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#726 WP-Ton”c "This Week In WordPress & Tech" 9th of September, 2022 at 8:30 am PST 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 Spe’ial Guest Panelists   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - WordCampU’A 2022 #2 - Reacting to Apple's event, new watch, AirPods, and iPhone 14 htt's://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-04/apple-s-far-out-event-ip'one-14-pro-airpods-pro-2-and-apple-watch-series-8-l7ndyucj #3 - The ‘self-employment penalty’ emerging in WordPress https://masterwp.com/the-self-employment-penalty-emerging-in-wordpress/ #4 - Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/youtube-homepage-editor-google-algorithm-book-excerpt/

Using Community To Build Your Online WordPress Business With Special Guest Chris Badgett of LifterLMS More About Chris Chris and LifterLMS help education entrepreneurs create, launch, and scale high-value online training platforms from their WordPress websites that they own and control! Discover the world's leading open-source freemium WordPress Learning Management System (LMS). The Membership Success Summit: https://themembershipsuccesssummit.com/ #725: WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS We Interview Chris Badgett, Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS Mail Questions We Will Be Discussing With Chris Badgett, Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS #1 - Chris, can you give the audience some more detailed info connected to your background and how you got into the World of WordPress and LMS? #2 - That sight would you like to share with the tribe connected to using the community to help grow a WordPress or SaaS online business? #3 - What are some of the unique differences connected to building a business in

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 Vito Peleg Founder & CEO of - Atarim - https://atarim.io/ Steven Sauder Founder & CEO of - https://hustlefish.com/ #1 - WP-Optimize Denies Allegations of Cheating Performance Tools https://wptavern.com/wp-optimize-denies-allegations-of-cheating-performance-tools #2 - How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor https://www.theverge.com/23327809/twitter-onlyfans-child-sexual-content-problem-elon-musk #3 - My WooCommerce vs. Shopify Speedrun https://masterwp.com/my-woocommerce-vs-shopify-speedrun/ #4 - Thefts, Fraud and Lawsuits at the World’s Biggest NFT Marketplace https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/technology/nft-opensea-theft-fraud.html https://nair

What Are Some of the Key Mistake digital Web-Design Agency Owners Make? We discuss some significant mistakes digital web design agency owners make in growing their businesses. We discuss with Vito Peleg, the founder of Atarim software, which helps digital agency owners to manage their client's projects more effectively. More About Vito   I Tried Everything, But Nothing Stuck... So My Team and I Built The First & Only Project Delivery System Designed For Website Experts As website creators, we pretty much have a tool for everything, and yet, with such a massive and ever-growing industry, there was still nothing specific to help us manage our agency, deliver projects and delight our clients. The average agency owner uses between 7-15 different tools, patched together to deliver a basic website project(!!!) What would you do if your accountant, for example, would have bounced you from spreadsheets to google docs to bookkeeping tools to Zoom calls to Trello to email to budgeting tools…. All within

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 Brian Jackson Joint Founder of Forgemedia - https://forgemedia.io/ Nyasha Green of MasterWP- https://masterwp.com/   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220823005306/en/DigitalOcean-to-Acquire-Cloudways #2 - A Prominent Vaccine Skeptic Returns to Twitter https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/alex-berenson-twitter-ban-lawsuit-covid-misinformation/671219/ #3 - Announcing Spectra 2.0: The visual page builder for ultra fast websites https://wpastra.com/updates/spectra-2-0/ #4 - Anyscale raises $99M to build out its distributed AI computing platform https://siliconangle.com/2022/08/23/anysc

#721 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS, We Interview Dennis Dornon Brand Manager and Cofounder of MainWP Is It Possible To Build a Successful WordPress Business With A Totally Free Core Product? #721 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS, We Interview Dennis Dornon, Brand Manager and Cofounder of MainWP More About Dennis I’m always trying to find the right work-life balance, so when I’m not working on MainWP, I’m a husband to a wonderful and incredibly patient woman and father to three exceptional children. When I do find free time, it’s at the beach or chasing the younger ones around the backyard. Even though I am the co-founder of MainWP, I am neither a coder nor a designer. I develop ideas and help connect all the moving parts to create software that helps other WordPress enthusiasts. Main Questions of The Interview   #1 - Dennis, can you give us some more detailed background info on how you got into the semi-crazy world of web development, mainly WordPress, compa

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 James Giroux of Stellarwp - https://stellarwp.com/ Steven Sauder of Hustlefish - https://hustlefish.com/   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 -WordPress Leadership has a Public Relations Problem https://masterwp.com/wordpress-leadership-has-a-public-relations-problem/ #2 - Malcolm Gladwell says it’s ‘not in your best interest to work from home.’ Nearly 20 years ago he said he ‘hates desks’ and writes from his couch https://fortune.com/2022/08/08/malcolm-gladwell-slammed-after-criticizing-wfh-policies-despite-having-worked-remotely-for-decades/ #3 - Who’s winning on the WooCommerce Marketplace? https://getellipsis.com/blog/whos-winning-on-the

