Our free plugin WP Mail SMTP has also exceeded the 1 million active installations mark

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In addition to the big release, we also released several new campaign templates, email conversion summaries, a new beta program, and my favorite feature, Smart Tags .

Smart Tags make dynamic personalization easy. Previously, OptinMonster offered this feature as part of our API, but it required coding.

Now you can add personalizations like user name, location (country, city, state, etc.), time, and other elements within your OptinMonster campaign to increase conversion rates without having to write any code.


In October 2018, I sold my popular blog List25 so I could better focus on our WordPress and software business.

List25 was a side project I started as an experiment in List of Denmark Cell Phone Number college. In 2018, we surpassed 2.4 million subscribers on YouTube and had 570 million total video views.

That blog never fit with what we were doing at Awesome Motive , but I kept it as long as I did for sentimental reasons. Not to mention, it generated a pretty good side income.

On the personal side, 2018 was a great year for my family. My son Solomon turned 2 years old. It's been a lot of fun watching him grow. We traveled to 6 countries this year. Solomon attended 1 WordCamp in 2018 (WordCamp Miami). His two favorite letters in the alphabet are W and P. Surprisingly, it took me a while to realize this, which of course makes sense considering most of the shirts I wear are WordPress branded. Below is a picture of our family as I know many of you often ask about it.

If you want to know more about my personal journey, please check out my 2018 year in review on my personal blog . It includes everything that happened to me in 2018, both personally and professionally, as well as the lessons I learned and my goals for 2019.