Hey, Sad, bloated, and gassy - not this email, but how people might be feeling after "just one more" slice of pie yesterday. Fear not, the Deals Sherpa is here with the traditional American digestiv – Black Friday Discounts. Oh yes. We have cheapest-ever Kindles, video marketing wizardry, best-I've-seen prices on my five favorite website tools, and lots more besides! Including a cool competition, btw, just for my mailing list - one which couldn't be easier to enter. Step this way, and avoid the dreaded Crevice of False Bargains. Boring small print: almost all these links are affiliate links, meaning I may get a small commission if you complete a purchase. This does not affect the price you pay (except in some cases where it actually reduces what you pay!). The important thing is that each of these deals is here on merit: a list curated by me of things I personally use to grow my business and recommend so that you can grow yours - and that goes double at these Black Friday prices! Super Cheap KindlesRemember the first Kindle? LOL. It was like an 80s fax machine which had been reversed over by a UPS truck. They are a lot smaller and prettier in 2021, but there's still a good chunk of the author population which hews to print. Which is fine, but I'm always surprised to hear that print diehards don't even own a cheap Kindle to check their ebooks – and at these prices you have no excuse for skipping over what really is an essential author tool these days. Aside from testing your own formatting, it's important to know how a good chunk of the world reads these days – the experience may change how you write. The basic Kindle is just $49.99 this weekend from Amazon.com.
And if you want to get fancier, then the Kindle Paperwhite has more bells and whistles and is just $105, and the top-of-the range fancy schmancy Kindle Oasis is $75 off, bringing it down to a hair under $175.
While I have a Paperwhite (and love it), that basic Kindle very much does the job if you just want something to play around with, and that's a fab price IMO.
Non-Americans: all the Amazon stores around the world have similar deals on Kindles too – so everyone should be able to play. But, let's make it even more accessible, eh? Spoiler Alert: You Can Win A Kindle HereThey say you should never get high on your own supply but I've been hoofing down bargains today like my life is on a countdown clock. Perhaps I shouldn't have written this email while all pepped up on goofballs but YOLO. Anyway, I'm giving away the big reveal at the end of this email where I'm, eh, giving away a Kindle Paperwhite. [Play WildCheering.wav] To enter, simply… well there's no point sharing that now, you have deals to gorge on! But entering is super easy and will take you two seconds so stick around for that and I'll share exactly how to enter right here at the bottom of this email. Before that, more bargains! Sign Off In Style With EmailBadgeFirst impressions matter in this cold and shallow world. Which is why I don't leave the house until I've hosed down my feet and combed all the Lucky Charms from my beard. Having a neat email signature can make you look pro and drive traffic where you need it to go – like your books, website, or latest social media car-crash. EmailBadge is a nifty little tool from the people at AppSumo which will enable you to create cool email signatures in just a couple of minutes. It integrates with a bunch of popular email clients like Gmail, Office, iOS Mail, etc., and it has been rigorously tested to work great on the receiver's end too – regardless of what old heap o' junk phone they might have. Neatest feature? You can switch between three different signatures, which is super handy for authors who write in multiple genres… or those with day jobs and/or spend their nights fighting crime for an uncaring city. Best part is this: EmailBadge is available this weekend for just $9. Yeah, that's right – a saving of almost $90 off the sticker price. Plus, like all AppSumo deals, there's a 60-day no-questions-asked money-back hyphen-monopolizing guarantee. Not only that, you get lifetime updates too. Sucks to be them, I plan on living 'til I'm 168. Now, back to my sarcophagus… Turbocharge Your Online PresenceLongtime readers will know that I always stress the importance of a professional-looking website. Yours doesn't need to be that flashy and it certainly shouldn't be too expensive. But it should be clean, crisp, easy-to-navigate and - especially important these days - mobile friendly and fast loading, particularly because of the dominance of mobile devices. You can put together a professional package for relatively cheap - and that goes double today as all my favorite website tools are running great Black Friday deals. I like Namecheap for domain names, Siteground for hosting, WP Rocket for speeding everything up, and YoastSEO for making sure it can be found on Google. Those four tools – along with WordPress itself of course – are the cornerstone