Blog Marketing Academy - David Risley
Blog Marketing Academy - David Risley
Unlock The Profit Potential Of Your WordPress Site. We combine the tools of WordPress with a deep knowledge of marketing, automation and conversions to help you build and optimize your site for maximum revenue.
Join thousands of other creators, membership site owners, coaches and marketers growing their businesses on the WordPress platform. What you will find here is a mix between business strategy and technical guides to help solopreneurs at all levels build and grow their online business. I cover topics such as membership sites, site building, marketing automation, traffic, entrepreneurship, and more. Additionally, you’re going to see that I routinely provide tool and plug-in reviews and tutorials so you can build the “plumbing” to make it all work.
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Wow, This video should be on TV. THRIVE SUCKS NOW THATS FOR SURE.
Hi David, I loved this video but may I ask, do you use THRIVE themes any longer? I left them when it was bought out. Their cost is prohibitive now. I liked Thrive Apprentice but I am not willing to pay their crazy ongoing subscription. All I want to do is build ONE website with a COURSE plugin to sell ONE course only. I want to use TEXT, Video, and PDF downloads if possible. Any suggestions? Steve
What are your thoughts on xcloud. Do you think it is a good service still
For being a 7 year old video, I was unsure if it would be relevant. But I've discovered this is evergreen information that can be used not just for the personal development niche. Offer a concrete solution to solve a problem.
Loving this course! Please tell me it's not been abandoned?
So, this came right after I spent days researching... Wish I'd found it sooner. I am trying to set up a subscription site with a. few specific features, but it can be very simple. I need a protected area for "courses" but I do not need a full LMS. I could use one, but I could easily build it with CPT's or even basic protected pages. I need subscriptions to those. Second, I need a podcast interface, looking at Blrry. Last, I need a Substack style subscription newsletter. 2 Questions: First, is WP Fusion necessary for this or just cool? I don't need a ton of the extras and I'm not terribly concerned with sales funnels and marketing. Is it integral to making the core functionality work? Second, how is FluentCRM in comparison to MailPoet or other newsletter plugins for the purpose of a subscription newsletter? There's a lot there I probably won't need, but the price is in the same range. Is there a downside to choosing Fluent with the extra unnecessary features?
I have a subscription plan setup with five plans: A, B, C, D, and E. I need a rule where, after a user buys one of the first three plans (A, B, or C), only then can they access plans D and E. Is that possible?
Really like your videos man
Is PCI compliance a concern?
Are there particular extensions you recommend for recurring membership?
I agree, membership sites are so useful, much more than just courses.
How to create a members area? Hello everyone! I want to find out how can I create in my website an area/subpage where memebers can login and then access some videos. I want to create the account then provide them with the credentials and that’s all. I don’t want to include payment services etc.. just my business presentation page as the main site and somehow on that webpage to have a section or two that cannot be accessed by the public without credentials and there to include some videos that cannot be copied nor downloaded? Could someone please help me?
Did you see that they raised the price again? The affiliate program is no longer recurring commissions either...
Did you see that they raised the price again? The affiliate program is no longer recurring commissions either...
It is shame that Shane sold Thrive Themes to "Awesome Motive". It is a shame that "Awesome Motive" raised the prices.
Awesome Motive is total garbage. What a garbage, greedy company. I messaged the CEO via Instagram and he did not even respond. Thrive Themes raised their prices, offered less for the higher price, and appears to have "wiped out" and "disappeared" a bunch of websites that I had with Thrive Themes that took hundreds-of-hours to put together. Shane should have never sold Thrive Themes to "Awesome Motive" that is not awesome at all. #AwesomeMotive #AwesomeMotiveSucks #ThriveThemes
This was really helpful, glad there's an option for free users
I appreciate your valuable advice. Thanks for the presentation!
It's a pleasure to watch your videos David. You've got a great disposition and educated delivery. Thank you.
Multisite: I read the documentation on the WPFusion site. Are you using WPF across multiple URLs, with FluentCRM? Do you have any tips related to using WPF in a multisite environment?
2 years since you posted this (excellent) video. Still a big fan of WP Fusion? And the FluentCRM/WPFusion toolset?
Nice vid David!
Thanks, Vic. :)
Enjoying the new series thanks David! Q for you: can I use Kadence with Elementor? To replace my Hello Theme? I'm finding that some pages in my LeanDash course platform can't be edited with Elementor so maybe I can use Kadence to have better editing tools in the WP block builder?
Sure. Elementor and Kadence can work side by side. On any page, you can either make it with Elementor or Kadence Blocks. Would be up to you.
@@BlogMarketingAcademy Thanks David!
Thoroughly enjoying this series.
Been using Thrive on all my sites since 2016 (I know, got locked in at a cheap price) but with WP Rocket and Shortpixel I get 100% scores overall. Every software has its pros and cons.
Wow! It's so crazy that I came upon your video today because my renewal for Thrive Suite is coming up shortly, and I've been researching the Kadence theme because of some issues I've been having with Thrive. I recently started a new site, using Thrive as I have for years, and there were so many issues this time that it has been nothing but frustrating. And the GT Metrix scores I'm getting are awful. I have been using Thrive for years, as I already mentioned, but the price just doesn't seem to be worth it any longer. So glad I found this video - now to go watch the others you mentioned in the description!
