The Builders

In this solo episode I talk about my absolute FAVORITE topic.  WordPress!  This one is inspired by a Twitter post..  someone was asking if any of ‘us’ were experiencing people moving away from WordPress.  Of course, that's anecdotal right?  But it’s a great spring board into talking about why continuing to use, build sites with WordPress or move to WordPress is still a GRE...

In this weeks episode we are joined by Michael DeLon.  He is a marketing strategist focused on helping business owners develop their message, write (speak to write) their book and market it via his marketing systems.  We begin by taking a bit of a dive into his story and journey.  How he ended up where he is today helping businesses as a consultant. From there we have a great conver...

On this episode we are joined by AJ Saunders.  AJ is the founder of AJS Digital Group and has been doing digital marketing for over a decade.  We start by chatting about his background and some things we have in common.  We both were members of the Warrior forum. I go back a little further.. early 2000s on that forum.  He joined around 2010.  But we both have similar exper...

In this solo episode, I talk about the very real problem of all these money opportunities online that distract us from what we should be doing.  This is not a new problem.  I first started seeking opportunities online around 2003.  And through the last few decades I’ve seen a lot of trends and opportunities come and go. But I’ve enjoyed success in a number of arenas.  And a BIG...

Today I’m joined by Roland Pokornyik, the founder of Chamaileon.io .  Roland decided to become an entrepreneur at age 16 and has been on a journey building software products online ever since.  While riding a train one day, he looked at his email.. and it dawned on him that they look pretty bad on mobile devices.  And that’s when he decided to enter the ‘email builder’ market and de...

In this episode I’m joined by Cristina Samoila.   She’s unBEElievable ( her website is beeproductive.eu .. see what I did there? ) at what she does for her clients.  She helps businesses create scalable automations, systems and processes inside their business to help them run a smoother, more efficient business that is set to grow faster and smarter. I have her start telling her sto...

In this episode I’m joined by Atiba De Souza.  Atiba has been around a long time on the web!  He started building websites in the mid-90s .  And in fact, they did something really, really innovative for that time.  They built website search engines!  BEFORE GOOGLE!  That story alone is so fascinating. We’re taken through the evolution of the web in this one..  In...

In this episode, I’m joined by Christina Hooper.  Today she helps those that have fallen out of love with the business.. helping entrepreneurs take things to the next level via consulting and speaking at events.  While she’ll tell you her entrepreneurial story isn’t anything special, I’ll beg to differ.  While it’s not flashy, it’s certainly inspiring none the less.  We all arr...

In this episode I virtually sat down with Genesis Amaris Kemp.  She’s a Visionary Life Coach, Motivational Speaker, Author and Podcaster.  We began the conversation as we often do by listening to her story, her journey, in her own words.  As she puts it, we discussed the lows and highs .. we talk about the lows too because that is what contributed to her development personally and p...

Our guest today is Inbal Claudio.  We listen to her story from working in the service industry, starting a real estate brokerage, starting her own candle company to pivoting to a tech startup  We all hear the stories of non-techie founders who try to start a tech company or build an app with no experience.  She was the same, but she found her way through this gauntlet!  A lot o...

In this episode we are joined by Laura Raynak.  She shares her long journey through corporate America and how she landed where she is today as a successful business owner.  This journey includes many challenges and a path of discovery.  It includes moments she had to stick up for herself, fight and make difficult moves to continue to move forward with her career.  It’s a story...

In this solo episode, I talk about the launch of my new WordPress product, Unified Email Capture .. that was happening the day after this recording!   And did launch by the way.  :-) This plugin is the first of a series of plugins we are launching that will eventually form what we call a ‘toolkit’. This toolkit is first and foremost going to be used in-house for our own sites and cl...

In today’s episode, Bridget returns to share her business’s story with us.  We start by laying the groundwork..  and maybe getting a little distracted talking about social media (totally my fault, haha).  Then we’re taken on an intriguing journey .. how it started through what things look like today. Why did she leave her job?  What she doesn’t like about working for others.. &...

