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3 Awesome Black Friday Deals – Web Hosting, WordPress Themes and Unconventional Guides

Here are 3 awesome black Friday deals you might want to know about. One of these is today only, and the other two run until next Monday.

Web hosting – 50% off with HostGator – I highly recommend HostGator. All my sites are hosted with them. This is an incredible once-a-year deal (today only).

Unconventional Guides sale: Chris Guillebeau is offering a special weekend deal on his entire collection of Unconventional Guides and resources including the Travel Hacking Guide, the Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself and the Empire Building Kit (use the code CRANBERRY).

WooThemes WordPress themes sale: Get 20% to 50% off of these fantastic professional WordPress themes from WooThemes. This sale runs through Monday (use code BLACKSTD for standard packages or BLACKDEV for developer’s packages).

Have a great weekend everybody! Note that the links above are affiliate links, so I’ll earn a little beer money if you purchase. Thanks for the support :)

I'm Corbett Barr, founder of Fizzle and Palapa and co-host of The Fizzle Show. This is where I write about building businesses, living the good life, and doing work that matters. More about me »

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I'm Corbett Barr, founder of Fizzle and Palapa, and co-host of The Fizzle Show. Sign up for updates and I'll send you new posts as soon as they're published.

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