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Síguenos en: Y seguímos con los coletazos de la polémica con WP Engine, y en este caso nos afecta directamente en algunos de nuestros plugins.... mientras se soluciona, continuamos investigando y mejorando nuestros temas de bloques. ¿Qué tal la semana? Semana esther Haciendo pruebas con el plugin content model - block binding Preparando mejoras y nuevos patrones para Dakota next Semana Nahuai Parece ser que si son los primeros Core Days, inspirado en Community Summit y la idea es que sea itinerante. Intentando domar SVGs, usando las nuevas variaciones de color/tipografía y otras mejoras para Dakota Next. Master avanzado en theme.json. Experimentando con el registro de patrones de bloques de forma condicional. Teniendo que aclarar que no tenemos nada que ver con WPE. Lanzando Uprising Next en la web, puedes aprovechar el descuento del 30% de lanzamiento. En el día de contribuidor de Yoast, en la mesa de sostenibilidad, hablando del manual para crear webs más sostenibles y el plugin que indica el impacto ambiental de la web. Contenido Nahuai Novedades Otra oferta para abandonar Automattic con la oferta de un paquete de salida (9 meses de sueldo). El equipo de accesibilidad suspende las reuniones: https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/2024/10/12/accessibility-team-meetings-suspended/ Se activa la identificación con el email de WordPress.org para acceder al canal global de WordPress (Making WordPress). Próximas WordCamps: WordCamp Granada el fin de semana del 26 de octubre. WordCamp Sevilla el fin de semana del 9 de noviembre. WordCamp Griñón el fin de semana del 24 de noviembre. Entrevista a John O'Nolan, creador de Ghost, en el que explica que no quiere crecer a más de 50 empleados. Se está trabajando en el bloque de búsqueda instantánea para poder usarlo dentro del bloque de consulta. Ya se ha publicado la “fuente de la verdad” de WordPress 6.7 https://gutenbergtimes.com/6-7-source-of-truth/ Tip de la semana Plugin para elegir cómo se muestra la navegación en móviles: https://wordpress.org/plugins/getdave-responsive-navigation-block/ Menciones Pilar y Elías nos dejan comentarios en Twitter. ¡Extra! Uprising Next Theme, nuestro último tema de bloques de WordPress ya está a la venta, y para celebrar su lanzamiento, te ofrecemos un 30% de descuento solo hasta este domingo, 27 de octubre. ¡Aprovecha! Código de descuento: HELLOUPNEXT

Síguenos en: Pue eso, un resumen de lo que está pasando con WP Engine y WordPress ¿Qué tal la semana? Semana esther Encontrado código que forzaba mostrar warning php de un plugin Nueva web para cliente Semana Nahuai Terminando de sincronizar las webs y aplicar descuentos de WooCommerce dependiendo de la antigüedad en la otra web. Creación canal de sostenibilidad en el Slack de WP España. Contenido Nahuai Novedades Disclaimer: No somos expertos legales ni pretendemos hacer un repaso exhaustivo sobre todo lo ocurrido. La idea es compartir lo que se sabe de forma ordenada para que cada uno saque sus conclusiones. WP Engine infringe la licencia de marca registrada y Automattic le exige pagar por usarla o contribuir al proyecto de WordPress. Cronologia Desde 2018 Silver Lake (fondo de inversión) es el mayor accionista de WPE Se cambian los términos de uso de la marca WordPress Matt/Automattic se puso en contacto con WP Engine con la propuesta de que pagaran por usar la marca WP o que contribuyeran al proyecto a través de 5ftf, o una combinación de ambos (un 8% beneficios) Matt confiaba en que contribuyeran Matt publica durante la WCUS en el blog de WordPress.org que “WP Engine no es WordPress” (21/09) Matt habla en la WCUS y “saca los colores” a WP Engine públicamente (21/09) Carta de cese y desistimiento de Automattic a WP Engine para que deje de usar la marca (23/09) WP Engine toma acciones legales contra Automattic (23/09) WP Engine intenta dejar de mostrar las noticias de WordPress.org en el admin (24/09) Se prohíbe a WP Engine acceder a WordPress.org (25/09) Acceso a los repositorios de WordPress bloqueadas para WP Engine (25/09) Se levanta la prohibición de WP Engine al acceso de WordPress.org (28/09) Motivos para exigir a WP Engine que cambie el nombre o pague por usarlo Matt considera que confunden al usuario. Poniendo ejemplos como que su madre lo confunde o que WPE tiene planes que se llaman WP core. Automattic es dueña de la marca WordPress y puede decidir cuando se infringe Motivos para “exigir“ colaboración a WP Engine Facturan +400M de dólares al año Solo contribuyen 40h/semana al 5FtF (por los 3.915 h/semana de Automattic, teniendo un tamaño similar) Solo invierten en acciones de marketing (que no se considera una contribución al proyecto) Otros motivos de disgusto con WP Engine Desactiva las revisiones de las entradas de WordPress (una característica del core), para ahorrar dinero. Modificaron el código de la pasarela de pago de WooCommerce (que usa Stripe por debajo) para llevarse la comisión (en lugar de ir a Automattic). Utiliza recursos de la infraestructura del WordPress.org (repositorio de plugins) Ha bajado la calidad del servicio/soporte Qué dijo Matt en WCUS WP Engine extrae mucho valor del ecosistema de WordPress sin contribuir Paga con tu cartera y a la hora de elegir un hosting elige uno que contribuya Utilizó el termino “cancer” para referirse (indirectamente) a WP Engine Otros matices Problema de demonizar WP Engine (Local, ACF…) en lugar de Salt Lake. Problema del doble rasero con el nombre (WordPress.com). Problema de eclipsar la WCUS. GoDaddy fue llamado un “peligro existencial” para el ecosistema hace unos años, en cambio ahora fue mencionado como uno de los que contribuye al proyecto. Newfold Digital paga por usar la marca WordPress en sus planes etc Multidots ha decidido duplicar el número de horas que contribuye al 5FtF y aumentar la donación a la fundación WordPress. Algunas personas se desmotivan para continuar contribuyendo. Enlaces relacionados: WP Engine is not WordPress WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-reprieve/ contributes back 3,915 hours a week WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking https://ma.tt/2024/09/wordpress-engine/ https://wpengine.com/blog/highlighting-wordpress-innovation-contribution/ https://www.briancoords.com/the-wcus-closing-i-wish-wed-had/ https://journal.rmccue.io/431/wp-engine-must-win/ https://cullenwhitmore.com/an-open-letter-to-matt-mullenweg/ https://davemart.in/2024/09/25/my-thoughts-on-matts-comments/ https://jamesgiroux.ca/wcus-freedom-isnt-free/ https://www.multidots.com/updates/taking-a-stand-for-the-wordpress-ecosystem-why-we-must-all-give-back/ https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-announces-temporary-lifting-of-wp-engine-ban https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnI-QcVSwMU Tip de la semana Listen and publish YouTube shows as podcasts - Listenbox

J'ai décidé d'arrêter le catch, je vous explique pourquoi, quand ect ect, live enregistré le 22/09. Retrouvez toutes les news de Puroresu France sur le compte Twitter : https://twitter.com/PURORESUFR Me suivre : https://twitter.com/CodyMcWildOff https://www.instagram.com/cody.mcwild/ https://twitter.com/ChezCodyMcWild #CatchFR #Rixe #Catch Soutenez-nous sur PayPal !

"Enthusiasm" is from the Latin root "Enthios" which means: to be filled with a Godlike energy.Emily Pearl IS a very enthusiastic person. When she lights up, she ⭐️LIGHTS⭐️ UP. And it is THAT energy that not only draws her portrait clients to her, but powers the work she creates. It is how she taps into love to CREATE.Emily and Cat talk and dance through faith, manifestation, love, and the business of fine art portrait through the heart of community, exploration, and decision.Many of us are "starting": sometimes from scratch, sometimes starting "again", and sometimes starting "over" and navigating the "how" can be challenging, even painful. We can see and feel what we want the success of it to be, but putting the pieces in place can BE painful and uncover ALL of our own limitations, all of where WE believe we and our work aren't "worthy".But as we bet ON THOSE dreams and take the steps in doing the work, new questions and opportunities unfold for us all to create more:more confidencemore impactmore transformationmore structuremore of the art we desire to makemore of the businesses we desire to ownmore VALUE in ourselves tooCreating the businesses we are dreaming of isn't for the faint of heart but for those with ALL of the heart and Emily has that in spades. I adore watching her work and business evolve as she builds and the results  of her dedication to her craft are resulting: multiple top tier awards from worldwide organizations like: Icon Awards, SWPP, WPE, TPM, and more, a new studio in Salt Lake City, Utah, a growing client base, and connections around the globe. Emily Pearl is more than "just" a Photographer. She is a business owner, a mother, and an artist and I'm excited to see her thrive in her business as it will propel her into creating more than "just" a studio, but a life filled with creativity.You can find Emily Pearl here:Website: https://emilypearlphotography.com/Insta: https://www.instagram.com/emilypearlphotographyTo see the full interview video: https://youtu.be/GxbOc8RWSyw Are you a Photographer? Maybe a wedding photographer who is getting burnt out and wants to transition into portrait? Or simply a photographer who loves portraits but doesn't quite know how to build a thriving business? Maybe I can help. Book a complimentary 1:1 call to assess where you are currently and where you're going. If we decide it's a good fit I may invite yui to one of our programs or simply offer resources that can help. https://calendly.com/828avl/studio-takeover-1-1

Replay du Mercody du 18 Octobre 2023 https://www.twitch.tv/cody_mc_wild https://twitter.com/CodyMcWildOff https://www.instagram.com/cody.mcwild/ https://twitter.com/ChezCodyMcWild https://twitter.com/AJPWFR Invité : https://www.youtube.com/@UC1xB_AAPVTHXDV0ML38ILPw #NJPW #CATCH #podcast Soutenez-nous sur PayPal !

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.06.26.546352v1?rss=1 Authors: Jiang, Z., An, X., Shuang Liu, S., Yin, E., Yan, Y., Ming, D. Abstract: There are significant intra-individual and inter-individual variabilities in audiovisual temporal perception. Previous studies have shown that prestimulus neural variability could reflect behavioral variabilities. We aimed to investigate whether prestimulus neural variability can predict behavioral variability in audiovisual temporal perception. Furthermore, We also explored whether prestimulus neural variability directly influences behavioral responses or indirectly impacts perceptual decisions through post-stimulus-evoked responses. We analyzed the electroencephalography (EEG) data from a paradigm where the twenty-eight human subjects performed a simultaneity judgment (SJ) task in the beep-flash stimulus. The prestimulus weighted permutation entropy (WPE) was the indicator of neural variability in this study. We found that prestimulus frontal WPE could predict the individual's TBW in auditory- and visual-leading conditions. In addition, increased prestimulus parietal WPE was associated with more asynchronous responses. Prestimulus frontal WPE may be associated with top-down cognitive control, while parietal WPE may be related to bottom-up cortical excitability. Furthermore, poststimulus evoked responses could mediate the relation between prestimulus WPE and the individual's TBW or perceptual responses. These results suggested that prestimulus WPE was a marker in reflecting intra-individual and inter-individual variabilities in audiovisual temporal perception. Significantly, prestimulus WPE might influence perceptual responses by affecting poststimulus sensory representations. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Barkha Agarwal is one of the top Maternity and Newborn Photographers globally, based in Gurugram(Delhi) India. Canon has awarded her with the prestigious Canon Maestro title. She is teaching at WPPI 2023 this year. Her session is on 'Creating Hi-Fashion Maternity Portraits that bring an edge to your portfolio' and it is already creating a lot of buzz. In past, she has won multiple international awards like WPE, Rise International, AFNS etc, and has also taught at Belly Baby Summit, USA. She left her corporate career of over 5 years in Sales and Marketing to pursue her passion of photography. Leaving a well-established corporate career was challenging but Barkha listened to her heart and decided to pursue photography full-time. Barkha experimented with a lot of different genres for over a year before pursuing Maternity and Newborn photography. What made her choose Newborn & Maternity as her genre was the emotions involved - she says that she is not photographing just the mom - but the life within her. Along with the newborn baby - a Mom and Dad take birth too& it was these emotions which she wanted to capture through her lens and turn them into lifetime memories for her clients. Barkha is a new Mom herself with a 20-month-old daughter. After her maternity leave she started back with shoots when her daughter was just 40 days old and her little girl accompanies barkha to her studio everyday. Barkha did her maternity and newborn photoshoot herself. You can check out the amazing images on her website www.memoriesbybarkha.com. She has one motto in life - " If you want something - Just go Get it Period". Barkha's Instagram handle: #memoriesbybarkhaWebsite: www.memoriesbybarkha.com

Be sure to check out EncouragingtheEncouragers.com! ________________ With this SPIRITUAL SUNDAY episode... we're revisiting a specific prayer we offered in Season One. We're doing it based on a conversation I had with an awesome Encouraging the Encouragers listener... Gina! I was able to catch up with Gina at a recent event where I was getting to keynote. She's got some great things cooking and her "day job" allows her to be a true ENCOURAGER within her organization. But she's also working on building a business that's going to freeeegin' change the world! (I guarantee you that she'll be a WELL PAID ENCOURAGER... very soon!) Well... she shared with me that not only has she listened to every episode. (They keep her going as she's moving towards being a WPE!) BUT... that one particular prayer that I offered... has been answered for her... numerous times! AND... that's brought a lot of freedom too! So... I wanted to offer it again... with some modifications and updates! I think you'll dig it. So... here we go! _______________ Be sure to hit me up with questions at www.encouragingtheencouragers.com and I'll answer them as we go! Check it out and be sure to grab our free "WELL PAID ENCOURAGER'S SECRET TOOL BOX!" (Plus... that's how you can start to get emails from me to stay in the know!) Be sure to check out my other podcast called "DREAM THINK DO too: here And hey... let's connect on Facebook and Instagram too! #letsdothis #IlovejesusbutIcussalittle #coaching #speaker #lifecoach #motivation #lifecoaching #coaching #love #coach #mindset #inspiration #selflove #life #selfcare #success #lifestyle #mentalhealth #mindfulness #personaldevelopment #entrepreneur #goals #happiness #loveyourself #meditation #healing #motivationalquotes #lifequotes #fitness #positivevibes #motivationalspeaker #businesscoach #personalgrowth #business

Amber Henry is a Michigan, USA-based international award-winning wedding and portrait photographer, who looks for beauty in everyday tasks.  Amber's creative, romantic, and uniquely stylized images have been featured around the world but her greatest joy is capturing her clients' most cherished life moments. She has been a professional photographer for over 18 years, taking huge pride in offering highly unique and timelessly romantic photography. Spending most of her young adult life as a single mother of three sons, Amber started from the absolute bottom and grew her studio from the ground up. She is self-taught, seeking out education in every form she could find, knowing the years of perseverance would one day pay off as she fought to overcome the weight of childhood poverty. Every day she counts herself as grateful to do what she loves as her life's work.Amber has collected a variety of awards from international organizations including WPPI, WPE, PPA, Portrait Masters, and Fearless Photographers as well as published worldwide. Her desire to pass on what she has learned in the form of hands-on education includes many speaking engagements, one-on-one mentorship programs, and an online group for women called Females Who Flash. She is proficient in both natural light and strobe, which allows her to make any location at any time of day look extraordinary. Amber believes all body types and all walks of life should be photographed and captured in the most beautiful way, one that tells the story of who they are. Above all else, her core value is rooted in the belief that absolutely anyone can change their stars!