of my website. Throw in the biggest ever deal on the world's most popular WordPress theme – Divi – and you have an excellent set-up at what I think might be the lowest-ever prices: Siteground is offering a huge 80% off hosting deals - btw move quickly on this the deal ends midnight PST. Namecheap is the best place to get your domains even when they aren't running a sale, but with up to 97% off regular price, now is the time to grab any domains you have been thinking about. Make sure to use promo code BFCMTLD21 to maximize your savings. Divi is the most popular Wordpress theme on the planet for good reason and they are offering 25% off everything. Free prize with every purchase. Yoast is the only SEO tool I recommend. The free version is really great if you want to start there. For more serious users, the premium version is easily worth it IMHO and is 30% off this weekend. WP Rocket is one of the best tools around for cleaning up your site, making it load faster, especially on mobile, and for making it all look nice and dandy to Google's increasingly finicky bots. I was really impressed with how well this worked out of the box and it's a real bargain this weekend with 30% off. Dive Into Video MarketingThere's no better way to grab someone's attention on a busy social media feed than with some video... as long as it looks good. I just picked up this tool today from AppSumo on a lifetime deal for just $59 so I can't give you a personal take on it quite yet, but I'm very excited to try this out and can see myself using it a lot to get deeper into video marketing. There's a really great explainer video embedded on the sales page (link above) that gives you a very clear idea of what this tool can do – and that's a lot: video editing, templates, stock footage, royalty-free soundtracks, even automatically subtitles in 25 languages for all your videos. It's pretty damn impressive and I'm looking forward to playing with it. One caution though: what I can tell you from experience is that video stuff is always more work than you might think. Don't expect this to be some kind of magic solution where you click a couple of buttons and a super professional video pops out – do expect to put in the work before you can produce anything usable. That said, Wave.video looks like it will make a lot of the trickier parts much easier. What sealed the deal for me personally was that this lifetime Black Friday deal on Wave.video comes bundled with a hosting package for all those bulky videos (meaning you can create custom landing pages with pretty videos without slowing down your main site!) and an animation studio as well – which is perfect for explainer videos and the like. Wave.video is one of the biggest sellers this week at AppSumo, and I can see why – it's several tools in one, for a pretty unbeatable lifetime price. Dive into video marketing today for just $59 - and save yourself $361! (60-day refund guarantee applies here too btw.) DepositPhotos Deal Thru MondayIf you missed the DepositPhotos deal earlier this week, panic not! It runs until the end of Cyber Monday, as with all the AppsSumo deals above. $39 for 100 stock photo credits is pretty unbeatable, and I've just grabbed another 100 credits for myself – I will always find a use for them, whether that's website graphics, Facebook ads, social posts, or making people panda-themed birthday cards because (a) pandas and (b) I'm cheap and a sworn enemy of the greeting card mafia. This really is a big saving on the usual price. Credits don't expire so I recommend grabbing this if you have any use at all for graphics and/or pandas. Reply To This Email & Win A Kindle! (Potentially...)Yegads, that was a lot of deals - I'm off to my chaise longue for some fanning. But before I go, Joe, here's how to enter my Kindle competition where you can win… a Kindle. I guess that last part is redundant but whatever. "How do I enter?" I hear you cry through the internet tubes, snapping me from my indulgent fugue. Well, it's easy: Reply to this email with "GIMME THAT KINDLE" and you will be entered into the draw. Yup. That's as fancy as we get around here. Once all the entries are in, I will assign each entrant a number, draw the winner via Random.org, and will then send the Kindle to that lucky person, or to a friend of their choice. (While all efforts will be made so that the Kindle will arrive before the Ritual Airing of Grievances, no guarantees can be made in this most trying of times!) Entries close at midnight PST, Sunday November 28. Winner will be announced next week. Competition is open worldwide. Be aware that no prize substitutes will be permitted, so don't enter if you don't want to get (or give) a Kindle, I guess… That's it! Normal service resumes next Friday with MOARRR on Facebook Ads (and thank you for that feedback). Dave P.S. Bargain-gobbling music this week is Duke Ellington with Caravan. |
Friday, November 26, 2021
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