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<h3>Why do I like this physical cryptocurrency ticker as a computer heavy user?</h3>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*tFWEJsF4xDX9lWEUQEuS_w.jpeg"><figcaption>The picture is from <a href="https://x-sure.co/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_source=why-do-i-like-this-physical-cryptocurrency-ticker">X-SURE.co</a></figcaption></figure><p>Before my friend shipped me the demo device of their new product, a <a href="https://x-sure.co/x-sure-l1-real-time-crypto-ticker/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_source=why-do-i-like-this-physical-cryptocurrency-ticker"><strong>smart physical cryptocurrency ticker</strong></a>. I thought that just tracking the price on my iPhone is enough, so I was confused that why they make this kind of product, it seems not essential for the crypto holders, unless as someone’s favorite collection or gift, of course, that’s also great.</p>
<p>However, since I play it and put it near my computer monitor, actually, it’s practical, just as the second or third monitor on my desk. You know I’m not only a crypto fan but also a web designer, I use to put various types of screens to check my design, such as the different sizes of the monitors, tablets, etc.</p>
<p>And now, I don’t need to switch between my Mackbook screens or light up my phone screen to check the cryptocurrency price from time to time. So as a computer heavy user, I just go straight to see the price through this physical ticker now and then while I’m working.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*8c-P2ua6HzH9UMy-ItTa7w.png"></figure><p>I know some crypto Mac Apps can add a mini price ticker to the top bar of the Mac screen, but the price numbers of this smart device look more striking than that, and you can set the different appearance themes for the interface via Mobile APP, my friend said they will publish more and more watch templates with communities, artists, and designers. This is one of the points I like about it.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*cfn8y-2lVmc7S1ieOdWHjg.jpeg"></figure><p>Another important feature is <em>“allow the user to set custom price fluctuation alerts with a beep, therefore you will never miss any chance anymore”</em>. I think nothing is more important than keeping you posted for cryptocurrency investors.</p>
<p>Let’s back to the appearance theme feature. My friends, Kevin, <a href="https://x-sure.co/">X-SURE</a> Founder, and co-founder Charles, shared with me an interesting startup concept that they wanna try to combine NFT(Non-Fungible Token) with the physical product, they call themselves “Bridge”, connect NFT to the real world. Thus, the theme design of this ticker device is the best supporting body. It supports customizing themes for the UI and body of this smart device, every buyer can have a unique design and NFT is the best proof of ownership, they can transfer the ownership on the marketplace. Of course, the buyers can also decide to collect the physical device.</p>
<p>I really like this concept, so please allow me to promote this smart team formally here. X-SURE, a crypto-focused startup, launched globally with the release of <a href="https://x-sure.co/x-sure-l1-real-time-crypto-ticker/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_source=why-do-i-like-this-physical-cryptocurrency-ticker"><strong>X-SURE L1 Crypto Ticker</strong></a> and <a href="https://x-sure.co/nixie-clock/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_source=why-do-i-like-this-physical-cryptocurrency-ticker"><strong>X-SURE Nixie Clock</strong></a> in Las Vegas at CES 2022.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*cXFYx3PkT8CiJZHL-COk3Q.jpeg"></figure><p>Learn more about this company via their official website <a href="https://x-sure.co/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_source=why-do-i-like-this-physical-cryptocurrency-ticker">X-SURE.co</a></p>
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<li><a href="https://coincodecap.com/passive-income-crypto-lending">How to Start Earning Passive Income With Crypto Lending</a></li>
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<a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/cryptocurrency-savings-accounts-be3bc0feffbf">Cryptocurrency Savings Accounts</a> |<a href="https://coincodecap.com/best-crypto-trading-bots"> Crypto Trading Bots</a>
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<a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/bigone-exchange-review-64705d85a1d4">BigONE Exchange Review</a> |<a href="https://coincodecap.com/cex-io-review"> CEX.IO Review</a> |<a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/swapzone-review-crypto-exchange-data-aggregator-e0ad78e55ed7"> Swapzone Review</a>
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<a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/bitcoin-margin-trading-exchange-bcbfcbf7b8e3">Best Bitcoin Margin Trading</a>|<a href="https://coincodecap.com/bityard-margin-trading"> Bityard Margin Trading</a>
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<a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/crypto-margin-trading-exchanges-428b1f7ad108">Crypto Margin Trading Exchanges</a> |<a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/earn-bitcoin-6e8bd3c592d9"> Earn Bitcoin</a>
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<a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/wazirx-vs-coindcx-vs-bitbns-149f4f19a2f1">WazirX vs CoinDCX vs Bitbns</a> |<a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/blockfi-vs-coinloan-vs-nexo-cb624635230d"> BlockFi vs CoinLoan vs Nexo</a>
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<a href="https://coincodecap.com/blockfi-credit-card">BlockFi Credit Card</a> |<a href="https://coincodecap.com/buy-bitcoin-binance"> How to buy Bitcoin on Binance</a>
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<a href="https://coincodecap.com/huobi-trading-bot">Huobi Trading Bot</a> |<a href="https://coincodecap.com/buy-ada-cardano"> How to buy ADA</a> |<a href="https://coincodecap.com/geco-one-review"> Geco.One Review</a>
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<a href="https://coincodecap.com/sparrow-exchange-review">Sparrow Exchange Review</a> |<a href="https://coincodecap.com/nash-exchange-review"> Nash Exchange Review</a>
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<a href="https://coincodecap.com/uphold-card-review">Uphold Card Review</a> |<a href="https://coincodecap.com/trust-wallet-vs-metamask"> Trust Wallet vs MetaMask</a>
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As a computer heavy user, Why do I like this physical cryptocurrency ticker?


