Okay, I understand your remorse when you see the Small Business Deals: December 2023 Edition post.
From a few days leading to Thanksgiving until Monday, you’ve been bombarded with all sorts of deals coming your way.
It was so much to the point where you have hundreds of emails filling up your inbox.
So, I get if your energy starts to deplete the moment you see the Small Business Deals: December 2023 Edition post.
For the most part, it’s the same thing as those deals that have been bombarding your inbox all this time.
Okay, I admit that you’ll still be seeing deals in this post since I really don’t want you to miss those deals.
But rather than filling the post with deals alone, I’m also sharing with you all the things that are a game-changer in my author business.
Depending on when you see this blog post, consider yourself lucky if they’re running a special promotion just for the holiday season.
But if they don’t, then keep your eyes glued on the future Small Business Deals post for the deals you’re interested in.
Whether they have a special promotion for the holiday season or not, I highly recommend that you check them out.
You’ll never know it can be a game-changer for you too.
With that said, here are the things that are a total game-changer in my author business plus all the deals that you don’t want to miss this month.
SetraHost
As you can see here, SetraHost is the current host that I use not just on this website but on my fiction author website as well.
What makes SetraHost such a game-changer for me is that not only it costs a little less than my previous host, Hostgator.
But it makes my websites load a lot faster than before too thanks to its new NVMe SSD Drives and Intel E5 powerhouse servers equipped with LiteSpeed & LiteSpeed Cache.
Okay, I understand it may seem gibberish with all these terms thrown at you.
But in a nutshell, having all these things in place will make your website load faster, thus scoring brownie points from the search engines.
If there’s anything that the search engines favor the most is a faster-loading website.
Of course, it’s still not blazing fast as a managed WordPress hosting such as WP Engine.
But for the entry-level price, that’s not bad if you ask me.
If you’re looking for an affordable web host, then I highly recommend that you have a look at SetraHost.
You can learn more about SetraHost right here:
And if you’re curious about my experience with SetraHost, you can read more about it right here.
Just in: the same offer from WP Engine just got extended
Good news for you if you missed your chance to get 6 months free when you sign up with any of WP Engine’s annual hosting plans.
Due to the success of its Best Deal Ever promotion, WP Engine has now extended the same offer to December 15, 2023.
If you’re interested in getting any of their annual plans at a massive discount, you can sign up with any of them right here:
WP Engine Best Deal Ever promotion
Don’t see the offer? Use the coupon code ENDOFYEAR23 during checkout to get 6 months free when you sign up with any of their annual plans.
Keep in mind that this offer isn’t valid for their Lite plan.
Divi theme
When you think about web design, you may have this notion that you need to know about coding.
If you want a beautiful and professional-looking website, the only way to go about it is to know how to code.
Alas, knowing how to code isn’t the only thing that determines how your website looks in the end.
You also must have a knack for design which many of us don’t.
But Divi changes how we perceive web design thanks to its many different options for layouts and modules.
With Divi, you can create a customized look for your website without having to touch a single code.
Come across a website with the layout you always want for your website?
Well, you can replicate the same layout with Divi.
Don’t want to create a customized look from scratch? You can also use the ready-made template and start customizing the template to fit your brand from there.
If creating a customized look for your website with no single coding skill involved sounds appealing to you, then you may have a look at Divi right here:
You can also take a look at this post right here if you need convincing whether the Divi theme is right for you.
Just in: Bluchic End-of-The-Year Sale is here
Miss your chance to get any of Bluchic’s WordPress themes during their Black Friday sale?
If that’s you, now is your chance to get any of their products at 15% off during their End-of-The-Year sale.
And yes, that includes their WordPress theme installation if you need help with installing and configuring the WordPress theme just like what you see in the demo.
Thinking about getting any of their products and services? You can take a look at them right here:
This sale will only be available until January 3, 2024.
Just to let you know that they will be increasing the price of all of their products and services on January 4, 2024.
So, don’t miss your chance to get any of them before the price increase. They will still be running a sale from time to time, of course.
But the price won’t be as low as when you buy any of their products and services now.
ProWritingAid
It’s no secret here that writing a sensory description isn’t my forte.
So, I admire authors who can give a detailed description of how the characters look like and describe the turmoil that the character is experiencing.
The good news is that my sensory description has improved over the years.
But it still sounds flat to me no matter how hard I try.
Thanks to ProWritingAid, I can now improve my sensory descriptions with a click of a button thanks to its Rephrase feature.
Of course, it can do so much more than improve your sentences with a click of a button.
It also offers other features such as a grammar and plagiarism checker, critique report, and the Sparks feature which can give you suggestions on how to edit or continue with your next sentences.
It’s a great companion to have for improving your first draft.
Think ProWritingAid is what you need? You can sign up for free right here:
You can read this post as well if you’d like to learn more about ProWritingAid through my experience.
Grammarly
Believe it or not, I still use Grammarly and also Hemingway app even after I started using ProWritingAid.
I find Grammarly does a better job of detecting grammatical errors than ProWritingAid.
Say what you want about Grammarly. But Grammarly has come a long way since I started using it circa 2014.
Not only it has already improved a lot as far as detecting the errors is concerned. But it can also now rewrite and generate texts based on your preferred setup.
If you’re looking for a tool that can help you with doing the final proofreading for your manuscript, then Grammarly can come in handy for you.
I’m sure that many of you may have already signed up with Grammarly by now.
But if you haven’t already, you can sign up for free right here:
Namecheap
I admit that I talk a lot about Namecheap on this blog. But it’s for this reason – it’s the place where I bought the domain names for The Efficient You and also for my fiction author website.
Not only that you can get the domain name you want at a lower price than most domain registrars. But they have amazing customer support too.
With the holiday season now around the corner, Namecheap is currently running a special holiday deal where you can get up to 92% off .COM, .ORG, .TECH, and .XYZ domains.
If you’re thinking about buying a new domain for your website or want to transfer your current domain to Namecheap, now is your chance to do so.
You can take a look at the deal right here:
Namecheap Holiday Domain Deals
This deal will only be available until December 18, 2023.
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