I'm guessing because there really is no indication of the status, but I haven't received an email or anything, and if I go back to the developers' area, I can't create a new app.

I say "new" because I still have my old one in there, I had already set up the app settings before I started writing these blog posts, so I can see my API keys and secret keys, but I don't have a way to create a new one.

It is only recently that Twitter locked down their developer program and asked some or all developers to re-apply.

I'm not sure exactly what happened, but anywhere I had a Twitter "app" I had to re-apply for that account. For my main account, there was no problem, but for this one, it's taking time so currently, I don't have my automated content machine going for this. However, it is still growing.

Other Updates

Quick updates on a few other things. I have a few irons in several fires and I've talked about some of them to you in my VIP Email list or in social media so I thought I'd give you a quick update.

WordPress 5.0 Update, Gutenberg

I've been thinking about the Gutenberg update coming to WordPress users. As soon as WordPress 5.0 is released, the Gutenberg update will come with WordPress by default. If you do not want to use this new editor, you'll need to install the "classic editor" and use that until you're ready to move to Gutenberg.

If you have a WordPress blog, I would start testing right away. Make a copy of your website or blog and test out how Gutenberg is going to affect you and be prepared. Unless you don't care if something breaks, don't install it on your main public site right away.

If you need help with this, get in touch with me and let me know.

Eye see you random thought

This is a totally random thought, but in helping a friend, I recently started learning about eyebrows.

Yeah, I know, such a random topic but my wife got her eyebrows "done" a while ago and that could mean something different to different people. But what I'm learning about, I thought was interesting enough to share on here.

My wife had her eyebrows done with microshading, which pratically looks as if she had applied make up. But there is more to this.

As I kept reading about it, I learned that you can have your eyebrows done in a few different ways, one is tattooed, another is microbladed, or another way is microshaded.

Tattoos are permanent, while microblading and microshading are semi-permanent. They're considered a semi-permanent tatoo.

So I thought it is a fascinating topic and there's a good FAQ about microblading here. I'm going to be helping her improve that so any feedback about the content itself is welcome as well.

During a microblading procedure, they literally take a tiny blade and cut eyebrow-hair-shape cuts into their eyebrow area then fill it up with pigment (ink basically) and after it has entered the tiny cuts, the pigment is removed the customer is left with new "eyebrows."

Of course, my head goes off into the online monetization for this business, so I may be talking about this again soon, not sure. Remember, the most monetizable niches are self-care, self-image, self-development, making money, finding love…

But there's a lot of money being made in this business. The things girls do to look good never ceases to amaze me!

And while most people that "get their eyebrows done" do it for convenience or seemingly vanity reasons, sometimes this helps people with scars, or people going through cancer treatment or other reconstructive process.

Sometimes they look so realistic that they are also known as 3d Microblading eyebrows. Look here for pictures of before and after.

About the Twitter growth case update

Let's do a quick recap.

I'm trying to grow an account to help drive traffic to a niche website. It is also a passion project and I haven't talked about it much publicly but I think in another blog post I'll share a link to it.

The case study includes the methods, and tools used to achieve the goal. Check out the first post about this, then part two here and this one you're reading is technically part 3.

• Goal is 1000 (about 1/2 there)

Currently

• Following: 905
• Followers: 483
• Tweets: 325

So if you don't know, the following/followers ratio is important. You don't want to have more following than followers.

It looks weak and needy, It is always advisable to have a slightly positive ratio in favor of the number of followers. In simple terms, have more people follow you than you follow.

More followers than following

As you start, this is tricky. You have no credibility, and you don't want to buy followers either through shady companies or directly from Twitter with advertisements.

My main problem right now is that I can't follow a lot of people too quickly because if they don't follow me back, that followers/following ratio will get worse and fewer people will want to follow me back.

This part is always a little slow, it feels like when the wheels of the train are spinning and grabbing a little bit as the train leaves the station.

But we keep on keeping on and try to keep up with these 3 strategies.

