I'm pleased to welcome you to my website. My name is Steve Last, and I wanted to share a simple, yet exciting, video from Natalie Keeton with you today.

For photographers it's not all about the money, they have an engrossing hobby after all. But, photography skills earn millions of people money every day, and by reading on, you might even discover how to earn $100 every day from your photography skills almost effortlessly!

I wish you a pleasant viewing experience.

Let us begin…

Watch the video on Youtube here.

Natalie Keaton is here and today we're going to talk about how to make money from photography.  These are side, hustle ideas so that you can learn how to make good cash money with photography.

Ok. So, let's be real, maybe it's your dream to have a photography business one day or maybe you're, just looking for side hustles to make extra money with your camera?

Either way by the end of this article you'll have 10 different ways to start earning cash money.

These are:

1. Become an Assistant Photographer
2. Local Facebook Modelling & Other Groups
3. Word of Mouth
4. Stock Website Photographs and Photographing Architecture
5. Photo Editing on Fiverr
6. Selling Your Photos Prints
7. Real Estate Sales Photography
8. Knock on Doors
9. Becoming a Photographer for Airbnb
10. Use Your Photos to Create Airbnb Experiences

I've actually used some of these tips to make consistent income for nearly a decade. Now, and eventually, I built my own six-figure photography business. So these are no jokes, these are valuable tips. Be sure to watch all the way to the end because I'm going to reveal my most unique photography tips.

List of 10 Ways to Make Money from Photography

The following is our transcription of Natalie's video. Please do watch the inspiring video as well as read this!

1. Become an Assistant Photographer

So, let's get started one of the most obvious photography side-hustles there are is probably becoming an assistant photographer, but this is the one that I use the most throughout my career to make consistent income and as my mom can attest, I started off in college. This is actually the first gig I ever had in photography was being an assistant shooter for a wedding photographer, and the way it happened was my friend actually called me up.

Who was a second photographer at the time it was like: “Hey, you're, creative! I can't make this wedding. Do you think you can fill in? I was like; “Absolutely I will!”

Like: “Yeah I'll make $25 an hour!” So I was saying; “Great. Let's do it!”

I ended up going and the first photographer saw how passionate and into it I was. He actually hired me. I ended up working for him for like six or seven years. That's quite a long time, and eventually, that one gig turned into a whole entire business that I now support myself with.

So it's kind of crazy to think that this college job, kept me through college.

I literally worked eight hours in one weekend on a wedding shoot and made as much as most students working 20 hours part-time on minimum wages. I turned my photography into a career, even though I have a degree.

So it's one of those things like you never really know what will happen. It was a great way to learn photography because you're working under someone. A person that's hyper-specialized in their niche and knows the industry in and out.

So not only are you getting paid but you're also learning as well. It's hands-down the best way to get your foot in the door.

2. Local Facebook Groups

I have had success with Facebook groups join a bunch of local Facebook groups in your area because there are always photographers seeking other photographers. Or, there are things like Moms looking for baby pictures or family pictures.

Find Model Groups and not only get photoshoots they will pay for. It's also a great way to find models that maybe will work for free and you can just go out and get some “bang in” shots and have a great portfolio.

So Facebook groups are an amazing resource that I didn't discover until a couple of years ago, but it's so worth checking out alright.

3. Word of Mouth

So in the next photography side hustle, we are actually going to discuss is the word of mouth my mom, who is my biggest fan just spread.

The good word around town is that I am a photographer and you want to believe just the amount in the diversity of opportunities that I got.

Let's talk a little bit more about that. Basically, I just gave her my price sheets to show, and I did a little video clip of my photography. She talked to her dog groomer, her hairdresser people.

Now  I work with just about everywhere.

4. Stock Website Photographs and Photographing Architecture

You know just my career so far was that I was really open when I was in the corporate world that photography was my favourite thing in the world and when I was an ARC landscape, architect or marketing for a landscape architecture company, they would actually send me out to do architecture photos for high design firms.

So I built up this huge portfolio for architecture on stock photo sites and I was just an intern or just getting started in my corporate gig and I just diversified my portfolio.

I don't think you're gonna get rich off from uploading stock photos by any means, but I think it's a great opportunity to take the photos that you already have and put them online and see like just see where they go. I know that some people have had a lot of success with it.

Some people say it's oversaturated, but I want to make a video and kind of really test it out as a professional photographer, but it's probably one of the most passive ways to make income in photography. So I think it's worth mentioning.

5. Photo Editing on Fiverr

Another option is Fiverr editing and this isn't necessarily you getting out and shooting.

But it's you editing other people's work and that's that you actually learn a lot whenever you edit your photos. You learn what works. What doesn't look good that you can't fix on the computer? So, I think if you have lightroom 5 or another editing app. So, if you have the ability to use a graphics editor, photo editing is a quick and easy way to start making money by practicing your editing skills.

6. Selling Your Photos Prints

Another thing I'm interested in doing is to start selling prints, and I really think that this is when you become more advanced as a photographer, that you can sell prints that can be scaled and printed out at a large size may be having a full-frame camera is very important.

As is knowing how to shoot in manual mode, so if you're still trying to figure out how to shoot in manual. I have a video right here where you can take a look and maybe start producing some prints that you can start selling out there on your website. I'm going to start implementing this for my business because I think it's another great passive way to make income.

I love landscape photography and I would love to make a couple of bucks here or there taking the photos. If someone wants to you know, hang my work in their home, so speaking of architecture, photography.

But, another great one, that's maybe even more accessible is real-estate photography.

7. Real Estate Sales Photography

You know at least one real estate agent and don't be shy. Ask them: “Hey, could you just visit a house and shoot a couple of photos for your portfolio?” The chances are they're going to let you because that's like two hundred and fifty bucks they're saving?

So it's a great way to get your foot into the door for real estate. You might need an existing portfolio or just be willing to work a little bit for free, but eventually, you can make money pretty quickly with real estate photography.

All you really need is a camera, a wide-angle lens, and a tripod. It is a great way to start making money with photography on a regular basis. So this next photography, side hustle, is one that I personally struggle with, but I think it's such a great business tip, even if you aren't doing photography.

8. Knock on Doors

I think everybody should know how to go and just knock on doors. You should be able to own who you are not be shy about it and find the clients that you're looking for.

Sometimes clients, don't even know that you're there unless you tell them or if you pay for advertising.

You got to go knocking to get those jobs!

When those jobs start coming. That word of mouth starts, you know, snowballing into more and more and more prospects. Then the phone starts ringing. But you got to put in the legwork to get there.

So knocking on doors is a skill that if you want to eventually be a business owner of any type you need to develop, so you diversify streams of income or just break into a market in general.

9. Becoming a Photographer for Airbnb

So my most unique photography side hustle that you probably have never heard of yet it's becoming a photographer for Airbnb. I just applied to become one because I want to see where it takes me. So I'm curious because I already have a house and I Airbnb it out. So I'm all about Airbnb.

So that's my most unique opportunity that I don't think many people talk about there's.

10. Use Your Photos to Create Airbnb Experiences

Also, there are things called “Airbnb experiences”. You literally can set these up like it's kind of like being a tour guide. You can set up these tours across your home city.

In these photography tours, you lead a group of people to the most Instagramable spots in your city. This is a great way to make extra money. You don't even really probably need to know that much about photography. You just need to know where the good areas are.

So Airbnb is a great option. There are multiple ways to build a portfolio and make money on Airbnb. Maybe you can start with experiences and then move on to becoming an actual listing photographer.

A Conclusion to “How to make money from photography”

So now you know exactly how to start making money from photography with ten different side hustles next week, we're going to cover the essential gear that you need to become a professional photographer.

Mistakes to Avoid When Starting to Make Money from Photography

The following are tips from a video by Peter McKinnon. Watch his video on youtube here.

Mistakes to avoid as a young entrepreneur, photographer or filmmaker, setting out into the world to try and make this a career, or trying to make some money from it.

Maybe it's just some extra cash on the weekend or a full-blown paycheck. These are a couple of things I've compiled that I wish I had when I started or wish that I did better. And we're going to start with those.

So the list goes on and on and on and on.

Those things are valuable. So once you start charging for your work, make sure you're charging enough, I mean you think about it like some of these cameras are thousands and thousands of dollars.

Make Sure you Charge Enough

You're gonna go do some portrait shots and you're only gonna charge 100 bucks or 200 bucks for a quick portrait session, what does that say about you as a photographer and the quality of work that you put out, and two how has that ever actually going to make you money or pay back your gear or actually get you ahead in this game.

So make sure you're charging enough. Sometimes you can throw numbers out there that might even seem a little crazy to you and that client comes back and goes yeah alright no problem and you think to yourself, oh, oh, I did (stutters) (gasps).

It can be very exciting.

But it's something that you got to take seriously. So really sit down and factor in all of those things I listed to know what your time is worth and charge accordingly. Point number three is coming up. (upbeat instrumental music).

Checklists

Point number three is checklists. I can't stress this enough.

So if you're going on a shoot, let's just say you're shooting a wedding, you've got the contract in place. You've charged the fee rate you wanted to. But now comes the actual shoot day.

I always recommend getting a checklist from the client of everything they want to be done. That way, you can reference that throughout the day throughout the shoot, and you know, you've got everything. If that client fails to provide you with something on that checklist it is not your fault.

For example, let's just say you're shooting a wedding, you've got that checklist.

Get the shot of the dress. Get the drinks in the morning, and the gifts, the first look blah, blah, blah, blah! You're knocking off all those things from the checklist. But it may be two weeks later, that client comes back and says:

“Aunt Margaret never had her portrait taken with us.

We're very upset about this.

And she flew all the way here from Australia. And we're not going to see her ever again.

And you didn't even take photos.”

And then you can pull out that checklist that you had that client make for you and sign off on. You really do have to point out that you could not have known unless told about this requirement.

At this point you just have to say;

“Look, you didn't tell me to take any pictures of this aunt from Australia, it's nowhere on this list. So how was I supposed to know that?”

So the Contract is there to protect you as well as your client. It's there to help you make sure that you get everything that client wants. That's a good thing. But, equally, it makes it clear the boundaries of any reasonable complaint, should for example they feel upset about missing out on a visual record of a relative.

Photo Shoot Contracts

Contracts are so important. They are no fun at all to make. They're no fun to read. And they're no fun to sign. But they are there to protect you.

No matter who you are shooting for.

Listen to me, no matter who you're shooting for. If it's a friend, if it's family, it doesn't matter. Get a contract, and lay out everything that you hope to do for that person. Both of you sign it, date it, whatever. If there's compensation, both of those things are agreed upon, you both signed, and it's done.

That way if anything comes up if extra work is piled on, if you didn't do enough work, both parties have a signed document clearly outlining what the expectations are.

Because I find that the biggest loophole that's the biggest mistake is expectations are always different from one person to the other. If those expectations are set out clearly at the very beginning and they're followed through to the end you have a fallback.

So, if your customer says they are unhappy about the result, you can see where you may have underperformed on your promises. If you have done all that is called for in the contract, very often an amicable outcome can be achieved.

So if you don't have a contract, download a sample template, check it out, read it, and maybe fill in your own stuff.

Do whatever you gotta do. Take it to a lawyer, and get a friend to look at it. Get your parents to look at it. Get your older siblings to look at it, whatever. Start with something.

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The internet is the only way I know where you can still earn a lot of money with very little cash and time to invest. So, read on. Here is your free online internet course on our ideas on the easiest ways to start making money online, by putting in enough work consistently over a period of time.

I'm making money doing this. I started with no money and very little time, so why shouldn't you?

Most people who want to learn how to make lots of money online study at least one online course. Here is yours!

Easy Ways to Make Money Online

How can I make a lot of money? What are the easiest ways?

Many people do it by learning how to use the internet to automate their efforts and to work very efficiently.

That way you won't need to pay staff until you a making a good profit and want to step things up a level.

This is what people do as a sideline (side hustle) but it does require a basic knowledge of how to use email, SEO and affiliate marketing to:

• communicate your offers to the audience you get for free using,
• SEO methods, selling products made by others (such as dropshipping) by
• affiliate marketing which uses other people to amplify your sales by doing additional selling for you.

