Improving Your WordPress Site’s Performance
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 ...
Why the Pagely Sale is Good for Everyone
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 ...
Networking is Your Secret Weapon
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 ...
The Market Is Never Too Crowded
The first time I took copy and placed it into a design for a printed document, I used Adobe Illustrator. I didn't know any other design solution. So I designed the document and then took the text and placed it ...
Recruiting New Employees?
I've spent the last few weeks recruiting new employees. That's what happens when one of your key folks gets a great offer elsewhere. And when you buy a company and decide you're going to grow the marketing and development teams. ...
Most Employees Are Waiting
When employees were asked if they could answer positively that they felt like their job provided them a regular opportunity to work from their strengths (and passions), only 2 out of 10 could agree. Twenty percent. The other eighty percent ...
Embrace Your Uniqueness
I don't write a lot of posts like this one, where my focus is to point you to stuff I've already written, but there's a reason this is top of mind. My daughter is applying to college this weekend. She ...
Repeating Our Mistakes
Let's Stop Repeating Our Mistakes I had several product-related conversations today. And in each, it felt like I was repeating lessons that we all knew. The problem isn't knowledge. It's the mental shortcuts we make that put us in a ...
Ed Sheeran & Creativity
I don't know if you know Ed Sheeran but I'm guessing you've heard one of his songs, with him singing, or something he's authored for someone else. There's no question he knows how to write songs – even if you ...
Retaining Your Top Talent
It's Crazy Out There It's never been harder to hire talented staff right now. Every person I know who is looking for work is finding work. And often multiple offers. Even crazier is that they're getting offers that are incredible ...