1. Provide quality content.
2. Provide engaging activity.
3. Changing that ratio to a positive number.

Let's talk about the ratio part first

As you can see, I'm following a little more than 2x the number of people following me. To fix this, Rewst has a feature to help you unfollow people that didn't follow you back after a period of time (customizable) or that are no longer following you.

A good ratio is anything higher than 1.1. The higher the number the better but it's also relative so don't get too hung up about it when you develop your long-term marketing approach. For our immediate purposes to grow this one channel, this metric is important because of appearances.

It's important for the follow/unfollow method I said I would use. The way we're going to get the attention of a potential new follower is by following them first. And so it becomes a little strategy game.

There's a method to this madness.

A new potential follower is more likely to follow you if they see that more people follow you than you follow back.

There's a slight dash of intrigue there when they see your account and they wonder "why did this account follow me?" "I must have said something interesting or shared a good article" and they'll be more inclined to follow you back.

Love it or hate it, this is how people work. Especially in social media. Everybody's looking for that next little fix.

A little bit of chat, a little bit of praise, maybe even a little friction over a slight disagreement, but the follow/unfollow method works because it reaches out to people while helping you maintain that perception to the outsiders looking in. 

What's the right follow ratio then?

So you see, this is why it's important to bring that ratio to a greater than 1.0 ratio. Currently, for this account I'm working on, the twitter follow ratio is 0.43, just divide the number of followers by the number of following to find your own.

The bigger the number the better --generally, but at least 1.1 is necessary for this case study to work. My main account has a ratio of 3, while a celebrity or personality, like Elon Musk has a ratio of about 360,000!

I would recommend that a business maintains their ratio between 2 and 10.

It's hard to determine that more accurately since so many factors are contextual.

Rewst has a time period set to let those accounts mature before it marks them as "non-followers" and lets you unfollow them.

While that period of time is going on, I think I have it set to 3 days, I spent a few minutes each day looking at my feed and liking, retweeting and commenting on stuff I see from the people I want to follow me back.

This is also something I do to interact with them and really get into them. If you follow just for the sake of following, then there's no point.

Consider the follow and follow back process as an introduction at a networking event. You now know each other exist, now talk, get to know each other, etc. Without this part, this technique will fail!

One other tool I didn't mention before is Twittercounter. This is good just to keep an eye on the historical growth of your account.

You should go to TwitterCounter as soon as you can and ask for your stats. This will put you into their database and they'll update regularly so you can see how your efforts are working out over months and years. 

To provide engaging activity

This is where the people that just like to be haters miss out. They don't ever get to this part of the whole process, where I advocate that this method only works with good quality content and engaging activity.

I have a list of tweets I'm putting together, they'll be 100 of them. These are icebreakers and questions and greetings. These go into my Textexpander app which then allows me to reply to everybody that follows me with a quick quote, greeting, question, or something else. It's kinda like when people @ you and say "thanks for the follow" but my method works way better because I'm actually making the response to them unique and interesting.

Takes me about 2 minutes to do this for 15 - 30 people. This helps me lock down those people as followers for a long time and also increases my engagement numbers which will hopefully start adding me to recommended lists and get more retweets and likes which should increase traffic to the site eventually.

I also proactively unfollow junk accounts. The follow/unfollow method I'm working with has that as a side effect. Sometimes I'll just follow a ton of accounts and by the sheer number, some are bound to be bad accounts, bots, junk sellers, spammers, or in a language I don't want, so I'll unfollow at least a few accounts just by looking at my timeline.

The major unfollow process happens with Rewst every week or so and that handles a few hundred unfollows in just a minute or less.

It should be worth noting that Rewst is beautiful because it lets you manage those actions quickly, but it actually spreads them out over time when it executes them so that Twitter doesn't get overloaded and your account doesn't get flagged for using too many resources. Everybody wins.

Changing the Twitter ratio

As I continue with this, the ratio is going to get worse before it gets better. I'm probably going to get to a poor ratio for a while maybe around 0.375 which will be negative for growth.