There are very many money-making ideas, but this one has stood the test of time because people will always need physical products, and the internet is where they will buy them in the future.

Dropshipping

If you've ever asked “How Can I Make a Lot of Money?” and want to earn extra cash, which you can raise month by month with very little risk, dropshipping is the way to go.

Of all the many ways to make money, this business model is popular because it allows you to sell almost any product and is accepted by the biggest retail giants. And with very little work on your part, you can start earning extra money in no time.

By dropshipping you can sell products for which there will always be demand and the beauty of dropshipping is that you don't have to get involved in any of the physical work in moving and delivering the products. You can remain a small organisation and work at home if you want to!

However, in common with all money-making online, you do have to gain an audience willing to buy, so you will have to set up a website and create your product, or many products, on that or multiple online websites.

Set up your Own Website and Create a Product

The digital age presents great opportunities to earn a lot of money in your spare time. You can set up a website or create a product. There are also a number of job opportunities that are available online but I recommend working in your own business to make money fast.

You can work from home if you want, and there are many ways to do make good money. Until recently this century, this option to make extra cash was unavailable to the general public, because it just did not exist!

Creating your Own Digital Product

Creating your own digital product is one of the best ways to make money online. Besides selling your stuff on different platforms, you can create a free eBook and get reviews.

In addition to that, you can sell your products on websites such as Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, which gives you 70% of the royalties. Once you have an eBook in hand, you can promote it through social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to make money fast.

By doing this, you can increase your SERP ranking by giving it away for free.

You can also sell your old school notes online. If you're a musician, you can list them on websites like Reverb. Although you'll need to make sure you don't plagiarize them, you can sell your old school notes for a few dollars. If you're selling musical instruments, Fat Llama is a great place to sell your gear for money fast. Facebook Marketplace is a great place to find local buyers.

Establishing a Customer Base

Once you have an established customer base, you can use other monetization strategies to earn extra money. One good way to double your monthly revenue is to add additional sites.

You can monetize your existing website with user-generated content or through free CRM software.

Additionally, you can list your used items on Amazon. If you don't want to sell your items on eBay, you can use messaging apps. Regardless of how you choose to make your income, it will be worth the effort ion more money fast.

There are many ways to make a lot of money online. If you're not looking for a full-time job, you can still earn money with an online agency. This will be easy because you'll be able to work whenever you want and at a time that suits your schedule.

Depending on your skills, you may even be able to start a business that offers multiple income streams. For example, you can work for Uber or Lyft while you're in university. Moreover, you can use your blog to write articles about your interests.

The Different Types of Internet Marketing

The internet has made it possible for businesses and individuals to promote their products and services. It uses mobile phones, the internet, and other digital technologies to reach its target audience. The best thing about digital marketing is that it can be conducted from any location. The internet is a huge source of information, so online marketing tools are essential.

There are many types of internet marketing, and each of them will help you to market your products and services, sell more, make more money. These include email, social media, and search engine optimization.

Internet marketing can be customized to fit any size business or industry. It can be used to generate leads, increase traffic, and improve rebound rates. It can be tailored to any type of industry. In addition, it helps businesses determine their target market and establish their authority in their field. This way, they can target potential customers and build long-term relationships. It can also be used to conduct research. So, it is possible to use internet marketing in a variety of ways.

While traditional methods of marketing are still effective, using the internet to build awareness of your brand and products is increasingly important.

Regardless of your business model, you can use different techniques to promote your products and services.

For example, you can create your own website and promote it on social media. There are many ways to advertise your products and services online. The most important thing is to create a unique web presence and attract customers. There are many ways to do this.

Using the internet to promote your business is a great way to grow. By utilizing a wide variety of techniques and tactics, you can achieve a large audience quickly. You can target consumers by their age, location, and even their behaviour.

This way, you can easily expand your reach to new audiences if you attend an online course. In addition to your website, you can also use social media and email to reach new customers. Once you have built your online presence, you can focus on promoting your products.

You can use the internet to promote your products and services. Not only is it affordable, but it also allows you to reach a much larger audience than you could ever dream of. While it may not be a traditional method of marketing, it does allow you to reach more prospective customers with a small budget.

If you want to expand your business, internet marketing is the most effective way to expand your reach. You can easily advertise your product and services to a large number of consumers by leveraging the power of the internet.

Internet marketing is the best way to promote products and services to make money fast and then make more money, as in rinse and repeat. Its effectiveness and reach are endless and all you need is an internet connection.

Of all the ways to make money, it's very effective at driving traffic to your site and achieving the desired business goals. Its main benefit is that it allows you to reach a broader customer base than any other medium. This means that internet marketing has a huge advantage over traditional media. With internet marketing, your company will be able to attract customers through various channels.

Using Email

Email marketing is a popular way to get the word out about a product or service. This type of advertising is sent to people through emails and can include anything from requesting donations to selling a product.

When an email is used for marketing, it can be a simple advertisement or an emailed request for a sale.

There are many types of email marketing, and each type is beneficial in different ways. You can do this in your own hours and use the email address provided for you in your own blog account.

Examples of what email marketers do

Here are some examples of what email marketers do for more money.

Transactional emails are intended to confirm a commercial transaction, such as a purchase. These emails include information like password resets, confirmations, and order confirmations. These emails also include opt-in links, which eliminate the spam factor and allow for targeted money-making emails. These emails are generally sent automatically. They are triggered by a customer's action. While most people check their email at least once a day, opt-in emails are a great way to ensure that your customers are receiving emails of interest to them.

Email marketing is not spamming

The process of email marketing begins with an email database. It is not spamming; it is a method of using email as a sales channel. In fact, it is better to build an email list than to buy an email list. Adding a clearly-marked unsubscribe button makes the process more personalized and effective. This way, subscribers will understand your brand more easily and become more likely to read your emails. In addition, it is also possible to measure your campaign's effectiveness.

Email marketing benefits

Email marketing has numerous benefits, from keeping customers informed about the latest products and services to building strong relationships. However, it is also important to note that it can be a time-consuming process to bring home more money. So, we suggest buying emails that other sellers have used to build their list. This can help to speed up email writing. Often these emails can be quickly tailored to your product.

In addition to a high open-rate, you should also be careful when choosing subject lines.

In most cases, your audience will be more engaged if you include the name of their interests and their location.

While it may seem easy at first, it is more difficult to maintain a relationship with your subscribers when you are trying to sell a product or service.

Email marketing is a proven method

Email marketing is not considered a form of transactional emailing; instead, it is a method for promoting a product or service and that way it can make money fast. Nevertheless, it is a proven method of marketing. With the help of a landing page, you can increase the number of sales and subscribers for extra cash and extra money fast. You can use different strategies to create a compelling offer for your customers. You can use a combination of different strategies to increase the success of your email campaign.

Finally, before we move on, remember that creating a unique email personalised for each client is an important aspect of email marketing. Your audience is a crucial part of your success.

It is vital to make your email marketing campaigns unique to them. You can use the subject lines to target your customers.

Using a personalized subject line is an effective way of generating new business. It also builds trust and builds brand awareness. Your customers will appreciate the fact that your company cares about them.

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SEO

The Basics of Search Engine Optimization

What is search engine optimization? In simple terms, it is the process of improving the website's search engine results. It is a technique of targeting paid traffic as well as direct visitors.

SEO is also known as website marketing. It improves your website's exposure on the web, ensuring that it is visible on search engines. Here are some basics of search engine optimization. Listed below are some of the benefits that are associated with this process.

Search engine optimization is a process of optimizing a website's content in order to appear at the top of the SERP (Search Engine Results Pages).

A high-quality page will appear at the top of a SERP. It won't require any payment for clicks, and it will generate traffic without paid advertisements.

This technique will increase a website's visibility and drive traffic for free. It's important to remember that search engines aim to provide the best experience to users.

Compared to traditional forms of digital marketing, search engine optimization helps drive more relevant traffic. The purpose of SEO is to increase the lifetime value of a customer so that the company can earn more revenue.

As the number of internet users increases, the ROI of SEO becomes significant. The process is also effective in driving more sales. In other words, it drives more revenue for the business. It's an effective way to boost the sales of a website to become a profitable online store.

Optimization for search engines depends on the quality of the content. When a website's content is good, it will be noticed by search engines. In search engine optimization, you should target relevant keywords. Besides optimizing your content, you should also create new content that is relevant to the targeted keywords. Moreover, search engine optimization improves the quantity of traffic. This will increase the profitability of the website. It's essential to improve the quality of the content.

It's essential to optimize the website's content to get more visitors and revenue. Even small changes will make a big difference in the performance of your website. Optimization for search engines is vital for online businesses. In the world of online marketing, it's important to be visible on the first page of search results.

If your website doesn't show up on the first page, your competitors will. Therefore, it is essential to increase the visibility of your website through effective content.

Optimization for search engines involves the use of the best keywords. If you have a keyword, you should use it in your content. You should ensure that your content is readable and not spammy. You should also implement a meta description. If a website has a link to another website, it will be indexed by the search engine. You should also ensure that your content is relevant to the keywords of your website.

Affiliate Marketing

How to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a form of performance-based marketing. A business rewards its affiliates for each visitor or customer that they send their way. This strategy can be a lucrative one for both parties. However, it can also be risky. You can lose a lot of money if you're not careful.

Spending money on ads, for example, is easy money but only if you know your market intimately, but if not, you can lose a lot of money, just trying out different unsuccessful ads.

Here are a few things you should know about affiliate marketing. Read on to learn more. To succeed in an affiliate program, you must know how to make extra money.

First, identify your audience. You can start by writing about a problem that your audience has. A good way to start is to recommend products that will solve their problems. Don't just promote products that will make you extra money. Instead, focus on offering solutions that are valuable to your target audience. This will help you build a relationship with your audience.

Ideally, you'll be able to identify your audience's pain points and determine the products or services they'll want.

The second tip you should really have picked up by now is to build an audience. You should build a brand for yourself by creating an email list and creating new content. Affiliate marketing does require building an audience before you can start making money, and this is an area that can benefit from, joining focus groups, watching videos and buying a few gigs with personal trainers.

You can easily scale your growth with pay-per-click (PPC) advertising and joint venture webinars. To generate sales, you must build a list of subscribers. Using your list, you can reach your audience anytime and anywhere. This is the key to success in affiliate marketing. Once you've built your email list, you can start creating new content that will attract your audience and earn money.

Once you've found products that suit your target audience, you can start promoting them. There are many ways you can do this. If you're not familiar with a particular product, you can also try word-of-mouth. You can even use social media such as Twitter and Facebook to spread the word about the product. When a visitor buys your product or service through an affiliate link, you'll receive a commission from the sale.

Tracking the performance of your affiliate links will help you see how they perform. A high-converting affiliate link will help you understand how to improve your campaigns. In general, an affiliate link should be unique to each location and have a different set of keywords and landing pages.

For this reason, a link should contain one URL for each product. You should also monitor the clicks and conversion rates of your affiliate links. This will help you decide which campaigns are successful.

Choosing a niche you love. Choose a topic that you're passionate about. If you're passionate about a certain topic, it will be easier to promote it on social media. In addition, you can use email lists to build an email list and leverage email newsletters.

Lastly, social media is where people click. It's an effective way to promote affiliate products and services. This will also help you gain publicity which is always the key to making money. It's important to choose an audience that's compatible with your target market though.

How to Use Lead Generation to Build a List of Leads

Lead generation is a process that allows you to generate a list of prospective customers. The process can be used to build a newsletter or sales list. The goal of lead generation is to create interest in your product or service.

By leveraging a list of potential customers, you can make more sales. Here is a tip for creating lists of leads: Try to collect as many leads as possible. Once you have a list of potential buyers, start segmenting them into interest groups and building up the number of subscribers to your newsletter.

Personalize your content

By making your emails and social content more personalized, your subscribers will be more likely to respond to your message. This will also help you determine the right time to send out emails. A personalized email will give you the advantage over others, which is crucial when it comes to converting leads.

Besides delivering relevant content at the right time, personalization also helps you decide which platforms to promote your content. In the end, the goal of lead generation is to convert website visitors into customers.

Target your audience

Focus on the areas where your customers spend the most time. For example, if they spend more time on websites, they'll be more likely to respond to your advertisements. And if they're on professional associations, they'll be more likely to purchase your product.