<h3>What You Should Do When You Fall Into A Deep Depression?</h3>
<figure><img alt="Depression" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*bkf6cCcdLIDjJBD741CM4A.jpeg"><figcaption>From unsplash.com</figcaption></figure><p>Depression is a major and serious topic. So first of all, I have to let you know that I’m not a doctor, all the suggestions in this story are from a man who always suffering from depression, yea, me. And, all “depression” means Major Depressive Disorder in this article.</p>
<p>I hesitated to write this topic for a long time, I was afraid to give someone the wrong direction, but empathy often drives me to step right into someone’s shoes, so think that I should tell you all I know, without reserve.</p>
<h3>Bad Happened Sometimes</h3>
<p>One of the typical symptoms is that I often fall into deep depression without any reason or with unknown reason, suddenly. Remember at that moment, I got fighting mad, I was anxious to doing something but I didn’t know. I tried to smoke and calm down, but no luck. I couldn’t handle the furious sorrow or the other emotion, started to scratch my head, hit something or hurt my arm with the edge tools. Even more extreme, suddenly have the urge to leave this world, but I often pump the brakes on this caprice idea.</p>
<h3>Make It As A Part Of Your Life</h3>
<p>I have learned much relevant information and chatted with the other people who have the same experience. There is a growing body of evidence pointing to extreme anxiousness, panic or a mixed bipolar episode, the doctor told me the causes are very complex, overcome the fear is the first key.</p>
<p>I have learned much relevant information and chatted with the other people who have the same experience. There is a growing body of evidence pointing to extreme anxiousness, panic or a mixed bipolar episode, the doctor told me the causes are very complex, overcome the fear is the first key.</p>
<p>You know you never fear with influenza, right? A metaphor says that major depression is you just have a cold in your heart. Although I think depression is more serious than influenza, they have some common ground, one of the biggest is “<strong>self-limited</strong>”, <strong>it means that there is a possibility of self-healing as well as a cure by medicines. </strong>Don’t<strong> </strong>be on your guard for all possible dangers, just to be with it, as a part of your life.</p>
<p>So, do you feel a glimmer of hope? If unfortunately, you still feel fear with it, please continue to read.</p>
<h3>Don’t Do Stupid, Do Nothing.</h3>
<p>I promise that you’ll regret 99% of bad ideas when you suddenly fall into a deep depression. You may have to know depression makes your brain running slower than normal, many simple things become complex. The more you hard to think and struggle, the more difficult and suffering, maybe take a rest and do nothing is the only and better choice, at least don’t do anything stupid.</p>
<p>Find a place that can be called your home, feel safe and silent, wherever. Don’t force yourself to do anything, even stop thinking or stop crying. All things just like the ripple, you know it will destine to disappear. If you impatiently hit it by throwing the stone, it will stir up a bigger flower of water.</p>
<h3>Take The Emotion Controller In Your Mind, Not The others</h3>
<p>Do not complain about other people, such as why they don’t understand me, why they said this or that, why they hurt me… OK, although that’s true, it’s helpless to alleviate your suffering, it seems your emotion controller is in other peoples hand, you always don’t know when they will trigger it, right? Forget them, even if one minute.</p>
<p>Because you can’t find the answers. Again, your brain is running slower than normal when you are in a deep depression, the more you hard to think and struggle, the more difficult and suffering.</p>
<p>I know it’s hard, but we can train ourselves time and time again.</p>
<h3>If Possible, Try To Go Sleep</h3>
<p>I know difficulty falling asleep is another symptom of depression, but it’s not absolute. Sometimes, a deep depression can cause mental fatigue, I often feel sleepy at that time, no matter whether you can drop asleep or not, just try to close your eyes, that’s it.</p>
<p>Additionally, sometimes take melatonin is helpful, but not 100%. Also, you are already with medication, sedative medicine is needed at the right time with the right dosage. Please note, don’t stop the medicine rashly! Before you make any decision, ask your doctor's suggestion is always required.</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>I don’t know whether or not my suggestions are helpful, but they helped me a lot. Everyone is a different individual, so you should keep looking for your keys every time when you are down.</p>
<p>Wish you’ll be well soon, take care!</p>
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What You Should Do When You Suddenly Fall Into A Deep Depression?


