Cream
Cream is a clean and simple Tumblr theme using subtle textures and colors for a light and playful feel. Main colors are creamy tones of beige and tan, accented with pinks for links and accent items.
The sidebar is easily customizeable and you can easily add in flickr or custom content as each block is set up as a list item of an unordered list.
Fully layered PSD is included, to allow easy editing of graphic elements.
Cost: $14 via ThemeForest
Nuance
Nuance is a clean, minimal, customizable and unique tumblr theme.
Features:
- An unique and clean home display format
- Block styling related to their post date
- Custom Colors
- Well documented
- Progressive Enhancement (Works fine without Javascript enable)
- And much more!
Cost: $14 via ThemeForest
Tumble News
Lot’s of nice elements in this newspaper style Tumblr Theme.
Highlights: – Install with ease… just copy and paste!
- Change theme colors easily!
- Easily customize to add logo and background image!
- Sidebar sections for Tumblr “Likes”, Twitter, Flickr and Banner advertisements included!
Cost: $14 via ThemeForest
Vintage Scrapbook
Vintage Scrapbook is a whimsical, highly detailed theme inspired by the colours, styles, and textures found in old documents. Along with supporting all Tumblr post types (each displayed with its own unique formatting style), this theme features a highly customizable sidebar space and displays your blog title in a gorgeous distressed typeface.
Cost: $14 via ThemeForest
Rio and City Dreams Tumblr Themes
In addition to updating the Be Original Tumblr theme, I have also been working on a few other themes as well – Rio Theme and CityDreams, both originally designed by Amy & Pink. These have been a favorite of mine for years, but I never had a good use for them, until now.
The designs were both created for WordPress, but because of their simplicity I thought they would be great options to convert into Tumblr Themes. So stay tuned, They are both about 50% completed and should be done soon.
WordPress Versions: Rio Theme & City Dreams
Below are screenshots of my working designs. They may differ in the final version, but will essentially look just like these.
Rio Tumblr Theme
City Dreams Tumblr Theme
** disclaimer – disregard the nudity in this theme, all images are owned by Amy & Pink **
Be Original Theme Updated
First, I would like to apologize for all the people who have sent me emails about the pagination missing. This was my first theme and although the how to make a Tumblr theme NetTuts tutorial was very good, they did miss a few small features which are required in order to get your Tumblr theme publishing in the Theme Garden, one of which is pagination.
So I finally got around to updating my Be Original Tumblr theme. The pagination is simple, but fits with the design of the theme and the color can be changed within the Customize/Appearance section of you Tumblr’s admin section.
Feel free to comment below if you have any issues, I will try and get back to you as soon as possible! Thanks!
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10 Internet Marketing Strategies for Building Brand Awareness
When deciding to start a website and make money online the first thing people worry about is receiving targeted website traffic. If you search Google for ‘muffin pans’ the only difference between the first site listed and the site listed on page 2,000,135 is that one website site owner has put more attention into brand awareness and internet marketing.
So before I begin, lets make sure we have a clear understanding of what brand awareness means.
Brand awareness is a marketing concept that measures consumers’ knowledge of a brand’s existence. At the aggregate (brand) level, it refers to the proportion of consumers who know of the brand.
This basically means, marketing your product so that it’s recognizable everywhere, like Coke, Mc Donald’s and Walmart. Take into consideration that these multi-million dollar companies (maybe even billions) spend a fortune on advertising every year to maintain their brand awareness in order to build loyalty for their customers. But for the everyday person starting an internet business this may seem almost impossible.
Brand recognition takes time and effort, so I have provided a few internet marketing ideas which will help you create a successful brand.
1. Sell Yourself First. Brand building can be as simple as being yourself. I can’t count how many times I have been undecided about purchasing a product, the final decision was between two very similar choices and I chose a the product based on a the fact I liked one company (or business owner) more than the other. Building a brand isn’t just about the product you’re selling, but it’s about brand perception. Do people like you? Do people speak highly of your business? Because if they do, they are more likely to purchase from you and tell their friends.
2. Use the Product Yourself. As a small business without much start-up capital brand development can start by simply using your own product! You would be amazed at how simple this marketing concept is, but sometimes overlooked. Every small business should have an online marketing strategy which includes multimedia (videos, images, audio, etc.) of the owner using their products. Allowing a potential customers to see the owner stand behind their products’ quality and is passionate about it’s value will convert into potential sales.
