5 Ways Most People Forget To Keep WordPress Secure
When it comes to WordPress, security is no joke. Like any web software, WordPress can be vulnerable to many attacks. To help keep your site secure, you’ve probably instituted best practices, probably...
View ArticleUnderpaid And Overworked? It’s Time To Think Long Term
Do you ever feel overworked and underpaid as a freelancer or business owner? I know I have. For many, the primary cause is thinking about your business in the short term rather than the long term....
View ArticleHow To Get Your First Freelancing Clients
I’m not going to sugar coat this. Getting your first clients as a freelancer is tough! You’re stuck in a Catch-22. People don’t want to hire you because you don’t have any previous clients. But you...
View ArticleFeeling Stressed? 5 Tips To Beat Stress As A Freelancer
Freelancing can be incredibly rewarding. You have the freedom to choose which projects you work on, where you work from, and can create your own work schedule. At the same time, it requires...
View Article5 Simple Tips To Deliver Amazing Customer Support (Or Service)
We’re in the midsts of a revolution. The companies, entrepreneurs, and freelancers who are winning are the ones who deliver exceptional support, service, and experiences. Just look at Uber. They were...
View Article5 Books Every Business Owner And Freelancer Should Read
A great book will teach you a new skill, inspire you, or expose you to opposing ideas. Even better: it will do all three at the same time. An important aspect of being a smart business owner or...
View ArticleFind Your Point Of Differentiation… And Find Success
Let’s do a quick exercise together. Open up a text document, or grab a pen and paper. Now write down answers to the following two questions: What makes you different from your competitors? If I were a...
View ArticleRead This Before Starting Your WordPress Business Empire
Looking to start a WordPress business? Not a freelancing business. One that offers a product or service (or even productized services). And that you plan to scale. If that is you, then keep reading. I...
View Article5 Reasons To Start A Plugin Business
WordPress plugin businesses are incredible. I’ve seen developers code a plugin over a week, launch on the WordPress Plugin Directory for free, create a premium version, and a few months later, have a...
View ArticleWhat’s Next For WordPress?
In the tech world, we’ve seen it over and over again. Large, incumbent technologies and companies are overtaken by newer ones. And those older ones fall into near obscurity. It makes you wonder: what...
View Article5 Steps To Get Your WordPress Load Time Under Two Seconds
WordPress website running slow? A chief complaint I come across from WordPress users is, “My website is so slow!” And they are right. Their sites take 5-10 seconds to load. That’s way too long. Back in...
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About AMP And Instant Articles
While there have been many efforts to make the web faster, the mobile web is still pretty slow. This can be attributed to slow mobile networks or to websites that aren’t optimized for mobile. But ever...
View ArticleMy Favorite Development Plugins Of 2016 (And A Few Other Tools)
We’re just a few months into 2016. As a WordPress freelancer, work has been increasing as businesses begin making changes to their sites. All of that work can get quite overwhelming. So today’s article...
View ArticleLevel Up Your WordPress Development Skills With These 7 Courses
Most in the WordPress community are self-taught. They played around with their first WordPress website until they broke something, and worked on it until it was fixed. Doing this over and over again,...
View ArticleHow WordPress, AMP, And Instant Articles will Revolutionize The Internet
If you haven’t heard of Google’s AMP or Facebook’s Instant Articles, you are missing out on what is the next iteration of the Internet. Using a combination of development guidelines, as well as caching...
View Article6 Tools That Make WordPress Migrations A Breeze
Migrating WordPress from one host to another used to be such a hassle. Broken databases, missing files, and long wait times made it one of my least favorite things to do. Until I discovered plugins and...
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