<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*ThiunlMZrdHESgLpyjsubg.jpeg"></figure><p>I remember my original purpose of using WordPress is blogging, just share my life or knowledge on my personal blog. After I quit my job and started WordPress business, I focused on thinking about how to make money with WordPress. Besides selling WordPress products( themes, plugins or service), blogging is another important way to earn money with WordPress. So, in this article, I will introduce 3 effective ways to make a profitable blog.</p>
<h3>1. Share Something Cool And Get Donation</h3>
<p>Get donation is not new, but if the high-quality content can help or inspire people to make things happen, the kind readers will not generous with a little money to support you and express their gratitude. However, all that is based on the premise that you need to write out high-quality content with an unsparing hand, build a strong community for your blog.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*C2y97tMj_OyfvB8l.jpg"></figure><p>I compared many donation WordPress plugins, and love <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/give/"><strong>Give</strong></a> plugin best. It’s a powerful Donation WordPress Plugin and Fundraising Platform, free to use and also offers extra features as the<a href="https://givewp.com/"> Add-on plugins</a>.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*5FAcRjhD3yq9VTxZ.png"></figure><p>If you only need a simple donation WordPress plugin, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/paypal-donations/">PayPal Donations </a>WordPress plugin is a good choice, you can insert the PayPal button to anywhere with shortcode or widget.</p>
<h3>2. Paywall Model</h3>
<p>Still based on the high-quality content, another way to make your blog profitable is Pay Per View model. You can allow the readers only view the excerpt but if they want to read the full article, they have to pay for it, or another way is to build a membership system, the paid subscriber can access all premium content, such as the tutorial website.</p>
<p>As the donation method, you must provide valuable content or other features to your subscribers.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*9lMtz2VBD9r5r0OR.png"></figure><p><a href="https://memberful.com/">Memberful</a> plugin is perfect for creating your membership system, it’s easy to set up. The free plan allows create 2 subscription plans, I think it’s enough for the beginning stage. Of course, it also offers the Pro and Premium plan for advanced users.</p>
<p>But the cons of this plugin is that it only supports Stripe payment, so if you want to offer the other payments such as PayPal, maybe you have to look for the other membership plugins, for example, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-members/">WP-Members Membership Plugin</a>.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*mOHfZfmPxLBeExf4.png"></figure><p>Another useful plugin is <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/laterpay/">LaterPay</a>. The LaterPay WordPress plugin is a content monetization solution for your WordPress page. We enable you to collect voluntary financial contributions from your audience, sell individual pieces of content, timed access to your website or individual sections, recurring subscriptions, or ad-free access to your site.</p>
<h3>3. Sell Products, Advertisement, and Service</h3>
<p>If your blog content is focused on a specific niche, and already have more or less traffic, you can sell products, ads, and service with your content. Yeah, this is the final purpose of content marketing.</p>
<h4>Sell Products</h4>
<p>You can sell both your own products and affiliate products such as <a href="https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/">Amazon affiliate</a>, <a href="https://www.cj.com/">CJ</a>. Anyway, if you don’t have your own products, you can find the products from many online shops which offer an affiliate program.</p>
<h4>Sell Advertisement</h4>
<p>The traffic is money. You can simply convert the traffic to money with CPC advertisement (Like Google Adsense) as well as CPM, sell the advertisement banner on <a href="https://buysellads.com/">buysellads.com</a>. It’s a good way to earn passive income.</p>
<h4>Sell Service</h4>
<p>As same as sell products, you can also sell services. For example, if you write a design blog, your content can help you build trust with your potential customers, then sell design service to them.</p>
<h3>Additional Suggestions</h3>
<p>At the final paragraph, just recommend you 3 useful tools for better blogging. Good luck!</p>
<h4><a href="https://keywordseverywhere.com/">Keywords Everywhere</a></h4>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*pjob_ptT32asW7Qg.png"></figure><p>It’s a free keyword tool that can help you easy to find the topic keyword. After you install the Chrome or Firefox extension, then it will show the keyword search volume, CPC &amp; competition data when you entering a keyword in Google search bar. Very comfortable, quickly make a decision for the topic chosen.</p>
<h4><a href="https://www.themevan.com/item/medias-multi-concept-clean-wordpress-blog-theme/">Medias Blog Theme</a></h4>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*891564W4ByxpzOkE.jpg"></figure><p><a href="https://www.themevan.com/item/medias-multi-concept-clean-wordpress-blog-theme/">Medias</a> is a multiple concept clean WordPress blog theme very right for fashion, lifestyle, music, sport or food blog, whatever you want. It includes light and dark color style, many blog layouts and slider styles that will make your blog looks unique and amazing.</p>
<h4><a href="https://grammarly.go2cloud.org/SH1pu">Grammarly</a></h4>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*9YBMkjl-utmycTiZ.png"><figcaption><a href="https://grammarly.go2cloud.org/SH1pu">Grammarly</a></figcaption></figure><p>You can get corrections from <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/">Grammarly</a> while you write on everywhere. I strongly recommend it because it’s an amazing product and already integrated into my workflow.</p>
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3 Effective Ways To Make A Profitable Blog With WordPress


<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*7osLVqGblLkc1GIdRuLi5g.jpeg"><figcaption>The picture is picked from <a href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><p>About the passive income, I know two types for increasing income: linear growth and exponential growth. For a simple example, the linear income growth means you sell your time to only one client, if you want to earn more money, you have to spend more time on more clients, such as doing the outsourcing projects.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*KQoKkUNisZlO81d-2ph7qg.png"><figcaption>Linear Growth Chart</figcaption></figure><p>The exponential growth type means you can sell your time to unlimited users, once you have a good product, the only thing you need to do is sell it, then the income will be increased faster than the former method.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*aR3Y249HrudfJXd-oVVe7g.jpeg"><figcaption>Exponential Growth Chart</figcaption></figure><h3>My Story</h3>
