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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 project. Here's a list of the other stories we discuss during the show. 1 - WPWeekly Episode 344 – Introduction to the WordPress Governance Project https://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-344-introduction-to-the-wordpress-governance-project 2 - Apple’s power over Facebook ought to worry the rest of us https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18204559/apple-facebook-feud-market-research-platform-power 3 - The Great Divide https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide/ 4 - My other life as a Kickstarter scammer https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/31/my-other-life-as-a-kickstarter-scammer/  

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 & Tech Stories We Discuss 1 - WordPress.com Secures $2.4 Million in Funding from Google and Partners to Build a Publishing Platform for News Organizations https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-secures-2-4-million-in-funding-from-google-and-partners-to-build-a-publishing-platform-for-news-organizations 2 - How a Vermont social network became a model for online communities https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18129437/front-porch-forum-vermont-social-network-listserv-local-online-community 3 - Leading marketing & communication for WordPress https://joost.blog/leading-marketing-communication-for-wordpress/ 4 - G

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/ https://yaro.blog/

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 Composer Website Builder announces the GPL compatibility https://wpcrib.com/visual-composer-website-builder-gpl-compatible/ 4 - Web Design and Development Myths: 2019 Edition https://webdevstudios.com/2019/01/17/web-design-and-development-myths/

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 the pros and cons to help you make an informed decision.   https://www.wp-tonic.com/blog/best-video-hosting-sites-course-creators/    

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://woocommerce.com/products/sensei/ 5 - #LearnPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/learnpress/ Education WordPress Theme $69 16,838 Sales Last Update 21 December 18 https://themeforest.net/item/education-wordpress-theme-education-wp/ https://thimpress.com/ 6 - #CoursePress Pro WPMUDEV membership plan $49 per month https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/coursepress-pro/ 7 - #Ultimate Learning Pro $39! https://codecanyon.net/item/ultimate-learning-pro-wordpress-plugin/21772657 Updated 4 January 2019 8 - #MasterStudy LMS Free however you really got use it with one of their themes $69 https://wordpress.org/plugins/maste

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.net/ https://www.hubspot.com/ https://cartflows.com/      

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: Award Certificates Tip #7: Gather Data Here a link to article I wrote recently connected to this subject. https://www.wp-tonic.com/blog/7-ideas-take-successful-membership-next-level-on-wordpress/

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

Mike is the joint co-host with Rob Walling “Startups For The Rest Of Us” podcast and co-founder with Rob of the MicroConf which is the leading yearly conferences for individuals who are looking to start a Startup or already running a successful Startup company. Mike started his career with a brief, 3 month stint at a start up multimedia company called 2K Innovations Corporation in North Carolina in 1998. He was invited to join full time as a principal, but declined after seeing how the company was being run. Later that year, he moved to Buffalo, NY to work for a wireless ISP startup called Clearwire Technologies. He bailed a couple years before it went under and sold its name, but learned a lot about working at a small company.

With Special Guest Panelist Matt Medeiros from Matt Report 1 - State of the Word 2018: WordPress Embraces the Block Editor https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2018-wordpress-embraces-the-block-editor 2 - Internal Google Docs Warn Not to Gift Contractors Shirts in Case They Start Thinking They're Employees: Report https://gizmodo.com/internal-google-docs-warn-not-to-gift-contractors-shirt-1831064335 3 - Interview with Rachel Cherry: Automattic Pledges to Fund WPCampus’ Accessibility Audit of Gutenberg https://wptavern.com/interview-with-rachel-cherry-automattic-pledges-to-fund-wpcampus-accessibility-audit-of-gutenberg 4 - Trends for 2019: Innovation will become faster and more flexible https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/12/12/marketing-trends-2019-innovation-faster-more-flexible/ 5 - Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture https://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/8974435/switzerland-work-life-balance  

#353 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Adam Preiser of WPCrafter and the Joint Co-Founder of CartFlows Did you know that the majority of eCommerce websites make it hard for customers to simply checkout? The process is filled with unnecessary steps and unnecessary questions. It's no surprise that nearly 70% of people who start the checkout process end up abandoning it all together. And the worst part is, if you are using the world's most widely used eCommerce platform, WooCommerce, you have zero control over any of this. Sure you can hire an expensive coder to make you an unmanageable / inflexible solution that is prone to breaking, but for the majority of us, spending tens of thousands of dollars is just not an option. https://cartflows.com/

Our main story is recent interview of Matt Mullenweg by Adam of WP-Crafter who also joins the panel this week. 1 - WordPress 5.0 Public Release? Interview on Gutenberg and Future of WordPress https://ma.tt/ 2 - The long, tortured quest to make Google unbiased https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18125879/search-neutrality-google-bias-seo-rigged-sundar-pichai-congress-eu 3 - WordPress eCommerce, Past, and Future https://tommcfarlin.com/bigcommerce-ecommerce-for-wordpress/ 4 - “The Commodity of Authenticity” with Jamie Cohen https://medium.com/s/teamhuman/the-commodity-of-authenticity-with-jamie-cohen-9e7835a7d4cb 5 - Content Management is Design https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/12/content-management-is-design/  

Chris started learning about online education on a glacier in Alaska. He's created courses on everything from organic gardening to wood working. He is passionate about helping other entrepreneurial educators find success and create impact. These are the main point that we discuss during the show. #1. WordPress LMS and Gutenberg #2. Different types of WordPress LMS implementations #3. Different types of feedback #4. Course PLUS concept https://lifterlms.com/our-team/

1 - WordPress 5.0 Release Candidate https://wordpress.org/news/2018/11/wordpress-5-0-release-candidate/ 2 - Seth Godin: His New Book “This Is Marketing.” https://www.sethgodin.com/ 3 - Jetpack 6.8 Adds Gutenberg Blocks for Payment Buttons, Forms, Maps, and Markdown https://wptavern.com/jetpack-6-8-adds-gutenberg-blocks-for-payment-buttons-forms-maps-and-markdown 4 - Mark Ritson: Gary Vaynerchuk is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong about media https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/11/16/mark-ritson-gary-vaynerchuk/ 5 - 10 Problems Plaguing Influencer Marketing https://sparktoro.com/blog/10-problems-plaguing-influencer-marketing/  

Nathalie Lussier is an award-winning entrepreneur, international keynote speaker, and author who has been making web sites since she was 12 years old. She graduated with a degree in Software Engineering and a job offer from Wall Street, but she turned down this job to start her own business right out of college. Her bootstrapped startup AmbitionAlly, has been featured in Entrepreneur and is inspiring a culture of intuitive small business marketing software across the globe. Nathalie has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, Mashable, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, and Under 30 CEO. She's the creator of the hit 30 Day List Building Challenge. https://accessally.com/

Elementor is one of leading new bread of WordPress page builders on the market in 2018 which Is a great tool for building your new WordPress powered membership/LMS website. We have a great interview here with Ben Pines CMO of Elementor and discuss the history of the company and how he see Elementor dealing with Gutenberg project. It really amazing to see that free version Elementor has been downloaded 1 million times! https://elementor.com/

How about - how to engage your students in courses….I can talk about it from my side but also you can talk about the tech options that can help people stay engaged in the learning….