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How To Navigate The Lean Years
Things are Going to Get Tough Instead of writing a post about the upcoming (or already here) recession, I thought I would go a bit broader and talk about how to navigate the lean years. Businesses of all sorts go into this time under a lot of stress. Let's be honest, I'm not an economist. I...
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 bags of cash. Don't we all? But if you push in further, and ask what...
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 years of experience. But the mistakes are common because of our belief systems. How we...
The Five Reasons People Don't Convert
It's the day before Christmas and I've finished up my outlining and work for the three courses that I'm launching in the new year. I'll likely record them in the next couple days and get them on this site next week some time. Yet, even as I'm working on this, I have - like many...
2022 Planning - The Five Things You Can Do Now
Five Things To Think About If you're starting to think about your next year, and focused on your 2022 planning, may I give you five things to think about? 1. More Revenue Streams Everyone wants their business to grow. But most of the time what I find people doing is doubling down on the existing...
New WordPress Plugins in 2022
Two Problems I've Faced While Blogging Daily If you've just discovered this blog via this post, you're coming in on a streak of 352 days of daily blogging. I started the last day of last year and have been writing and publishing every day this year. Using Gutenberg and loving it. But it has driven...
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...
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...
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