<p>In the past 6 years, I have kept trying exponential growth, because the product-driven business is easier to create the passive income channel. The passive income is very important for me, a workaholic who burn the midnight oil. I always worry about my health so that my family will fall in an economic crisis, sounds contradictory and why not choose the healthy lifestyle? Sometimes, I feel quite helpless, you know the income of freelancers is not always stable, I must do a lot of works to get ready for the raining day. Unfortunately, bad happens sometimes, I was sick.</p>
<p>While I was ill, I can’t do most of my works, even I forced myself on it. Fortunately, my product-driven business has never been stopped, it always drives the passive income stream to me, more or less. But on the other side, you know everything just like the sunrise and sunset, no absolute passive income. I still couldn’t plunge myself into the work, finally, the passive income went down exponentially.</p>
<p>Let’s imagine that if I haven’t built my product-driven business for earning the passive income, what do you think will happen? Just see the following chart:</p>
<p>Anyway, the passive income bought time to me so that I took rest, learned new knowledge and thought about the idea for my next project.</p>
<p>In my story, I just want to let you know how important passive income is, especially for the freelancers. The passive income streams can make you feel safe, make your business stronger.</p>
<h3>How to create passive income channels?</h3>
<p>There is no unified approach, it depends on the industry and your skills. The general idea is that you may have to find a niche market, do something can really resolve the pain points of people. If the industry which you are in is hard to build a product-driven business model, just learn new knowledge, expand your vision is a nice way to start your side project. Actually, slash youth is really cool, come on!</p>
<p>When you found a pain point in a specific field, you should make a research to check if this pain point was already resolved or not. If not, just do it, or do it better.</p>
<p>Let’s say a simple example. I’m a web designer, one of the biggest pain point for me is to find the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/">CC0</a> product pictures for my online shop website demo. I mean the product pictures such as below:</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*ZrvCWVL3HZlSRxieXlKN1w.png"></figure><p>The product pictures with a solid background color or transparent background. It’s really hard to find nice product pictures which can match my web design style, even I know there are many free pictures download websites. When I search “CC0 Product Images Download”, “Shop Product Images” on google, there’s almost no related content or less, or low-quality pictures, but I only found one company offers the services that helping shopkeepers remove the product background.</p>
<p>So, at this time, if you can take some perfect product pictures with your camera, then build a membership website based on the subscription model, and provide commercial use license, that’s would be great for the web designers! Once you launch this picture platform, it will automatically run and earn passive income, the only thing you need to do is take more and more beautiful pictures and let more designers know it.</p>
<p>This is only an example for inspiration, you could use your imagination to find more ideas. Anyway, just remember that sell your time to multiple users.</p>
<h3>Launch Your Business</h3>
<p>Once you have finished your product and business model, the next step is to launch your business in the right way.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/261/1*VMGNN4RZ2FxINWbION4nRw.jpeg"><figcaption><strong>Launch</strong>: An Internet Millionaire’s Secret Formula To Sell Almost Anything Online, Build A Business You Love, And Live The Life Of Your Dreams</figcaption></figure><p>A very famous example: <strong>Jeff Walker’s Story.</strong></p>
<p>He created a miracle, earned 1 million dollars within 24 hours. He wrote his story and the method to launch the product in his book.</p>
<p>It is not an advertisement here, because I think it’s 100% worth to read if you really want to know how to build your own business, whatever big or small.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/259/1*WwfcOUEQ43kwpZIiCRudQg.jpeg"><figcaption><strong>Growth Hacking: </strong>Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret</figcaption></figure><p>Another book you must read is <strong>Growth Hacking: Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret</strong>.</p>
<p>As the freelancers or individual business, maybe we don’t have much money to publish online advertisements everywhere. So, Growth hacking is a good way of thinking you might be inspired a lot, use lower cost to trigger fast growth.</p>
<h3>The Final: Keep Thinking, Keep Discovering</h3>
<p>Besides the income stream, another important lifeline of the freelancers is always to update the knowledge. So you may keep thinking, keep reading and discovering the new trends, then, you will be able to get the new opportunities.</p>
<p>Good luck, freelancers!</p>
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Why The Passive Income Is Important For The Freelancer And How?


<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*rAI3Y1t6M0P9LYqqAIMe-A.jpeg"></figure><p>You may read many guides such as how to earn $xxxx a month, how I earn $xxxx with selling xxxx, blablabla… Now I will tell you how to build a shop from scratch for selling digital downloads.</p>
<p>First of all, you should choose one or more platforms, or build your own online shop. With my experience, I prefer to launch and operate my own online shop primarily, but don’t give up the third-party marketplaces, because the traffic is gold, drive the traffic to your own online shop, build your own brand.</p>
<p>There are many marketplaces such like Creative Market, Envato and Mojo Marketplace. If you are a graphic designer, musician, web designer or web developer, these three are good places to start your business quickly, just do your work, and upload your work to these platforms, that’s it!</p>
<h3>Build Your Own Platform</h3>
<p>Do not over-rely on a third-party marketplace, we need to walk with two legs, so the reliable way is starting to build your own platform in the next stage. How to do that?</p>
<p>Now just let the non-technique people know three words: WordPress, Easy Digital Downloads or WooCommerce, and Web hosting.</p>
<h4>WordPress</h4>
<p>“WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app. ” You can learn more on <a href="https://wordpress.org/">WordPress.org</a>.</p>
<p>Please note that it’s different from <a href="https://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>, the latter one is a blog or website building platform. For our requirement, create a self-hosted website with WordPress software is the answer, because of more scaleable space and lower cost.</p>
