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Founder and CEO of illuminea, a full-service WordPress development and online marketing agency. Also Founder & CEO of Strattic, a serverless publishing solution for WordPress websites that makes them more secure, faster and scalable. WordPress expert, technologically savvy. Previous experience in intellectual property. Interested in connecting with businesses seeking to improve their Internet presence for English-speaking markets.

in this weeks round-table show we have a great discussion on what were the blogs, books, videos and communities that have influenced us the most on our own personal journey connected web-design and WordPress.   Links Mentioned During the Show Smashing Magazine: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/ A List Apart: https://alistapart.com/ Responsive Web Design podcast: https://responsivewebdesign.com/podcast/ Tragic Design: http://www.tragicdesign.com/ Resilient Web Design: https://resilientwebdesign.com/ Webdesigner Depot: https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/ Webdesigner News: http://www.webdesignernews.com/ Rafal Tomal: http://rafaltomal.com/ Design Shack: https://designshack.net/ The Layout by Flywheel: https://getflywheel.com/layout/ Creative Bloq: http://www.creativebloq.com/ Designmodo: https://designmodo.com/ UX Booth: http://www.uxbooth.com/ UX Matters: http://www.uxmatters.com/ UX Planet: https://uxplanet.org/ Accessibility according to real people with disabilitieshttps://axesslab.com/accessibility-according-

Win Without Pitching is a worldwide sales training company for creative entrepreneurs. Founder Blair Enns is a 25-year veteran of the business side of the creative professions. In 2002, he launched Win Without Pitching. WWP has worked with thousands of creative professionals in numerous countries through direct engagements, seminars, workshops & webcasts. http://www.winwithoutpitching.com/about/   Blair is a decades long veteran of advertising and design firms, and has spent thousands of hours learning abut pricing, winning work, and how to strategically influence your odds of winning work for design and development work. Much of what Blair preaches flies in the face of conventional tactics used by most creative firms. The idea is to become the obvious choice for a client through positioning, derailing the pitching process, or influencing the buying process. If you cannot do any of these three things, your best advice is to walk away from the pitch, as you are unlikely to win. Buy The Win Without Pitch

In this show we have a great discussion in this episode of our Friday round-table show connected to images and how to prepare them not on only connected to size or quality questions but also how to use images when it comes to SEO.

In This episode with great guest Tonya Mork founder Knowthecode which is one of the best online recourse for people who want to improve their WordPress coding abilities. Also Tonya has a great personal story which I'm sure the our audience will appreciate. We also talk about a recent interivew that was aired on This Week in Start Ups between Ryan Carson founder of Treehouse and Jason Calacanis connected to the future of online coding training.

We had a great round-table discussion on what are the best choices connected WordPress membership plugins and services in 2017? The great news is you really are spoilt for choice when it come to WordPress and membership plugins, however there ares some clear leaders which we discuss during the show, we also try and give some insights on what you need to know before choosing the right plugin for your individual membership website. 

We talk about WordPress Membership Websites With Special Guest Mike Morrison Joint Founder of Themembershipguys.com. Mike Morrison is one half of The Membership Guys. Along with his partner Callie Willows has spent years guiding the growth of memberships, e-learning businesses and online communities. Now they run the Member Site Academy, where they teach small business owners and entrepreneurs the skills and strategies they need to build and grow their own successful membership website.  

We had a detailed conversation with Amy Porterfield about effective online marketing trends in 2017. Amy the real business and with her team has really built a powerful online marketing business, We talk about email marketing, Facebook and live video in this just amazing show. Amy really is a "down to earth" smart lady who is all about getting great business results not only for her but also for her fans and people who also sign up for one of her great online marketing courses.

196 WP-Tonic: The Best Landing Page Tools and Services in 2017 Main Topic “What are the best WordPress plugins and online services for building landing pages that convert?” This Week’s WordPress News Stories 1 - The Story Behind MOJO Marketplace with Brady Nord https://bobwp.com/story-behind-mojo-marketplace-brady-nord/ � 2 - WordPress 4.8 Improves Accessibility on Admin Screens https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-8-improves-accessibility-on-admin-screens Even though technically a landing page is any web page that a visitor can ‘land on’, it is a page uniquely designed one call to action or CTA. This of course will vary depending on what your goal is when someone visits the landing page. And if it succeeds in guiding them to your intended conversion goal, then your landing page has done its job. As a standalone part of your website, creating a good landing page is essential whether you want to monetize your site or not, if your goal is to convert your users. Creating the right landing page will re

