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efosa123 · 5 years

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Ecompare Review With Bonus || Ecompare 2.0 WP Store Builder Demo in this video I'm going to quickly show you how to set up he compared to and why I think it's the best affiliate store builder that you're going to come across now of course there are tons and tons of affiliate store builders online you may have want to see yourself but if I take you over to the site and show you this one unique feature there's a ton of unique features with you compared to you but I'm going to show you this one because this is the one that really pulls in your customers and turns your stores into actual profit ok so this is a demo site there's only a few products on here but if I click here you can see that it runs a life of a price comparison that this price comparison engine is built into II compared to those Bittman City compare 1e compared to is the upgraded version and we've got an awful lot of additional features built in so you can see straight away we have prices from Amazon eBay we don't have one from Alibaba but we have one from Walmart so we have three different prices here and regardless of wherever your customer decides to purchase let's just say that they click buy now from Amazon you get a commission again it doesn't matter where they buy from providing you've got your affiliate links clicked into all of the different platforms and I'll show you that in just a moment but you can see the power of this now you can also see that we have the images we have social media if I pull this green over here we've also added in shopping cart and wishlist now shopping cart is an additional element as is wish list but shopping cart now allows 90-day cookies so for example if you've done any affiliate econ work before then you'll know that Amazon is only a 24 hour cookie so that means if your potential customer doesn't buy today and it doesn't buy tomorrow then you lose out on that Commission however with you compared to because of the 90 day cookie tech if they click here and then they come back in say 89 days time for example you still get a commission before that transaction now you can see that we have descriptions so descriptions are curated they're pulled in which is great for SEO especially if you focus in your stores on specific marketplaces and issues which we suggest that you do we also have refused the support directly from Amazon if you've chosen Amazon in the product settings which I'll show you in a moment customers can also believe their own reviews here so let me take you over to the blog now so you can learn you can put the blog around these products around your niche with curated content and you can monetize it you know we have a number of videos there so again this is great for SEO forgets a home page you can see that we have a sliders we have bestsellers all of this can be set up in settings I'll show you that in a moment you can add store products you can add your autoresponder so you can build a list you can collect emails from your store and we have all of the legal pages okay so I'm going to show you this feature this additional feature before I take you into the admin area so here you can see little search box now this is a live search feature and what it allows your customers to do is to search for products which may or may not be on your site now let's assume that you've just sets up a cyan like this one you know we've only got a few products on here and this one let's just say it's about phones and let's say the customer was looking for a different brand so we pulled that in there and then we click search now obviously this phone these products are not on the site at the moment but you can see here that it pulls up those products so what happens is any potential customer on your site looking for a product which you may or may not have on your site can still search and if they decide to compare deals click here or buy that product then you still get a commission even though it's not actually on your site at the moment so this one here for example I could have that once a car again this is cooking for 90 days to wish list so you can see that we're in the car there and we're also added to the wish list there so if I click here you'll see it's up here and you can proceed to checkout so this is far more like a real econ store than it is an affiliate store builder now setting up in compare to is very very straightforward you will need your self hosted WordPress installation we do have instructions on how to set up all the basics inside the members area but again if you used to setting up WordPress sites then this is an absolute breeze so obviously you're going to need to install the seam and you're gonna need to install the plugin so first of all let me just show you the theme so you can see here that we have a pro theme this is fully customizable so you can customize it so any niche you like any interest very easy to customize very cool-looking and comes with built in sliders and the host of features to make it powerful in any niche market so next let's take you over to you can pet see this is a plug-in I'm going to show you how to set it up so this will just be a quick run-through you can just see how easy it is so initially you'll need to get the settings you need to add in your details for the platforms that you want to use obviously the comparison engine will only use the platforms that you've integrated with you compared to obviously so you can see that you can choose from or you can add Amazon Aliexpress Walmart Best Buy shop comm see discount an eBay you can say become the settings there but these are the details that you need to add in order for the comparison engine to work now if you decided that you only want to use say Amazon and eBay which are probably the most common referral platforms to use then you can just use those and the comparison engine will just search and compare from those two sites but again there are seven sites here and you can integrate all of them so once you've done that go over to the dashboard actually have to go over to the product finder then you start adding products here so for example the Lancer pull a product from Amazon or I can different Aliexpress or eBay must watched so you put a keyword in there we can set up categories or choose to select categories we can choose a number of results that we want to find we can add filters years click fetch products once the products are added to your new affiliate store they're self updating all that means is if a product runs out of stock or price changes on say amazon or ebay or any of the other platforms then it will change automatically in your store so not going to run into problems of having zero stock and assembly click throw or the price changing when they click through to the platform everything changes automatically inside your eke impaired affiliate store now one of the biggest issues with any online business is lack of traffic obviously you need traffic in order for you to drive sales having an affiliate store is great but without traffic then it's just a great-looking store it's not gonna make you any money so we recommend that you build each door around specific niches however we've added in a couple of features which will allow you to drive traffic almost instantly so of course you can share each place across social media as soon as you add the product you can share it but nearly every other store builder does that so we've added our own traffic booster so if I hover here you can see traffic booster I click there and you can set up your traffic to run directly from inside of your admin - set up everything here set up the templates preferences and this is a viral system so essentially if you're just starting out you don't have traffic your site's not yet established and it's not appearing in Google then simply use the inbuilt traffic booster to start driving traffic to your pages into your office and we compared to has unlimited stock potential so it's slightly different in as much as it lets you have as much dock on your store as for as you want there are no restrictions you can have thousands and thousands of products really makes no difference and we put no restriction on how many products you can add to your store now of course you may not want to have all of those products showing or listing at the same time you might want to show some and then some another time we have a number of sliders built in we have featured products that you can set everything up from this - here so if you go to dashboard just pull this up here if you get a dashboard didn't set everything up here like I say this is just a demo store so there are not too many products in here at the moment but you can see how easy it is to set up so you can you can add products to a featured list removed from featured hide from shop shot my shop and so on inside of the store settings you can set up and customize your theme so you can add your own logo you can turn on or switch off slider in pretty much control all of the sliders everything from inside of this panel here you can set up your life search settings so if you remember I showed you that if you put a keyword in the search bar people search and make a profit if they purchased here you can set up live search settings so if you remember I showed you that if somebody put in a keyword you could still potentially profit somebody clicks somebody runs a search for a product that's not necessarily on your site they click through the purchase and you get a commission you can put a default keyword in there insert discounts here and you can turn on the discount switch selector we have built in SEO options for SEO traffic retargeting blog options and many other features all built in to this - here Pam there are a ton of other features but essentially if you're just starting out you're interested in results you're interested in having something that's easy to set up that looks good and works I think you see that eke impaired is very very straightforward very very slick looking but perhaps the most important aspect is the fact that you can add as much stock as you want you don't have to carry any stock you weren't commissioned from anything that anybody buys on your store and the price comparison engine makes this a unique tool there is nothing else like it when you offer people the best deal the best price they will purchase from you 11 more words

