December 4, 2018 — Being a freelancer, contractor or digital nomad is all the rage nowadays, but you don’t want to just survive doing what you love, you want to thrive!

Learn strategies for building reoccurring income, business systems, sales automation and other tools to better manage your freelance business.

I have been a freelance digital media expert of almost 10 years, and want to share my experience of what it takes to succeed outside of a 9-5 job for the long term.

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December 4, 2018 — Maddison, the Chief Business Development Officer at VentraIP Australia is joining us to talk about their story of rapid growth and difficult decisions that came with that. Like many companies in the ICT industry, VentraIP Australia went through a period of rapid growth and was met with the difficult decision of whether to invest in their local staff or build a team of outsourced technicians to meet the increased demand.

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December 4, 2018 — Divi by Elegant Themes is hands down one of the best themes ever made for WordPress. It is incredibly powerful, flexible, and easy to use. Because it is the ultimate theme, there are a lot of features that you might have missed. I will go through 10 useful and cool Divi theme features that are hidden in plain sight. Take your Divi knowledge and usage to the next level!

December 4, 2018 — Some thoughts on WordPress

December 2, 2018 — Perfection of the drop shipping model entirely with WooCommerce. See How…

December 2, 2018 — This the story of Rocket Lift, a Portland-based WordPress agency founded in 2011 and shut down in 2017: How and why it closed — what we did well, lessons learned along the way, and our process of deciding to shut down — shared so other WordPress businesses and freelancers can learn from our experience.

December 2, 2018 — You know security is important and want your site to be secure, but what will actually help? There’s so much information to be found on securing your site, but what are the myths and what actually helps? Find out how to avoid the myths and implement real security.

December 2, 2018 — Paula will be walking us through how to take an audience first approach to designing your website, and not focusing all on yourself. She’ll walk us through how to find what questions your audience are asking, what you can do to ensure your site is answering them, and not to keep them coming back for more. You’ll walk away with actionable plans and tools that you can implement on your website right away with minimal changes.

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December 2, 2018 — Jane is joining us to explain to us how to package your web services to make you more money, while at the same time saving you time. She’ll explain the hows and whys of offering tiered packages, how to determine what to include in packages, how to market the upsells to higher packages, and why your top package is probably what you currently offer as your entry-level!

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December 2, 2018 — Gal, an online marketing consultant for small businesses from Brisbane, will talk about how a lot of people think that WordPress is so easy to use that anyone can do it, and while true, only up to a point. Most people can get a site going, but it won’t be nearly as good as a site created professionally, with a solid technical foundation (caching, backups, etc), a smooth user experience, tight security, search engine optimisation and more.

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