But when I get to that point, the first big batch of people I followed should have matured in Rewst and I can unfollow them and close that gap a little to make things better. Right now I think I'm around 0.53

On the next update about this, I'll try to do an update about Tweet Wheel and getting that Twitter developer license. Hopefully, I'll have it by then.

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I have set the automatic Twitter updates with different wording for the foreseeable future using Tweet-wheel.

I'm going to explain how I set up the content wheel so that you don't have to actually be on Twitter 24x7 to post updates and get Twitter traffic.

• You're going to need a WordPress blog or website.
• You're going to need this plugin: Tweet Wheel.
• The Auto Tweet Machine

Before you set up the automatic tweet cycle of content component, I recommend having at least 10 blog posts published. Each one will have at least 5 tweets associated with it, that gives you about 50 tweets. This means you should be able to tweet about five times each day without repeating a tweet for 10 days.

The best situation is if you don't repeat a tweet for 30 days or longer. As your blog and collection of content grows, you'll be able to tweet for weeks without repeating a tweet word for word, but every tweet will be automatic.

Case study status

• Day #1
• Following: 424
• Followers: 200

The Setup

The setup is really easy, but there's one step that may be out of the ordinary for many people. Getting developer access for Twitter, but I'll cover that.

Install and configure Tweet Wheel

Get Tweet Wheel, then install and activate the plugin like any other plugin. Although you can use the free version of the Tweet Wheel plugin, as I get towards the end of how I do this for other accounts, you will see that the paid version is much better if you're serious about growing traffc to your blog from your Twitter account and at the same time providing value to your readers.

Get Twitter developer access

Go to Twitter and apply for developer access, it's easy and it's free, just go here to do it.

Make sure you're logged in with the Twitter account then you'll need to connect that user profile to the developer account, it's easy to click to continue once you have verified that it is the right account.

On the next steps, you'll need to designate this as a "business" or "personal" account. I use the personal access request for this since it's just a blog and a twitter account.

On the next step where it asked for the name of the project, I just called it "Blog Connection" and the country of operation is United States. Told you it was easy.

This next part can be tricky because there are so many options and if you're just a blogger like me then you may not know what these options mean. Let's just say that I don't think they mean a whole lot for us as bloggers. If we were really developing an application for Twitter, I think they would be more meaningful.

You can use my screenshot as an example of what to check and what to say. If you notice, I say a whole lot of nothing.

If you want to copy it, verbatim, here it is: "This is just for me to connect my blog so I can automatically send specific quotes and excerpts from my articles to Twitter. It is designed to take pieces of text from a specific article and then tweet that out at a random time within a period of time. It does so in a way that it will not repeat the same tweet for at least 60 - 90 days if ever at all."

The last part, that is not in the screenshot is a question whether your project will give information to government entities, and the answer, of course, is no for that.

The last step is to accept the developer end user agreement. They also try to get you to sign up to their email list, so decide if you want to do that and continue on. This should be the end of it. I had to confirm my email address so I did that.

After you do this, you'll get to a screen that says the application is being reviewed and they'll get back to you when they have decided. I've never been denied, so it should work for you too. If it doesn't, re-apply in a couple days.

Back to WordPress

Back on WordPress, using the Tweet Wheel settings,  you can create a schedule for your main queue. If you're using the free version of Tweet Wheel, you only get one queue, the paid version has multiple queues and schedules.

For this part I will be using the pro version with another website since Twitter is taking its sweet time to approve my developer application.

First, a quick overview of Tweet Wheel.

Tweet Wheel lets you create a queue of tweets to be sent out at a specified pre-scheduled time. You set up your time similar to how Buffer does it. Pick as many time slots as you want per day. Then you add posts to that queue. The result should be that your posts will be tweeted out in a round-robin fashion as the designated scheduled times come up. The part where Tweet Wheel excels in scheduling tweets is that each one of your posts that is part of the queue can have multiple tweets assigned to it.

Scheduling your Tweets with Tweet Wheel

A picture is worth 1000 words so let me explain with each screenshot.

As you can see, you can schedule as many time slots as you can fit per day. This is why it's important to have a good amount of blog posts ready when you start using Tweet Wheel.

