What Drives Your Roadmap?
A couple weeks ago I wrote about product roadmap themes. If you haven’t read that, I strongly recommend it. I say that because today’s post relates to that, and is a general warning to small product teams. It directly applies ...
Some Nonintuitive Lessons That Are Hard To Learn
I spent today in an all-day meeting With some very smart people, we worked on planning for the second half of the year, and did a lot of work to identify themes, areas of effort, strategies for prioritization, and more. ...
Gutenberg lets you copy and paste layouts!
Ok, let’s just say that today I figured something out that is bound to help me a bunch, and I didn’t even realize it was possible. Did I know that Gutenberg saves stuff as comments in the text itself? Yes. ...
Designing the Product Page
Designing a product page is part art, part science A while ago I wrote you about a conversion problem. Conversions are always about trust. But when it comes to eCommerce, we’re never done optimizing conversions, right? That’s why I wrote ...
The Future of the Success of WordPress
I want to share with you some insights (or my take) on the future of the success of WordPress, but to do that, I think I need to tell you three stories first. These stories shape my perspective and will ...
Reflections on a WordPress Acquisition Marketplace
There’s a new WordPress acquisition marketplace: FlipWP The other day Iain Poulson sent me a DM on Twitter telling me about a new WordPress acquisition marketplace called FlipWP. You can see the announcement here: Announcing FlipWP 🚀 The private acquisition ...
The Power of a Mini Course
Most people never finish the courses they buy I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but I’ve purchased courses that I have never actually started. More than one. And even when I have made recent buying choices, I’ve struggled ...
Constant Discovery
Introducing You to New Products One of my favorite things is to introduce people to new companies and products that they don’t know about. It is part of the way I feel like I can be helpful. But it often ...
How I Use Canva to Create Featured Images
Shifting from Adobe to Canva felt like betrayal The first time I used Abobe Photoshop or Illustrator was almost 30 years ago. And I used them every day for more than 20 years. But slowly over the years, I started ...
Embracing Gutenberg Completely
I’ve moved to Gutenberg completely In Mid-January I changed my theme to Blocksy and started the re-design of all my pages from my favorite page builder to Gutenberg. Before I get into the why and how of the transition, let ...