Bienvenue sur le replay du Mercody, l'émission de Cody à retrouver tous les mercredi à 21h sur sa chaine twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/cody_mc_wild https://twitter.com/CodyMcWildOff https://www.instagram.com/cody.mcwild/ https://twitter.com/ChezCodyMcWild #Wrestling #CATCH #podcast 00:00 - Début émission 06:35 - News de la Semaine 45:00 - Bilan de l'année 2022 avec Max 01:46:02 - Bilan du Catch FR en 2022 avec FLX et Mélanie Soutenez-nous !

We're excited to be launching a new mini-series on the WPE podcast next week! Listen to this episode to hear more about it and get a sneak preview! Listeners who are attending SVRI, can also hear more about it at the Inter-Agency GBV Minimum Standards in Emergencies Programming booth!

Síguenos en: Aunque no es el tema más veraniego posible, nos guste o no las cuestiones administrativas y de gestión de nuestro negocio son importantes y nos pueden dar más de un dolor de cabeza y disgusto si no lo cuidamos como el resto de temas. Hoy repasamos un poco cómo lo hacemos nosotros, en cada caso como autónomo y administradora de sociedad limitada. Pero antes, como siempre... ¿Qué tal la semana? Semana esther Duo satánico Divi Builder + Visual Composer Semana Nahuai Investigando el problema con la actualización de Restrict Content Pro en Código Genesis. Sorprendiéndome de que a pesar de que WooCommerce tiene muchos filtros no tenía el que necesitaba para añadir un campo a la dirección en la página de mi cuenta. Entrevista con una empleada de WPE para tener acceso a la versión alfa de la herramienta FSE Studio. Mejorando algunas políticas de indexación en alguna webs (disallow en robots.txt vs X-Robots-Tag). Contenido Nahuai 3 nuevos tutoriales en Código Genesis, de los cuales destaca: Tema de la semana: nahuai Autónomo (pago de la cuota mensual 300€ aprox)Cuenta separada de negocios (sin separar IVA)Programa de facturación: Factura DirectaServicios: Creación de webs, bolsas de horas y mantenimientosProductos (Código Genesis): Automatización -> Restrict Content Pro + Stripe + Zapier + Factura DirectaConectado la cuenta de negocios -> permite ver ingresos de afiliadosIngresos de patrocinio del podcast Freelandev. Balance con ingresos de OsomPress.Asistente virtual (Celi) para a sistema de facturación de la asesoríaExportación de facturas en PDFs ingresos de Factura DirectaSubir facturas/gastosAsesores fiscales se encargan de revisar todo y presentar los impuestos trimestralmente esther Autónoma hasta 2017 -> Luego S.L.Cuenta separada siempreFacturación: Factura Directa - Series de facturación distintasServicios -> Facturas directamente en FDTranquilidad WP -> EDD + Stripe + FDZona DPW -> RCP + Stripe + FDOsomPress -> EDD + Stripe + FD ($)Asesoría / Gestoría para contabilidad y fiscal. Novedades Follow up adquisición de ACF por parte de WPE, ventajas para combinarlo con Atlas y ofrecer una experiencia headless más completa. Solo el 1-2% de los usuarios de StudioPress o Local usan WPE. WP Engine explica el futuro de Genesis y FSE en un post en su blog. Tip de la semana Follow up, las fuentes de Bunny son las Google Fonts realojadas en sus servidores/CDN. https://wordpress.org/plugins/local-google-fonts/ Menciones Israel se pasa por comentarios para dejarnos un enlace donde se pueden descargas las fuentes Google Fonts en todos los formatos.

Síguenos en: Aunque no es el tema más veraniego posible, nos guste o no las cuestiones administrativas y de gestión de nuestro negocio son importantes y nos pueden dar más de un dolor de cabeza y disgusto si no lo cuidamos como el resto de temas. Hoy repasamos un poco cómo lo hacemos nosotros, en cada caso como autónomo y administradora de sociedad limitada. Pero antes, como siempre... ¿Qué tal la semana? Semana esther Duo satánico Divi Builder + Visual Composer Semana Nahuai Investigando el problema con la actualización de Restrict Content Pro en Código Genesis. Sorprendiéndome de que a pesar de que WooCommerce tiene muchos filtros no tenía el que necesitaba para añadir un campo a la dirección en la página de mi cuenta. Entrevista con una empleada de WPE para tener acceso a la versión alfa de la herramienta FSE Studio. Mejorando algunas políticas de indexación en alguna webs (disallow en robots.txt vs X-Robots-Tag). Contenido Nahuai 3 nuevos tutoriales en Código Genesis, de los cuales destaca: Tema de la semana: nahuai Autónomo (pago de la cuota mensual 300€ aprox)Cuenta separada de negocios (sin separar IVA)Programa de facturación: Factura DirectaServicios: Creación de webs, bolsas de horas y mantenimientosProductos (Código Genesis): Automatización -> Restrict Content Pro + Stripe + Zapier + Factura DirectaConectado la cuenta de negocios -> permite ver ingresos de afiliadosIngresos de patrocinio del podcast Freelandev. Balance con ingresos de OsomPress.Asistente virtual (Celi) para a sistema de facturación de la asesoríaExportación de facturas en PDFs ingresos de Factura DirectaSubir facturas/gastosAsesores fiscales se encargan de revisar todo y presentar los impuestos trimestralmente esther Autónoma hasta 2017 -> Luego S.L.Cuenta separada siempreFacturación: Factura Directa - Series de facturación distintasServicios -> Facturas directamente en FDTranquilidad WP -> EDD + Stripe + FDZona DPW -> RCP + Stripe + FDOsomPress -> EDD + Stripe + FD ($)Asesoría / Gestoría para contabilidad y fiscal. Novedades Follow up adquisición de ACF por parte de WPE, ventajas para combinarlo con Atlas y ofrecer una experiencia headless más completa. Solo el 1-2% de los usuarios de StudioPress o Local usan WPE. WP Engine explica el futuro de Genesis y FSE en un post en su blog. Tip de la semana Follow up, las fuentes de Bunny son las Google Fonts realojadas en sus servidores/CDN. https://wordpress.org/plugins/local-google-fonts/ Menciones Israel se pasa por comentarios para dejarnos un enlace donde se pueden descargas las fuentes Google Fonts en todos los formatos.

If you haven't heard, Brad Touesnard has sold his suite of Delicious Brains plugins to WP Engine. In this interview, I ask him the following question: 1. The million-dollar question: Why sell a suite of WordPress popular, profitable and beloved plugins -- of which was ACF which you only acquired merely a year ago? 2. The multi-million-dollar question: How much did WPE acquire the set of software for? 3. Who approached who first and how long did the deal take? 4. What made this deal, aside from the buy-out #, feel so much different than other deals you've done in the past? 5. Is part of the DB team going to WPE? What does a restructure look like if any is happening? 6. SpinupWP becomes the main focus, until you sell _that_ to WPE in the future, does this sale help extend the runway or will you seek more traditional funding routes? 7. Dive into the business builders mind: What kind of clarity or relief (if any) does this give you? 8. Do you think you'll ever transition to a proper WP host with standard support protocols and hosting fees? (Don't lie there's big money there) 9. Any regrets so far? 10. Any parting words of advice, promos -- the platform is yours. 

In this episode, we discuss work permits in Vietnam, looking at the most recent updates from the Vietnamese authorities, current practice in the application process, special provisions to be aware of, exemptions and case studies. Some of the key topics of discussion: Latest updates as of 2022 regarding the work permit application process Differences of 3 types of Work Permit applications: Expert application, Management application and Technical expert application Work permit exemptions and special provisions Validity of labour contracts with foreign individuals without a WP or WPE in Vietnam Non-compliance with Work Permit regulations – legal consequences for employers and employees Case studies and exemption provisions for foreign individuals married with Vietnamese citizen

Join Scott as he starts a Learn guide for CircuitPython on Raspberry Pi and answers questions. Join us on Discord: https://adafru.it/discord 0:00 Getting started 0:05:16 housekeeping 0:12:52 I found an RP2040 with only 1MB of Flash, so too small for your decision to reserve the first MB for the firmware. Would it be possible to have that has a parameter for board? 0:17:06 look for ‘latest' branch in tannewt's github reto to find current work 0:18:05 broadcom changes checked into main ! 0:19:10 create a learn guide 0:29:25 ive been trying to get WPE running on the pi zero 2w and that has been almost impossible to figure out ( webkit for embedded ) 0:20:44 Broadcom stuff caused people to download 20Gb /submodules /and other tricks to reduce download ( fetch submodules ) 0:25:27 git fetch submodules should work most of the time ( except… ) 0:26:42 debugging circuitpython should be a guide as well 0:28:58 learn building circuit python page 0:29:30 what is “learn” 0:31:00 Any idea why DAC output in esp32 was responding with three different voltage levels with 10s latency to sent signal instead of Linear 256 levels? 0:31:55 https://ladyada.net/ - adafruit history 0:40:13 learn guide structure 0:42:23 learn ‘feedback' 0:49:00 For what type of measurments are you using oscilloscope most often? - ( logic analyzers ) 0:52:35 Create a new guide 0:52:55 choosing a name for the guide - search for other names 0:58:50 Overview page 1:00:20 Can anyone write these learn guides? 1:06:43 Adafruit NeoSlider, do you have any experience with it to rate readings stability? 1:07:12 Installation 1:31:34 Connecting - USB host/device 1:54:20 assume USB host-iness is not yet part of the CirPyRasPiNoOS? 1:55:33 Switch to ESP / ble workflow 1:56:02 Wrap Up 1:57:50 end-of-stream Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------

¿Qué tal la semana? Semana esther Soportando el Black Friday Directo “presencial” NED Semana Nahuai Aprovechando el Back Friday para hacer un poco de marketing para OsomPress (Post Status, WPE, WPLift, WP Major….) Contenido Nahuai 3 nuevos tutorial en Código Genesis, de los cuales destaca: Cambiar el tamaño de la imagen de los productos de […]

¿Qué tal la semana? Semana esther Soportando el Black Friday Directo “presencial” NED Semana Nahuai Aprovechando el Back Friday para hacer un poco de marketing para OsomPress (Post Status, WPE, WPLift, WP Major....) Contenido Nahuai 3 nuevos tutorial en Código Genesis, de los cuales destaca: Cambiar el tamaño de la imagen de los productos de Easy Digital Downloads Tema de la semana: Usar inspector web: Detectar errores de consola y su origen (rutas erroneas, errores JS…)Revisar problemas de maquetación / CSS y probar cambiosVer código fuente, llamadas a archivos externos, caché navegador, cookies….Visualización en diferentes tamaños de pantalla FTP Revisar estructura de archivos, detectar “cosas raras”, temporales…Solucionar problemas con archivos o plugins que dan error fatalDescargas rápidas antes de cambios delicadosEdición de código de tema Logs del servidor, debug WP Revisar origen de errores PHP, warningsActivar / desactivar el debug en WP (wp-config.php) > WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY (pantalla) - WP_DEBUG_LOG (en archivo) VSC Conectar con GITConectar con SFTPExtensiones para todo Plugins prácticos: Query Monitor,User swithcherWP ResetShow Current TemplateCheck & Log Email Otros: Cambiar el registro en el fichero hosts en migracionesArrastrar fichero zip de Duplicator a Local Menciones Juan Luis nos recomienda el bloque de acordeón de Rank Math. Alex recomienda el descuento de OsomPress en su podcast Implementador WordPress Gracias a: Este episodio está patrocinado por StudioPress, los creadores de Genesis Framework, el entorno de trabajo de temas más popular de WordPress. Ya está disponible Genesis Pro para todo el mundo, 360$ anuales que dan acceso a: Genesis FrameworkChild themes de Genesis de StudioPress1 año de hosting en WP EnginePlugin Genesis Pro (Diseños y secciones, restricción de bloques por usuarios…) y Genesis Custom Blocks Pro.

Bienvenue chez les Rebuts du Catch pour un tout nouveau épisode de Rebut Talk avec comme invité Stan Corey, catcheur de l'APC et WPE, passionné de metal et ouvert à la discussion, parfait pour passer un bon moment. Réseaux sociaux de Stan Corey : Twitter : https://twitter.com/StanCorey_HMW Boutique : https://stan-corey-merch.myspreadshop.fr/ https://www.instagram.com/stan.corey_hmw/ WPE : https://twitter.com/ProEssonne Version audio : https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/les-rebuts-du-catch/ Pour nous soutenir https://streamlabs.com/lesrebutsducatch/tip La Boutique des Rebuts du Catch : https://shop.spreadshirt.fr/les-rebutsducatch/ Nous suivre : @Codyrebuts Twitter : @RebutsDuCatch Facebook : Les Rebuts du Catch @CodyRebuts N'oubliez pas de lâcher un like, de partager la vidéo si vous l'avez kiffé et surtout de vous abonner à la chaîne pour suivre nos prochaines vidéos.

