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Mini Tripod

4/7/2017 By Ravi Jayagopal

Fantastic, cute li'll mini tripod to hold your phone when doing FaceTime, Facebook Live and very ergonomic even for just reading or parking on your desk. #joby #jobygorillapod #tripod #tripodmini #jobygriptight #videomarketing #facebooklive #facetime #amazonprime #toolsofthetrade #videogear #videotools #gearhead #inception

Fantastic, cute li’ll mini tripod to hold your phone when doing FaceTime, Facebook Live and very ergonomic even for just reading or parking on your desk.

Check it out here.

#joby #jobygorillapod #tripod #tripodmini #jobygriptight #videomarketing #facebooklive #facetime #amazonprime #toolsofthetrade #videogear #videotools #gearhead #inception

Filed Under: Amazon, Content Creation, FaceBook, Instagram, Live, Ravi Recommends, Tools, Video, Video

My New Book: SubscribeMeBook.com

1/22/2016 By Ravi Jayagopal

I just launched my new book…

Subscribe Me: Making, Marketing & Monetizing Online Digital Content with Membership Sites, Online Courses and Subscriptions

For a limited time, you can get it for free at SubscribeMeBook.com

I call it the “Free with Five Friends” offer.

My book is also available on Amazon Kindle at SubscribeMeBook.com/amazon/

My podcast at SubscribeMe.fm/podcast/ is still going strong. At the time of writing this, I have now published 16 episodes, and the number of listeners has gone up consistently week after week, month after month. So check that out when you get a chance.

So if you haven’t guessed by now, I’m all in on membership sites and online courses 😉

The software: DigitalAccessPass.com

The podcast: SubscribeMe.fm/podcast/

The book: SubscribeMeBook.com

Cheers!

– Ravi Jayagopal

Filed Under: Amazon, Business, Digital Access Pass (DAP), E-Business, Free, Marketing, Ravi Recommends, SubscribeMe.fm, SubscribeMeBook.com, Video

8 Podcast Episodes

11/18/2015 By Ravi Jayagopal

I’m already up to 8 podcast episodes of my show “Subscribe Me“.

Episode 1: Making, Marketing & Monetizing Your Digital Content

Episode 2: DOGPOO vs DOSAA, Apple’s New Membership Model, How To Get Ripped To Shreds On SharkTank & Trolling My Own Indian Accent

Episode 3: $1.5 Billion for a Membership Site? Membership Site Dream Team

Episode 4: Too Much Content. Too Little Revenue

Episode 5: Interview with Ryan Lee

Episode 6: Ravi Interviewed by Steve Kidd

Episode 7: 6 Reasons Why You Should NOT Deliver Member Content Via Email

Episode 8: My Top 20 Favorite Tools I Can’t (and Won’t) Live Without (Part 1)

You can listen to all of the episodes at SubscribeMe.fm .

And of course, I would really appreciate it if you subscribed to my show on iTunes (for iOS users) or Stitcher (for Android/Windows/Other users). And if you like the show, please leave me a rating and a review behind, as that will help me reach more listeners and spread my message to more people who need to hear what I have to say.

And don’t forget to join my new Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/subscribemefm/ where like-minded entrepreneurs discuss membership sites, digital commerce, online marketing, content delivery and more.

And yes, you can also get better access to me via the group.

Cheers!

– Ravi Jayagopal

Filed Under: FaceBook, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Marketing, Podcast, Ravi Recommends, SubscribeMe.fm

WordPress Pages vs Posts

5/1/2014 By Ravi Jayagopal

pages-vs-posts

For creating membership content, where you may be dripping the content over time, content that you may be selling as parts of different “products” or “memberships” (like for eg. content that you want to be available to your Gold and Platinum members, but not Silver members) and for almost all general purposes, create your content as WordPress “Pages”.

On the flip side, if you wish to create a typical “blog”, where people can see a reverse-chronological list of posts from you on one page, if you don’t want to think about organizing the content and want your latest post to just show up prominently on your web site’s front page, or you wish to organize content by various categories, or you wish to syndicate your content via an “RSS Feed”, then for all that, WordPress “Posts” are your best option.

