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Hierarchy of WordPress Hosting Decisions

How do you make a decision about where to host your WordPress site? If it's just about the money, you can always go for WordPress.com - where things start at $0. But over time you may decide it's right to move. So what's next? And does your site only move once?

Your Outbound Marketing Sucks!

I've visited more than once. We've seen each other a few times. But let's be clear - we're not friends or family. I have no loyalty to you. So let's get one things straight: me getting a lot of emails from you doesn't constitute a relationship.

A WordPress Real Estate Solution: A Single Theme, A Single Multisite

We created a real estate offering that not only uses WordPress, but uses a single theme and a single WordPress multisite instance.

WordPress And Appcelerator: Innovation without the Cash

I just recently spoke at a WordCamp (San Diego) on how a small business or start up could use WordPress for more than just a blog or web site, and referenced one particular case of product innovation but didn't get ...

Membership Site Troubles? Three WordPress Solutions

At least three times a month I'm on the phone with someone who thinks they need a membership site but doesn't have the time to make it work. I don't know if it's that they're looking to develop the world's ...

Excitement: No need for Goals

I have recently noticed something – and maybe you have to. It's related to the work I do on the evenings and weekends which is different than the work I do during the day. During the day I manage creatives ...

Sticky Teaching

In early March I'll be presenting some material to teachers who volunteer at North Coast Church. Coaching those who present information—in or outside the church—always comes back to what we now know about the brain. So I decided to create ...

Which 27 WordPress plugins would you choose?

The process of setting up a WordPress site isn't just about hosting and getting a great theme in place. It's not just about adding your own design elements and it's more than just writing great content. There's that one other ...

Product Development: Lessons from an Opinionated Jerk

Remember that guy at school that always had an opinion about stuff and was quick to tell you about it? Remember the guy who never saw two sides of things or even the nuance and just kept repeating his position ...

Where I go to hire great geeks…

Have you visited http://www.authenticjobs.com/ yet? Unless you're hiring senior executive tech folks (using TheLadders), I'd head over to Authentic Jobs. Of course there's always your own network.