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#674 WP-Tonic "This Week In WordPress & Tech" 11h of March, 2022 at 8:30 am PST Special Guest Panelist Tom Fanelli Founder and CEO https://convesio.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 Week Stories For Discussion #1 - WordPress.com Announces Marketplace Vision and Plan To Partner With Developers in the WordPress Ecosystem https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-announces-marketplace-vision-and-plan-to-partner-with-developers-in-the-wordpress-ecosystem #2 - Mac Studio and Studio Display: Apple's New Desktop for Creatives https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/mac-studio-and-studio-display-apples-new-desktop-for-creatives/ #3 - WordPress Performance Team Releases New Feature Plugin For Testing Improvements In Progress https://wptavern.com/wordpress-performance-team-releases-new-feature-plugin-for-testing-improvements-in-progress #4 - Slack is still screwed up, but a fix is coming https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22968785/slack-down-outage-messages-edit-chat-connection-problem   #5 - Ruby on Rails confronts its founding bully https://masterwp.com/ruby-on-rails-confronts-its-founding-bully/

Josh was a professional web designer who built and scaled his own agency for a decade before selling it in 2020 to focus full-time on teaching other aspiring web designers how to build businesses of their own. Through his online courses, podcast (The Josh Hall Web Design Show), YouTube Channel, and blog, he teaches web designers and web entrepreneurs from around the world how to build awesome websites and build and grow their own web design business to allow them the freedom to have the lifestyle they want to live. The Main Questions During The Interview #1 - Josh can you give us some background on you and how you got into the crazy world of web design and running a successful digital agency? #2 - Can you give us one or two insights connected to what are some of the most important elements connected to running a digital agency? #3 - What have been a couple of the hardest lessons you learned connected to running a digital web-design agency which you are prepared to share with the audience? #4 - What are some of the most important factors somebody has to understand trying to start a web design agency in 2022? #5 - What are your thoughts connected to WordPress is it still the main tool for a professional web designer or digital agency or have SaaS tools like Squarespace, Duda, and Shopify semi taken over? #6 - What are your personal views connected to Gutenberg? https://joshhall.co/

#672 WP-Tonic "This Week In WordPress & Tech" 4th of March, 2022 at 8:30 am PST Special Guest Panelist Chris Badgett Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS 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 Week Stories For Discussion #1 -Is WordPress Pushing Freelancers Away? https://thewpminute.com/is-wordpress-pushing-freelancers-away/ #2 - The inside story of how Tumblr lost its way https://mashable.com/article/how-tumblr-lost-its-way   #3 - WordPress Multisite Is Still a Valuable and Often Necessary Tool https://wptavern.com/wordpress-multisite-is-still-a-valuable-and-often-necessary-tool#comments   #4 - Twitter maybe adding a built-in podcasts tab https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/2/22958814/twitter-building-podcasts-tab-audio-spaces #5 - We All Are Ukraine

I’m Laura Roeder, the former joint founder and CEO of MeetEdgar and now PaperBell. Since I was 22, I’ve been an independent entrepreneur. I’ve always felt most at home in the small business community, and that’s why I’ve always been focused on giving other entrepreneurs the tools they need to be totally independent. In 2009, I founded LKR Social Media, where I taught business owners how to harness the power of social media marketing and create their own online fame. I was named one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under 30 in 2011, 2013, and 2014, and I even spoke about entrepreneurship at the White House! (My weekly newsletter of social media tips, guides, and news has grown to over 100,000 readers, too, if you wanna check that out.) https://paperbell.com/ https://lauraroeder.com/ https://meetedgar.com/ Here are some of the questions we going to be asking Laura during the interview #1 - Can you give the audience some of the biggest problems you faced connected to growing MeetEdgar? #2 - Some people have remarked that selling a business is in some ways more stressful than building up a successful business would you agree with this and what was it like selling MeetEdgar? #3 - You now running PaperBell connected to helping coaches what does it do and why did you think this was a good market segment to attack? #4 - What have been some of the biggest surprises you have faced connected to growing PaperBell which you didn't expect? #5 - Do you think it's got easier or harder to start and grow and successful online business? #6 - You are part of the mentoring team on TinySeed what are some of the most interesting startups that you have recently been advising?

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 Week Stories For Discussion #1 - The Case for a Shared CSS Toolkit in WordPress https://wptavern.com/the-case-for-a-shared-css-toolkit-in-wordpress #2 - A Meta prototype lets you build virtual worlds by describing them https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/23/22947217/meta-prototype-builder-bot-ai-world-creation-metaverse-mark-zuckerberg #3 - It’s time to deprecate WordPress Multisite, once and for all https://masterwp.com/its-time-to-deprecate-wordpress-multisite/ #4 - Supreme Court to decide whether website designer may decline same-sex weddings https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/9150830002 #5 - JavaScript survey: Most use React but satisfaction low https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/22/javascript_survey/

