***Please note: although these Black Friday deals have expired, I do have some special offers exclusive to Traffic Generation Café readers listed in My Internet Marketing Rolodex.
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.
WHAT: A2 Hosting
WHEN: November 26 through December 1, 2014
HOW MUCH: 40% off
HOW: Go to A2 Hosting through this link and enter TRAFFICCAFE coupon code to get 40% off your web hosting plan of choice.
The offer is valid on all but 3-year plans. If you choose to pay one month at a time, your discount will be valid for the first month, so it makes much more sense for you to prepay in advance to get a much better overall deal.
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.
WHAT: Appendipity Themes
WHEN: November 24 through December 1, 2014
HOW MUCH: 25% off
HOW: Go to Appendipity Themes through this link and enter CAFE coupon code to get 25% off
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.
WHAT: SEMrush Competitive Research SEO Software
WHEN: November 24 through December 1, 2014
HOW MUCH: Free 30-day access to the entire suite of SEMrush products
HOW: Click on this link to go to SEMrush.com and the offer code will be automatically populated in the right field.
Or else enter TGCAFE-3P4521TY code when creating your free account.
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.
WHAT: WPSocial Plugins
WHEN: on-going
HOW MUCH: 25% off
HOW: Go to WPSocial through this link and enter TRAFFICGEN25 coupon code to get 20% off
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
WHAT: ThirstyAffiliates Add-ons
WHEN: November 24 through December 1, 2014
HOW MUCH: 30% off
HOW: Go to ThirstyAffiliates Add-ons through this link and enter CRAZYHOLIDAY30 coupon code to get 30% off
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?
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.
WHAT: Ryan Levesque’s Survey Funnel Formula
WHEN: November 24 through December 1, 2014
HOW MUCH: 50% off
HOW: All you need to do is to go to Survey Funnel Formula through this exclusive Traffic Generation Café link
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.
WHAT: Affilorama’s AffiloBlueprint
WHEN: November 26 through December 1, 2014
HOW MUCH: 50% off
HOW: All you need to do is to go to AffiloBlueprint through this exclusive Traffic Generation Café link
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.
WHAT: WiseStamp Email Signature
WHEN: not sure about the dates, so better get it now
HOW MUCH: 40% off
HOW: Click on this link to get to WiseStamp Black Friday deal page
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.
Thank you for this article. You mentioned some great tools that I use myself too. Specially SEMrush is very important to me!
Hear, hear, Nick.
Hey Ana,
I went to signup for the Unstuck program but there was 15% tax on it…making it $82. I don’t know how to get a hold of Laura to make sure this is correct and not an error. Very interested in this program.
Thanks,
Leslie
Let me send Laura an email, Leslie.
Hey thanks for the heads up Leslie – there isn’t meant to be a tax on it.
I’ve double checked where others’ have bought it and they’ve not been charged a tax – I think it might have been dependent on your region, but no, you shouldn’t be taxed, and I’ve fixed it.
Thanks again for letting us know!
warmest
Laura
Hey Ana, great list of deals 🙂
I’m speaking this as a fellow marketer, really great job, that’s how you prepare for Black Friday. 😉
I seem to always forgot about it and start promoting my deals at the last moment, since I don’t live in the states, it just slips my mind. But your blog post is really inspiring and a great reminder for me to prepare better next year.
Keep up the good work.
All the best,
Drazen
You were able to find quite a few nice deals yourself, Drazen, and thanks for coming by!
Wow, this is a very extensive list! There are a few products here that I’m going to have to check out!
Thanks for putting this together, Ana!
Thanks for coming by, Carrie-Anne; hope you’ll be able to take advantage of at least some of these deals!
Ana — I’d love to use WiseStamp but from what I read it doesn’t support Apple Mail. Am I correct in making that assumption? If it does, then I’d be glad to buy it through your affiliate link. I’ll buy it today (only 4 hours left!) if it works with my email.
Thanks for all the research and offering these products.
Happy Thanksgiving.
I don’t rightfully know, Jeannette – I’ve used it with Gmail and Yahoo, but not Apple Mail.
Let me ask them on Twitter; they tend to be pretty responsive there.
Got response from WiseStamp team – they said, yes, you can export your signatures to Mac email; contact them if you need help.
Thanks, Ana. I also left a message for them on their Twitter account but didn’t hear back. I’ll buy the tool through your affiliate link. Enjoy your Thanksgiving!
Very kind of you, Jeannette (even though this is a non-aff link 🙂 ) – enjoy, and Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!
Well, I followed their instructions to install the program on Mac mail, but didn’t work. I wrote to customer service and hopefully I’ll hear back early next week. Would love to get it to work!
I am sure they will, Jeannette. I am setting up my new signature right now…
Haven’t heard from them yet…fingers crossed.
Ana,
As an avid follower of TGC, I’ve gotta say that if I found these deals elsewhere, or even better ones, I’d come back here anyway to make sure you got the affiliate love! 🙂 That’s what happens when you provide such amazing value consistently and without charge… ya get a few loyal ones.
I have already gotten TweetAdder from your review post and can testify that it’s done a fab job for me. Kind of part-timing it with Twitter but well over 2,000 followers (TwitterAudit sez that 98% of them are REAL) and it’s very simple and easy to use.
An unexpected thing about TweetAdder is that you can tweet pictures over it and get better engagement. PILES of traffic coming in because I picked up TweetAdder here, thank you thank you Ana!
For Black Friday I think I’m-a gonna try out that SemRush thing you listed. After getting one of my posts to the #1 spot for a competitive keyword in Google by following just your FREE advice… I think it’s now time I got some more of your paid tools.
Speaking of which… a birdie told me that you MIGHT be coming out with a product of your own. I would LOVE to be first in line for that, even if it meant putting down a small deposit now during Black Friday for a tool or class or membership or WHATEVER you’ll be offering.
Let me know. I’m in, and I think several of your loyal followers would be too.
Okay then! for now, gonna look over THIS list… and check it twice. 😉
Keep Stepping,
Kurt
So sweet you are, Mr. Frankenberg; thank you!
Now you know what I’ve been busy with in the past couple of weeks. And even now there’s still so much work between promoting the post and cooking a Thanksgiving meal!… Wouldn’t trade it for anything though. lol
So glad to hear TweetAdder is working so well for you. I’ve owned it since the beginnings of Traffic Generation Café and have used consistently; great results, as you said.
You keep mentioning my product… closing all exits… darn accountability! 😉
Happy Thanksgiving, my friend; blessings to you and your family!