We interview Bill Gadless joint co-founder of emagine, one of the leading digital agencies on the East Coast. Bill co-founded emagine with Brett Cohen at the dawn of the Web. Primarily focused on emagine’s sales and marketing strategy, Bill’s insights have appeared on various occasions in MarketingSherpa, dozens of industry sites and publications and on the national speaking circuit.Prior to emagine, he developed his marketing expertise while building a highly successful direct marketing venture.  With a focus on emagine’s core industries and regional expansion, Bill has focused obsessively on building emagine’s brand within the B2B, High-Tech and Healthcare sectors. Starting in the Boston region, Bill has successfully taken emagine from a regional player to a national leader in emagine’s target industries.   emagine http://www.emagine.com/ Bill Gadless on Twitter https://twitter.com/emaginebill Table of Contents for Episode 195 0:00 Podcast intros. 1:38 How did Bill and Brett first start emagine? How did

We look at useful and interesting WordPress plugins that you might not know about. Our WordPress panel looks at some lesser-known plugins that we find useful. Here's who was on the panel this week:   Adam Preiser https://www.wpcrafter.com/ Sallie Goetsch: https://wpfangirl.com/ Jackie D'Elia: https://jackiedelia.com/ Jonathan Denwood: https://www.wp-tonic.com/ John Locke: https://www.lockedowndesign.com/   Table of Contents for Episode 194   0:00 Podcast intros. 1:58 WordPress Story #1: What to Expect in WordPress 4.8 11:05 WordPress Story #2: WordPress.com Experiments With Allowing Business Plan Customers to Install Third-Party Plugins and Themes 25:54 Main Topic: Lesser-Known WordPress Plugins that are Insanely Useful 58:40 Podcast outros.   Links Mentioned During the Episode   Real-Time Find and Replace HTML Widget Text (Easily add HTML to widget titles) Image Widget (add images to widget areas) Widget CSS Classes WP Featherlight WP Subtitle SVG Support (Use SVGs in WordPress) Kint PHP Debugger Force Rege

Our guest this week is Unbounce co-founder, Oli Gardner. He’s obsessed with identifying and reversing bad marketing practices, and his disdain for marketers who send campaign traffic to their homepage is legendary, resulting in landing page rants that can peel paint off an unpainted wall. A prolific international speaker, Oli is on a mission to rid the world of marketing mediocrity by using data-informed copywriting, design, interaction, and psychology to create a more delightful experience for marketers and customers alike. In our conversation, we talk with Oli about landing pages, and conversion rate optimization for pages. There's a lot of psychology behind what landing pages are, and why they are superior to inner pages for pushing a specific offer. We look at all the things you should know about landing pages, and what makes people click. Guaranteed, you'll learn something new from this interview. Unbounce https://unbounce.com/   The Unbounce Conversion Benchmark Report – Average Conversion Rates by Indu

An in-depth look at the Beaver Builder ecosystem, and the new Beaver Themer. After almost one year of development,  Beaver Builder's announce its first official addon. Beaver Themer is a theme builder plugin for WordPress. What makes Beaver Builder so special? What makes their community unique? Will Beaver Themer change how people develop WordPress websites?   Our WordPress panel this week:   Kim Shivler: https://whiteglovewebtraining.com/ Lee Jackson: https://angledcrown.com/ Mendel Kurland https://ifyouwillit.com/ Sallie Goetsch: https://wpfangirl.com/ Jackie D'Elia: https://jackiedelia.com/ Jonathan Denwood: https://www.wp-tonic.com/ John Locke: https://www.lockedowndesign.com/   ==================   Table of Contents for Episode 192   0:00 Podcast intros. 3:07 WordPress News Story #1: New WordPress Plugin Blocks Spam User Registrations Using Stop Forum Spam Database 8:43 WordPress News Story #2: Weglot Multilingual Plugin Closes $450K in Seed Funding 19:11 Main Topic: The Beaver Builder Ecosystem 19:20

We Interview Tenko Nikolov, CEO and Managing Partner at SiteGround. SiteGround is a successful hosting company with hundreds of employees. Located in Europe, its CEO, Tenko Nikolov, has been fixated on growing his brand by focused on success across the team and for their customers. It's evident that SiteGround knows what they're doing -- and the photos tell a great story about a great company culture. Tenko has shared his experiences with us in the interview below. We highly recommend you read it to learn how this young CEO has made his company so incredibly successful. Tenko share with us about the future of hosting, Siteground's commitment to innovation, and what they look for in hiring for their team. We'll also hear the story of how Tenko rose from technical support to being the CEO. Lastly, what huge plans does Siteground have for the future. It's an episode that will give you great insight into one of the leading hosting companies out there. ==================   Table of Contents for Episode 191   0:00

This week, we look at learning management systems and building an online course in WordPress.   Our WordPress panel this week:   Chris Badgett: https://lifterlms.com Kim Shivler: https://howtobuildanonlinecourse.com Sallie Goetsch: https://wpfangirl.com Jonathan Denwood: https://www.wp-tonic.com/ John Locke: https://www.lockedowndesign.com/   ==================   Table of Contents for Episode 190   0:00 Podcast intros. 2:21 WordPress News Story #1: 10up Releases WP Docker, an Open Source Docker Configuration for Local WordPress Development 5:30 WordPress News Story #2: Shopify Discontinues Its Official Plugin for WordPress 13:35 Main Topic: Learning Management Systems in WordPress 13:40 What is an LMS? How does it differ from an online course or a membership plugin? 18:36 How much goes into planning the material for an online course? 23:16 Technology is hard because planning the content for students is hard. 26:35 What part(s) of your course should you write first? The answer might surprise you! 32:02 Build

