=== Inbound Brew ===
Contributors: chris.fontes, rico.celis, sean.carrico
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2BMWMBED4R7R8
Tags: call to action, contact forms, cta, email, Hubspot, inbound marketing, keyword management, landing pages, lead management, redirects, robots.txt, seo, sitemap.xml, sitemeta, smtp, social networking, inbound marketing plugin, automated marketing, marketing plugin
Requires at least: 3.0.1
Tested up to: 4.6.1
Stable tag: 1.5.7
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Inbound Brew provides a WordPress inbound marketing plugin, offering SEO and content marketing tools, completely free.

== Description ==

**Recent Updates:** We are making significant improvements to our UI/UX within our Inbound Marketing Wordpress Plugin! Not only did we add a new, fully customizable navigation bar, we also overhauled the CTA generator tool and Settings module. Take a look at the new experience to see what is coming, as we are implementing these major changes to all modules.

The Inbound Brew automated marketing plugin will save you time and simplify your inbound marketing strategies and processes. Inbound marketing, also known as content marketing, allows you to create content that matters for the people that matter— Your leads. Creating meaningful content for a targeted audience results in customer education, market saturation, growth in domain authority, and lead generation.

WeWe created our inbound marketing plugin to help small business owners and marketers achieve those very goals. We are a small business that has a heart for small business - there is no reason to have deep pockets in order to utilize an inbound marketing tool to generate leads. Free of charge, we supply the tools necessary to **easily**:


1. Automatically push to social media (Push to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter)
2. Create custom CTA buttons (Call To Action)
3. Create custom Landing Pages
4. Create custom Forms
5. Capture Leads and manage them
6. Create and manage Keywords
7. Easily manage SEO compliance
8. Create and manage Sitemap.xml
9. Manage robots.txt
10. Create and manage 301 and 302 redirects (includes wildcard redirects)
11. Manage email settings and send custom HTML rich emails
12. Create sitemeta (Facebook, Google, Twitter cards, meta description)

In short, the Inbound Brew marketing plugin does all the things you need to drive traffic, educate customers, generate leads, and create customers.

For more information visit [inboundbrew.com](http://inboundbrew.com "Inbound Marketing for WordPress")

== Installation ==

= From your WordPress dashboard =

1. Visit 'Plugins' > 'Add New'
2. Search for 'Inbound Brew'
3. Activate Inbound Brew from your Plugins page.

= From WordPress.org =

1. Download BuddyPress.
2. Upload the 'inbound-brew' directory to your '/wp-content/plugins/' directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc...)
3. Activate Inbound Brew from your Plugins page.

= Once Activated =

1. If you do not have pretty permalinks enabled, you will want to enable them. (Landing Pages work best when they are enabled)
2. Visit 'Inbound Brew' dashboard to connect to your social networks
3. Visit 'Inbound Brew' dashboard to view the get started wizard.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Can I use my existing WordPress theme? =

Yes. Inbound Brew work with most themes.

= Where can I learn how to manage inbound marketing? =

We offer free training via blog posts and white papers at [inboundbrew.com/blog](http://inboundbrew.com/blog "Inbound Marketing Blog")

= Is this like Hubspot, Pardot, Infusionsoft, etc. ? =

We offer similar tools to these enterprise-level solutions, but in simpler, streamlined method that makes more sense for small business or smaller markeing teams.

= Can't I do all of this with existing tools? =

You can find tutorials if you google "WordPress vs Hubspot" that will teach you how to make WordPress function more like Hubpost, then you can manually download a dozen plugins and install them, then configure them, then hope they don't conflict, then do a little coding to integrate it into your theme, then make sure each is updated, then check them every time you update WordPress Core, then pull your hair out and curse the amount of time you spend maintaining this house of cards you've built.

OR, you can install one tool, that works amazingly well, and focus on spending time generating leads. 

= Why are you offering this for free? =

We believe that:

1. Small business should have access to tools to enable growth; and 
2. Inbound marketing is the most honest, thoughtful, value-providing way to generate leads.

Inbound Brew wants to make a difference, and it starts with small business.

= Do I need to use a specific version of PHP? =

Inbound Brew requires PHP 5.4 or greater.

== Screenshots ==

1. Easily manage from your dashboard
2. Create custom button or image CTAa
3. Easily create landing pages that work with any theme
4. Capture lead information
5. Manage leads and view lead history
6. Customize emails to leads
7. Leverage on-page SEO tips
8. Connect to social media and add social share widget to your pages or posts.
9. Automate pushing to social media
10. Add and track keywords
11. Manage redirects
12. Manage Sitemap and Robots.txt
13. Choose Plugin Layout


== Support ==
Leave us a [new idea here](http://inboundbrew.com/ideas "Inbound Brew Ideas")
If you are having trouble with something, [please contact us](http://inboundbrew.com/contact "Inbound Brew Contact")

== Changelog ==
= 1.5.7 =
This version fixes several bugs. We fixed issues with;

- the footer-information on emails sent was always blue in color
- typos with social network names (Linked In vs LinkedIn, LinkedIn showing on Facebook pages, etc)
- deleteing lead views
- attempting to save a new lead view on the "all leads" default view
- updating a contact form title
- redirects and the hyphen character
- many custom fields issues in contact forms
- some php warnings with better error checking
- some internal links going to the wrong location
- broken email preview while creating a new email
- sending of emails from the lead screens
- display issue with multiple X (close) icons in various model windows


= 1.5.6 =
Mostly fixed many issues if the WordPress root was in a subfolder

= 1.2.0 = 
We have fixed a significant amount of bugs. 

If you have suggestions, **please** [contact us](http://inboundbrew.com "Contact Inbound Brew")


== Upgrade Notice ==
= 1.5.7 =
***Several*** bugs were squashed in this release, and we ***highly*** recommend upgrading immediately. 

= 1.5.6 = 
Upgrade immediately if you are using WordPress in subfolder, otherwise you can skip this one.



If you have suggestions, ***please*** [contact us](http://inboundbrew.com "Contact Inbound Brew")