Amir Salihefendic is the founder and CEO of Doist, maker of the popular Task Management app, Todoist. Today we are talking about their new chat app Twist, which was create as a way to combine email and Slack-like functionality. We talk about all sorts of great topics, but most notably, Work/Life Balance and how always…
Pricing projects is both rocket science and a difficult as rolling jelly up a hill! Lee and Pete share their experiences of pricing and projects in agency life. They unpack a range of thought processes about pricing including the controversial “essence of a true deal” concept. “The essence of a true deal is when neither party…
Gravity Forms is one of, if not the, oldest premium form builders for WordPress. Alex Cancado, one of the founders, and I talk about the research that went into creating such an integral part of any website. We also talk about refactoring, automated testing, what it was like creating add-ons for Gravity forms and a…
In this episode I’m talking to Anchen le Roux. Anchen is the owner of Simply Digital Design, a web design and digital marketing studio based in Pretoria. Before she got into WordPress development Anchen used to be a .Net developer so she has some pretty serious development chops. She is organiser of the Pretoria WordPress…
Project to project Agency work can be rewarding yet difficult. Vinodh David takes us on their journey as they grew from freelance, to agency and beyond. They have achieved many agency owners dream, which is to move to a model of yearly subscriptions for valuable online products. Takeaways: Technology is evolving and development is getting…
This is the last episode before we retire the podcast. Many people have enjoyed the podcast and we’ve had a lot of great feedback and a lot of fun, so we’ve been asked why we’re…
GiveWP is a plugin that helps you accept donations on your WordPress site. I got to talk to Matt and Devin about all sorts of other stuff though, like collaboration on a large team and the importance of great support. Show Notes GiveWP GiveWP on Twitter Scaling your WordPress Support for Growth
Let’s get it from better to awesome! This month’s episode is dedicated to one of the hottest topics in the WordPress space right now, the new Gutenberg editing experience, and I couldn’t think of a better person to talk about this with than Justin Sainton. Justin is one of my favourite people in the WordPress…
Join us again, with Frank Candy in this two part series on turning creativity into profit. Frank shares the ten points of content, the implementation, the creative brief as a management tool and more. In part one of Turning creativity into profit. We discussed the purpose and value of creative briefs for projects, and how it…
Join Frank Candy in this two part series on turning creativity into profit. Frank shares his thoughts and strategies empowering you to make things happen, and get things done with clients and teams of creative people. We delve into the value of creative briefs, the foundation of your creative problem solving. Takeaways: You never know…
Ben Meredith is a WordPress man about town, working with lots of great folks in the community like GiveWP, and putting out his own plugins. In this episode, Ben and I talk about Better Click to Tweet, a fantastic and free WordPress plugin he created. Show Notes Ben Meredith Ben on Twitter Better Click to…
We are all service providers. How do we tune into what’s really important to potential clients, or our existing clients? Frank inspires us to look at things in our live’s differently. He challenges us to ask the important questions of our clients. Frank’s goal is to help people be more profitable, productive and happier. With his…
Brian Hogg is a Canadian, WordPress Plugin Developer, Educator, and more. He has a few great courses on how to create WordPress plugins and a very informative newsletter to go with them. In part 2, we talk all about what to put in free vs. paid, build tools, and more. Show Notes Brian Hogg Event…
Getting the onboarding process right will set your project up for success. Laura is a designer, and has launched an exciting product called Client Portal to help agencies and service businesses communicate their projects cleanly and effectively. Laura shares her business journey, and lessons learned along the way. SPECIAL OFFER: Get 20% off Client Portal…
Brian Hogg is a Canadian, WordPress Plugin Developer, Educator, and more. He has a few great courses on how to create WordPress plugins and a very informative newsletter to go with them. In this 2 part episode, we discuss his plugins as well as general plugin development; this includes build tools, SVN, submitting to the…