This week, our guest is Zack Rosen, CEO of Pantheon. As CEO & Co-Founder, Zack leads the charge to define what developers need now, & what they and their clients will need 5 years from now—and beyond. Zack pioneered the first large-scale Drupal website for the Howard Dean campaign in 2003, co-founded the world’s first Drupal development shop, CivicSpace, co-founded a successful Drupal development shop, Chapter Three, and also co-founded Mission Bicycle. What started as a professional website development epiphany—We’re doing it wrong!—evolved into an all-in-one platform after he and a few trusted colleagues got together and started solving problems. What Salesforce did for sales & Gmail did for email communications, Zack envisions Pantheon will do for websites. How do you build a solution so important it can’t be ignored? Ask not, “How many gigs of storage can we get?” Ask, “How much more scalable can our website become? How much faster can we reach our people?” Zack discusses the future of hosting

In this episode, we look at local development, and how that can help your workflow. What options are there for local development, and what do you do with a local site when it's time to deploy. We examine why you need a local environment in your workflow, and some choices for getting started.   Our WordPress panel this week:   Jackie D'Elia: https://jackiedelia.com / Morten Rand-Hendriksen: https://www.lynda.com/ Sallie Goetsch: https://wpfangirl.com Jonathan Denwood: https://www.wp-tonic.com/ John Locke: https://www.lockedowndesign.com/   ==================   Our episode this week is sponsored by LiquidWeb. Liquid Web is offering a 33% discount for your first 6 months of managed WordPress hosting. Head over to https://LiquidWeb.com/wordpress and use the code WPTONIC33 at checkout for your discount.   ==================   Table of Contents for Episode 188   0:00 Podcast intros. 4:08 WordPress News Story #1: Scaling WordPress Image Serving with Tachyon 14:57 WordPress News Story #2: Is The Design Firm an Endan

We sit down to talk with Dusty Davidson, the CEO and co-founder of Flywheel. He tells us how the hosting company got started, early years and growing, what they look for in hiring, their acquisition of Local, and much more. We also ask Dusty about early years and growing, what they look for in hiring, their acquisition of Local,  and much more.   ==================   Our episode this week is sponsored by LiquidWeb. Liquid Web is offering a 33% discount for your first 6 months of managed WordPress hosting. Head over to https://LiquidWeb.com/wordpress and use the code WPTONIC33 at checkout for your discount.   ==================   Table of Contents for Episode 187   0:00 Podcast intros. 2:57 How did Flywheel get started? Why they decided to start a hosting company in the first place. 5:39 What gaps in the hosting market was Flywheel trying to fill? 9:06 Some common hosting problems that Flywheel sought to solve. Growing the company using pure hustle and guerrilla marketing. 16:47 What does Flywheel look for w

Lee Jackson returns to talk his other company, Event Engine. This is a web agency devoted entirely to website design for conferences, events, and expos. We look the unique challenges faced by conference website managers, and some great tips for digital marketing for events, expos, and conferences.   Links Event Engine The Event & Expo Podcast Angled Crown   ==================   Our episode this week is sponsored by LiquidWeb. Liquid Web is offering a 33% discount for your first 6 months of managed WordPress hosting. Head over to https://LiquidWeb.com/wordpress and use the code WPTONIC33 at checkout for your discount.   ==================   Table of Contents for Episode 185   0:00 Podcast intros. 3:29 What made Lee choose events and expos as a vertical? What led to him developing the Event Engine CMS? 6:50 What research went into adding features and modules to the Event Engine CMS? (built on top of WordPress). How did this product evolve? 11:09 How do they get in front of these event companies? What mar

We look at what a marketing funnel is, and how they can help grow your business. Then we analyze how to build funnels in WordPress, methodologies for building funnels, and moving people down the funnel to close a sale. At the top of the funnel is awareness, further down the funnel is interest, evaluation, and finally commitment, and closing the sale.   Our WordPress panel this week:   Adam Fout of Blue Steele Solutions Sallie Goetsch of WP Fangirl Jonathan Denwood of WP-Tonic John Locke of Lockedown Design   ==================   Our episode this week is sponsored by LiquidWeb. Liquid Web is offering a 33% discount for your first 6 months of managed WordPress hosting. Head over to https://LiquidWeb.com/wordpress and use the code WPTONIC33 at checkout for your discount.   ================== br /> Table of Contents for Episode 186   0:00 Podcast intros. 3:50 WordPress News Story #1: This (WordPress) community is not for the taking 12:14 WordPress News Story #2: Automattic to Host a Free, Remote Conference on