Using this example, if we have 3 slots per day, times 7, we'll be tweeting 21 times each week. So you'll need to have either 21 blog posts, or seven blog posts with three "tweet templates" each.

The templates for Tweet Wheel

Tweet Wheel uses "templates" to tweet out whatever message you want. You should use at least three separate ones per blog post. The next two screenshots will help explain.

So you can see the titles in bold are the titles of the actual blog post, while the text in regular font shows what is going to be tweeted out for that post. You can edit these directly from each blog post's edit screen, and you can add as many as you want or none at all.

The plugin will automatically use the title of the blog post and the link to the blog post as the content for the tweet.

You can see that {{TITLE}} and {{URL}} appear in some places. {{URL}} is required, but {{TITLE}} is not. this is how you can come up with different tweets. This is where you can get creative. Test out how people react to various words and messaging by adding and removing tweets over time.

You can use quotes from the article if you don't want to get creative. You could also try different titles for the post and see how people in Twitter react to that, you can ad some posts with hashtags others without them.

Bringing it all together

The outcome should be that all the posts in the blog should be added to the queue and spread out so that the tweets don't get repeated earlier than 30 days. As your collection of content grows, your frequency of posts per day should increase as well.

So if you have 50 blog posts, each with 5 different tweet templates (total of 250 tweets), instead of posting three times per day, you should post at least five times per day which will give you about 50 days before you repeat a tweet.

Even when increasing to 5 tweets per day, that is only five tweets per day. We really should be tweeting out more like 10 - 20 times per day AND creating some engagement.

In subsequent posts, we'll cover how I add another 5 - 10 tweets that are current and relevant right now, and how to create engaging posts and engage with strangers on Twitter. I'll also cover the haters saying this follow and unfollow method doesn't work; it does work if you do it right and that's what I teach. I'll go over Rewst as well, but you can get a quick glance at that from a previous post here.

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How do you feel when someone talks down to you? Not good, right?

How do you feel if someone tells you something, and then they finish with something like "... and that's it!" or "what I said is it, and I don't care what you think"?

Pretty crummy right? Maybe you feel belittled, ignored or at the very least, you feel unappreciated.

That's precisely the type of tone you're conveying when you use a "noreply" email address in your email marketing. I would advise you to stop using that.

Using the noreply address in your marketing is going to annoy and alienate your subscribers right away. So, if you're wondering whether you should start using it now, the answer would be an emphatic NO. Aside from the use case I mentioned at the beginning of my article, you should never use a noreply email address.

Whenever I see a "do not reply" or "no reply" or similar email address from a company, my urge to unsubscribe is immediate. I usually follow through and unsubscribe, buh-bye. If you don't have time for me, I don't have time for you. Even if I may never reply, knowing that I can't is off-putting to me.

I suspect that I'm not the only one that feels this way and this practice is probably causing some tension with your subscribers. At the very least you're doing yourself a disservice because you're training your subscribers that you don't want to hear back from them.

Email is becoming crowded, even though it is still the number one communication method online, the key to earning the attention and trust from your audience as well as closing a sale comes down to the relationship.

You should stop using "noreply" addresses when you send out emails. The noreply email account is a vestige from the early days of email marketing and doesn't belong in today's social-media driven marketplace.

So here's my advice for this post, next time you start an email campaign, put your name behind it. Alternatively, put an email address that is inviting. The best emails I get are from people; I prefer to see their name in the email and their signature, even when they're representing a larger company.

An email is between YOU and your reader. While we use email marketing campaigns and systems to facilitate our communications, we can't let the ease of use and automation damage our relationships.

Be real, be personable and be yourself. Moreover, when people reply, take a few seconds to respond to them. This simple gesture can turn a prospect into a raving lifetime fan and loyal consumer.

In your business, what else is more important than customer satisfaction? Ok, ok...  after sales, what's more important than customer satisfaction?

I would venture to say that pretty much nothing.

