May 14, 2017 — To help keep you up-to-date on the latest trends that have a powerful impact on an eCommerce store and its success, we’ve rounded up four design trends to incorporate into an eCommerce site. Each will have an impact on your customer’s first impression, how they engage with the site, whether they make a purchase or not and if they become repeat and loyal customers.

May 14, 2017 — Web optimization can be daunting, especially for WordPress users managing their own sites. However, optimization doesn’t have to be scary! It can be slow, iterative and worthwhile for all experience levels. As long as you understand why we optimize, overcome the fear, and follow best practices it’s possible to learn and grow from optimizations strategies, both large and small. WordPress is the place to be for web optimization.

May 14, 2017 — Over the past year Nathan Reimnitz has become quite successful at freelancing as a WordPress developer and has developed some tips, tricks, and strategies that have proven to be extremely effective a earning a great living as a freelancer. “Six Figure Freelancing” covers how Reimnitz manages to earn at least $100,000 every year as a freelancer and how you can too.

May 14, 2017 — Experiences with user interfaces should inspire confidence for what’s happening under-the-hood. It’s more than building snazzy dashboards and settings pages, it’s about creating intuitive products with screens that invite site owners to create websites they feel empowered to maintain. The WordPress Admin contains a number of powerful features for interfaces, workflows, input controls and APIs to interface with the database. We’ll explore when to use Core-bundled code, a third-party tools and some common patterns. Attendees will leave with documented code examples.

May 14, 2017 — Do you want to build a plugin, a theme, a website, or some other kind of side hustle, but you’re having trouble making the time to work on side projects? We all want to set up some kind of passive income or recurring revenue, but ti’s so hard to work on a side project when there are so many other demands on your time, energy, and attention. Let’s talk about minimizing distractions, staying focused, and carving out time to dedicate to your side hustle so you can stop wasting time and get it done. I’ll share how I’ve balanced running my own business with creating and running several successful side hustles over the past five years.

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May 14, 2017 — Members of the East Bay WordPress Meetup tell us what they love about WordPress (with a few words about the Meetup itself thrown in). Video editing by Tom Cusack.

May 14, 2017 — Growing your business is about building trust and whats more trusting then your voice? Where writing a blog post may not come easy to people, speaking is very natural, and intimate. Podcasting is growing (once again) and it’s not that hard to do! In this session I’ll show the workflow, best practices and ways to monetize.

May 14, 2017 — Having trouble showing up in local results? This session will provide essential information to increase your site’s chances of ranking in the local listings in Google.

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May 13, 2017 — Search and social media tend to be severely underestimated and misunderstood when it comes to driving traffic to a website. Understanding how they work together is essential and being great at it takes time. Join us and get a jump start on creating or reviving your current search and social media approach. Take away actionable tips that will boost your results right away as well as strategies that will help boost your business in the future.

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May 13, 2017 — Social Networks are increasingly pay to play. It’s easy for big brands to navigate the system what about the more nimble players? We’ve got your back. This session examines the art and science behind marketing campaigns–from the basics of growth hacking to ins-and-outs of paid content marketing.

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