Your website is the platform on which it all happens. It isn’t just something pretty for people to look at. It has to be set up for marketing, receive and route communications, answer questions, take payments, manage customer accounts, send automated emails and more.
My real specialty is in designing and building the platform for online business. This covers things like tools, design and making it all work together.
22 years of experience in using different software and plug-ins for my business resulted in these 4 important lessons. Perhaps they will save you some time.
What is a brand, or a personal brand? How exactly do you create one in a purposeful way? This guide to branding will show you the exact components of a brand and give plain-English guidance on creating your own brand.
Do you own and control the data, hardware and software that your online business relies on? This mini-workshop covers how to maintain digital sovereignty.
When you want to accept payments, is it best to use a third-party platform or build your own with Wordpress? Let’s compare… and look at some software combos that might work for you.
In this post, I’m going to talk to you about how to tweak your blog for conversions. We’ll talk, specifically, about 6 important core pages and how to tweak each of them in order to double your conversions (or more).
In this post, I’m going to talk about the basic layout of your blog and I’m going to give you a few frameworks that you can use on your own blog to ensure people notice what you want them to see, thereby increasing the chances they’ll convert into a real subscriber and prospect for you.
Use this checklist to evaluate your blog point by point… and find what’s good and what you could improve. Available for download free inside the Document Vault.
A simple plugin that will enable you to organize your media library into folders, just like your computer. Nice!
Many high-performance web hosts (like Cloudways) don’t include email inbox hosting. Here’s how to separate your email from your hosting, so you can get the best hosting for both.
The marketing tactics being used in the Wordpress economy have evolved… and not all of it is good. Is the space being taken over by greed and too much centralization?
Getting Wordpress premium plugins and themes for free? Without paying for them? That’s the promise of the so-called “Wordpress GPL Clubs”. The question is…. are they legal? Is it OK to use them? What are the pros and cons? And, just what is the GPL license?
22 years of experience in using different software and plug-ins for my business resulted in these 4 important lessons. Perhaps they will save you some time.
So many websites in 2022 are highly annoying to visit due to all the popups, cookie notices and more. Is your site one of them?
5 rules for how to properly manage your Wordpress Media Library… and some tools I used to shrink a 5GB library by about 45%!
In this video, I’m going to take you behind the scenes and show you the exact tools and plugins that power this website. This is how my membership site is built.
What is a brand, or a personal brand? How exactly do you create one in a purposeful way? This guide to branding will show you the exact components of a brand and give plain-English guidance on creating your own brand.
There’s the usual way to define blog categories… then there’s the SMART way which will help you with your online marketing. A simple change in how you look at your categories can help you earn more opt-ins and make more sales.
In my opinion, the most powerful membership site plugin isn’t really even a membership site plugin. See what I mean…
Is there a max number of active Wordpress plugins you should try to stay under? Here’s the truth… and how to run more plugins without affecting site performance.
AI copywriting tools like Jarvis have their place, but risk cheapening the idea of online content even further.
Is the addition of Thrive Automator to the Thrive Suite going to finally solve a long-standing issue with Thrive Themes? Let’s take a look.
The BuddyBoss blog layout is quite simplistic. Here’s how to use Elementor to visually design your own custom blog post template to use with BuddyBoss.
When I first reviewed FluentCRM, I was impressed. Yet, it wasn’t ready for me to switch over yet. 7 months later, how has FluentCRM developed? Is it ready now?
Here’s how to cleanly and simply display full PDF files and create your own Wordpress document library. Great for Wordpress membership sites.
I recently reworked my Wordpress-based membership site yet again. Here’s the behind-the-scenes look at what was done and why.
I’ve seen many cases where Wordpress security plugins cause conflicts, site slowness, server errors. So, is it even necessary to run a security plugin?
A walkthrough on how to migrate your sites to Cloudways web hosting. Including managing your domain and moving your email (if necessary).
I build sites all the time for my clients as part of my technical services. And if you have an existing WordPress-based membership site, I can jump in and take care of some needed fixes and enhancements for you. Whether I do it for you or you just want to talk to help choose between all the available tools and options, I’m here to help.
