MainWP Blog - WordPress Business

Congratulations on launching your WordPress site care business. Not only have you been successful, but you have grown your business and added members to your team. You are now ready to add some of your new team members to the mix of managing your client’s websites. You need to customize user roles for the members of your WordPress care business.  There is a way to do that and today I am going to show you how using the MainWP Team Continue reading the post...

I have had all kinds of different experience in sales. Most were not positive. I tried to sale some kind of system for home security once. It didn’t go well. I tried to sell a satellite type of telecommunications and cable once. I also spent about 30 days on a car lot trying to sell cars. The one place I always excelled was retail. For about eight years I worked in a bookstore where I was stationed at the cash Continue reading the post...

Imagine spending hours on a project for which you know you will not get paid. Additionally, with that project, you handle hours of support request. Maybe you just do it because you love it or maybe you are doing it to give value to the community. The project might even lead to a pay off in terms of additional paid work. Now, imagine when someone tells you how much they appreciate what you do. They “ring the bell” if you Continue reading the post...

When I was a kid, in a small town, in a rural state, there wasn’t much to do on a Friday night as a teenager. Often, I would end up down at the Playful Quarters. Playful Quarters was an arcade with a pizza place next to it with a doorway between the two. The arcade kept music videos going on the TV’s and kids would play video games for hours. Of course, we had to have plenty of those quarters. Continue reading the post...

Recently, I was looking at a plugin I had been using for my local town website. It was a simple plugin that lived in the WordPress repository. It had great value. The plugin has been discontinued. I really don’t know why, but my guess is that the author has other things to do. My first thought was how I or someone I knew could take over the plugin. Then I thought I or someone else might end up the same Continue reading the post...

Quite possibly, one of the hardest parts of running a blog is being consistent. It stands to reason that if you create goals and outline your schedule, you will come closer to publishing your blog regularly. An editorial calendar can be a huge help in staying consistent. In early 2015, I restarted my business and new I needed to be blogging on a regular basis. Therefore, I set out to create a schedule that would help me. As a result, Continue reading the post...

Lead magnets. They help us get emails for our email lists. In other words, they help us generate leads. As a service provider, sometimes we struggle with lead magnets. Lead magnets have changed over the years. Some service-based companies have offered a “free quote.” Think your local roofer or plumber. What they are saying is that they will take a look at your situation for free, do a quick analysis, and offer an estimate without charging you. That allows you, Continue reading the post...

A website without marketing goals is a website that is static. The crux of marketing, especially online, is to set goals and create a workflow to meet those goals. And, marketing is a loaded term. For example, online entrepreneur Heidi Cohen published a post outlining 72 definitions for marketing. Marketing is a broad topic. I like to talk about marketing quite often, but the truth of the matter is that marketing is a very big picture. Topics under the umbrella Continue reading the post...

As the May 25th 2018 deadline moves closer you may be wondering how your MainWP Dashboard is impacted by the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. As a self-hosted solution we do not track any information about your clients or your child sites. That means we are neither a controller or processor of your users data (we will have an additional blog post closer to the deadline on your information and the MainWP site). This means you do not need Continue reading the post...

Reports are important to keep in the front of mind how our websites we are doing. We know that it helps keep our communication open with clients. We have talked about the importance of reports recently. One of the reports that are important to send is your Google Analytics report. I have helped people with their websites in the past where they did not have Google Analytics installed. This left them in the dark knowing how their website was doing Continue reading the post...