15 Key Elements to Building a Resume WordPress Website

What is a résumé WordPress website?

Résumé: A résumé is a summary and/or a set of accomplishments about yourself.

WordPress: WordPress is software that gives you the ability to create a beautiful websites easily. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers and there are thousands of third party themes and plugins available to transform your site’s style and functionality.

Website: A website is a group of web pages containing hyperlinks to each other and made available online by an individual.

WordPress Websites : The Resume Site

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How to Plan Your WordPress Website

Your website is part of your business’s overall marketing strategy and needs to be treated with the same consideration as any other type of marketing materials. Working with WordPress templates helps you create beautiful looking and functional websites. How well they work for your business will depend in large measure on the thought you put into it  before you build it. If you want it to be successful, you better have a plan.

(Note: My definition of a plan is something in writing. If it isn’t in writing, it isn’t a plan–it’s an idea for a plan.)

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Create Beautiful, Viral Landing Pages for WordPress with Launch Effect Premium

Last year we featured Launch Effect – a free WordPress theme that lets you create a viral campaign in minutes. Since that time, the crew at Launch Effect has released a premium version of their popular theme that offers more control, support and lifetime updates.

If you’re launching a new site or product, this is definitely a WordPress marketing tool you’ll want to consider using in your pre-launch campaign.

Launch Effect Premium has some very useful features beyond your basic “coming soon” landing page:

Fully functional theme capabilities (WordPress widgets and menu controls)
A vertical navigation area

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Get Crucial Info About Your Visitors with Statistico for WordPress

Finding out how your visitors are viewing your website is an important step in the process of tailoring your information and presentation for optimal results. The Statistico plugin enables you to automatically perform market research as people visit your WordPress website.

What can Statistico tell you about your visitors?

Browser agent and browser version
Platform / Operating system
Visitor’s Screen resolution
Browser usage
OS Usage

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Make Your Special Offers Go Viral with Social Marketing for WordPress

Special offers can be downright irresistible when crafted strategically, especially for customers who are trying out your products and services for the first time. Everyone wants to feel like a smart consumer acting on a good deal. Creating a special offer or coupon can bring you floods of new customers and sales in a very short amount of time.

Introducing Social Marketing: An Easy-to-Use Tool to Kickstart Social Sharing on Your WordPress Site

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Launch Effect: A Free WordPress Theme for Creating a Viral Campaign in Minutes

Launch Effect is a brand new free WordPress theme on the scene. It’s a one-page theme that lets you create a viral campaign for a soon-to-be launching website. This is no ordinary “Coming Soon” page. Launch Effect packs some powerful sharing features into the theme:

Here’s how it works:

1. Visitors to your website sign up using their email.
2. Upon signing up, the page generates a special URL for them to share with their friends.
3. Use the URL to track your most active referrers and reward them for spreading the word.

The live demos are absolutely stunning:

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My top SEO / CRO / marketing posts of the last 3 or so years

I’ve been meaning forever to sort out my SEO / Marketing bookmarks folder, but am never able to get motivated :(

However, it occurred to me that if I could both do that and share it with other folk here on WPMU.org that’d could actually make it fun… plus it’d save me going through the list again and again picking out articles for friends… I can just email them this :)

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