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Nocturn – A Professional & Attractive News WordPress theme

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ColorLabs is happy to announce the release of the Nocturn WordPress Theme. Nocturn is a clean newspaper-style WordPress theme that has easy to read architecture, primarily focused on the content. This WordPress theme is a great alternative for those without the know-how or money to pay for a custom newspaper style website. It allows anyone to start their own professional feature or news site in any niche. 

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ColorLabs’ 3rd Birthday Celebration: Up to 57% Discount

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Two days from today will be 21 July, which marks the exact date three years ago that we launched ColorLabs & Company (was ColorLabs Project). We started back in 2009 as one very enthusiastic entrepreneur with a shoestring budget, one premium theme and a love of WordPress. Going through our blog archives, support forum & e-mail threads for the past 3 years, it’s obvious that the company has come a very long way and it is with that nostalgic feeling that we would like to invite you to celebrate our 3rd Birthday with us.

Some Stats

Looking back at four years of exciting and sometimes exhausting work, I put together some stats about ColorLabs so far. In three years we have:

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AffiliateBoard – WordPress Theme for Affiliate Websites

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If you are involved in affiliate marketing, or would like to get started in affiliate marketing, and is looking for a WordPress theme for your affiliate site, then the following theme will surely get your attention.

AffiliateBoard is a sleek and feature-packed affiliate WordPress theme that will help you generate as much money as possible from your affiliate commissions. AffiliateBoard WordPress theme is designed for people who would like to set up an affiliate website promoting all sorts of products. It is extremely easy to use and set up.

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Weekly Discount on Top-Selling ColorLabs WordPress Themes

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In an effort to bring you the best pricing on the themes ColorLabs’ users love the most, we are going to discount our top-selling WordPress themes so you can save big. And we are going to make it a weekly event!

Starting from today until July 18, 2012 ET, you can get the themes listed below in special prices and save up to 59%.

  • Arthemia. Standard Pack is $35 (normally $49). Developer Pack is $72 (normally $99).
  • Modernizm. Standard Pack is $25 (normally $49). Developer Pack is $63 (normally $99).
  • Indulgence. Standard Pack is $20 (normally $49). Developer Pack is $54 (normally $99).
  • Minuet. Standard Pack is $20 (normally $49). Developer Pack is $54 (normally $99).

To enjoy the discounted price, you can purchase the themes on their landing pages or from the Deals Page. No coupon code is needed. :D

If you have an item you want us to discount post it on the comment below and we will try to discount it for you!

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Is Email Marketing a Helpful Addition to PPC Advertising and Other Paid Marketing Forms?

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This is a guest post by David Chapman, the Director of Marketing at Webrageous.

The answer is… yes! Email Marketing is a very helpful addition (when done correctly) to any kind of advertising campaign that is already making full use of PPC Advertising or some other kind of paid marketing strategy.

There are now two questions that will probably spring to mind…

1. The first is, how do we know that Email Marketing is a worthwhile activity?

2. The second is, how do we improve our Email Marketing so that it does not create the impression of being irritating spam knocking on the Email doors of our potential customers?

This short article will now answer both questions and illuminate all the positive wonder of Email Marketing in a flash!

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Backbone Child Theme for Food Bloggers and Restaurant Owners

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People who love food, who talk about food, who take pictures of food, who love to experiment with new recipe invariably become food bloggers, and why not – it’s fun! With people looking for more interesting eats these days and wanting to know if they would be getting value for their buck, more food blogs are popping up.

Besides the domain name, one of the biggest things an aspiring food blogger has to choose is a theme for their WordPress blog. Whether you are a new food blogger without a high budget or an experienced food blogger who value a user-friendly way to add, organize and display recipes, then you will definitely love our most recent Backbone Framework’s child theme, FoodMagz WordPress Theme.

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Key Points to Discuss with Your Website Designer

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This is a guest post by Nerissa M., a content writer from Los Angeles, California.

What are the tricks that make a website favored, or shown around the office? What does a company need to do to help a website have its own tone? What should people ask of their website designer when they need their website to be of the highest quality? Here are several key points to discuss with your website designer when having your website – which is your online home for your business – designed.

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SEO 101: How People Use Search Engines

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SEO 101: How People Use Search Engines

This is a guest post by Chris Barnwell.

Just like any other form of marketing, you would need to learn more about your audience’s behavior to succeed in search marketing. In search, you would need to know how your average customers use search engines to find what they are looking for. This way, you can make sure that you are able to reach them.

But first, you would have to zoom out and know more about how people, in general, come up with the search terms they use on search engines.

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Automatic Syndication to Facebook and Twitter Using WordPress

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This is a guest post by Juliana Payson, a Community web hosting specialist based in Los Angeles.

WordPress and its development community have made great strides in recent years when it comes to syndicating posts to major social networks. The WordPress software itself still ships without such integration, although the software’s developers have created a few of their own after-market solutions for automatic publishing to the world’s most popular social websites.

For website owners, there are a few great plugins that open up the ability to automatically post to both Facebook and Twitter every time a new post is created. These plugins are great for cross-promotion and SEO enhancements, and they should be seriously considered by every website administrator.

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When Will Ecommerce Overtake Offline Shopping?

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When Will Ecommerce Overtake Offline ShoppingThis is a guest post written by Andras Deak, an occasional guest-blogger and a full-time technology enthusiast.

E-commerce is taking over the globe. According to Forrester Research, by 2014 over 53 percent of all retail decisions will be made due to the influence of online shops. Over the past few years, it has become easier and easier to shop online or even from your mobile phone. In the future, e-commerce will continue to expand and one day, may actually take over brick and mortar stores entirely. However, some things must happen before e-commerce designers will overtake offline shopping.

E-commerce will take over offline purchases when the following events happen:

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8 Places to Hire WordPress Designers or Developers

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8 Places to Hire WordPress Designers or DevelopersThere are literally thousands of WordPress themes out there to change the look and feel of your WordPress-powered website/blog. However, even with all the abundance of themes out there, it is very rare that you find one that you do not have to modify in one way or another. Even if you finally find one that matches your needs, eventually the time will come when you want it to be unique, whether that is in design or more advanced features.

If you are a ColorLabs user, we accept paid customization requests of all ColorLabs WordPress Themes. Please log into our Resolution Center and submit a paid customization service ticket and explain your requests in detail..

To meet a satisfactory result, you will have to hire a designer or developer who specialized in WordPress, and can get the job done 100%. Based on your budget, a WordPress expert can offer you something absolutely unique to compete with your competitors. Many website owners have been stung by people telling them they can do anything and just to find out that they can’t. Hiring a WordPress expert, either as a developer or designer, will remove the hassle and the large number of wasted hours in dealing with amateurs.

In this post I listed the Top 10 job board sites which are check regularly by WordPress experts (in no particular order).

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9 Themes Added to The All-in-One Bundle

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Upgraded: All-in-One BundleGreat news everyone! We’ve added Backbone Theme Framework + its 7 Child Themes (Papuros, Sharpness, Cloth, Persona, Le Journal, Vidio, Kirei) and 1 Classified Ad Theme, Classifier, to the All-in-One Bundle. And we don’t change the price.

With the new additions, now you can have a one year access to 39+ premium WordPress Themes for only $74 ($1.89 apiece). The regular price is $99, in order to get $25 discount you must use the coupon code from our Facebook pageNote: Previous All-in-One Bundle customers, will also be granted the same access (39+ premium WordPress themes).

Remember, the deal only lasts until July 10, 2012 ET. So grab it now before it runs out!

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