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How To Sell WordPress or SaaS Products or Services B2B Markets Integrate Your Marketing Tech Stack, Without Code Sam Fonoimoana started his career in Finance (FP&A) and transitioned into Marketing Analytics, helping companies such as Adobe, DOMO, and Ancestry.com. He also taught Marketing Analytics at BYU Hawaii in beautiful Laie, HI. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Datajoin – a B2B marketing analytics company that is the go-to solution for connecting first-party data across the MarTech stack through their proprietary “Micro Integrations.” Their customers include Cisco, ARM, Adobe, and Equifax. Sam, the first VC-backed tech Founder and CEO of Polynesian descent in Utah has closed a seed round led by Sepio Capital. Sam and his wife Sabrina never have a dull moment with their children. They have 3 beautiful daughters and 4 wonderful sons. All 4 of their sons have been diagnosed with autism. When Sam is not at his computer, he can be found with his family at the park, rec center, restaurant, or on a road trip! Sam received his MBA in Finance from Brigham Young University.   #729: WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Sam Fonoimoana of Data Join Main Question of The Interview #1 - Sam, can you give the audience some background info connected to you and how you get involved in tech? #2 - Can you give us the starter story behind Data Join? #3 - What have been a couple of the biggest challenges you have faced in the development of Data Join? #4 - What are some of the most effective ways you have found connected to marketing Data Join? #5 - If you go back to a time machine at the beginning of Data Join, what advice would you give yourself? #6 - Are there any books, websites, or online recourses that have helped you in your own business development that you like to share with the tribe?   https://www.datajoin.com/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST, we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show, where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.   This Weeks Special Guest Panelists Matt Inglot: https://www.tiltedpixel.com/   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - Matt Mullenweg Renews Push for Canonical Plugins https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-renews-push-for-canonical-plugins #2 - Adobe to Acquire Figma https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-to-Acquire-Figma/default.aspx   #3 - BuddyPress Plugin Usage Declining, Remaining Contributors Discuss Path Forward https://wptavern.com/buddypress-plugin-usage-declining-remaining-contributors-discuss-path-forward #4 - Twitter may have hired a Chinese spy and four other takeaways from the Senate hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/09/13/1122671582/twitter-whistleblower-mudge-senate-hearing   #5 - What the WordPress community can learn from BTS: Take a break. https://masterwp.com/what-the-wordpress-can-learn-from-bts-take-a-break/ #6 - Cloudflare Can Cancel Service to Terrible Websites Like Kiwi Farms. But Should It? https://reason.com/2022/09/08/cloudflare-can-cancel-service-to-terrible-websites-like-kiwi-farms-but-should-it/   Panel Recommendations of the Week Jonathan Denwood" YouTube Channel - " Indigo Traveller" - https://www.youtube.com/c/IndigoTraveller/videos

#727: WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS WordCampUSA 2022 Live Special With John Locke & Tom Fanelli Can you believe WordCamp US 2022 is in one week? You’ve made your airline and hotel reservations, got your event ticket, and decided which sessions to attend. You’ve reached your sunblock, sandals, and water bottle to stay hydrated. And you’ve thought about what you want to do for Contributor Day. Tom Fanelli & John Locke https://convesio.com/ https://www.lockedownseo.com/ https://us.wordcamp.org/2022/

#726 WP-Ton”c "This Week In WordPress & Tech" 9th of September, 2022 at 8:30 am PST Every Friday at 8:30 am PST; we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show, where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Weeks Spe’ial Guest Panelists   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - WordCampU’A 2022 #2 - Reacting to Apple's event, new watch, AirPods, and iPhone 14 htt's://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-04/apple-s-far-out-event-ip'one-14-pro-airpods-pro-2-and-apple-watch-series-8-l7ndyucj #3 - The ‘self-employment penalty’ emerging in WordPress https://masterwp.com/the-self-employment-penalty-emerging-in-wordpress/ #4 - Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/youtube-homepage-editor-google-algorithm-book-excerpt/671339/ #5 - iThemes Patches Vulnerability in BackupBuddy, Wordfence Tracks 5 Million Exploit Attempts https://wptavern.com/ithemes-patches-vulnerability-in-backupbuddy-wordfence-tracks-5-million-exploit-attempts

