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Today we chat with Jason Resnick, a seasoned WordPress pro, who has been working with WordPress and eCommerce pretty much when it all started out! We\'re talking today about \'word of mouth\' marketing. Now, most people when asked about word of mouth will probably see this as something that happens organically, something that you don\'t really have all that much control over. After all it\'s happe...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 6th April 2020

This is the WordPress.org page builders i.e. Beaver Builder, Elementor, Divi, Oxygen, Brizy etc, against Wix, Weebly, Squarespace etc. In this debate we\'re talking about building a standard brochure sites that may need a blog or a shopping cart. So it\'s not about building out a complex, bespoke site that has masses of unique features. It\'s about something that\'s simple and can be done with the...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th March 2020

Today is a little different from the episodes that we\'ve been putting out of late. It\'s a story of one man and his journey with using WordPress. We talk today with David Decker. You might have seen him around the WP Builds Facebook Group from time to time, and if you haven\'t been in there you really should as he\'s one of the many friendly faces who are there offering helpful advice and experti...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd March 2020

There’s many types of businesses providing websites and marketing to many different client types. We have self-employed freelancers seeing it more as their vocation or as a side gig. Then we have large Agencies with teams of specialists, designers, UX experts, frontend and backend developers, project manager and a whole load more. Anyone who knows us we know we are really the former. Why the debat...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th March 2020

Trigger warning - this episode touches up on the subject of bereavement and so, you may want to bear that in mind before you listen. So today I\'m talking with Albert Brückmann, the founder of EmergencyWP which is a WordPress plugin that you can use to protect your legacy, both online and offline. Think of EmergencyWP as a way of a silo of information that you would like to pass on to anyone in th...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th March 2020

To avoid things getting stale we decided to mix it up for a while and challenge ourselves by arbitrarily taking one side each in some of the great debates in WordPress. The idea is that it might make us dig harder in to topics, give us a focus and force us to look at other perspectives. So today we\'re tackling the WordPress debate of the moment \'Page Builders v The Block Editor (Gutenberg)\'. Wi...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd March 2020

Want to learn about Advanced Custom Fields for WordPress? Join founder Elliot Condon as we talk about the plugin... past, present and future. We talk about what the plugin does and how it can transform the kind of sites that you\'re able to build. We then go on to chat about the last couple of years and how Elliot had had to put in a lot of work to make sure that ACF was ready for the 5.0 release...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th February 2020

This episode is all about trying to make some kind of impact... how you can actually get people to notice what it is that you\'re doing and make them want to care about it, enough perhaps to become your client. So for this people really need to know what it is that you do. Not for a myriad of things that you might be interested in doing, but the core things that you do well and that are profitable...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th February 2020

Today we stray into waters that we don\'t often swim in. We\'re talking about Agile development and launching a Minimal Viable Product, and the person I\'m talking to is Marius Vetrici. Marius is a WordPress developer and runs an agency of twelve people... so he\'s got to have all his processes in place to ensure that his business is profitable and that his clients are happy. This discussion centr...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th February 2020

This episode is looking at who we think our idea WordPress clients might be and where we might find them. There\'s more to this subject than meets the eye! for a start, when are the people who we\'re trying to engage as clients actually receptive to our messages? It might not be at the times that you think are suitable. Perhaps they work late into the evening, or the team is dotted all over the gl...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd February 2020

On the WP Builds WordPress Podcast today with have Patrick Gallagher from Gridpane. We talk about their mission to save you time and hassle when you build and host WordPress websites. They have a unique product which is being discussed a lot right now. We talk about how the company got started and how it is that they go the extra mile so that you don\'t have to. It\'s little things like not making...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th January 2020

So many places to post your marketing messages and so many forms that they can take. What options are there and are any more useful than the others? We\'re taking another dive into the \'Watertight Marketing\' book by Bryony Thomas, and exploring an area that neither David or I (Nathan) are particularly experienced at. We go over as many ways as we can think of for getting your (or your client) me...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 20th January 2020

Creating content on your WordPress website that attracts people can be hard if you don\'t have a plan. Miles Beckler has a system to create content that people want to read. It\'s a simple system too. It might be something that you\'ve implemented in the past, but it might be completely new to you. The approach is about creating content that you know that people are searching for, and for that you...