<h4>Easy Digital Downloads / WooCommerce</h4>
<p><a href="https://easydigitaldownloads.com/">Easy Digital Downloads</a> (Let’s call it EDD in this article) and <a href="https://woocommerce.com/">WooCommerce</a> is the E-Commerce plugin which can be installed on WordPress website. EDD focuses on digital downloads and it’s easier to use than WooCommerce, but WooCommerce is more powerful that support both digital product and physical product, over 28% of the online shop is powered by WooCommerce in the world.</p>
<p>For comparison of these two plugins, you can read <a href="https://www.themevan.com/best-way-sell-digital-downloads-wordpress/">What Is The Best Way To Sell Digital Downloads With WordPress? </a>In my opinion, Easy Digital Downloads plugin is enough.</p>
<h4>Web Hosting</h4>
<p>You can understand it as a space to save your website files, for example, WordPress should be installed on web hosting. So you need to buy a high-performance web hosting with quick technique support, especially for the latter factor, the good support manner will save your life!</p>
<p>There are many hosting choices, now let’s say <a href="https://bluehost.com/track/badjohnny">BlueHost</a>, because I have used for 2 years. They offer CPanel to control your web hosting, it’s easy to use.</p>
<h4>Install WordPress</h4>
<p>OK, this step, you should learn about how to install WordPress. Although it’s very easy, if you don’t know any web knowledge ever before, maybe this is a challenge for you, but don’t worry, just follow this video tutorial.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv4M1M5krAo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv4M1M5krAo</a></p>
<h4>Install Easy Digital Download plugin</h4>
<p>After WordPress is installed, just log in your backend, go to the Plugins page, search “Easy Digital Downloads”, install and activate it. Just refer to the <a href="https://docs.easydigitaldownloads.com/article/1191-setting-up-your-first-edd-store">official documentation</a>. In the documentation, you will know how to install and initialize your first EDD online shop.</p>
<p>The free version of Easy Digital Downloads plugin only offers the basic e-commerce feature, such as adding to cart, checkout and download feature. If you have any other needs, for example, the specific payment gateway, license manager, etc, you may have to buy their premium Add-on plugins separately, of course, there are also many free Add-ons in <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/easy+digital+downloads/">WordPress.org</a>.</p>
<h4>Choose A WordPress Theme</h4>
<p>WordPress theme handles the website appearance. No doubt that a good looking website is very important to catch your potential customers eyes. How and where to choose a theme?</p>
<p>First of all, the theme must be compatible with Easy Digital Downloads plugin, so you can search “EDD themes” on google, or go straight to visit the <a href="https://easydigitaldownloads.com/themes/">Themes</a> page on the official website, there are so many free themes and 3rd-party premium EDD themes which are recommended by the official team. Two of our EDD themes <a href="https://themeforest.net/item/dgwork-business-theme-for-easy-digital-downloads/18105506">DGWork</a> and <a href="https://www.themevan.com/item/dew-easy-digital-downloads-wordpress-theme/">Dew</a> are also included in the recommended list.</p>
<p>DGWork EDD theme is based on WPBakery Page Builder and Dew theme is based on <a href="https://elementor.com/?ref=2136">Elementor</a> page builder. Both of these page builders are the most popular in the WordPress community. Even you don’t know any coding knowledge, you can use these page builders to design the web pages easily. Of course, in our themes, we also include some predesigned templates that you can one click to import.</p>
<p>OK, now your own website is launched. Upload your amazing pictures and write the attractive copy for your products, and then, start to sell.</p>
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How To Build A Website For Selling Digital Downloads


<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*iuWpzz8RolJT-KFr9UNJdw.jpeg"><figcaption>From unsplash.com</figcaption></figure><p>Maybe you have already read many posts which talk about PWA, or you haven’t yet, anyway, here’s a simple guide to let you, maybe an E-Commerce entrepreneur knows what is PWA and the benefits for your mobile strategy.</p>
<p>The full name of PWA is Progressive Web Application. As our first important impression is the user experience is enhanced, lightweight and cross-platform such as both on iOS and Android. The UI and interactive experience of Mobile PWA looks extremely similar to a native App. PWA can be run on the browser, but the user still can install the “favorite” icon to the home screen of their phone if they want, but it’s not simply equal to add a shortcut, because once they install your PWA on their home screen, then PWA will run as the standalone view mode as same as the Native App, no browser toolbar and the other components, even support offline browsing, is that amazing? Check our new PWA product <a href="https://ui.mofect.com/mostore"><strong><em>Mostore</em></strong></a> on your mobile browser, you will have a more intuitive impression.</p>
<p>Not only installable and offline browsing features but also can push notification through browser API. This can increase your user stickiness, you know people may spend more than 60% time in a day on the mobile internet when they stand on the subway or walk on the street.</p>
<p>Sound great? But lots of people asked me what the difference between Mobile PWA and responsive website, why they need a Mobile PWA? I have to emphasize that Mobile PWA is not required and even not conflict with your responsive website, strictly, PWA is App, you can have both two versions for the mobile strategy of your business, so when you’d better need deploy a Mobile PWA? let’s say for an online shop, you know the user shopping experience is one of the keys for the sale conversion rate, then I believe Mobile PWA will help you a lot.</p>
<p>let’s give a small test on your mobile phone. Just visit the <a href="https://demo.mofect.com/mostore"><strong><em>responsive version of our demo site</em></strong></a> on your mobile browser, then visit the Mobile PWA version <a href="https://ui.mofect.com/mostore">here,</a> and install it on your home screen, then check again. I promise you will know the difference between these two versions, yes, the user experience.</p>
<p>The same examples that you can visit Pinterest and Twitter on the mobile browser. Even I have already deleted the native App of these two, and install their PWA on the home screen, saved a lot of disk space.</p>
<p>Nowadays, so many technique guys believe that PWA is the future of the web. Fortunately, we have already started on this journey, are you ready?</p>
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What Is PWA &amp; How It Benefits Your Business?


