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Blogging Specials to take advantage of!

November 22, 2023 by Heather Step Leave a Comment

If you’ve been thinking of setting up or revamping your blog, here are some awesome specials you should really take advantage of at this Black Friday time.

Set up your blog with a blogging course

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set up your own wordpress blog course

“Start a Wordpress Blog from Scratch” is on special this week for $47. This is my course about setting up a blog from a South African angle, although I do use oversees tools as well.

You’ll learn everything you need to know about

  • The set up: getting a domain, hosting, installing WordPress on your site
  • Appearance: make your blog look fantastic with a theme, make a log and flavicon, four essential pages for your blog, and creating a permalink.
  • Building content and community: How to do a blog post. Set up your own professional email and put it in your gmail. Set up an email list and create an opt in form. Using Instagram and Facebook to promote your posts. An overview of plugins and the three essential ones.
  • Ideas to make money.
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So go ahead and get the course here.

Become an affiliate for this course here.

Also on special: Suzi from Start a Mom Blog has a lot on special. I remember getting a lot of her courses one black Friday and that really helped me when I set up a new blog. She also has courses on making printables, which she is very good at.

Get some lovely Instagram templates

Everything in my shop is 50% off when you use the coupon code “blackfriday” – all one word, small letters. Not only can you grab these templates but there’s also chore charts, meal planners and various other stuff, plus my workshop on payment gateways that I did a while ago.

South African mom blogs shop - instagram templates, planners and more

Make your blog look amazing with a new theme

I’ve got two suggestions when it comes to themes:

  1. Restored 316: All my sites run on Lauren’s themes. She is a lovely woman who always sends inspirational emails every week to encourage us to keep going.
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Her sites are feminine themed and can be used for a variety of things. She does very helpful set up videos. Honestly her stuff is worth it – your site will look fantastic.

The sale starts on Friday, November 24th, at 6am CST, and ends Monday, November 27th at 11:59 pm CST. Use coupon code r316cm23 at checkout to receive the sale price.

What’s on sale this black Friday:

  • 25% off all our WordPress Themes
  • 25% off Platinum Packages
  • 25% off all Canva Graphic Templates
  • 25% off all Block Collections (Theme Collections, Funnel Bundles, Conversion Callouts, and more!)
  • 25% off Lunch & Learns with Lauren

Go check out her lovely themes here.

2. Kadence is another one I recommend. A wonderful fast loading theme with lots of customisation options. Kadence offers 40% off all new subscriptions. On my blogging course I used a Kadence starter theme (which was free). Lauren also uses Kadence as a base for her themes.

Connect with your community with a mailing list

There is so much going on at MailerLite, sometimes I feel like I am just scratching the surface. I figured out recently how to insert social media posts and Woocommerce shop items which is really cool, but on some of the upper plans you can even get an AI to suggest your subject line or write your mail for you. Ok no well fine.

Their newsletters are really next level and it might be weird that I am paying $10 every month for them when I don’t have 1000 but that’s to get support and redirection to my sales page for the thank you page.

Don’t be dependent on a social media audience. Create your own list of subscribers.

mailerlite black friday deal

Join the new MailerLite and getup to 33% off any annual plan. That’s 4 months of premium features totally free! Or choose any monthly plan and snag 90% off your first month.To claim your holiday discount, all you need to do is sign up for the new MailerLite and upgrade before December 18th. Go here.

That’s it!

In summary:

Get my blog course. (till Monday 27 Nov)

Get templates. (use code “blackfriday”) (till Monday 27 Nov)

Get a fab theme. (use code “r316cm23“) -only from Friday till Monday)

Get a mailing list. (till 18 December)

And we’re done!

Get your blog 2024 ready with these amazing deals and showcase your writing in a beautiful way.

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