Today's word of the day is ‘WPE' as in Worst Plan Ever as in the Tampa mayor said she wanted the Lightning to lose Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals so they could win it at home in Tampa. Why do mayors do this? The Lightning lost Game 4 to the Montreal Canadiens. Perfect plan!? (10:52) Stop buying fireworks. Stop. Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Matiss Kivlenieks died on Sunday after a fireworks accident. 24 years old. (18:12) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about who would be out there to replace Brian Cashman. The listener remembered we said you shouldn't fire someone without knowing their replacement. (30:30) Review: Top 5 Richard Donner movies. (35:03) NPPOD. (38:00) More news continues to come out about the Trevor Bauer issue. Manager Dave Roberts says he doesn't expect Bauer to be back after just 7 days on Administrative Leave. Former Dodgers player Dave Stewart had some very harsh words to say about how bad the Dodgers handled this situation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Killa Tooma & his team Wolf Pack Entertainment talk about their upcoming album "Vision Builds Kingdoms" set for release later on this April. They tell us about how WPE came to be & the writing and production process of the album. For the first time Tooma publicly talks about his famous "Rap Beefs" with the late Pup-D Flocca & the talented OG Bump (Formerly known as Bumpy). The team also reflects on their growth and evolution as well as praising the fans for their support. Advertise your product, business, event, service or literally anything on this podcast! contact me at ibgpromovi@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bunchie/support

One of the Masterminds behind The Third Pillar Album & Wolf Pack Entertainment Member Dontae shares how WPE came to be, working on the 96 mixtape & Third Pillar album as well as Killa Tooma's upcoming project. We also talk about the pandemic and how the BVI Government is handling its opening of the country. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bunchie/support

Bonjour et bienvenue pour l'épisode 3 de Defend French Wrestling, voici le programme : 00:00 : Intro 10:02 : Amale 13:31 : WXW Catch Grand Prix 18:16 : Freyja Wrestling 29:00 : Review WPE Quality Over Quantity [Sans spoil] 01:00:43 : Review Road To BodyZoi Wrestling 3 01:16:53 : Review APC Résistance Saison 2  01:58:39 : Outro Twitter : @CodyRebut @EnzoRebuts Notre Discord : https://discord.gg/yeYCDnv Nous suivre : Twitter : @RebutsDuCatch Facebook : Les Rebuts du Catch Nous soutenir : https://streamlabs.com/lesrebutsducatch/tip Rejoignez cette chaîne pour bénéficier d'avantages exclusifs : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKNcd4v-KaBBGT1NnkPrYWg/join Notre boutique : Spreadshirt : https://shop.spreadshirt.fr/les-rebutsducatch/ Teespring : https://teespring.com/fr/stores/les-rebuts-du-catch Abonnez-vous à notre chaîne et retrouvez-nous en live chaque jeudi, pour une revue complète de l'actualité catch. #DFW #DefendFrenchWrestling

The bros look back on week 1 of the NFL season and dive into their dumbest takes from the past week, as well as preview game 7 of the western conference semis in the NBA and game 5 of the Eastern conference finals in the NHL!!!! two new segments debut in this latest installment of WPE's flagship show!!! #WP4L

Dans cet épisode de YOU TALK TOO MUCH : Tonton Chris reçoit le catcheur masqué El Payo & Axel annonceur, commentateur, membres de la WPE. On y parle beaucoup trop du show du 26/09 Quality over Quantity 2020, on y parle beaucoup trop du catch tricolore, on y parle beaucoup trop de catch because that's what we do. 

Alex makes his return and we talk about WAP, BDE, & WPE, how Alex’s metabolism is catching up with him, haircuts at Sportsclips, and Jacob’s new laundromat life.

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Nikolas Zimmermann talk about the history of SVG and Web browsers, and how WPE and embedded systems are bringing new developments

In this episode of OnScript with NHA, Jeremy Sasser and Jessica Langley speak to Dr. Ken Thai. Dr. Thai is the current president of the California Pharmacist's Association (CPhA), and CEO of 986 Pharmacy in California. As the largest state pharmacy association in the US, CPhA is committed to advocating for the entire pharmacy profession, not just pharmacists. Host the annual Western Pharmacy Exchange (WPE) conference, CPhA has partnered with NHA to provide education sessions tailored to the pharmacy technician workforce. Throughout this episode, Dr. Thai shares insights into current challenges in California pharmacy practice, and how technicians are making an impact on solving them. We also discuss the importance of advancing technician practice and creating career ladders for technicians. Dr. Thai also discusses how his company, 986 Pharmacy, empowers its technicians to take on novel and advanced roles. Lastly, we provide a preview of what pharmacy technicians in attendance at WPE can expect. If you are a technician planning to attend WPE in Anaheim, CA this year, April 16-19, you can use coupon code “NHAPod” at checkout to receive $40 off your registration just for being a listener of On Script. Jeremy and Jessica hope to see you there! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of OnScript with NHA, Jeremy Sasser and Jessica Langley speak to Dr. Ken Thai. Dr. Thai is the current president of the California Pharmacist’s Association (CPhA), and CEO of 986 Pharmacy in California. As the largest state pharmacy association in the US, CPhA is committed to advocating for the entire pharmacy profession, not just pharmacists. Host the annual Western Pharmacy Exchange (WPE) conference, CPhA has partnered with NHA to provide education sessions tailored to the pharmacy technician workforce. Throughout this episode, Dr. Thai shares insights into current challenges in California pharmacy practice, and how technicians are making an impact on solving them. We also discuss the importance of advancing technician practice and creating career ladders for technicians. Dr. Thai also discusses how his company, 986 Pharmacy, empowers its technicians to take on novel and advanced roles. Lastly, we provide a preview of what pharmacy technicians in attendance at WPE can expect. If you are a technician planning to attend WPE in Anaheim, CA this year, April 16-19, you can use coupon code “NHAPod” at checkout to receive $40 off your registration just for being a listener of On Script. Jeremy and Jessica hope to see you there!

Moving up the value chain. The UK aerospace sector, and particularly the many SMEs are facing a variety of challenges. These range from the uncertainty caused by Brexit, to consolidation of supply chains and the steep production ramp-ups driven by record growth and back-logs. Now more than ever, to survive and grow, companies need to be competitive.

This is well-recognised by government which, as part of the Aerospace Growth Partnership, has invested in programmes to help companies to innovate and grow. The stakes are high. In 2018, total UK civil aerospace turnover was worth over £35 billion, and the sector had approximately 17% of global market share. As the crown jewel for UK exports, 90% of domestic aerospace production is exported and more than 3,000 aerospace companies operate in the UK. The sector provides over 282,000 direct and indirect jobs. Sharing in Growth, is one such government-backed programme that is supporting innovation and growth in this supply chain.

This productivity and competitiveness programme for aerospace and advanced manufacturing has proven so successful, that the government has twice re-invested to the tune of £86 million. And, when in late 2019 a similar transformative improvement approach was required in the offshore wind sector, Sharing in Growth was selected to develop the pilot. 

New places are still available on the Sharing in Growth programme that provides funded support with a value up to £300k per year for three years. It's endorsed by many of the big players such as Airbus, BAE Systems, Boeing, Bombardier, GE, GKN, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, MBDA, Rolls-Royce, Safran and Thales. The Sharing in Growth programme is supported by the Regional Growth Fund and more than £150 million in private investment. 

To qualify, companies need to be aerospace suppliers, have genuine ambition to grow and be able to release their teams for on-site coaching, training and mentoring. As Sharing in Growth is a not-for-profit organisation, the advice and guidance provided is entirely independent and geared towards the company’s particular needs. Sharing in Growth's CEO Andy Page says “Structurally the UK needs more midcap companies who have the capability and capacity to supply primes and tier ones. The Sharing in Growth programme is creating a virtuous growth cycle where improved people development drives productivity and competitiveness,. This, in turn, wins contracts that provide the funds to invest in people, technology and infrastructure to win even more business.” 

Participants in the programme have secured more than £4 billion in contracts since it was established in 2013 and many are growing at five times the rate of their peers. Sharing in Growth helps companies tackle their individually diagnosed barriers to growth through training, coaching and mentoring and, on average, double their turnover. For many participants, the Sharing in Growth programme has helped them transform, moving up the value chain, from reliance on the uncertainty of short-term contracts to long-term strategic supply partners. 

Founded in 1979, Walker Precision Engineering or WPE, is a Glasgow-based family company with a reputation for cutting-edge innovation. Back in 2015, its £15 million turnover depended on winning short-term contracts. These were mainly in the defence, commercial aerospace, food and telephonic sectors for internationally recognised companies such as Rolls-Royce, Raytheon, Thales and Kongsberg. However, to fulfil its growth ambitions, WPE knew it needed to move up the value chain and become a long-term strategic supplier by investing in its people, processes and plants.

Today, the business is now Walker Group, formed of WPE, Walker Precision Engineering Polska and Walker Guidance Systems or WGS. These three state-of-the-art manufacturing hubs employ over 300 highly skilled staff. The group continues to serve key markets such as aerospace and defence and is on track to exceed a £25 million turnover during 2020. It 's also rapidly gaining recognition as a centre of excellence for the space industry.

In 2015, the company’s gaze was firmly fixed at ground level. Short-term contracts made investment difficult. Its small company culture was very informal and lacked real role definition, leading to an inefficient crossover of responsibilities. With a fragmented organisational structure, lengthy lead times, delivery challenges and decisions based on assumptions rather than integrated data, the company applied to join Sharing in Growth.

Using Sharing in Growth's expertise, Walker implemented radical operational change including visual management boards to monitor and control its processes and better display its production progress to customers. 

As people are essential in delivering excellence, Walker boosted its skill pool by hiring new staff while also developing its more experienced employees, increasing its yearly apprentice intake by 20%, and financing degree and industry qualifications.

By 2017, the wide-ranging improvements had given Walker the confidence to create Walker Guidance Systems. It did this by acquiring a temperature-controlled precision machining and assembly centre from global player Leonardo. They then went on to secure an additional £4 million investment from the Business Growth Fund for plants and technology to increase its capacity and expand its offering to clients. In Glasgow, Walker has invested over £2 million in its NADCAP-approved wet processing facility. At WGS ultra-high precision machining was introduced with a £900,000 robotic assembly line being commissioned. With this more advanced capability, Walker moved into the latest generation of satellite and satellite constellation programmes. It's now supplying Teledyne for the Airbus joint venture OneWeb constellation of 650 satellites. Walker Precision Engineering has secured a considerable forward order book, with significant long-term agreements required for sustainable growth.

Mark Walker, the Managing Director of Walker group says: “In these past four years, Sharing in Growth has supported Walker in its journey, providing conscientious coaching and mentoring to facilitate the company’s growth plans. We seek to fully embed a high-performance culture across the group, delivering excellence in everything we do and through Sharing in Growth’s lessons, we have identified gaps in our leadership to make changes to support this goal.”

Surface engineering specialists Poeton Industries joined the Sharing in Growth programme in 2016 and have invested heavily in their people, their plants and in their brand. As a result, they have improved productivity by 50% in focus areas, secured some £30 million in contracts and are on target to increase their annual turnover from £12 million to £20 million by 2021.

With a rich, 120-year heritage Poeton positions itself as a ‘global partner not a local supplier’ and has a vision to deliver excellence as the surface treatment partner of choice.

As the saying goes, ‘a vision without a strategy remains an illusion’ so the Poeton leadership team spent time and effort to develop its corporate planning and governance as part of its platform for success.

To engage its 260 staff in its growth strategy across sites in Gloucester, Cardiff and Poland, Poeton worked with Sharing in Growth to determine its vision, mission, values and goals for each part of the business. The goals were then defined by five-year strategic objectives covering what needed to be achieved in the next year, in years two and three, and then in years four to five. 

These were developed into the annual policy deployment, a cascading set of goals with clear targets that aligns the actions of the entire company. Poeton used the Sharing in Growth X-matrix, a one-page document that includes annual objectives, improvement initiatives and key performance indicators. This makes it clear who is responsible for delivering what and when. At each level of responsibility, business measures were drawn up to track and show monthly status against plan. Where actual fell short of plan, a standard process was used to solve problems and report of countermeasures. 

Delivery of the KPIs was backed by site-level project plans that document what had to be achieved by when. For example, detailed plans were needed to ensure that the sales and operations strategy were aligned to deliver growth. This meant mapping out a four-year plan of how the factories would need to change and what capex investment was needed. 

Sean Needham, Group Operations Director at Poeton says: “To ensure everyone could see progress – or problems – and make a contribution, a management review and control system was implemented with clear status available on display boards in an operations information centre. A similar approach was taken with the development of a business development information centre to chart progress towards sales targets.” 

A Sharing in Growth lighthouse cell has also been implemented to deliver operational improvement. Here Sharing in Growth gives training and coach in a particular area to establish best practice. Those who have been trained, can then help roll-out similar initiatives elsewhere in the plant so that learning is embedded and shared. 

Poeton used a lighthouse cell implementation in its thermal spray facility with stunning results. Not only did it turn the area from loss-making into profit but it also halved lead times and raised delivery performance from 65% to 95%. It worked so well that the company held a customer open day where companies like Rolls-Royce and Safran witnessed how the facility has been transformed. The building layout has been redesigned to better utilise the space, lean manufacturing techniques have been implemented and equipment upgraded to ensure Poeton can offer world-class levels of quality and service. 

Darren Burge, Managing Director at Poeton says: “Supported by invaluable guidance from the Sharing in Growth experts, our thermal team have achieved a successful transformation that we’re all very proud of. In every sense, the full range of benefits in working with Sharing in Growth are evident; from effective planning and optimised flow management to 5S and improved equipment availability through planned preventative maintenance. This has resulted in us taking a significant stride towards our goal of becoming world-class.”

The overall results on the Sharing in Growth programme have so far been impressive for Poeton. They’ve signed their first long-term agreement with customers worth £15 million, their turnover is up by over 20%, and their value added per person is up by more than 70%.

XPE Pass Rush Guru and Coach for the Stars, Nathan O'Neal, joins Pro Mindset host Craig Domann and shares this thoughts and experiences coaching, mentoring and motivating NFL stars. Nathan talks about the business side of the NFL and it is ugly.Nathan believes "OW-T" Obsessive Want-To is the key mindset to pursue greatness on the field. Obsessive Want-To is the most important characteristic of the best of the best.Nathan and Craig discuss developing greatness by giving great effort and having great focus on every snap. They also talk about the importance of players building their careers via hard work, being attentive to details and having a strong desire to learn and improve. The most successful players keep the main thing the main thing.The NFL Draft for NFL Players is just the starting point and should not define them. The players who get stuck on their draft position are either entitled (if early draft choice) or not confident (if undrafted), however, the reality is their performance is all that truly matters in building a career.Nathan and Craig also talk about the three (3) potential draft zones for draftees and how many players only hear the best case scenario which leads to disappointment on NFL Draft weekend.Nathan is not just a GURU, he's been hired by many top 25 college football programs to teach his pass rushing techniques. He's also been a consultant for a handful of NFL teams during training camp.

