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Perseverance Creates Luck
Steve Martin, in his Masterclass course on comedy says, \"When it's your turn to be picked, you have to be within pointing distance.\" If we're friends or you've read my posts, you've likely heard me say, \"All things being equal, people like to buy from their friends. So first, make all things equal, and then...
The Six Best WordPress Popup Plugins
Everyone Hates WordPress Popup Plugins, But They Work We hate WordPress popup plugins. But mostly because they're implemented poorly. Not because something that slides into our peripheral view is a horrible idea. If a popup shows up at the right time, with the right offer, I don't hate it. So it's not the popup that...
Thinking About Learning All Wrong
In the Lema house, we have a high value for learning and education My wife was a teacher in school districts for almost two decades and then spent time home schooling our two kids until they got to high school. She has a masters degree in education. And while my masters is in leadership and...
Running Shared Hosting? Then You Need This...
Is Your WordPress Site on Shared Hosting? If you're running a WordPress site on shared hosting, you likely think I'm going to tell you that it's time to move to Managed Hosting like the kind we offer at Nexcess. But I'm not. I want to talk to you today about a plugin that is, without...
Publishing & Sharing Product Roadmaps
Have You Heard Me Talk About Product Roadmaps? Maybe you've been in a conversation with me where I've said I'll never publish a product roadmap. I was in a meeting today where I made the statement again. And you might come away thinking I hate roadmaps, but that's not true. You might also think that...
Accelerative Add-Ons
Yesterday I mentioned accelerators as a way to leverage Shiny Object Syndrome. I also promised that I would talk more about what an accelerative add-on is. So let's get into it. But to do that (and you know this already), I'm going to tell you a story. The First Nice Couch I Bought The first...
The Shiny Object Syndrome
I Bet You've Experienced The Shiny Object Syndrome When I was a kid, I used to really (I mean really) like to build Lego stuff. It didn't matter if it was a specific model, or to create my own spaceship. As I got older, I shifted from being creative to wanting the next model to...
The Most Popular Posts in 2021
Hundreds of Thousands of Visitors Have Spoken I've told you before that I use Fathom Analytics. So today I looked at the year in review, as I've written a blog post every day this year, to find which posts were the most viewed / most read. Here are the most popular posts on the blog...
Five Years of Product Development with Liquid Web
5 Years with Liquid Web This week marks five years of designing and building products for Liquid Web. It's crazy how fast five years have gone by, while at the same time, it's easy to feel like I've been with a hosting company forever. In case you missed it, a couple of months ago we...
Disable Repeat Purchases on WooCommerce
Can I Tell You a Story? I went to a website this last weekend - Black Friday Cyber Monday - and I bought a software license. One of those licenses that costs a good amount of money, but is worth it because they're offering a nice sale. Then I logged into \"My Account\" and what...
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