Author: Matt
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What entrepreneurs don’t like to admit
The hardest part of our work is not the making money part — it’s the focus part. I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but ideas are a dime a dozen, it’s the execution that matters. It’s so easy right? Then you realize there’s the entrepreneurial bug that drove us here in the first…
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8 Tools for the (almost) daily blogger
Daily blogging is a feat I wish to accomplish at some consecutive rate in the near future. Even a 90 day stretch would feel great because I don’t think I’ll ever get a solid 365 days in like my pals Chris Lema and Tom McFarlin. So why would one want to blog every day anyway?…
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24 Ways you can build a better WordPress website
Sometimes I should learn to keep my mouth shut. But if I did, we wouldn’t get awesome interviews like this one with James Schramko of superfastbusiness.com. I was listening to James interview on another podcast and he lead in to how easy it is to launch a WordPress website. Even more so, how fast and cheap it…
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Invest in your first 100 customers
Data — It’s what I love to hate as a web marketer and consultant. Data tells us who our customers are, where they come from and how long they spend looking at our content. What device they use, what pages they click on and how many videos they watch. There’s the free kind of data and…
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Managing Gravity Forms with Zapier and Trello
If you’re looking to organize your Gravity Forms contact submissions, I’ve got just the trick for you. I connect my general Contact form and my Challenge application forms to my Trello account with Zapier. I use Trello for organizing thoughts and tasks, so why not use it to organize all of the folks contacting me.…
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WordPress slide presentation the WP Present way
Owning your content is sort of the WordPress way, right? We publish a ton of data from our blog’s to our Facebook accounts. Instagram captures our memories and Twitter declares what we’re thinking at the moment. But this is our data and we’re giving it large platforms that leverage it for marketing and promotion. Today we’re…
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How to write your first self published e-book
Am I the only one that has an urge to start writing a book when the winter time rolls around? Brian Casel returns to The Matt Report to discuss his latest Launch Design for Conversions. This isn’t a typical interview, we’re getting right to the good stuff including planning your book, marketing, sales expectations and…
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10up founder Jake Goldman invests in seoslides WordPress plugin
Recently at WordCamp Boston 2013, a strange thing happened. Two plugin announcements randomly collided. I attended Steven Word’s talk called “Unconventional WordPress” and unconventional it was. At the end of the talk he unveiled the plugin that powered his presentation WP Present. Later in the day Jake Goldman presented his topic and also unveiled his…
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Episode 1: WordPress Startup Challenge
The moment is finally here! The first episode of the WordPress Startup Challenge! Hope you really enjoy this series please share it with friends!