A question I've been asked often lately is "how do you create the images and graphics for your posts?"
I've always tried to add a visual component to all of my posts and pages, but with image licensing issues and complicated design tools, it's not easy to create visually appealing posts without wasting a lot of time.
In this video, I present a simple (and free) solution anyone can use to create better website graphics.
Have you ever looked at a page on your site and thought to yourself: "how can I improve this? Where should I start?"
Watch today's video and that will no longer be a problem for you!
In this video, you'll discover a simple set of questions that you can use to systematically improve and streamline and post, page, landing page or even an entire website.
In our latest update to Thrive Landing Pages, we've added a new set of templates, including two "coming soon" pages.
Watch this quick video tour to see how to use these templates and how they will help you build your mailing list before you even launch your website.
Today, we're rolling out a new feature in several of our themes. The feature is called Thrive Apprentice and it's perfect for anyone who wants to create a course, information product or any other kind of well organized membership content.
Watch the video for a tour of the new feature.
Clicky is a website analytics tool that's often used as an alternative to Google Analytics, because it's a lot less complicated.
As with all reporting tools, the data you get in Clicky isn't that useful until you do some customization and digging. The first step to getting more valuable and actionable reports is to start tracking conversions. This guide will show you exactly how to do that.
At Thrive Themes, we're passionate about making better, more effective websites. One of the best ways to optimize a website is A/B testing, because it allows you to make real improvements and gain insights of the best kind: those based on cold, hard facts.
Unfortunately, you need to already get traffic to your site, in order to get your hands on those cold, hard facts and that's bad news for brand new websites or any site that hasn't built up a lot of traffic yet.
But despair not: here's a simple, 3-step guide to optimizing low traffic websites. Watch the video to discover the 3 steps and see which mistakes you must avoid.
You analytics data becomes infinitely more useful once you start tracking conversions and revenue. Revenue tracking helps you truly understand what your most valuable pages and traffic sources are and how to improve your website.
Unfortunately, setting up revenue tracking is usually complicated and requires some custom coding. If you're not ready to take that step yet, here's the simplest guide you'll find to start tracking revenue (almost) no matter which analytics tool you use... and all without touching a single line of code!
No matter what analytics tool you use for your website, it's safe to make two assumptions about it:
If that second point surprises you (or you disagree), watch this video to see what the problem is and how you can fix it.
Take a look at the current state of the WordPress themes marketplace and you quickly come away with one conclusion: if you want to sell a premium WordPress theme, it should be ultra-customizable. In fact, it should appeal to everyone and be suitable for every type of website imaginable.
With Thrive Themes, we are deliberately not getting on board with this trend and here are the top 5 reasons why not.
In this video, Ben Hunt and myself dive into the topic of optimizing your homepage (and particularly your blog homepage). Discover the most typical mistakes made and some quick fixes and principles you can apply today, to make your homepage much more valuable to your business.