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#747 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Rob Walling The AI Robots Are Coming & There's Disruption in The Air! With Special Guest Rob Walling Rob Walling has built and sold multiple SaaS companies, most recently Drip. He co-founded the most popular conference and community for ambitious, bootstrapped SaaS, called MicroConf. He wrote the book on how to bootstrap a startup, Start Small, Stay Small. And he started TinySeed, the first accelerator designed for SaaS bootstrappers. He has also invested in more than 55 startups, including WP Engine, CartHook, and SparkToro. https://robwalling.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/robwalling/ https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/   Main Questions For Interview #1 - Rob, are there any particular trends that you have observed in the bootstrap startup community in 2022 that you think are interesting? #2 - Have you come to any conclusions yourself connected to how you see Ai/ChatGPT is going to affect the bootstrap startup community over t

#746 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS: Round Table Show With Special Guest Jason Cohen, Founder at WP Engine Thursday 26th at 9:15 am PST With over 27 years of experience in business and software development, Jason Cohen is the founder of WP Engine where he has served in several roles including CEO, Head of Engineering, Head of Product, and CTO. #1 - The AI Robots Are Coming Is There Any Hope For Humanity? a - Google is freaking out about ChatGPT https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/20/23563851/google-search-ai-chatbot-demo-chatgpt The New York Times reports Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have discussed its response to ChatGPT, with plans to launch over 20 AI products this year, including a demo of its own search chatbot. B - Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit C - Publisher halts AI article assembly line after probe https://www.theregister

How To Generate 100 Plus Sales Meetings in 2023 Dave owns seven businesses that have generated over ONE BILLION dollars collectively for over 1000 clients, including major brands and Fortune 100 companies like Target, Time magazine, and American Express. At the age of 29, his doctor said, “Are you prepared for your heart attack?” Dave realized he needed to learn how to scale his businesses without being overwhelmed by stress. His life depended on it. Merging conscious capitalism with an unconventional marketing approach, Dave has rapidly grown his businesses by investing money in people rather than paid advertising. After selling his first business, Dave acquired three more companies and has put $3 MILLION into businesses this year. His mission is to employ over 200,000 people and revolutionize the way we reward good talent. Dave wants to be so big that governments can’t ignore him because his companies take up too much of their GDP. Simply put . . . he wants to buy back the freedom that gre

But How to Use eLearning As a Marketing & Lead Generation Tool in 2023? If your company is ready to increase the number of qualified leads, you should definitely give eLearning lead generation a try. From offering resources, they can't resist promoting eLearning courses for lead generation and beyond; here's all you need to know.     ----------------------------------- Sponsors of The Show ----------------------------------- Zoho.com: - https://www.zoho.com/partners/ Sensei LMS - https://bit.ly/3VskGBT BlogVault - https://bit.ly/3VskGBT WPLaunchify - hhttps://bit.ly/3VskGBT LfiterLMS - https://bit.ly/3VskGBT   ----------------------------------- Sponsors of The Show -----------------------------------

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Adam Preiser of WPCrafter The Future of WordPress in 2023? Adam is the co-founder of both CartFlows, SureMembers, and Presto Player. plus, he also is the founder of one of the most popular YouTube channels on WordPress, WPCrafter in this interview, we discuss all things WordPress and how to successfully launch products or services in the WordPress space in 2023   How to Successfully Launch Products or Services in The WordPress Space in 2023   Main Questions For Interview #1 - Adam, can you give the listeners and viewers some insights on your background and how you got involved in WordPress? #2 - Can you give us some insights connected to your new plugin and service SureCart and SureMembers? #3 - Can you give us a couple of insights that you like to share with the audience connected to successfully launching a product or service in the WordPress space? #4 - What did you think of the State of the Word 2022? #5 - If you go back to a time machine at the beginning of your career, what advice would you gi

#741 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS Special Guest Kurt von Ahnen 12 Reasons Why People Hate WordPress (Plus WordPress Drama) Reasons Why People Hate WordPress (Including WordPress Drama) We discuss a recent video from Darrel Wilson from his great YouTube channel; see the link to his video below. https://youtu.be/Z0qRXfUJISs https://darrelwilson.com/   #1 - WordPress.org VS WordPress.com #2 - Constant Updates #3 - Security Issues #4 - Constant UI Changes #5 - Subscription Model #6 - No Enforcement #7 - Spam Notices #8 - White Screen Of Death #9 - Speed #10 - Volunteer Dilemma #11 - WordPress And Drama #12 - Matt Mullenweg