Part Two of the PPN coverage of the WPE 2019 event, with special guests: Veronica Bandy Jessica Langley Jon Roth The California Pharmacists Association (CPhA) and Pharmacy Podcast Network (PPN) joined forces to enhance the communications platform available to the pharmacy profession in both California and beyond. Together, the podcast platform of more than 20 channels and 70,000 listeners and the nation's largest state association supporting pharmacists, will boost and enhance the content, information and resources available to network listeners, pharmacists and those interested in all aspects of the profession. “This partnership with the Pharmacy Podcast Network strengthens the voice of our pharmacists not only in California, but across the country,” said CPhA Chief Executive Officer Jon Roth. “CPhA values innovation and we look forward to communicating exciting news that will create positive change for the profession.” Western Pharmacy Exchange (WPE) is a two and a half-day experience for pharmacy professionals and industry partners.  The new innovative learning format supports inspiration, collaboration, and problem solving in the various learning zones.  With nearly 40 continuing pharmacy education sessions, one of the largest pharmacy expos, and plenty of networking opportunities, WPE is the ideal place to acquire knowledge, challenge change, and inspire growth. Join CPhA in 2019 as it celebrates its 150th anniversary in advocating, educating and uniting pharmacy leaders to move the profession forward. Western Pharmacy Exchange April 12-14, 2019 JW Marriott L.A. Live 800 Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015 PART ONE:  https://omny.fm/shows/pharmacy-podcast-network/western-pharmacy-exchange-2019-ppn-coverage-part-o  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Pharmacy Podcast Network and the California Pharmacists Association (CPhA) announced their new partnership at the Western Pharmacy Exchange (WPE) which is a two and a half-day experience for pharmacy professionals and industry partners. The new innovative learning format supports inspiration, collaboration, and problem solving in the various learning zones. With nearly 30 continuing pharmacy education sessions, one of the largest pharmacy expos, and plenty of networking opportunities, WPE is the ideal place to acquire knowledge, challenge change, and inspire growth. You do not want to MISS what we have in store for 2019! Register today and reserve your spot to experience WPE like never before. Join CPhA in 2019 as it celebrates its 150th anniversary in advocating, educating and uniting pharmacy leaders to move the profession forward. Special Guest: Michelle Sherman PharmD, President MichRx Pharmacist Consulting Services, Inc. and HIV Thrive Special Guest: Karl Hess, Editor, Journal of Contemporary Pharmacy Practice The California Pharmacists Association (CPhA) was founded in 1869 and is the largest state association representing pharmacists. CPhA represents pharmacists, technicians, and student pharmacists from all practice settings. These practice settings include community pharmacy (both independent owners and employees working in chain drug stores), hospitals & health-systems, and specialty practices such as compounding, managed care, and long term care. The CPhA mission is to advance the practice of pharmacy for the promotion of health. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jon R. Roth, MS, CAE, CEO of the CPhA joins Todd Eury, CEO of the Pharmacy Podcast Network to announce a special partnership with the nations largest State Pharmacists Association and talk about the WPE 2019.   WESTERN PHARMACY EXCHANGE Western Pharmacy Exchange (WPE) is a two and a half-day experience for pharmacy professionals and industry partners.  The new innovative learning format supports inspiration, collaboration, and problem solving in the various learning zones.  With nearly 30 continuing pharmacy education sessions, one of the largest pharmacy expos, and plenty of networking opportunities, WPE is the ideal place to acquire knowledge, challenge change, and inspire growth. You do not want to MISS what we have in store for 2019! Register today and reserve your spot to experience WPE like never before. Join CPhA in 2019 as it celebrates its 150th anniversary in advocating, educating and uniting pharmacy leaders to move the profession forward. Register here: http://westernpharmacyexchange.com/ Special Discount Rate for PPN Listeners:  USE CODE: 2HRT75 ---- registration for WPE to $645. ABOUT JON:  Jon R. Roth, MS, CAE Mr. Jon Roth is the Chief Executive Officer for the California Pharmacists Association. In this role Mr. Roth oversees all aspects of the association's operations, health policy and advocacy efforts on behalf of California pharmacists. The California Pharmacists Association is the largest statewide professional society of pharmacists in the country. Mr. Roth has 25 years of experience in health policy, advocacy, and member services within a variety of health care sectors. As CEO for CPhA, Mr. Roth and his team were directly responsible for the development and passage of Senate Bill 493, the landmark legislation granting pharmacists ‘provider status' and greatly expanding the clinical authorities of pharmacists in California. This accomplishment was recognized by the United States Surgeon General for “successful contributions in leading legislative change to expand the role of California pharmacists as health care providers”. He earned his bachelor of science in business administration and masters degree in Organizational Development. He is only one of 3,000 association professionals nationally to have achieved the industry credential of Certified Association Executive. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Journeys - 7. Special Episode: WPE & the Future of Pharmacy with CEO Jon Roth On today's episode, we had the honor of speaking with CPhA CEO Jon Roth on the future of the pharmacy profession as clinical care providers. In addition, Western Pharmacy Exchange is coming up and Mr. Roth has kindly provided a discount to our listeners! To take advantage of the discount, please contact Sheila Johnston at 916-779-4507 and let her know you heard about the discount on the OCPhA Podcast. More information about WPE can be found at www.westernpharmacyexchange.comAs always, you can visit us at www.ocpha.org or you can email us at info@ocpha.org. Follow us on social media and share this podcast with your friends!Twitter: @OCPhA_CAInstagram: @OCPhAFacebook: OC PharmacistsVisit our parent organization, the California Pharmacists AssociationUntil next time, OCPhA is reminding you to get determined, get inspired!Check out our podcasting host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free, no credit card required, forever. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-e52a8a for 40% off for 4 months, and support OCPhA's Podcast Network on Pharmacy and Healthcare.

We all want to build better WordPress websites. Unfortunately, they don’t always end up looking great. If there was a way that you could bundle it all and build a website in, say, a weekend, would you take it? Well then, brace yourself, because it IS possible to build a WordPress site in a weekend! In this episode, we get a little help from Matthew Averkamp who knows all about building a website in a matter of days. I spoke with Matthew about Launch Party, his new course and toolkit for beginner WordPress site builders. He’s created a program that can teach anyone how to build a website from scratch. Here at WPE we call it “a website in bag” because it literally comes with everything, all the way down to customizable color schemes. Tune in now to hear Matt and I talk about where he came up with the idea and why he’s offering his courses and templates absolutely 100% free forever. Like Father, Like Son Matt has been building his own businesses for the past 15 years, but his first foray into the world of online courses was actually with his father. Matt and his dad created Accounting Coach, a website for online accounting courses and toolkits that’s still seeing traffic to this day. The problem was that Matt didn’t want to keep creating new content for accounting when he’s much more interested in user testing and helping people build their own businesses online. He started Launch Party this year with a focus on being able to build an entire website (from scratch, mind you) in a weekend. He teaches from the templates he’s created in order to help consultants and other entrepreneurs build beautiful websites quickly. Because the faster you get online and running, the faster you can grow your business. Matt’s Nomadic Entrepreneurial Journey Matt is addicted to traveling. In fact, right now he’s in Thailand. But no matter how long he’s traveling or where he goes, he’s always thinking about his business. That’s the luxury of working remotely and helping others build and host websites. It gives him the freedom to focus on what really matters, and this year it was split-testing. Split-testing is just a fancy way of making sure your website works the way you and your users want it to. For Matt, his year-long split test saw revenues increase by 30%, which is more than enough to keep this man comfortable as a nomadic entrepreneur. “Structure your business in such a way so that you can step away from it.” Matt’s business structure relies a lot on remote teams. He may be in Thailand, but his design team is in Canada, and his friend in the United States takes care of the customer service side of things. But Matt swears you don’t need to maintain daily communication to keep your business running smoothly. His strategy involves keeping everything project-based so that it’s much easier to manage across long distances. While his team is working on their own projects, Matt spends his time doing what he loves most about this business: user testing. At the 27-minute mark, Matt breaks down why user testing is so important to his business model and how he uses it to create the unique structure of his Launch Party course and toolkits. Some important takeaways from Matt’s user testing toolkit are: Start out small with something like a course outline or an “about” statement to see what kinds of users are interested; Advance with an easy tutorial to see how skilled your users actually are; Pay close attention to user patterns and where users are having the most difficulty; and Include plenty of visual tools, like timelines, so both you and your users can see where and how the growth will happen. Now Let’s Talk About Building a WordPress Site with Launch Party Through extensive user testing, Matt was able to figure out exactly what new users needed from a WordPress tutorial. Because it’s quite overwhelming out there. For example, if you go searching for elementor templates, you’ll have hundreds upon hundreds of options at your disposal. But with Launch Party, Matt created one killer feature that makes him stand out. I’m talking about the customizable color option! “It was impossible to come up with premade color schemes that everybody liked.” User testing showed that people were very sensitive to the colors used on their website, but Matt couldn’t come up with a universal color scheme that pleased everyone. So he simply made it possible for users to modify colors to fit their own unique tastes. You just find a color pack you like, customize the colors until they’re perfect for you, then download it and use it in any of your Launch Party templates. No other templates give you this much creative freedom! Just don’t go overboard with it. I’m guilty of that. Tune in at the 19-minute mark to hear about my favorite Launch Party color scheme and what possessed me to try and change it all for no reason. It’s a weird element in human nature that Matt tapped into with his user testing. We all, for some odd reason, want to change things even if they’re perfect, just to see what happens when we do. Launch Party makes that possible to do with your website, and it makes it easy to change it back if your suddenly change your mind like I did! What does the future hold for Launch Party? While Matt, myself, and the rest of the world are waiting on the new WordPress to launch, Launch Party has its own new features waiting in the wings. New colors will be coming - Matt promises a pastel pack, but the toolkits and courses he’s designed are specifically catered to building a WordPress website from scratch. The future of Launch Party will include a weekend-long course where new and seasoned WordPress aficionados can come together for a weekend and build their WordPress sites together. The course will end with a launch party for everyone’s sites, which is what inspired the name of the company to begin with. Users can look out for this course and others like it in 2019. Wrap Up The most important takeaway from this episode is not how quickly you can build a WordPress site, although that is pretty amazing. The nugget I’m focused on most is the custom content and user testing Matt put into Launch Party. He custom built his own LMS based on user testing so he could deliver exactly what his customers wanted. He listened to their feedback and logged their experiences on his site and tutorials in order to create a program that is not only user-friendly but also completely free. He noticed that there was no one else out there offering quite what he envisioned, and he empowers entrepreneurs like us by offering this invaluable content free of charge. Reach Out Connect with Matt on LinkedIn or on Twitter @avermatt Links Try Wordpress Elementor Page Builder if you haven't already Check out a few Katka Templates Matt uses Userlytics to do his user testing

