March 17, 2019 — Before even starting a project, plan what the content is by visualizing it. We’ll see how a book isn’t a record album yet they’re both a post. We’ll see that they all have different properties and we’ll plan out their entry. CPTs, postmeta and taxonomies; oh my!

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August 31, 2018 — This session by Patrick Mwachugu focused on;

1. Developer blueprint on delivering a successful large-scale project.
2. How to attract and quote the right price for a large scale project.
3. Valuable lessons and pitfalls one should avoid when delivering a large project

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August 24, 2018 — What makes WordPress so great to develop with? There’s so much that you don’t have to build! Users? Posts? Admin? Check! E-Commerce? Plugin! So why do we so often move from project to project from scratch? Why not take what we’ve built today and use it to make our work tomorrow better and faster to make? I will share my story and journey of starting at a company that always started from scratch, to now having great WordPress tools and boilerplates that make our lives easier and our clients happier. I’ll also share the tools we’ve built so you can benefit, too!

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August 24, 2018 — What makes WordPress so great to develop with? There’s so much that you don’t have to build! Users? Posts? Admin? Check! E-Commerce? Plugin! So why do we so often move from project to project from scratch? Why not take what we’ve built today and use it to make our work tomorrow better and faster to make? I will share my story and journey of starting at a company that always started from scratch, to now having great WordPress tools and boilerplates that make our lives easier and our clients happier. I’ll also share the tools we’ve built so you can benefit, too!

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August 24, 2018 — What makes WordPress so great to develop with? There’s so much that you don’t have to build! Users? Posts? Admin? Check! E-Commerce? Plugin! So why do we so often move from project to project from scratch? Why not take what we’ve built today and use it to make our work tomorrow better and faster to make? I will share my story and journey of starting at a company that always started from scratch, to now having great WordPress tools and boilerplates that make our lives easier and our clients happier. I’ll also share the tools we’ve built so you can benefit, too!

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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’.

August 19, 2018 — Regardless of its size, the most critical pillar of maintaining and growing your business is going to be servicing clients. For some of us, this is one of the most invigorating parts of what we do, for others, it can be one of the hardest.

In this talk the speaker will propose answers to the following questions:

1. How do you keep sensible boundaries with your clients?
2. How do you say NO without ruining your relationship with your client?
3. How do you make your client an ally instead of feeling like they’re an interruption?
4. How will really serving your client actually serve you?

In the whole gamut of clients, from solopreneurs to international global corporations, one thing is constant, you need your them more than they need you. How this often plays out is that you find yourself bending over backwards to keep them happy… sometimes to your own detriment.

In this talk you’ll learn how to make yourself indispensable to your clients, without becoming a doormat.

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August 13, 2018 — WordPress is promoted as a tool to easily publish content, but on the other hand, development of these WordPress projects is a different and complicated story. We will handle the touch points of each project at the workshop – clients, designs, bugs, deadlines, customer support, etc. – and determine which factors affect the deliverable of a typical WP project. We will put a special emphasis on business risk mitigation with WordPress project (not getting your money, breaking deadlines, adjusting budgets, making proper estimates, etc.). Workshop will process the three major phases of each WordPress project: planning and preparation, project implementation, support after launch.

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July 10, 2018 — WordPress projects can quickly derail into a series of scope creep items, frustrations, and missing clients. Having a simple and streamlined process to get information from the customer, gathering adequate feedback and keeping your project on task requires some easy adjustments to your process. Stop struggling with bad clients, projects that never end and designing websites to creating a whole experience that will turn nightmare clients into brand ambassadors. Running a WordPress design business is hard work, and there’s more to it than just making websites. Lee has put together real action steps that will take you from welcoming your new client to following up with your happy clients and your new referral sources.

March 5, 2018 — What is the process when starting WordPress project from scratch, from choosing theme, plugins, libraries, project organization, GIT workflow. If you follow some basic rules, your WordPress based development time will be far more less, and you will enjoy it.

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