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EasySocial - Social Networking for Joomla Released!
- Written by Roxana Kawas Roxana Kawas
- Published: 10 October 2013 10 October 2013
We're very happy for Andrew Rogers, CEO of Stackideas, and his team for the release of EasySocial--now available for download.
According to Andrew, "It was a gruelling task of building the next best social networking extension for Joomla with over 14,000 commits. This is proof of how much dedication we had put in to give you only the best tool..."
Andrew shares some of EasySocial's cool features:
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Easily Test Joomla 3 Patches
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 October 2013 08 October 2013
Joomla 3.2 is coming soon. A beta release of 3.2 is due this week and so it's time for developers to start testing.
The Joomla team says that,
"the amount of contributions for this release is amazingly high and we are most likely looking at the largest release of the CMS ever."
To make testing the change much easier, the Joomla team have released a component called "Patch Tester".
Inbound Marketing Best Practices: Thank-You Pages that Rock
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 October 2013 08 October 2013
Congrats! You managed to convert a lead on one of your content offers, however, at this point in the process is typically where most marketers drop the ball.
The thank you page after a lead converts on an offer is a critical time and a huge opportunity for you to continue that engagement. In this blog we are going to take a look at how to construct a rocking thank you page that converts.
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Are You Stuck in Your Comfort Zone?
- Written by Roxana Kawas Roxana Kawas
- Published: 07 October 2013 07 October 2013
You already know that this world is about competition and standing out. To stand out you MUST push your boundaries. Sorry, no other way around--especially if you are in the game of web development / design.
How to Lead Nurture: The Essential Traits of Effective Campaigns
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 October 2013 07 October 2013
Nurturing leads seems like a pretty straightforward concept: a business captures a user's information via form, and creates an email campaign geared around converting that individual into a customer.
But what does that process actually look like? What separates so-so lead nurturing from winning nurturing that actually converts?
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Are You Creating "Purple Cow" Sites?
- Written by Roxana Kawas Roxana Kawas
- Published: 04 October 2013 04 October 2013
You may be familiar with Seth Godin's best-seller “Purple Cow (Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable)”. If not, I highly recommend you read the 143-pager.
The basic concept behind it is how to differentiate yourself from the rest by being remarkable. If you see a black-and-white cow, there is nothing remarkable about it, BUT if you see a purple-and-white cow, THAT is different! I ask you: “How many purple cows have you seen?”
Are You Listening To Your Client?
- Written by Roxana Kawas Roxana Kawas
- Published: 02 October 2013 02 October 2013
Freelancing is a great way to recognize yourself and become your own innovator. Yet, with the freedom and joy that come with being a free agent, also come challenges. Freelancing is all about connections, with your client first of all, and then with the globe via your client. Establishing good rapport with a client to ensure future business is a MUST if you have to deal with customers directly. Here are some principles to achieve this.
Easily Build Joomla Components with Component Creator
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 01 October 2013 01 October 2013
During the last 8 years, developers have created 10,000's of components for Joomla.
Some of the work involved in creating an extension can be fairly tedious. There are installation packages to build, database tables to created and layout files to generate.
Component Creator from Jensen technologies allows you to automate all of those tedious tasks. It will help you to create your own installable components without typing a single line of code.
Here's how Component Creator works:
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Delivering Joomla Email via Mandrill
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 October 2013 01 October 2013
We send almost all of the emails from OSTraining via a service called Mandrill.
Why would we use a 3rd party to deliver the email that our site creates?
In a word: Deliverability. Mandrill is run by the team at MailChimp and their entire business revolves around making sure that emails get delivered, rather han hitting the spam folder. We think that more of our site's users will get our emails if we rely on Mandrill. We weren't able to track stats with Joomla's default emails, but with Mandrill our deliverability is around 98.5%.
Here's how to use Mandrill on your Joomla site.
Changing Your Joomla Template Background
- Written by Igor Mihaljko Igor Mihaljko
- Published: 24 September 2013 24 September 2013
Lately, I've received requests to implement a feature that will change the background of a website on each page visit.
I have to admit, it took me some time to learn how to do it by myself. I thought about sharing my experience with a larger audience.
This step-by-step tutorial explaining how to achieve this using a real template in a real situation.