Watch the video of this podcast here. A Brief Intro to Jamie Hill Jamie Hill considers himself a dad (to three kids, two dogs, and two cats) first and a business owner second. He and his wife partnered together six years ago to purchase and operate iNovate Marketing, a web design and marketing agency. While it’s seen lots of success in that time, it wasn’t allowing Jamie to focus on his top priority very well. Before the Blueprint Like the influencers he follows (Gary Vaynerchuk and Grant Cardone), Jamie was all about the grind before signing up for the Blueprint course. As you can imagine, 16 hours of work a day, 3 hours of sleep every night, and making time for the family in between can only lead to one thing: Burnout. When Jamie first encountered WP Elevation, he worried that his business wasn’t the target audience as many of the webinars seemed to be geared towards freelancers and small agencies. His company, on the other hand, was well-established, had 20 or so employees, and was quite profitable at the time. But something had to change. After consulting with his wife, she wholeheartedly encouraged him to sign up for WP Elevation. Four years later, Jamie is now in a position where he’s able to slow down, step back from running the business, and take time to focus on his family… all while the company continues to be profitable. 100% Completion of the Blueprint Upon joining the Blueprint course, Jamie realized how complex all of the processes in his company were. Throughout the six-week program and with the help of the coaches, he was able to quickly implement about half of the material and bring major changes to the way his company was run. He then took time to complete the course and work with his team of designers to implement the changes that would drastically improve their workflows. As he explains in the podcast, the self-pacing of Blueprint is one of the best parts of the program. It allows you to take what you need from it at the right time. And, once you realise how beneficial the processes, organisational tips, and tools are, you’ll save a ton of time and money while making your life exponentially easier. A Valuable Lesson Learned One of the most common WordPress consultant fears is: “What will happen if I get sick or injured and I can’t work for some time?” Jamie says that a Mastermind workshop led by Troy helped him through this particular situation a year-and-a-half ago when he became too ill to work. He stepped away from the business for three months and left it in the hands of his team who effectively managed it on their own. Years ago, however, Jamie never would have been able to do this as he exerted tight control over his company and was too afraid to give his team the freedom to work on their own. As Troy explained, it’s important to let go and allow them to fail. If you can’t trust that they’ll pick themselves back up and fix their errors, how will they ever learn? The Community Jamie is one of our members who really thrives in the WP Elevation community. Not only is it a resource he trusts greatly and continues to learn from on a regular basis, but he actively seeks out opportunities to mentor freelancers trying to make big moves with their own businesses. Jamie’s Favorite Tools There are a number of tools from the program that have made a big impact on Jamie’s business. The bonus content dripped out during the course was immensely helpful (and a welcome addition since he found himself impatiently waiting for the next modules to arrive). He’s a big fan of the web auditing system for his marketing work. His wife and design team have adopted Beaver Builder as their go-to WordPress tool (having previously relied on Genesis and Divi). Wrap-Up As Troy often explains, it’s best to hire people who are smarter than you, rather than waste your time trying to learn something you’re not very good at. As such, Jamie has recently hired someone to manage the day-to-day of iNovate MarketingMarketing for him. It’s saved him money, time, and unnecessary headaches while enabling the company to provide better quality work to clients. With this free time, he aims to launch a white label process for small agency partners who need help delivering on marketing and SEO services to clients. We always love seeing what sort of passion projects the Blueprint has enabled our members to get involved in. This one, in particular, is very exciting as it will help many others in the WordPress community do better work and make more money in the process! P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. A Brief Background for Monique Dubbelman Monique Dubbelman has played a role in design for a few decades now. Back in the late ‘80s, she trained to be a graphical engineer. That role eventually led to management positions in the print industry, which eventually gave way to the digital world we all know and work in now. After print died down, Monique made a decision to move away, both literally and figuratively, from her work. She moved to the countryside in the Netherlands about 15 years ago and built her own webshop for organic gardening. And this was just the start. Life Before the Blueprint Monique officially began building websites with BOE!media in 2011. While she was happy working as a designer and a builder, she found that her business model was not scalable. She was working on demand and compromising on price for the small business clients she worked for. So, she began looking for the next phase of her career. It was at that time when Beaver Builder pointed her in the direction of WP Elevation and the Blueprint program. She was skeptical at first though, saying: “You get lots of opportunities and big promises [from programs like these], so I was a bit sceptical in the beginning.” Skeptical of the Blueprint It’s not uncommon that we encounter people who are skeptical of the Blueprint. For WordPress professionals and consultants that are in a tough spot - feeling burned out, overloaded, and bleeding money - the investment in WP Elevation might seem like an unwise choice. However, once they start looking at what they get in return, it’s when that skepticism will begin to fade away. That’s exactly what happened for Monique. After examining the Blueprint further, she asked herself, “Will this help me get the right mindset and actually do the work?” The answer was, “Yes”. Making Positive Changes with the Blueprint As Monique so deftly pointed out, the Blueprint program works because it motivates Elevators to actually use the tools and strategies provided to them. Although Monique only began the Blueprint about six months ago, she’s already been able to make positive changes to her business. Here are some ways in which the Blueprint has helped her: She did away with clients that didn’t fit well with the new way of working. Other clients who didn’t understand the value of her services left on their own accord, leaving her free to connect with better clients. The free giveaway guide inspired her to bring some of her ebooks out of retirement and put them back into circulation. She has used a number of tools and materials provided by the Blueprint, translated them for her audience, and really made them work for her specific business. While she has gone through the Blueprint and made big strides with what she’s done so far, she continues to return to it to find new ways to improve her workflow and make it work for her clients. Her Take on the Community The WP Elevation community has proven to be a welcoming environment for Monique to trust in as she hones her business model. As she explained in the podcast, everyone in the community is open and stands on equal footing, no matter how long they’ve been at this. And because it’s okay to be vulnerable and talk about the bad as much as the good, it has encouraged her to do more with the Blueprint. Monique's accountability partner has also been helpful in motivating her to work through it. Hers happens to live near her in the Netherlands and they meet (by video chat now) every two to three weeks. They talk about what they’ve been doing as well as plans for the future, supporting each other along the way. Favourite Tools There are two tools Monique gives a special shout-out to. The first is ManageWP. As she explained, she’s now hired someone to handle the maintenance side of her business. However, she still really enjoys how easy ManageWP has made it to care for multiple client websites at once. She also is a big fan of Beaver Builder, the company that referred her to WP Elevation in the first place. While she’s spent a lot of time exploring page builders, in general, she appreciates Beaver Builder’s continued embrace of web developers as users. As other builders move further away from web development in the hopes of making more universally user-friendly tools (ahem… Gutenberg), Beaver Builder is one that continues to support the way she prefers to work. A Personal Approach to the Blueprint That’s one of the key things Monique has gotten from the Blueprint: the fact that you don’t have to grow your business in the same direction as everyone else. You can use it to improve your workflow, but do it in a way that makes sense for the way that you want to work. Although she was tempted to get carried away with the Blueprint at first, she quickly realised that she needed to consider what was the most important to her. Then, she could take those elements from the Blueprint and put them to work. As such, she still works on her own and doesn’t have any major plans for expansion. While she outsources maintenance to someone else (because it’s something she dislikes), she’s reluctant to hand over the design piece as it’s something she’s always had a passion for. Wrap-Up In the near future, Monique plans to do more strategic one-on-one work, which means that she may have to outsource that piece eventually. For now, she’s designing her business the way she wants to with the Blueprint. We hope other Elevators are encouraged by this who may feel intimidated by others whose aspirations appear larger or more impressive in scope than their own. The future looks different for everyone and you can shape it however you see fit with the Blueprint. P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. A Brief Introduction to Shane Syddall Shane Syddall unofficially entered the digital marketing space nine years ago when he began designing websites for clients. The number of clients who asked for help outside of web design was increasing, so he pivoted his business three years ago to focus on digital marketing services such as SEO. He currently owns and operates Sparta Digital which brings digital marketing and web design services to small businesses looking to compete with enterprises. Before the Blueprint Course As Shane explains in the podcast, he began his career in coding. That’s what he excelled at and so the business management piece was something he struggled with before the Blueprint. It was so hard for him, in fact, that he had to take money from his family in order to put food on the table. There were a number of reasons why Shane struggled in the beginning: He didn’t charge enough for his services. He wasn’t putting together good proposals. He was attracting low-paying and low-quality clients and accepting any and everyone. As he felt himself on the brink of giving up until someone suggested he look into WP Elevation and the Blueprint course. He had seen ads for it, but hadn’t given it any serious consideration previously. He assumed it would be too expensive and only make things worse, but he was desperate. So, he decided to give it a shot and, if it didn’t work, he’d throw in the towel completely. “How wrong was I?!” he said. How the Blueprint Has Changed Everything Although Shane has yet to fully complete the Blueprint course, his business has exploded (in a good way) over a very short period of time. In just two months with the Blueprint, Shane quadrupled his business and he’s been able to maintain those levels of success for the last three months. How has he done this so quickly? Well, he attributes it to a number of things. To start, there’s the website worksheet (which you can download here). This enabled him to weed out the cheap clients he used to attract. Then, he learned how to create professional proposals (you can download a proposal template here). This gave his business a refined edge and more readily convinced high-quality clients that he was a legit marketer and web designer. He’s also since learned that it’s okay to say “no” to clients that don’t fit. All of this success and influx of cash, has now enabled him to delegate much of the work he was doing on his own before to three new hires: a web developer, a marketing student, and a writer. And the WP Elevation course has encouraged him to push himself even harder, so he now works with a business coach. And Speaking of Coaches… Since Shane has been too busy running a very busy and successful company since implementing the Blueprint, he hasn’t had time yet to try any of the tools available through the course. That said, he finds that the quality of coaching and community support have been more than valuable in that respect. In addition to attending webinars led by our highly knowledgeable coaches, he also finds the feedback and support he gets from the community to be a huge help in his business’s growth. Lessons Learned When asked what words of wisdom he’d give someone mulling the decision to join WP Elevation, Shane said, “Just do it.” Wrap-Up Shane’s advice may seem simple enough, but the story he has shared with us is not. Look at where he was just a few years ago to what he’s been able to accomplish in just a few month’s time. As he quickly discovered, finding the right mentor to help guide you in smarter directions can make a world of difference for your business. We look forward to staying in touch with Shane and to see where his next implementations of the Blueprint take him. P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. A Bit About Bret Phillips Bret Phillips began (like so many of us do in this space) believing he could launch a full-service agency and handle it all on his own. As we all know, however, that can be a very difficult feat to pull off. Eventually, he decided to scale his Web Devils agency back to something smaller and more focused; specifically, it became a custom WordPress development business. It wasn’t until he entered the Blueprint program and got his company, pricing, and processes under control that he was able to merge it with Sideways8, an Atlanta-based digital marketing agency that does it all. He now uses Blueprint to refine processes for his business as well as for Sideways8. Life Before Blueprint As Bret summed it up: “Life was hard.” Prior to implementing the Blueprint into his business, Bret and his small team of contractors were getting by with only just enough revenue. Their agency only handled WordPress development projects, which meant no recurring revenue and constantly having to hunt down new work. A Plan for Escape A few years ago, Bret encountered an ad for WP Elevation. The offer was tempting: pay $1 for the first month of access, then switch to a monthly payment plan. Having a deep appreciation for self-guided resources, Bret intended on signing up, downloading everything he could from the Blueprint, and then cancelling his membership. He soon realized, however, that there was a lot of value not only in the materials provided by Blueprint but in being involved in the program and community itself. In fact, the community is what kept him around after he completed his first run through the Blueprint. Life with the Blueprint The first major “aha!” moment Bret had was early on in the course. Interested to see how these step-by-step guides would help, he used the Blueprint to prepare a bid for a prospective client. He sent the bid with a quote three times higher than normal. Using the anti-follow-up, he landed the job. He continued to find value in the Blueprint as he used it to build the client’s website and, in turn, made a good profit from it. As he said: “This stuff actually works.” These days, Bret utilises the Blueprint the way he does one of his favourite books, the 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. Each year, he revisits them in the hopes of finding something that he missed in previous go-throughs. Doing this allows him to pick up on new things as the context of his life and business change. The Blueprint helped him continue to refine business processes and set higher prices. He now has a recurring revenue model that works and a dedicated team handling parts of the business that isn’t in his wheelhouse. Welcome to the Community Having been a member of the WP Elevation community for a few years, Bret has done much more than engage with other Elevators through the forum and Facebook group. He has attended Mavericks Masterminds and WordCamps, too, where he has made both personal and professional connections. In addition, he’s found talent from within the WP Elevation group. As he explained, the great thing about working with other Elevators is that they already understand the processes you use as well and how to talk to people the right way. In general, he’s really happy to be a part of the WordPress and WP Elevation communities. With everyone so positive, welcoming, and supportive, he believes this to be a group of people who are truly committed to seeing everyone walk away as winners. Favourite Tools Sideways8’s founder launched 48-in-48, an initiative that brings together marketing and web development talent with the goal of building 48 websites for 48 non-profits in just 48 hours. As such, Bret and his team have had to identify ways in which they can work faster and smarter. One of the tools he’s gained a greater insight into since starting the Blueprint was the Beaver Builder page builder. With this tool (not just the plugins, but the themes too) Bret has been able to change his company’s entire process flow for the better. Wrap-Up It’s always interesting to see our Elevators enter the Blueprint course at different stages of their careers. As we’ve seen in the case of Bret, the takeaways are still the same - work smarter, focus on delivering more value, get the support you need, even if implementation happens a little differently. P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. Introducing Peter Freeman… Again Peter Freeman is no stranger to the WP Elevation podcast. He first made an appearance back in episode 36. He joined Troy in this latest episode - the first one ever filmed live in the Silence Is Golden studio - to talk about his experience as the Director of Digital at an Australia-based tourism marketing agency. (How is that for a niche?) Why Tourism Marketing? Woof Media didn’t initially begin life as a tourism marketing agency. The fact of the matter is, being located in a big tourist area like Port Lincoln is what really set them on that path towards niching down as they attracted more and more tourism clients. Peter (his business partner) and Naomi (the founder of Woof Media) had to make a decision when Peter decided to move to Canada. They met with a business advisor, took a look at their client list at the time (which was about 70% tourism clients), and talked about who it was they really wanted to work for. It ended up being resoundingly in favour of tourism. In addition to knowing the industry very well - having done so much work for it over the years - they found it was actually quite easy to find clients in the space. Tourism conferences alone proved to be a great opportunity to network. The highly specific niche they’ve carved out for themselves has made them the clear choice over other marketing agencies that work as generalists or really haven’t taken the time to understand the unique needs of tourism marketing. As Peter explained: “We know and live the same challenges as our clients. We make it our job to understand what the industry looks like from their perspective.” Tools to Manage a Distributed Team and Clients Peter now works from Canada while his business partner is in Adelaide and their support personnel are located in Port Lincoln. Needless to say, communication tools play a big part in their operational success. Here are some of the ones they can’t live without: Google Apps Adobe Creative Suite Zoom Slack WORK[etc] Not only have these tools proven to be effective in bridging the physical gaps between team members, but they’ve proven useful in terms of client communication too. In fact, these tools have become yet another way in which Woof Media adds value to clients’ lives, introducing yet more solutions that work for the tourism industry. Accept That You’re Not Excellent at Everything The #1 piece of advice Peter would give himself five years ago? “Don’t try to do it all yourself.” When your business is brand new, of course, you’re reluctant to delegate work to others. This is your baby and you want to coddle it for as long as you can. But there comes a point where delegation is no longer optional. For Peter, he knew it was time when things started to break, projects were taking longer, and he was having more “I’m sorry” conversations with clients. Sure, delegating tasks to others costs money… and it can be frustrating and even a little nerve-wracking leaving parts of your business in others’ hands. But the time you spend trying to learn a new skill can be costly and frustrating, too. If your attention is best directed at higher value tasks (as Peter learned once he began to delegate), why wait to do it? Wrap-Up It’s always a pleasure talking to our Elevators about their unique experiences in business. Peter’s perspective from the Australian tourism marketing space is certainly an interesting one to learn about - especially in person. P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. Introducing Jasmine Andrews Jasmine launched her business (now dubbed Brain Candy Consulting) back in 2011, around the time her first child was born. She didn’t have much experience inside of WordPress aside from personal projects she used it for, but she was able to leverage it in one of her first major projects. Her Big Break Jasmine’s first client (a referral from her technical writing days) wanted help updating a book and converting it to Kindle format. She then turned her attention to boosting sales of it on their website. At the time, customers were only able to purchase one book per session, which, as you can imagine, can be detrimental to the user experience and to the company’s conversion rates. Jasmine knew there had to be a better solution, so she taught herself how to use WooCommerce and PHP. Although she was nervous that she didn’t know what she was doing, the results of her work proved otherwise. At launch, the website (which now had a shopping cart capable of handling multiple purchases) generated $10,000 more in sales than usual. From Burnout to Blueprint As happens to many of us, Jasmine began to make and repeat mistakes in her work and eventually experienced burnout as a result of working too much and not charging enough for her efforts. After a couple years of her revenue being in the red, she entered the Blueprint course, ready to turn things around. In particular, it was the Go Wide Go Deep method that changed her approach to business. It made her realise that it was the consulting piece - getting to know clients, understanding their needs, helping them build the perfect site - that she really loved. And so she added paid discovery and audit services to her offering (which had only been traditional web design services prior). Whether clients came in just for the smaller ticket items, or transitioned to larger projects, Jasmine was making much more money and with a lot less work. Her success ultimately boiled down to the following points: She was providing a service that she really loved. She was targeting a niche that she was passionate about (content-driven non-profits). She was no longer charging based on the time or resources used, but on the value, she was delivering to clients. Consulting proved to be her perfect sweet spot. The Power of the WP Elevation Community Jasmine has put the WP Elevation community to good use and on a variety of platforms. She’s made use of: The accountability partner The public and private chat groups The Facebook group These are places for her to not only share her own struggles and wins but to help others get to where they want or need to be. And, as she mentioned in the podcast, people generally aren’t this transparent or honest in the real world, which makes it much easier to connect with others’ journeys. Because of this, Jasmine views it as an environment that helps everyone grow and win with WordPress. A Case Study There’s a story that Jasmine tells towards the end of the podcast that makes for a great lesson about what can happen when you go above and beyond for your clients. You’ll have to listen to the podcast in full to get this entire case study, but the gist of it is as follows: Jasmine delivered HUGE results on a project that was originally supposed to be a month of training and support in WordPress. However, she was only able to produce these results because of the approach she took with the Go Wide Go Deep method. With four weeks to complete the project, she spent two of them asking questions about what they wanted from the site and how they were going to provide services to customers. Once the user research and empathy mapping was done, she was able to hop into Divi and help them get their new site up by the four-week deadline. What the client got, as a result, brought massive changes not just to how they viewed their website, but also to how their internal processes worked. She saw the site as something beyond just aesthetic marketing. Because of this, she helped them transform it into the important business tool that it should be and gave the client much more than they had bargained for. Wrap-Up There’s so much we can learn from one another in this space if we only just take the time to be open about our experiences. I’m really grateful to Jasmine for joining me in this podcast as her story is one that I think a lot of Elevators (and even those on the fence about joining) can learn from. P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. A Bit About Jennifer Dopazo Jennifer Dopazo is the Founder and Creative Director of Candelita, a branding and design studio that serves female business owners and influencers who want to take their companies to the next level. Before Blueprint Before implementing the Blueprint course, Jennifer worked mostly in isolation and was highly protective of her agency’s processes and services. Since joining, all that has changed. These days, she works fewer hours (while getting more accomplished), has a healthier work-life balance, and has learned that it’s okay to say “I don’t know”. Jennifer’s Take on the Community As someone who previously (and mostly) worked in isolation, Jennifer has really come to appreciate the community she finds herself within now. According to Jennifer, there is a lot of value that comes from the community - even if everyone who’s a part of it comes from a different background or works in a different niche. There’s so much overlap between the questions and experiences everyone has, that the conversations that take place among members have proven to be quite relevant and helpful for Jennifer. As she explained, this sounding board allows the members of the WP Elevation community to be open and vulnerable with one another and to really get the most out of their respective business-building journeys. The more people are willing to say “I don’t know”, the more everyone has a chance to learn from one another; be it entering different niches, trying new processes, or getting past annoying obstacles. After Blueprint A lot has changed for Jennifer since her first run through Blueprint (you heard me right: she’s done this more than once). As she picks up new lessons and acquires new skills, she incrementally tweaks her business as well as her daily habits in order to make Candelita the best it can be. Work-Life Balance It’s taken a few years of experimenting with a daily routine, but Jennifer seems to have sorted out what the optimal structure is for her: She goes to a co-work space every morning for three to four hours where she does “laptop work”; i.e. talking to clients, communicating with remote employees, etc. She goes home midday for lunch and then hits the gym. This gives her brain a chance to reset before she moves into the next part of her day. She returns home to tackle what she calls “desktop time”. This is when she does design work and other strategic tasks that require the use of a private work environment and desktop computer. In so developing this routine, Jennifer has effectively divided her day up into the most productive times. This allows her to maximize her output while working less. Adopting Processes Previously, Jennifer struggled to get processes in place for her business. With the help of Blueprint, she’s been able to streamline the creation of these processes. By using the tools and templates available, she spends less time recreating the wheel and more time adapting them to fit her unique business approach. Client Management Another way in which Blueprint has had a big impact on her life is in client management. Before Blueprint, Jennifer had a hard time saying “no” to prospective clients, even if she knew they weren’t a good fit. But by learning how to qualify leads better, by using the processes and checklists provided in the Blueprint course, and by using the anti-follow-up approach, she more effectively signs new and high-quality clients to her agency. Her Favourite Part of Blueprint The tools and templates Jennifer has had access to through Blueprint have obviously made a huge impact on the way she runs her agency. However, it’s her ability to actually implement processes now that is her favourite part of Blueprint. Part of this comes from the fact that Blueprint is a highly actionable course and the community surrounding it is one that encourages all members to make strides in their businesses. Another part of this comes from Troy’s emphasis to stop looking for perfection. It’s that “just hit Publish” mentality and Troy’s willingness to try new things on the fly that’s really inspired her to get stuff done in her own business. Rather than waste time waiting for the perfect moment, she’s now able to achieve much more as her business constantly remains in motion. Wrap-Up There’s nothing better than to see an Elevator leveraging the Blueprint course as well as the WP Elevation community to further her business. If you have any questions or comments on this episode of our podcast, let us know in the comments below. P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. An Introduction to Align Today Eugene starts by telling us a bit about Align Today which is a cloud-based solution developed by a New Orleans-based entrepreneur and his business coach. The founders attempted to implement Rockefeller Habits for the purposes of scaling business, however, they struggled with the limitations posed by tools like Microsoft Word and Excel. As a result, they took the Rockefeller Habits and developed a SaaS solution that would put them into the hands of business owners, coaches, and CEOs all around the world. Align Today’s main purpose is to get business teams aligned towards the same company vision and goals. Changing Your Mindset Eugene explains that scaling business often causes entrepreneurs to arrive at a point where they need to calm the chaos. Troy tells us that he too arrived at this point and that’s where Scaling Up, the Rock Habits, and Align Today entered the picture and that Scaling Up is something that fundamentally changed his approach to running WP Elevation In short, the Rock Habits are a way of teaching business owners to shift their mindset. Why would they want or even need to do this? Because the way you run a new company with three or four employees is much different than running one with dozens of employees across the world. Ultimately, what the Rock Habits and Align Today will teach you to do is build a lasting company and to stop worrying about what the next product looks like. Put your focus on your business instead of the various elements that go into the business. Eugene says “If you build a great company that fosters and nurtures that, the clients will come.” Unclear Leader = Unfair Leader One of the common problems that Align Today aims to solve is the matter of transparency and accountability within scaling businesses. In an anecdote that Eugene shares in the podcast,  he talks of how a business owner was confused when asked if his entry-level employees knew what the revenue goal for the quarter was. After all, why would an entry-level employee have any need for that information? Well, if you’re paying employees to support your business’s core vision, how do you expect them to help you achieve company goals if they’re blind to where you’re heading? This is valuable information that everyone should have and Align Today enables businesses to provide this level of transparency while also giving employees the chance to actively participate. Scaling Business with Align Today The last thing your team might want to hear is that you’ve added a new software to their workflow. But Align Today isn’t like other project management software applications. All it takes is 15 to 20 minutes in the morning, and a few more minutes at the end of the day, to get in and out of the platform. As such, you can improve transparency in your company, increase accountability within your team, and decrease the time spent in meetings. With Align Today, you can: Build strategic plans that can be shared, viewed, and edited company-wide. Set goals with customisable key performance indicators (KPIs) and track progress. Establish strategic priorities. Enforce a daily practice of a team “huddle” to keep everyone on the same page. When business is growing and management of your team becomes more chaotic, Align Today can put everyone on track, create accountability within your growing organisation, and push you closer and closer towards your goals. Wrap Up Are you having any struggles as your team grows? Let us know in the comments and we will get back to you! P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. A Bit of Background Tara's business, AlchemyThree, is a small business that she runs out of an office in Massachusetts. Tara and her small team concentrate on small to medium sized businesses particularly female-owned businesses as she loves helping women to step into their power and succeed. Her business focuses on digital marketing, web design and maintenance. Tara started as a photographer and hated computers for a long time. She only wanted to make art and it wasn’t until things started to go digital that she realised that she needed to get into that space and embrace her inner control freak! She got onto Photoshop and started messing around with that. She is largely self-taught with an Associates in graphic design from a community college. She has been working in the WordPress/ design space for around 16 years now with some stints of work in corporate. Discovering the Blueprint A year ago she saw Kristina Romero (one of WPE’s coaches) give a talk at WordCamp Boston. A light bulb went off when Kristina was talking about care plans and the concept of recurring revenue. Tara at the time had been hustling to get the next project and just wasn’t thinking long-term. So she started following Kristina online which led her to WP Elevation and here she is! Now Tara is part of the Mavericks Mastermind group. The Game Changer The biggest game-changer for Tara since completing the Blueprint is that she has realised her worth as a web developer, marketer and brand specialist. It wasn’t until she found WPE and it’s community that this happened. She talks about the isolation that you feel when you're running your own business. So the support and guidance helped her make this mindset shift. Before the course, she was charging around $2,500 for a website and was getting in over her head because she had no processes in place and was making everything up as she went along. After the course, she felt she had the tools, the skills and the structure to take on more work with full confidence in her abilities. Everyone keeps going on about the community- am I right! Well, Tara says that she loves the diversity of the community with varying skill sets and backgrounds. She loves hearing stories of how people got where they are and loves how the people in the group are so supportive when you need help. Being a part of Troy’s small Mastermind group has given her the chance to get even closer with some of the other members. So last week she had a "little tantrum" when Google decided to shut down her account. It was one of those moments when the straw breaks the camels back and she felt ready to give up on her business. She took to her Maverick's Slack group and everyone rallied around her, reached out to check on her and offer help. She says that "instead of undercutting each other we lift each other up." The care plans and having a recurring revenue changed her life as well as the proposal process. She was wasting so much time writing proposals so to have a structure and a baseline was amazing. The proposal allows the reader to see that you actually understand their business and sell them the benefits of your work rather than the features. Growing a Team Tara is nervous and excited because she just offered someone offshore a full-time role. Hurrah! Her first full-time employee! She currently also has a writer and a developer working for her which she was only able to do since WPE. She learned that making yourself feel uncomfortable is important. Hiring this person makes her feel nervous and in the past, she never would have done this without the support of the WPE community. Tara's Favourite Tool Tara says that she has an unhealthy relationship with Mixmax. It's a tool that allows you to track your emails, send canned email responses and send invites to your calendar. The tracking helps you to understand what level of interest people have in your business and whether emails have been lost. Wrap Up Tara wraps up the chat with Ray by saying “The course is a no-brainer. The amount of value you get is bonkers! Don’t even hesitate”. Awww thanks for sharing the love Tara! How awesome is she! If you have any questions for her or want to let us know what you think of this podcast, please leave a comment below. P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE  upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. About WP Buffs Joe has a team of nine people doing everything from the tech work to content marketing across five time zones! He says it's fun and challenging. Troy and Joe start the conversation off by talking about remote teams and why it’s a game changer to meet up with your virtual staff. They then move onto why Joe chose to join the Blueprint course six months ago. The WP Elevation Community Joe thinks that as he has grown WP Buffs that one of the hardest things has been finding the support of a community or network of people in the WordPress space. He wanted to find a tribe of like-minded people with drive and people who want to grow their business but this was really hard to find even though he goes to WordCamps and has a lot of contacts. When he found WP Elevation, the community was one of the best things that helped him to grow his business. This is the first time that Troy has heard someone say that the community was the reason they joined the program. Troy finds it interesting that most people think that they’re joining for the training, the blueprints, processes or to tap into their experience. However, after a short period of time, they realise how valuable the community or network is. A community is a hard thing to market to people before they get the first-hand experience of it. Skeptical of ROI Joe was skeptical before he joined that the course would valuable and that he would see a return on investment. However, most of the time he finds that the less hard he is sold on something the better it ends up being. With WP Elevation, he felt he wasn’t given a hard sell and that’s why he was happy to join. On this point, Troy says that a mentor once said to him “all you need to do is give them the information that they need to buy from you”. So Troy lays as much information to everyone as possible so that people can make an informed decision. Troy points out that Joe isn’t a typical WPE customer because he owns a WP maintenance and support company and doesn’t actually build websites. Joe says that he joined because whether you’re a consultant, designer or marketer in the WordPress space, the skills sets are slightly different but the drive is all similar. He had read that WP Elevation was the number one online community in the WordPress space and he knew there was a tonne he could learn. The course changed his mindset and helped him with running a small business and marketing techniques. Joe says that the engagement with the community is unreal. When he logs into Facebook it's pretty much just WPE stuff. He goes to the page and gets updates. He loves commenting and having great discussions about what’s new. But Would Joe Recommend the Course? Of course! He thinks that the return on investment that anyone gets is "pretty outrageous." So just based on that, anyone that is serious about developing a WordPress career should join. Joe says that he has multiple times made his money over in the 6 months that he has been a member. You get so many ideas on how to systemize your business. Templates, information, learning structure. No matter what you’re looking for in terms of moving your business forward, then it’s going to require some investment. Joe's Current Challenges Things are going well for WP Buffs in terms of growth and direction. But they also have their fair share of challenges. The number one challenge is working across five time zones and managing the team and building the culture. They are hiring a marketer at the moment to take some of the slack off Joe, but he is finding it hard to find the right person. We had him on the podcast a few months ago and Troy mentions that he loves his outlook on business. Check it out here. Joe is certainly an inspiration! If you have any questions or comments on this show, please feel free to let us know in the section below. P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast (GOELEVATE). Add the code upon payment of the Blueprint course.

