November 30, 2020 — Before you start your next WordPress project, stop. Have you got a clearly defined scope? Are your requirements well defined? What assumptions are you making? There are many reasons why projects fail – we’re going to look into how to kick off your project the right way to increase the chances of success and keeping your clients happy.

November 30, 2020

November 30, 2020

November 28, 2020 — This talk covers:
(1) the basics of Docker
(2) Docker vs Virtual Machines
(3) Docker images, containers
(4) setting up WordPress with Docker

November 27, 2020 — Structured data helps search engines to more deeply understand our content, enabling them to deliver rich results, and to build the ‘personal assistant’ of the future. Early adopters are gaining huge advantages with rich search engine results, and increased relevancy. But there’s much more going on behind the scenes.

A revolution is underway, where we need to start to think of our websites not only as vehicles for our marketing messaging, but as the central source of truth for everything about our products and services, our brands, and all of our public data.

November 27, 2020 — Do you constantly feel like you are hacking code together? Do you find it difficult to maintain, adapt or even read code you’ve written previously? Chances are, you are not taking into consideration some of the basic principles of software architecture. Come learn how some simple habits and changes in perspective can transform you from a 1x developer to a 10x developer!

November 27, 2020 — Creating an online brand community will increases customer retention and remove the complete dependency on add and promotions to drive sales. Let’s discuss why and how to grow your online community.

November 26, 2020 — The pandemic has forced all of us – WordPress designers and developers – into the role of essential experts for all the businesses we serve.

To truly serve our clients we have to learn design and develop WordPress websites that become the center of the business. Generating leads and revenue.

In this talk, I will give you specific, simple, actionable design patterns and examples that will immediate increase your site’s lead generation capabilities.

November 26, 2020 — Ever spend hours on an estimate only to discover that your idea of a “reasonable budget” and theirs were so far of base it’s not even funny? Or worst yet, crickets?

Well, that ends today!

During this talk you’ll learn the 5 Essential Questions you need to be asking on a sales call to not only ensure you don’t waste your time, but that you land the project.

In addition, we will dig into how to create an estimate that converts and how ensure you get new leads & sales well after the website has launched.

November 26, 2020 — Never waste a bad move. Success as a business owner is built on the lessons we’ve learned from our biggest mistakes. In this talk, Nathan draws on 25 years of experience in the web business to share the most important lessons he had to learn the hard way. Each lesson is summarized in a succinct statement and then unpacked with examples that will make you laugh, cringe and think

Key Takeaways:

1) Mistakes I made and how to avoid them
2) Tips on where to focus to make your business profitable
3) What really matters when you’re building a business