into Mailchimp’s Content Studio.

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Who Needs Photoshop When You Have CSS Grid and Filters?

One of the great advancements in web design is the advent of modern tools, like our very own Pro, that allow you to quite literally build in the browser. This significantly improves efficiency, allowing you to bypass one whole step in the process (bye bye Photoshop). Now you can iterate on the design right in the very tool you are building your website, and that is powerful! Pro is uniquely special in this regard, and in many ways is the future of WordPress themes.

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I Broke the ONE Rule You’re Not Supposed to Break in Typography (CSS Tutorial)

Let's talk advanced web design. In this first video of a three part series, we'll be taking a deep dive into the cover designs of Blue Note Records and see how we can apply some of the lessons we learn to the world of web design with good ol' HTML and CSS.

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How to Build Mega Menus in WordPress

Who here likes their menus *mega*? I see you raising your hand in the back of the class. In this video, we'll explore Cornerstone's new dropzone-powered Dropdown, Modal, and Off Canvas Elements, which allow you to implement designs and layouts using anything from the Element Library directly within the content areas of these contexts!

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How to Create a Successful Email Campaign in Mailchimp: A Step-by-Step Guide (2023)

Learn how to create an effective email campaign in Mailchimp with this easy-to-follow guide.

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How to Create a Regular Email Campaign in Mailchimp

In this video, you’ll learn how to create a regular email campaign in Mailchimp.

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How to Create a New Audience for Smarter Growth Using Mailchimp (2023)

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to maintain one audience using tags, groups, and segments, but also how to create multiple audiences in some cases.

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How to Create a Mailchimp Audience

In this video, you’ll learn how to create a new audience in your Mailchimp account.

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Dynamically personalize your WordPress page with no code & no plugins.

In this tutorial we're going to take a high-level look at how to dynamically personalize a page on your site by adding a simple query string (the /?key1=word1&key2=word2) to the url.

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How to Archive & Unarchive Contacts in Mailchimp

In this video, you’ll learn how to archive and unarchive contacts in your audience in Mailchimp.

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How to Add & Import Contacts to a Mailchimp Audience Using Excel or Google Sheets

In this video, you’ll learn how to import contacts into your Mailchimp audience using a spreadsheet program like Excel or Google Sheets.

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How to Add & Import Contacts to a Mailchimp Audience Using Excel or Google Sheets (2023)

In this video, learn how to easily import contacts into your Mailchimp audience using a CSV file.

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Edit an Email in Mailchimp’s Customer Journey Builder

Learn how to edit an email in Mailchimp’s Customer Journey builder.

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Create a Customer Journey in Mailchimp

Learn how you can use the Mailchimp Customer Journey builder to create a journey map that gives each of your contacts a personalized experience with your brand.

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Loopers: Nesting Repeaters with ACF Pro

We have arrived! In the third (and final) installment of our series on using Loopers with ACF Pro, we explore the concept of Repeaters, which give us the ability to loop through custom lists of data for our designs. But we don't just stop there.

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Applying color gradients and gradient overlays to your Themeco Pro Theme backgrounds.

Pro Theme makes it incredibly easy to add solid color backgrounds, color overlays and so much more to your designs. But one thing that used to leave me scratching my head was how to incorporate gradients.

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Applying color gradients and gradient overlays to your Themeco Pro Theme backgrounds

Pro Theme makes it incredibly easy to add solid color backgrounds, color overlays and so much more to your designs. But one thing that used to leave me scratching my head was how to incorporate gradients. This quick little tutorial will walk you through how to do just that.

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Loopers: Setting up an ACF Pro Gallery

In the second of our three-part series on combining ACF Pro with Loopers, we'll dig deeper into working with multi-dimensional fields using the "Gallery" post field.

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Loopers: Getting Started with ACF Pro

Loopers, loopers, loopers. It seems to be all anyone is talking about around here lately…and with good reason. Loopers open up so many possibilities when working on design patterns for your website, which is why we are incredibly excited to announce a brand new Looper Provider with this latest release cycle (and it's a biggie): ACF Pro Integration!

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Effect Deconstruction

From simple to advanced, effects can add just the right touch to your website. In this video, we do an in-depth walkthrough of a more advanced interaction effect that requires us to break down our design into multiple Elements that will be chained together to create a uniform look and feel that would otherwise be impossible with just one layer.

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Cornerstone Basics 101 | Understanding the Interface

If you're a power user, or already mildly familiar with Pro Theme, this video is not for you. But for those of you new to Pro, I hope this walkthrough helps get you comfortable using one of the most powerful WordPress builders on the market.

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Easily edit the WooCommerce product pages – No Code!