By focusing on these areas, you'll be able to better target your lead generation campaigns and maximize the exposure of your products and services.

Create content that's focused on specific groups

By creating targeted content that caters to your target audience, you'll be able to better analyze your lead generation efforts. You can improve the quality of your leads by focusing on topics that will resonate with them.

Once you've got your target audiences' attention, you'll be able to create compelling and informative content that will engage them and increase your conversion rates. In addition to creating content that reflects your audience, it will make it easier for you to identify topics that resonate with your readers.

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Lead generation software

In addition to using online surveys, lead generation software can be used to track and personalize experiences. It can also be used to collect feedback forms and surveys. It will also help you track how well your leads respond to your offers and what they're looking for.

It's essential to remember that you're not trying to sell to every single person on the planet, so you must build relationships first. Think about which groups will have money to spend. For example, don't try to sell expensive products to cash-starved college students! This is the key to successful lead generation. With the right strategy, you'll be able to generate leads for the long term.

Using a hub and spoke model will help you generate a list of prospects who are most likely to be interested in your product.

Rather than relying on inbound traffic alone, you'll do best if you make use of multiple lead generation methods to keep your leads healthy and happy. You need to learn the different methods to find the best leads for your products and services. And the best way to do this and sell items from your spare room is to incorporate a variety of sources. In time any people have been able to earn cash and quit their full-time job

How to Make the Most of Article Marketing

Article marketing is a form of advertising that involves writing short, informative articles and distributing them to various outlets. These outlets include newsletters, forums, and article banks. Regardless of the target audience, the benefits of article marketing are vast.

Article marketing can save money on advertising and show you what works when you do have money to spend on ads.

This type of advertising is considered to be a highly effective tool for increasing your sales. It also increases brand recognition and generates more traffic to your website. You can use this strategy to increase your website traffic and increase the number of visitors to your site.

Articles can help you reach your target market and increase brand recognition. People who use search engines for research tend to be attentive to reviews, and article marketing helps prevent black PR and bad feedback from being visible. It also forms a positive brand on search engines. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Write something worth reading.” Ultimately, article marketing can help you reach your target market. By following these tips, you can make the most of your article marketing campaign.

Once you have written your article, you can start looking for ways to distribute it. First, you need to choose a good title for your article. You need to make sure that it represents the content of the article. It should also be relevant to the topic of your article and not compete with other articles. It should also be a keyword that people will likely search for. This way, you will be able to attract more traffic to your site.

The next step is to determine the purpose of the articles. What will they be used for? Typically, articles are created to address customer needs. If you are selling a product, this means that the title should be relevant to the product or service. A good title will attract people to read the entire article. If it doesn't, your articles will be ignored by readers. If you're targeting the right audience, you'll have a higher chance of success with your articles.

Besides being useful for readers, articles are also good for SEO. A popular article can attract a wide range of readers. The audience will be interested in the product and the website. In addition to attracting potential customers, it will increase your company's reputation as an expert in your niche. It will also increase sales opportunities for your website. It is an excellent way to build a brand reputation. The benefits of article marketing are many. It can generate more traffic than any other method and is an excellent choice for building a strong brand presence.

Another benefit of article marketing is that it allows you to be creative. By submitting articles to article directories, you can raise your brand awareness. Your articles should contain relevant information and be free of grammatical and structural flaws. It should also be written in a way that people will find it easy to understand and can find valuable information. In addition, you can create a production schedule for your articles and publish them on your website or on other places online.

Social Media Marketing For Business

Digital marketing and e-marketing still dominate the academic world, but the rise of social media platforms has led to a shift in the field.

While e-marketing remains the dominant practice in academia, the popularity of social media for business purposes is rapidly increasing, and practitioners are increasingly looking to it for their success.

All you need to get started in this method of making money is to open social media accounts on the most popular online sites, such as Facebook (Meta), Twitter, and Linked-in.

This article provides a brief overview of the key aspects of social media marketing. This article also outlines how social media marketing (SMM) can benefit business organizations and businesses to make quick cash. If you need further guidance we suggest that you watch videos online. A good way to start is to watch one of the many “how to use social networking to grow an audience of buyers”.

The first step in using social media for business purposes is to identify your competitors. Searching online for your industry terms or competitor's name on Google will yield a list of relevant results. Compare these results with your own to learn what works and what doesn't. Once you've identified your top money-making competitors, you can adapt these strategies to create a more successful social media marketing campaign. However, you should remember that you shouldn't copy their efforts; instead, you should become your own social media manager and modify their tactics to suit your own business.

To maximize social media for business purposes, businesses should follow a specific money-making strategy. Keeping track of the success of each of their posts is essential for monitoring results and meeting goals. Using the right social media engagement tool and tracking the comments and results of each post will help you optimize your strategy.

Once you have defined your strategy, you can begin to develop your content and monitor your competitors' social media presence. By comparing the performance of your brand on each platform, you can see how your efforts stack up against your competitors and think about making serious money.

Once you have identified your target market, you can start building your social media strategy. Once you've chosen your platforms, you'll need to engage your followers and develop a plan to reach those customers. Some people do well by posting memes (photos online with an added text motto or quote) that get liked and re-tweeted or republished by people sharing them online.

A good SMM strategy will involve analyzing data and tracking leads, as well as learning to interact with your target audience on each platform. Your KPIs should relate to your initial goals. This way, you'll know which social media platforms work best for your company.

Social media marketing is crucial for any online business. It can become a distraction though, so limit your participation to just a few hours. Try to get started by enrolling for one of the many online courses on Udemy or similar training platforms go through the course diligently and set your own schedule.

You should find your target audience by doing research. Consider what type of content your target audience likes to read and what types of content are most likely to engage them. Then, decide where to spend your free time and energy and your budget. Once you've determined your target audience, you should decide on which social media networks are best for your business. Your strategy should also include how you use the different social media platforms.

As the name implies, social media marketing is an excellent way to reach a targeted audience. It requires more than just creating content though before you will start earning free money. The purpose of the strategy should be to engage customers so that they will spread the word about your brand. And, you earn money by including a call to action which enables them to buy your product.

Then, they should be able to create their own content and share it with others. This will help you increase your audience's trust in your product or service. If your customers are happy with what they see, they'll be more inclined to share the information with their friends.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Multi-Level Marketing

Ten to fifteen years or more ago multi-level marketing was probably the most popular way to make a lot of money fast. Think of it as a form of affiliate marketing in which each affiliate has their own affiliate scheme within the system. in other words their own level.

But, it isn't popular now. Using multi-level marketing as a marketing strategy can be quite controversial. The company's revenue is derived from the sales of its products, which are sold to the first level of the sales force.

This business model is also referred to as network marketing and pyramid selling. While it is a form of pyramid selling it can work well if the services offered (usually courses and tools to do internet marketing are truly valuable).

There are many pros and cons to using this method. Below are some of these benefits and disadvantages. Here is an overview of what you need to know before you dive into multi-level marketing (MLM).

But, do make sure you understand how multi-level marketing works. If you're considering joining a multi-level marketing program, take the time to read the fine print.

Always make sure the product is a product you'd buy even without the income opportunity. Be careful when signing up for such a business; you might find yourself getting involved with a pyramid scheme. A pyramid scheme is any system of marketing which relies on the money taken in from new buyers to finance the payouts of the affiliates without a core income to sustain the business in the long term.

While it may seem like a good idea to earn a few extra dollars from a part-time job, a pyramid scheme is not a good idea and is illegal in many countries. If you are in any doubt, before signing up, you should consult with an accountant or knowledgeable friend.

The biggest disadvantage of multi-level marketing is that it can be a honey trap for beginners and bring big cash bonuses. Some direct sales companies were launched in the late 1990s with the promise of additional income.

Stay-at-home moms were lured into their network by the promise of a passive income plus a vibrant social life. Color Street and LuLaRoe are similar companies, but according to many people both have proved to be an albatross to many eager entrepreneurs. Make your own conclusions, but is important to check the company's reputation before joining an MLM program.

Multi-level marketing is a complex business model, but the basic idea is to sell products through a network of distributors. You get paid for every referral you make, which means you'll receive a commission if your team members buy your product or service. The distributors must be willing to train new people, and you'll be compensated for their efforts. It's a pyramid scheme, and it may take more time than you expected.

Although it is often associated with pyramid schemes, multi-level marketing when done well is not a pyramid scheme. While some MLM companies require representatives to recruit others, bona fide programs allow them to sell their products without requiring them to recruit others.

As a rule, the income of a multi-level marketing business is based on the number of recruits. While it may seem tempting to work full-time with a multi-level marketing program, it can be a time-consuming, stressful job.

Among the most important advantages of multi-level marketing is the opportunity for success. It allows individuals to make good money by recruiting others. There are several benefits to this type of business. The first benefit is that it allows you to earn commissions on the retail sales of others. In addition to being a leader in a network, you can also sell products, and earn bonuses. And because the compensation is high, it is hard to go wrong.

We do not recommend this form of money-making because of its association with pyramid schemes and its bad reputation, whether or not that reputation is well-founded.

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Concluding our Article on How Can I Make a Lot of Money?

We introduced our ideas on easy ways to make a large amount of money online.

We selected dropshipping as the most evergreen of all the opportunities available and recommended that you set up your own website and create a product plus more as time goes on to raise your business to new levels of income as time goes on.

The next stage is to establish a customer base through different types of internet marketing. We discussed using email, SEO, affiliate marketing, and social media but we did not recommend multi-level marketing.

Now you have read this article you should have a broad understanding of how to make a lot of money using online tools as a side-hustle until you earn enough to quit your job and start to live the internet lifestyle enjoyed by so many people already by using computers to do the work for you.

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Are these not the dream of every entrepreneur who turned their vision into a mission?

This journey from prospects to predictable revenue is best taken on an Outbound route, with email outreach at the wheel of your pipeline Porsche.

Therefore, if you’re into Outbound Sales, the real question is not ‘To prospect or not to prospect…’

It’s ‘How do you prospect?’

Without a well-defined prospecting process, you’ll be limited to sending cold emails to contacts who have no requirement for your product, and therefore no rhyme or reason to engage.

You’d be missing out on contacting people who have a high possibility of converting into buyers…simply because you didn’t recognize them and spark a conversation.

While wasting time and resources on people who don’t need your product.

By blasting emails to a bunch of contacts without relevance, you’re setting yourself up for low response rates, inadequate pipeline volume, and decreased Sales.

Is there a better way to build your pipeline?

You bet.

What you need is a relentless focus on understanding who your prospects are- what they do, what problems they face, and how you can relieve that pain.

This will help you build a prospect list- a highly targeted, data-driven one that takes all perspectives into consideration before you can hit them up with a cold email.

But how do you go about identifying your prospects? What factors do you keep in mind when identifying business opportunities and what data do you need to collect in order to zoom in on them? The initial contact is often not the ultimate buyer. How do you make sure the person behind the buying decision is likely to convert? What data can you dig up to ensure that you can identify decision-makers who have a high possibility of converting? Where do you go to find up-to-date and reliable data on these contacts, and what tools can you use? When dealing with high volume, prospecting manually can become a black hole of efficiency. What about automating the whole thing?

If you have questions like these about building a targeted prospect list, you’re going to love skimming on to the rest of the blog.

What we’ve done for you is to put all the information you’d ever need, in one Complete Guide to Building a Highly Targeted Prospect List.

Take 10 minutes out of your day and get one step closer towards a pipeline cascading with leads.

Table of contents

1. Who is a Prospect?

2. Ideal Customer Profile & Buyer Persona

3. How to Build a Targeted Prospect List?

Building a Prospect List Manually Building a Prospect List using Automated Tools

4. Using a Cold Email Tool to run Automated Campaigns

5. Final Thoughts

1. Who is a Prospect?

A prospect is a potential customer who is likely to buy your solution. These are qualified and interested individuals or companies that have a strong chance of buying your product or service.

Identify Your Best Customers to Target the Best Prospects

Before you get started with building your prospect list, you need to identify who your best customers are. These are customers that are best suited for your product and would rather buy your solution than your competitor’s solution.

