Category: Work/Life
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How to find determination when the chips are down
You might refer to it as crushing it or pushing through or even the grind. Determination is often overlooked in the entrepreneur’s journey. Some will fold when faced with the slightest friction of startup life. Others will give up when they can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Dre Armeda, co-founder of Sucuri, joins us to talk…
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Off the cuff with Marcus Couch
I’ve had the chance to talk to some really smart and down to earth people lately. Today’s guest, Marcus Couch of WordPress podcasting fame (though don’t say that around him), joins us to chat about the ups and downs of running your own business. From landing large national client’s with hundreds of websites, to losing…
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WP Valet: Leveraging customer data
There’s a great resource that so many of us overlook. It starts with the time you spend invoicing, speaking on the phone and training clients. It’s the time it takes to update a plugin starting from the first click to login. There’s top pages, posts and podcasts that your audience consumes on a monthly basis.…
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Alex King: Invest in team building and creating value
I have the honor of sitting down with legacy WordPress entrepreneur Alex King of Crowd Favorite in today’s episode. Rounding off my release of big name WordPress agency founders, Alex paints the portrait of his 10+ year WordPress career. We cover the recent acquisition from VeloMedia to learning the hard lessons of building a team.…
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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 52: A startup, some themes, a bit of freelancing and a full-time job
You’re an entrepreneur still trading time for dollars — how do you get out of that? You launch a new WordPress website for a client and everyone is excited to go live — but wait, they wanted you to upload their 1,000 pages of content. It wasn’t your responsibility. Months later you realize you’ve been…
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Episode 48: The Godfather of Freelancing
If there were ever a mob or “Family” of WordPress freelancers, it’s a safe bet that Shane Pearlman would be head of the family. I had always known about Modern Tribe and their successful plugins, but I never knew much about their progressive take on the WordPress service business. Now that I’ve had the chance…
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Episode 47: What every freelancer needs to know
How long have you been freelancing? Long enough to think you’re the man? Brian Richards is one of the keenest entreprenerus that I’ve interviewed. The funny thing is, he never set out *expecting* to be one. See like most of us starting out in WordPress, we did some favors, got paid a little bit and…
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Episode 45: Who’s behind TorqueMag.io
Oh the WordPress media industry — how we love thee. When the news of WPDaily.co shutting down landed on us so abruptly, it left a few of us scratching our heads to say the least. What would happen to it? Who would buy it? Where’s my WordPress news? Well it’s been a few weeks since the…