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Securing WordPress Sites
You've seen bon qui qui on MadTV, right? She's known for a lot of things but I like her most because of her commitment to calling security. Unlike the video, you can call security as often as you need when your WordPress site gets hacked.
Closing the Deal - A Pricing Trick That Helps
This Pricing Trick Isn't For Everyone. Not every pricing trick will be perfect for every agency. I get that. So if your average project costs less than $10,000 or more than $100,000, this may not help you when closing the deal. But if you're normally putting out quotes in the $10,000 - $100,000 range (which...
The Art of Lead Generation: What Top Business Owners Do Differently
The art of lead generation I talk to business owners every single day. Sometimes they own product companies. Other times they run agencies. But they fall into two categories. The first want to keep...
Leveraging Multiple Price Points
The challenge with talking about pricing (and especially multiple price points) is that the conversation comes in the middle of a much larger discussion on product design. By the time you've built a new feature and want to know how much more to charge for it (if you're even willing to adjust pricing), we're already...
Some Nonintuitive Lessons That Are Hard To Learn
I spent today in an all-day meeting With some very smart people, we worked on planning for the second half of the year, and did a lot of work to identify themes, areas of effort, strategies for prioritization, and more. And while we met, while we discussed things, it was clear to me that the...
The Mentoring Roles You Need In Your Life
Some assumptions about getting mentoring Let's start with some assumptions I'm making. Everyone is busy. Few people walk around with signs on them that say, \"I mentor.\"No one knows what you need. It's not like you walk around with your own sign.You won't ever get what you never ask for. I know that's a horribly...
14 Things To Do After Launching a WordPress Site
Your website launch isn't the end of the journey, it's just the start. Here are the 14 things you can't forget to do after launching a new WordPress site. Your Post-Launch Strategy Most of us get super excited when it looks like we're close to launching a new WordPress site. After all, weeks or months...
My Favorite Pricing Table Example
Pricing tables are a challenge I talk about pricing a lot with my coaching clients (and folks that reach out to me on clarity). So it won't surprise you that they often ask me to show them a pricing table example that I really like. I've told you already about the things I like about...
Going to Build Premium WordPress Plugins? Do This First.
Want to make money with premium WordPress plugins? WordPress powers more than 40% of the web - which is crazy! It's also 18 years old, which means you might think there's no more room left to grow. My math says otherwise. And if you've read that, maybe you're considering getting into the premium WordPress plugin...
You Can't Afford The WordPress Plugin You Want
Eventually we all hear this request If you visit a WordPress or WooCommerce facebook group, you're likely to hear a request for a plugin that does everything. My answer often disappoints them. It doesn't exist. And if it did, you still can't afford the WordPress plugin you want. Let's start with a request. See if...
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