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becomingherocomic · 7 years

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Becoming Hero

How to post your #comics to all the socials at the same time (#makecomics

2020 Update: Back in 2017 Blog2Social had a security leak that caused a phishing attempt on my site. I deleted the plug-in, contacted them, and after about a year reinstalled the plug-in. Haven’t had any more phishing issues since, so it looks like the security issue’s fixed. Just full disclosure fyi.

How do you promote your comics on all TEH SOCIALS? It’s one of the questions that came up recently on the Webcomics Facebook Group I’m part of. Should you even bother posting your comics on socials? If so, which social media outlets should you bother with, anyway?

It’s better to do one social well than to do a million poorly. However, the more places your comic exists online, the more opportunities other people have to run into it. Posting to multiple socials also provides a great back-up in case your site goes down (like mine did last month), and, most importantly of all–

The more high-profile websites that link to your website, the better its ranking in Google.

Oh snap! You know what qualifies as a high-profile website? Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, the works!

That’s why I started posting my comics to the socials I don’t use all the time. And you know what? Since I started doing that, my views have multiplied by tens, yay! BUT OH MY GOSH IT IS TEDIOUS AND HORRIBLE to try to log in and post to a gazillion social media sites HOLY CRAP WHY WOULD I DO THAT–

So I don’t. I use the Blog2Social WordPress plug-in, which means that right after I finish a post, I get a page that looks like this:

…where I can scroll down to customize a promo-post for each social media sites. With images. Instagram, Pinterest, etc are below this screen–I just scroll down to edit each post.Anything I can do on the social site itself, I can do on this page.