669 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Bootstrap SaaS With Special Guest Debbie Levitt CEO of Delta CX How to Bridge Between Developers & UX Designers   Debbie Levitt, MBA is the CXO of Delta CX, has been a CX and UX strategist, designer, and trainer since the 1990s. She’s a change agent focused on helping companies of all sizes transform towards customer-centricity while using principles of Agile and Lean. Clients have given her the nickname, “Mary Poppins,” because she flies in, improves everything she can, sings a few songs, and flies away to her next adventure. Her “Delta CX” book and “Transforming Toward Customer-Centricity” training teach companies how to improve customer satisfaction, predict and mitigate business risk, and increase ROI by investing in great customer experiences. She has other training programs that teach non-CX roles about CX, why it’s done by specialists, and how to integrate it into teams and processes. Outside of CX work, and sometimes during CX work, Debbie enjoys singing symphonic prog goth metal, opera, and New Wave. You can also catch her on the Delta CX YouTube channel. https://deltacx.com/about

#668 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech 11th of February, 2022 at 8:30 am PST Special Guest Panelist Sharon Yates of Creativemousestudio.com http://creativemousestudio.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 Week Stories For Discussion #1 - Clarity Ad Blocker for WordPress Announced, Receives Mixed Reactions https://wptavern.com/clarity-ad-blocker-for-wordpress-announced-receives-mixed-reactions?fbclid=IwAR2YnU7B8TqXtb1WGtAAJ_nbip2VuDQmeZilBDKJhq9tcD-Kpj1nDhV51K4   #2 - Apple investors urged to vote against Tim Cook’s $100M payday https://nypost.com/2022/02/16/apple-investors-urged-to-vote-down-tim-cooks-100m-payday/   #3 - Implications Of WordPress Joining The Block Protocol   #4 - Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete #5 -The US government is deploying robot dogs to the Mexico border. Seriously? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/14/us-government-deploying-robot-dogs-to-mexico-border   #6 - Spotify is acquiring two major podcast tech platforms https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/16/22937826/spotify-podsights-chartable-acquisitions-podcast-marketing-platforms

667 WP-Tonic With Special Guest Jan Koch Owner & CEO of Virtual Summit Mastery™ How To Build Community Through Virtual Events in 2022 Virtual Summit Mastery is an industry-leading training program teaching authors, coaches, entrepreneurs, and community-driven businesses how to run successful events online. Jan also organize virtual conferences in the WordPress / online marketing space and am a proud Cloudways Maverick, helping their WordPress-based community by sharing knowledge and experiences around building websites https://virtualsummitmastery.com/

#666 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech 11th of February, 2022 at 8:30 am PST Special Guest Panelist This Week is Vito Peleg Founder and CEO of Atarim: https://atarim.io/about/   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 Week Stories For Discussion #1 - Block Editor Sidebar Panels Are the New Admin Notices https://wptavern.com/block-editor-sidebar-panels-are-the-new-admin-notices Miniblock OOAK and Outside-the-Box Ideas in the Theme Directory https://wptavern.com/miniblock-ooak-and-outside-the-box-ideas-in-the-theme-directory #2 - Peter Thiel is stepping down from Meta’s board https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/7/22922425/peter-thiel-retiring-meta-facebook-board-directors   #3 -CMS and E-Commerce Churn Data Shows WordPress Maintaining Market Lead, Shopify Gaining on WooCommerce https://wptavern.com/cms-and-e-commerce-churn-data-shows-wordpress-maintaining-market-lead-shopify-gaining-on-woocommerce    #4 - U.S. accuses couple of laundering $4.5 bln in bitcoin tied to 2016 hack https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-arrests-couple-allegedly-laundering-45-bln-crypto-tied-bitfinex-hack-2022-02-08/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMl__wEU2Q https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/technology/comedic-rapper-charged-over-bitfinex-hack-laundering-out-on-bail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=comedic-rapper-charged-over-bitfinex-hack-laundering-out-on-bail "Dutch" Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 KK the rapper Razzlekhan #5 - Convesio Raises $5M to Expand Docker-Powered Hosting Platform https://wptavern.com/convesio-raises-5m-to-expand-docker-powered-hosting-platform

665 WP-Tonic With Special Guest Nachum Kligman Joint Founder & CEO of "Book Like a Boss." Insights Connected to Building a Highly Successful SaaS Business Richard is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience pioneering businesses and new technologies that address long-standing gaps in the marketplace and solve real problems for real people. Six years ago I was flooded with requests for meetings and consultations to share my business expertise, but lacked a simple way to manage bookings or charge for my time. Fast forward to today and I’ve transformed those lemons into lemonade with Book Like A Boss - the industry-leading landing page builder engineered to support entrepreneurs and companies requiring a hands-off approach to converting visitors into customers, in over 100 countries. We Discuss Book Like a Boss and Richard General Insight Connected to Online Business https://www.booklikeaboss.com/about https://www.linkedin.com/in/kligman/ https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast-episodes/ Possible Questions For Interview #1 - What's the background story behind "Book Like a Boss?" #2 - Book Like a Boss seems to in a quiet competitive sector would you agree with this statement and if correct what attracted you to this sector? #3 - What have been some of the biggest and surprising things you have learned connected to growing "Book Like a Boss?" #4 - What are some of the biggest opportunities and threats that "Book Like a Boss faces in the next 18 months? #5 - What have been some of the most effective strategies connected to growing "Book Like a Boss?" #6 - If you were mentoring a start-up founder what key advice would you give this person?