February 27, 2018 — How to start your own company specializing in selling websites to companies and business organisations .Teach on how to start approaching your clients how to implement wordpress tools in your business how to make the most with wordpress to make yourself earn a living and the in depth tricks and tips on how to make use of wordpress to better your service you offer and also how to develop your wordpress skills to better your knowledge of using it and how to start develop your custom Themes and plugins.

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February 27, 2018 — Lessons learned from developing and maintaining the GitHub Updater plugin. How I deal with bugs, feature requests, issues, PRs, user support, and more.

Everything I learned about plugin support I learned in the operating room. Interacting with surgical patients and their families involves a similar skill set as maintaining an open source software project. I’m not so certain that the reverse is true so as the saying goes, “Don’t try this at home.” But come find out my surgical pearls to software support.

February 27, 2018 — It’s common to view your competitors in business as barriers. However, if you shift your thinking to view your competitors as opportunities for collaboration, something unique can happen. In this talk, Tim and I share our experience from partnering with competitors in a crowded niche WordPress market, through “Coopetition”, to help us grow our business to over 7 figures annually and achieve success. In this talk we will be sharing our journey of how working together has helped explode our WordPress business. Through the world’s eyes, the people we partner with are competitors. We’ll be sharing some of the benefits of coopetition, as well as some practical ways that listeners can turn their competition into coopetition.

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February 27, 2018 — We’ll talk about what trends to look out for in 2018, how to create content that resonates and converts, and current SEO tips and tricks to be found on the web.

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February 26, 2018 — Ever wondered just how many WordPress plugins you should use? Or how you ought to choose one from a hundred?

February 26, 2018 — Container management is a very new technology that is going to change the way in which servers run applications and as such most companies and IT professionals have already started using containers to run their applications on their servers. WordPress happens to be one of the most used applications and this talk will give you a heads up on how to use WordPress with containers on your own VPS or physical server. Docker happens to be the best container management software out there and as such it will be our software of choice.

February 26, 2018 — My goal is to get the community to value their work so as to charge more for their services to the clients. This will make us have local success stories and create a vibrant industry for ourselves. I will share the strategies and ideas to make this happen.

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February 26, 2018 — When a project goes wrong, most of the time it fails as a result of mismatched expectations. This can be avoided for most clients by following a repeatable and thorough discovery process. Understanding how to ask the right questions up front can mean the difference between happy clients who are eager to give you more business and nightmare clients who can never be satisfied.

This session will focus on:

– Asking the right questions
– Controlling the conversation
– Creating maintainable expectations
– Using discovery throughout your business

February 26, 2018 — WordPress is a ubiquitos content packaging and distribution platform that seamlessly integrates with cogs in content display on both desktop and mobile platforms. Its current versions comes with built in responsiveness and displays propoerly on almost all digital connected devices. The world of content consumption is changing with statistics showing that the number of users consuming digital content through mobile devices is growing compared to desktop and laptops. Well, that brings an opportunity which WordPress is filling up, that is developing for mobile. That alone is not enough, but now putting more power in the hands of the selective user means creating mobile applications. Quite a number of solutions have been placed forward but WordPress brings in the best opportunity and I therefore propose to discuss and demonstrate available solutions to use in converting your WordPress website to a mobile application available on all common platforms.

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February 26, 2018 — By most accounts, marketing automation is the greatest thing since… well, since email marketing. The ability to qualify leads and build demand in a fully automated workflow frees us marketers from the high-pressure requirements of constant writing, email development, and deployment tasks.

It also enables us to more appropriately personalize content and send messages that are both timely and relevant. In this session, Blast, Drip, & Nurture, we define the differences between email blasts, drip emails, and nurture emails and how you can use automated-marketing solution to subjugate these tasks for subscribers.

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