What Are The Main Opportunities & Challenges That WordPress Faces in 2022 Josepha Haden Chomphosy Executive Director, WordPress project | Open Source Division Josepha Haden Chomphosy has been the Executive Director of the WordPress project since 2019. Her work to coordinate and guide volunteer efforts spans 21 teams and involves thousands of volunteers. She is sponsored by Automattic, where she leads the open source division that focuses on all aspects of open source contribution, including design, development, volunteer engagement, sponsorship relations, and the health of the overall WordPress ecosystem. Josepha is well-versed in conflict mediation tactics and knows how to explain complex topics clearly and respectfully. https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephahaden/   Main Questions of The Interview   #1 - I personally get the feeling that the WordPress project is facing a critical period (18 months) that will see either a semi-rebirthing of the project or the start of a significant decline; what a

#718 WP-Tonic "This Week In WordPress & Tech" 12th of August, 2022 at 8:30 am PST 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 Vito Peleg: Joint Founder and CEO of Atarim - https://atarim.io/about/ Brian Coords of MasterWP - https://masterwp.com/   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - New Twenty Twenty-Three Default Theme Now in Development https://wptavern.com/new-twenty-twenty-three-default-theme-now-in-development #2 - Amazon’s One-Stop Shop for Identity Thieves https://theintercept.com/2022/08/07/amazon-registry-identity-theft/ #3 -New Proposal Calls for Contributors to Stop Merging Experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core https://wptavern.com/new-proposal-calls-for-contributors-to-stop-merging-ex

How Do You Compete in a Competitive WordPress Plugin Market Sector? Mark's Bio Mark offers a unique mix of entrepreneurial business experience coupled with a broad scope of I.T. knowledge. His career has primarily focused on the web industry. He is a high-energy business management and technology professional with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. His clients have included Sony, KPMG, SAP, Condenast, Hearst Corporation, Safeway, Ericsson, Google, Community Coffee, PR Week, Icom, BBC, British Telecom, and Wembley Stadium. His experience boasts work on over 250 web projects. His career started in 1996 when he formed Absolute Internet, one of the U.K's fastest-growing web agencies. In 2003 he joined Londonlaunch Ltd working alongside John Broome CBE to produce London's premier online destination for event professionals. In 2008 he started Simple.com, L.L.C, a venture-backed company specializing in providing software to industry leaders in the wedding industry. His contributions to the web commu

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 Heather Wilde - http://thedifferenceconsulting.com/   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show   #1 -Is What’s Good for Gutenberg Also Good for WordPress? https://thewpminute.com/is-whats-good-for-gutenberg-also-good-for-wordpress/ #2 - Alex Jones concedes that the Sandy Hook attack was '100% real' https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115414563/alex-jones-sandy-hook-case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlel7cT6rs #3 - Are WordPress hosting companies ready for full site editing? https://masterwp.com/are-wordpress-hosting-companies-ready-for-full-site-editing/ #4 - Rights Groups Demand DOE Take a Stand on 'Invasive' Student Surveillance Software https://gizmodo.com/surveillance-softw

We Interview Laurent Maillard of Adoraweb A New & Exciting Way To Organize Your Agency For Max Profit & Freedom   Main Interview Questions #1 - Hi Laurent, can you give some insight connected to what the Luxembourg and European markets are like connected to digital marketing? #2 - How important is WordPress connected to your digital agency, and do you use or have been looking at a replacement for WordPress. #3 - We might a WordCamp Europe 2022 (Porto), and you did a presentation on how you reorganized how your agency does work with clients. Can you give an extensive picture outline of the main elements of this change? #4 - What were some of the significant problems you and your team had to deal with connected to a massive change in the way your agency works? #5 - What are some of the things you think you and the team can improve on connected to working with clients? #6 - If you had a "time machine" at the beginning of starting your agency, what critical advice would you give yourself that you fee

#714 WP-Tonic "This Week In WordPress & Tech" 29th of July, 2022 at 8:30 am PST   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  This Weeks Special Guests Jonathan Wold & Andrew Palmer Jonathan Wold: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanwold/ Andrew Palmer: Joint Founder of Bertha.ai - https://bertha.ai/       This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - WordPress Contributors Consider Renaming Full-Site Editing https://wptavern.com/wordpress-contributors-consider-renaming-full-site-editing #2 - Tesla driver using Autopilot kills motorcyclist, prompting another NHTSA investigation https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/27/23280461/tesla-autopilot-crash-motorcyclist-fatal-utah-nhtsa #3 - Solving WordPress