One of the goals of The Builders is to share stories to inspire the listener and learn from; real life stories from the trenches.  Being that pricing is such a critical component of so many businesses and agencies, this is a topic that we should visit from time to time. Building off of Episode 4, I share my personal pricing strategies and how it's evolved over the years.  What’s happened...

Today I’m joined by Ben Gabler.  Ben is the Founder & CEO of Rocket.net (a web hosting company).  As we do with all our guests, the first episode is always about the person and their journey.  So we dive into his backstory and how he fell in love with his craft. His family always operated businesses so it was natural for him to gravitate to building a business.  Uniquely, i...

Danielle’s back for a 3rd episode! In this one, we check in to see how her web development business is going and to talk WordPress shop. Of course, that’s how we started. Both of us are pretty passionate about WordPress so it’s natural for us to go there. 🙂 We talked about the current state of WordPress, blocks and full-site editing (FSE themes). I was happy to hear she is ready to build her firs...

In this episode Matt’s joined by Matt Campbell. We dig deep into his journey building a wedding site that enjoys 4 million visitors a year due to use SEO & Content Efforts . It’s not by accident either. As you listen, you realize he’s doing exactly what he was cut out to do. Matt’s love for music led him straight into a career as a DJ early in life. And like many of us, life happened, he got m...

On this solo episode, Matt dives deep into what influences him.  The key is what shaped his mindset, attitude and stick to it’ness can be found back in his early 20s (3 decades ago).  In those days he was one of those young people that were lost, mad at the world, and just wanted to have fun -- and be an artist.  But it wasn’t easy and it wasn’t playing out like he’d envisioned or h...

Today I’m joined by Joe Matz. Over the last 30 years Joe has run and owned a variety of businesses . From restaurants to schools. But what’s most interesting is he’s done that in 3 different countries! He spent years in Italy (twice), years in Brazil and back here in the United States. One of his big strengths is going into business knowing literally nothing.. not even the language. He had to lear...

Matt is joined by.. I mean, Doland is joined by Matt Levenhagen! What? Doland had this great idea to do a Sadie Hawkins episode.. but instead of the girls asking the boys to the dance, Doland turns the tables and interviews Matt about his business. It was a lot of fun! So we talk about how I ended up doing what I do. Why did I decide to start an agency? We talk a LOT about ‘truth’ in business. How...

Matt’s trying something brand new in this episode. He’s always been a big fan of follow alongs himself.. following along while someone or a business does ‘something’. Today you’ll listen in as he shares highlights from a week at his agency. Real calendar items, real projects.. what his team is working on. Follow along as he shares the type of meetings he has - how many meetings does he have on a w...

Today Matt talks about identifying the pain points on a website and solving them. Matt is the founder of a web design agency and their whole job is to help a client identify and solve these issues. After defining what pain points are in this context, he provides 7 examples for real world projects he’s been involved with. Sometimes a problem stems from how a site was coded or designed. Sometimes it...

In this solo episode Matt takes you through his design process.  Besides doing web development, website maintenance and custom coding work, they design websites!  And wouldn’t it be amazing to pull back the curtain a bit and see how they take a clients vision, how they work with a client and translate that to a design mockup?  Which in turn can be translated to code? It all starts w...

Today I’m joined by Nathan S. Bryan, PhD.  Dr. Bryan is an international leader in molecular medicine and nitric oxide biochemistry. He has been involved in nitric oxide research for the past 18+ years and has made many seminal discoveries in the field. These discoveries and findings have transformed the development of safe and effective functional bioactive natural products in the treatment...

In this episode Matt updates the builders crew about his own business. Besides this podcast, his primary business is running a web design agency and is on a track to launch a new product later this year. A lot of what Matt does revolves around WordPress. He’s been building sites since ~2004 with WordPress and has specialized in WordPress development since 2012. While discussing the state of Unifie...