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Mailchimp vs Constant Contact: Which Email Marketing Service is Right for You?

Catalin Zorzini

Email marketing is still the most effective way to connect with your customers. Social media and pay per click advertising are both essential parts of the equation, but they can often only go so far. After all, you're not building a community of loyal customers with advertisements on social media or Google. Email marketing is still the way to connect with and engage customers, both new and old. So which email marketing tool is best for you? There are a lot of them out there, but we are going to focus on two of the most popular: Constant Contact and Mailchimp. Let's pit Mailchimp vs Constant Contact and see how it turns out. 

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Square Payments Reviews What’s All the Fuss About?

Rosie Greaves

If you're considering Square as your mobile payment processor, then you're in the right place. Our Square reviews will tell you everything you need to know before you bite the bullet and use this service.

Launched back in 2009, Square has undoubtedly grown over the last decade. Today, they arguably offer a payment processing solution with the most features on the market (that is, one that doesn't charge a monthly fee)!

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A Beginner’s Guide to Shopify Shipping

Rosie Greaves

So, you've decided to set up a Shopify store- that's great! You have your products; you've chosen your niche, you have an idea of your target demographic…so far so good.

Now what?

You need to sort out your Shopify shipping settings. Urgh.

Luckily for you, it's nowhere near as complicated as you'd think. Nevertheless, we've put together a handy guide to help you navigate your way through the process. Let's dive in!

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Teachable Reviews: Make Unlimited Courses for Unlimited Students

Joe Warnimont

Making money with hobbies like writing, gardening, fitness, and art are often not in the cards. Unless of course, you put together a professional online course to teach people all about it. This Teachable review outlines one of the more impressive options for developing a beautiful website for presenting your courses, from video courses to PDF training.

We've taken a look at all sorts of competitors like Udemy and Uscreen. Both of those mentioned have their pros and cons, but now it's time to outline another interesting company. Teachable has clean website interfaces, great customization tools, marketing options and analytics.

The online course creation module provides hosting and security, along with all the learning tools you need, from quizzes to discussion forums and blogs to video courses. So keep reading to check out our detailed Teachable review and see if it's the right online course builder for you:

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Best Blogging Platforms for Your Online Store

Rosie Greaves

Did you know, as many as 86% of B2B companies blog- and for a good reason, it gets results! Websites with blogs have as many as 434% more indexed pages in comparison to brands that don't.

The stats speak for themselves. If your business isn't producing content, it should be.

Therefore, if you're looking for the best blogging platforms, you're in the right place. We understand picking the right one for your business is a tough choice- there are so many to choose from!

Luckily for you, we're exploring the most popular blogging platforms here in this article- so you can make an informed decision. Let's dive in!

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How to Create Online Courses and Landing Pages on Teachable

Davis Porter

Can you feel the itch? The online learning market has been expanding exponentially of late and is expected to hit $37.6 billion in value by next year. Yet all we’ve been doing is churning out content after another for our blogs, without a solid strategy for monetizing knowledge and expertise.

Well, the good thing is that your blog has already won you some online following, and possibly even a decent email list. So, tell you what- how about we combine all that with the powerful eLearning features on Teachable?

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11 Best Open Source and Free Ecommerce Platforms for 2019

Joe Warnimont
open source ecommerce platforms

If you're looking for a cheap or free open source ecommerce platform, you've come to the right place.

Well, technically, you could choose just about any ecommerce framework, since the majority of them are rather inexpensive as it is.

However, the open source model has brought about all sorts of praise from the people who use it, especially considering these online store systems are completely free, they're managed and developed by numerous people around the world, and you can typically find lots of documentation and blog posts to guide you along your way.

When researching and choosing any of these ecommerce frameworks, it's important to decide the type of development experience you're looking for.

Here are a few questions you should consider asking yourself:

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