Watch the video of this podcast here. A Brief Introduction to Kirk Deis Kirk Deis is the founder and CEO of Treehouse 51, a digital marketing agency based out of Newport Beach, California. Although the company is relatively young, Kirk and his team have already experienced many of the issues that most of us in the web development and marketing space face with clients. This is how The Bug Squasher came to be. The Bug Squasher Origin Story Kirk was building a website for a client who happened to be an older woman that had very little knowledge of computers. So, when she encountered a problem with the website that Kirk had built, she wrote a tremendously lengthy email to spell out the problem. There were a number of problems with this: The 10,000+ single-spaced words that Kirk says was way too long to read. The client didn’t actually mention what the problem was until about halfway through the email. When she did, she didn’t indicate where it existed on the website as she assumed the developer would automatically know what she was talking about (despite it being a rather sizable site). Email, in general, isn’t the ideal platform to have a discussion of this nature. First, there’s the chance that it could get lost in someone’s inbox or spam folder. Second, there’s the possibility of miscommunication without context or being able to hear someone’s tone of voice. And, thirdly, it can lead to unnecessary and cumbersome back-and-forth. Which is what happened here. The client was very upset that Kirk and his team had to ask a lot of questions in order to figure out where the problem was and, then, determine the circumstances under which she was seeing it. After the ordeal was over, Kirk said: “I wish there were a way to talk to clients without them having to give us all this information.” What Is the Bug Squasher? The Bug Squasher is a simple solution for easing the communication gap that often exists between clients and the WordPress professionals they’ve hired. (Actually, The Bug Squasher now works on all platforms, so it’s not solely relegated to WordPress anymore.) Installation is simple. You just insert a single line of JavaScript into the header of your website. Once it’s implemented, clients will see The Bug Squasher on the frontend of their website. When they take notice of something that needs changing, they can easily grab a screenshot of it, annotate or highlight it, explain the problem, and then submit. And it isn’t just a handy tool for “squashing” bugs. It can be used for general communications related to design, copy, functionality, and so on. Kirk says that browser recording is coming down the pipeline as well, which will make this even more user-friendly than it already is. A Unique Marketing Approach This very podcast came about as a result of Kirk Deis’ marketing efforts. Like most of what he’s doing to bring attention to The Bug Squasher, his goal is to reach a variety of audiences. Podcasts have been one way to do this organically. PPC advertising and Spotify spots are another form of marketing he’s pursued. What WordPress Consultants Need to Know About The Bug Squasher Unlike many project management and issue tracking tools on the market, The Bug Squasher doesn’t limit how many users or development URLs you can use within your account. Each plan covers an entire domain, which is especially nice if you use staging subdomains. In addition, you can connect The Bug Squasher to your project management software (e.g. Asana, Podio, Basecamp), so logged bugs or updates automatically get pushed to your project management email address. If you’re interested in giving this issue tracker/client communication tool a shot, be sure to visit The Bug Squasher website. Kirk is offering WP Elevation listeners a 20% discount with the coupon code Wp20. P.S. We've created a 10% discount code for the listeners of the WPE podcast. Simply add the code GOELEVATE upon payment of the Blueprint course. The deal is valid until the 21st September 2018.

