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Watch the video podcast here. A Bit About Jason Jason and his partner Dylan Kuhn co-founded a creative agency called Vernal based in Vermont. At the time of this podcast in 2015, they had just transitioned from agency to product with the release of the plugin Postmatic. Tune in around the 5 Minute mark to find out how Jason got started with WordPress as an early adopter and grew his business.  Working With Not-For-Profit Organisations Jason's agency, Vernal, makes content managed open source websites for medium to large not for profit organisations. There’s a myth that there’s no money in the not-for-profit sector, but it isn’t true - they are like any business, but they are funded just happen to have a different tax status. Jason chose this as his niche because he wanted to find work that he believed in and was passionate about. He also found not-for-profits easier to work with because the people are generally kind, understanding, patient and sometimes used to not working in a 'not so efficient' environment. Find a Niche How do you battle the fear of missing out when you pass on projects that aren't in your niche? Jason says that they were pretty lucky and didn't often get dry spells without work. He adds that if you pass on something, it usually works out in the end anyway. Jason says one of the key factors in this was that they always made sure their customers were really happy. This then leads to a lot of referral work. It also helps to work in a niche such as not-for-profit because people tend to bounce around to different jobs within the not-for-profit arena.  So once you have those solid relationships, that person will recommend you to the next organisation. Transitioning from Client Services to the Product Space Postmatic is a plugin that enables 100% email base commenting, post notifications, and you can reply to a comment by email and it replies back to the web. It also sends emails for posts, digests, newsletters, and comments without changing your workflow. The transition happened at a time where they were taking on large projects that would last around 12-months and it felt like shaky ground. However, they didn’t want to go back to a lot of small projects either so they decided to give Postmatic a try so they could have a regular cash flow and not have to secure job after job. Tune in at the 28-minute mark to find out why they chose to develop Postmatic and how it works.  The Importance of Building Relationships When it comes to getting new client work, Jason says that they didn't do big proposals. Instead, they do phone calls and estimates. He would try to find some kind of personal connection to the potential client, which is easy when you work in a niche because people usually know each other - find out who they might know, get on the phone and sell the job that way. He has even been able to win big jobs with just a phone call! When Jason makes a phone call, most of the call is about how they’re doing, how is the family etc. Then 40% of the call will be about business. Be sincere and just talk to people like they’re humans. Bring an element of your offline life into your business and persona. Don’t try to be too professional. Be yourself. And to wrap up this informative podcast, here some of the key takeaways... Spend time offline and in nature to find your balance Know who your customers are, what makes them tick and what they’re thinking To find customers, have a good niche and do quality work in that niche and the clients will come Don't worry about competing on price. Ignore the competition, do your best work and charge a fair price that takes care of you and your employees When Jason was doing agency work they used Pipeline Deals as their CRM and really liked it Reach out to old customers when you need more work and let them know you are happy to do some work at a 20% discount[/wpecallout]

Life Updates Adam: Heading to WordCamp Greenville Kyle: Not sleeping much…up with the baby! WordPress News Code is Poetry myth? People on the Move Bridget Willard now working with Postmatic  Wearing/Drinking Kyle: Coffee, Mojo marketplace hoodie Adam: Bad cheap coffee! Questions What are the different ways I can increase the profit margins for my service…

