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We Have a Special Guest For This Week's Show Michelle Schulp: https://marktimemedia.com/ 1 - WordPress Ends Support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5, Bumps Minimum Required PHP Version to 5.6 https://wptavern.com/wordpress-ends-support-for-php-5-2-5-5-bumps-minimum-required-php-version-to-5-6 2 - T-Mobile starts testing wireless home internet service https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275640/tmobile-lte-wirele...

Daniel has a background in Direct Response advertising (PPC ads etc), but ironically, its his Content Marketing that people know him for He's had the top 10 content of all time on inbound.org and Top content of 2017 + 2018 on GrowthHackers (He even had one viral post generate $3 million in client requests in 2 weeks) Spend my spare time in the ocean or in the mountains, or nerding out with some go...

- WordPress Explores Proposal for New Block Directory to Host Single Block Plugins https://wptavern.com/wordpress-explores-proposal-for-new-block-directory-to-host-single-block-plugins 2 - Mark Ritson: For the first time big tech faces a credible threat of breakup https://www.marketingweek.com/2019/03/13/mark-ritson-big-tech-credible-threat-breakup/ 3 - My 5 Biggest Failures as a Marketer and Entr...

We’re Travis and Amanda Northcutt. We work with membership sites of all shapes and sizes and have a long track record of success in helping people plan, grow, optimize, and scale their memberships. Amanda was the Director of Sales for a multi million dollar membership site for 10 years. She took an early retirement to refocus her life and pack her family up to start traveling full time in 2015 bef...

We had a great show here with special guest this Friday Show John James Jacoby co-host of WordPress Weekly podcast. 1 - Pantheon raises $40 million to manage Drupal and WordPress websites https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/05/pantheon-raises-40-million-to-manage-drupal-and-wordpress-websites/ 2 - Mark Zuckerberg outlines a ‘privacy-focused’ revamp of Facebook https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/06/mark-...

Why Are Your Possible Customers Choosing The Competition, Even When Your Product Or Service Is Clearly Superior? Simon's approach is methodical, thorough and thoughtful and it does not always follow the status quo. He rigorously handpick the best of marketing thinking that many never get access to and simplify it for small businesses (even if it goes against popular click-bait headlines). Above al...

This week we have a special guest panelist and friend of the show Carrie Dills 1 - WORDPRESS: USERS, STAKEHOLDERS, AND KNOWN UNKNOWNS https://mor10.com/wordpress-users-stakeholders-and-known-unknowns/   https://wptavern.com/gatsby-wordpress-themes-project-partners-with-theme-shops-to-port-popular-themes-to-gatsby 2 - We Analyzed 13 Billion Log Entries – Here’s What We Learned https://kinsta.com/bl...

How To Get More Clients For Your Course/Membership Website Liston works directly with hundreds of freelancers, consultants, and small agency owners. So far 100% of the people he has spoken to, coached, or consulted didn’t set out to become a master salesperson. Eventually, though, they realized that the lack of a quality sales process was holding them back. If you’re reading this, I will venture t...

We Have Two Special Guest Panelists On This Week's Show Marieke van de Rakt CEO of Yoast and Heather Wide co-founder of Roceteer Marieke van de Rakt: Marieke is the founder of Yoast Academy, the SEO training portal of Yoast. She joined the company in 2013 after obtaining her Ph. D. in Social Sciences and after working also at various universities. https://yoast.com/new-ceo-marieke-van-de-rakt/  He...

The Power of Webinars to Promote Your Membership Website! This week's guest, Joel Erway, chief strategist for the Webinar Agency and host of the popular “Sold With Webinars Podcast.” We discuss how to us the power of webinars to promote your course and membership website! The goal of The Webinar Agency is to educate its visitors, users, and customers on how to leverage webinars, funnels, sales mes...

We have a special interview with David Cohen who is the leading self-confessed troll who started the Twitter storm over #joostdevalk and #yoastcon. Should Joost de Valk be the new marketing head and public face of the WordPress community? We also discuss these other leading other web news stories of the week. 1 - The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainab...

John Nemo is an author, speaker, 1-on-1 business coach and consultant, John Nemo helps individuals, organizations and businesses boost their brand, generate sales leads and increase revenue. The son of two English teachers, John grew up in a home where the basement walls were lined floor-to-ceiling with books. A lifelong love of story led him to a career in journalism, where he started his career...

didn’t know what to make of the post and the Twitter storm linked to this article. I usually try and keep my distance from Twitter and its drama because I don’t need the negatively in my life. So I tend to dismiss these type of stories. However, I think I was wrong about this because with some personal reflection I think there are some disturbing parts to this story connected to how Joost de Valk...