The latest version of Themeco's Pro Theme unlocks the potential to customize nearly every aspect of your site – from pages, headers, and footers to post type layouts and archive layouts (even custom post types and WooCommerce products).

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Auto updating copyright year using dynamic content for your Pro Theme websites

Take your designs to the next level by simply understanding how to further customize dynamic content.

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Easily add a cart item count to your Pro Theme WooCommerce store with dynamic content.

It's always good practice to provide your customers with visual cues throughout their shopping experience and always include a clean path to purchase.

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Ensuring header & footer elements are consistent with the rest of your design (Themeco’s Pro Theme)

I'm a sucker for consistency – so when I finally get an element looking just right on my site, I'd like to keep it that way. But every time I added that same element to my header / footer. It changed. This is how you solve it.

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Harness the power of Pro Theme’s layout builder in combination with ACF & CPTUI

Learning how to setup your own custom post types and style those with the layout builder can be quite the undertaking. Thankfully Themeco's PRO theme does much of the heavy lifting but, like with any powerful tool, you need to know how to use it.

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Creating conditional elements that respond to third party tools in Themeco’s Pro Theme

In this quick (8 minute... not so quick) conditional logic tutorial we'll take a look at how to create a button that always shows the next upcoming event and disappears altogether if there is no upcoming event.

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Copy and Paste Across Tabs With Themeco’s Pro Theme

While copy/paste might seem like an incredibly minor feature, being able to copy/paste across tabs ads a ton of value. This video walks you through this is (currently) done natively in Pro 4+

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Building out product displays using Themeco’s Pro Theme loopers and consumers.

Loopers and consumers can seem daunting at first but understanding how they can practically be used to create feeds of any type (in this case, WooCommerce product feeds).

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Email Design Made Easy: Choose the Best Mailchimp Templates for Your Business Needs (2023)

Learn about the different types of email templates and how to choose the best one for your business needs.

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How to Preview & Test Your Email Campaign in Mailchimp (2023)

In this Mailchimp tutorial, you'll learn how to preview and send test emails to ensure your email campaign is ready to send.

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How to Send an Email Campaign with Mailchimp (2023)

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to send an email campaign using Mailchimp. Learn how to create and customize your email, select your audience, track your results, and more.

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How to Design & Style Your Mailchimp Email Campaign (2023)

In this video, you’ll learn the basics on how to design an email campaign to send to your contacts.

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Increase Your Store Revenue With Mailchimp + @WooCommerce (2023)

When you connect your WooCommerce store with Mailchimp, you'll unlock e-commerce specific tools to better market to existing and potential customers based on purchase, behavioral, and demographic data.

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How to Create Eye-Catching Emails with Custom Mailchimp Content Blocks (2023)

In this Mailchimp tutorial, learn how to use the drag-and-drop content blocks to create engaging emails with personalized styles, images, social share options, and more.

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What your website visitors want to see – and how to lose them

I saw an article on Inc.com entitled “Almost Half of Your Visitors Leave Your Website if They See 1 of These 3 Things. The article had some very useful information...
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Is your website getting the job done, or is it an online dumpster fire?

So which one are you: Is your site current, vibrant, healthy, modern? Does it WOW your visitors? Does it represent your brand and does it fulfill on your sales and...
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Rethinking your Mobile Website Strategy

Here’s your takeaway for this article: Your mobile visitor and your desktop visitor are not the same person and they have different needs. Question: are you taking these differences into...
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8 Common Homepage Mistakes & 10 Rules to build by

The topic of how to build a truly great homepage has been on my mind a lot over the past few weeks. First, I’m going to list out some very...
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Designing a better MailChimp signup process

From subscription form to welcome message, your MailChimp signup process has to really stand out from the crowd. I’ma show you how to do that right now. SO MANY people...
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[PODCAST] What’s Your Website’s Real Job – Do you even know?

Last week I had the privilege to be featured once again on the excellent 805Conversations Podcast with Mark Sylvester and Patrick Melroy. This wide-ranging conversation covered a lot of ground...
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How Clear is Your Brand Message?

Consider your message for a moment. Your brand message that you’ve got on your site, business card, and so forth. Got it in your mind’s eye? Good. Now riddle me...
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[Podcast] The Web Can Be a Scary Place — Be Sure to Have a PLAN

I had the privilege of sitting down with Mark Sylvester of 805Connect and Patrick Melroy of Pullstring Press for a rousing 805Conversation which centered on the importance of having a...
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Your long rambling newsletter is not making you any friends

Your long, rambling newsletter is not making you any friends. Srsly. Your newsletter list is your strongest marketing asset, and if you’re like most small to medium sized businesses, you’re...
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