You wrote something. Now what? You can automate. You can schedule. What works best? How do you start? In this episode, Jason and Bridget will give their tips and tricks to help get you going.Jason Tucker and his 12-yr-old daughter Jessalyn ( https://jessalyn.blog/) will be attending WCUS together for the first time! (https://jasontucker.blog/10107/wordcamp-us-2017-eyes-12-year-old)WomenWhoWP will have a booth at the WCUS Community Bazaar! – Bridget will be there, say hi!Sharing and content management go hand-in-hand – whatever info you put into that CMS you are going to need to share – to get your story out there!Too many of us have a “shoeless joe” approach of “if we build it they will come” – it doesn’t work that way in real life – you need to be intentionalWhen blogging (and communicating on social) your voice and tonality need to match – that’s what makes you authentic.  Don’t use authenticity as an excuse to be a jerk though!  How you treat your audience matters.Automation can be a problem – it can lack authenticity, you need to pay careful attention to what is being shared/posted – does it match your tone / your voice?  Example: a politician that has a search that auto-posts any tweets mentioning her name (with no oversight!) … even bad tweets got retweeted!  Or another example is if someone has automation and they’ve passed away.Automating is not a bad thing if it’s authentic to who you are (i.e. if you’re a programmer/coder, etc.)Only 2 things automated on BridgetWillard.com – Postmatic (for commenting) and Revive Old Posts (auto tweets her own articles in a specified time period). Bridget believes in a hybrid solution of automation and hand-edited posts.Another option (though controversial!) is to take advantage of the bots that auto-retweet hashtags of interest to your audience! The risk is that many people won’t follow them because the account is obviously a bot!If Bridget really likes an article, she’ll pull a sentence and share it on social media, and then choose another sentence and share it on a different platform, etc. (twitter, facebook, linkedin…)Bridget would love if Revive Old Posts would make a meta box with alternate titles so it could reshare the same content with different text!Scheduling posts can be helpful too – can also rearrange your info for repeat posts manually.Better Click to Tweet plugin – helps you pull out quotesEach social media platform has it’s own culture, you need to tailor your posts to that platform and not post the same thing on all of themSetting automation is not a bad thing if it’s in a controlled environment – if you have it set to pull from your own content or from sites that are trusted.MashShare https://wordpress.org/plugins/mashsharer/ – social media share buttonsThere’s nothing wrong with clicking your own buttons/links!  Go ahead and click the share buttons on your blog posts – half of what Bridget built into her site was for her own use, to make it easier to share her content!How you share means the “full context” or the “30,000 ft view”Snowbird ad: utilized a 1-star review saying that their slopes were “too advanced” to market their ski slopes (full 2-page ad w/ large photo of the mountains and valley)https://medium.com/words-for-life/a-ski-resort-used-a-1-star-review-in-its-brilliant-ads-so-now-im-inspired-945ba7f31fe9Snowbird prides themselves on being an advanced ski resort so a 1-star review stating it was too hard was the perfect and most simple advertisement!  They restrained themselves from adding a lot of design or copy and just let the review (and a powerful photo) speak for itself.When you’re sharing content, don’t forget to also share other people’s content – it shows that you care about more than just yourself, and encourages others to share your content (don’t live in a vacuum)Pay attention to what people are saying about your brand and leverage it!  Rachel Cherry posted she had “tattoo-level” love for Slack HQ and they caught wind of it and created an ad around it!  Rachel Cherry https://twitter.com/ruder/status/676165067549900800When you are sharing content multiple times, try reframing how you present it – say it in a different way to catch a new audience.Gary Vaynerchuk makes content for Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. that’s similar but different enough that it works best for each platformTailor your content for your audience!  When you are traveling to a different country or city, like Paris, you behave differently because of what the ‘natives’ expect.  Think the same way with your content.  If you sharing on twitter, post one way, on facebook, post another way. The same content presentation does not work for all audiences and you run the risk of fatiguing them!Carol Stephen: http://yoursocialmediaworks.com/social-media-different-platform-different-languageSwipeable on the iOS App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swipeable-instagram-panorama/id1209900326?mt=8Instagram is not for memes – they’re really best on facebook!Snapchat is a bit more casual/natural – don’t need to be as polishedJust start somewhere – start with one platform and use it for a few minutes each day.  When you get used to it, add another platform and go from there!Don’t try to imitate the biggest person on social media that you can find – 9 times out of 10, they have a team behind their account and you’ll run yourself ragged trying to catch upThere is no crazy secret to getting a lot of followers – be kind, be polite, be conversational, be interested.  Reply to people! What would you say to people if you were having a conversation in person? Build relationships!  From relationships come referrals Win-win! Show notes contributed by:Cheryl LaPrade – @YayCheryl https://merrymintdesigns.com/Sherie LaPrade – @HeySherieThe post WPblab EP88 – Content Marketing: How you share makes the difference appeared first on WPwatercooler. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Angular Remote Conf   02:01 - Roy Sivan Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog The WP Crowd Podcast 02:23 - Ryan Sullivan Introduction Twitter WP Site Care LoopConf 02:40 - WordPress and Angular 05:00 - Authentication and Security OAuth A Brief Introduction to WordPress Nonces Hire Otto 07:38 - Data and Plugging Angular Into APIs AppPresser 12:54 - The REST API and Plugins; Custom Plugins Help Scout Asana Harvest Chargify 21:23 - Displaying Data in WordPress Using Angular Stripe Keen IO 25:01 - Tutorials AngularJS and WordPress: Building a Single-Page Application with Roy Sivan JavaScript for WordPress Angular-Wordpress-Theme AngularJS-Boilerplate Josh Pollock angular-wp-front-end WordPress.tv   Picks Mailgun (Lukas) Geoff Goodman updated the embedded view on Plunker (Lukas) Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time by Rory Vaden (Chuck) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Chuck) Postmatic (Roy) Caldera Forms (Roy) Calypso (Ryan) AppPresser (Ryan) LoopConf (Ryan)

Angular Remote Conf   02:01 - Roy Sivan Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog The WP Crowd Podcast 02:23 - Ryan Sullivan Introduction Twitter WP Site Care LoopConf 02:40 - WordPress and Angular 05:00 - Authentication and Security OAuth A Brief Introduction to WordPress Nonces Hire Otto 07:38 - Data and Plugging Angular Into APIs AppPresser 12:54 - The REST API and Plugins; Custom Plugins Help Scout Asana Harvest Chargify 21:23 - Displaying Data in WordPress Using Angular Stripe Keen IO 25:01 - Tutorials AngularJS and WordPress: Building a Single-Page Application with Roy Sivan JavaScript for WordPress Angular-Wordpress-Theme AngularJS-Boilerplate Josh Pollock angular-wp-front-end WordPress.tv   Picks Mailgun (Lukas) Geoff Goodman updated the embedded view on Plunker (Lukas) Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time by Rory Vaden (Chuck) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Chuck) Postmatic (Roy) Caldera Forms (Roy) Calypso (Ryan) AppPresser (Ryan) LoopConf (Ryan)

Thinking about transitioning from client services into a product company? Jason Lemieux is doing just that with Postmatic; a plug-in that allows you to comment on a WordPress site by email. Think about how that could increase the engagement on your website.