#740 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS Special Guest Heather Wilde Renze How to Close the Diversity Gap in WordPress & Tech? Heather Wilde is the Digital Solutions Lead of theDifference Consulting and is also known as the “Unicorn Whisperer” due to her particular focus on entrepreneurs. She is a personal and professional growth expert, executive coach, author, and speaker. She is also the author of the Award-Winning book, “Birth of a Unicorn: Six Basic Steps to Success.”She was one of the only women to have programmed, designed, produced, and published a game at the company THQ. Wilde’s writing and speaking span social media, entrepreneurialism, startups, leadership, cybersecurity, customer experience, fundraising, and diversity issues. She writes for Forbes and hosts the “Entrepreneurial Revolution” column for Inc Magazine. Her annual exploits at San Diego Comic-Con are both legendary and totally embarrassing. She currently lives in Las Vegas, NV. https:

#739 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS Special Guest Hanne Vervaeck, The CEO of Thrive Themes The CEO of Thrive Themes How To Become A WordPress Customer Mind Reader! Hanne is the CEO at Thrive Themes and co-host of the ActiveGrowth podcast. After obtaining a degree in Fashion Business and working several years as a shoe buyer, she decided to follow her passion and specialize in online marketing. At Thrive Themes, her goal is to level up, do sh*t, fail, get better, and improve, and get everyone around her to do the same.   ----------------------------------- Sponsors of The Show -----------------------------------   SENSEI LMS - https://bit.ly/3VskGBT BlogVault - https://bit.ly/3VskGBT WPLaunchify - hhttps://bit.ly/3VskGBT LfiterLMS - https://bit.ly/3VskGBT     ----------------------------------- Sponsors of The Show -----------------------------------   Main Questions For Interview #1 - Hanne, Can you give the listeners and viewers some background info about your journey to

#738 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS Special Guest Artur Grabowski of Extendify A Mission To Improve The WordPress User Onboarding Experience WordPress is an open-source platform that powers over 40% of the web. WordPress is becoming the de facto operating system of the web and is supported by a massive ecosystem surrounding the platform. While at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com), my co-founder and I saw the WordPress ecosystem's power. We founded Extendify to transform WordPress into a superpower for hosts, developers, and users. Before Automattic, my Adobe team led acquisitions and investments in enterprise marketing technologies and next-generation media. We created the Adobe Experience Cloud through a series of transformative acquisitions, and we helped evolve the Adobe Creative Cloud into a modern SaaS platform for creativity through acquisitions and investments in marketplace, 3D, VR, and voice app technologies. I previously worked at Silicon Valley Bank and KeyBanc Capital Marke

Selling WordPress LMS Development and Design Services Corporations Kurt Von Ahnen Peeling back the B.S. through effective communication and leadership consulting, driving results through productivity and culture.   Main Questions For Interview #1 - Kurt, can you give the listeners and viewers some insights about your general background and how you got involved with the WordPress community? #2 - Kurt, you attended WordCamp USA; what were your initial impressions and the good and bad things that you didn't like? #3 - All online and physical communities have a different feel and general philosophy; make them all unique how in your own mind, would you verbally explain to a newbie what the key thing they need to know about the WordPress community? #4 - Any personal thoughts connected to how Matt Mullenweg and the leadership runes WordPress? #5 - If you go back to a time machine at the beginning of your career, what advice would you give yourself? #6 - Are there any books, websites, or online recourses that ha

The Future of WordPress Themes in a World of Gutenberg Blocks I’m Brian Gardner, a Chicago-based designer, WordPress expert, and the creator of Powder—a base WordPress block theme created for Full Site Editing. Build something cool, pair it with a child, or use it for a client project. I believe that good design is about pushing boundaries and experimenting with new ideas. It’s about dreaming, thinking outside the box, and creating something unique. Main Questions For Interview #1 - Brain, can you give the listeners and viewers some insights connected to what you do on a day-to-day basis in the WP-Engine team and what it is like working with such a great group of people? #2 - Brain, while are we with the Gutenberg project, and how does the traditional theme fit into the new world of Gutenberg and block libraries? #3 - I personally see some fantastic opportunities with Gutenberg and block libraries what is your's and WP-Engine attitude connected to helping developers and designers in this new

How To Successfully Integrate WordPress With ZohoCRM in 2022Lior has been in business since he was 10 years old. He began by purchasing bagels on the street and selling them to bankers a few doors down for double the price. In doing so, Lior learned from his mistakes and paved his way to a winning record in the business world. Much of this occurred on the internet; over many years, he developed web design, development, marketing, and security companies, all of which were successful despite being part of a growing and highly competitive market. Some of his ventures were sold to larger companies, while others, I am proud to say, are still making me money today.   Main Questions For Interview #1 -Lior, can you tell us about your background and how you got into Zoho and became the head of a specialized Zoho consultation agency? #2 - Can you give us some insights on a couple of the most significant early challenges you initially faced with business and how you have semi-overcome these particular challenges? #

