Trell Conducted Masterclass with Celebrity Chef Ranveer Brar & Leading Lifestyle Influencer, Nilu Thapa

Ranveer Brar and Nilu Thapa shared their professional journeys and how to create engaging content

India, 8th July 2021: Content creators today have become a major part of our lives. Be it brands, or consumers everyone depends on content creators either to engage with social media users, to influence the decision of buyers, and to make recommendations which will be beneficial for both the brand and the consumer. Not just buying decision, content creators also influence the way we live our life.

Against this backdrop, Trell, India’s number one lifestyle videos app conducted an insightful Masterclass on 2nd July with celebrity chef Ranveer Brar and Nilu Thapa, a leading Lifestyle and Beauty Influencer, and content creator on Trell. Ranveer Brar and Nilu Thapa shared their life lessons, experiences and useful tips for budding content creators.

The world-renowned culinary chef, Ranveer Brar said, “ The only secret recipe about good content I have nailed down is that I took some time to discover myself in front of the camera through my content. In order to be authentic and to be able to connect with people, it’s important to learn and recognise to be yourself, be unique, and comfortable with your flaws.“

“The biggest life lesson that I can share is to be patient and consistent with your content. A viral video doesn’t ensure huge followers but a viral video does ensure exposure. He further added.

Nilu Thapa, Leading fashion and beauty influencer and content creator on Trell shared “It is very important to have a vision when you create content, to have your own identity, vibe and signature. If you create the content blindly by following trends, it might not appear authentic to your audience, and you won’t be able to relate to it as well. It’s essential to create content which is organic, unique and of best quality.”

Parul Menghani - VP & Head of Content at Trell said, “The aim of this Masterclass was to give a platform to content creators to learn from renowned influencers and better their content creations on social media. We plan to do a lot of initiatives for content creators and provide them with better opportunities which can help them to grow along with Trell.

Trell’s masterclass, besides being informative, was also engaging for the audience, making it hugely successful. With 45 million+ monthly active users, the platform has content creators creating content on various categories including health and fitness, beauty and personal care, travel, food, and more. Trell, further, plans to conduct more such workshops in the future.

About Trell

Founded as India’s first-ever mobile-based visual blogging platform, today Trell is the country’s largest lifestyle social commerce platform enabling millions of people to create and consume relevant and meaningful content in regional languages. The platform has grown rapidly with 45 million+ monthly active users and over 100 million downloads. October 2020, Trell added a ‘Shop’ section, marking its foray into the social commerce segment. Currently offering content in 8 regional languages, the platform is looking to scale by enhancing its offerings and become a global leader in the visual blogging and lifestyle commerce space in the coming years.

How Blogger is Helping Adoption of Stray Dogs

Dog with Blog started small, having local nuances integrated and looking for basic questions like what if someone wants to adopt a dog in an Indian city - what information would he need - how, where, when, etc. What would the search journey be like - how can we tap and maybe, convert people looking to buy ‘pedigree’ and help them see the goodness that comes with adoption, etc. 

Abhishek was driven by what he was seeing, an odd post could drive more interest regarding adoptions than multiple visits around residential societies and putting out posters. His plan in the early stage was to build a community of like-minded dog lovers. It started with writing which led to building a network of volunteers who would be helping at other shelters etc. This helped track adoption cases and we could centrally share and follow up with the prospective leads and families. 

The power of social media is unquestionable and the very fact that they have been able to find some of the strays, abandoned dogs loving homes bears testimony to the same. Minus the digital channels, there wasn’t an efficient way to reach out to dog lovers across the length and breadth of the country. They have also compiled and listed city-wide rescue and adoption centers so that people who were considering ‘buy dogs’ can also explore shelters and adoption. Abhishek attributes the community culture to be the core of the blog, wherein the readers are actively helping spread the word for adoptions.

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Dog with Blog believes that aside from fostering and volunteering, there are many ways one can advocate for a social cause like animal rescue. Even something as simple as sharing an adoption appeal can be the difference-maker when it comes to a homeless animal getting a chance at love and life. While they don’t own a physical shelter or facility, the blog has great resource tools for those who are interested in getting involved locally, be it via volunteering, foster, or getting a pet home. The detailed posts (and now also a podcast) try to address queries that first-time pet parents may have.

