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Have you used the MainWP Client Reports feature? In this article, we are going to give you the information you need to get started using the client report feature to update your customers. As we started with the article, the following are links you will want to bookmark. Additionally, I leaned heavily on information from Joshua Vandercar, his article, and his sample report. Thanks, Joshua for the help! Resources: Client Report Tokens Create Report Available Client Report Tokens Typewheel Stylish Continue reading the post...

GDPR. That’s all people seem to be talking about. I guess the promise of hefty fines will create all kinds of emotions. So, where does that leave WordPress professionals? It is definitely something we should take note of for our clients. One UK developer said he had field almost a dozen calls in a week from clients wanting to know more. Obviously, since the GDPR is a new law for the European Union, it has more urgency for European developers, Continue reading the post...

Ever forget about someone? I have. It’s kind of weird when someone comes to mind, and I realize I hadn’t thought about them in years. Frankly, it can be embarrassing. Keeping in touch with clients is vital to an ongoing business. Often we use emails, text, social media and many other ways to keep in touch in a much more informal way, but if we aren’t careful, we can fail to keep clients abreast of the work we are doing Continue reading the post...

So, you have your WordPress site care business launched and you are growing confident each day with your process. You have several clients who are helping you generate a nice recurring revenue. Now, you are wondering how you can add more value to your clients and add more income to your revenue. Today, we are going to go over a few ways you can add value with additional services and products for your WordPress site care business. WordPress Site Care Continue reading the post...

Mark Watney may have said it best, only he wasn’t talking about WordPress Site Care, he was talking about surviving on Mars. Watney, played by actor Matt Damon, is a NASA astronaut in the movie The Martian. Actually, he was botanist on a mission to Mars to see what could and could not grow on the planet. Through an incredible series of mishaps, he was stranded on Mars when his crew had to make an emergency evacuation. They presumed he Continue reading the post...

If you are looking for easy money, then hop on down to Easy Street, where you can hang out with Miss Hannigan, Rooster, and Lily (remember Annie?). It didn’t work out so well for them. You remember, they tried to scam Daddy Warbucks’s out of the reward by pretending to be Annie’s missing parents? Every business is hard. My friends who run the coffee shop work long hours, but they love their job. My office building neighbor runs a lawn care Continue reading the post...

Security is pretty important. In fact, security is damn important. Hackings of your website can cost you valuable downtime, embarrassing visuals, get you in trouble with Google and cost you the chance to make money. Yet it happens every day. This is why it is necessary for someone running a business on their website to have security measure in place. Security measures come down to two basic things: Preventative, and the ability to restore. To restore, this means you have Continue reading the post...

Recently, in the WordPress Plugin Suggestions Facebook Group, I ran across a tool I had never seen before. It allows WordPress developers to make a bulk install of plugins to a new WordPress install. This is a great idea since we often use the same plugins every single time. Therefore, I decided to take a look at the tool and see for myself how it works. I was pleasantly surprised. The plugin installer is a freemium product. There is a Continue reading the post...

We’ve all been there. Panic sets in. What will the customer think? How did this happen? Will I ever recover that website? Will I have to recreate everything? You think, “Well, make some coffee because it is going to be an all-nighter.” Blood rushes throughout your body, you feel flushed and you can feel the adrenaline rushing through your veins. You think, “Did I have a backup?” What if you don’t have a backup? Your server crashes, someone hacks the Continue reading the post...

You are just trying to make a living, right? I mean, you become a WordPress developer to have flexibility, freedom, and the ability to take care of your family. WordPress has been an awesome tool. You can create sites for your clients very affordably and they can actually update and write blog posts themselves. You decided, along the way, that you would support your clients’ ongoing website to both help your client with all the techy stuff and to make Continue reading the post...