Client projects are always interesting and rewarding to work on, but without setting very clear expectations with your client before the scope and specific deliverables for the project, projects can easily go awry. Clear communication from the start will help set what the client expects, the deliverables, and the dates set for each stage of…
In the early days of my website design business, I decided to create a website audit to use to get people to sign up for my email newsletter. To be fair, it never really resulted in a lot of business. I think that was mostly because the wrong people received the audits. I think audits are…
The majority of the time, people are in a Beta state of consciousness; we’re functional, we’re working, we’re constantly thinking and organizing and strategizing. There’s nothing wrong with this, but what we need to focus on is achieving an Alpha state. An Alpha state is when you meditate, visualize, relax, or simply close your eyes…
What do stats about WordPress, using a blog checklist, creating a password policy, and building an affiliate website on WordPress have in common? They are all featured in today’s infographics recap. Each article includes an infographic which contains useful data for the user. So, let’s dive into our group of articles for our infographics recap. [Infographic] Mesmerizing…
MainWP now has a very useful way to track changes made on both the MainWP Dashboard site, as well as tracking changes to connected child sites using Activity Log for MainWP extension. First, you will need to install the WP Security Audit Log plugin on all of the connected child sites, which is very easy…
When it comes to personas, it seems like we have a dozen word phrases to say what we mean. There is the marketing persona, the buyer persona, the customer persona, and a few other phrases. Some use the ideal client avatar or the ideal customer. Really, it gets cloudy often when it comes to the…
WordPress in its core has a function called XML-RPC, which a limited number of plugins still use like Jetpack. More plugins used to use it when the only method would have been to use the XML-RPC. Most plugins now use the WordPress REST API to connect to a site to pull data from it, by…
What tools do you use to ease frustration with a task that you hate to do? Thank goodness some of these tools exist! I work in Canva almost every day, but that app doesn’t have a feature to remove backgrounds in an image. Well today, we are going to take a look at an app…
You might think of a demonic garden gnome when you hear the word “nomophobia.” Rest assured, your little statue of Gnome Elvis has nothing to do with it. Nomophobia is the fear of being without your cellphone or a mobile device, and it is real. Psychology Today published a post a year ago which covered…
Finding clients for your freelance WordPress business Sometimes, getting new clients is as simple as being a little creative. I know how it feels sometimes. You are stuck. You need clients to pay the rent next month. You think that if you don’t get anything soon, you are going to be turning out the lights…