Abhishek has tapped into the reach that the internet provides for something good and it is an example of how anyone involved in a social cause can use social media even if they are an individual and not an NGO or international charity. Aside from adoptions, the blog also raises awareness about native Indian dog breeds like Rajapalayam, Bhutia dogs, etc., and also ridicules archaic practices like how some people consider black cats as bearers of black luck. 

Dog with the blog has a vibrant Facebook page, a growing Instagram channel but Twitter is where they drive most engagements. At present, there are more than 1,20,000+ dog lovers in this community. They use the blog and social media channels to reach out to people who want to adopt and not buy pets. Thanks to this, the adoption stories are now reaching a wider audience than before, apart from the conversations they can lend themselves to. They also celebrate happy dog rescue and adoption stories by interviewing the pet parents or hosting guest posts to inspire and motivate others to consider adopting a pet too. The timely upbeat, happy news, brings a smile to the community reemphasizing the role dogs play in our daily life.

Elementor Announces that 7% of All WordPress Sites are Now Built with its Platform

Elementor, the leading WordPress website builder platform, today announced that 7% of all WordPress websites are built using Elementor. Founded in 2016, Elementor's growth has continued to accelerate. While it took two years to reach its first million websites, this latest one million milestone took just over three months to achieve with over five million websites using its code-free, drag-n-drop platform. Major business and media sites including the New Yorker, TripAdvisor, Vogue, Crunchbase and GrubHub now use Elementor.

With the impact of the coronavirus forcing many businesses online, there has been a 32% increase in website building demand since the outbreak of the global pandemic in the US alone. The high adoption rate of Elementor is driving growth to the WordPress open-source movement, as over 30% of Elementor users are new to WordPress and are using it for the first time.

"Over a third of the websites in the world run on WordPress and Elementor is increasingly responsible for WordPress' dominance," says Elementor CEO, Yoni Luksenberg. "Our goal of enabling professional web creators to easily and painlessly build stunning websites according to their specific needs is being fulfilled as an amazing community has grown around our platform. Furthermore, to see that we are actually converting unaffiliated users to the WordPress community is very important to us as we become the de facto way for web creators to build WordPress websites."

In a move designed to support its users in a time of crisis, Elementor recently announced an early launch of its Experts network which empowers the members of its global community to capture the current high level of demand. Additionally, it enables them to collaborate and grow their businesses by sharing their portfolios and services with Elementor peers in 152 countries. The network has received strong early feedback from users all across the world who have already closed deals through connections made on the platform.

Another indicator of the appreciation that Elementor has received from the WordPress community was recently seen with its second straight championship win in the annual Torque Magazine Plugin Madness bracket. Elementor came out on top of a field of 64 nominated plugins (out of 55,000 WordPress plugins) winning 82% of the popular vote in the final round.

Elementor is the leading website builder platform on WordPress. Serving over 5 million websites, Elementor's code-free, open-source platform, empowers web professionals including web developers, designers, and marketers in 152 markets. Elementor's mission is to radically simplify web building, enabling web professionals and agencies to unleash their creative and business potential. For more information visit www.elementor.com or follow us on Facebook and YouTube.

5 Tips to Earning Money Through Blogging

Blogging is a satisfying hobby for those with a passion for particular subjects. However, what many people do not know is that it could be a great channel for earning money for part-time and full-time bloggers. Others have tried to make their blogs work to no avail. Here are some tips for turning blogs into small businesses.

1. Setting Up Your Blog

For those who would like to make money through blogging, having a blog is a must. It may seem like an overwhelming process, but its fruits are worth it. There are a number of things to consider in setting up a blog. They include:

1. Choosing a topic. Bloggers should refuse any temptation of creating blogs that combine several different interests. They should always keep their sites in focus.

2. Choosing a domain name. It is most likely that bloggers would stick to domain names that they picked for their sites for the rest of their lives. This avoids disruption of traffic to sites once they are established. Besides, bloggers who change their domain names have to start all over again with a zero Google page ranking.

3. Choosing good web hosts. For any website to be successful it must have a good web host. It improves bloggers’ SEO and increases their sales. It also protects websites from malware and other security attacks. Bloggers should hire affordable, reputable, and experienced web hosting companies such as MangoMatter.

