How to write a Services Page that works
Most website services pages suck. We can all agree that there are few things harder than writing about yourself, right? Whether it’s your About Page, your Services Page, or anything else where you have to articulate your value, things get ...
Five Strategies to grow your online business
Want to grow your online business? If you talk to enough people today, when you want to grow your business, it almost sounds like there’s a single strategy—Facebook ads. That just doesn’t sound right, does it? But what do you ...
How to Hire Amazing People
I believe anyone can hire amazing people—recruiting takes time and effort but I don’t think it’s an exclusive skill that only few people have. How to Hire Amazing People In the last few months I’ve been recruiting and hiring a ...
If you need a new WordPress site, skip the middle man
Are you looking to get a new WordPress site built? Have you seen the television show, The Wire? It’s an incredible show—great visuals, great story, great everything. And it’s intense. But mostly, what stood out to me when watching was ...
New year planning: Four things to get right
When it comes to new year planning, most people make resolutions. Resolutions that frankly fail within the first few weeks of the new year. So if you want to do new year planning the right way, I suggest you steer ...
Are you registering a new domain?
If you are, then maybe you’ve been doing what I’ve been doing forever—using GoDaddy. For years I’ve been buying domains from GoDaddy. And before you start thinking about all the negative feelings you have about the company, you should know ...
Lies that stop us from breaking into WordPress
Tomorrow I’ll be speaking at the Digital Commerce Summit—put on by Rainmaker Digital, the folks that created the Rainmaker Platform that hosts this site. My talk is titled, “Breaking into WordPress.” Have you thought about breaking into WordPress? When I ...
Learning to leverage insecurity
Can we talk about insecurity for a second? What’s the secret to your success? When I was speaking at the Double Your Freelancing Conference, I had lunch and dinner with several great freelancers. One of them, over the course of ...
How to announce pricing changes (without ruining everything)
Especially in the world of startups, the need to change business models is common. How you announce those pricing changes can help or kill your business. Five Tips on Announcing Pricing Changes It’s no shock to you, if you’ve read ...
What’s harder than writing code?
Coding a WordPress plugin is hard I know that people like to say that everything in WordPress is easy. It’s not true. Many things are difficult when it comes to WordPress. Developing a following who read your blog—that’s hard. Getting ...