June 20, 2017 — Jason is partner and head of Finance at WordImpress.
In his talk he was discuss:
-How our firm used the “free downloads metric” to monitor paid growth in year 1 of Startup (we are now in year 3 of GiveWP.com)
-How we used financial projecting to grow from 4-8 employees with no outside investors
-Planning our internal “hours as dollars” against Code base assets and COG expenses
-Using Cash Flow projections rolling three months to plan for product development cycle budgets
-Budgeting marketing, quarterly without understanding future sales
-Release learnings vs. free and vs. paid and how our projecting formulas change as our business matures
-Projecting renewals

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June 20, 2017 — Daniel is the founder of JDS WebDesign, a digital marketing strategy company that helps small- to mid-size companies.
Daniel explained, how to create a residual income plan for web designer and developers and how to get your existing and new clients to invest in your management plans.

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June 20, 2017 — WCEU 2017 Paris, France
All scenes were captured by the official WCEU video team and created with the WP VIDEO EDITOR plugin.

June 20, 2017 — Don’t be caught flat-footed! It’s time to get migrate to HTTPS. Google Search is actively pushing non-HTTPS websites to the second and third results pages. Additionally, the Google Chrome browser has started to show “Not Secure” notices when a webpage isn’t HTTPS compliant. An overwhelming percentage of WordPress websites are not HTTPS compliant.

June 20, 2017 — Shivam is a Senior Software Engineer with BlogVault. He spends most of his time glued to a computer writing codes directly/indirectly related to WordPress.

WordPress is huge. One of the greatest things about WordPress is that it’s open source; which also means that it is really well understood. WordPress powers more than 25% of the web and it’s steadily moving towards the 30% mark. Thousands of third-party plugins and themes are available. All these points that make WordPress great, also make WordPress extremely vulnerable to hacking. Also, the scale and complexity of WordPress provides for a large attack surface.

June 20, 2017 — Shelly Peacock is the founder of the Spinbird Group, a WordPress Consulting and Design Group. She has a “full-stack” professional background of over 15 years which includes sales, marketing, and social media training.

She gave quick customization tips. Also explained about incorporate Page Builders for even more speed and flexibility.

June 20, 2017 — Tony lives in Asheville, NC, and operates Digital Strategy Works, a digital-strategy consulting company guiding small businesses on WordPress-related platform development.

Standardization creates a great framework in that every site you work on, you know and understand each tool you used to build into your site. It makes it much easier to update, maintain, and create.
By standardizing and eliminating processes that no longer work or are antiquated, you can build sites faster with less exposure to cost overruns. Getting to market quickly on time and within budget is important to a business owner trying to solve a problem or launch their service.

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June 19, 2017 — WordCamp Orange County 2017 – Business Track
HOST: Jeff Turner

June 19, 2017 — WordCamp Orange County 2017 – Business Track
HOST: Jeff Turner

June 19, 2017 — WordCamp Orange County 2017 – Business Track
HOST: Jeff Turner