WordPress and Custom Blogs in 2012

If you read this you are certainly amongst those already using WordPress CMS in your business or  otherwise, maybe even have your own custom blog. There is no deny that WordPress is now the standard CMS for marketers and pasted the testing time with flying colors. With the new year started there is a flood of plugins, themes and other bits and pieces around WP that makes WP the most versatile and useful system for individuals and businesses alike, even more so for all types of custom blogs.

Do you need a Custom Blog?

First of all, some will wander what’s all this talk around custom blogs? What are custom blogs and how custom blogs are different from a “regular blog”?

Well, if you are a internet marketer or you have an online business, if you are already using WordPress, most likely your blog is a custom blog. A “regular blog” is most of the time set up to allow owners share their interests and communicate in an easy way. Internet marketers and businesses have many different needs – promote their own or affiliate products, sell those products, collect email addresses, crate membership sites, affiliate sites and the list can go on. WordPress can cover all these needs by means of various plugins and themes so that makes these sites/blogs custom blogs.

So the question that remains is – do you need a custom blog?

I strongly believe that you do need  custom blogs if you plan to earn in any way from your words, work and time invested in your blog. This is the way to go about this year in order to make a profit. And I do believe most of our readers do plan to get a little(or big) benefit from their investment.

The only issue that remains is that with the explosive development around WordPress is very hard to keep yourself informed and even more to actually test even a small fraction of various plugins and tools released daily. Just think about the pop-up plugins category – there were more than 10 big new releases in the past 2 months only ! These are full-fledged commercial plugins catering custom blogs, I can’t count or comment on free ones.

So, while a custom blog is in order for almost any business or internet marketer, it might be a wise move to seek professionals as our own Xtreme Freelance team that could save you huge amounts of time and money in the end. While our Xtreme Blogs System is on hold for now we are always happy to develop custom designs for blogs and custom blogs for any purpose.

As an Xtreme Freelance reader you can now take advantage of an Xtreme offer – WP List Mailer has now an exclusive sale only for JV partners and affiliates!

If you want to benefit from it you can enroll as an affiliate and grab the massive 50% discount or just promote the offer and make almost $100 at each sale. The Limited JV sale ends Mnday 15 Aug.

WP List Mailer is a premium WordPress plugin developed by Xtreme Freelance. You can instantly add list mailer/safelist functions to almost any WP install thus generating easily recurring income from membership fees and other sales. It is a unique business plugin and it will be launched soon.

Until then, go and check the special weekend Limited JV sale.

Have you offended anyone in an online business relation ?

Simple questions, right? Well, if you read this you probably answered Yes or No to the above or maybe you’re just curious

With all the perks on internet it is easily to get over some of the most obvious downsides like the one in discussion here – business relationship communication. I for one always try to talk wt least once with all the Xtreme Freelance clients, either by Skype or other means but surely that’s not always possible. Even so, there is no deny it’s much harder to know and have a business relation without actually meeting the person. That’s because we rely on many more factors when judging a person or relation than merely talk or writing.

But this is what we have when we try to make a living using the online world. I am happy with all what I’ve accomplished in my business and relations in this way but sometime there’s a harsh reminder of the limits. So here is what happened to me recently …

First of all, you need to know English is only my second language.That said, I love it and I use it everyday sometimes more than my primary language. I have tons of American and other English speaking online and offline friends so the following was new to me…

Recently I launched a new site – WP Safelist . During the launch a former client and friend referred me to a few business owners that were supposedly interested to help me promote WP Safelist and my upcoming big hit WP List Mailer. As a sign of appreciation I promised all of them that I will keep them informed and also upgraded their accounts at WP Safelist to the maximum level  – a 1 year premium membership with all access. Now here comes the funny part…

Business relation mayhem

One of the business owners, let’s name him X started to send me emails complaining about all sort of things – all of them were wrong or false or just plain weird. Like when he asked about his referral link AFTER he obviously had been using it since he had a few signups under his account. I didn’t complained and politely replied to each of hits questions and remarks, even if some were downright offensive like “Perhaps because English is not your 1st Language and you are not Western raised, you do not understand.” – this sounds pretty much like “You’re stupid because you were born somewhere outside US” to me…That’s from the same guy telling me “I find your layout and instruction difficl“. Now, some of you would know that launching a completely new business model it’s not something easy to do. Sometimes things are just not falling into place easily and OTOH it takes time to optimize each and every bit on a new membership site. I do however provided easy access for all members and not only to a manual that explains in plain English – with images – every little bit they need to know. That one could be improved too but I’m not aiming for instant perfection nor I demand it …