4. Installing WordPress. This is the best platform that bloggers can use. Luckily, most hosts provide easy installation options from within people’s accounts.

5. Uploading beautiful themes. There are many themes available online for free. There is also the choice of paying for premium ones. Whichever the choice, good themes make blogs look professional and attractive.

2. Creating Awesome Content

Any blogger who wants to make money must create and publish content that attracts plenty of traffic through search engines and social media. Using keyword tools such as SemRush could give ideas of what audiences search for the most. Researching for the content they share most on social media is also vital.

Whichever topic they get from research, bloggers should write posts that could help their audience reach certain goals. The posts should be unique and outshine what competitor blogs offer. After this step, bloggers should promote their posts in order to gain traffic.

3. Developing Your Email List

Bloggers do not just want visitors to their blogs. They want people who can read and share all the posts that they write. An email list could help bloggers remind their audience of the posts they have not read and encourage them to have a look at new ones.

4. Building Trust through Free Content

People cannot buy from anyone they do not trust. Bloggers should, therefore, send their audience some free and valuable content. Once they see the posts helping them, they would trust the information and begin buying. This is because they would get curious about how valuable paid content is.

5. Know Your Audience’s Needs

After building and gaining the trust of their audience, some bloggers assume what potential customers really need. Doing proper research ensures that entrepreneurs understand their audience’s greatest problems and the possible solutions. Then, bloggers can create products and services to meet those needs.

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Not Many Knows That WordPress Maker quietly Acquired The Rights To .blog In 2015

Bloggers all round the world trust Wordpress blindly. The platform has over the years been successful in amalgamating the passion of blogging with monetary compensation. Automattic, the company behind the world’s most popular publishing platform, Wordpress, is now trying to take blogging to a whole new level and make .blog a reality.

Automattic has recently secured the rights to operate and oversee the sale and registration of .blog domains. This action has been taken more than a year after the top-level domain went up for an auction and was sold to a mysterious buyer during the same.

According to the company's spokesperson, its subsidiary, Knock Knock Whois There LLC, has won the partnership rights with Primer Nivel, a company conceived to acquire top-level domains. Matt Mullenweg, CEO, Automattic, has revealed that buying the rights to run the domain has cost both the companies about $19 million. A report last year had predicted the deals cost at around $20 million.

Automattic is currently considering offering the domain to WordPress.com users, but not in an exclusive manner. According to the company, the .blog domain will be in fact made available to everyone, regardless of the fact whether they have a free or paid website or which hosting service they're availing.

WordPress.com owners will make the .Blog domains available to everyone by the end of 2016 after giving the first usage advantages to trademark owners in August and early applicants in October. If you're one of the interested buyers for the .blog domain, you can sign up for the same here.

You can sign up to be first in line to reserve a domain here.

IIT Roorkee students to keep the spirits of new bloggers alive

Shaumik Daityari and Kshitij Awadhiya are building a blog directory of different kind where you can share and discover blogs. "The Blog Bowl" as it is called encourages the non-bloggers to join and participate in the regular contests that keep happening on their website.

We asked them the idea behind starting up and they said, "On one hand they were giving a lot of preference to the sponsors, and on the other hand, the bloggers were being exploited at the end of the day. Even though bloggers came up with blogs on time, when it was the time to distribute prizes, the sponsors would take months." They realized that few bloggers won prizes due to the blind praise of sponsors but few new bloggers with innovative content (including humor/satire) were rejected. "This was basically killing the spirit of new bloggers", says Shaumik.

What keeps the bloggers hooked to the site are regular contests. Sponsors of these contests try and promote their product or service through the bloggers and the best blogs are given prizes. The participants are offered significant amounts of talk times and the prizes are shipped off one day after the results. ‘Another point of difference is that you don’t need to have an established blog to be a part of our family. If you just have a wild idea to write on, go ahead and do it on our platform, aptly titled Your Voice’ says Kshitij.

They have partnered with Cognizance (tech fest of IIT Roorkee) to hold Blogomania, the yearly blogging contest. "This was a big event and our user base increased significantly due to combined popularity", they say. Based out of Roorkee, this team of founders with a designer do everything from backend running on Python/Django to front end working on JavaScript/jQuery.

