July 25, 2018 — Creating a professional blog post is more important than it’s ever been. Why? There are a handful of reasons, but one major one is due to the amount of competition. In 2017 WordPress.com reported 2000+ blog posts every minute. You read that right. Every minute!

Today I want to share my top 5 findings with you. I trust that if you read and apply these, you will create content that will truly stand out.

#1 Content (Draft)
#2 Craft a Title
#3 Select a Featured Image
#4 Content (Edit)
#5 Content (Format)

Creating a professional blog post that will stand out is no simple task. However, after years of practice and hard work, I’ve come up with these 5 points above. Ever since I implemented these points, my traffic has skyrocketed. I firmly believe that the same thing will happen to you when you implement these points.

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July 25, 2018 — Thousands of sites are launched every day, but the quality varies. As leaders of the world’s most widely used content management system, we need to ensure that every site we launch meets certain quality standards.

Drew Barton, founder of Southern Web, a WordPress-centric digital marketing agency in Atlanta, shares his firm’s quality assurance checklist.

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July 25, 2018 — I will talk about the importance of automating your WordPress development regardless if you are building themes, plugins or full websites. Also, I will provide resources on how you can set it up based on your current workflow.

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July 25, 2018 — The workshop is on how business owners can build successful stores using WordPress. I will be speaking on how to use WooCommerce, abandoned cart recovery system, upsell and cross-sells, and other tools/resources e.g. Facebook ads to boost sales on a WordPress store.

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July 24, 2018 — As creatives, we have a lot on our plates. Keeping it all straight can be a real challenge, particularly for those of us to whom it does not come naturally. Over the past few years as a professional creative, I have found that having systems and processes in place can make a huge difference. The trick? Don’t over-complicate it. In this talk I share how to get started creating and using simple systems and processes to help us do our best work while keeping our sanity intact.

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July 24, 2018 — Hispanic consumers are young, averaging only 27 compared to 42 for average American consumers. Additionally, Hispanics over-index in social media. Is your brand growing this incredible share of consumers? Considering diversity and multicultural perspectives is critical to reaching this young powerful market.

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July 22, 2018 — This is the aftermovie for WordCamp Ogijima 2018.
WordCamp Ogijima 2018のアフタームービーです。

July 20, 2018 — While a contributor day in the core team gets you familiar with the technical parts of contributing to WordPress core, it usually does not provide further guidance for those who are interested in following up and contributing more than the first taster. Finding your spot among the core contributors and spending your contributing time efficiently can be a tough and tedious challenge. Furthermore, you may run into roadblocks or get frustrated quickly.

If you are interested in becoming a long-term contributor and influencing WordPress core sustainably, this talk is for you – even if you haven’t attended a contributor day before. The session will be a personal story that highlights benefits of contributing, provides recommendations on how to find your spot and build trust, and gives insights on which traits are particularly valuable to have or pick up. You will furthermore learn how contributing to core is by far not only about writing code. The goal of this session is to prepare you for a beneficial long-term relationship as a core contributor so that you can make a significant impact over time.

July 20, 2018 — Getting on Google’s radar isn’t as easy as having an SEO plugin and clicking publish. Find out how to research, plan, implement, and boost website and blog content to compete for the top results on search engines. This easy strategy will help drive traffic to your business or blog.

Tools we’ll be using: Google Keyword Tool, Yoast SEO, your preferred planner or calendar, a WordPress website for demonstration, Downloadable PDF cheat sheet and slides for this talk (No Prior SEO knowledge needed)

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July 19, 2018 — Do you need a simple membership site where users can submit their own content? Easily display that content? Come join me to talk about how you can use a tool you already have to automate collecting and displaying user-submitted content, and allow your users to manage their own membership. It’ll be fun! 🙂