June 18, 2020 — There comes a time in most people’s careers where they make the leap from primary contributor to manager. While this looks different for everybody, together we’ll discuss some of the challenges, symptoms, and ways we can identify ourselves within our new role. We’ll also talk about what ‘success’ looks like and how managing tasks is different than managing people

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January 23, 2020 — Dream Chasing: Unusual lessons in Personal and Business Success by Nirav Mehta

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November 21, 2018 — How to deliver and receive success and excellence

This talk will focus on the success and failures from building a 6 figure plugin sales business.

Have you ever made a plugin, and asked yourself what on earth you were thinking?

Or did you buy a plugin and it had no end of problems, but the developers weren’t supportive?

Some plugins are great, work seamlessly with your website, and deliver on what they promised.

Some are really, really bad. Just awful. Refund me now! Your website stops working, there are constant problems, the plugin developer is useless.

Chris Bryant has had some major plugin failures, and some great successes over the past 10 years, in his web development firm.

In this non technical talk, Chris will share his successes and failures with making plugins over the past decade. Topics to cover include:

For Business Owners

Why your website company might be the worst people to make your plugin.
What makes a good WordPress plugin?
Setting expectations – What do you get for your money when you buy that $15 plugin?
Why does the plugin you bought not work as expected?
Why is it so expensive to have one system talk to another and what can I do about it?
The role of quality, accuracy and price in choosing a plugin developer.
For Web Developers

What happened when we were overloaded with support requests.
How the smallest Git almost crushed us.
The time we were told our plugin was about to be removed.
How to build a successful business with WordPress plugins.
Case Studies
We’ll also cover a broad range of case studies which will provide valuable insights to both business owners and developers, including:

The rarer one – $10,000 plugin
The everyday gem – $500 plugin
The big win – increasing plugin value with incremental improvement
The complex one – Enterprise financial integration & risk management

April 3, 2018 — Of je nu aannemer of uitvaartondernemer bent, en of je nu mayonaise, rollators of kinderwagens produceert of auto’s, taarten, bh’s of EHBO-cursussen verkoopt; als je je website inzet als visitekaartje dan mis je de kansen van nu.

Oriëntatie voor bijna iedere aankoop – B2B én B2C – start digitaal. Ben je daar niet waardevol? Dan is de kans groot dat deze potentiële klant niet voor jou kiest.
Aan de hand van aansprekende voorbeelden neemt Bas je mee. Tijdens de workshop breng je je marketing en salesfunnel in kaart en je maakt een actieplan om van jouw site in 2018 een verkoopmachine te maken die serieus gaat bijdragen aan je leads en omzet.

De Digitale Slagkracht Methode is de blauwprint voor meer omzet in het digitale tijdperk met WordPress, inclusief de tools en WP Plugins die je kan gebruiken om morgen aan de slag te gaan.

De workshop is erop gericht om met WordPress jouw bedrijf te doen groeien.

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November 17, 2017 — Working for a company or starting your own blogging path? In this talk, Ivana Cirkovic will share her tips and examples on how to write good, well-targeted blog posts that provide value and help both your clients and yourself in getting exposure and success you strive for.

October 27, 2017 — How using WordPress became a pillar of my success as a Personal Trainer.

Gregory Dzemaili is the founder, owner and head coach of Lebe Stark Personal Training; a Personal Training Service and Gym based in the eastern part of Switzerland. With 4 years of experience as a certiefeid fitness instructor, Blackroll- and Kettlebell Trainer, he’s equipped with a solid, professional and necessary foundation in fitness and strength traininig.

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October 17, 2017 — Are you ready to take your next step? Do you want to have a competitive edge? Do you want to do more work that you love and have more success while doing it?

Learn how uncovering your personal brand can have a direct impact on getting more of what you want; it’s a combination of art and science.

In this interactive, hands-on workshop with Laura Willis you’ll learn:

What a personal brand is and why it’s important
Why passion is critical and contagious
Who your “target audience” is and the value you bring to them
Identify how you “show up” and the perception you create
Understand the science and power of connection and how it works
Where it fits into all of your communications
When you uncover your authentic personal brand, you get clearer about the vision you have for your life, how you want to live it and achieve it.

October 13, 2017 — Now this will be an eye-catching talk. Not only will you understand the value of applying neuromarketing to your website for online success, I will also build upon my successful talk from last year (Verleid het brein), presented at WordCamp NL.

After learning the basic principles of neuromarketing you will get a ‘behind the screen’ of how Neurofied applies neuromarketing to the websites of our impact-driven clients. With concrete examples you can leverage this immediately to improve your online success.

We will distill extensive research and our experience in neuromarketing into practical take-aways that you can apply to your website tomorrow.

January 21, 2017 — The Path to Success with WordPress: Business, Blogging and Community

WordPress is software like no other. Every fourth website you encounter was built using it. Creative skills are mastered with it. Businesses harness its versatility. It has the power to bring together people from diverse backgrounds. Yet to so many, it’s “just” software. As a blogger, web designer, marketer, educator, and entrepreneur since long before its existence, I’ve watched it grow into a worldwide phenomenon. My own path to success is intertwined with a decade of WordPress use. Clearly, there’s more to this software than just a free install.

September 30, 2016 — Why self-host on WordPress versus other options? What are the revenue opportunities?

I’ll share some of my experiences starting out with WordPress, how it affected my business and life and the tools you could use to achieve success.