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Self-Service is the Name of the Game
A Guy Walks into a Fast-Food Joint… Sometime in the early 1990’s I walked into a fast-food restaurant (Taco Bell) to see an ordering kiosk. This is long before we saw these kinds of touchscreens in fast-food chains (Taco Bell,…
Want Different Results? Change The Game
A couple of years ago, a group of us decided to co-work together in San Diego – a house on the beach. It was an idea my friend Justin created, called BeachPress. We rented a house with tons of rooms,…
Changing Things Up
Life is a Series of Choices The last job I had before graduating from college was at the fourth largest YMCA in the country. After I graduated, I went to work full time at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, a government-funded research…
What Do Customers Really Want?
We Want Bags of Cash, Right? My buddy Shawn, of WP101 fame, likes to tell a story about what customers really want. It starts with this idea that you’re interviewing someone about what they want, and they say they want…
Creating Block Themes with Full Site Editing
By now, if you’ve been paying attention to the world of WordPress, you’ve likely heard of full site editing (FSE) or at least seen the reference to it. Even if you don’t know what it is, you’ve likely seen chatter…
The Best Hosting for LearnDash
How do you decide the best hosting for LearnDash? There are a lot of folks who wonder how to find the best hosting for LearnDash websites. I wrote about this before, where I explained PHP Workers. But today I want…
Enhancing WooCommerce (to work better with LearnDash)
Don’t Let People Lie To You Today I heard about a LearnDash client who was told they should use a different LMS because it works better with WooCommerce. It was a ridiculous claim that was completely false and used broken…
FluentCRM Conditional Checks
Did you miss me? I wrote daily all of last year. And this year I started writing the first two weeks of the year but then I took the rest of January off. Did you notice? The issue wasn’t that…
New Courses Are Available
Having worked with hundreds of teams building and marketing new products, there are patterns of mistakes I see all the time. The crazy thing is that every one of these mistakes is completely avoidable – without a PhD or ten…