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As WordPress professionals, we deal with certain constants: The havoc a missing semicolon causes, the panic of hardware malfunction, the seemingly never-ending parade of updates. However, some commonalities take the form of humans – both clients and acquaintances. For the most part, our jobs...
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Growing your WordPress development business has many challenges, one of which is running an effective first meeting with a new prospect. With no existing relationship to fall back on, there are many unknowns. Will your personalities clash? Will they scoff at your rates? Will they like your...
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One of the biggest WordPress new items of late has been the announcement that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, the company behind the free WordPress eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. There has been a good deal of speculation – as one might expect – about what this might mean for the WordPress...
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If you’ve been a WordPress developer and/or designer for long, you’ll have likely dealt with this problem. You landed several really great clients or even a full-time spot. Your workday is filled with answering client demands, attending meetings, and hunting down that perfect plugin....
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Do you ever give any thought to the potential risks that your WordPress business might be facing? If you’re like most small business owners, you probably don’t. Sure, every now and then a “what if?” thought pops into your head. But dealing with client inquiries, lead generation and a...
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Here’s the scenario: you need a website – for yourself or a client – with some more advanced community features. That might mean advanced user accounts, forums, private messaging, chat, better commenting, or any other manner of features to enhance the way users can interact with a...
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Imagine the scene. You’re pitching an idea to a client, or explaining how a new feature in their WordPress site will work. You’re confident your approach will help their business in a myriad of ways. But you see their eyes glaze over. There is a pause during the conference call. The...
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We’ve all been there – a client who is a newcomer to WordPress and needs their hand holding through every step of their new site. However, you can’t just leave them to struggle – if clients are discouraged from learning how to use WordPress, their skills won’t improve and it’ll...
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Keeping accurate records is a necessity, as is making sure you’re getting paid properly and on time for client projects. Luckily, there is an increasing number of accounting apps on the market and many of them will work well for WordPress developers. But there are also some things to look out...
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No longer a clunky, text-based interface, email has become a searchable filing cabinet, to-do list, CRM and project management tool all rolled into one. If you’ve ever tried a little productivity app called Rescue Time, you were probably shocked to discover exactly how much time you spend in your...
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Not all clients initially come to you looking for a brand new website. That may be what’s needed, but often the starting point is an existing site. It might be outdated or in a state of disrepair, or maybe it’s built using a theme that’s no longer supported. Landing clients who have an...
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The internet: not an insignificant invention, you’d have to agree. Many might say that it’s reducing its users’ attention spans however, and it’s clear that it doesn’t engage everyone to the same extent as other media may be able to. Take Facebook as a prime example, where engagement on...
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