December 13, 2013 — The great thing about our WordPress community is, while there is always going to be someone (or hundreds) of people who know more about something than any single individual, we all bring something unique to the table. It’s my hope that I validate some things you are doing right, shine some light on some areas you maybe hadn’t thought of before – or things you just haven’t had the courage to do or say.

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December 12, 2013 — We will discuss common issues that can face WordPress service providers, ranging from how to get more clients, pricing, contracts, project management, staying up-to-date, finding other people to hire or work with, marketing, sales, etc.

December 12, 2013 — If you’re running a business based on open source software like WordPress, your business depends on the prosperity of that project. The demise of the project could easily be the demise of your project and the project’s growth could lead to your business growing immensely. The larger your business becomes and the bigger the impact of your company on the project, the more this is true. Economically this is a very unusual situation. Joost will explore what this means and how you should deal with it.

This is pure economics; it starts with the well known story of the Tragedy of the Commons but, applied to open source, leads to a completely new outcome. If your business is build on WordPress, you should be here to listen to Joost’s talk and discuss afterwards.

November 29, 2013 — How do you determine if your site is living up to potential? This presentation tackles that question and discuss ways to gather information about how visitors interact with your website. It discusses how to use the information you gather to answer important questions about your sites (business) performance.

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November 10, 2013 — This session discusses the process used to hire developers for an agency with questions asked and some right and wrong answers to these questions.

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November 2, 2013 — This talk discusses tools used to automate the development process.

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October 31, 2013 — Panelists discuss their experience running a WordPress Development business. The panel will be moderated by Morten Rand-Hendrikson.

October 25, 2013 — Nicsocks – selling limited edition socks online with WordPress. A presentation at WordPress Meetup Cape Town

October 23, 2013 — This talk focuses on organizing your project and some tools and techniques for designing gorgeous, professional small to medium size business websites.

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October 16, 2013 — This talk discusses best design practices for a business website, how to promote the website, and how to use it to to generate leads and sales for both online and offline businesses.