<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*XsGrHgaB82hoCvBtpEsJwg.jpeg"></figure><p>Nowadays, more and more people visit the internet through their mobile phone. No entrepreneurs want to miss the opportunity on the mobile internet. There are three primary forms of the mobile information carrier: Responsive Website, Mobile App, Mobile Web App. The most popular solution to make your website mobile friendly is make a responsive website. But in my opinion, it’s only for the mobile reading friendly, let’s me simply list the cons and pros of the responsive website.</p>
<h3>Pros:</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>Easy and fast to do</strong>. Using CSS3 Media Query can easy to make your desktop website mobile friendly.</li>
<li>
<strong>Low development cost</strong>. As above, CSS3 only can do that, generally, make the pages and elements width narrow, automatically adjust the font and image size fit to display on the mobile screen.</li>
<li><strong>SEO Friendly.</strong></li>
</ul>
<h3>Cons:</h3>
<p><strong>Heavily resources.</strong> If the developer hasn’t optimized the resources importing issues especially for the responsive website, there are many CSS or JS resources will be imported as well. Just imagine that if some resources are actually not effected on the responsive site but they are still imported to the page, the unnecessary resources will make the page size large so that slow down the loading speed of the responsive website.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*jQpOw8I-eul5Mhde3MiezA.jpeg"></figure><p><strong>The shopping experience is not good enough.</strong> The responsive website is not the mobile APP, when the user clicks a link, they have to wait for a few seconds on page refreshing and new page loading, it’s OK for the normal website such as a blog or a company website, but for an online shop, it’s terrible. Do not let your visitors spend too much time waiting for page loading, it’s the most important factor for reducing the bound rate.</p>
<p>Let’s imagine such a simple case. If you publish the advertisement on Facebook Ads or Google Adwords to drive the traffic, but when your potential buyer click the advertisement and redirect to your shop, they will face to a blank page and wait for more than 3–5 seconds on page loading, you possibly to miss this potential buyer.</p>
<p>Another case. If a buyer added many items to the cart and he or she is going to place the order, then the page loading speed is suddenly very slow so that maybe they will refresh the page or go straight to close the page. You should know that there were many customers has complained that WooCommerce checkout progress is slow, I’m not sure whether it’s caused their hosting or the other factors, but it’s really a bad experience on the mobile.</p>
<h3>Develop A Native Mobile APP?</h3>
<p>Develop a Native iOS APP or Android APP? Yeah, that’s perfect, but! You should ask yourself a question: <strong>Do I really need that? </strong>The cost of developing, deploy and maintain a native APP is not as low as creating a responsive website, even you develop the native APP by some popular platform-crossing techniques such as React Native, you will need a development team to help you keep to improve the APP depends on your business.</p>
<p>Another question: Does my visitor really want to install my APP on their smartphone? The user will charge the phone storage to install your APP, you have to scratch your head to think about how to lead the visitor to install your APP, the question is complicated.</p>
<h3>So, What’s The Next?</h3>
<p>As our upcoming product, we will offer the third solution to you: Mobile Web APP. We combine the advantages of both responsive website and native mobile APP, keep the low cost to deploy a high user-experience mobile web APP, it works separate from your responsive website, and you can deploy it anywhere you want. For example, you can deploy the mobile web APP under a subdirectory or subdomain name such as <a href="https://m.domain.com./">https://m.domain.com.</a> When the visitor visits your responsive website, they will see a bottom notification bar to lead them to enjoy your mobile web app.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*vFwO4ZEcazx3BeyJyR1wEw.jpeg"></figure><p>Let’s say the advantage of the mobile web APP. Actually, it’s an SPA (Single Page Application) with native-like user experience, no page refreshing. Mobile Web APP connect to your shop with WooCommerce REST API, so it’s completely compatible with WooCommerce but the unnecessary resources will not be forced to import to the mobile web app, no heavily-resources problems.</p>
<p>The other side, after the user opens the mobile web app the first time, all the resources of APP UI and data will be cached in the local storage, so even they can browse your APP offline next time, fast and smooth.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/870/1*fqK_uWY2aiRQxefa9thHPg.gif"></figure><p>The user can access your mobile web APP via the URL, Qcode and desktop shortcut. Especially for the last one, if the user adds the shortcut icon of your page to the desktop, it looks no different from a native APP, they will not charge storage to install anything. Is it so magic?</p>
<p>The last import thing is that you just do your business, and we help you maintain the mobile APP through our free and premium support services. Our biggest motivation is that brings the shopkeepers a high user experience E-Commerce but with low cost, we want to challenge the standard responsive website on mobile E-Commerce market!</p>
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Why Do You Need A Mobile Web APP For Your WooCommerce Online Shop?


<p>One of my biggest hobbies is writing. I’m with Major Depression, I used to lose sight of what life means and shatter all things that I had, even wanted to kill myself. I felt no one know me and chosen silence. Only thing I can do is writing, it’s an important exit to me.</p>
<p>About two months ago, I was planning to write something about the days I struggle with depression. Organize everything in a book, I call it memory notebook. At first, I published the articles in my personal WordPress blog, but for the different reading experience, I had an idea to make a flip book WordPress theme. So I put all my energy into this flip book theme and here it is, not bad :)</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*CC4YFdr2DGvz5oKZzHTd8Q.jpeg"><figcaption><a href="https://www.themevan.com/item/bookmaking-real-3d-flip-book-wordpress-theme/">Bookmaking Flip Book WordPress Theme</a></figcaption></figure><p><strong>The Story Behind Bookmaking Theme</strong></p>
<p>I personally use this theme for a few weeks until some friends suggested me to sell it, because they also want to do the same thing with it. A Facebook friend told me her son is killed, she often wants to make an album to record her memory about her son, even she has already crafted a book-like blog design, since I showed this book theme to her, she said this is what she always looks for, and advice me to let more people to know my work, it’s a good concept! I’m rarely heartened by her words. Before that, you don’t know how I feel sad everyday, unknown sadness, almost lose all hopes for my life.</p>
<p><strong>Made For Every Writers</strong></p>