Watch the video of this podcast here. A Bit About Kronda Kronda is a WordPress Consultant turned digital marketer. In 2017 she decided to change her company to focus on marketing and automation. She helps mainly service based, non-technical businesses with their online marketing and helps them put systems into place that will really help them grow their business in a way that is sustainable for them. Life Before the Blueprint Kronda just reached the 5-year mark with her business. She tells us about when she started out and how she would make websites for anyone because she needed the income. Even then she knew that she was going to fire the difficult clients as soon as she could afford to. Kronda would check in with the clients that she had made websites for and very often they had been hacked or they hadn’t done much with the site so it wasn’t actually helping their company at all. Kronda started following WP Elevation about two years into her business. She couldn’t afford to join WP Elevation at the time so she made the most of the free content. Then six months later when she joined the Blueprint course she leveled up and has been levelling up ever since. The WP Elevation Community Once Kronda joined WPE she was eager to get the all of the information and put it into practice. It took a while to get through the course whilst running her own business but she really enjoyed the content and would look forward to her Friday nights in with the course. Kronda found the community support to be amazing. She says that it is a group of so-called “competitors” who really just help each other to succeed with an abundance mindset. Questions, rants, whatever! There is always someone there for you. Kronda tells us that she has made a lot of mistakes in building her business. So when she gets to a point when she feels in over her head, she asks the group for help. There have always been people who have helped her out in those time and people with similar stories. At the 9.35 minute mark Kronda shares her experience of taking the Blueprint course and gives some good advice to people who are thinking of taking the course or about to start it. Life After the Course She fired most of her clients in December last year and told them that her business was moving in a different direction and offered her new services to them. One of the main things she took away from the course, was the importance of recurring revenue so she set up cares plans and changed the business focus to marketing automation. The course allowed Kronda to shift her mindset from having to chase after new clients to making herself the prize. She started to filter clients out by having requirements that they needed to meet. When you’re new in business, you just have to get people to pay you money. So she started asking herself “What am I good at?” “What do I enjoy working on?”. She now makes people fit her criteria before letting them into her business. She says that when you’re in the service industry you are really partnering with the client which means the relationship matters a lot. So now not everyone makes it in and she is very selective about that. One of the things that used to frustrate her when she was starting out in the first 2 years of her business was non-technical clients. They would come to her and ask for her help and they wouldn’t even know who their host was. So that was the catalyst for her to create a course based on the WP Elevation structure of recorded lessons and coaching calls. Kronda couldn’t afford to work for her clients anymore based on their budgets so she wanted a way she could still make money but give people a path to level up to where they need to be. By creating the courses she could scale and reach more people. As her business took off, she had many people come to her for business advice. And because she loves automation, she automated her answer with this blog post about WP Elevation. We love it! Favourite Tool Kronda says her favourite tool is Astra which is a lite weight theme framework. The Astra sties plugin gives you access to starter websites too which makes building websites a piece of cake! Her advice? The course is amazing but you need to implement it! We are super proud of what Kronda has achieved. If you have any questions or comments on this show, please feel free to let us know in the seciton below.

Watch the video podcast here. Who is Phil Singleton? Phil is well known as the best selling author of SEO for Growth which he co-authored with John Jantsch. However, Phil considers himself a web designer with a difference - he creates lead generation websites that turn into recurring income for his clients and he uses the books that he has written to leverage his business. Writing Books - Not as Difficult as You Think Phil says that writing a book was surprisingly not as difficult as he thought it would be. Phil joined Duct Tape Marketing (which was started by John Jantsch) as a certified consultant. He did a presentation on SEO to a Duct Tape Marketing group which impressed a few members of the audience. Fast forward six months and he had sold his first bestseller - Small Business Owners Guide to Lead Generation. He wrote that with a group of six other experts. At first writing a book seemed to be an impossible dream for him, but it ended up being easier than he thought by using Amazon's self-publishing platform called Create Space. He then used some hacks to leverage influencers and gain SEO value (more to come on that topic). Phil explains that the first book was relatively easy because there were six people involved and they hired a ghostwriter who spent hours which each of them to gather the information and write the transcript. They asked John Jantsch to write the foreword for them which was a huge help, as he is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author (aka an awesome influencer). The biggest eye-opener for Phil in this process was how easy it is to get endorsements if you simply ask for them. This also helps the endorser as it reaffirms them as an influencer and expert. It was then he realised the power and ease of endorsements for growth. He was able to leverage these endorsements and essentially have other people doing the marketing for him. [vum-bigtweet tweet="How to leverage influencers and repurpose your content with best selling author Phil Singleton on WPE podcast"] How to Go About Writing a Book? If you choose to go with an agency to write, edit and do the artwork, they are good at what they do, but they will mark it up with a pretty good premium. If you want to do it in-house, it's not as hard as you think to find the talent to do the editing, you can even find them on a platform such as Fiverr. He spent 6-12 months writing his second book which he then took to John with the idea that if he co-authored it with him then they could launch other businesses from it. John agreed and this was a game changer to have him involved. John then added his input to the book, edited it, and voila! The best-seller was born. They planted as many experts as they could into the book to give it credibility and also to bring those people in to endorse it. That was a huge part of the launch process because many of these people put the book into their own marketing channels. Tune in at the 16-minute mark where Troy talks about how he leveraged influencers to grow this podcast series. What’s the Payoff for Writing a Book? Phil explains that it has brought him clients from all over the States now rather than just Kansas and most of them tell him that they have read his book. So in that way, the book has helped him grow his business. However, the main reason for doing this was to build an authority website off SEO for Growth and then use that to build a network of agencies that don’t have the ability to rank in SEO in their city. The payout is still in progress as this is still in its growth stage. Listen in at the 24-minute mark to find out how he manages his time and prioritises what is important when working on a project. Phil has been focussing lately on leveraging from podcasts and blogging. A recent project was working on a strategy for 10 lawyers who created a 150-page book by repurposing their blogging content. He was able to make them the authority on these legal topics which lead to being guests on podcasts and opened many other doors for them. Where Do You Start When You Want to Sell SEO Services? Phil has three websites - one is marketing, one is web design and the other is SEO. Interestingly,   80-90% of their leads for SEO come from the web design website. This is because people come to you wanting a website but you end up talking to them about how they need a marketing strategy. Phil's Super Secret Tip Transform yourself from being seen as their web designer to a digital marketer.  How does Phil do this? He creates a mock-up for them with a blog feed, social media feed, reviews, and video. The client will usually come back and tell him that it looks too busy and that don't have the time to be creating that content. So he then has the conversation about the effect that taking those elements off will have on their SEO and lead generation. He explains that a website is actually a marketing platform and how you scale the business out and generate recurring revenue. [vum-bigtweet tweet="Transform yourself from being seen as their web designer to a digital marketer. Best selling author, Phil Singleton, on WPE podcast"] He recommends that you ask your clients about their competitors and who is doing it better than them. You then use an SEO tool such as SEMrush to pull up the data to show them what they are doing with their website. Troy makes a good point that the way to stop competing with other web designers is to change the narrative that a potential client may have in their mind. They already don’t want to spend money on their website because they don’t have a proper understanding of what it can do and they perceive it as a sunk cost. How Kansas City Web positions and differentiates themselves is very clear in the first thing that you see on their website: “They sell websites. We build lead generating websites. Big Difference. Huge”. To add weight to their expertise, they then showcase the book and all of the endorsements from influencers. Once clients see this they then trust that they are the experts. When he goes to meetings with potential clients he also takes the book with him and advises that they read it and put it into practice. Usually, they can’t be bothered reading it but it works to differentiate you from competitors You need to change their mind frame to understand that it isn’t a sunk cost. It’s a revenue generator and it's going to make you money. Tune in at the 40-minute mark to find out about Phil’s lead generation on his own websites. Leveraging Podcasts Phil started doing his own guesting campaign to get backlinks. After he guests, he then sends his review funnel to them which means he gets many reviews on Google. These backlinks then help you organically and also builds trust for your website. He is now starting his own podcast series which he will officially launch very soon where he will interview people, get niche authorities and use it locally to get access to "bigger fish". They may not want a website from him initially, but they will probably say yes to being a guest on the podcast. Well, there you go. Some great hacks from Phil right there! There's more gold to be found when you listen in to the full podcast. Let us know what you think in the comments below - and if you have been able to repurpose your content, we would love to hear about it.

Watch the video podcast here. What Is Elementor? Elementor is an Israeli company based in Tel Aviv who have grown to be a very successful compant since the release of their page builder. Page builders are visual design tools that have changed the way we build websites within WordPress. Although Word Press is a great CMS it isn’t that great at designing websites and you have to rely on themes to get it to look a certain way. With a visual page builder, you can see it as you design it and it cuts down the workload of a web designer substantially. Before page builders, you needed to create the prototype in Photoshop and transfer it using codes, HTML and CSS. Now you can easily create everything live, not worry about coding and focus more on creating beautiful pages. Troy has been saying for years that a website lives in the browser, not in Photoshop. So if you are designing websites in Photoshop and getting them cut up into HTML and CSS then your days are numbered. There will always be a disconnect and a discrepancy between the image and then building it into the browser. These days everyone has a website and it can require regular updates to content and images. So you need agile flexibility which a page builder gives you. A Bit About Ben Ben has been in the online marketing industry for over 10 years, specializing in content marketing. He started out in an SEO firm and then started his own marketing business where he created his own websites using WordPress. Even before Elementor had launched the page builder, Ben knew of them because he had been using one of their themes for a website. One day he visited their site to renew his licence and saw that they advertised a marketing position. He applied and now here he is! Listen in at the 8.30min mark to find out where the inspiration came from for the Elementor page builder. The Page Builder Market Visual Composer was the first page builder released and it exploded from there. There are a lot of other page builders out there now which came out in quick succession such as Beaver builder and Thrive. So what exactly makes Elementor different and gave them the confidence to go ahead with the product? Well, Ben says that it wasn’t a contest of features for them. The vision was to excel in three main areas: Speed: It needed to be fast so that when you drag and drop, you don't need to wait. It would all be instant. Design advantage: The design needed to be highly detailed with attention to design trends. It is important for designers to have all the design elements such as shape dividers, overlays, box shadows and gradients. With bootstrapped companies, you see the same type of design over and over again. They wanted anyone to be able to create beautiful websites. Ease of use: It's important for everyone from newbies to the professional designers to be able to use it. The interface had to be user-friendly and easy to use. How Did They Get Traction in Such a Crowded Marketplace? Ben says that firstly you need a great product but of course, that alone is not enough. You need a big emphasis on marketing. They used a lot of channels and experimented with new audiences and new ways of reaching people until it eventually paid off. It is still a lot of work and it isn't easy. Even if you have the best product you will still have people saying negative things. "Like a comedian, you will have hecklers, so you need a thick skin". What's Been the Most Successful Marketing Channel? Elementor gives a free plugin offering more free features than a lot of the other page builders on the market. Once people realise what an amazing product is it, it is then ok for them to upgrade to the pro version Email marketing is also a focus for them. They have a newsletter so that they can advertise their releases, blog posts and news Outreach and Collaborations are also a vital component of their marketing. Ben says that you need to contact the right people (such as he did with Troy) and find a way to collaborate where both parties benefit. [vum-bigtweet tweet="Outreach and collaborations are important if you want to succeed within a saturated market. Ben Pines from @elemntor on WPE podcast"] How They Capture Email Addresses When you download the plugin you can enter your email to subscribe to the newsletter which is mainly about feature updates. Once they have their email addresses, they can also tease the audience with what’s available in the pro version. Troy points out that Elementor doesn't have a lead magnet to get people to subscribe it simply says “Join our 165,000 newsletter subscribers” Their list has grown it organically from people wanting to know about the product. Ben is thinking of doing something to educate people as a lead magnet soon. They have invested a lot of resources into tutorials and so they are thinking of offering a free course as an incentive. How Does Elementor Decide Where to Focus Their Resources? The owner of Elementor recently shared his vision with Ben. These are the elements he says that you need in the company: Firstly, you must have tutorials and documentation Celebrate whenever you can! Every time you get the chance to celebrate something, take it. Whether it be a year in review, Black Friday, Christmas... basically anything! He gives a great analogy here - when you enter a store and you see all the Christmas decorations, although you perhaps hadn’t thought of buying any, seeing them gets you in the spirit. Elementor likes to give their employees a “chance to go wacko”. Outreach and collaboration are also important to them as he mentioned earlier. A recent collaboration was with ColorMag, a magazine theme with over 100,000 users. ColorMag recently updated their theme to work with Elementor widget so they made a video tutorial which benefits both companies. Check it out in the links section below. Managing the Team When he started with Elementor they were a team of five and now there are 20 employees and growing. They all work in the one office which he says is so much better for communication than having a remote team. "Having your support team sit next to developers is so much easier as they can turn around and ask questions whenever a problem arises." In terms of support though, if you want 24/7 support, it is better to outsource some of those employees in a different time zone. [vum-bigtweet tweet="Growing your business within a saturated market. Ben Pines from @elemntor talks to us about elements that lead to their success"] Elementor Features The template library is one of the best features that Elementor has. They have over 130 templates that are beautiful and responsive. You can also save your own templates and reuse them. Autosave is also being launched next week so that your content is protected. They have also now added a "save draft" feature so that you don't have to publish changes straight away. Elementor is also soon to release the theme builder which will allow you to do full website design. Elementor also differs from some other page builders in that it doesn't use shortcodes. Usually, when you deactivate a page builder, it leaves a lot of shortcode in your content editor which causes problems. However, when you deactivate Elementor all the content remains and the CSS is saved in external files. Gutenberg - a Threat to Page Builders? With the new version of Elementor, they’ve added compatibility with Gutenberg. They have been working closely with the Gutenberg team to iron out any glitches. Ben says that Gutenberg is a great way to work on your content but it's not a professional design tool. It may evolve to that but Elementor has a clear vision to adapt and work with them. He thinks that Gutenberg is actually a great step forward for WordPress. [vum-bigtweet tweet="Is Gutenberg a threat to page builders? Ben Pines from @elemntor on WPE podcast"] Fostering the Community Around Elementor Ben says that the community is fostered from gaining feedback and by being in constant communication with their Facebook group which has over 10,000 members. The key is to grow your company from the inside of the community. You can build your business just by answering people’s questions. They have been able to foster a community that is supportive and helpful to each other.

