Are you wondering how to use , well, better? The best route is to hire a designer. They can build modules and templates for you to use!
Can I Build My Website Myself?
Yes. WordPress is for everyone. And, yes, anyone can build a website. Your biggest hurdle is having high-quality versions of your logos and photos as well as information about your business ready for print, as they say.
Pick a free theme, enter your information, and boom. You’re done. This is especially true for a basic site that has home, about, contact, and a blog.
Hey. I built my own and for the last construction company I worked on. It’s hard. Believe me. And don’t even get me started on the black hole of choosing a theme. If you’re doing it yourself, pick an easy theme. Heck. I wish I had started with from the beginning.
Why Hire A Designer?
You should hire a designer because you are not one. Seriously. They’re educated. They’re faster. They think of solutions better than you.
Please learn from my mistakes. I’ve done so many things the hard way because I didn’t know better. I’m not a designer. Neither are you.
Hiring a designer to build you layouts and modules in Beaver Builder — if not your whole site — is the best way to go.
The second best way to go is to buy, along with Beaver Builder, Soul Sections which are ready to go! Like, seriously. Responsiveness (how your website looks on mobile devices) is baked in and Dave Bloom is awesome. (Also, my client, but still. He’s awesome.)
Here is my . I’ve been using it for over 3 years. My site is built on Beaver Builder Theme using Beaver Builder. It’s worth every single penny.
In this video, I show you how to easily replicate one of your landing pages so that you can build another (using my two books as examples) that is consistent with your site.
You don’t need the landing page to be in the main menu or navigation. It’s for internal linking, and search results.
How exciting is this news from cPanel? Their new update (90) has a lot of great features, but the one that caught my eye is the ability to use Slack’s webhooks to get notifications.
Their say:
In cPanel & WHM version 90, you can now send system notifications to one or more Slack WebHooks. You can specify Slack® WebHooks in WHM’s Basic WebHost Manager Setup interface (WHM >> Home >> Server Configuration >> Basic WebHost Manager Setup).
Web developers, system admins, and even marketers feel overwhelmed often about the digital chores and hurdles we cross just to find out what we need to know.
I mean, how many tabs do you have open and how many screens? I’m way over my 8-tab max, typing this while I’m curating Tweets for a Twitter Pro Client.
But y’all, this sounds like a great improvement for any agency or freelancer’s workflow.
Which WordPress Web Hosts Will Include cPanel 90?
The next logical question is which hosting companies will upgrade to cPanel 90. I personally use Pressable and I don’t believe they have cPanel access, according to my designer anyway. Companies love SiteGround for this reason.
What do you think of Slack notifications from cPanel?
Firstly, you can’t analyze data that you don’t measure. Tracking your lead source only happens if you ask your customers how they heard about you.
I Get My Customers from Twitter
As an exercise, I imported clients from FreshBooks into Google Sheets. Almost 42% of my leads come through referrals (usually in my Twitter DMs), 30% come from Twitter, and almost 12% come from friends (most of whom I met on Twitter.) It’s arguable that 70% of my business truly comes from Twitter. Then again, I manage Twitter for brands.
Pie Chart of Lead Source – April 2020
People ask me all the time:
“You mean people pay you to do that?”
To which I generally reply:
“Yes, so far it’s working.”
(Do people pay you to answer their phones? Hello?)
Here are my time-tested tips on how to get customers on Twitter.
1. Be Present in Your Twitter Feed
To get customers on Twitter it is important that you are present in your feed. What does this look like? It means that you sign onto Twitter in the morning, check notifications, reply to everyone, and post something. Scroll through the home feed and reply to at least three people.
Posting once a day on Twitter isn’t for growth, by the way. It’s basic life support. If you want to grow, you need to spend time on Twitter. It’s about volume over time.
In the last 28 days, for example, I tweeted over 1500 times. Now, I also have 18,000 followers. So my volume is appropriate for my account.
I don't share my clients' Twitter stats, but I do share mine.
To get customers on Twitter it is important that you are seen as a source of information. Not only are you a source, but you are an accessible source. This means curbing your use of jargon or, at least, using it and defining it.
People are tweeting all day long about things that interest them as well as their frustrations. Find questions that you can answer and reply to their tweets. This is how you build followers and affinity for your brand. People will like you for being helpful.
Remember to use quotes around your search phrase and choose “latest tweets” instead of “top tweets.” It’s a bit of extra work, but it helps.
3. Share Your Content Regularly
To get customers on Twitter it is important that you publish on your blog and share it on Twitter regularly. You want people to recognize your brand and affiliate it with your field of expertise.
To get customers on Twitter it is important that you reply to everyone. Everyone is relevant. People leave jobs an average of every two years (or less). It’s the relationships that stay around forever. I replied to a tweet and got a $23,000 client. Yep. I did.
Yes, you have the extra 40 seconds it takes to say, “Thank you.” If you don’t, why are you in business?
5. Follow and List Everyone Who Isn’t Spam
To get customers on Twitter it is important that you are — are you ready for this? — social. People always think of the media part of “social media” and conveniently forget the work part. Yes. The work is to interact with others.
To make your experience efficient and effective, add people to your Twitter Lists. This allows you to filter the feed by topic or category of your determination.
6. Be Consistent. It’s a Long Game
To get customers on Twitter it is important that you are patient. It’s not the Field of Dreams. People don’t just come to your profile and buy your $30,000 barbecue pit. There is no such thing as first-click leads.
“Want to make marketing a competitive advantage for your business? You’re gonna need a flywheel. No individual hack, no short-term set of investments, can compete.” Rand Fishkin of Spark Toro
To get customers on Twitter it is important that you differentiate yourself and your brand. What does it do for your customer? What are you providing to your customer?
What values matter to your business? It’s okay to take a stand. Stay with it. Make your stance and stand by it. Plenty of people say all kinds of things online. Most of the time, I’d recommend that you shouldn’t but there are cases where it is core. People will be upset. Your customers won’t.
Patagonia, for example, doesn’t mind being outspoken about environmental issues. They probably don’t have very many customers from the oil and gas industry, but they’re fine with it.
This is an example of aligning your values with your customers.
Pipelines like Keystone XL, Line 3, and Trans Mountain are disastrous for people and the planet. They’re built on Indigenous lands without consent, endanger the safety of Indigenous women, and poison nearby communities.
Your swings only count if you’re at-bat. The very best baseball players only succeed 1/3 of the time but they have to step up to the plate. Where are you?
You can’t get customers on Twitter if you’re not active on Twitter. You need an account. You need a website that is mobile responsive. You may need to outsource, even.
Twitter has been out since 2007. It’s not just a fad. Your competitors are online. Why aren’t you?
