January 11, 2019 — Frustrated with trying to make a living building WordPress websites? Think you just need to find the right theme for a project or learn a few more design tips? You’re not alone. This presentation will show you why it’s easy to get stuck and hard to get out of the Bermuda Triangle of Web Designer’s Hell – that place where you don’t know what you don’t know.

I’ll present a framework of seven core competencies to provide a foundation for becoming a skilled WordPress Designer who can price, close, create, and deliver effective WordPress websites for happy clients!

Takeaways:

Why you may be stuck.
The biggest mistake of broke web designers.
The Seven Core Competency Framework for becoming a Master Web Designer.

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January 8, 2019 — Pricing Websites Like a Pro

August 22, 2018 — Hosted by Bret Phillips, this panel will feature three successful business owners that specialize in building WordPress websites for different markets and client sizes.

The purpose of this panel is to help dissect the process of pricing your work so that you can continue to offer great value to your clients while staying profitable.

Freelancers will get a better understand of their own value and where to start.

Agencies and other staffed businesses will understand how to take profit into account when
pricing larger projects with many ‘unknowns’.

October 19, 2017 — Frustrated with trying to make a living doing WordPress websites? Think you just need to find the right theme for a project or learn a few more design tips? This presentation will let you in on what you don’t know you don’t know. I will present a framework you can follow to become a skilled WordPress Designer who can price, close, create, and deliver amazing, effective WordPress websites for happy clients!

April 8, 2016 — Come and learn the usability rules for home page design that will keep people on your website. Then we will take volunteers who want valuable user feedback and apply the rules that we just learned in giving actionable advice for improvement. This is a fantastic way to see web design problems and what to do about them in the wild. Fun and eye opening for all.

January 19, 2016 — Join us and find out best practices for user experience with websites. If you’d like to get some feedback or learn vicariously by watching critiques of other people’s sites, this is the place for you. Come prepared to with your website URL to get a boost on how to make your website rock.

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December 11, 2015 — What are the ingredients needed to create a committed WordPress Community in your city. Learn secrets to choosing topics, getting speakers, creating comraderie and keeping people active and involved. Then ask your questions!

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September 30, 2015 — How to create short videos for yourself or your clients with an iPad and a few other supplies. These are great for website mailing list opt-ins or webinar opt-ins on your WordPress websites.
Here are the links to the videos from the presentation.
Link to the completed promo video that I made to demonstrate the editing process:
https://vimeo.com/134686554
Link for the video on the editing process:
https://vimeo.com/134729613

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April 11, 2015 — Join us and find out best practices for home page content and design. If you’d like to get some feedback, this is the place for you. Be prepared to give us your website URL and we will tell you like it is!