This was really really helpful! Thanks very much
Sir, Your videos are so helpful. I'm learning WordPress now. Do u know any solution to get all media associated with a particular page ( uploaded to) and select them all and remove. If u know the solution plz help
Hi David, thanks for the video and agree with you Thrive Themes was awesome with Shane Melaugh. I have used it for every website I have built ever since I found out about Thrive. Anyway time to move on I am not sticking around either. One question though who are you using for squeeze/landing pages now. How good is Kadence at that or what do you use
You can build any kind of page you want with Kadence. You don't get a bunch of pre-designed templates for squeeze pages and stuff, but the platform is more than capable of building them. Same with man others, actually.
Still loving xCloud? Mahalo for the great overview!! :)
Yup, got almost 30 sites on there.
Excellent walkthrough on membership sites and what components it might entail! What program are you using to do your screen recording and video sharing for this video? I use screenflow but I like how yours came out and was wondering what program it is. Thanks!
Also Screenflow. :-)
@@BlogMarketingAcademy - Ah! Then I need to figure out how to get that box of the recorded video of me speaking to the rectangular box as you have it, which looks good!
Thank you David. I’m just starting to work on all this, so very helpful to know this upfront.😊
Glad it was helpful!
So much value here. Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Hey, David. Terrific review. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Thanks a bunch, a great tool for sure. However, I too have had issues with code not being executed, I am assuming that 'Prriority 1' is the highest priority? It also seems to happen on local installs, I'm wondering if that may have something to do with it.
No, where WordPress is installed shouldn't matter. I think it is just a matter of hooks and the firing order.
Very wise suggestion. How do you like FluentCRM? I have a WooCommerce store and just want to do a few funnels based on sales.
I have an idea for a new video, although I don't know how many people it would help: I was just looking through my database and notice that I have what appear to be duplicate tables with different prefixes. I think what happened was that I changed the database prefix using a security plugin, then later deleted the plugin which I think changed the prefix back to wp_ In any event, I just looked in my wp config file and the current prefix is indeed wp_ When the prefix gets changed by a security plugin, does the system duplicate all the existing tables with the new prefix? If that’s the case, can I drop all the other tables that have the prefix which is not in use?
Never heard of a security plugin doing that. I have seen that when multiple WordPress installs have used the same database, with different prefixes. Either way, yeah... deleting the tables which are not in use now shouldn't give any issue. Might want to back up first, just in case. ;)
@@BlogMarketingAcademy I determined what the problem was. The different prefix'd tables in my database were the result of a staging site that didn't get properly deleted by the plugin that created it (WP Time Capsule)
amazing
The pricing section isn't fully right. The price is $600 PER year now since they got bought out, what you get is a discount on the first year. So you pay $299 the first year then get slapped in the face with a renewal at twice the price. Which is something the REAL Thrive Themes team was against, they didn't do any discounts or shady pricing schemes. To top it off, they also changed the affiliate commission so you only get 50% off the FIRST payment, which is extremely convenient for them to only have to pay $150 on the $299 first year and not have to share a single cent of that juicy $600 renewal. I also don't think Thrive Themes is worth recommending at $600/year with other more affordable options right there like Elementor. I haven't checked Kadence yet. PS. Yes, I'm salty cause I used to LOVE thrive and recommended it to everyone I knew. But I can't do it anymore.
Same here. Even if the affiliate commissions were OK, wouldn't matter to me. The suite is now overpriced, IMO. And the issue of lock-in is no bueno.
@@BlogMarketingAcademy indeed. This new company goes against all that the real thrive themes stood for and what made it great for so many years. Sigh... I'm glad I'm not alone in feeling this way though. Thanks for making these videos :)
Video quality looks better. Love your content.
Trying. Always a balance between having a "set" that looks OK, but still works in a home office from one single desk.
Great job on a great idea. Thank you!
Thank you, David, for your presentation! I have used FluentForms for a long time but obviously not taking full advantage of it.
Thank you so much, David, for sharing your experiences! This was very useful to me.
Thank you for a great review. It answered a lot of questions. Just subscribed to your channel. Thanks again.
Thanks for the sub!
it's still my all-time favorite page builder. I'm lucky enough to have been with them for over 10 years now and grandfathered into their old unlimited pricing. Let's see what the company does this year with the boost in revenue from being a bit greedier lol! RUmor is they are completely overhauling the current coding from the ground up.
Came to say thank you -- 10 years from original post and this is still super helpful!
Whoah, this was a blast from the past. ;)
Wheres the step on how to actually get this form onto your website?
Beehiiv hosts the forms/basic landing pages. You can add your own url if you want
Do you still feel Kadence is better than Thrive Themes? I'm coming up on my annual renewal and am considering switching to Kadence. My only concern is I like and use Thrive Quiz Builder and Thrive Leads.
By quite a bit, yes. I very much prefer Kadence now. But, if you're deep into the Thrive ecosystem, then may be more convenient to just stick with them. Thrive tools work well with other Thrive tools. Once you start to peel the bandaid, it usually means going all in on removing Thrive stuff.
@@BlogMarketingAcademy Okay, thank you.
this was very helpful! By any chance do you know how to get an automation started for a subscriber that comes through a webhook from zapier? Thank you!
Unless BeeHiiv has that as an option now.... no I don't know how it could be done.
Thank you!!