Using Community To Build Your Online WordPress Business With Special Guest Chris Badgett of LifterLMS More About Chris Chris and LifterLMS help education entrepreneurs create, launch, and scale high-value online training platforms from their WordPress websites that they own and control! Discover the world's leading open-source freemium WordPress Learning Management System (LMS). The Membership Success Summit: https://themembershipsuccesssummit.com/ #725: WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS We Interview Chris Badgett, Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS Mail Questions We Will Be Discussing With Chris Badgett, Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS #1 - Chris, can you give the audience some more detailed info connected to your background and how you got into the World of WordPress and LMS? #2 - That sight would you like to share with the tribe connected to using the community to help grow a WordPress or SaaS online business? #3 - What are some of the unique differences connected to building a business in the WordPress space compared to the world of SaaS? #4 - What are some of the significant changes you have observed in the WordPress business space in the last 18 months? #5 - If you had a time machine and could go back to the beginning of LifterLMS, what advice would you give yourself? #6 - What are some of the critical people in either the WordPress, SaaS, or the online influencer space that you listen to the most that have personally influenced you the most lately? https://lifterlms.com

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST, we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show, where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Weeks Special Guest Panelists Vito Peleg Founder & CEO of - Atarim - https://atarim.io/ Steven Sauder Founder & CEO of - https://hustlefish.com/ #1 - WP-Optimize Denies Allegations of Cheating Performance Tools https://wptavern.com/wp-optimize-denies-allegations-of-cheating-performance-tools #2 - How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor https://www.theverge.com/23327809/twitter-onlyfans-child-sexual-content-problem-elon-musk #3 - My WooCommerce vs. Shopify Speedrun https://masterwp.com/my-woocommerce-vs-shopify-speedrun/ #4 - Thefts, Fraud and Lawsuits at the World’s Biggest NFT Marketplace https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/technology/nft-opensea-theft-fraud.html https://nairametrics.com/2022/08/29/opensea-trading-volume-plunges-by-99-in-90-days/

What Are Some of the Key Mistake digital Web-Design Agency Owners Make? We discuss some significant mistakes digital web design agency owners make in growing their businesses. We discuss with Vito Peleg, the founder of Atarim software, which helps digital agency owners to manage their client's projects more effectively. More About Vito   I Tried Everything, But Nothing Stuck... So My Team and I Built The First & Only Project Delivery System Designed For Website Experts As website creators, we pretty much have a tool for everything, and yet, with such a massive and ever-growing industry, there was still nothing specific to help us manage our agency, deliver projects and delight our clients. The average agency owner uses between 7-15 different tools, patched together to deliver a basic website project(!!!) What would you do if your accountant, for example, would have bounced you from spreadsheets to google docs to bookkeeping tools to Zoom calls to Trello to email to budgeting tools…. All within the first couple of weeks of your relationship. No wonder an essential website takes between 6-8 weeks, while if we built it on our own, without any distractions, it takes 5-6 days. We’re wasting 84% of the project delivery time on back and forth, waiting on the other side to take action and trying to get on the same page as our clients, that often get frustrated by the entire process. https://atarim.io/about/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vito-peleg/     Main Questions of The Interview   #1 - Give us some background on Atarim; how did it start, and where is it now?   #2 - What are some of the biggest trends you have observed in the WordPress web design and development agency space over the past 18 months?   #3 - What have been a couple of the biggest challenges growing Atarim over the past few years?   #4 - How important are business partnerships for Atarim and its future growth plans?   #5 - If you had a time machine and could go back 2 or 3 years ago, what advice would you give yourself?   #6 - Have you got any particular individuals in WordPress or the larger web-design business community that you look up to and have learned from?

