Category: Blog
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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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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 54: Brian Gardner of Copyblogger founder of StudioPress
Well, it’s finally happened. I interviewed Brian Gardner. If you don’t know who Brian is, where the heck have you been? He’s the first WordPress entrepreneur to pioneer the premium theme business as we know it today. He started StudioPress over six years ago as a passion project and soon became the de facto site to…
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Episode 53: Josh Strebel of Page.ly, PressNomics and Matt Report Pro
Just getting back from PressNomics and flipping through my Rolodex of awesome new connections. Oh and catching up from jet lag — sorry Rebecca. 🙂 If you’re interested in attending PressNomics or learning what it’s all about, check out my review here. Loads of good comments there too. So what’s up in episode 53? I…
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PressNomics: Not all rainbow hopping unicorns and why that’s a good thing
There’s a certain energy in the air when you first walk into the room at PressNomics. In my perspective, WordCamp’s are light and airy, like a high school reunion. This time, we were amongst other entrepreneurs, marketers and founders of the most respected WordPress businesses. There were no hugs and rainbows, but an immediate feeling…
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“Challenge” Pilot Episode: A Big Thanks
Whew….I just finished recording the pilot episode of the Matt Report WordPress startup challenge. It. Was. Epic! First, I want to say it was a humbling experience getting some of the best folks in the WordPress community to join me and devote over an hour of their time. Seriously, you guys rock. Second, the freshman…
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Stop caring what other people think
Two of my favorite entrepreneurs to follow tweeted out some awesome content this week. Gary Vaynerchuck is one of the hardest working dude’s getting shit done in the web tech space. I feel like I have to swear just because he does. In a world of A/B testing, analytics and social graphs he boils it down…