Streamlined Solopreneur: Tips to Help Business Owners Grow Without Burnout
Joe Casabona, Automations Builder
You started your business for freedom, not to be chained to your desk. I help small business owners grow without burning out through simple, powerful online automations.
On Streamlined Solopreneur you'll get real-world strategies, smarter workflows, and practical tools to help you reclaim your time and actually enjoy the freedom you set out to create.
Your host, Joe Casabona, is a seasoned technologist with over 25 years of experience. He's seen how the right systems can transform a business. But more than that, He's a teacher at heart.
His goal isn’t to overwhelm you with jargon, but to make complex ideas simple and give you an actionable plan you can actually use.
Because your business should support your life—not take it over.
Tune in every Monday, wherever you get your podcasts.
On Streamlined Solopreneur you'll get real-world strategies, smarter workflows, and practical tools to help you reclaim your time and actually enjoy the freedom you set out to create.
Your host, Joe Casabona, is a seasoned technologist with over 25 years of experience. He's seen how the right systems can transform a business. But more than that, He's a teacher at heart.
His goal isn’t to overwhelm you with jargon, but to make complex ideas simple and give you an actionable plan you can actually use.
Because your business should support your life—not take it over.
Tune in every Monday, wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
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Jun 26, 2018 • 45min
Using WordPress in Higher Ed with Rachel Cherry
Rachel Cherry is a front end developer and lead organizer of WPCampus, a WordPress conference focused on Higher Education. In this episode, we talk about what goes into putting on this conference, from scouting a location to day-of logistics. Show NotesRachel CherryWPCampusChris Lema on How I Built ItLiam Dempsey on How I Built ItCrowdCastSponsored by: The Events Calendar | Pantheon
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Jun 13, 2018 • 20min
Season 4 Recap
So we just wrapped up Season 4 a couple of weeks ago and it was my favorite episode for a lot of reasons. I got to talk to great people, the sponsors were fantastic, and we even had a miniseries on starting your own business. Plus, there were a lot of takeaways. I got a lot of immediately actionable advice from my guests. So hopefully you did too. Here’s some my favorites. Sponsored by: WordSesh | Jilt | Liquid Web
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May 29, 2018 • 42min
Recovering Abandoned Carts with Beka Rice and Jilt
Closing out Season 4 is Beka Rice, Head of Product at Jilt! After an entire season about hearing about Jilt, Beka and I dig deep into how it was built, how to be effective with your abandoned cart emails, GDPR, and much much more. It's a great way to close out the season and I'm very excited to have her on the show! Show NotesBeka RiceJiltSkyVergeProduct Cart TitlesMembershipsProspressGDPRSponsored by: WordSesh | Jilt | Liquid Web
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May 22, 2018 • 45min
The Advice You Need when Considering Crowdfunding with Thomas Umstattd
Thomas Umstattd is a plugin and agency owner who's has great success in crowdfunding his products. His take is a fantastically interesting one and he offers lots of great advice - so much that we even have a bonus over on Patreon. This is definitely one of my favorite conversations - I learned a ton here that I was able to immediately apply to my own crowdfunding efforts. Show NotesThomas UmstattdAuthor MediaMy Book TableThomas' original KickstarterThe WordPress PhilosophyGet Part 2 of our interview with Thomas on PatreonSponsored by: WordSesh | Jilt | Liquid Web
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May 15, 2018 • 37min
Buidling a Good Development Process for Teams with Stacy Kvernmo
Stacy Kvernmo is a UX/UI Developer at OddBird. I met Stacy on another podcast and was really excited to talk to her about a number of tools and views she has about creating good code while working on a team. We talk about process, UX, and more in this episode. She and here team are doing some really cool things in Frontend Development, and it was very interesting hearing about all of it. Show NotesStacy KvernmoStacy on TwitterOddBirdLunch with BradHerman | on GithubTrueEmbracing Code Reviews - WP Sessionsphoto creditSponsored by: WordSesh | Jilt | Liquid Web
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May 8, 2018 • 38min
Designing the Perfect Business Card with Evan Calkins and Hoban Press
Evan Calkins created Hoban Press & Hoban Cards after he bought his first letterpress machine. He's a master of his craft and I was really excited to talk to Evan because I'm very interested in that creaft. He creates fantastic looking business cards and sationary, and even did my cards! We'll talk about what it's like doing a highly specialized thing in the real world - a physical product, and hear some good stories along the way. Show NotesHoban CardsEvan on TwitterHoban PressBriar PressSupport the show on PatreonSponsored by: WordSesh | Jilt | Liquid Web
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May 1, 2018 • 35min
How to Create Great User Documentation with Nancy Hidebrandt
Nancy Hildebrandt has a lot of experience in documentation and software systems, starting back in the Sun/Java days. In this episode, we talk all about building out a good support system and what that process looks like. We also talk about the importance of creating good documentation, listening to your customers, and so much more. It's a great conversation, and one that everyone can benefit from, no matter what the role. Show NotesNancyBeaver Builder Knowledge BaseEpisode 54: The GiveWP TeamHelp ScoutHow I Built It PatreonSponsored by: Jilt | Liquid Web
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Apr 24, 2018 • 30min
Automating Social Sharing with The Social Web Suite Team
Dejan Markovic and Tina Todorovic are two halves of the Social Web Suite dream team. They are some of the hardest working, passionate folks I know in the WordPress community and an absolutely joy to talk to. I love the tool and and hearing the evolution of the project and how they work was fantastic. Show NotesSocial Web Suite (use code JoeLoveSWS for a discount)Laravel SparkWordCamp TorontoSponsored by: Jilt | Liquid Web
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Apr 17, 2018 • 30min
Building a Modern Podcasting Platform with Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt is a guy who knows podcasting, so I was super excited to talk to him about his acquisition of Seriously Simple Podcasting. He took a relatively focused WordPress plugin and turned it into a SaaS, and that's what we talk about in this episode. Lots of great advice here! Show NotesCraig HewittCraig on TwitterCastosPodcast MotorInteractive Advertising Bureau (IBA) Podcast Guidelines LibsynSponsored by: Jilt | Liquid Web
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Apr 10, 2018 • 42min
Learning Web Development with Beth Soderberg
Beth Soderberg is a self-taught Front End Developer and speaker, and in this episode I get to talk to her about how she learned her craft. It was fun exchanging stories of our different learning experiences. Beth offers truthful and encouraging words for if you want to start on your journey to web development. Show NotesBeth SoderbergI Learned to Code Through WordPress and So Can You (slides)DCFemTechJohn Duckett's Books: HTML & CSS | Javascript & jQueryJoe's HTML & CSS CourseJavascript30 by Wes BosLynda.comWeb Hosting for StudentsSponsored by: Jilt | Liquid Web
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