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 ...
New year planning: Four things to get right
When it comes to new year planning, most people make resolutions. Resolutions that frankly fail within the first few weeks of the new year. So if you want to do new year planning the right way, I suggest you steer ...
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 ...
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 ...
Learning to leverage insecurity
Can we talk about insecurity for a second? What's the secret to your success? When I was speaking at the Double Your Freelancing Conference, I had lunch and dinner with several great freelancers. One of them, over the course of ...
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 ...
WordPress plugins and auto-renewals
Several years ago I sold my house to a friend. I did all the normal things you do when selling your home—from switching the water and gas to my friend to canceling services like cable. When my wife and I ...
Why I recommend ConvertKit to Infusionsoft users
Most of my conversations about Infusionsoft end up sounding exactly the same. And it's not the fault of InfusionSoft. Have you ever talked to someone about Infusionsoft? If you're anything like me, you now know that there are only two ...
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 ...