Divi Chat

As you can see based on the definition we know a little about this 😉 Many of us technically are competitors but we’re friends first. Some of us still do collaborate on projects together, we still recommend each other’s products, and heck! we even started a podcast together  So this week we’ll talk about the benefits of coopetition for you, your competitor, and your industry in general. &#16...

Going niche just means getting more granular in your target market. Maybe you decide to stick to a specific industry, like photography clients or restaurants and hotels. Maybe you target only Divi users and really go all in with the ‘Divi Expert’ or ‘Divi Designer’ marketing like some of us have (with great results we might add!). This week we discuss our experiences and advice!   Hosts Prese...

If you offer maintenance plans you’re already productizing your services so why not expand that model? Maybe you enjoy styling forms or getting creative with Woo store pages, or are a natural with Mailchimp. Why not package that service up with a nice little bow and make it a “cartable” product? There are pros and cons to this, and some services may be better suited to productizing than othe...

Are you thinking it’s time to grow your team but are unsure how to do it? Or where to hire? Today we’re discussing when and how to scale your team based on our own experiences. We’ve actually discussed this every year now (see episodes 22 and 79 ) and it’s worth a revisit since a lot can happen in a year in tech, and in WordPress and Divi.   Hosts Present: Cory Jenkins – Aspen Grove Stu...

Facebook groups can be a great way to create a community around your business, service, or product. You may have found our podcast through a Divi fb group and probably know from experience how beneficial they are, but how can we apply that community aspect to our businesses? This week we discuss!   Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Josh Hall &#821...

Some clients are very tech savvy, some are not. Some know that a logo doesn’t come with a website build, others think they get social media marketing, a logo, a website, and built-in customers from the get-go. Bottom line is it’s up to us to inform them of all the details, the scope, the process — everything involved, and when we don’t communicate that well enough it can cause issues. Today we’ll...

This week on DC we’re discussing marketing strategies for your Divi products, like courses, plugins, child themes, etc. We’ve been in the “Divi biz” for a while so we’ll share our marketing tips.   Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Josh Hall – JoshHall.co / FB Tim Strifler &#8211...

How to get remote and/or local clients, this is something we discussed early on in our DC days on one of our first episodes. Back then we had silly graphics to play with in Google hangouts lol, you can view it here . Enough time has gone by for a topic revisit we think so this week we’ll be discussing how we find clients, both remote and local. Be interesting to see what’s changed (or not changed)...

This week we’ll be discussing our steps for creating a Divi website. There are a lot of steps someone can go through but we think we can narrow it down to a pretty good overview on the basic steps applicable to most sites.   Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler – Divi L...

This week we’ll be discussing the dreaded scope creep and ways to avoid it. What’s scope creep you ask? It’s when a client starts to ask for additional work that is “out of scope”, work that was *not* part of the agreed upon job in the beginning. Sometimes it can come in the form of seemingly simple change requests, and small requests can start to snowball into entirely new features. It’s ve...

We’re back for our first episode of 2019!! Woohoo!! We decided our first topic should be about the latest updates, both with WordPress and Divi. WordPress 5.0 was released just before the end of 2018 and Divi was updated as well with a slew of new features, and the new WP editor – dubbed Gutenberg – has been the talk of the community for some time. Nothing too technical in this c...

There’s a lot to cover when it comes to Google Analytics so we’re going to be touching on some basics of GA and data tracking. It’s not as scary as it seems to add to your site and you definitely SHOULD add it to your site.   Hosts Present: Josh Hall – JoshHall.co / FB Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Sarah Oates – Endure Web Studios  / FB / @endureweb Reso...

As 2018 comes to a close we thought we’d take a look back on some lessons we’ve learned, what we’ve achieved, what changes we went through (good and bad), what we’ve enjoyed most (and least!), and touch on our plans for the future and share any advice we can give to our amazing listeners.   Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc...

While Divi isn’t technically a framework for all intents and purposes it kind of is, it’s certainly as powerful as one anyway, so this week we’ll be discussing some reasons it may be beneficial to choose and stick with one WordPress theme framework such as Divi.   Hosts Present: Cory Jenkins – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tammy Grant – Sunflower Creatives / FB  / @you...

Email configuration can be confusing. How do you set it up? Should you have email accounts set up through your hosting or something like GSuite? Are non-domain email addresses frowned upon? So many questions regarding email when you’re starting out, and while we’re no experts we’ve certainly had to tackle questions like these ourselves. We’ll share what we’ve learned...

There are tons of places to learn Divi (and WordPress) so we’re sharing some of the best sources we know of, and Black Friday is soon so be sure to look for some deals!   Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc SJ James – divi.space / FB / @sociallysteve Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Sarah Oates – Endure Web Studios  / F...

How do you know when you’re ready to make your part-time side hustle your full-time career? Do you wait until you have a certain number of clients or certain amount of income coming in? What about security and stability? If you have a family to support it can be even scarier taking the leap into entrepreneurship. Of course we don’t have all the answers, but we all did it ourselves and...

This week we discuss handing off websites to clients. Do they all get admin access? Do we use any role editor plugins? What about training, do they need to be taught how to update blog posts or pages? Questions like these come up so we share our best practices for handing over the reigns.   Hosts Present: Cory Jenkins – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Josh Hall – JoshHal...

This week we discuss rejection and negative feedback. Sometimes clients may not like your proposed design, or maybe you don’t even get to the design because they’ve rejected the quote. Negative feedback in general can be difficult to deal with, especially when first starting out, and today we chat about our experiences and what we do to not let it get to us on a personal level.  ...

This week we celebrate our 100th episode YAAAAYYYY!!! Nick Roach — founder of Elegant Themes — was kind enough to join us for a casual chat about Divi and how far it’s come. He also mentions a possible future Divi update that hasn’t been shared on the ET blog or anywhere else, so be sure to watch! Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenk...

On today’s Divi Chat we’re discussing redesigning your own site — how often should you read design it? What/how does it help you learn about your own business? Should you hire someone else to do it?   Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler...

When is it more important to design for mobile first over desktop? Is it always? This week we’ll discuss designing for mobile and tools we use for testing and how we approach the desktop/mobile question. Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Stephanie Hudson –  Sweet Tea Media  /  FB  /  @EnjoySweetTea Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB / @timstrifl...

Staying balanced and healthy doing web design is our topic on DC this week! We’ll share routines and tips that help us stay sane as web designers.   Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Josh Hall – JoshHall.co / FB Sarah Oates – Endure Web Studios  / FB / @endureweb Nathan B....

Divi comes with access to literally hundreds of gorgeous layouts designed by Kenny Sing and his team! The layouts look great of course, but what happens when you start to customize them? If you’ve been using the layouts you know that sometimes the layout you love most simply doesn’t work with your content (or your client’s content). In this case it can be helpful to know some tip...

Divi is constantly having useful new features added to it so this week we discuss some of our favorites from recent months and how they’ve helped our workflows.   Hosts Present: David Blackmon – Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Josh Hall – JoshHall.co / FB Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Jason Champagne –  Elegant Themes  /  FB  /  @elegantthemes...