The Pagely Podcast

For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-23-craig-martin/ Craig Martin of Performance Foundry is one of the most long-standing partners of Pagely having helped to resolve performance bottlenecks and tune high-traffic WordPress sites. In this conversation Sean interviews Craig about what’s involved in diagnosing performance issues and resolving performance scaling issues, Craig’s long…

For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-22-katie-hess/ Katie Hess converted her fascination with the healing power of flower essences into a robust business that employs an all-female team of ten women across three countries. They are bringing transformational experiences to the masses via in-person events, online educational programs and by selling physical…

For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-21-drew-olanoff/ Drew Olanoff got his start in computers at a young age moderating BBS’s. He was offered an internship for America Online and thus began a long and illustrious career working at companies like Yahoo!, TechCrunch, NextWeb and more. In this interview Joshua interviews Drew on…

For links, show notes, transcription, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-20-rahul-bansal Rahul Bansal has built RTcamp from scratch to be a hugely successful WP dev agency. We were honored to have him speak this year at PressNomics 6 on the lessons learned from growing his organization. In this conversation Sean interviews Rahul about the pillars of…

For video, links, transcript, show notes and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-19-andy-wibbels/   Andy Wibbels was one of the first people to land a book deal from having a popular, early blog. He’s been in tech marketing and product since the early dotcom days and has strong opinions on how compelling story telling should be conducted to…

For links, show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-18-francisco-dao/  Francisco Dao has served as a columnist for Inc.com, founded an exclusive adventure sports retreat company for entrepreneurs, served as COO for an AI-focused incubator and is currently bringing a caffeinated energy/nutrition bar to market. In this interview Joshua interviews Francisco on his entrepreneurial journey,…

For links, show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-17-carl-alexander/ Carl Alexander found himself in a quarter-life crisis bouncing between software jobs unfulfilled and not sure how he would sustain his career for another forty years through to retirement. He transitioned into a freelance career and self-published a book to teach the basics of object…

For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-16-dave-amirault/ From humble beginnings on the east coast riding back mountains & tinkering with perl scripts to winning an Adweek award for his ingenious “one-star” ad campaign, Digidave Amirault is a marketing wizard. In this interview Joshua talks to Dave about his humble beginnings hand-coding HTML…

For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-15-morten-rand-hendriksen/ Morten Rand-Hendriksen has made it his mission to help people understand and get the most out of the web, and contribute to the debates about ownership and democratization of information, design philosophy, and the open web. His 60+ published courses on WordPress, front end web…

For links, show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-14-gregg-scoresby/ CampusLogic’s mission is to help schools change lives by driving increased access, informed borrowing and improved completion of student loans. Gregg has helmed the CampusLogic ship to becoming Arizona’s fastest growing software company with quadruple-digit annual percentage growth. In this interview Joshua talks to Gregg…

For links, show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-13-jon-bickerton/ Jon Bickerton is a proactive CPA specializing in corporate tax, research & development tax credit studies and cost segregation studies. His talk for PressNomics 6 covers the the major traps to avoid and opportunities on which to capitalize in corporate tax matters. In this episode…

For transcript, show notes, links, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-12-gregarious-narain/ Gregarious Narain has been involved in fourteen different startups over the course of his career. He was the VP of Product at Klout and his last one “Chute” was a YCombinator company and recently was acquired. In this interview Josh and and Greg talk about…

For show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-11-brad-williams/ Brad Williams is founder and CEO of one of the more respected WordPress agencies, WebDev Studios. They work with clients like Microsoft, Viacom, Campbell Soup Company, Starbucks and the NBA. In this interview Matt and Brad talk about their ten-year journey growing a 40-person company, how…

For links, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-10-devin-walker/ Devin Walker is the creator of several highly-rated and award-winning software products with his company Impress.org. Their flagship product, GiveWP, is in it’s fifth year and has secured its position in the nonprofit sector as a powerful WordPress-based platform for handling donations.  In this interview Josh…

For transcript, links, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-9-mike-roberts Mike Roberts started SpyFu back in 2005 and has managed to grow it to become a healthy, profitable, entirely-bootstrapped company having never taken investment. This has given him a lot of freedom in terms of how he runs things and latitude to maintain a course…