Category: Blog
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My WordPress community
There’s a bevy of reasons why you should join the WordPress community. Become a better developer Find design inspiration Grow your business Help out in the support forum Then there’s the reason of being a down to Earth human being. Making connections not just for the tangible benefit, but to slow down and appreciate the…
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The Impact of Public Relations
Think about the high performing companies you subscribe to and the image they portray on the web, in social media, and within your inbox. I’m a raving fan of a company that uses a monkey as part of their brand. Can you guess who that is? Mailchimp. Where the name might sound foolish and playful,…
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What to do with your business in 2014
This is a thought about what to do with your business, not what to do in it. With the new year fast approaching, you might be starting to think about the goals you’d like to achieve. We’re going to look at cutting the fat from the business and why that’s important to your health — for the business…
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Become a mentor
The holiday season is upon us and it’s time to give thanks to folks near and far. For the last 5 years I’ve been volunteering as a mentor for my local community college. Recently, I was a guest speaker to a 101 programming course and I talked about the importance of developing a brand/portfolio as…
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How to start a podcast
This weekend I took part in an Olympian event called WordSesh. I loaded up Google Hangouts to join the discussion with six other hosts that also run their own WordPress podcast. We chatted about why we do what we do and what lead us to make this part of our routine. Folks in the live…
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WordSesh the WordPress Olympics
For the first time in my life, I might have the podcasting jitters. WordSesh is in full swing and I’m about to take the mic. For those of you that don’t know, the 24 hour marathon of WordPress “stuff” kicked off Friday evening (EST time.) This Olympian event hosts a cast of WordPress professionals, developers,…
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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…