Or, if I’m lazy, I can just pre-set Blog2Social to autopost when I hit publish here:

I advise against that because different social media sites really do have different culture, and I get more engagement when I bother to customize each post. It’s really fast and easy when they’re all on the same page like that.

Blog2Social has made my life so much easier.

There are other tools available to do this, and I have tried the major ones so you don’t have to.

I can tell you right now that Blog2Social doesn’t have as many esoteric social media options as SNAP (“social networks auto poster”) does: no app.net or Instapaper, sorry. Its free version also can’t troll through your old blog posts and auto-post them every now and then without you, the way Microblog Poster says it can (B2S can do that in the paid version, though). That’s truth.

But when I tried both of those plug-ins, they gave me buggy, difficult to use, get-under-the-hood messiness. SNAP posts did look nicer, when they worked, but the one by one installation and API management of each social media network took me literally an entire day, and in the end, half of the socials didn’t actually work. I feel like you basically can’t use SNAP without being at least an amateur web designer. Worse, it’s hard to customize each Tweet with images, which means I’m losing engagement and quality, and SNAP refuses to post anything from my comics category. Comics were the entire point in the first place! And Microblogposter straight up just didn’t re-post the old stuff like it said it would. It just didn’t.

I ended up uninstalling the Microblog Poster, and I now only use SNAP to try to auto-post to StumbleUpon and Deviantart…which it doesn’t actually do most of the time, but whatever. I do like Facebook Publish a lot: it’s got a lot more Facebook-specific features than B2S, so you could try to use them together. In the end, though, I ended up uninstalling Facebook Publish, too, because B2S just does what I need, and it’s never double or triple posted on me like FB Publish did to me the other day. Blog2Social pulls pictures from my links better than Facebook Publish does, which is important for comics:

The post above pulled my actual comic from the page. The post below, by Facebook Publish, pulled a generic picture off my sidebar rather than the actual picture in the post.

(We all love Natasha, though, so who can blame Facebook Publish for posting her instead = P)

B2S basically never fails me. It was easy to install and it worked immediately. No playing with API. No reading and troubleshooting. If it stops posting to a network, I just re-authorize that network (which means I just log in again) and bam, we’re back in business.

So.

Easy.

Everything I’ve shown you so far about Blog2Social is free, and I think the free version probably works well for most amateur comic artists working alone. If you have even less time than I think you have, you might want to look into the paid version so you can schedule the social media posts for their optimum time and connect multiple accounts to each network. For comics artists working with one or more partners, the Smart Version allows two users, and the Pro version allows five. That’s pretty baller. There’s a big businesses option, too, if you run, like, a huge comics news site or something (in which case, please get in touch with me, because wow we gotta talk!). That’s for if you need like 15 accounts per social media network, with 10 users.

You can do more comparison of the different plans on a cool chart like this…

…over at the Blog2Social website.

If you want that stuff, you can probably go here for the Smart Plan, here for the Pro plan, and here for the Business plan. (I say probably because I don’t know what post-apocalyptic future timeline you’re reading this from, and I don’t want to assume.)

And if you don’t want to give money to software creators, the basic version’s always free. It really does do just what I showed you in that screenshot, and it’s a total life-saver for me, especially because for a while, I didn’t have a phone.

No phone, no Instagram, right?

Blog2Social is the only tool I could get working that can easily and freely post my comics to Instagram from a computer, and I’d use it for that alone, since the Gram is becoming one of the fastest growing networks out there. Most of you are smarter than I am, so you can probably come up with a bunch of other uses for B2S that I haven’t thought of, but me, I just love how easy it is. This is why I became a Blog2Social affiliate: I tried the product, loved it, and thought, “hey, why don’t we team up?” I think a lot of webcomic artists want more time to draw and less time working on marketing, and we don’t all feel like learning how to develop software just to get our comics posted online. I support that, and I’m happy the company wants to support me and my comics with some moneys. I’m honestly thrilled about getting other comic creators posting smarter online: we need more comics, and less politics, out there on the Socials.

So how about you? How do you use B2S for your comics? If you don’t use B2S, what do you use? After this post, you think you might try it?

Leave a comment below, and don’t forget to check out my comic, up in the menu, and tell me what you think.

https://becominghero.ninja/how-to-post-your-comics-to-all-the-socials-at-the-same-time/

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