These days, my hometown is missing some of those small businesses that we had when I was a kid. My mom has always said that her favorite job was working in the women’s department at a family-run retail clothing store. My cousin ran a men’s store for years. Every Summer, my mom would take my…
Things are always changing in the WordPress ecosystem. Here are two examples. First, have you heard of Gutenberg? This is a new project set to be built into Core to provide a streamlined user experience for creating content. It is in the form of a plugin currently. Brenda Baron dives into the plugin in a…
I am beginning to understand my frustration when I read blog posts about keyword research. Frankly, most of the time they don’t apply to me. Good tactics for keyword research completely depends on what you are doing the keyword research for. For example, if I have an eCommerce site and I sell leather belts, that…
“It’s not a mistake. They don’t make mistakes. They don’t do random. There’s always an objective. Always a target.” Nicky Parsons Nicky Parsons is one of my favorite characters in the Bourne movie series. She is an operative that coordinates logistical operations in the field. During Bourne Supremacy the team is gathered looking at surveillance video…
Sometimes I think I fancy myself Jason Bourne as a freelancer. I mean, I am on my own now, right? Bourne became a freelancer. He broke away from the “program” and lived on his own. His attempt to be an independent person was met with resistance from the CIA. As Bourne told Alexander Conklin, “I’m…
For the better part of three years, I frequently wrote articles about startups. The startup industry is exciting, moves fast and very innovative. In writing these articles, I met entrepreneurs who had visions of solving a problem, building software, and making a better place for us to live. One of my friends has gone on…
These days, there are several challenges we need to overcome to execute a keyword research in 2017. So, imagine you have just finished a day at WordCamp. You and some of your closest friends exit the building and you are looking to continue the conversations you started during the day. Now, maybe you have some…
What song makes you think of Summer? You know Summer, the time for hot weather, no school, vacations, blockbuster movies and music, lots of music. For me, I often think of Canadian rocker Bryan Adam’s Summer of 69. Oh, when I look back now That summer seemed to last forever And if I had the…
When building a landing page, we WordPress professionals have become pretty good at designing and developing the landing page. And, with the emergence of products such as Beaver Builder and Thrive Landing Pages, as well as third party platforms such as LeadPages and Unbounce, we can build very robust pages in a fraction of the…
Here are 12 places to find jobs for WordPress Freelancers. Have you heard the story of the “Magnificent Seven?” No, not that Magnificent Seven. I recently read a story from a 35-year veteran copywriter. He tells a story of a group of copywriters who became its own mastermind group. It turns out, a group of copywriters signed…