Use “Pages”

  • Creating member pages, courses, modules
  • You will be dripping content now or in the future
  • Content that is going to be part of multiple “products” or “membership levels”
  • Squeeze pages, Sales pages, Landing pages

Use “Posts”

  • If you wish to create a typical “blog” where you want to show a reverse-chronological (latest one first) set of content
  • You don’t want to think too much about organizing the content
  • You want your latest piece of writing to just show up on your front page where everyone can see it the moment you publish it
  • You wish to syndicate content via an “RSS Feed” (your default feed link usually is http://YourSite.com/feed/ or http://YourSite.com/blog/feed/ )
  • You want to organize content by various categories (see all of the categories here on my blog in the sidebar to your right)
  • You will eventually be publishing hundreds or thousands of pages of content and will need to protect them all using a membership plugin. So you’ll need to protect content by category. So your content needs to be published as “Posts” because only posts can be categorized in WordPress, and not “Pages”.

It’s kind of hard and messy to switch and redo your content at a later point from pages to posts, and vice-versa. So make sure you give it a little bit of thought before choosing either format.

You can also publish your membership content as Pages, and also have a publicly available free “blog”, where you create your public content as Posts.

When In Doubt…

If you’re not sure, or if you don’t wish to even think about which one to pick, then just go with “Pages”.

Filed Under: Blog, Content Creation, Feeds, How-To, Ravi Recommends, Ravi's Rants, RSS, WordPress

Create Wicked Cool Marketing Graphics

4/13/2014 By Ravi Jayagopal

If you read my earlier post, you already know how awesome I am at creating graphics (not!) 🙂

Here’s a software box image I created many years ago (around 2001) for my then-active web site, WebmasterInABox.net – later renamed to MyWebmasterInABox.com, because Google banned the original domain when the site got hacked and was injected with malware for a period of time back in 2005 or so. And since I had not been actively maintaining the web site at that time (thanks to my J.O.B), I never even realized that my site had dropped out of the rankings until after a few months, when I noticed a big dip in sales.

Anyway, here’s the terrible CD box cover image that I created myself back in 2001.

wbib

Fast-forward many years later, I wanted a more professional image for DAP. So I paid someone about $200 for this software box image.

DigitalAccessPass_Box

 

Then again in 2011, when we were getting ready to launch WickedCoolPlugins.com, since we were planning on launching multiple plugins, I figured $200 – or even $100 – per image was going to be wasteful and expensive. By this time, of course, there were many marketplaces where you could hire designers – like dribbble, odesk and even fiverr.

Still, I managed to overcome good sense, and tried creating this myself during that launch. Took me only about 5 hours!

box_smp

And then I found the holy grail of “Graphics Tool For Noobs“.

The one below took me less than 10 minutes.

Drag, drop, done.

STU-Cover

Box Shot King: Easily the best option even if you are a Photoshop guru, better than using Photoshop macros.

Filed Under: Business Tools, Digital Access Pass (DAP), How-To, Internet Marketing, Online, Paid Software, Personal Tools, Ravi Recommends, Remarkable, Tools, Webmaster Tagged With: Images

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About Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal is a full-time entrepreneur living in sunny San Diego, CA . He is the Co-Founder & Co-Developer of DigitalAccessPass.com (DAP), the premier Membership Plugin & Content Delivery Platform for WordPress. Check out his Podcast about Membership Sites & Online Courses, at SubscribeMe.fm. Ravi is also the creator of CoolCastPlayer.com, a pretty and powerful podcast player plugin for WordPress. And creator of S3MediaVault.com, S3 Video Player for Amazon S3. Ravi first started selling online in 1997. Check out his book "Subscribe Me: Making, Marketing & Monetizing Online Digital Content with Membership Sites, Online Courses and Subscriptions"


Ravi is also the host of the "Subscribe Me" podcast at SubscribeMe.fm

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