A single trick to win more customers without doing more work
For service companies, when prospects are evaluating you, there are three things they all care about. Do you understand the core problem? When you get on that first phone call or have the first meeting to talk about the business, ...
No comments on your posts? Don’t make these Four mistakes
Do you have tons of posts without any comments on them? When I was first getting started with this blog, I would go for days (and sometimes weeks) without a comment. Then I would head to popular blogs and see ...
Lies that stop us from breaking into WordPress
Tomorrow I'll be speaking at the Digital Commerce Summit—put on by Rainmaker Digital, the folks that created the Rainmaker Platform that hosts this site. My talk is titled, “Breaking into WordPress.” Have you thought about breaking into WordPress? When I ...
Selling Event Tickets with WooCommerce And Memberships
If you want to sell event tickets with WooCommerce—inside a membership site—here's your tutorial. Selling Event Tickets with WooCommerce One of the things I hear about a lot from people who are already running a membership site is how to ...
Learning to leverage insecurity
Can we talk about insecurity for a second? What's the secret to your success? When I was speaking at the Double Your Freelancing Conference, I had lunch and dinner with several great freelancers. One of them, over the course of ...
User generated content in WordPress membership sites
How do you create a facility for user generated content that only members can create? That was the question that came to me this past week from a reader of the blog. It likely came from the post I wrote ...
The Top WordPress Membership Plugins of 2016
The Top WordPress Membership Plugins in 2016 Last year I looked at a ton of different membership plugins to pick the best one of 2015. Thirty plugins was a lot to review. The good news—many of them didn't change all ...
Styling MailChimp forms (without pulling your hair out)
Everyone loves MailChimp. If you've been working on WordPress sites for any amount of time, and you've helped a client get an email list set up, then you've likely worked with MailChimp. It's not only a powerful solution, but it ...
The future of eLearning
Let me start with a really big caveat: I love all the eLearning solutions that are out there. I am just wrapping up a new course (“My Rainmaker Secrets”) on the Rainmaker platform. I'm also working on a long comparison ...
How to announce pricing changes (without ruining everything)
Especially in the world of startups, the need to change business models is common. How you announce those pricing changes can help or kill your business. Five Tips on Announcing Pricing Changes It's no shock to you, if you've read ...