<p>I started to make it easy to use for no coding knowledge required, so I have integrated Elementor Page Builder to my theme. I’m very satisfied with the fast speed of this page builder and developer friendly, so I specially tailored the page builder panel UI for this theme, like the following screenshot, very visually and the page builder panel is moveable, you can drag it to anywhere such like using Photoshop.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*B-9LeHb_U7BonHNCkKn_xg.gif"><figcaption><a href="https://www.themevan.com/item/bookmaking-real-3d-flip-book-wordpress-theme/">Bookmaking Flip Book WordPress Theme</a></figcaption></figure><p>As well as organize the book pages, it’s also easy to do. Just add the new pages as normal and set them as the child page, drag and drop to resort the order of book pages in the parent page editing screen.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/740/1*NJz3JuYt4U4Om6hajl2hew.gif"><figcaption><a href="https://www.themevan.com/item/bookmaking-real-3d-flip-book-wordpress-theme/">Bookmaking Flip Book WordPress Theme</a></figcaption></figure><p>With the same method, you can create unlimited number of books on one WP installation site.</p>
<p>Maybe you worry about the reading experience on mobile phone, but Elementor has a very good feature that allows you to adjust the content for the different devices separately. Switch the device view, you can change the font size, column width and container margin/padding space.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/890/1*uaCpx7LPJpNiq2sFYjexnw.gif"><figcaption><a href="https://www.themevan.com/item/bookmaking-real-3d-flip-book-wordpress-theme/">Bookmaking Flip Book WordPress Theme</a></figcaption></figure><p>And more introduction of this Bookmaking theme you can <a href="https://www.themevan.com/item/bookmaking-real-3d-flip-book-wordpress-theme/">click</a> here to read and check out the full demo <a href="https://demo.themevan.com/bookmaking">here</a>. This is the story behind Bookmaking theme. If you are also a writer or author, I hope my work can be helpful for you and I’m so pleased to look forward to see your books will be published online!</p>
<p><strong>Credits</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://elementor.com/?ref=2136">Elementor Page Builder</a><br><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmb2/">CMB2 Metabox Plugin</a><br><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/kirki/">Kirki Customizer Toolkit</a><br><a href="https://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/09/03/bookblock-a-content-flip-plugin/">BookBlock JQuery Plugin</a><br><a href="https://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a></p>
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Made For Writers, Publish Your Books With WordPress


<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*LdOu0jB228R-8vQAiZyoLw.jpeg"></figure><p>Nowadays, build an online shop is not a difficult thing. There are many E-Commerce platforms or free open source software can help you launch a brand new online shop fast. Maybe you used to spend too much time on shop template/theme choosing but ignored the following 5 very important details which can be optimized for improving sales conversion rate effectively.</p>
<p>Many shopkeepers drive traffic with PPC or CPM advertisements such as Facebook Ads and Google Adwords, so I did the same thing before, but I wasted a lot of money on it. The CTR seems not low, I was not sure how many visitors were truly reached on the landing page, but I knew some of them closed the page impatiently before it was completely loaded, because I was noticed there are some rendering-blocked resources slow down the page loading speed, such as a dead link, too many javascript files and so on.</p>
<h3>Combine CSS/JS Files</h3>
<p>All and all is start from the fast page loading speed. Now, let’s check your website and I will let you know some basic tips on how to optimize the page loading speed. First of all, test your website on <a href="https://tools.pingdom.com/">Tools.pingdom.com</a>. As the following screenshot, you will get some general suggestions such as combine resources, enable browser cache, reduce the image file size and so on.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*IXv28MPoz5lcThzvAykkKw.jpeg"></figure><p>Please note the first three issues, they are very common issues in some pre-built templates. If possible, combine all CSS files and JS files into one or just import them as inline scripts, be careful the order of javascript importing. Combine the script files can reduce the number of HTTP connections to achieve the fast response speed. If your online shop is based on WordPress + WooCommerce, there are plenty of cache plugin can help you do it quickly, Autoptimize and WP Fastest Cache plugin are good choices.</p>
<p>Besides scripts combination, enable Gzip to compress the page and HTML is also necessary, please refer to the following screenshot, the source codes is optimized.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*6bNumPpzAd-pRbgjFfwVUQ.jpeg"></figure><p>Look at the last line, all javascript files are combined into autoptimize_d4eb94f96cb1dcbca5077436c0d5bc57.js file. Additionally, you can asynchronously load the script files to avoid the rendering-block issue, it’s not only good for page loading speed, but also for SEO. You can learn more about removing the rendering-block issue from <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/BlockingJS">Google Insight</a>.</p>
<h3>Optimize Pictures</h3>
<p>In the past 5 years, I found many of our clients use to upload the original pictures to their website directly. They exported the photos from their camera, the file size of those photos are almost reached 3–4Mb, and the photo size is bigger than 4000px, it’s too large for the web. Actually, 1000px is enough for the product images.</p>
<p>So please reduce the photo size first, and you’d better export those photos as web format picture with Photoshop. After you did that, the EXIF information of this photo will be thrown away, it’s unuseful for the web page. If the file size of the original picture is 4M, now it should be reduced to hundreds Kb, don’t worry about the quality of the photo, it won’t be lost too much.</p>
<h3>Enable Browser Cache</h3>
<p>Back to the first screenshot above, let’s check the first issue “<a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/LeverageBrowserCaching"><strong><em>Leverage Browser Caching</em></strong></a>“. The benefit of enabling browser cache is that load the pictures and the other resources fast when visiting your website for the second time. All resources were being cached in the user’s browser, they will not charge additional time and traffic to load those resources again.</p>
<p>If your web server is based on Apache, just edit .htaccess file of your site and add the following rules:</p>
<pre>&lt;filesMatch ".(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$"&gt;<br>Header set Cache-Control "max-age=84600, public"<br><br>## EXPIRES HEADER CACHING ##<br><br>ExpiresActive On<br>ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"<br>ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"<br>ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"<br>ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"<br>ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"<br>ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"<br>ExpiresByType application/javascript "access 1 month"<br>ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access 1 month"<br>ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"<br>ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"<br>ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"<br><br>## EXPIRES HEADER CACHING ##</pre>