I'm a strong advocate for Email marketing. Email is the most widely used communication method in the planet. Many people have Facebook, many people have Whatsapp or Line, Twitter and other similar accounts, but virtually everybody has email.

If you haven't added email marketing to your business, it's time to do so now, use my promo link and start with Aweber for free here. Oh, and if I didn't make it clear enough, do not use a noreply email account!

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I found a few ways to do it and here I have listed them for you.

Option 1. Using Instatray.

This service offers a 3-day free trial. It's $29/month after that. Yeah, I think the pricing is crazy. I mean c'mon guys, $30.00 per month to chat on Instagram? Give me a break. But it may be worth it to you if you have hundreds of direct messages coming in. You can get access to Instatray here.

Sign up,  and after you confirm your email address, you'll need to enter your username and password for Instagram.

When you submit this information, you'll see an error that says "checkpoint required."

This checkpoint alert means that Instagram will check with you via the mobile app to make sure it was you trying to access your account. You'll need to go to your mobile device and authorize this.

After you authorize the access from the mobile app, go back to Instatray and try the authentication again. This time it should work, and you will now have an inbox where you can send messages from and receive messages. From here on now, it works pretty much as you would expect.

The downsides?

• There seems to be a slight delay on the incoming messages; it's minimal, but if you're going back and forth quickly with somebody, you might end up  "talking over" the other person.
• You can't seem to be able to click on the icon or profile of the person you're chatting with to look at their IG profile directly.

Instatray is so far, the only reliable method I found, without having to mess around with installing programs or modifying stuff on my computer.

In Quora and a couple of other places, you'll find some guy posting about an Instagram chat enabler. But I checked it out, and it seems sketchy. It's not an app, and it's only available for download as a zip file (for Windows only) from a weird file-sharing website. I recommend you don't use that.

Option 2. Using Bluestacks Player

Bluestacks is an Android device emulator; that means it's a program that makes it seem like you have an Android device on your computer. It works for Windows, and they have recently added a version for OSX.

The reason I said the previous method (using Instatray) was the only reliable method is because installing, configuring and using Bluestacks may be a bit too technical for some people. Nonetheless, it works fine if you roll up your sleeves a little bit and get it all setup.

If you want to give it a try, read on!

You'll need to install Bluestacks on your computer, Bluestacks installs just like another app. Just pick the right version for Windows or Mac.

After you install it, an emulated device will start up. You can then search for the Instagram app as if you were using an Android device. Type in Instagram in the search, then click on "search Play for Instagram."

This action will prompt a "one-time setup" screen to connect your Gmail account and to connect to the Google App store. Click continue to Enable the AppStore the Google play store.

Then you'll be prompted to use an existing account or to create a new one. If you have a Gmail account you want to use to access the Google Play store, use that. Else you can create one.

Most people have a Gmail account, so we'll go with that option and click on Existing. Remember, this is just for the Android device simulator, not for Instagram.

You'll be prompted to sign in to the Gmail/Google account.

If you're familiar with Android devices, the next option should be easy. If you're not sure what to do when you're prompted about "Backup & Restore" maybe you should leave it unchecked.

In my case, I left the Backup and Restore option checked because that way I should be able to restore all my apps into this simulator and have a full Android environment available for me if I use it somewhere else.

This part completes the AppStore enable function and the second part of the one-time setup is to allow App Sync. I want it enabled so I clicked on Continue.

This will prompt another authentication with Google services based on the account you put in earlier.

It may seem like you can't log in at this point because your password could be rejected a few times (even if you are sure it's correct).

Then Gmail may prompt you to send an alert to your existing Android device to authorize this. Of course, you'll need to allow that to happen. Then you'll need to enter the password again, and things should continue as planned.

Then enter the password again, and find out it will take a lifetime to complete the next step.

After all that is set up, you can then search for Instagram again and install it. Don't be weirded out that the Instagram title is cut off or anything; Bluestacks is an emulator, and it probably won't be perfect all the time.

Yes, all this just to be able to send direct messages on Instagram from my computer.