Watch the video podcast here. What Exactly Is Oribi and Who Are Asi and Noam? Asi is the head of marketing and Noam works on the product at Oribi, which is the first analytics and insight tool designed for any type of business of any size. There are many analytics tools out there but most business owners don’t really know how to understand the results and how to use that for their business. Oribi fills this void between answers and questions so that business owners can easily understand results and get the most out of their website. Insight Is More Important Than Numbers It's not about the numbers it's about the story behind the numbers. The product translates the figures into everyday language that everyone can understand. A lot of web developers aren’t data analysts. They can install google analytics but then don’t know what to do with it and may end up paying an analyst or agency to work it out for them. Why Is It Important for Businesses to Understand the Data? Simply put - using the data will help them make money for their business. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. You need to understand cause and result. For example, what happens when you make changes to your marketing mix or the way you target your audience. You need to measure the success of that with actionable analytics. What data you want will depend on your position in the company. For example, Asi is the head of marketing so he looks at the sales funnel and which marketing channels perform the best. Whereas Noam looks at the funnel and at which stage we lose the people and then how we can fix those leaks. As a small business owner, you would need to look at everything from A-Z and it can be overwhelming. They see all of this data and don’t know where to start and what to look at. Do you start with measuring traffic? Opt-ins? Country? Browser? What are the important metrics? Sigh. My head hurts! Asi and Noam say that it’s also about the data that you choose not to display. You need to keep it lean and focused. When you log into Oribi you get the data you need and you won't get lost. If you do choose to dig deeper you can of course. [vum-bigtweet tweet="It's not about traffic, it's about conversion. Analytics experts Asi and Noam from @GetOribi tell us what we need to be measuring on WPE podcast. "] What Do You Do If You Want a Client to Use Oribi? First, they need to sign up to Oribi, then you add a tracking code to the site. You don’t have to define anything because the script automatically identifies 100% of the events and page visits and you don’t need to change any code to install it. Easy! What Should We Be Measuring? Depends on the type of customer because each business has their own set of goals. If it’s a website that displays ads then obviously they need as much traffic as they can. However, most websites need people to subscribe or to buy something. So those are the ones that need to improve their sales funnel. Many people focus on the traffic, but the conversion is more important and also the source. Mike mentions that he tracks the conversion from when the visitor comes from Google compared to when they come from social media. Then you know where to invest more time and money. One may bring you more traffic, but the main thing is to find out which one converts so you can focus your efforts there. Even if you didn't know that breaking it down by channel was important, it doesn’t even matter because Oribi will give you all the important information. The problem with a lot of other analytic packages is knowing what to focus on. You cant just measure one metric at a time. You need to measure a few at the same time. Decide what your KPIs are and then measure from there. Sometimes your goals change and if you don't change the analytics accordingly you don’t get the answers you need. Improvement is easy to track as you can easily attribute that to a campaign or a change that you have made in the marketing. However, understanding why numbers are down is more difficult. So when you have the answers to what isn’t working and why then that's the sweet spot for you. [vum-bigtweet tweet="With analytics, people tend to focus on what’s working but you need to look at why you lose numbers too. Asi and Noam from @getoribi on WPE podcast"] Most business owners aren’t aware of how useful analytics can be for their business and don’t know what questions to ask. So as web developers it is our job to know the questions to ask that will lead clients to the right answers. Ask your client: Who are the customers? What are the companies goals? What are the KPIs? What are the key points of action on the website? [wpecallout title="Golden Nugget Tips:" align="left" image="/wp-content/themes/wpelevation/images/callout/nuggets.png"] It's not about traffic, it's about conversion Look at the numbers that go down rather than up Breakdown the conversion by channels[/wpecallout] Oribi has a free trial so for more details click the link in the links section below. Sounds like it will make life a whole lot easier for many people. So that's a wrap! Thanks for tuning in. Let us know if you have tried or are currently using Oribi. We would love to hear your feedback in the comments below.

Watch the video of this podcast here. How Your Grew Her Business... Fast! She started as a social media consultant and ran a consultancy for four years purely from word of mouth referrals. However, she got to the point where she was burnt out with too many clients and working solo. She explains that this YouTube thing all started by accident!  Her clients kept asking her the same questions and she was constantly on phone calls and in meetings which were a waste of her time. So she decided to do a YouTube tutorial about live streaming for your business and how to use Periscope which had just come out. She sent it to her clients, not thinking much of it, but by the next day, she had 1,000 views. (Which has now grown to 80,000 views.) This is when she realised the power of Search on YouTube and making videos that people are looking for. And that’s how she built her channel up so fast within only two years. The beauty of YouTube is that it is free marketing. You aren’t paying to get views and she gets leads every single day. So why isn’t everyone using it? Why Should People Be Using YouTube for Their Business? You can teach your customers. This is the main reason to use it. It is an educational platform to give  “How To” tutorials and to do them in a way that is unique to you. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world (Google is the first) Creating content that your customers are looking for is how you grow and gain momentum really fast and you build your lead generation machine... literally while you sleep! It’s free! People are happy to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to have an advert placed at certain times of the day! This is out there 24 hours a day at no cost. She does pay for advertising now that she has traction though, so combined with her YouTube tutorials, that works great for her. However, you need to have a little bit of money in the bank before you invest in advertising. [vum-bigtweet tweet="Grow your business fast with YouTube. Listen in to @ylenarduzzi on the WPE podcast"] What Is the First Step to Making a Video? Listen to your customers. If you don’t have customers yet, go to your competitors and see what comments they are getting and what is being asked. Check for FAQ pages because if one person is asking it, there are thousands more that are asking too. Why Would I Give Away This Information for Free? People often ask y why they would post information on how to do something when they want to get paid to do it for them instead. y says that people are inherently lazy and when videos get too technical and “make your head want to explode” that’s when you go to the expert and ask for help - which is now you! y says that she puts so much information out on her YouTube channel for free because the more value she puts out in her videos, the higher she ranks, the more comments she gets, Google then favours the content, the more people see it through Search, the more people say “She is the expert, I want her to teach me and I’m going to buy her stuff”! [vum-bigtweet tweet="When it comes to content “The more you give, the more you’re going to get in return” @ylenarduzzi on WPE podcast"] If you're worried that you have missed the boat on using YouTube for your business, it isn't too late. y says that all you need to do is out-value your competitors on there! What If You Don’t Have the Best Equipment? She started out with an $80 webcam (the C920), a LAV microphone and instead of using a tripod she used a stack of books and sat in front of the window. She did that for the first year when she got her first 50,000 subscribers on YouTube! The production quality doesn’t need to be high, what does need to be good is the content. [wpecallout title="Gold Nugget Tip:" align="left" image="/wp-content/themes/wpelevation/images/callout/nuggets.png"]Take your ego out of the equation, don’t worry about what you look like and just start with what you have. “There is something to be said for authenticity and using what you have.” If you have a phone then you can start making videos - no excuses![/wpecallout] Listen in at the 15-mark where y tells us about making her first viral video in her pyjamas! As a recovering perfectionist, y has learned that “done is better than perfect”. Just get your content out there and make sure it works before you start tweaking or changing things. If you compare the quality of production from when she started to now, it has improved so much, but that has taken a lot of time and she was able to do that because YouTube grew her resources to be able to. Just be truthful about where you’re at. Tune in at the 20-minute mark, where y offers tips on how to get over the fear of being on camera. [wpecallout title="Bonus Tip: Get to the Point!" align="left" image="/wp-content/themes/wpelevation/images/callout/inspiration.png"]Long intros and explaining why people should watch the video are two of the biggest killers for attention. The longer that people watch your video, the higher you will rank.[/wpecallout] Posting Strategy y does 1 video a week. It is too hard to run a business and do more than that. Each video takes a lot of work even in the uploading to get it optimised. Quality over quantity but keep it consistent. People make the mistake of making content and then just moving on to making the next pieces of content. You need to take the time to get it out there. Promote and optimise it. Even if you have a small following on IG, share your video, because that is how it is going to grow. The work is not done when you hit publish. There is so much more gold in here so make sure you listen in! How have you been able to grow your business on Youtube? Let us know below!

In humanitarian and low resource settings, women and girls can be forced into exploitative relationships, such as sex work. In this episode learn more about the health and protection needs of women and girls engaged in sex work in humanitarian settings and IRC's integrated WPE and RH programming approach and lessons learned.

Join Anna K. and We Play Everywhere member and co-host, Kathleen Segovia (founder of Sweat Club Houston), as they interview Shahin Naghavi, founder of Yoga EaDo and CrossFit EaDo. Shahin is a serial entrepreneur who found himself working long hours, juggling multiple projects, and landing in a obese state of fitness. Through luck, friends, and fun he renewed his commitment of fitness and helped found the first CrossFit and Yoga studios in East Downtown Houston in 2012. Now, one of the largest CrossFit boxes in the world, EaDo continues to be a pillar in the community.  Join the three of them on the radio, and in-person on April 9th at their WPE event! It's going to be a great time at...The Playground!!!

Oh the WordPress media industry — how we love thee. When the news of WPDaily.co shutting down landed on us so abruptly, it left a few of us scratching our heads to say the least. What would happen to it? Who would buy it? Where's my WordPress news? Well it's been a few weeks since the announcement of it's new home TorqueMag.io and I've invited the woman behind the scenes to tell us all about it. Meet Michelle Oznowicz former journalist, celeb ghost writer and now the future of WordPress news. In this episode we chat about how she found this job, what the plans are for Torque and offers advise to aspiring journalists using WordPress. Enjoy! Interview with Michelle Oznowicz of TorqueMag.io Listen to the audio version Matt Report - A WordPress podcast for digital business owners Episode 45: Who's behind TorqueMag.io Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / Subscribe Share RSS Feed Share Link Embed Download file | Play in new window (Hooray video again! I figured it was important for the audience to see the face behind the news site. Since she's fresh to the WordPress scene and all. What do you think? Keep doing video or audio is just fine?) Why Michelle? A common question I saw fluttering around the Twittersphere on their launch day. Why Michelle? What does she know about WordPress? Well nothing really and that's the point. In an attempt to stay unbiased and have a platform where WordPress news can be curated by the community — WPEngine hired Michelle. She brings her strong background of community building and a dedication to journalism up to bat for the new slugger in WordPress media. Can she hit a home run? You be the judge. Let me know what you think in the comments. My opinion WordPress media. That's what this is all about and I shared my thoughts in that previous article. I think Michelle is in an interesting space like the rest of us. On one hand folks say we don't need WP news, on the next there's more and more of it being slung at us. I think she's going to do a great job at building her own voice in our community and I wish her the best. It's not going to be easy, but as entrepreneurs we know this. On ads There's no ads on Torque…yet. We talked about her experience as a journalist and how ads can lesson the integrity of a publication. While I don't necessarily think ads are a bad thing, it's going to be interesting to see how WPE handles this in the months to come. What are your thoughts on ads? Let me know in the comments. Video, themes and e-mail lists — oh my! Now that it's been a while since I've uploaded to YouTube, is it refreshing to have it back? By the way, if you like this theme we unveiled it to the world on WordPress.org. Lastly, if you like what I do please share it and sign up to the newsletter. Outro Music: http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1017514/ready-set-stay ★ Support this podcast ★

Playing what they describe as "Experimental Folk / Orchestral Pop",  Whim Po and Emili's Colin Weaver (vocals/strings) and Emily Robertson (vocals/piano) began as an acoustic duo playing small shows in and around Northfield, Minnesota in 2007. As their following grew in Northfield’s basement bar and college scene, other members were added and WPE released their debut album, "Whim, Po, & Emili," in November of 2009, followed soon after by their EP, Maybe Baby, in May 2010. Their music, while diverse, is most easily classified as orchestral pop. It takes the words and images so powerful in the folk tradition and imbues them with the melodies and rhythms of popular music. Intoned with the stories and imagery they encounter, they create music that embodies the textured world around them. Over the last two years WPE has played shows throughout the upper Midwest. Their diverse sound easily lends itself both to large, high-energy, electric sets and smaller, quieter acoustic shows.  Shades of Radiohead....you're gonna enjoy this one! whimpoemili.com/