So, to get to the final chapter – I sent to X the one and only semi-promotional email. This was an announcement for some former clients and a few other interested parties regarding the launch they were interested in the first place – nothing to sell directly, just a link to a post containing affiliate info and a limited JV promotion. I admit I did 2 mistakes I don’t do usually – I just added all interested email contacts to one bulk email and some that were not in my contact list to CC field though I intended to use the BCC. I admit that’s not a good practice and I don’t do this usually. I send individual emails to everyone normally but this time I  simply didn’t had enough time…and also clicked the CC instead of BCC…

In about 5 minutes I receive an email from X stating that practically I’m “a SPAMMER and that is what you just became“. I immediately replied and apologized  and tried to explain the situation but it was a dead end. I am a big boy and I can support a honest critique and I always try to make amends when  I do make mistakes. This was however more than I could accept so I replied politely again that we should terminate our business relation which is over in my book.

The moral of this story – I do believe we need more tolerance in this cases. What it can be a simple “sorry” situation can be a huge deal online unless we really try to understand the other party. If you’re not willing to do this the probably the internet is not the best way for you to make a living, as unfortunately for you, we are in it regardless where we were born.

Unless we ALL do our little part we can expect the online world to be a very dark and shady place.This is something I would not like…Please share your thoughts and experiences in the comments

Until then, if you’re one that is too easily offended,

Find out more about WP List Mailer

Below we have a few recent promotional video samples we created for our clients and promotions. July is the last month we offer our video creation services as the current low prices. If you need a video for your promotion or just to add some jazz to your sites and blogs.

These are only a few promotional video samples, if you have special needs or a particular preference please contact us and we can make any desire you have a reality

Promotional video samples :

After 8 months of development, we have finally launching the first WordPress based list mailer/safelist site – WP Safelist. We put a tremendous amount of work into this and we are very excited to see the first site going live. WP Safelist is based on our upcoming WordPress plugin – WP List Mailer.

A few words about the plugin – WP List Mailer will add lsit mailer/safelist capabilities to almost any blog ! If you don’t realize or don’t know what this implies, I just say a simple thing – recurring payments – Yes, this is a simple and proven way to get your hands on the most soughed after asset in internet marketing! And it will do this without almost any  supplemental efforts from your part. You just need to install, configure it and add your promo pages as well as various disclaimers and term pages. You could think at this as at your own money making machine, and as another added bonus, a self sustaining list building tool – as you can use the affiliate system built in to add new members to your program and to your email lists!

WP Safelist – live demo set up

WP Safelist was mainly built as a demo site for  WP List Mailer but we wanted to do more than a simple tech demo so we built a fully functional site around it.  While WP List Mailer can be set up in many ways, thanks to it’s fully configurable  settings, we choose to set it up to resemble a traditional safelist just to prove it’s capabilities.  WP Safelist has all the main features of a list mailer/safelist software and on top of that it has the WordPress added flexibility and configuration possibilities.

WP Safelist is just at the start of it’s development and it will grow bigger and bigger as time will pass because of the commitment we have in developing WP List Mailer. We plan to continuously develop our plugin, add new features and enhance existing ones so that future owners will receive the best service possible.

WP Safelist is a demonstartion of our commitment to our work  in all areas, no matter what we do – as we do with our Xtreme Blogs System customers and our Xtreme Freelance customers, we deliver always the best possible!

Make sure you follow us here, at WP List Mailer or WP Safelist. A few photos of the plugin are below for your enjoyment, we will add a full presentation when time will allow.

Click on the banner to  join now WP Safelist – You will benefit of a great launch offer!

I know we very seldom get to publish our work as a team here at Xtreme Freelance. Part of this is because many projects we’ve worked or work now are still NDA and others are very technical, so we present these only to our potential clients.

This of course is not the case for Xtreme Blogs System – you can say this is our front project However now we have the chance to unveil for the first time a big project that was entirely developed by Xtreme Freelance team – WP List Mailer !