Lessons Learned Connected To Building a Successful WordPress Plugin Shop Inisev Is a leading European-based WordPress plugin shop with many successful WordPress plugins available free on the WordPress.org directory. After 10 years in banking, Nick decided to change the industry and focus on creating SaaS businesses and WordPress products, especially WordPress plugins, which are used by over half a million people today. - TasteWP: https://tastewp.com- Backup & Migration: https://wordpress.org/plugins/backup-backup/- Copy Delete Posts: https://wordpress.org/plugins/copy-delete-posts/- Redirection plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-redirection/- MyPopUps: https://mypopups.com- Ultimate Social Media Icons: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-social-media-icons/ - follow.it: https://follow.it

#733: WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS Special Guest Andrew, CEO of Lasso & "Listen to Money Matters" Podcast Lasso - We Discuss Affiliate Marketing Tools Aimed At Bloggers. Affiliate marketing is easy to start but hard to master. Finding the right software to manage all of your essential links was challenging because it didn’t exist. We get it. And it’s the reason we built Lasso. Andrew and Laura Fiebert, co-founders of Lasso, have large affiliate sites. In 2020 their sites reached over 11 million people. They struggled to manage all of the affiliate links on their sites with existing plugins. After trying every affiliate marketing tool under the sun, they found there was no single tool that would fully control their affiliate link inventory end to end. They wanted something that could do everything. Something that even the big players would dream of having. Something that didn’t only work with Amazon. Their two main sites are very different. Laura’s site relies mainly o

#732: WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS Special Guest Gil Vidals, CEO of HIPAAVault Building A Successful Niche Hosting Business HIPAA Vault’s managed services include lightning-fast response times for critical alerts and 90% first-call resolution. Our dedicated IT professionals handle everything. That doesn’t only mean general support questions and maintenance. They can also address much more complex issues, such as advanced firewall configurations and system monitoring. https://www.hipaavault.com/   Main Questions For Interview #1 - Gil, can you tell us how you got into hosting and this particular niche of HIPAA hosting? #2 - Can you give us some insights on what were a couple of the most significant early challenges you faced with HIPAAVault? #3 - Can you give some info on one or two marketing campaigns that didn't work for the company, and what did you personally learn from these failures? #4 - Recently, "Digital Ocean" bought out CloudWays what did you think of this particular b

#731: WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Rayhan Arif of Themeum How Do Build & Growing Plugin Business in a Highly Competitive Sector Themeum started with a small group of people who wanted to bring about change. Since its launch in 2013, the company has grown leaps & bounds with hundreds of thousands of downloads, a huge following, and representatives worldwide. As we grow each day, we help our community be better every day. Plugins Tutor LMS Qubely WP Crowdfunding https://www.themeum.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayhan-uddin-arif/   #731: WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Rayhan Arif of Themeum Mahsa Amini https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62998231 Rayhan Arif of Themeum The Main Question of This Great Interview #1 - Can you give us some background info on Themeum, i.e., its management and how many people work for the company maybe you can give some insights into the company's plans for the next 12 months. #2 - What have been a couple of the biggest obsta

How To Sell WordPress or SaaS Products or Services B2B Markets Integrate Your Marketing Tech Stack, Without Code Sam Fonoimoana started his career in Finance (FP&A) and transitioned into Marketing Analytics, helping companies such as Adobe, DOMO, and Ancestry.com. He also taught Marketing Analytics at BYU Hawaii in beautiful Laie, HI. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Datajoin – a B2B marketing analytics company that is the go-to solution for connecting first-party data across the MarTech stack through their proprietary “Micro Integrations.” Their customers include Cisco, ARM, Adobe, and Equifax. Sam, the first VC-backed tech Founder and CEO of Polynesian descent in Utah has closed a seed round led by Sepio Capital. Sam and his wife Sabrina never have a dull moment with their children. They have 3 beautiful daughters and 4 wonderful sons. All 4 of their sons have been diagnosed with autism. When Sam is not at his computer, he can be found with his family at the park, rec center, restau

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST, we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show, where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.   This Weeks Special Guest Panelists Matt Inglot: https://www.tiltedpixel.com/   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - Matt Mullenweg Renews Push for Canonical Plugins https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-renews-push-for-canonical-plugins #2 - Adobe to Acquire Figma https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-to-Acquire-Figma/default.aspx   #3 - BuddyPress Plugin Usage Declining, Remaining Contributors Discuss Path Forward https://wptavern.com/buddypress-plugin-usage-declining-remaining-contributors-discuss-path-forward #4 - Twitter may have hired a Chinese spy and four other takeaways from the Senate hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/09/13/1122671582/twitter-whistleblower-mudge-senate-hearing &n

#727: WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS WordCampUSA 2022 Live Special With John Locke & Tom Fanelli Can you believe WordCamp US 2022 is in one week? You’ve made your airline and hotel reservations, got your event ticket, and decided which sessions to attend. You’ve reached your sunblock, sandals, and water bottle to stay hydrated. And you’ve thought about what you want to do for Contributor Day. Tom Fanelli & John Locke https://convesio.com/ https://www.lockedownseo.com/ https://us.wordcamp.org/2022/