October 10, 2016 — Online courses are hot in business, right now, and the best classes are much more than a series of videos. With WordPress, you can create a perfect platform for learning along with solid courses to serve your audience. We’ll explore what makes a great platform and a solid course plus WordPress configuration options to create this. From bbPress and Learning Management Systems to BuddyPress, we’ll look at what’s possible along with difficulty levels of the various implementations.

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October 10, 2016 — Varvara Lyalyagina is a Communications Specialist who helps website owners and developers & designers communicate on the same wave length.

October 8, 2016 — The transfer of information is paramount in design. Technology has made it possible to consume a mass of information in minimal time – is your design helping the flow of this information, or hindering it? While accessibility for those with challenges is one end of the spectrum, have you been designing for the other end? Have you been designing for telepathy or those with advanced capabilities? This talk will explore the spectrum of accessibility for both the challenged and the more advanced in today’s design.

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October 8, 2016 — Learn the correct way to enqueue scripts, how to load scripts only when they’re needed instead of all the time, and how to write your JavaScript in a way that minimizes the potential for conflicts with other plugins or with themes.

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October 8, 2016 — We’ll discuss tools that can help you create a sustainable business. I’ll touch on various tools and specifically detail how you can use automation to get over the hump by saving your time, nurture leads, and get more revenue.

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October 8, 2016 — There’s an old saying that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. You can build almost anything with WordPress, but should you? If you build a single landing page or a 5-page brochure site in WordPress, you may be burdening your client with the cost and effort of constant maintenance of a site they might update once in a year. But if you don’t use a CMS when you need one, managing that site is going to be a nightmare for the client. Here’s how to explain to clients what a content management system is, how to tell whether they need one, where to go if they don’t, and why WordPress is worth the higher cost of hosting, the ongoing maintenance, and the time it takes to learn how to use it in the first place.

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October 8, 2016 — Dissection of website development from the ground up for a millennial news website project for Ovation TV. Session will show off wireframes, UI mockups, Custom Post Types, plugins and dare I say it? Code.

October 8, 2016 — When your website is accessible, all users can access your content no matter their abilities. Visually-impaired users can visit your website using a screen reader.

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October 8, 2016 — Even if you’re not trying to compete with Amazon, it’s good to know your customers and competition. While building your WooCommerce store you’ll want to know some items to consider that will help you to build a meaningful brand that your customers will be loyal to.

In this session we’ll touch on tactical items you can include on your site/store to increase customer loyalty

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October 8, 2016 — Scaling Your WordPress Support for Growth

Supporting your products well is one of the best ways to ensure solid growth of your company. But growth also puts additional strain on your support team. This presentation will give you tools to understand how to scale your support before your team gets overwhelmed.

There are several important factors that go into scaling a support team. The primary ones revolve around the following:
Understanding Support is Generated from Sales
Knowing How Much Support You Can Sustain
Knowing How Much Time you Need to Train New Staff
This presentation will cover those items in detail with tools, resources, and live data based on our experiences at WordImpress

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