<p>If using Nginx as the web server, just add the following rules into your site configuration file (the file is located at /etc/nginx/sites-availables/your-site-configuration-file).</p>
<pre>location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {<br>expires 30d;<br>add_header Cache-Control "public, no-transform";<br>}</pre>
<p>Additionally, using CDN service is also a good solution for that. If your online shop is running on Shopify platform, you don’t need to worry about this issue, because Shopify is already enabled CDN for your online shop. If you check the page source code, you will see some pictures and JS/CSS files are hosted on the CDN server like this:</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*FHoAmCU8EqYBjupN6t_hJA.jpeg"></figure><p>If you have to do it by yourself, <a href="https://www.maxcdn.com/solutions/publishers/">Max CDN</a> is a good option which we are using.</p>
<h3>Make Your Site Mobile Friendly</h3>
<p>According to the statements of Facebook Ads, almost 80% traffic is generated from mobile devices. So make your mobile site fast is very important. The popular solution for mobile compatibility is using responsive web design. It means when you visit your website on the mobile devices, the layout will be automatically resized for reading friendly on the mobile devices.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*A6tt26LKW8QA8ECMpRHt5Q.jpeg"><figcaption><a href="https://mofect.com/">Mofect.com</a></figcaption></figure><p>However, we have noticed that although the responsive website is a good low-cost solution, it’s not perfect. For example, it only resizes the page container to fix the basic reading experience, but some of bigger E-Commerce sites are heavily-resources on desktop version as well as the responsive version. How to fix?</p>
<p>So, beyond the responsive website, Mofect is working on Single Page App(SPA) for the mobile site, we hope to use SPA to instead of the responsive website in some cases. Now I just list the benefits of a good designed Mobile SPA below.</p>
<h4>The Native APP like Experience</h4>
<p>As Single Page APP name, all pages will be redirected and loaded in the single page, just like using a Native APP, you don’t have to wait for the page refresh process. The fast and smooth page transition will improve the user experience a lot, and it’s much better than the responsive website.</p>
<h4>Say Good Bye To Heavily Resources</h4>
<p>We handcraft the codes, optimize the resources loading, get rid of the useless scripts for the mobile version. If you have coding knowledge, you know some scripts are also imported into the responsive website, many redundancy codes will make the responsive website slow. In the mobile web APP, this issue can be fixed perfectly. Of course, it highly depends on the coding level, we are doing our best to make it close to perfect.</p>
<h4>Flexibility Deploying</h4>
<p>The file of mobile SPA is the static HTML file and all data interactive is based on REST API, so it’s completely separated from your existing website, it means you can deploy the SPA to anywhere, even the local hosting. For example, if your website domain name is <a href="https://abc.com,/">https://abc.com,</a> you could separately deploy the mobile web APP under a subdomain like <a href="https://mobile.abc.com/">https://mobile.abc.com</a> or subfolder like <a href="https://abc.com/mobile,">https://abc.com/mobile,</a> it will not influence the existing responsive website. So we think Mobile Web APP is a good additional solution for the mobile compatibility.</p>
<p>If your website was designed very earlier, even it’s not fully responsive, in this case, deploy a Mobile Web APP directly is better than spend a lot of money and time to rebuild a responsive website, isn’t it?</p>
<p>Mofect is making this magic thing happen, we focus on build such a service to seamlessly connect your online shop to our amazing mobile web APP with the low cost. If you are looking forward to becoming the earlier user of Mofect, please stay tuned through our newsletter and you will enjoy a big discount after the platform is online.</p>
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Optimize The Page Loading Speed For Your Online Shop


<p>As a freelance web designer, I focused on the client projects three years ago, it was my primary income but it wasn’t stable. Because bad happens sometimes, for example, I can’t get good project or I had to stop all my works when I was sick, then there was no income during a period of time, that was terrible! So, I was started to think about how to build my passive income channels.</p>
<p>There are many passive income strategies for the freelance web designer, such like write blog and earn the money from Google Adsense or affiliate programs. Surely these are good ways to earn passive income if you are also good at copywriting, online marketing and SEO. However, in fact, the most of web designers are not familiar with marketing, just like me, the headache thing for me is that how to drive the web traffic, feels so hard! So I was thought that why not spend times on the things I’m capable of. Hmm, sell my design on my website and third-party marketplace? Sounds fine.</p>
<h3>My Life Has Been Changed By Sell WordPress Themes</h3>
<p>In 2012, I’ve started to design my first premium WordPress theme and submitted it to <strong>Themeforest</strong>, actually at first I had no great hopes for a good sales. Unexpectedly, I got 8 sales in the first day and keep more than 15 sales in the later months! That was an absolute godsend! Afterward, I continued to design more and more new WordPress themes, although the sales of new themes were not better than the first one, but they still earn passive income for me during these 3 years, even until now.</p>
<p>My life has been changed by sell WordPress themes, at least I don’t want to go back to a normal desk job again.</p>
<h3>The Cruel Competition in Theme Business</h3>
<p>In my impression, since 2015, theme business has become more difficult, because of more and more new web designers and WordPress developers has access to this field, especially teams. Yes, some awesome teams released their super multiple purpose themes that allow users to create almost all kind of common website, and they include 20–100+ demos and a powerful page builder in one theme package! What a big workload it is!</p>
<p>Nowadays, start theme business doesn’t mean that you just need to develop some simple web templates and sell them, it’s not enough. In my opinion, actually the most of premium themes looks like web application includes many utility features, options, and friendly user experience. The other side, you have to make an effective marketing strategy and provide prompt support service and so on.</p>
<p>Obviously, It is not realistic to do it alone as an individual, because the work progress is indeed too slow. Instead, <strong>go it alone has passed, the establishment of alliances between developers and designers has become trend. </strong>So, let’s work together, guys! We've still got a hell of a lot to play for, even if the competition is so cruel.</p>
<blockquote>If you are a talent web designer or WordPress developer and looking for a partner, I’m very happy to hear from you via my twitter(<a href="http://twitter.com/themevan">@ThemeVan</a>) direct message.</blockquote>
<h3>To Be Continued…</h3>
<p><strong>I will share my opinions about the business model in next time, please stay tuned.</strong></p>
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