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST; we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show, where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Weeks Special Guest Panelists Brian Jackson Joint Founder of Forgemedia - https://forgemedia.io/ Nyasha Green of MasterWP- https://masterwp.com/   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 - DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220823005306/en/DigitalOcean-to-Acquire-Cloudways #2 - A Prominent Vaccine Skeptic Returns to Twitter https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/alex-berenson-twitter-ban-lawsuit-covid-misinformation/671219/ #3 - Announcing Spectra 2.0: The visual page builder for ultra fast websites https://wpastra.com/updates/spectra-2-0/ #4 - Anyscale raises $99M to build out its distributed AI computing platform https://siliconangle.com/2022/08/23/anyscale-raises-99m-build-distributed-ai-computing-platform/ #5 - WordPress Community Engagement: The best WordPress accounts to follow on Twitter https://masterwp.com/wordpress-community-engagement-the-best-wordpress-accounts-to-follow-on-twitter/ #6 - T-Mobile and SpaceX get set to announce ‘something special for Starlink connectivity https://www.geekwire.com/2022/t-mobile-and-spacex-get-set-to-announce-something-special-for-starlink-connectivity/

#721 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS, We Interview Dennis Dornon Brand Manager and Cofounder of MainWP Is It Possible To Build a Successful WordPress Business With A Totally Free Core Product? #721 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS, We Interview Dennis Dornon, Brand Manager and Cofounder of MainWP More About Dennis I’m always trying to find the right work-life balance, so when I’m not working on MainWP, I’m a husband to a wonderful and incredibly patient woman and father to three exceptional children. When I do find free time, it’s at the beach or chasing the younger ones around the backyard. Even though I am the co-founder of MainWP, I am neither a coder nor a designer. I develop ideas and help connect all the moving parts to create software that helps other WordPress enthusiasts. Main Questions of The Interview   #1 - Dennis, can you give us some more detailed background info on how you got into the semi-crazy world of web development, mainly WordPress, compared to your initial intro? #2 - So you have a robust free plugin/platform, and then you sell paid add-ons, so based on your experience, what are the good and bad things connected to this particular business model? #3 - You seem to use partnerships connected to third-party interrogations into your central plugin/platform as a key way of adding value and also a way to market MainWP what are some key things you have learned connected to building these partnerships? #4 - Is MainWP entirely bootstrapped, or have you taken angle investment, or is it a mixture of both what are some of your plans connected to growing MainWP? #5 - So if you had a time machine and could go back to the beginning of developing MainWP, what would you tell yourself would be really helpful? #6 - What are some of the people and companies in the WordPress or SaaS area that you admire the most connected to how they run their businesses? https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisdornon/ https://mainwp.com

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST, we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show, where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Weeks Special Guest Panelists James Giroux of Stellarwp - https://stellarwp.com/ Steven Sauder of Hustlefish - https://hustlefish.com/   This Week's Articles That We Discuss During The Show #1 -WordPress Leadership has a Public Relations Problem https://masterwp.com/wordpress-leadership-has-a-public-relations-problem/ #2 - Malcolm Gladwell says it’s ‘not in your best interest to work from home.’ Nearly 20 years ago he said he ‘hates desks’ and writes from his couch https://fortune.com/2022/08/08/malcolm-gladwell-slammed-after-criticizing-wfh-policies-despite-having-worked-remotely-for-decades/ #3 - Who’s winning on the WooCommerce Marketplace? https://getellipsis.com/blog/whos-winning-on-the-woocommerce-marketplace/ #4 - Andreessen Horowitz backs WeWork co-founder’s property venture https://www.ft.com/content/8d12cee7-6921-40fa-8455-d0f400db4fae #5 - Newsletter Glue Closes Free Plugin on WordPress.org https://wptavern.com/newsletter-glue-closes-free-plugin-on-wordpress-org #6 - CEO CRIES BECAUSE HE FIRED PEOPLE | #grindreel Braden Wallake https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradenwallake/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfH8zil_Zs