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very good point, @robin. (Why haven’t I been thinking of something like this myself?!) Because that loss-of-control aspect — particularly at those .35-and-below pricing levels left right and centre — has been bothering me for some time, too.
AP/V camera guy; view this, if you're a drone video nerd, too..
This sounds exciting. I would love to find a concise list of information on
- features, as in new 2.0 features, included with the standalone Plugin
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- new 2.0 features in the paid-for hosted PLUS etc version(s)
as an easy-to-digest list. Have followed all the posts and referenced content. Still have to find these, the threads, posts etc only tell as a narrative/marketing thing that sounds a bit like eBay (!?) about all the good features — which really sound very good, indeed — but do not contain much *actionable* information I, as a photographer/videographer, can actually *work with*! Such a common and simple “list of data” would be highly appreciated by myself and presumably many others.
Thanks.
AP/V camera guy; view this, if you're a drone video nerd, too..
Great news here — thanks for being here, Robin, and nice to meet you. I am a long-time WP user but a total noob to SYM as I happen to have discovered it only a short while ago (where have I been)! So the remaking and streamline efforts for me come at a time when I am only starting to figure out the overall-SYM (theme-based) situation, but I fully appreciate all the upsides of moving it to “simply” be a Plugin. Great work, and I’ll keep watching and possibly participating here while starting my initial SYM steps.
AP/V camera guy; view this, if you're a drone video nerd, too..
very god job, @imported_leo! An absolute newbie to Symbiostock (hey, seriously, what took me so long to find it?!), it is pretty obvious to me that you really have the latest stuff incorporated here and are swimming at the front of the tide.
Again, thanks a million.
AP/V camera guy; view this, if you're a drone video nerd, too..
correct — for multi-lingual, it might be a better idea to separate stuff into separate WP installs (i e separate Symbiostock installs) altogether. Even with WP-multilingual, WP does not do such a good job with different language versions and switching (and I don’t even think that Symbiostock would support WP-multilingual setups anyway?). osCommerce and a few other CMS are doing a far better job there — still WP is the overall winner because of its other features, popularity, and the fact that Symbiostock and packages such as wooCommerce and tons of others are based on WP.
AP/V camera guy; view this, if you're a drone video nerd, too..
fully agree, this sounds like it has been a waste of money.
You could (and should), however, modify the entire approach. Facebook (maybe intentionally, in order to increase ad revenue from the uninformed?) tells users very little about “doing it right”, they are simply not interested in whether or not it works for you.
Your average Fb ad campaign will result in “Likes” for your Page (that is, FACEBOOK Page, not your website). That is not what you want though, you are not living off “Likes” but need to generate sales.
Up to now, the only way of achieving SALES instead of just worthless Likes was using a Like Gate on Fb or, better yet, a “squeeze pages” (external or even within Fb, if done right) that your Fb ad links to. (You can set this using links in your ad when you create your Fb campaign ads on Fb.) This either used to involve a special HTMNL plugin that can be run inside your Fb Page or linking to your external website (Symbiostock site or any additional websites you might have for capturing subscriber e-mail addresses and information).
Recently, and with the introduction of Call-to-action buttons for Fb Pages (not personal profiles, AFAIK), this has become easier and can now be done in a more straightforward way. You may want to read Fb’s new Help texts on that bit or buy yourself one of those SEO courses out there (expensive but potentially worthwhile if you really want to know the nuts and bolts of this). You could also visit free and open forums like , for better details (or even my personal photo gallery site where I am in the process of writing up my experience gathered in online marketing — during my “earlier life”, I am a recovering IT Systems Developer).
On a side note, even Twitter has geared up a bit lately with the introduction of Twitter cards (pretty sure you guys are aware of this and the fact that there are sepcial WP plugins available for that going beyond Yoast’s excellent SEO plugin and what’s included with Symbiostock already — I would recommend to also get the “JM Twitter Cards” plugin or something that even includes Twitter “subscription cards” — bear with me, currently looking myself, will try to post an edit when found.
Back to Fb ad campaigns though: I am myself constantly experimenting and improving on my current set of tools but found them to work for five or six years (including three major Google algo updates). Getting yourself ranked nicely in search-engine land and then directing both your visitors and Fb ad customers to some sort of “funnel” like that will help a lot in yielding the results that @chromaco has been missing. That way, even paid-for Fb ad campaigns (or corresponding stuff on Twitter & others) should give you quick results and be worth their money.
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