If you don’t know who your ideal customers are, you can figure that out by defining an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Below, we’ve put together a simple cheat sheet to help you define your ICP.

But before we get to building your ICP, you need to have an existing customer base of at least 100 customers to get started. The framework is based on data and not on assumptions. It looks at your current best customers, the kind of companies that you’re currently winning with so you can double-down on that success.

2. Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) & Buyer Persona

Here’s a simple 2 step ICP cheat sheet to help you build an Ideal Customer Profile.

Step 1: Know What Makes a Customer Ideal or Best for a Business

You need to look at your current customers and put them through the grinder to come up with the ideal, best-fit ones. Ask the below questions to determine(or score) your most suited customers,

Who has the highest success potential? Who closed the fastest? Who has the largest Average Deal Size(ADS) and Lifetime Customer Value(LCV)? Who has the most potential for referrals or advocacy? Who has the highest expansion potential? Step 2: List Your Best Customers and Find Commonalities Between Them

Now that you know the factors that make a customer ideal or best for a business,

create a list of your 10 best existing customers and find similar attributes shared by them.

Come up with as many attributes on these customers as you could in order to get a better understanding of what they look like. The more you know about them, the more accurate you can be with your targeting.

Ask the following questions to figure out what your best customers look like:

What are the Common Firmographic Attributes of these 10 Customers?

Company Size: Do they have similar number of employees? Industry/Niche: Are they in the same Industry/Sector? Company Location: What’s their geographic location? Age of Company: How long have they been in business? Annual Revenue: How much revenue do they generate annually? Focus Market: Are they focused on the ecommerce or SaaS market? What type of customers are they serving? Consumers or Businesses?

What Other Common Distinctive Features Do They Share?

Do they use certain specialized technologies? Do they work in decentralized teams? Are they looking to expand rapidly?

Now that you have the ICP defined, the next thing to do is to define a Buyer Persona.

You create Buyer Persona(s) by narrowing down on commonalities between the decision-makers in your ICP companies.

A decision-maker is an individual in that company who actually makes the decision to buy your product or service. Based on the complexity of the sales process, there might be more than one decision-maker involved in the buying process, so you may need to create more than one buyer persona.

Ask the following questions to define your buyer persona(s),

Who Made the Purchasing Decision in Your ICP Companies?

How senior are they? Do they have a common title?

What Common Demographic Attributes Do They Share?

Do they have the same age, gender? Do they have the same personality type, educational level?

What Are These Individuals Trying to Achieve?

How are they measured at work? What goals do they have?(both current and future)

What Are Their Current Obstacles?

Why are they not reaching their goals? What do they need in order to reach them?

What Does the Purchasing Process Look Like for Them?

Is the decision maker the user of the product himself? Can your buyer persona make a simple purchase? or Are there multiple decision-makers who need to buy-in?

To get a more comprehensive view on building your ideal customer profile and fine-tuning your entire lead generation process, see our article that provides you with a Framework to Build a Focused B2B Lead Generation Process

3. How to Build a Targeted Prospect List?

With the target audience figured out, it’s time to build your prospect list.

There are two ways you could go about building a prospect list:

Build it yourself Outsource it to a lead gen company

If you want to outsource it to a lead gen agency, then you could simply give them your Ideal Customer Profile and they will find the prospects that match your ICP.

Not just that, they take care of your whole email prospecting campaign from finding leads, sending personalized cold emails to following up on non-responsive prospects and tracking the results.

This post, however, focuses on helping people build the list all by themselves.

If you want to build the list yourself, you can either do it:

Manually or Automate the process using a prospect finding tool.

We’ll explore how you could build the list using both ways in this article.

3.1 Building a Prospect List Manually

How do you do it?

Here are four simple steps to building a prospect list manually:

Find companies that fit your ICP Find the decision makers associated with these companies Find the email addresses of these decision makers Validate your email data a) Find Companies that Fit Your ICP

The first step to finding the companies that fit your Ideal Customer Profile is to find the data source that contains the information on your target companies.

You need to find sites that would let you find companies based on certain firmographic attributes like the size of the company, the industry they operate in etc.

Your data source will depend on the type of company you sell to. What kind of companies do you sell to? If you happen to sell to startup companies, sites like Angelist, Gust or Crunchbase would be an ideal choice.

The aforementioned sites provide you with some basic, yet essential filters to find your ideal companies.

As you can see below, Angelist provides you with enough essential attributes on the listed companies to validate their fit.

In addition to these information, a site like Angelist provides you with some advanced attributes on the companies, like, whether they received funding or not, which funding stage etc.

Also, Angelist allows you to further refine the search by letting you sort companies based on their type, say, for instance, a SaaS or a Mobile App company, and based on the ‘joined’ date, making it easy to find newly added leads.

If you sell to a service-based business rather than a software product company, an example of a data source would be Clutch.co. Clutch aggregates agencies in several categories like software development, digital marketing and web design. It currently lists 7000+ agencies in 500+ categories.

If you’re looking for software and saas companies, then online review sites like GetApp, Capterra that aggregate software products and saas apps is one way to find them. You can filter companies based on product category, geographic location and other useful filter options.

One unique advantage of software review sites is that they offer companies’ customer reviews.

One way to use these customer reviews is to leverage your competition by looking for competitors’ customers on these platforms(which might make them your ideal prospects) and target them with a more desirable offer.

Instead of targeting them directly, you could also research on your competitors’ customers and sell to similar companies that are yet to use a service similar to yours.

G2Crowd is a review site that lets you segment reviews based on different filters like Company Size, User Role, Industry etc.

Another way is to find people who use products that complement your solution. For instance, if you offer an email outreach tool, then a prospect finding tool complements your offering.

Heck, you could even identify your customers’ competitors and target them.

If your prospects are brick and mortar companies with a physical location, then you could leverage your most used tool to find your ideal companies: Google.

Let’s say you’re selling to bakeries in Indianapolis, then simply type in “indianapolis bakery” into the google search bar and begin building your list.

One attribute of the prospect that isn’t easily available on the internet is the technology they use. For instance, lets say a company that uses Hubspot marketing automation tool is your potential customer.

How can you tell whether a company is a Hubspot user or not?

You can get this information by installing a simple chrome extension called WhatRuns. Whatruns lets you find technologies used on any website you visit with a simple click.

Simply visit the website of the company you want to get this information on and click on the extension icon in the menu bar.

One major benefit to finding prospects manually is the ability to personalize your cold emails. You’d be able to gather relevant reference points on these customers to include in your cold email copy to improve conversions.

b) Find The Decision Makers Associated With These Companies

After validating the fit of these companies based on the attributes you found about them on different data sources, you should have a list of ideal companies to target.

Now it’s time to find the key contact(s) behind these companies who are in charge of making the relevant purchase.

Below are some ways you could go about building a contact list:

Find contacts on LinkedIn Find contacts on About Us page Find contacts on Google Find Contacts on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is by far the most powerful source to find accurate and up-to-date information on business contacts.

With a powerful ‘People Search’ feature, you can accurately find almost anyone associated with a business and create an ultra targeted list of business contacts.

You can simply lookup the ICP companies on LinkedIn to get all the employees associated with each of these companies but you can save time and keep it more targeted by using the people filters it offers.

Find Contacts on Google

Yes, you can find the key people behind a company using the Google search engine.

For this, you need to know the name of the company and the job role associated with the employee you’re trying to sell to. For instance, you could search for “Company name, Title”.

In the below example, I searched for “Marketo CEO”

Find Contacts on the Company’s About Us page

Almost every website on the internet has an ‘About Us’ page. An About Us page acts as a directory of employees at the company. It typically gives you the job role associated with the employees and a short bio about them.

Here’s an example of an About Us page.

c) Find the Email Addresses of these Decision Makers

You should now have a list of ideal companies and decision maker(s) at these ICP companies you want to reach out to. It’s time to find their email addresses.

Most data sources on the internet don’t provide email addresses. And there are no perfect places for finding work emails on the internet.

Luckily, there are several email finder tools you can use to find email addresses of key people behind a company in seconds for free.

If you want the email addresses of multiple individuals at a company, you could use a tool like Hunter that offers ‘domain search’ feature to find emails.

Simply input the company domain and the tool will list all the email addresses of employees at that company along with their names and job positions.

If you can’t nail the email address of your decision maker this way or you want the email address of a specific person in that company, you could use their email finder feature to find a specific email. Give the contact’s full name and company domain to get the email address.

A prospect finding tool like Adapt will give you the ability to get the email addresses and phone numbers of contacts right from their company websites and LinkedIn profiles.

Useful resource: 30 Best Email FInder Tools and How They Work d) Validate Your Email Data

Once you have the email addresses of the decision makers, the next step is to verify if the email addresses associated with them are valid or not.

The more your emails bounce, the less the replies you get and the worse your server reputation gets.

You should simply remove a contact from your list if you can’t find a valid email address for that contact. The success of your email outreach campaign totally depends on the quality of your prospect list.

Use a tool like Zerobounce or Hunter to verify all your email data. In this example, I verified that pragadeesh@klenty.com is in fact a valid email address.

Useful resource: Email Validation Tools to Verify your Email Lists 3.2 Building a Prospect List Using Automated Tools

This is probably the fastest and easiest way to build your prospect list. The process of finding the companies, contacts and validated contact details is reduced to a single step with this method.

You get look-alike prospects by simply running your ICP through these prospect finding tools. In other words, by giving the attributes of your ideal customers, you get a list of prospects that share the same attributes as them.

For instance, if you want to get the contact information(emails and phone numbers) on the CEOs of companies that are 25-100 employees in size, are in the healthcare space, and are located in the United States, you could use a prospect finding tool like Adapt to do this.

Simply input these company and contact attributes into their lead finder tool and click on the ‘Search’ button.

The tool will output a list of contacts at companies that share the same attributes, along with the contact information on them.

There are several similar tools that provide you with basic company and contact filtering like findthatlead, leadmine, snov etc.

When it comes to prospect finding tools, the tool you should go for depends on the level of information you need on your prospective customers.

Typically, you’ll only need the basic attributes about the contacts and companies you’re looking to reach out to; but you could need some advanced attributes on your prospects. For instance, if they use a specific piece of technology or not, or whether they received Series A funding.

You may want to accurately predict if a prospect is your ideal customer or not before spending time and effort on converting that prospect into a customer. Especially large companies that spend huge amount of their time on just a few accounts.

In that case, you need a tool that provides you with some advanced data points on your prospects.

One tool that goes far beyond any other tool in the market when it comes to offering a large amount of data points on contacts and companies is the Clearbit Prospector.

Clearbit Prospector provides you with over 100 person and company filters to help you create a highly targeted list of prospects.

As a final note, even though this method saves you a ton of time, using this method also means that you’ll have to separately conduct a research on each of these prospects to find data points on them to personalize your cold emails.

4. Using a Cold Email Tool to Run Outreach Campaigns 

At this point, you should have your prospect list fully built with companies, contacts, and email addresses.

What next?

Of course, reaching out to these decision-makers to sell your products and services.

This is where a Sales Email Automation tool like Klenty comes into the picture.

Once you have your prospect list imported into Klenty, you’ll be able to send personalized one-on-one emails, schedule a series of emails and follow-ups, and track the success of your outreach campaigns.

Final Thoughts

Yes, building a prospect list could be the hardest part of your outreach process.

But you know how crucial it is to get this part right.

Because if you don’t have an accurate list of prospects, even the best cold emails will fail to deliver the results.

In order to get great results from your outreach campaigns, the key is to spend your time identifying the right prospects.

With the information presented in this blog, you should be well on your way towards targeting prospects who have a high possibility of converting.

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So, how is it done? The answer is by optimizing your social media lead generation so that it converts as many as possible of your engaged audience into clients and customers.

Social media lead generation

Social media lead generation is the process of turning brand awareness and interest, into visitor actions, such as:

• Signing up for your weekly newsletter
• Accessing an ebook or white paper
• Signing up for a free trial of your service
• Attending a virtual event
• Engaging with a chatbot.

People who take any of these first steps are more likely to take the next and the next. They’ve demonstrated more-than-passing interest in your products or services and can evolve into high-value, qualified leads — provided you build trust and offer genuinely helpful content along the way.