[caption id="attachment_93057" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Co-founders of TheBlogBowl (L to R) - Kshitij Awadhiya, Shaumik Daityari & Kumar Animesh[/caption]

The team now plans to expand into Picture Posts and launch an app so that people can take pics and instantly write few lines about it and post it to our website. As a message for future entrepreneurs the founders say, ‘There can be scope even for an existing product if one closely identifies commercially exploitable flaws in the existing ones.’

Go share your wild idea on http://theblogbowl.in/your_voice/feeds/

30+ Essential Online Tools for Webmasters & Bloggers

The pace at which blogging and website owners are rising the demand and need for tools and resources also increasing in terms of varied features they provide that could boost and ramp up your website with new colors, productivity or few tweaks in terms of UI, functionality, web promotion or other services. Below are such tools for webmasters and bloggers ;

Mloovi RSS Translator - Mloovi is new tool which translate RSS feeds into 24 languages including Hindi using Google Translator. In short period the tool has gain appreciation among its users.


SlidehShare Ribbon - A Powerpoint Plug-in from Slideshare that lets you search SlideShare, download powerpoint presentations and upload your own presentation without opening a web browser.

ReadSpeaker WebReader - ReadSpeaker is a widget service that one can add to web page or blogs posts and let the visitors listen to it. It is a kinda button that when clicked will read the entire page or a pre-defined part of the content chosen by website/ blogs owners.

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Dropbox - Its a file syncing tool and acts like a online network drive. Its ergonomic ability to drop files into a folder and have that same folder show up on every other computer you own. Just add a folder to your desktop and copy files. You can also share complete folders so that anyone with access to the folder sees and is able to use the shared, synced files.

Carbonite - Its an online back-up utility that sits in system tray and watches important files/ folders and automatically archive them to a secure website as you work. There is no storage space limit, but on a per day basis (in GBs).


Glync - Glync is a Firefox extension which adds historical graphs to the External Links page in Google Webmaster Tools. This means that you can track your link growth over time. The professional version also tracks your Yahoo Site Explorer links, the links for all of your sub-pages, and the PageRank of all your sub-pages and links pointing to those sub-pages. (See Demo Video)



Notipal - This essential tool that not only notifies you of broken links and error pages on your website but also give the option to your visitors to enter their email address to be notified when your site is fixed.

Just for Bloggers

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Tynt Copy-Paste Leveraging - Tynt provide a way as - whenever anyone copies the content from your blog/site it automatically place your link in addition to your copied content when its being pasted on other site. This brings traffic and morover Tynt also provides the monitoring/ analytics of copied content from your website/blog.

ShowYourself Widget/ Links - For bloggers who love to flaunt their online Identities on multiple platofrms such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked, MySpace, Yahoo Upcoming and many more its a perfect tool to create pretty huge links of same in a widgetised manner.

Anonymous Linking - At times when you do not want through your links to reveal your website information on other analytics software, use this tool. This tool stop referrer information from going through your links.

WikiPad - Its an open source Wiki-like notebook for bloggers/ writers for storing thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. Its different to other editors as you can cross-link your information within it and it also named as "IDE for your thoughts".

Images & Pictures

ResizR - Its is a free nifty and useful tools that allows to resize an image and optionally rotate as well from your local computer or the web.

ScrnShots - A nice set of tools to Search, Upload and take screen shots of anything on web or even your desktop.

PicMarkr - PicMarkr free tool that lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images on your website or blog.  It is useful when you want to protect your copyrights of images and pictures published on your website or blog.

Browsershots - Check & Test your website in almost all different web browsers present these days right from chrome to firefox, flock or IE (all version) in different OS (Linux, Windows, Mac OS and BSD).

BrowserSize - A nifty online tool for setting your browser size while doing Web design and find out your browser's current size plus more.

kissa.be - This tool is comes handy though its URL shortner but here you can shorten URL along with email, text and Image as well.

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IE7 JS Script - IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

Mikogo Skype Plugin - It's as a Skpe Extra (i.e. plug-ins for Skype) where users can have free screen sharing and phone calls together for no cost. With Mikogo Skype Extra one can invite up to 10 participants to any Mikogo screen sharing session directly from your Skype installed in your systems.

Test Everything - Test everything of your website from CSS/ HTML validations, SEO tools to Social services, Web proxies, Network tools, Text tools, Image tools and more.