The usual permissions pop-up will come up. Sign away your life, accept that the NSA may be looking at, hearing you and pretty much spying on everything you do by using this app, then click on Accept.

For a brief moment, you'll see the app downloading and installing, and then the Open button will become available; click it. Dammit, click it!

Then marvel as your room fills with heavenly light and sound because you can use Instagram "natively" from your desktop.

Yes, that's Instagram in a window, in Bluestacks in my OSX desktop.

Click on Login with Facebook, or at the bottom to use your username and password; then proceed to login to Instagram. On. Your. Desktop.

The result should be both fascinating, and intriguing, but nonetheless functional and you should have the ability to send direct messages from your desktop.

If you go to try to message somebody on Instagram and the app just sends you back to the homepage in Instagram, you need to go into the Bluestacks settings and change the settings to simulate a tablet.

After you change the settings to reflect Tablet, then you'll be able to send direct messages to other Instagram users from the computer.

The display may be a little wider than you expect but typing with all your fingers on your full-sized keyboard beats typing with just two thumbs in a screen that's only 3 inches wide if you ask me.

Conclusion

As an honorable mention, there is also the Pushbullet app which allows for your mobile notifications to show up in your browser so at least you can tell when someone sent you a DM on Instagram. Maybe that's all you need.

I wish that Instagram would just give us direct messaging options from the web version. If they did that then we wouldn't have to jump through all these hoops just to be able to message our friends and contact each other.

Seriously, Instagram? #WTF.

But in any case, these two options worked fine for me. Feel free to give them a try if you want and let me know how they worked out for you.

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I decided to completely clean up house and start from scratch. I started unfollowing people on Twitter one at a time, but that's a long tedious process, and it's very easy to get distracted.

Then I tried using tools like Rewst.com or Manageflitter.com but those don't really have a straight up mass unfollow tool. I love Rewst, don't get me wrong, but I needed a nuclear option for this task.

I had forgotten why I was following most people, so I had to clean up my account.

The solution

So here's the solution I found to work and might work for you if you are in the same boat.

Start off by creating a couple of lists where you will put people that you don't want to lose track of. I already had a number of lists so I just made sure the people I really want to follow were on one of the lists I had.

Then I found this Chrome extension called: Twitter unfollow. The extension works really well and it's easy to use.

Keep in mind that if you are following more than a few hundred people, the extension might stop working before it finishes unfollowing everybody. This happens because Twitter has limits in place to prevent people from trying to game the system by following thousands of accounts and then unfollowing them all right away.

How to use the extension

1. It's easy to install, just go to the link, install it and it will show up as an icon on your toolbar.Small inconspicuous icon denotes that you have installed the mass unfollow extension.
2. Go to your following page on Twitter, this is the link: https://twitter.com/following
3. On your following page, you'll notice a new button that says "mass unfollow." Click that button and sit back until it's finished.

   

If the extension stops working, wait a day and try again. There probably isn't anything wrong with it, the problem might be that you have reached one or more limits in your account.

For me, the Twitter unfollow extension stopped mass unfollowing at around 700 people. In 24 hours I'll run it again and keep doing this until I reach 0 following.

Enter the lists!

After you have unfollowed all the people, then that's where the lists I have in place are going to come in handy. I can then go to those lists and follow the people I want to follow again and the natural order of things is restored.

There are a couple of caveats when you mass unfollow everybody.

Expect a lot of people to unfollow you as well.

Some people will only follow you as a "follow-back" and they don't really care about what you have to say. That's okay, this will give you a more accurate number of the people that actually follow you and are paying attention. Think of it as a purge.

Twitter has limits

Twitter has limits in place when it comes to following and unfollowing people at high rates. You may need to do this process over a period of several days and wait 24 hours to run another batch of unfollows.

Keep in mind, when you finish mass unfollowing, you may not be able to unfollow people manually or even follow people again for 24 hours or longer. Twitter doesn't release all the details about their limits, but it's a combination of the actual amount of followers and following, as well as your account age and usage in your account.