Social Media Lead Generation Tools Social Media Ad Retargeting Tools

Ads on social media are a must for any enterprise business. You already use them to raise brand awareness across platforms and then retarget ads to people who visit your website. But generating more warm leads takes retargeted social media ads segmented to address particular interests or pain points.

Image source: IBM Cloud

For example, retargeted ads for B2B website visitors who explored introductory guides should be different than ads for visitors who explored more complex topics. Tools to help you dive deeper and segment site visitors for retargeting:

1. Google Analytics – Tracking inbound leads generated through social media will quickly pinpoint which social platforms perform best for your business, as well as what is the most effective messaging and images for your audience.

2. Facebook Custom Audiences – The platform allows you to target custom audiences through website visitors and people who have already engaged with your Facebook ads. To track website visitors for audience customization, you need to add a Facebook pixel to your website. Once you’ve installed pixel, you can create retargeted ads for people who have visited a specific blog post or the product page.

3. YouTube Audience Manager – This is an excellent way to create sequential retargeted ad campaigns for specific audiences. The first step is to link your YouTube channel with your Google Ads account. Then, through Audience Manager, you can create audience lists of people who watched a specific video or channel page.

4. LinkedIn Showcase and Affiliated Pages – Separate from your company page, showcase pages spotlight specific product offerings and initiatives. They are featured on your main page, but they have different audiences and their own followings. For example, IBM features a showcase page for IBM Cloud (pictured above) with nearly 180,000 followers interested in keeping up with that service.

5. Twitter Custom Audiences – Segment your audience for retargeting campaigns based on website or app activity. Your custom audience must be greater than 100 Twitter users to trigger retargeting.

6. Instagram Engagement Custom Audience – Create custom audiences based on website activity, shares, and likes, among other options. Instagram also retargets seamlessly with Facebook, its parent company.

7. AdRoll – This company is known for their retargeting options, including detailed audience segmentation and exclusions triggered by specific parameters. No more flooding customers with ads or sending an ad for a product they purchased yesterday.

8. Perfect Audience – Perfect Audience is an affordable retargeting option for smaller companies that need to keep the process efficient and simple.

Conversational Landing Pages

Nobody puts chatbot in a (lower-left) corner. At least, not on conversational landing pages. Visitors feel more in control of the experience because they can get answers to their high-level questions immediately and choose their next steps from multiple options presented by the chatbot.

Image source: Landbot

Conversational landing pages are excellent options for freemium tool pages, complex product pages, and product education sign-up pages. They are popular for B2B landing pages in particular because of the subject-matter complexity in comparison to ecommerce.

9. Landbot – This chatbot platform lets you build a customized conversational landing page. Coding skills not required. The chatbot guides visitors through ‘choose your own adventure’ prompts, so they get the answers they need.

Video Tools for Lead Generation

Engaging, polished, and informative videos are powerful lead generation tools. They can answer customer questions before they’re asked and clarify your value proposition for visual learners.

Image source: Animaker

You can use video to capture attention and educate on social media ads, landing pages, and product pages.

10. Biteable – This program reduces the intimidation factor of video and animation production. Their homepage trumpets the ability to make professional videos “on your lunch break.” The top-tier plan allows collaborative editing, production assistance, custom branding, and access to 1.8 million images and clips sans watermark. Be sure to include closed captioning to make the video accessible — and for those who watch social videos with the sound off.

11. Animaker – Animated videos get attention and can be more cost-effective than live-action video production. Animaker streamlines the process for companies with their enterprise option.

12. Shakr – This video making technology for start-ups and global enterprises includes A/B testing, creative services, and support with video ad campaign set up.

13. Magisto Video Editor – An online video editing tool that uses AI to highlight the most emotional moments of your footage, so you can create videos that connect and inspire.

A/B and Multivariate Testing Tools

Small and large changes to your landing pages and your social media ads can make or break a campaign’s lead generation success. With A/B testing you test two distinct options to see which performs better. You can test the design of an entire landing page or a single element, such as a form or CTA.

Image source: HubSpot

Multivariate testing is more complex and measures the impact of several subtle changes on a webpage. Here, you may test different copy options for your landing page H1 and the CTA to discover which combination is most effective for lead generation.

14. Optimizely – This company is all about digital experimentation, making them a strong partner for A/B and multivariate testing. You can do both testing styles with the Optimizely Web Experimentation tool, but only A/B testing with Optimizely Performance Edge.

15. HubSpot – You can conduct A/B and multivariate testing to improve lead generation using the HubSpot CRM. Set up an A/B test of a landing page to see which option results in more form completion. Or, set up multivariate tests to determine whether a distinct combination of copy and background colour results in more downloads of a whitepaper.

Social Listening and Competitor Research Tools

These tools track what people are saying about your company and the products and services of your competitors. What do people like? Where do your competitors fall short? This can help you tweak your ad and landing page copy to address frustrations and stand apart from the crowd.

Image source: Sprout Social

16. Hootsuite Insights – This tool lets you track millions of mentions across the major social media platforms, as well as in online forums, the news, and review sites. You can track social sentiment around your brand and industry keywords, as well as social mentions of your competitors.

17. Sprout Social – The social media management tool boasts detailed competitor analysis in its Premium and Advanced plans. To compare your brand’s performance with competitors, Sprout Social breaks reports down by earned (organic) and owned (brand-driven) content and by social platform. This allows you to expand on what’s working and adjust what’s not working.

18. BuzzSumo Competitor Intelligence – This tool helps you track the content that works for your competitors, as well as the content that falls short. Use this information to create content, social campaigns, and landing pages that leverage engaging topics across your industry.

Social Graphics Tools

Original, vibrant graphics capture attention on the feed. Here are a few tools to help you create scroll-stopping images.

Image source: Word Swag

29. Canva – This easy-to-use design tool lets you create social media graphics using ready-to-customize templates or your own designs.

20. Word Swag – This one is for the font fanatics in the crowd. Use Word Swag to create text-only social graphics. You can even A/B test how your text-only social ads perform for lead-generation against ads that blend images and text.

Landing Page Optimization Tools

Without a sharp landing page, your inbound lead generation via social media will fall flat. You want your landing page to be frictionless, with information that meets the expectations you set up in your social post, exact next steps, and engaging CTA button.

Image source: HubSpot

Once visitors fill out a form, don’t forget the personable thank-you page that offers a discount, related blog post links, or simply a compelling or charming on-brand image.

21. HubSpot Landing Page Builder – HubSpot’s Landing Page Builder helps you optimize with one-click forms and dynamic content that changes depending on who is visiting the page (first-timers or repeat visitors). HubSpot lets you track the inbound traffic from social media and the performance of CTAs. A/B or multivariate testing will also help optimize the page.

22. Unbounce – The landing page builder and platform helps users create branded pages with an easy drag-and-drop interface. Unbounce specializes in SaaS, eCommerce, and agency landing pages. It’s Social Ads solution helps you create ad-customized landing pages and customizable forms designed to capture more qualified leads.

Social Media Lead Generation Statistics

1. 59% of marketers say social media marketing is one of the most effective tactics for improving lead generation quality. (Ascend2)
2. 61% of marketers say lead generation is their top marketing challenge. (Hubspot)
3. 67% of marketers say social media marketing generates leads. (Social Media Examiner)
4. Approximately 96% of website visitors are NOT ready to make a purchasing decision. (Marketo)
5. You have less than 15 seconds to capture the attention of website visitors before they leave. (Crazy Egg)
6. 72% of adults in the US use at least one social media platform. (Pew Research Center) 73% of adults in the US use YouTube. (Pew Research Center)
7. 69% of US adults use Facebook. (Pew Research Center)
8. 89% of consumers buy from brands they follow on social media. (Sprout Social) In 2020, global digital ad spend is estimated to be $385 billion. (eMarketer)
9. 56% of marketers say sales revenue generated is the most useful metric for measuring lead generation quality. (Ascend2)
10. 54% of marketers say they measure lead quality continuously. (Ascend2)
11. 66% of marketers say they generate social media leads with only six hours of social marketing per week. (Social Media Examiner)
12. 74% of marketers with more than four years of experience in social media marketing say their lead generation proficiency improved. (Social Media Examiner)

How to Measure Lead Generation for Social Media

Analyze, adjust, repeat. It’s a marketing mantra across strategies for good reason, and social media lead generation should be part of your analysis. Here are the essential metrics to track and analyze:

Click-through rate – This metric shows whether you are effectively segmenting audiences for your social ads. If you speak to your customers’ interests, questions, and pain points, your CTR percentage will be higher.

The CTR is calculated by dividing the number of clicks on your social media ad with the number of ad impressions and multiplying the result by 100. That is your CTR percentage for a given ad or campaign.

Conversion rate – This measures the number of people who took the lead generation action you wanted your social ad to prompt, such as joining your newsletter, downloading a whitepaper, or requesting a quote.

Leads per channel – Knowing how many leads you get per channel often tells you where your customers prefer to engage and where you should focus your social ad spend. However, if your campaigns aren’t generating leads on platforms known to yield results for your industry, you may need to A/B test or rethink your social ads strategy on that channel.

Form abandonment – If your form abandonment rate is high, there may be one too many information requirements. Business leads may be hesitant to give their full name, email, company name, and cell phone number.

Leads to qualified leads

How many of the leads you generate via social media are truly qualified? That means they successfully resulted in sales or were, at the least, promising for future business.

To get the qualified lead percentage, divide qualified leads by the total number of leads and multiply by 100. To make improvements, you may need to further refine your social media messaging for your target audience.

It’s tempting to set your social media lead generation strategy to autopilot, especially when you get positive results. But gaining a better understanding of your audience and fine-tuning your social ads can deepen trust, enhance your lead generation, and significantly boost their quality.

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Email Limits Applied by Web Hosting Providers

Few users are aware of shared hosting email sending limits until they come up against them. If you don't know it yet and you decide to start sending emails to a growing subscriber list through you domain on shared hosting accounts, you'll soon discover this.

Hosting providers set limits to prevent spam. In fact, most web host providers enforce email send rate limits on their customers.

The aim of this article is to show you a resource for finding your email send rate limit and options for most popular web host providers. These include such as GoDaddy, Bluehost, Outlook, iPowerweb and more, and also to suggest where you can find this information for shared hosting accounts.

However, it is probably best not to rely on a 3rd party for this information. The only way to be sure of your send-rate limit is to check within your email provider's support area (e.g. Gmail), or if using your domain to send emails, on your shared hosting provider's website.

Hosting services rarely, if ever, declare their send-rate limit on their sales pages.

They realise that such limits are far from the minds of people just starting out, buying their first hosting accounts, so don't expect to see them there. However, search on their support pages and they should be provided, and if you can't find the information send them a support ticket and ask them.

The alternative to sending emails using your Gmail Account, Hotmail, or for example, Yahoo Mail account, or indeed your domain using the inbuilt Cpanel and WordPress SMTP server facility, is to open an account with an autoresponder service such as Aweber, Get Response, Mailchimp etc.

However, their services can be expensive when you are just starting. Starting out by using services you already pay for, such as your own email, or domain, makes sense initially.

But with any email hosting system, apart from the specialist bulk mail service providers, there are limits placed on the number of outgoing messages. This is to prevent an account being used for spamming. The trick for email and hosting providers is to set a limit which is more than enough for the normal customers, but too low to be of appeal to spammers.

Although these limits can be frustrating for some people, these limits are for the good of all those sharing web servers. That's because a few rogue account holders could easily spoil it for the vast majority of shared web hosting account holders who only use their domain email service send a few emails a day, and might easily get blacklisted along with a spammer.

Blacklisting might occur without these limits, due to the fact that the multiple domain accounts hosted on shared servers all have the same IP address. There are many email services which provide blacklisting services to detect and remove spam from business websites.

If your IP gets blacklisted by these services very few of your emails will arrive at the destination and those that do will go directly into “Spam Boxes” on the recipient's account. Spam like this almost never gets looked at, and after a while is auto-deleted. If severe spamming is detected as emanating from an IP address all emails on that IP address are usually blacklisted.

Lists of Hosts and Shared Hosting Email Sending Limits

A more comprehensive list is available at docs.mailpoet.com

What are email sending limits of some other popular email hosts, How many emails are considered spam and how to avoid getting blacklisted.

