Author: Matt

  • Pioneer of creative accounting, Jason Blumer

    Pioneer of creative accounting, Jason Blumer

    Creative accounting. Have you heard that phrase used before? I certainly didn’t until I met today’s guest, Jason Blumer. Jason runs a virtual accounting practice specifically designed for creative agencies and development firms. I love this business idea because it focuses on a specific vertical, with a specific customer type, translating to a better level…

  • White Knuckle Owner

    White Knuckle Owner

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    Here are slides and monologue for my PressNomics 4 presentation.

  • WordPress is not easy

    WordPress is not easy

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    WordPress isn’t easy. There, I said it. I’m willing to bet if you’ve spent any time using the software, you probably feel the same way. Even if you’re a WordPress expert, using the software is not without frustration. As a consultant, what I find even more frustrating, is the difficulty I have in recommending WordPress…

  • Running a WordPress training or blogging business

    Running a WordPress training or blogging business

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    WordPress has allowed me to kickstart and foster my own career in the digital age and I’m betting it has for you too. That’s the beauty of such a highly-adopted open source web publishing platform, there’s always a layer of service or support that the market needs. Sure it’s free, but we all know what…

  • Captain Form Plugin Review

    Captain Form Plugin Review

    Do we need another WordPress contact form plugin? The team behind Captain Form thinks so and they’re throwing their hat into the ring of contenders. There are plenty of form plugins in the WordPress space, so when another contact form plugin hits the market, you might think, “what’s the point?” As someone who runs a…

  • I lost my edge and so did you

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    Have you lost your sizzle? Maybe your pop, panache or mojo? I’ll do you one better and ask, has anyone ever told you you’ve lost it? That happened to me recently and sadly I knew it was coming. I met with a close friend during WordCamp US and she let me know that I’ve lost some…

  • How to start a WordCamp

    Are you part of a local WordPress meetup and you’re interested in growing that into an annual WordCamp? Or maybe you’re generally interested in what goes on behind the scenes for our heroic organizers? If so, I’ve brought on David Bisset and Ptah Dunbar, part of the organizing team for WordCamp Miami 2016 to chat about their experiences…

  • A Timeline of Influencers

    A Timeline of Influencers

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    Running a digital company isn’t easy. Those that think new age entrepreneurs are just Starbucks sipping hipsters pushing pixels on a laptop screen need to walk a mile in our shoes. There’s a certain “something” missing when you’re not flocking with society on a daily basis. For example, I run a distributed digital agency, which means that…

  • WordPress business website teardowns

    WordPress business website teardowns

    What is a website teardown? A common practice in which someone evaluates a website “line-by-line” and provides feedback to the website owner within a given context. For instance, in today’s episode, Devin and I teardown four unique commercial WordPress plugin websites submitted by listeners. We’re looking through the lens as if we were landing on…