GetResponse – Export List of Subscribers

GetResponse – How to Export List of Subscribers: I find GetResponse user interface confusing. Even after all this time. So this short tutorial shows how to find your relevant list of subscribers and how to export them into a .csv file. Note: GR calls your subscribers “contacts”.

MailChimp Template Layout for Newsletter

MailChimp Template Layout for Newsletter – How to use template to create and design your newsletter. We will be walking through an example by using one of MailChimp’s template to design and create a layout for a newsletter.  Specifically, designing a layout for an automated RSS newsletter.  That notwithstanding, just working through this example will quickly help you familiarise with […]

MailChimp Tutorial #2 – Create a Campaign

MailChimp Campaign: In the previous MailChimp Tutorial #1, we covered signing up to MailChimp and creating a new List (importing subscribers list via a .csv file).  Today, let’s move on to creating a Campaign.

MailChimp Tutorial #1 – Sign Up, Import Subscribers

MailChimp Tutorial, part 1. This article is for someone setting up a MailChimp account as a platform to deliver newsletters. Specifically, I am moving from another newsletter platform (GetResponse) to MailChimp. In this MailChimp tutorial #1, I will cover the steps of opening a MailChimp account (the free account).  Then how to import current subscribers. In the […]

Online How-To Guides: Useful, Handy, Good-looking!

I am doing a quick shoutout for First Site Guide, a site dedicated to providing help and guides on a variety of web development issues including web design, blogging, SEO, web marketing etc.  As far as I can see, most (if not all?) of their info and online how-to guides are free. In particular, I want to point […]

Display WP Posts in a Visual Grid Layout

How to Display WP posts in a Visual Grid Layout     What I want to do, especially over at my ClearlyHelena.com website, is to be able to (automatically) display all my posts (within a category) in a visual grid layout. The visual grid layout makes finding articles (posts) much easier.  At the moment, WP […]

Widgetize Pages Light: WordPress Plugin

I installed Widgetize Pages Light plugin (by OTWthemes) because, with it, I can drop widgets anywhere into my posts or pages.  At the time of install, there were over 10,000+ active installs with generally 5 star user ratings.

Contextual Related Posts plugin for WordPress

Displaying some Related Posts links at the end of each of your posts will help to increase traffic and reduce bounce rate.  On this site, I have used Contextual Related Posts by Ajay.  It had, at the time of my installation, over 60,000 active installations and mainly 5 star ratings.  So I reckon this is a […]