The Joomlashack Blog
Solving The Biggest Problems With Leads
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 12 April 2015 12 April 2015
In the online marketing game, it gets pretty tempting to proclaim a campaign a success as soon as a steady stream of leads comes rolling in. Leads aren't sales, though! Building a strong collection of leads is just the beginning of the sales process.
Every campaign can be tweaked and perfected to make the best possible use of the leads it generates and maximize the number of conversions it makes.
Why We Use Joomla for Landing Pages
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 09 April 2015 09 April 2015
Online marketing has a reputation as a fickle business, but somehow the real experts in the field never seem to have trouble drumming up fresh business. Is this just good fortune? No! It's a matter of skill and experience!
When it comes to landing pages, industry veterans know they can get the best results by using Joomla to manage a wide array of different, effective landing pages.
3 Inbound Marketing Techniques Every Business Should Be Using To Maximize Their Marketing Efforts
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 06 April 2015 06 April 2015
As a business owner, you recognize how important a solid marketing plan is to the bottom line of your business.
Get it wrong, and you could quickly find yourself out of business.
For this reason, forward thinking business owners are adding inbound marketing to their promotional efforts.
Attachments become safer with Attach File plugin for Joomla 3.4
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 06 April 2015 06 April 2015
Today we published new releases for both jInbound (version 2.1.1) and the Attach File plugin (version 1.0.3).
Three features of these releases stand out:
Read more: Attachments become safer with Attach File plugin for Joomla 3.4
What Makes Joomla A Great Platform For Inbound Marketing?
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 02 April 2015 02 April 2015
As the online marketing world has evolved and matured, experience has shown that inbound marketing is one of the most effective ways to find customers and make sales through the Internet.
Inbound marketing takes dedication, intelligence, and terrific content to succeed.
But any inbound strategy also requires helpful software tools, and Joomla is a terrific platform for organizing an effective inbound marketing campaign.
Read more: What Makes Joomla A Great Platform For Inbound Marketing?
Change Google's Page Titles and Descriptions in Joomla
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 27 March 2015 27 March 2015
What many starting site builders don't realize is that it's possible to change the information that Google displays about pages.
That means that you can optimize it for the people that are searching for your site.
We do that at Joomlashack, OSTraining, and other sites using OSMeta. This tutorial will show you how to do it as well. Let's get started.
Read more: Change Google's Page Titles and Descriptions in Joomla
The Ultimate List of Blog Post Ideas
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 23 March 2015 23 March 2015
There's a reason we talk a lot about blogging here on jInbound.com ... it is very efficitve at attracting the type of people you are targetting.
But as an online marketer, it's sometimes the hardest thing to make time for and writer's block is all too common.
So if you've ever struggled with ideas for your blog, check out this excellent blogging infographic we stumbled across over at Digital Marketer.
OSMap Update Fixes Virtuemart and Weblinks Issues
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 March 2015 19 March 2015
A couple of weeks after the first release of OSMap, we're pleased to release another round of bug-fixes and improvements.
The OSMap code base has not had significant updates since 2012, so there's a lot of minor issues to solve.
Version 3.0.1, released today, solves problems with the Weblinks and Virtuemart extensions.
Read more: OSMap Update Fixes Virtuemart and Weblinks Issues
Moving from HTML to Joomla: MagLab at Florida State University
- Published: 18 March 2015 18 March 2015
Over the last couple of years, the OSTraining team has been working with the team at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab for short) at Florida State University.
MagLab is a research powerhouse with discoveries in physics, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry.
But, MagLab was stuck with an old, slow, HTML website. I talked Kristen Coyne who helped their team build a new Joomla site at nationalmaglab.org.
Read more: Moving from HTML to Joomla: MagLab at Florida State University
Captcha plugin released for jInbound
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 13 March 2015 13 March 2015
Today we have made available our first plugin for jInbound: Captcha.
This plugin works with the Joomla Captcha-reCaptcha plugin and allows you to add a captcha field to your landing pages.
When selected for your landing page form, end users must successful complete the Captcha/reCaptcha to submit their details.