Outgoing messages sent via iPowerweb can not exceed 25mb per email, including attachments. Mailing lists should not exceed 200 recipients.

The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a web site/domain hosted by Bluehost:

How many emails can you send at once with yahoo?

How many emails can Outlook send at a time?

We believe it is for Outlook 365:

300 emails per day, 30 per minute, and up to 100 recipients per email. These limitations are stricter for new or flagged accounts. See Limits for Outlook.com messages.

Aplus email has a daily send-limit for shared web hosting – no more than 1000 recipients per mailing list and no more than 500 emails per 30 minutes. Aplus other SMTP limits – max 7mb for web email or max 20mb for local email client messages.

Email Send Limits for Popular Web Hosting Providers

Although we consider Siteground to be one of the best cheap hosting providers, their daily email sending limits are very low and only suitable for the smallest email marketing campaigns. On the flip side, they are on our list of hosts with student discounts, as well as one of the cheapest providers for hosting unlimited websites.

SMTP email sending limits and rates for web hosting providers. Godaddy email send limit for shared web hosting – no more than 250 relays (recipients) per day. You can purchase additional relays, in packs of 50.

Web Hosting Providers – SMTP limit and email rate limits

Godaddy email send rate limit & SMTP restrictions. The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a web site/domain hosted by GoDaddy. Godaddy email shared hosting email sending limits for shared web hosting – no more than 250 relays (recipients) per day. The number of mailing list subscribers depend on your hosting plan. Using a mailman mailing list for spamming can lead to the termination of your web hosting account. Homestead email send rate limit and SMTP restrictions.

Use an outgoing SMTP service like smtp2go to relay your large email campaigns. Find a web hosting company who has daily email sending limits that meet your needs. Setup your own MS exchange server and configure it for SMTP email delivery.

There are a few reasons why your host will enforce limits on SMTP email. The first, and most important reason, is spam. To limit the amount of potential spam that can be sent by any single user, web hosts put a cap on the total amount of email that can be sent from one web hosting account within a predefined period.

Web Email Account Providers – email rate limits and SMTP limit

MSN Hotmail email sending rate limit and restrictions. The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a Hotmail account:. Hotmail email send limit – no more than 100 recipients per day. Hotmail other SMTP limits – outgoing messages sent via Hotmail can not exceed 10mb per email (including attachments).

Email accounts allowed: one with the cheapest plan, unlimited with the highest plan. Hostinger has two separate email limits – one for webmail, and another for SMTP. If you are ok with a long-term commitment, Hostinger sells one of the cheapest hosting services you’ll find anywhere.

Limits for sending emails in Bluehost

Yahoo mail – email send rate limits and other email restrictions. The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a yahoo mail account. Yahoo mail email send limit – no more than 100 emails or recipients per hour. The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a Lycos Mail account: Lycos Mail email send limit – max 25 recipients per message and max 250 emails per day. Lycos Mail other SMTP limits – Lycos mail does not have a limit to the attachment file size at this time. The following restrictions apply when sending emails from an AOL connection:. AOL email send limit – no more than 100 recipients per message or 500 recipients per connection. AOL other SMTP limits – max 16mb per message.

Gmail has another restriction on the total number of recipients you can email per day so you cannot use cc or bcc to bypass the daily email sending limit. Also, these limits are different for apps like mail merge for Gmail that send emails via the Gmail API.

Head over to google apps support pages for more information on sending and receiving limits. Having trouble managing a large number of emails? Hiver’s shared mailbox will make email management absolutely effortless.

What Are Email Sending Limits of Various Email Service Providers?

You have to know this. Especially if you do email outreach. Each email service provider has its own email shared hosting email sending limits. The limits may be daily, hourly, and sometimes also per minute.

Salesforce doesn’t want a rogue customer sending out tens of thousands of inappropriate emails that result in ISPS (internet service providers) getting a lot of their end-users flagging emails sent from salesforce as spam, which can get a salesforce server blacklisted by that isp.

If you’re sending your cold emails using tools like Woodpecker, which sends emails from your own mailbox (your own SMTP ), the limits of your email service provider are the ones to keep an eye on when setting up your cold email campaigns.

Why is it crucial to be aware of the email sending limits?

If you’re sending cold email campaigns without being aware of your email provider’s limits, your email account may get blocked before you know it. For example, we recommend Gmail users that you find out about information about how many emails you can use Gmail to send per day.

Follow these recommendations to help stay within the shared hosting email sending limits (IP limits): Be aware of email sending limits when sending from domains that have a google. Com MX host. Limit sending mail from a single IP address based on the MX record domain, not the domain in the recipient email address.

What is the email sending limit of various email hosts?

If you try to send more emails out than you are allowed to, you won’t be able to send any kind of email from many accounts for 24 hours or more. If you know the limits, and set up your delivery time and the number of emails sent daily per campaign according to those limits, your campaigns will be smoothly sent as planned and your emails won’t be considered spam– provided that you’re not sending poor quality content without any personalization whatsoever. The email sending limits posed by your provider are for all the messages sent from your address. That’s why if you have several follow-ups planned within your campaign, you should keep in mind that after a few days or weeks, not only your first touch emails will be queued to be sent a day, but also a number of follow-ups.

Gmail and Gsuite limits: Gmail has certain email sending limits in place and you are only allowed to send a limited number of email messages per day. If you exceed the daily quota, Google may temporarily disable your Gmail account without any warnings and you may have to wait for up to 24 hours before you can regain access to your Gmail mailbox.

Com based on factors, such as. Your email account’s age (if it’s less than 30 days old, your email sending limits are lower). How often you use your Outlook. Com account (the more often, the better your reputation gets).

Free Gmail Email Sending Limit

Google Gmail email send rate limit & restrictions. The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a Google Gmail account: Gmail email send limit – no more than 500 recipients p. Er message for the Gmail web interface, or max 100 recipients if you are using an email client software.

However, when sending mail from a different address, the original account’s message limits are applied. If you are sending emails through google script, like in the case of Gmail mail merge, the daily sending limit is 100 recipients per day for free Gmail accounts.

Additional good-to-know: If you exceed the Gmail email sending limits quota, your account will get blocked for 1-24 hours. We usually don’t recommend sending cold email campaigns from a regular free Gmail account but setting up an address on a separate domain using G-Suite (a business email service from Google) instead.

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An Introduction to the Free Google Drive Service

Google Drive is a free product from Google that's two products in one, storage and a set of apps to create the documents you will store. In a real sense, Google Drive is like having your own hard drive that follows you everywhere you have internet access. You can access your files by a web browser, computer, or device. You can store anything! What is more, it is available to anyone right from their Gmail account.

Google Drive is a cloud-based program to create and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. Drive syncs to the cloud so everyone's always accessing the most up-to-date content, and its sharing features and access controls make working with co-workers and collaborators, agencies and vendors etc., simple and secure.

The popular Google cloud-based file storage and word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software apps all synchronize perfectly with Google Drive free storage. This free service is simply amazing for its never-ending functionality and the fact that users can access it from anywhere they access their email.

Google Drive fits into the productivity suite from Google and shows how to navigate the interface. The are differences between Drive and Docs, but Google always provides great ways to organize, sync, and locate your Drive files. This service allows all users to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentation slides, and drawings, and even allows savvy users to create forms and surveys directly in Google Drive.

Install and use the offline Drive client to sync files to your computer. Share files with collaborators and set permissions for viewing, editing and commenting.

It is remarkable, but a fact that Google is so determined to woo you away from its arch competitors equivalent office application, that any Google Docs you create, which are stored on your drive, don't count against that storage limit. Later in this article, we will explain to you how you can convert your existing Office documents into the Google Doc format, saving you room on your drive. This also brings you added benefits, such as easy sharing of your files with other people and working on them together.

During many google drive training sessions, one of the most common questions revolving google drive is the difficulty in finding files in google drive. This surprises us, so we have provided an answer to that problem in a later section of this article.

How to Free Up Google Drive Space

What can you do when you get close to exceeding the free limit and don’t want to buy a subscription just yet? here are some tips and tricks to increase google drive space for free.

As mentioned in the last section, if you want to increase the free space on your drive, you should store documents in Google’s own file formats. There is nothing stopping you converting all your Microsoft business application (Office) files to the Google equivalent format to free up Google Drive Space.

Apart from the above, in Gmail, you should consider the need to delete old and unwanted Gmail email files. Next, consider deleting files by size in Google drive (largest first) and photos, to free up storage space.

But, don't forget that Google has competitors. If your Google Cloud Google Drive free storage free space is full and you really can't bring yourself to delete files from it or follow the other tips above, consider opening a free Dropbox account. Dropbox is also great! It's only that google drive offers more space for free that would make me recommend it instead.

Saving Files Using the Google Drive Browser Extension

Save to google drive browser extension is once again free an really simple to set up. Google offers an extension for Google Chrome, “Save to Google Drive”, that allows users to save web content to Google Drive through a browser action or through the context menu.

But, when collaborating with others online you would think that there would be an issue with having a file open at the same time in both locations. When one user makes changes, which version edits should be saved? Also, where do you locate all this on a mobile client? Google Drive cleverly sidesteps these issues by keeping separate folders for each machine, all accessible from the browser.

If you use the Chrome browser, we suggest that you try out the “save to google drive” browser extension. Being able to save content from the web to your Google Drive using your browser or through a context menu can be very useful.

How to Get Extra Storage in Google Drive

If you cannot free up space on your Google Drive free storage, and really do need extra Google Drive storage, it’ll cost you. The price will vary depending on your country, but it isn't expensive. Google provides their pricing for each country here.

Also, take a look around on Google first we noticed recently that they were making an offer that if you are willing to simply perform a little security check, they would give you an extra 2 GB of storage in your Google Drive. It's worth looking for this or other offers of additional free Google Drive free storage.

Upgrading to Google One and their paid version of Gmail also comes with far more Google Drive storage space.

How Much Storage is Available on Your Google Drive?

Google Drive is the Cloud Storage option that you get together with your Google or Gmail account. If you need more than the provided free storage quota of 15 GB you can either pay for it directly or another option is to buy a linked Google service which when you join entitles you to additional free Google Drive storage.

With Drive Enterprise, for example, businesses only pay for the storage their employees use. It comes with google docs, sheets and slides – and works seamlessly with Microsoft Office (variously and confusingly also called “Office 365”, 365, and now “Business”).

Can you get extra storage in Google Drive for Free?

There are many cloud storage service providers that usually require paid subscriptions. Google Drive offers free cloud storage of 15 GB for free. Yes. All Google accounts get 15gb of storage free, shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos.

Google Drive is fully integrated with the free Google Office suite for online and offline file processing, storage and synchronization.

How to get more storage in Google Drive Without Buying Extra Volume?

You may be able to get and additional 2 TB by doing a simple security check.

Also, remember that any data associated with your Google email account counts against your Drive storage limit, but anything stored in google docs, such as spreadsheets in their formats isn't counted. That means that if you have files saved in the formats of their competitors you can effectively relinquish more Google Drive free storage by converting those files to the Google formatted equivalent.

There is another way to get more storage in Google Drive for existing users, without buying extra volume, as explained below:

Empty Google Drive Trash

Yes, at the risk of pointing out the obvious simply empty your Google Drive trash! Right-click any of the files you don't need anymore using the Trash signs. Next, select “Remove” to send them to the trash, then repeat the steps above to empty the Google Drive trash.

Another way to do this is to access your google drive account and click on trash in the left sidebar. Click on the trash title at the top and you’ll find an option saying empty trash. After deleting, be sure to go to the Google Drive trash folder and empty it, as files stored in your Trash still account for storage space taken up on your Google account.

Clear Google Drive Space and Increase Storage

Click on the google drive symbol to see the status of the drive including how much storage space you have left.

Need more room? you can learn more about clearing up space or upgrade to google one to get more storage.

Syncing between your computer's google drive folder and my drive will stop. You can still create google documents because they don't take up any storage space.

Remove Hidden Data from Apps in Google Drive

Apps associated with your google drive storage can sometimes have hidden data, but all it takes is a couple of clicks to remove it.

Empty Google Drive Trash

When you delete files from Google Drive, they are not deleted permanently. They are taken to the trash or bin folder where they stay until you empty your trash bin manually.