3. Follow Up and Stay Accessible. Brand advertising and development is on going. Most people rarely purchase a product the first time they see it online. Potential customers will bookmark the product, come back, get outside opinions and then make a decision after careful consideration. Your direct marketing strategy should always include following up with a prospect, since it usually takes 6-7 exposures to a product before someone actually buys something. Always take every opportunity to answer questions, respond to emails and phone calls because this can mean the difference between making the sale or not.
4. Article Marketing. Writing articles will help you build credibility and brand visibility on the internet. This marketing strategy is easy, time consuming, but extremely effective in branding your website. By writing short 400-500 hundred word articles and submitting them to the top article directories, your search engine rankings will increase and people will begin to find your site in popular search engines more easily.
5. Smaller Niche Markets. Brand awareness isn’t just for larger companies who can afford to hire top dollar marketing consultants. There are hundreds of thousands of small businesses thriving online by narrowing down their niche to be more specific. So instead of concentrating on building a brand around ‘poodle grooming supplies’, it might be more profitable to concentrate on ‘pink poodle dye and nail polish’. Successful brands realize the importance of starting small while building brand loyalty.
6. Social Media. Since the emergence of social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, branding experts have come to realize that these free social outlets can greatly contribute to brand development and potential sales. Social media marketing strategies can include building a following for your customers to stay informed, offering coupons and incentives and providing direct one-on-one contact with your customers. Social media is critical to building brand awareness for small businesses with limited funds and brand experience.
7. Make a Bang with Multimedia. Every day start-ups are looking for the biggest bang for their buck and the best way to create a buzz around your brand is with multimedia – specifically video. One of the biggest explosions of internet marketing is online video. Once a company starts creating real videos, with real people along with unique content, they become more accessible to the consumer. Because know matter how many brand development techniques you implement, the reality is, people want to deal with real people. Not companies.
8. Build an Email List. List building is one of the most important online marketing strategies available today. An email list is when you offer visitors to your website something free (coupons, discounts or exclusive content) by having them sign up for your weekly newsletter or mailing list. If you have an email list, then you will essentially have direct marketing access to people who are interested in your products. So when there are new additions to the website or a special insider sale, you can reach your customers directly and potentially make more sales.
9. Send Regular Emails. Brand creation doesn’t end once you have captured a long list of names and emails. Brand loyalty occurs whens when you keep in constant contact with your subscribers. As an entrepreneur, you should be sending emails regularly, around once a week (you don’t want to be annoying). These emails should include additional information about your products, news and articles during the week they may have missed.
10. Research Keywords. Keywords are the specific words people input into Google (yes, or BING or Yahoo) search in order to locate information on the internet. For example, if I am looking for Karate classes in Richmond Virginia, I may go to Google and type in ‘Karate class Richmond Virginia’ and the most popular options will show up first. If you are the owner of a karate class in Richmond Virgina you would make sure you use the keywords ‘Karate’, ‘class’, ‘Richmond’ and ‘Virginia’ were appear on your website (within the page title and body text) and perhaps even in some article titles for article marketing.
The brand building process is on-going. Even after you have implemented these internet marketing strategies, there is always more that can be done. Becoming successful online is a lot easier that most people think. All you need is time, energy and knowledge while keeping people’s best interests in mind.
AllTutorials
AllTutorials is a free WordPress theme, designed by Site5 and comes widget and a couple of jQuery-based goodies. It can be used for portfolios and blogs as well as corporate websites. As usual, the theme is free to use in private and commercial projects.
Features
- Widget ready ( footer and sidebar )
- Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
- WordPress Post Thumbnail Enabled
- Latest Tweets Build-in Widget
- Build-in Pagination
- 125×125 ads section with enable/disable option, using “WP125″ plugin ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp125/ )
- Popular Posts using “Plugin Popular Posts Tool” ( http://teofiloisrael.com/plugin-popular-posts-tool/ )
- JQuery Lightbox ( http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/ )
- JQuery Forms
- Ajax based contact form
- Live form email validation
- Documentation and Setup Instructions
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How to Setup Google Adsense
What is Google Adsense?
Google AdSense is Google’s online advertising program in which advertisers agree to have their ads placed on websites and blogs that contain content that’s relevant to the advertiser’s business. For example, if you had a blog on cars, those who were advertising items related to cars, such as accessories and car parts would want to advertise on your blog. Read more