So that's it, easy and straight forward method of unfollowing everybody, also known as mass unfollow. If you want to learn how to get more followers then check out this post.

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When I was going through the earlier videos my friend Harsh reached out and told me about his Youtube subscription plugin. So this is what we're talking about today.

The plugin can be found here, and it's only ten bucks, $9.60 to be exact. Of course, like most things on this blog, I got it for free so I could tell you about it and take it for a test run.

First The Downsides of This Plugin

As usual, I'll tell you about the downsides of this plugin before I get into the good stuff; there's only one. The only issue I found so far is that it doesn't play nicely with another plugin I use called Fitvids for WordPress which takes care of making the videos responsive so they resize to the correct size for every screen.

When you use Fitvids with Youtube Viral Subscribe, you break the responsiveness. This may or may not be a huge deal to you, so act accordingly. I reached out to Harsh from Shoutmeloud and brought this up and he said they'll have a fix sometime next week so in reality, this may not be an issue by the time you read this.

Update 12/30 - The plugin has not been updated so I had to deactivate it for now. The demo may not work currently on this site, I will update this when there is an update to reflect a fix for the responsive display of the videos.

Now Onto The Review

The official name of the plugin is: Youtube Viral Subscribe, but you'll find it in your dashboard as Youtube Viral Growth. And it works pretty simply, by adding a link to subscribe to your YouTube channel directly on your WordPress blog.

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Installation is basically the same as all other plugins for WordPress. Download the plugin, install it to your WordPress dashboard using the upload feature and then activate the plugin. Once activated, you'll need your license key which you get when you buy the plugin. Plug your license in place and voila, the plugin is ready for use.

The settings are pretty straight forward as you can see in the following screen:

After the plugin is installed, activated and configured, a button to subscribe to your channel will show up under your Youtube videos embedded in WordPress and this makes it really easy for readers of your blogpost to subscribe to the channel without leaving the blogpost.

This is what it looks like on my blog as of right now:

Overall, this plugin has a lot of potential. As with any social network and social media growth tactic, you still need to put in the work and effort to create good content.

In this case, you need to make sure the content is attractive to your readers and make sure you configure your videos to be shown in the best light possible. Each video you embed in your blog becomes an invitation to subscribe to your YouTube channel so make sure it's compelling and attractive!

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The Integrated Marketing Forum last year was all about mobile marketing I learned a lot of stuff. The most interesting thing about it is that many of the presentations that came up during the event were exact in predicting trends and digital marketing activity going on today.

The geolocation and geofencing stuff were the most interesting topics for me at the time, and now we have Snapchat and other apps leveraging geolocation and geofencing heavily. Beacons are hot, and all this stuff is just in the nascent stages.

Obviously, mobile first was important in 2015 and it's even more important now with social media sites and search engines favoring mobile websites over non-mobile websites.

The Integrated Marketing Forum is a must-attend event for any marketer looking to find out about the cutting edge techniques and technologies.

The topic of this year's Integrated Marketing Forum is Digital First

Just like last year's mobile focused sessions, these years sessions promise to educate you and enlighten you in the digital marketing space. This year's topic is Digital First.

It doesn't matter where you live, you have to make an effort to attend. But especially if you're in Southern California, Orange County and even in Northern California and surrounding areas. Get to this event.

Who's going to be at The Integrated Marketing Forum?

Oh, you know small companies that you probably never heard of with names like: Dollar Shave Club, Samsung, Adestra, Southwest Airlines, Google.

The price of attendance is negligible when you consider the value you'll get and the stature of the speakers.

Who should attend?

The event is for and by heads of companies, marketing managers and anybody in charge of business development and sales. In addition to learning from some of the big players in the digital marketing space, there are many opportunities to network with other attendees to share and discuss ideas.

If you're a social media manager, if you're in charge of sales, marketing campaigns, if you're an executive in sales, leadership, marketing and even operations, I suggest you attend. Clearly if you are the owner of the company you should be there.

How do you attend?

Just head over to their website and register. If you want to save some money, use the code NOTAGROUCH when you check out and you'll save $15.00.

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