Black Marketing Friday: Best Online Marketing Deals of 2014

Before you dive into the savings below, I need you to know a few of things:

• Time is of the essence: most of the deals will be available through Cyber Monday, December 1. However, some have a much shorter life span. Pay attention to the details I provide under each product. These deals won’t wait for you.
• Affiliate disclaimer: I’ll make an affiliate commission on almost all sales (I am not an affiliate for some of these products, but still think they’ll be a tremendous help to your business). That means the product owners are willing to share their spoils with me – it’s a win-win-win: you get the deal, they get paid, I get paid.
• Rest assured: I don’t peddle products that I don’t/didn’t personally test and/or use at Traffic Generation Café.

With that said, the time to act is NOW.

Hosting

Yes, I just switched my hosting companies.

Traffic Generation Café now runs on A2 Hosting.

Not that there was anything wrong with WP Engine, my previous host, but their steep prices were draining my hosting budget. I was almost afraid to drive more traffic because of the overage charges.

So I decided it was time to move to a hosting company that offered all the benefits without the price tag, and A2 Hosting is just that.

Why A2 Hosting?

1. Speed.

I don’t like slow websites. Neither do my readers.

Here’s what I get with A2 Hosting – and so can you:

2. Amazing uptime.

99.9%. Really, doesn’t get any better than that.

3. Great customer service.

With A2 Hosting, you’ll get a superb 24/7/365 support from their Guru Crew Team.

4. Great sense of humor.

Yes, this was a big sell for me.

And now you can join Traffic Generation Café at A2 Hosting at a cool 40% off your hosting package.

Web Design

Appendipity Themes

No, you can’t have the same web design at Traffic Generation Café, but now you can come as close as it gets.

Ian Belanger, the designer behind everything you see on my blog, has released a suite of child themes for Genesis Framework geared specifically toward podcasters.

In case all this sounds Greek to you, let’s put it this way: if you were to imagine your website as a house, then Genesis Framework – a WordPress theme – is like the building itself: walls, ceilings, floors, etc. It’s functional, it’ll give you a shelter from the elements and keep you safe.

Can you live in an empty house? Sure, but it’s a lot more fun to have some furniture, rugs, and big screen TVs, don’t you think?

That’s where ‘child themes’ come in. You add them to your main theme (Genesis Framework in this case) to make everything look just the way you want it.

So Ian has design a few podcast themes that work specifically with Genesis.

If you already have Genesis Framework as your primary theme, this offer is for you. If you don’t, then skip right past it – you don’t have a need for it.

Or, even better, switch your site to Genesis like I did. It’s the simplest, customizable, SEO-friendly theme for WordPress, period.

SEO Tools

SEMrush

SEMrush is my secret agent in competitors’ research. They analyze SERPs and provide detailed information about domains and keywords – mine and any and all competitors I want to research.

This is the only SEO research tool I’ve been using for the past 3 (!) years and highly recommend you give them a try to discover the wealth of SEO possibilities for your own site.

Here’s your chance: SEMrush offered Traffic Generation Café free 30-day access to their award-winning software. They even went a step further and won’t require a credit card to sign up for your trial.

All you need to do is click on the link below and you’ll be playing in the big girls and boys’ SEO sandbox in less than 30 seconds.

WordPress Plugins

WP Social

***This is an ongoing promotion Traffic Generation Café readers can take advantage of; more in my internet marketing tools.

WPSocial.com offers several plugins; here are the ones I’d recommend you get:

WP Social SEO Pro – this plugin gives you complete Social Media Optimization for your website: Facebook, Google Plus, Schema.org Rich Snippet Microdata, Twitter, Pinterest, HTML5 Boilerplate, Local SEO, Video SEO, and more, all in just one plugin.

This is a great plugin, but at the very least, I’d suggest you download the free lighter version of it from WP plugin repository.

Social Review Engine – this one is a powerful and feature rich website and product review plugin.

ThirstyAffiliates

ThirstyAffiliates affiliate marketing plugin will help you get organised, cloak affiliate links, and level up your affiliate marketing income.

I use it every day at Traffic Generation Café.

And the best news? You can download it free at WordPress plugin repository.

So what’s the deal for?

ThirstyAffiliates plugin is great, but a little crippled without some paid additions to make it even better.

You can check out the entire addons range here.

At the very least, I strongly recommend you get the Stats Add-on.

ThirstyAffiliates Stats Add-on: have you ever wondered if a particular category of affiliate links on your site performs better with your audience than others? Stats lets you report on clicks based on categories your affiliate links belong to. This gives you a really get a good picture of what type of links are popular with your site’s visitors.

Also Joshua, ThirstyAffiliates creator, has released two great add-on bundles just in time for the holidays – if you opt for one of the bundles, your discount will be upto 38% (no special code required):

The Bloggers Bundle – contains Autolinker add-on, Stats add-on and AZON add-on

The Niche Website Bundle – Autolinker add-on, Stats add-on, Geolocations add-on, Split Testing add-on and CSV Importer add-on

Marketing Courses

Survey Funnel Formula

What do you get when you put a neuroscientist, a Wall Street banker and a highly successful AIG sales professional all in one?

Ryan Levesque.

His first online business going from ZERO to $25K per month in its first 18 months was only the beginning.

HOW?

Ryan takes your basic survey and turns it around on it’s head, creating a distinct survey funnel strategy that guarantees to SKYROCKET your conversion rates and your business revenues as well.

I love Ryan’s Survey Funnel Formula and happy to pass on to you a cool 50% his awesome system.

AffiloBlueprint

AffiloBlueprint is a step-by-step “how to” course that will show you how to build money-making websites – how to identify “big money” topics, how to choose the right products to promote, and how to build a website to attract the people who will buy those products.

Mark Ling, Affilorama’s founder, will also give you a huge arsenal of his favorite traffic generation tactics and show you exactly how to make them work for you, plus will show you how just a few extra steps can mean the difference between $50/week and $500/week.

Email Marketing

WiseStamp

I’ve been using WiseStamp for my email signature for over two years now. For free.

And I am grateful to the WiseStamp team for letting us take advantage of their great email marketing tool for free for such a long time.

However, it’s time for them to make money off all the time and efforts they’ve put into developing it.

I understand that. Hopefully, you understand that as well.

This is one of the deals I myself took advantage of this Black Friday week. Paying a couple of dollars per month for a great way to draw your email contacts back to your site or your social media platforms of choice is well-worth it.

Marketing Deals Takeaway

I feel like I’ve been married to this post for the past couple of months. That’s how long it took me to pull all these deals together.

Now it’s your turn – to act.

Put your money where your business is.

Your next bigger big screen TV won’t feed your family, but an efficient and productive business will.

Also, please remember to share this post with others. Yes, that way you’ll help me make some money off the efforts I put into Traffic Generation Café and I’ll be very grateful if you choose to do that.

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THANK YOU.