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Email & Marketing Automation Done The Right Way! ActiveCampaign began as a solution for business owners who needed to keep in touch with their contacts. There was a demand for a powerful, easy-to-use solution at a reasonable price in a market that lacked options. Over the years, the company has seen a number of drastic transitions. We cut our product line from eight solutions to one, transitio...

This Weeks Articles 1 - Square to buy Weebly for $365 million https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/square-to-buy-weebly-for-365-million.html 1- WordPress Accessibility Team Is Seeking Contributors for Its Handbook Project https://wptavern.com/wordpress-accessibility-team-is-seeking-contributors-for-its-handbook-project 2- From Seattle to Luxembourg: how tax schemes shaped Amazon https://www.theguardian...

Rand has a book coming out April 24 called "Lost and Founder" about the biased thinking of Silicon Valley startup world and how founders/entrepreneurs/early stage teams can avoid those pitfalls. We also discuss SEO in 2018 and Rand give some insights connected to his many years helping individuals and companies work:

This weeks stories that we discuss during the show 1A- Facebook's Not Listening Through Your Phone. It Doesn't Have To https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-listening-smartphone-microphone/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories 1B - The Ethos of Big Tech On L2inc YouTube Channel Discussion With John Battelle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvtOCKJnZBY ———————————————————— 2A - Plugins Hosted on WordPress.org...

We Discuss Why Its so Important To Find Your Niche! We have an old friend of the show and former co-host John Locke back on the show to talk about why its so important as an freelancer or business owner in the WordPress or technology sector to find your individual niche. Here are the main topic we discuss during the show. 1 - Why its so important to find your niche. 2 - SEO (search engine optimiza...

In this weeks WP-Tonic round-table show we have a great panel of WordPress experts where we discuss this weeks must interesting article we have found connected to WordPress, development, online marketing or the web in general. Here a list of the stories we discuss this week 1 - Theme Review Changes Place More Onus Onto Theme Authors https://wptavern.com/theme-review-changes-place-more-onus-onto-th...

From Being A Clinical Psychologist To Running A Highly Successful Web Agency Here’s The Three Main Areas We Cover During This Great Interview. 1 - How To Become An Effective WordPress Website Designer/Developer 2 - How Much Work Is Necessary To Develop An Online Training Course? 3 - Website Pricing Trick and Tips Judi was formally a clinical psychologist who was in private practice for years befor...

We going to have a guest “Patrick Rauland” it’s also my Birthday. I'm dedicate this show to the memory of my father “Captain Douglas Denwood,” My father “Captain Douglas Denwood” of the Grenadier Guards who fought at Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain (defending Hornchurch Aerodrome) he also fought at the British people’s glories victory at ‘El Alamein’ and at D-Day. holder of the French medal “Croix...

Nate Wright crafts unapologetically human emails for a living. Since bootstrapping Small Biz Triage 9-years ago, he and his small team have delivered thousands of successful campaigns across nearly every industry vertical, generating tens of millions in sales for their clients. In 2018, Nate created Inbox Attack, a business writing ‘gym’ and series of bootcamps to apply concepts of mental fitness...

Listen to this week's hard-hitting WP-Tonic Round-table show we discuss the most interesting WordPress and web stories of the week. This Weeks Stories 1 - Using Ethics In Web Design https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/ 2 -WordPress Design and Development Pricing, Structure, and Services Survey Results https://serverpilot.io/blog/2018/02/26/wordpress-design-and-devel...

Carrie Dils joined Jonathan Denwood and Kim Shivler for Episode 279 of the WP-Tonic Podcast. A long-time, successful WordPress freelancer, Carrie has launched a platform to help other freelancers find success in business. In this episode, Carrie shares her top tips for creating a successful freelancing business including Small Business Administration Resources and using clarity.fm to charge for co...

Sallie Goetsch, John Locke, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Chris Badgett, Mendel Kurland, John Locke, Adam Preiser and Tom McKraken joined host Jonathan Denwood for episode 278 of the WP-Tonic roundtable March 23, 2018 This show is brought to you by our sponsor IntelligenceWP. IntelligenceWP is a plugin that helps you make actionable sense from the information Google analytics provides. 1st: Story Is “If...

This week on the WP-Tonic podcast, our guest had to reschedule because she was sick, so Jonathan Denwood and Kim Shivler spoke about Membership Websites. In the past, the two broke down requirements for planning and implementing a WordPress Learning Management System. In this episode, they applies the same format to discuss requirements for planning and implementing a WordPress Membership Website....

