Makers and Managers: Two Schedules, Two Mindsets

In this post, we’re going to talk about how to balance creative work with managerial work. This is a particularly useful topic for bloggers, small business owners, and other content creators, as we need to both create excellent content and handle the website, keep track of accounting, and do other piecemeal management tasks. This balancing […]

Turning Your Computer into a Typewriter

This week’s blog post is a fun one. We’re going to talk about typewriters (!?) What do typewriters have to do with email newsletters? Read on. Craft the right message, at the right timeMailPoet offers a delightful email writing experience directly in your WordPress. There’s a poet in all of us.Sign up for free

Just Sit Down and Write – Advice on Motivation from Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was a writer’s writer – even today, he is still widely admired for his thoughts on the art and science of writing. His novels The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are all considered classics of American literature. Craft the right message, at the […]

Newsletter Strategies for WordPress Consultants (and their Clients)

Are you a WordPress Consultant? If you’re reading this blog post, there’s a 1 in 4 chance that you are. According to our 2014 annual survey, about 25% of our users are WordPress consultants or freelancers. We don’t write for consultants as much as we should, but we’re working on it. (I promise!) In today’s […]

Using Gmail to Send From WordPress? You Can’t

Are you currently using a free Gmail account to send your emails? You shouldn’t be, as using a freemail account will dramatically increase your chances of landing in the Spam folder. However, starting in June, you will actually be incapable of using a free Gmail account to send. Your emails will be rejected (and no […]