Visit Google Drive, and then click trash. Next, click trash to the top of the screen, and then click empty trash.

Best Cloud Storage Services in 2020

Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, and many more cloud storage services are available.

Onedrive and Apple iCloud Drive also act like file-syncing services such as the best known “Google Drive” and “Dropbox”, and the less well-known “Sugarsync” among others.

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What is shared web hosting?

Shared hosting plans, are the provision of basic website hosting services where you share your server’s resources (bandwidth and storage space) with other customers on a first-come-first-served basis. To help better illustrate this example let’s compare a shared hosting service to transportation via Uber. In this example, shared hosting is the equivalent of selecting their ride-sharing option. This mode of transportation comes with certain benefits, such as being more cost-effective than riding alone. However, since you’re sharing the mode of transportation, it may be more efficient for your driver to make additional stops for other passengers first. As a result, the overall travel time to your destination gets increased.

There are two types of shared hosting offered there is:

• the shared hosting service based on the free Linux server operating software, and
• there is Microsoft server software that effectively does the same thing, but each part has to be paid for. The terminology for Microsoft users is MySQL. MySQL stands for Microsoft SQL Server. This uses the Microsoft database system. It is brought to you via Microsoft and works seamlessly with Windows Shared Web hosting solutions.

How does shared hosting work?

Shared hosting is relatively low maintenance. Your host will take the headache out of running your server by taking care of basic server administrative tasks. Unless you are prepared to run your own server, web management is the most convenient option. Leave it to professionals to worry about your web hosting – with shared hosting you can expect professional technical assistance for everything from hardware upgrades and maintenance, software updates, DDoS attacks, network outages, etc.

Usually, website hosting plans are made to accommodate a large variety of website platforms. However, as you can guess, shared WordPress plans are specifically tailored for WordPress sites. The benefit of choosing this type of shared plan is that the support team handling your website’s data is highly trained and skilled with WordPress. Having a support team that specializes in your website’s platform allows for easier updates to plugins, optimized performance, and better security. While working with only WordPress sites might seem to be a detriment to a hosting company’s business, clients seem to appreciate the streamlined security and support. That’s why there has been increased interest in shared WordPress hosting.

Shared hosting does introduce a small security risk. On a shared host, each website administrator should only see his or her own site. If this were to be improperly set up, the admin would be able to see and affect other sites. Generally, this could happen inadvertently, but some would use it to do harm. If someone is able to access one website on the shared server as an administrator, he or she could then work their way into all of the websites and data stored on the server. However, this risk is small, and shared hosting is less complicated to administer, so it can be cheaper to set up and maintain than VPS and Dedicated servers.

Advantages of shared web hosting

Similar to shared hosting, VPS hosting has its own advantages. Since your website is on its own dedicated section of the server, you can control resources, install software, and truly configure your VPS to comply with your website requirements. Another advantage of VPS hosting is having root access. This allows for greater configuration as well as increased ease of VPS management and updates. Having the ability to fully customize your VPS will also allow for increased server security. You will be able to manage all security features for your VPS.

The main advantages of having a shared web hosting package from most hosting services are that they offer high speed hosting solutions at a highly affordable price. On top of that, you'll get your web presence up and running smoothly. You are going to find that each of our packages can meet a variety of business and personal hosting needs..

Here is a review of the advantages of shared hosting.

Cost-effective: the cost to customers is kept low due to multiple users contributing to the costs of the server.

Flexible: you can choose shared plans that fit the needs of your growing website. For example, if you find yourself needing another website, more cloud storage, or more FTP users, you can upgrade to a plan that provides it.

Secure: although space and resources are shared on a server, your information is not. Other websites utilizing your shared server are not able to access any of your website’s data. Additional security features provided by some web hosting companies also defend your website against cybersecurity threats.

Is Shared Hosting Right for Me?

There are a lot of advantages to windows shared hosting at EZI-Gold hosting. We understand the need for lightning-fast speeds and reliable service, all delivered at an affordable cost. That’s why we have put together some of the best hosting products you’ll find. You’ll find that shared hosting is flexible and that’s why it's such a popular option. Your account includes a set amount of disk space, monthly traffic, databases, FTP accounts, and more.

When you search with keywords best VPS hosting or top 10 VPS hosting, you will get a good number of sites with reviews and providers. But as a customer is it a wise decision to simply follow reviews and signup with a particular VPS provider? Before going for VPS provider from your existing shared hosting setup, make serious thoughts about the below points. There are many things that need to be considered before thinking about VPS plans. This evaluation will help you to make better decisions while moving from shared to VPS plan.

Shared hosting provides the most cost-effective hosting solution. With many people contributing to the costs of the server, the hosting company’s costs are distributed between them. Basic plans start at around $30 a year while you can expect to pay over $100 a year for premium plans with unmetered disk space, unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited websites.

The Other Alternative: Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting is a newer type of web hosting. It can best be described as a hybrid version of a vps, but more cost-effective. Cloud hosting plans come with multiple remote servers. Each server has different responsibilities. If one of the servers is compromised or has a problem, the other servers on the network will take over those responsibilities and pick up the slack. That’s what makes cloud web hosting such an appealing alternative to traditional web hosting. With cloud servers, your website will have higher uptime rates and won’t have as much unexpected downtime due to server errors. Your site will remain fluid and perform at a high level.

There aren’t any specific alternatives to a shared hosting plan. There are upgrades, but no alternatives that are as cheap as shared hosting. The alternatives to shared hosting include WordPress dedicated hosting, running a VPS server, and other semi-dedicated hosting options. All of these will end up costing more than a basic shared hosting plan, but they will provide you with greater levels of customization and performance. Shared hosting is a great choice for beginning website users whose sites don’t receive a lot of traffic. Remember, you can always upgrade or change hosting environments with time.

Vps hosting can be pretty scalable. Consequently, if your site traffic amounts will be trending upward, you are able to trust one of VPS over shared hosting in order to grow with you. Compare this to alternative types of hosting, like shared hosting, where once you get to the limits of one’s plan, you’ll need to upgrade to another form of hosting entirely. Using VPS hosting it all takes is the click of a button to add more resources to your server. Plus, it’s simpler to scale your host resources along. So, you could scale upward when you are running a promotion, or during the busy holiday season, and climb down when traffic levels return to normal.

It can host dynamic websites

Companies who offer shared hosting plans, like Siteground and Namecheap, are able to offer such low prices (typically starting around $3. 95 per month) for their hosting services because they make the total amount of resources available on their shared hosting plans available to every customer that you share your server with. Shared hosting plans are the best choice for static websites or brochure style websites. These types of websites are essentially the equivalent of internet-based postcards that have fixed content that doesn’t change (dynamically) based on the visitor.

Which web hosting plan is the right one for me? This depends on your requirements. If you are planning a simple website, consisting mostly of static HTML pages and minimal multimedia content with manageable data traffic, then a starter package is the ideal option for you. We also offer more advanced packages that are suitable for dynamic web projects and high traffic. With the most powerful web hosting packages, you can comfortably manage resource-intensive, multimedia-based websites as well as extensive online stores and shops. Compare the respective product details to find the right web hosting packages.

Shared Web Hosting Done Right

Shared hosting done right is simple and straightforward to set up. Most providers offer a control panel to manage your website. This simplified user interface manages the administrative tasks and any monitoring duties associated with running a server.

Shared and reseller internet hosting have numerous resemblances, numerous web hosts provide both shared and reseller hosting. The major difference between the 2 is in the names ‘shared', you are sharing resources, which coincides with ‘reseller' in a means however you can resell the server resources. You could develop your very own internet hosting accounts and share your assigned server resources with your customers. The host still remains in control of their server and are accountable for updating server software and preserving the server. The host will usually also provide support to the reseller, so if there are any issues or faults the reseller will have the ability to contact the host.

Asp. Net is Microsoft's successor to Asp and was created with performance in mind. Script execution times with Asp. Net are many times faster than other scripting languages. Ajax is a framework that allows web designers to quickly create a new generation of more efficient, more interactive, and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers.

PHP is a scripting language designed for producing high-level dynamic content on your website.

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Best SQL Server Tools FREE for Database Developers and Administrators

SQL Server Management Studio

SQL Server tools – Free : Maybe there is no such thing as a free lunch but who cares when there are awesome tools for SQL servers that are available for free! That’s right, you can make life a whole lot easier for yourself by maximizing your valuable time so you can concentrate on the good stuff and the best part is you can do so for free. We all know that there are some great applications and tools out there for working with SQL server. Polished enterprise-grade products from the likes of those clever people at Quest and Redgate, for example. Products for managing and simplifying the most important of SQL server tasks such as backups and performance monitoring.

SQL server management studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for accessing, configuring, managing, administering and developing all components of an SQL Server. SSMS combines a broad group of graphical tools with a number of rich script editors to provide developers and administrators of all skill levels access to the SQL server. The current release features improved compatibility with previous versions of SQL Server, a stand-alone web installer, and toast notifications within SSMS when new releases become available.

This version will be compatible with Windows 10, as a user can test a technical preview. Apr 12, 2016. New for SQL server 2016 for the seasoned SQL server dba you will notice a few additions to this screen. Included products are db2 12.

The ‘SQL server install location' window will appear and the command line tools are general availability (GA), however, they are being released with the installer package for SQL server 2019.

dBeaver: As free SQL editors go, dBeaver is one of the popular open-source SQL clients available to database developers, programmers, and administrators looking for a feature-rich editor to work with. It’s extensive features and universal compatibility with the most popular database systems gives it a spot on this list. As stated earlier, the criteria that were used in assessing dBeaver include; its cross-platform capabilities, extensibility, and ease of use. And this is how it scored:
cross-platform capabilities: dBeaver is popular for its’ support of most databases including the once you probably intend to work with. With dBeaver, you can execute your SQL tasks on operating systems such as; windows, mac, Solaris, AIX, etc. In terms of database platforms, it is compatible with, dBeaver also provides support to all options that are JDBC compliant such as; MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, to db2, SQL server, ms access, Sybase, Firebird, Teradata, Derby, etc.

The Mega Guide to Free SQL Server Tools

Best SQL server monitoring tools + SQL basics guide

Adopting effective Microsoft SQL server monitoring tools is an essential part of maintaining the long-term health of not only your database but also your larger network. Monitoring server performance and activity can have a direct impact on minimizing downtime and cost-efficiency — not least because addressing a server failure can involve a hefty price tag. I have tried a range of SQL server database performance monitoring tools, both paid and free, and compiled my top picks to suit a range of organizational budgets and needs. Leading the pack are two products from the industry-leading company Solarwinds® database performance analyzer ranks the highest, followed closely by server & application monitor.

We've all done it. Scourer the internet for a script or free tool to help do our job or solve a problem. SQL server central and similar sites contain an abundance of scripts and guides to assist us. There are times when I want to use a tool instead of a collection of scripts and commands. A tool more often than not requires less customization than a script and sometimes less technical know-how to get them to work. So I decided to share a list of free tools that I use from time to time.

Free SQL Server Tools to Give You a Boost

While looking for the very best SQL server monitoring tools, we found many different products that we thought deserved giving them a closer look. While all the products on our list can monitor sql servers, several can monitor more. We’ve actually included various tools on our list to give you an idea of the variety that is available. Solarwinds is one of the best-known makers of network and system administration tools. With a broad array of tools covering almost every topic, many administrators have at least heard of the company. Its flagship product, the network performance monitor, consistently scores among the best network bandwidth monitoring tool. Solarwinds, as if the above was not enough is also famous for its free tools, each addressing a specific need of network administrators.

Sp_blitz®: free SQL server health check – our app1 that gives you a SQL Server health check in a matter of seconds. It gives you a prioritized list of health and performance issues, plus gives you URLs for more details about each issue. Also available as a stored procedure too. The best free sql server downloads list – you’re trying to manage SQL Server databases, and every time you google for something, you get overwhelmed with all kinds of free tools, white papers, blogs, and newsletters. There’s so many that suck, and you’re tired of wasting time on bad ones. Get our favorite list of the best free tools.

