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There's a new LTD for Fluent Support

wordpressNov 16, 2021

Fluent Support Brings Help Desk Software to WordPress If you read yesterday's post, you likely caught the mention of Fluent Support in there. Well, it's live today, and I can't wait for you to check it out. It's incredibly powerful. In fact, I tell you the things I like most in my quick summary below....

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Running Multiple WordPress Sites for One Business

wordpressNov 15, 2021

Remember When I Told You About Courses on a Subdomain? A bit ago I wrote about running your course on a subdomain and how to sell on one site, and then run the course on another. I used the power of Uncanny Automator to make the magic happen. Well now I'm thinking about another subdomain...

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Estimating: The Problem We All Face

coachingNov 14, 2021

Everyone Thinks Their Problems Are Unique If there's one thing I've learned by talking to product owners, agency owners, freelancers, and software developers over the last two decades - it's that we all know others must be experiencing what we are, but we feel like we're the only ones. The dissonance between our heads and...

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Improving Your WordPress Site's Performance

wordpressNov 13, 2021

Let's Say You Wanted to Lose Weight We're going to talk about your WordPress Site's performance, but first let me walk you thru a thought exercise. Imagine you wanted to lose weight. Would you believe someone if they told you that the trick was bananas? Or eggs? Or any single item? Probably not, right? Losing...

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LearnDash Subscriptions

online-learningNov 12, 2021

If you had asked me last week about selling LearnDash courses via subscriptions, I would have told you that the best way was to install WooCommerce and then add the WooCommerce Subscriptions extension and go from there. But that will change next week when we roll out a new feature in our 3.6 release -...

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Why the Pagely Sale is Good for Everyone

insightsNov 11, 2021

This is one of those \"insider baseball\" posts so if you're not into WordPress ecosystem posts, skip this one and come back tomorrow. Another Big & Success Company Just Sold Just a few months ago Yoast sold to Bluehost. I know, you're going to tell me it sold to Newfold Digital. But we never heard...

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Is Adding a New Feature Really The Right Move?

product-workNov 10, 2021

I Bet This Story Sounds Familiar Earlier this year I was working on adding a new feature for this site. It's the table of contents on the right sidebar of this post (and all my blog posts). I looked at a lot of table of contents plugins before deciding on LuckyWP Table of Contents. It...

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Networking is Your Secret Weapon

insightsNov 9, 2021

We're Always Busy. That's Not Changing. In the WordPress ecosystem, where I spend a good amount of time, there is never enough time to get everything done. There's also a long list (that never gets shorter) of things you should be doing to help your business grow. Even companies that are doing well never seem...

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Food Ordering on WooCommerce

ecommerceNov 8, 2021

Not All Food Ordering Systems Work the Way I Like Can I be honest with you? I'm from California and I don't like Avocados. If you know me, you also know I'm not much for salads or vegetables. But I love Bacon. So when I go to order a BLT, I really want a BMT...

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Want to Close More Deals?The Single Story You Have to Tell

coachingNov 7, 2021

There are a Million Growth Strategies Out There... If you want to close more deals the challenge is figuring out which strategies to follow and which to ignore. Today I want to share with you the single story that you have to get right, and include in everything you do. What I mean by that...

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