From The CIA To Cybersecurity & Hacking Expert Mr. Elliott is CEO of Comar Cyber, Inc., a Washington, DC-based company that specializes in government and corporate training in cybersecurity. He created the award-winning “Learn by Hacking” TM online cybersecurity course, with distribution deals in the US and Japan. Mr. Elliott served for almost two decades at the CIA, where he worked in the Directorate of Operations as a Case Officer and ops leader in field assignments. He has extensive experience at the intersection of HUMINT operations and technology. As a manager at CIA Headquarters, he worked with companies, investors, and other elements of government to identify, purchase, and create technologies for the CIA’s operational use. He used his training and experience in assignments in Europe, South Asia, and Africa, as well as at HQS, to identify and counter nation-state cyber threats to protect enterprise and operational systems. Mr. Elliott, in coordination with various stakeholders, cr

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 Chris Badgett Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS: https://lifterlms.com/  This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - WordPress.com Ends Recent Pricing Experiment, Reverts to Previous Model https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-ends-recent-pricing-experiment-reverts-to-previous-model   #2 - Everything About Twitter v. Musk Is Utter Nonsense https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/07/twitter-musk-deal-fallout-nonsense/670512/   #3 - Is WordPress bigger than Wal-Mart? https://masterwp.com/is-wordpress-bigger-than-wal-mart/   #4 - The Great Fiction of AI https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper   #5 - WordPress Desi

It's All About Dealing With The Ups & Downs in Business, Baby! David Siegel is the CEO of Meetup, the largest platform for finding and building local communities. He has 25 years of experience as a technology and digital media executive, leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth, and digital traffic acceleration. Prior to joining Meetup, David was CEO of Investopedia and, before that, President of Seeking Alpha. David holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, teaching strategic planning and entrepreneurship. He is the author of Decide & Conquers 44 Decisions That Make or Break All Leaders and hosts the podcast Keep Connected, which is dedicated to the power of community. https://www.meetup.com/ Join Us Live For This Great Interview On Tuesday 12th at 9 am PST https://youtu.be/iHNxDA9MdUU #711 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS, We Interview The CE

WordPress & Tech round-table show discusses 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 Ronnie Burt of Sensei LMS & Automattic: https://senseilms.com/ CloudMounter - Manage your multiple cloud files with one app - https://cloudmounter.net/ Sheet Editor - Easy Spreadsheets for WordPress https://wpsheeteditor.com/ WC Asia   Why don't you join us this Friday for "706 EPISODE" of the WP-Tonic round-table show at 8:30 am PST Using This Link: This Weeks Special Guest StreamYard Link: https://streamyard.com/jg6w5f2t9v   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - WordPress Executive Director Says 5% in Five for the Future Program Is Aspirational and Not Required https://wptavern.com/wordpress-executive-director-says-5-in-five-for-the-future-program-is-aspirational-and-not-required #2 - Crypto lending company Celsius Network has filed for

Best WordPress & SaaS Online Recourses in 2022 We (men and Andrew) discuss the best podcasts, YouTube, and websites we go to keep us informed on WordPress and SaaS.

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. Why don't you join us this Friday for "706 EPISODE" of the WP-Tonic round-table show at 8:30 am PST Using This Link: This Weeks Special Guest   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - Envato to Shut Down Envato Studio on Short Notice, Jilting Longtime Service Providers https://wptavern.com/envato-to-shut-down-envato-studio-on-short-notice-jilting-longtime-service-providers #2 - GitHub Copilot works so well because it steals open-source code and strips credit https://thenextweb.com/news/github-copilot-works-so-well-because-it-steals-open-source-code-strips-credit #3 - Toxic Scorekeeping: The case against ‘Five for the Future’ https://masterwp.com/toxic-scorekeeping-the-case-against-five-for-the-future/

#707 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS Tom Morkes founder and CEO of Insurgent Publishing & The Podcast "In The Trenches." How To Build Your Online Tribe in 2022! Tom Morkes is the founder and CEO of Insurgent Publishing, author of The Art of Instigating, The Complete Guide to Pay What You Want Pricing and Collaborate, and host of the iconic podcast "In The Trenches," where he interviews today's most fascinating (and sometimes controversial) marketers, entrepreneurs, and authors, including Dr. Jordan Peterson, Seth Godin, and John Jantsch among many others. Tom is a sought-after marketing and growth consultant who helped his clients reach the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists set the record for the most-funded, non-fiction publishing project in Kickstarter history, and generate millions in sales online using his referral, influencer, and affiliate marketing strategies. Tom's ideas on marketing and entrepreneurship have been featured in a variety of top publicatio