Did you know that last year’s Cyber Monday was the largest online sales day in history with $6.59 Billion spent?! (source Adobe Analytics).
And from Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving – the third Thursday of November) through to Christmas, one third of all annual retail sales are made.
For bloggers, in this frenzy of promotional activity, there are some incredible bargains on online products or services that you may actually need. Whether it be enrolling in an online course, claiming domain names, renewing your hosting, upgrading your theme, switching email providers or buying new tools you can make considerable savings.
As ever, we suggest you weigh up the value proposition of any purchase for your blog and only buy what you need and/or can afford. The links below are affiliate links which mean we earn a small referral commission at no cost to you – in fact you often get a better discount for being a ProBlogger reader. And we only present and recommend products and services we’ve used ourselves and stand by or come highly recommended by people we know and trust.
Course
Our top recommendation is that you take our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Course. Designed to help you develop successful blogging habits and build strong foundations for a profitable blogging business, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog will kickstart your blog with 31 easy-to-follow tasks that you can work through in your own time.
Web Hosting
If you’re unsure which web hosting is best for your blog read this article.
Bluehost – Our recommendation for best ‘Budget’ hosting for beginner bloggers
Plans from $2.65/month, usually $2.95 for ProBloggers, otherwise $7.99
Black Friday sale starts November 23rd at 12:01AM MST and will last only 24 hours
Cyber Monday sale starts November 26th at 12:01AM MST, and end at 11:59PM MST
Siteground – Our recommendation for best ‘Premium’ hosting for beginner/intermediate bloggers.
75% off all annual shared hosting plans
Siteground have also just released their own WordPress Starter plugin, which helpfully steps you through setting up your WordPress blog, including theme and plugin selection and installation.
Starting on Black Friday November 23) through Cyber Monday November 26
OptinMonster – a tool to help you collect email addresses through a variety of popups, hello bars, welcome mats and other innovative tools
35% off available NOW
Leadpages – a powerful tool to create landing pages and pop-up forms for your blog to help grow your subscriptions
Starting Thursday, November 22 at 6PM Eastern
Courseware
Learndash – we use Learndash to deliver both ProBlogger’s Ultimate Guide to Start a Blog Course and 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Course and can highly recommend them.
50% off all packages
Only available Black Friday (November 23th) from 7AM-4PM (EST) Coupon Code: BLACKFRIDAY
and Cyber Monday (November 26th) from 7AM-4PM (EST) Coupon Code: CYBERMONDAY
Happy bargain hunting!