Covert Social Press - Run Your Own Social Network On WordPress


 
 
 How To Cash In On Running Your Own Powerful Social Network - Without Ever Writing A Single Word!
From: Soren Jordansen, John Merrick & Cindy Battye aka The IM Wealth Builders
Subject: How To Cash In On Running Your Own Powerful Social Network - Without Ever Writing A Single Word!
Social Bookmarking is big business...

With millions of dollars in monthly revenue and billions in venture capital changing hands with the sale of single sites - Social bookmarking sites have also become an integrated part of the internet backbone...

If you as blogger aren't using social bookmarking sites as part of your marketing, you are missing out on huge amounts of traffic and sales.
That of course begs the question: "If social bookmarking is so important to blogging"

Why the heck aren't bloggers running their own social bookmarking sites?

We set out to investigate this - and what we found was quite interesting...

Bloggers absolutely should be running their own social bookmarking sites - but there are a few reasons (or rather myths) that explains why this is not happening.

If we had to... we might as well give up and this letter would be over now.

But if you think about it, that is a ridiculous claim.

It would be the same as saying that you could not be a successful blogger without outcompeting the New York Times - and of course that is not true!

It actually turns out that there are thousands of smaller social bookmarking sites out there... Sites you have probably never heard of, yet they are quietly making small fortunes and sitting on more traffic than you could ever dream of.
You don't need huge dedicated servers, loads of staff and an army of programmers to run a social bookmarking site...

In fact most of the small, yet highly successful, networks are one man operations - running on hosting accounts that aren't any different that what you use for your blogs!
We saw that it was both possible and very profitable to run your own social network.

But we also found that all the scripts and solutions out there, pretty much required a Doctorate in rocket science to operate... And forget about customizing!

So we set out to create a solution that would make setting up and running a social network plug & play simple.

And that's when it hit me...

Social bookmarking and blogging goes hand in hand... and it would benefit all bloggers to have their own social network.

Why don't we combine the two? Make a WordPress theme that is both a blog and a fully functional social network at the same time?

This was when John fell off his chair!

You see as well as being a co-owner here at IM Wealth Builders, John is also our head programmer.

After protests that it could not be done... I managed to get John back to his desk.

And we decided that it could be done - "it just hadn't been done before!"

So we got to work on creating a WordPress theme so powerful it could run a fully funtional social bookmarking site, while being so easy to operate that my own mum could do it (and she calls me and freaks out every time she receives a spam email - sorry mum lol)

It took many months... we spent countless hours coding, testing, tweaking and perfecting this theme.

I'm very glad we persevered - because the end result is by far out best and most advanced WordPress theme to date...

In fact it's most likely the most powerful & advanced theme you have ever seen!

And we are extremely proud to be able to introduce...
First of all... If you haven't done so already... I highly recommend that you watch the video at the top of this page, where I give a completely walkthrough demo of how this powerful theme works.

But if you prefer to read that is ok too :)

Covert Social Press is a super simple to use WordPress theme and it only takes one click install! That means it will work on any computer, all you need in order to use it, is a self hosted WordPress blog.

As you can see in the screenshot below - I used the theme to set up a bookmarking site about a current hot topic, the crisis in the Euro Zone.

I had a couple of reasons for choosing that subject...

First of all I live on Cyprus here in the EU, so the current crisis very much affects me and our business.

Secondly, all the newspapers in the world are writing about this so I would have a near infinite amount of content to bookmark

But perhaps most importantly... Since every single newspaper and authority site in world is writing about this - it would be very hard for me to rank this blog high in Google (at least not quickly).

And that means that I would have to rely on the inbuilt traffic generation to show you any results... I deliberately put myself under pressure, and as you can see below it worked out pretty good.

But you can use Covert Social Press to build sites on ANY topic you want!

... including single niches or a big site covering multiple topics like for example Digg.

Anyway... I'm sure you'll have to agree that the design looks very crisp, clean and professional!
However, the best part is that I did not write a single word on that page myself! It's all bookmarked content from other sites and I'll show you how that works in a bit.

The look above is how a Covert Social Press site looks "out of the box"... Yep, your first site will look this good without you having to fiddle with any settings to achieve it!

But of course we built in the option to customize anything you want... all the options are on one simple page and can be changed with just a few clicks of your mouse ....see more here

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