Every Friday at 8:30am PST we have a live round-table show where we discuss some of the most interesting articles and posts that deal with WordPress and the internet in general which, we have found during the week. The show is normally around hour in length plus we have a regular panel “see the list of our regular panel below, of great WordPress experts that try and join us every week. You can wat...

Patrick Rauland is obsessed with eCommerce. He's built sites for clients, he was on the WooThemes support team, he was on the WooCommerce development team, and then he was Product Manager for WooCommerce and lead three releases. Now he creates online courses for LinkedIn Learning & writes books telling people how they can rock the world with eCommerce & WooCommerce

This week, co-host Kim Shivler filled in for Jonathan Denwood to lead the discussion with the round table. She was joined by Sallie Goestch, John Locke, Chris Badgett, and Mendel Kurland.    The group discussed some recent WordPress news much of it concerning Gutenberg.   Story 1 - How Will Gutenberg Affect the Enterprise https://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress-gutenberg-enterprise/   Story 2 - Gettin...

Dagmar Gatell is an internationally respected SEO consultant, Inbound Marketing consultant, coach and strategist. She is uniquely able and qualified to uncover profitable niche markets in places most entrepreneurs never consider. Dagmar uses her knowledge, expertise and instinct to create cutting-edge, targeted solutions to help you attract the right customers, convert leads and grow your business...

This week Matt Medeiros, Chris Badgett, John Locke, and Adam Preiser joined host Jonathan Denwood and co-host Kim Shivler to discuss the latest WordPress news.   Episode 272’s sponsor is IntelligenceWP ( intelligencewp.com ). Are you ready to get more real user information from your Google Analytics data? Configure IntelligenceWP and start getting a better view of your site visitors.     The regul...

We Interview Jason Rodriguez of Litmus who recently published a great article about AMP for Email . We discuss why Google is pushing this technology so strongly. Then we go on to talking about Jason roll with Litmus connected to him building a real community inside a powerful forum that has thousands of users. We also discuss the future of email and the latest best practices connected to using ema...

This week on the WP-Tonic Roundtable show, John Locke, Chris Badgett and Adam Preiser joined host Jonathan Denwood for Episode 270. The covered several articles covering online topics from pondering if websites are dead to evaluating tips for making your website faster. This show’s sponsor is IntelligenceWP ( https://intelligencewp.com/ ) as WordPress plugin designed to give you more insight into...

We Discuss LearnIing In a New Century With Jeff Cobb Jeff has commercially published two books – Leading the Learning Revolution and Shift Ed – and self-published a third – 10 Ways to Be a Better Learner. he has blogged for more than a decade on multiple sites, including Mission to Learn, Tagoras, and Learning Revolution. You can find more here: https://www.learningrevolution.net/ http://www.jefft...

Every Friday at 8:30am PST we have an round-table show with a group of WordPress developers, online business owners and WordPress junkies and discuss the latest and most interesting WordPress related articles/stories of the week. You can watch the show live every Friday at 8:30am PST on our Facebook WP-Tonic Show page. https://www.facebook.com/wptonic/

Miranda Lievers is co-founder & COO of Thinkific, a tech company enabling tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and companies to create, market, and sell their own courses online. She jumped ship from her fast-track corporate job and into full-time entrepreneurship a decade ago, earning her MBA along the way. These days she’s devoted to growing Thinkific while working to help business owners arou...

This week on Episode 266 of the WP-Tonic Podcast Sallie Goetsch, Chris Badgett, Adam Preiser, and John Locke joined host Jonathan Denwood to discuss several recent stories in the WordPress and online community. Featured stories included the latest update of WordPress 4.9.4 released to fix the auto update feature that was broken in 4.9.3, a proposal to stop configuring WordCamps in a track format t...

Chris Coyier  joined host Jonathan Denwood and guest co-host John Locke for episode 265 of the WP-Tonic Podcast. Chris is the founder of CSS-Tricks ( https://css-tricks.com/ ) and joint founder of CodePen ( https://codepen.io/ ). This week’s sponsor is Kinsta Hosting ( https://kinsta.com/?kaid=QTZIMOYOCEZL ). Kinsta hosting is the official web host of the WP-Tonic website. This episode covered inf...