Five Strategies to grow your online business
Want to grow your online business? If you talk to enough people today, when you want to grow your business, it almost sounds like there's a single strategy—Facebook ads. That just doesn't sound right, does it? But what do you ...
If you need a new WordPress site, skip the middle man
Are you looking to get a new WordPress site built? Have you seen the television show, The Wire? It's an incredible show—great visuals, great story, great everything. And it's intense. But mostly, what stood out to me when watching was ...
Are you registering a new domain?
If you are, then maybe you've been doing what I've been doing forever—using GoDaddy. For years I've been buying domains from GoDaddy. And before you start thinking about all the negative feelings you have about the company, you should know ...
No comments on your posts? Don’t make these Four mistakes
Do you have tons of posts without any comments on them? When I was first getting started with this blog, I would go for days (and sometimes weeks) without a comment. Then I would head to popular blogs and see ...
Lies that stop us from breaking into WordPress
Tomorrow I'll be speaking at the Digital Commerce Summit—put on by Rainmaker Digital, the folks that created the Rainmaker Platform that hosts this site. My talk is titled, “Breaking into WordPress.” Have you thought about breaking into WordPress? When I ...
Styling MailChimp forms (without pulling your hair out)
Everyone loves MailChimp. If you've been working on WordPress sites for any amount of time, and you've helped a client get an email list set up, then you've likely worked with MailChimp. It's not only a powerful solution, but it ...
There is always an “us” but not always a “them”
Let me get this out of the way—this is a post about another post about a dynamic that may or may not exist within a community of people around an open source software project that is undefined because anyone is free ...
Why it makes sense to hire small agencies
I can still remember one of the first times I sold enterprise software to an enterprise client. They were a very large and well-known financial organization and I was sitting in a meeting with their senior technical staff. I was ...
Building a site without any Genesis child themes
If you've been paying attention in the last few weeks, I spun up a new site on leadership, and now I've started a new site for headphones. Soon I'll have another one on cigars. Each of these are dedicated sites ...
Breaking into WordPress? Have a new product idea?
Six months ago, a friend asked me a question that put a bug in my brain. “What if you created a course on breaking into WordPress?” He knew that I had coached and consulted with several companies who were trying ...