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196 WP-Tonic: The Best Landing Page Tools and Services in 2017 Main Topic “What are the best WordPress plugins and online services for building landing pages that convert?” This Week’s WordPress News Stories 1 – The Story Behind MOJO Marketplace with Brady Nord https://bobwp.com/story-behind-mojo-marketplace-brady-nord/ � 2 – WordPress 4.8 Improves Accessibility on Admin Screens https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-8-improves-accessibility-on-admin-screens…

We interview Bill Gadless joint co-founder of emagine, one of the leading digital agencies on the East Coast. Bill co-founded emagine with Brett Cohen at the dawn of the Web. Primarily focused on emagine’s sales and marketing strategy, Bill’s insights have appeared on various occasions in MarketingSherpa, dozens of industry sites and publications and on…

We look at useful and interesting WordPress plugins that you might not know about. Our WordPress panel looks at some lesser-known plugins that we find useful. Here’s who was on the panel this week:   Adam Preiser https://www.wpcrafter.com/ Sallie Goetsch: https://wpfangirl.com/ Jackie D’Elia: https://jackiedelia.com/ Jonathan Denwood: https://www.wp-tonic.com/ John Locke: https://www.lockedownseo.com/   Table of Contents for…

Our guest this week is Unbounce co-founder, Oli Gardner. He’s obsessed with identifying and reversing bad marketing practices, and his disdain for marketers who send campaign traffic to their homepage is legendary, resulting in landing page rants that can peel paint off an unpainted wall. A prolific international speaker, Oli is on a mission to…

An in-depth look at the Beaver Builder ecosystem, and the new Beaver Themer. After almost one year of development,  Beaver Builder’s announce its first official addon. Beaver Themer is a theme builder plugin for WordPress. What makes Beaver Builder so special? What makes their community unique? Will Beaver Themer change how people develop WordPress websites?   Our…

We Interview Tenko Nikolov, CEO and Managing Partner at SiteGround. SiteGround is a successful hosting company with hundreds of employees. Located in Europe, its CEO, Tenko Nikolov, has been fixated on growing his brand by focused on success across the team and for their customers. It’s evident that SiteGround knows what they’re doing — and…

This week, we look at learning management systems and building an online course in WordPress.   Our WordPress panel this week:   Chris Badgett: https://lifterlms.com Kim Shivler: https://howtobuildanonlinecourse.com Sallie Goetsch: https://wpfangirl.com Jonathan Denwood: https://www.wp-tonic.com/ John Locke: https://www.lockedowndesign.com/   ==================   Table of Contents for Episode 190   0:00 Podcast intros. 2:21 WordPress News Story #1:…

This week, our guest is Zack Rosen, CEO of Pantheon. As CEO & Co-Founder, Zack leads the charge to define what developers need now, & what they and their clients will need 5 years from now—and beyond. Zack pioneered the first large-scale Drupal website for the Howard Dean campaign in 2003, co-founded the world’s first…

In this episode, we look at local development, and how that can help your workflow. What options are there for local development, and what do you do with a local site when it’s time to deploy. We examine why you need a local environment in your workflow, and some choices for getting started.   Our…

We sit down to talk with Dusty Davidson, the CEO and co-founder of Flywheel. He tells us how the hosting company got started, early years and growing, what they look for in hiring, their acquisition of Local, and much more. We also ask Dusty about early years and growing, what they look for in hiring,…

Lee Jackson returns to talk his other company, Event Engine. This is a web agency devoted entirely to website design for conferences, events, and expos. We look the unique challenges faced by conference website managers, and some great tips for digital marketing for events, expos, and conferences.   Links Event Engine The Event & Expo…

We look at event management plugins, what they do, and when you will need specific ones. What if you run recurring events? Say you run a once a year event, and need to sell tickets? What if you’re a musician or band posting gigs? We give our recommendations for these scenarios and more.   Our…

We look at what a marketing funnel is, and how they can help grow your business. Then we analyze how to build funnels in WordPress, methodologies for building funnels, and moving people down the funnel to close a sale. At the top of the funnel is awareness, further down the funnel is interest, evaluation, and…

Tom is a self-employed WordPress developer and a top contributor to the WordPress development community. Tom also runs a small business called Pressware, that builds web applications, sites, themes, plugins, and more – using WordPress. He also works as the Tuts+ Code editor where he is responsible for overseeing all of the Web Development and…

In the world of web design and development, there is a divide between designers and developers. Many agencies have figured out how to bridge this communication gap, but many people out there don’t know how to speak the language of the other side. In this episode, we look at some of the communication issues that…