WP List Mailer is a unique project, developed from the ground up. We will only introduce it to you for ow and we will get back with a more in-depth presentation. So, WP List Mailer is a WordPress plugin that will help blog owners to quickly add a new stream of revenue from their blogs, using existing traffic!

WP List Mailer is based on the proven safelist system, which we took and adapted to be used in the WordPress environment. The most powerful part is the continuous development business model. This means that WP List Mailer team will develop the software on the ongoing bases, adding new features, improving existing ones and catering to customers needs!

Make sure to follow us here or visit the WP List Mailer and make sure you get to be a part of the pre-launch, or even better become an affiliate and earn some serious cash!

Visit now WP List Mailer !

Higher Google Rankings

Really, a minimum of from what I’m finding out, you’ll find tons methods you’ll want to be utilizing to promote your blog so it get Higher Google Rankings from the search rankings, but here are 4 actions that I realized that I do know it is going to get you final results.

Higher Google Rankings Tips :

1. Visit ClickBank and search the subject you would like to submit about. Then find one of the most popular/highest ranked items. Go through the descriptions and many others, that go along with the goods and look for words which are typical among them OR are only use words in individuals huge funds creating items.

2. Use one among individuals words as a keyword for the post. You’ll be able to either compose the submit OR (even much better in my opinion) record a video clip of oneself speaking about your subject. When you have problems producing OR it will take you also extended to put in writing Otherwise you just don’t want to compose then Video could be the strategy to go. If you discover that that you are as well “low key” within your video report it again, and be a lot more about the top than you think you must. A lot of instances (on digital camera and on a computer display screen) this sort of approach comes across as exhilaration, and never as about the leading when you could feel. Also inform a speedy story in the starting. Some thing which you observed lately….or relate an illustration you’ve heard about or some thing to create it a little bit far more private which means you you should not arrive across a lot as speaking “at” your viewers.

3. Given that video/audio content material isn’t genuinely search capable yet you’ll be able to have a person transcribe your video to text and submit it under the video. Attempt not to use an “exact” transcription as that sounds somewhat strange. Stay out of ahhhs and eeehhs etc. The best would be to pay someone else to do this. I’m going to get a freelancer do it for now., but what is awesome is always that it is possible to outsource something like this for pretty cheap. Try out Metafreelancer to fish around for someone help you get higher Google rankings.

4. Here is the genuinely great aspect. Get 8-12 key phrases (or even more should you like) and do video clip posts about every of them. Then have each one transcribed and presto! You have plenty of posts stockpiled that you could set for automatic publishing!

Does this strategy work overnight? I doubt it, BUT with regular and persistent posting I’m betting that your could get higher Google rankings!

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Best Blog Hosting -

every blogger and blog owner knows how important is to have a reliable hosting for the object of their business – the blog. WordPress blogging has raised steadily in the past years, partly because of the simple and effective approach that got many non-technically inclined the chance to establish a solid web presence.

Another reason would be the constant improvement and dedicated support and finally the huge plugin database. So these are the factors that define the recent blogging explosion and also the advent of business blogging. Many online marketers and online business owners had recently made the transition towards blogs because of the reasons I mentioned. That lead to an explosion of dedicated plugins that responded to the business needs. And this is all great, but…

Many online entrepreneurs start their business with a bare minimum, many times with no dedicated funding. Maybe they get a free domain from the hosting provider they found upon reading countless web hosting reviews. The problem is many times the hosting provider simply lies about the bandwidth, disk space, setup prices and other little things that makes their offer. And not to mention a huge number of them either pay or post themselves favorable reviews to get new customers… -  haw many “Best blog hosting” reviews you seen lately?

Then, how do you find the best blog hosting?

This is not a simple or easy question – I was myself in the position of changing web hosts because the quality wasn’t reflected in the price or simply gone south after a while. Not to mention the biggest disaster – a hosting provider that sunk and took 3 months worth of work…

So, after several years I found out that the best way to approach a new hosting company is to directly talk  with the ones in charge. This is how we found our current hosting provider. Of course first you should go through offers and choose the ones that suit your needs.  Get a money back guarantee and find out all the costs involved before committing to an expensive plan. Then you can think at yours as the best blog hosting

So, the quest fro the best blog hosting is never ending as many things are quickly changing. For example cloud hosting seems to be more and more an attractive solution, though it’s not there yet… In the end, I have to ask you:

Is yours the  best blog hosting ?

Leave some comments about this and we can share ideas