Web Analytics & Traffic Monitoring

AreMySitesUp Via SMS - It is a simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down, moreover it send notifications via email or SMS text message to your cell phone. Site checks are performed 25 times per day and for up to 20 sites for a free account and 60 sites for paid ones.



SWIX - SWIX is like Google Analytics for social media it tracks where your traffic comes from like blogs, twitter feeds, facebook, YouTube Channel etc. As its free during its beta life you can try it without any cost.

Piwik - Its an open source web analytics with as flexible as any developer can make it. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages and more.

Scrutinizer - Its a pack full of 283 website monitoring and other useful tools at one place.

WBOSS - WBOSS (Web Based Open Source Spell Checker) is designed to work with any text input form on any web page and its script allows users to paste text into the website and find any spelling errors so they can be fixed before publishing it. Via - Joshua Cantara.

Webmaster/ Developer Resource - A huge list in itself and all-in-one page linking to resource, tools, utilities, reference materials and all that stuff that have something to do with webmasters and website builders.

User behavior & User Experience

Loop¹¹ - Loop11 is a web-based user-experience testing tool, allowing companies to conduct online, unmoderated user testing on any kind of digital interface. Loop11 is not a survey or web analytics tool, but a user experience tool… helping you to understand user behaviour.

Clixspy - Clixpy tracks everything your site’s users do such as mouse movement, clicks, scrolling, form inputs. You can watch and examine videos showing your users’ actions.

Clickdensity - Clickdensity allows to analyze the user experience and identify usability and information architecture issues and generate reports and heat map showing the relative popularity of components on web pages.

Colorblind web-page filter - Its a a testing tool to analyze how a web page will look like to people having colorblindness and generate similar web pages with those colors only.

HTML, CSS & Forms

WordPress Theme Generator - This unique tool is for WordPress self-hosted blog owners. It generates and creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme be it 2column, 3-column along with all AJAX features with YUI and that too without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.

Paperform Form Builder — A modern software to create online forms, product and payment pages. Paperform is a perfect tool that bloggers and webmasters might use for contact forms, surveys, lead generation and even selling things online.

Wufoo - HTML form builder to create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.

PHP Form Generator - Create your own running PHP form and download the HTML in just three simple steps no programming required.

ColT (Link to HTML) - Its a Firefox extension that adds two menu items to the browser's context menu when you right click a hyperlink, it shows options as - "Copy Link Text and Location As" to the menu enabling users to copy the text and its link in either HTML, plain text, BB Code, FuseTalk, or Wikipedia formats.

FireScope - Its a quite handy Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug and provide HTML and CSS reference information with Firefox browser.

Pakistan got its own 1st Blogging Awards & New Media Unconference

India's very own neighbor country Pakistan witnessed its First Blogging Awards & New media Unconference on Friday May 28th at Karachi, the award ceremony is backed by Google Pakistan and CIO Pakistan along with other sponsors such as Nokia, Dell, Cannon etc. The ceremony was lavishing, big and red carpeted with more than 300 bloggers and corporates honored in Karachi to recognize and encourage blogging as "New Media" and "Citizen Journalism" rising in Pakistan.

The awards are distributed among winners out of a total of 41 blogs in different categories such as celebrity, fashion, gossips, politics, humor, current affairs and technology.

Neighboring developing countries should take lesson from Pakistan where blogging, new media, citizen journalism is not just limited to newspaper columns or talk shows but also being recognized, appreciated and honored with awards as ceremonies and unconferencing events and thats too with lavishing format which not only show countries appreciation towards the home-grown journalism but also flaunt that how important they are to the country they are blogging for.

The ceremonies, award event indeed is a good practice to set the level high, bring out the sense of recognition, competition and thus encourage the new media entities for iterate the standards of their respective media be it bloggers, citizen journalists, freelance authors/ content editors etc.

Pakistan is 3rd among its neighboring countries (India & China) with  18 million internet users in Pakistan comparing to India's 51 million internet users and 111 million users in China moreover despite of lagging to India & China only Pakistan witnesses the efforts to encourage the new media type for its growing user base.

The New media is rising and blogs has already surpassed the newspaper in terms of readers. The effort has to be made to organize the news form of media raise the level much higher than its present one by encouraging people directly involved in it.