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Creating the best Customer Onboarding Process

agency-adviceAug 1, 2017

How do you learn? One of the conversations I enjoy the most is one I regularly have with freelancers about learning and mastery. The core of my question always comes down to this: \"How do you learn best?\" More often than not, the answer I get - and this may be because of the circles I run in...

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Building an Online Course with WooCommerce

wordpressJun 26, 2017

You too can Build an Online Course I was going to sell this course. But then I published a post yesterday that said we should share everything we know. So today I decided I would share with you the exact steps you need to build an online course all on your own. I walk you...

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Misunderstanding the goal of the Gutenberg Experience

wordpressJun 22, 2017

I checked out the Gutenberg plugin and new writing experience for WordPress - via an early plugin version. It's clear I missed the goal of this thing. I tried the new Gutenberg writing experience for WordPress today! Having read all the early reviews of the new Gutenberg plugin (which is still a very early release),...

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Private Content for Each Member on your Site

membership-sitesJun 22, 2017

If you want private content for each different member of your site, this could be very helpful for you. Individualized Private Content This is one of those features I've wanted for just about every coaching or mentoring site I've worked on. While not every membership or course site needs it, when you do, it's often...

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Becoming a Great Conversationalist

coachingJun 21, 2017

Most of us aren't great at business conversations In a CNN poll run a few years ago, they asked people how well they could manage a business conversation. I'm sure that the people who responded (more than 3500 in a nationwide poll) crafted their own unique spin on the scenario they were imagining. Regardless,...

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What do you know (and not know) about eCommerce Trends?

ecommerceJun 19, 2017

Sometimes it helps to raise your head up and look around. It's easy to get caught thinking you know what you know, only to have to spend some time checking out how things are changing. It's part of my job at Liquid Web, as their VP of Products, to do this kind of environmental scanning,...

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The One simple way to make more money in 2017

marketing-communicationsJun 17, 2017

If you want to make more money in 2017, you don't need 12, 37 or 101 new ways. You need this one trick. This one strategy. Check it out. Can I ask you a question? Over the last several weeks, I've ended up in several conversations about the WordPress ecosystem. Mostly we've been talking about...

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Marriage, family, And work: Managing for Happiness

insightsJun 16, 2017

Do you know David Henzel? I met David several years ago, and he was already someone to pay attention to. We were in Las Vegas at a conference and was already a serial entrepreneur working on the latest business he'd help co-found, MaxCDN. Listening to him talk at dinner that night, I knew I wanted more...

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Why I love Heap Analytics (and why you should too)

wordpressJun 15, 2017

Everything is different at scale. If I asked you to figure out how many people on your block (about 20 homes) had visited Disneyland in the last year, you might decide to go door-to-door and ask. But if I asked you how many people in your state had visited Disneyland in the last year, that...

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Is the WordPress economy shrinking?

wordpressJun 14, 2017

Is the WordPress economy hurting? Shrinking? I don't know if you have heard this from folks, as you've been talking or thinking. Maybe you run an agency that focuses on WordPress websites and you're starting to hear folks talk about, \"We're getting less leads. There's less folks who are asking for our work.\" You wonder,...

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