Sports Card Strategy Show

Of course I'm super high on Trevor Lawrence rookie cards, Zach Wilson rookie cards, Trey Lance rookie cards and Justin Fields rookie cards, and I've pre-ordered several of them from Panini, Leaf / Pro Set and I even scored the recent Trevor Lawrence Exclusive Topps Set from Topps.com, but I'm here to tell you about the top sleeper sports cards from the 2021 NFL Draft. To understand the concept of...

If you're heading into your 40s and interested in Sports Cards, this is for you. If you collect or flip Sports Cards but were born after 1985, this article is NOT for you. You won't relate to this content.  You didn't grow up the way we did and quite frankly, are unlikely to have any of the perspective I'm about to drop here.  Shocked? I meant that. My content really is only for dudes th...

Dude, I don't care if you're already judging me for the title of this. Yes, I buy sports cards on Etsy. 🙂  I'm all about any place where you can find undervalued or even reasonably priced sports cards, especially those that are already slabbed by PSA.  Which is why I've been super cautious recently with listings I've seen from Etsy sellers specifically listing well known modern vintage...

I grew up in Detroit, and eventually moved to Nashville, but ended up in Spain in 2018 with my family. Valencia, Spain - to be exact. When my son started in public Spanish school, within the first week, there were reps from Panini outside of the schools passing out packets of 1 EURO cards for free. The set they were passing out was Panini Adrenalyn. Soccer Cards, called "cromos de futbol" in Spain...

So you want to sell your sports cards? Or at least understand what they're worth? The best way to sell a sports card is to first create an accurate sales comp, then of course make your listing look good. In this post, we'll be primarily focused on the former. Although technically I've been collecting Sports Cards since I was 8 years old, I really only collected heavily from 1989-1994, then paused...

Competitive Sports Card Collecting is like Fantasy Sports mixed with the Stock Market, mixed with Sports Betting...with Entrepreneur-flavored sprinkles on top.  It's all about skill, pride and bragging rights. It's filled with failures disguised as learning experiences; and losses that ultimately help your long-term winning percentage.  And the best part is, it doesn't at all need to be...

In this short, three minute video, I reveal the best SEO Tip ever! It's not super complicated. You just need to have your site verified with Google Search Console first. More on that here - https://datadriven.design/?s=google+search+console - Then, you need to log into Google with the account you verified your site with, and make a search for the keyword you want to optimize your site for.  S...

If you're looking to make your WordPress website more professional by giving your visitors the ability to make one-time or recurring payments via Stripe instead of PayPal, WP Simple Pay is a great solution for you.  This covers how to acquire, install and configure WP Simple Pay to make your WordPress website have the ability to sell memberships, take donations and more.

Are you having issues with your WordPress website URLs redirecting to the wrong pages? I may have a simple solution for you.  I've used a plug-in called Redirection for almost 10 years now when I build WordPress sites. Its main purpose is to implement 301 redirects when redesigning websites. This is so that when an old website has a URL like mywebsite.com/contact-us and we change the new webs...

Sometimes the data leads you to put an exit intent pop-up on your website to collect email addresses from visits as they intend to leave your site.  But what should you put on it? I prefer to allow the data to drive that as well. This video shows how you can use a plug-in called Bloom by Elegant Themes to create variants of your pop-up to increase your conversion rate.

There is now an easy, turnkey way to literally put your WordPress website's content on Alexa and Google Assistant. This opens up your website to a whole new rapidly growing audience of more than 500 million people using voice assistants on a daily basis to get information.  You want your website to rank high on Google, so why wouldn't you want it to also rank high on Alexa and Google Assistan...

So you've uploaded a new featured image and published your awesome blog post, but there's one small problem, right?  The beautiful featured image you've loaded in isn't showing on your blog page. In fact, some other, older image you posted as a featured image in a different blog post is showing in it's place!  What's up with that?  This is not random. There is a simple explanation f...

There are many ways to customize the search functionality on your WordPress website. There are plug-ins that help you control what's shown and what's not shown in the results. There are also easy changes you can make to your functions.php files.  But most of these methods focus on global changes, like what categories or custom post types to include or exclude from your search results. Or what...

Oh no! I just made a HUGE mistake on one of my WordPress pages! My content is gone!  I know there's something called Revisions, but after the update to Gutenberg (anything after WP 5.0), it's NOT THERE ANYMORE!  Help! What do I do?????  No worries.

How do I export my all of the files from my WordPress website? That's a question you may be asking yourself if you're redesigning your site into a new WordPress theme/install.  Export Media Gallery is a great plug-in that I recommend using. This video shows you the ins and outs and considerations, as well as the step-by-step process.

Are you using BuddyPress (a free version of BuddyBoss, basically) to build a social media type community site using WordPress? If so, you're pretty smart.  But you may be getting discouraged on your "Activity Feed" page by the actually community activity feed not loading.  Are you just stuck on a screen that says "Loading Community Updates?"  But you are seeing them on the Member Pr...

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This solves a decade old question by WordPress website owners and bloggers. How do I change my website's primary domain name without affecting my Google Search Engine Ranking?  Many bloggers and content creators have hundreds and even thousands of blogs that they'd completely lose backlinks for and SEO value for if they don't do this properly.  In my video, I give a couple different exam...

Recently I've published WordPress shows about how to use Yoast SEO to optimize your WordPress Website, and how to implement Schema on your WooCommerce Product pages.  Well, now I'm taking it another step further and explaining how to further optimize your WooCommerce Products for SEO using Yoast.  Yoast has a plug-in specifically for WooCommerce SEO that adds valuable product information...

I've long told Small Business Owners that they are subject matter experts at various areas of their own business. I've elaborated saying that they need to make content 365 days a year about their subject matter expertise.  When they roll their eyes at me and tell me that what they know about isn't interesting enough to make content out of, I reply "well, if people are paying for your services...

The best way to optimize your WordPress Website for Organic Search (SEO) on Google is to use a plug-in called Yoast SEO.  Yoast gives WordPress non-technical content managers the ability to add SEO Titles (also known as Search Engine Titles), Meta Descriptions to each page and score them against focus keywords. Yoast makes suggestions to the WordPress admin on how to improve the SEO optimizat...

Gravity Forms is far and away the best way to build forms into your WordPress site. From simple form management in a drag and drop / no code editor, to custom notifications and confirmations, to dynamic shortcodes making it compatible with any theme, that alone should make Gravity Forms better than its competitors, but there's more.  This video explains CRM / email marketing integrations, con...

Okay, business owners, it's time to start thinking about building a website that allows you to show your availability for bookings, and allow your customers to make reserve slots, pay online, and manage their own reservations themselves.  You don't have the staff you used to anymore, and you need to be able to set it and forget it, and this means making sure your customers are able to cancel,...

Most eCommerce store owners and merchants will agree that their online store needs to be perfectly SEO Optimized in order to have any chance of success.  One area that eludes many small business owners with eCommerce stores, whether Shopify or WordPress WooCommerce is getting the Product Structured Data Schema implemented correctly.  This show tells you how to add SEO Product Schema Stru...