We Interview Successful Online Female Entrepreneur Who Plays Big and Means Business! Are you looking at producing an online course using the power of WordPress but don’t know how you’re going to successfully market your course don’t worry Ashley has some actionable insights and answers Ashley Ryan is a female entrepreneur who plays big and means business. She has consulted for Fortune 500 companie...

We have interesting WP-Tonic round-table show here with Adam Silver KitchensinkWP Podcast joining us as a special guest panelist our main story we discuss is the interview that the WordPress Weekly podcast recently did with Morten Rand-Hendriksen (who part of this panel ) and Rachel Cherry to discuss WordPress Governance projec t. Here's a list of the other stories we discuss during the show. 1 -...

We interview one of my online heroes Ryan Carson CEO TreeHouse. Ryan is a real cool cat who recently been saying some very controversial things connected to higher education and how the present situation is failing students. If you thinking of starting a online business based training you really need to. listen to this interview. https://teamtreehouse.com/

Matt Medeiros from Matt Report podcast joins us on this weeks WP-Tonic round-table show. we have great conversation where we start by discussing the news that “WordPress.com Secures $2.4 Million in Funding from Google and Partners to Build a Publishing Platform for News Organizations.” We also have some great insight from the penal connected to Elementor new Popup Builder.   This weeks WordPress &...

Yaro has been lucky enough to speak at some of the biggest events in his industry, including Social Media Marketing World. he been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Foundr, Huffington Post and been interviewed in over 250 podcasts. Yaro also the author of the original ‘Blog Profits Blueprint’ (downloaded over 250,000 times) and been ranked as a ‘Top 10 Blogger and Podcaster https://inboxdone.com/...

1 - WPCampus Selects Tenon LLC for Gutenberg Accessibility Audit, Completed Report Expected in February https://wptavern.com/wpcampus-selects-tenon-llc-for-wp-campus-gutenberg-accessibility-audit-completed-report-expected 2 - Caution: GoDaddy is Adding Unwanted JavaScript to Websites https://www.searchenginejournal.com/caution-godaddy-is-adding-unwanted-javascript-to-websites/286429/ 3 - Visual Co...

Videos are no longer an up and coming trend. Your audience expects you to incorporate engaging video content into your online course material. The only problem is that hosting video content on your own server can quickly take up a lot of space and other server resources. With this in mind, in this post, we’ll run the rule over some of the best video hosting sites for course creators and list out t...

Every Friday at around 8:30am PST we have a panel of WordPress and Internet junkies and we discuss best #WordPress news stories and also the most interesting #onlinemarketing and #webdevelopment articles of the week. You can watch the show live on WP-Tonic’s YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/Wptonicgoogle/live

#359 WP-Tonic Show: 10 Best WordPress LMS Plugins to Create and Sell Courses Online? #LifterLMS Free https://lifterlms.com/ #LearnDash $159.00 1-site license https://www.learndash.com/ #361 With Special Guest Sidney Clevinger #WP Courseware $129 2-site license https://www.wp-tonic.com/blog/10-best-wordpress-lms-plugins-to-create-and-sell-courses-online/   4 - #Sensei single site $129.00 https://wo...

In this episode of the WP-Tonic show we discuss with Spencer Forman how WordPress in 2019 compares to some of the leading marketing landing page platforms like #ClickFunnels, #LeadPages or #HubSpot. What is the stack of WordPress plugins particularly #CartFlows you should consider connected building effective marketing website for your business? https://www.clickfunnels.com/ https://www.leadpages....

We discuss in our first show of 2019 how you can effectively promote your successful course in 2019 so you can get more sells and increase its profitability by using WordPress these basic marketing ideas! Tip #1: Create Course Bundles Tip #2: Create Multiple Subscription Tiers Tip #3: Upsell Membership Plans and Add-Ons Tip #4: Create Multiple Content Types Tip #5: Facilitate Discussions Tip #6: A...

From Nurse to running a large and successful online course based business Jonathan has an amazing story to share. Also on Friday 21st of December at 1pm PST he will be doing a webinar about video cameras while you might be able to win a professional video camera worth around $3,000. See link below. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Z_r6Ba5S1-8RJS6XmOOjQ