Plan Explorer is a free tool from Sentry One. It is one of the best SQL query analysis and optimization tools. This tool can help you quickly get to the root of the toughest SQL server query problems. It is made of several modules. The index analysis uses scoring algorithms to help you determine the best index to support a given query. You can easily view recommended indexes, create and modify indexes, and detect and update old statistics. The statistics analysis module shows you the impact of compiled and runtime query parameters on performance. This lets you quickly spot data skew that can contribute to parameter sniffing issues, visualize potential ascending key problems, and identify opportunities for filtered indexes.

Top 10 Free SQL Server Tools

The SQL server maintenance solution comprises scripts for running backups, integrity checks, and index and statistics maintenance on all editions of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL server 2008 r2, SQL server 2012, and SQL server 2014. The solution is based on stored procedures, the SQLcmd utility, and SQL Server Agent jobs. I designed the solution for the most mission-critical environments, and it is used in many organizations around the world. The SQL server maintenance solution has been voted as best free tool in the 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010 SQL server magazine awards, and a top session at pass summit 2014. The SQL server maintenance solution is free.

Business continuity is a key requirement for planning, designing, and implementing any business-critical system. When you bring data into the mix, business continuity becomes mandatory. It’s an insurance policy that one hopes they never have to make a claim against in the foreseeable future. SQL server brings intelligent performance, availability, and security to Windows, Linux, and containers and can tackle any data workload from bi to ai from online transaction processing (OLTP) to data warehousing. You get mission-critical high availability and disaster recovery features that allow you to implement various topologies to meet your business sales. A customer with SQL server licenses with software assurance has historically benefited from a free passive instance of SQL server for their high availability configurations.

Introducing edb360 – a free tool that is executed from sql*plus and generates a set of reports providing a 360-degree view of an oracle database; all without installing anything on the database. If using oracle enterprise manager (OEM) is off-limits for you or your team, and you can only access the database through a SQL*plus connection with no direct access to the database server, then this tool is a perfect fit to provide you with a broad overview of the database configuration, performance, top SQL and much more. You only need a sql*plus account with reading access to the data dictionary and common oracle licenses like the diagnostics or the tuning pack.

My Top 10 Free SQL Server Tools

Here are the top 10 free database tools that perform a wide range of specific functions. The idea behind this list is to help you choose the right tools that best fit your needs. Adminer is a database management tool that allows you to manage databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, and more from a web-based user interface. It is packaged as a single PHP file (similar to PHPMyAdmin) and has support for popular database management systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, ms SQL, Oracle, and MongoDB. Different UI designs are available for you to download as CSS files.

The settings we use when connecting to MySQL with SSMS depend on whether we are accessing it on a remote system/network or locally. When accessing MySQL locally we can refer to server name as localhost. On remote systems, the most reliable way to reference the server is by the IP address. Step 1: let’s jump right in by opening SSMS. To open SSMS, click the new icon on your desktop or, click on the start menu and start typing SSMS or look for the program in the Microsoft SQL server tools folder. For convenience, you may choose to right-click the program and pin it to the start menu and/or pin it to the taskbar, so it is easier to find.

I have been using SQL compare by Redgate at my company and was very satisfied with it. Are there any free comparison tools that are similar? or what would be my best shot for synchronizing two SQL DB's without a paid application?

SQL Server tools Free and XSQL software: The free lite edition of the SQL server comparison bundle includes all the database comparison and synchronization tools we need. 2007 XSQL software's comparison and synchronization tools have been free with no restrictions for SQL server express edition.

Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier

I recently bought a new laptop. It is powerful and wonderful. And fast. Very fast. In the process of installing my programs, I started thinking about all the software I use to make my job easier. There are a lot of great programs available for dbas and developers. The best ones, of course, are free:

SQLdbsearch 2. 0: With SQLdbsearch 2. 0, you can find objects that could have been affected by a  database change ( see www. Sqldbtools. Com/tools. Aspx?productid=2 )

Tarantino Database Change Management: This utility makes it easier to apply database schema and database changes to multiple sql server systems
( code.Google.com/p/tarantino/wiki/databasechangemanagement )

Quest Software's Toad Data Modeler, freeware edition: You can use this tool to create data models and deploy changes to data structures
( www. Toadworld. Com/downloads/freeware/toaddatamodelerfreeware/tabid/637/default. Aspx)

Quest Software's benchmark factory for databases, freeware edition: This performance and scalability tool helps you determine and minimize the risk of change in your sql server environment ( www. Quest. Com/benchmark-factory/freeware. Aspx ).

Free and useful tools have proliferated since the launch of the CodePlex and SourceForge websites. Join Kevin Kline, long-time author of the SQL server magazine column “tool time”, as he profiles the very best of the free tools covered in his monthly column – dozens of free tools and utilities!

One Response to Free SQL Server tools

Idera, a leading provider of management solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, announced that due to overwhelming response, they will continue to offer free licenses of their new SQL server job management and scheduling tool, SQL Job Manager. Idera announced SQL Job Manager version 1 offering free copies of the product as a holiday gift to the SQL server database.

We looked at the best SQL free monitoring tools. Of all the tools mentioned on the list, we recommend the SolarWinds database performance analyzer for SQL server and SentryOne SQL sentry. Each of these tools offers a server health monitoring experience that can function well within any size environment. The autodiscovery feature of the former makes this a particularly simple process. No matter what your preferences are, we recommend that you try out a number of free trials before you make a purchase. If you’re working within a small network then it is ideal to try out a tool like Paessler SQL monitoring software on account of its freeware version. The most important thing is to find a product that you’re comfortable monitoring with before you make a purchase.

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The database related project to success in the shortest time and deliver the highest quality is the claim of Rad Development's offering. Vs2005 comes with SQL server 2005 express edition, which is free for desktop applications and small business software. SQL server 2005 plays an important row to ensure the scalability of storage and software.

Free SQL Server Tools for Every DBA

EMS Database Management Solutions offers a comprehensive set of free database tools that allow you to achieve higher availability and better performance for data maintenance and database administration. These freeware programs for database management cover major database maintenance tasks and have essential functionality for efficient dba and DB application developer work removing the need for a multitude of separate SQL utilities. Designed for novices and power users alike, ems SQL manager freeware makes it easy to control data infrastructure and provides all SQL tools necessary to set up database systems properly. Their free product line enables you to perform server administration, database development, user and security management, data viewing and editing, and other common tasks using a single powerful free database program with an easy-to-use graphical interface.

Apex SQL dba: What’s new in ApexSQL dba is ApexSQL Manage for SQL server instances discovery, health check, documentation, and comparison. ApexSQL Log vs. SQL Server change data capture (CDC). Using ApexSQL tools with azure active directory authentication is good. ApexSQL clean has been discontinued.

Microsoft SQL server historical sample database diagram tour, complete feature highlight: hint-list, audit vs. SQL Server change data capture (CDC).

SQL Server comes with a wide array of tools for monitoring your environment. There are logs and traces that provide information when errors occur, but these are often used passively to react to events that have already occurred.

Top 5 Free SQL Server Tools

In a recent article, we reported on a nice free alternative to manage SQL databases, which, from the same UI can manage also MySQL Databases. I thought that it might be a good idea to actually check out around the web to see if there are other, preferably free tools. And, Yes, there are free alternatives to Microsoft SQL management studio. While SQL Server management studio is a built-in utility for managing SQL express, it's tricky to install, and I've seen many users being frustrated with that. So why actually bother with that if there are alternatives available even as portable applications.

In data management processes ranging from query execution to backing up information, database performance issues are an inevitable problem. Fortunately, there's a way to combat these day-to-day roadblocks, through diligent database administration. And there's a SQL server tool available to help deal with each type of database problem it professionals face. To help narrow down the field of SQL server tools to choose from, we've taken things a bit further: the only thing better than finding the right tool for the job is finding it for free.

Free SQL Server tools

I know you all love talking about your favorite tools and maintenance scripts. Whether your pleasure is problem diagnosis, query tuning, index analysis, or performance monitoring. These SQL server tools are all available absolutely free and with the common goal of making your life easier. In no particular order of awesomeness (they are all fantastic in their own individual way) here are my top 10 free SQL server tools.

There are tools in the SQL server that allow us to collect SQL statements for a certain period. The problem of these tools is that the amount of data recorded in this way may not be small and that the recorded data requires further processing. Also, work with these tools may not be easy. A tool that solves the problem described above is available. This tool can automatically collect information about executed SQL statements and it does their analysis and stores the required information in a custom SQL database, avoiding unnecessary or duplicate SQL statements being stored.

H2s Media Team has a monitoring database server not only for SQL but for all kinds of database systems. This is really a crucial task and a need for any admin to make sure all applications run properly that use data stored on databases. Tools are available with free trials to monitor the performance of SQL Server to note its performance, how long it has been online, track the health, load, and a lot more other stats.

Free SQL Server tools every DBA can use

The free tool of the day once was the Netwrix SQL server change reporter. The app reports changes made to your SQL server’s configurations and databases. It’s very hard to keep track of changes and enforce fine-grained delegation rules for environments managed by multiple dbas and operators, but the Netwrix product reports on all SQL server changes made to server instances, databases, users, roles, logins, schema, and many other objects. With the free SQL server change reporter, administrators can promote early detection of unauthorized changes that could otherwise lead to server downtime, while streamlining compliance with relevant regulatory standards.

I have been working as a SQL server dba for over 8 years, administering and optimizing servers' performance. In my free time, I wanted to do something useful for the universe and for my colleagues. This is how we eventually got a free index maintenance tool for SQL server and azure.

Mysql workbench provides a visual console to easily administer MySQL environments and gain better visibility into databases. Developers and dbas can use the visual tools for configuring servers, administering users, performing backup and recovery, inspecting audit data, and viewing database health. Learn more ».

Download SQL Server Tools Free

Azure synapse analytics was offering a parallel data warehouse. To manage your database, you need a tool. Whether your databases run in the cloud, on windows, on macOS, or on Linux , your tool doesn't need to run on the same platform as the database. You can view our thoughts here on the different SQL tools in the following tables.

While still in beta, I wasn't able to connect to my Azure SQL database instance in Navicat Monitor 2. 0. It's likely caused by a difference in Azure architecture compared to the traditional SQL server. Microsoft Azure has no “master” database, so, for now, the monitor cannot get the data from SQL server. This issue may very well be resolved before version 2. 0 officially hits the market. Official site, download, and price: A free trial can be downloaded and used for a full 30 days. If you want the full version, you can purchase a standard license for $25. 99 (monthly), $259. 99 (yearly), or $399. 00 (perpetual).

In this blog post, I  highlight an overlooked feature in my SQL server compact toolbox ( Visual Studio add-in or standalone ), the ability to create interactive relationship diagrams of SQL server databases. And in combination with the free, open-source DBdoc for SQL Server, you have a full suite of documentation tools. In order to create a diagram showing tables, columns, and relationships for your SQL server database, install the toolbox.

“Quick Search” for SQL objects and table data in SSMS search for SQL Server is a free add-in for
Microsoft SQL server management studio that allows you to quickly locate SQL objects, data, and text in your databases. When a database contains lots of objects, finding a required table or recollecting names of your stored routines can be quite a daunting task. With the search for SQL Server, you no longer need to look through the entire SSMS object explorer to locate a required column name or text in a stored procedure. The tool will usually make your life easier.

There are several ways (techniques) of monitoring query performance and finding slow queries such as system dynamic management views, SQL server profiler, SQL Server extended events. Recent to the scene, are a couple of features (tools) have appeared that make monitoring of query performance make easier than it used to be. In this article, we will discuss the Microsoft SQL server query store (query store) feature, then about William Durkin and Enrico van de Laar Openquerystore (open query store,) feature and, in the end, the query store feature will be introduced from ApexSQL Plan, a free tool for visualizing and viewing SQL Server query execution plans, analyzing and identifying query performance issues and more.

There is a mobile SQL database engine, SQLite. It is “small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, and full-featured. ” because of that, it’s built to run on mobile phones as well as desktop computers and is wildly used around the world. It doesn’t offer as many features as the tools above, but if you’re looking for a free database engine that doesn’t need a separate server process, SQLite is the way to go, since it writes directly onto disk files. And, because it’s so popular, it’s easier to find solutions when you run across a problem since someone is bound to have run into it before.

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