Wp Elevation Wordpress Business Podcast

Thinking about raising your rates? Nervous about going it alone as your own boss? Any worries about those issues will be assuaged by this week’s guest, Jason Resnick! Listen along as he dives into his experiences raising rates, keeping an inflow of work, and making the transition to owning his own business.

Are you struggling to build an audience with your blog? Perhaps your focus is getting traction for your blog and you haven't nailed it yet. Wherever you are in your blogging quest our guest, Zac Johnson, is here to help. Zac knows a thing or two about blogging and he’s totally psyched to share his journey with us today on WP Elevation!

Welcome back to part two of our special series in which we explore Content Marketing World Sydney and chat up several different guests from the convention. All of our guests today are content marketing experts in their own right, and all answered a series of questions during our interviews with them. These questions are designed to help you understand how to create better content, and position that content for greater connection and ultimately greater results with your audience.

In this special episode, we explore Content Marketing World Sydney and experience interviews with several different guests from this convention.

Our guest for today’s show is Adam Mills of Bottomless Design. Adam is a successful business owner and has valuable experience in both theme design as well as client relations.

Our guest for today’s show is WordPress web developer, SEO expert, and Community Manager at Cloudways, Ahsan Parwez. Ahsan shows us how to get clients the easy way – by building relationships.

Our guest for today’s show is Remkus de Vries, all the way from the Netherlands. Remkus is an avid WordPress user and utilizes it in his business for large business and enterprise websites. It’s been a long time coming, but we finally got him on the show (he’s much taller in person, we promise!)

Thinking about transitioning from client services into a product company? Jason Lemieux is doing just that with Postmatic; a plug-in that allows you to comment on a WordPress site by email. Think about how that could increase the engagement on your website.

Are you struggling to create more business for yourself as a WordPress consultant? If you can relate, stick around. Our guest today, Joe Pulizzi, knows how to create more business than you can handle!

Our guest for today’s show is none other than author, speaker and chief evangelist at Canva, Guy Kawasaki. If you have a Mac (or even if you don’t!) chances are you’ve heard of Guy. Today, Guy shares with us how he got his start, how he spends his time as an evangelist, and why he is passionate about making people’s lives easier.

Our guest for today’s show, Hugh MacLeod, knows a thing or two about differentiating yourself, finding your niche, and going for it. If you’re struggling to find clients, or just interested in an inspiring story of one man’s unlikely path to success, then this is the show for you.

Beaver Builder is a page builder solution developed by the three guys (Robby McCullough, Billy Young and Justin Boozer). The boys discovered the internet as a career early on in life and came together five years ago to form their first company FastLine Media, from which followed Beaver Builder. This is a fun interview with the 3 guys, discussing the ups and downs of creating a successfull business – that came about simply from a need to “scratch their own itch”! Win Prizes The boys are giving away 2 x Pro Memberships at Beaver Builder valued at $199 each! Juat comment below telling us the number one thing you would fix about WordPress if you could wave a magic wand. Robby will come by in a couple of weeks and award the prizes. This episode of the WP Elevation Podcastis sponsored by Video User Manuals The only way to teach your clients how to use WordPress.Get it for just $1 for the first month! Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!   Show Notes FASTLINE MEDIA STORY Robby says he found Justi

This week’s feature guest is Garth Koyle of Event Espresso. He says he wants to grow his business into a $100 million dollar revenue company — the largest goal ever announced on WP Elevate. Garth is giving away one Everything License to a lucky listener of the WP Elevation Podcast. Garth earned a Masters of Business Administration and a Masters of Healthcare Administration from the University of Utah. Co-founder pf Event Espresso, Garth joined the company in 2012. He has led the company to grow to 12 employees already, and to found a Saas version of the Event Espresso plugin called Event Smart, which he intends on growing to a $100 million dollar revenue company. Garth has over a decade experience in business management and internet marketing. He competed in the 2011 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge for Event Espresso, taking home a $40,000 Grand Prize for the business plan.  Since that time, in addition to running Event Espresso, Garth speaks at WordCamps across the US, on WordPress Ent

Jack McConnell of Voltronik in Bath, England is a RAR-certified, one-man web design and development company. He offers great advice from his years of experience as a designer, developer and consulting. A contributor to the WordPress Community, he has contributed to the popular Custom Field Suite plugin and the Bones starter theme. In addition, McConnell has developed two free plugins of his own. McConnell is also partners in a web repository of tested, proven and recommended WP plugins at TidyRepo. In this episode you’ll learn great tips and tools for running a WordPress design and development business, as well as how to grow your business while working with others in a co-working space.

$1 million a year in revenue is just over $83K per month. That’s what Curtis McHale is aiming for in 2015. Curtis is a freelance WordPress consultant from Canada who helps other freelancers turn their hobby into a real business. He knows a lot about processes, client management, being debt free and shares his knowledge freely on this episode of the podcast.

  Kim Gjerstad is one of four founders of MailPoet, an email newsletter plugin for WordPress. According to BuiltWith, MailPoet is installed on over 94K websites at the time of writing. Let's learn how Kim and his team have used the freemium model to grow their business and the challenges they have faced along the way. The post Episode #68 Kim Gjerstad from MailPoet appeared first on WP Elevation.

  Zoe Rooney is a front end developer from Philadelphia who has defined her niche and turned her skills and passion for WordPress into a successful business allowing her to work from home and spend time with her kids. Let's learn how she's done this. The post Episode #67 Zoe Rooney from zoerooney.com appeared first on WP Elevation.

  Justin began his career selling learning management systems to Fortune 500 companies. Then he fell in love with WordPress. The natural progression that was to build a learning management system for WordPress. Hence the birth of LearnDash. We use it here at WP Elevation and we love it. I met Justin at WordCamp Chicago in 2013 and I'm now thrilled to have him on the podcast. The post Episode #66 Justin Ferriman from LearnDash appeared first on WP Elevation.

  Justin Sternberg is lead developer at WebDev Studios. Their clients include Microsoft, MSNBC, Boston Magazine, LiveFyre, and TIME. Their plug-ins include BadgeOS, Custom Post Type UI and Apppresser among others. But more importantly Justin understands the value in saying "no." The post Episode #65 Justin Sternberg appeared first on WP Elevation.

  Marcus Sheridan wanted to be a dentist, grew up to be a Pool guy and now travels the world teaching inbound content marketing. He does not hold back in this episode. If you're struggling at all with content marketing this is a must watch. The post Episode #63 Marcus Sheridan from The Sales Lion appeared first on WP Elevation.