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#679 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Guest Nick Amabile Founder of Das42 Google analytics + Analytics Technologies Like Snowflake More About Nick provides strategic direction and business support to many types of businesses and industries, applying his technical abilities, product management experience, and understanding of eCommerce and technology companies He has held senior roles in analytics and business intelligence at four eCommerce companies, including Jet.com during hyper-growth and Etsy through their IPO. He previously worked at NERA Economic Consulting where he assisted in econometric analysis and statistical programming in antitrust litigation for Fortune 500 companies. He has over 10 years of experience designing and implementing analytical and technical solutions for businesses as an analyst, engineer, and consultant. https://das42.com/people/nick-amabile/   Main Questions of the Interview With Nick Amabile #1 - Can you give us some background info on you and your company Das42 and what was your joining into this area of data analytics and usage? #2 - Can you give us some insights connected to new analytics technologies like Snowflake? #3 - Nick why do so many data projects often fail in your option? #4 - Got any advice and tip connected to starting a data program with a client that gets results? #5 - Have you got any insight on where you think Google is taking Google Analytics in the next 12 to 18 months? #6 - Are there any particular data technologies that are not prime time at the present moment that gets you really excited?

#678 WP-Tonic "This Week In WordPress & Tech" 25h of March 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. Special Guest Panelist This Week is Vito Peleg Founder & CEO of Atarim - https://atarim.io/about/   This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - Weglot Raises €45M From Partech Partners https://wptavern.com/weglot-raises-e45m-from-partech-partners #2 -How We Manage Projects at Howard Development & Consulting https://masterwp.com/how-we-manage-projects-at-howard-development-consulting/   #3 - WP Engine, Pantheon, and Others Drop Support for Russian Business Customers https://wptavern.com/wp-engine-pantheon-and-others-drop-support-for-russian-business-customers   #4 - Good Design Is All About Good Timing https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/03/design-is-all-about-good-timing/   #5- NASA announces plans to develop second Moon lander, alongside SpaceX’s Starship https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/22993287/nasa-second-human-lunar-lander-moon-artemis-spacex

#677 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Guest Lesley Sim Building An Audience From Zero To a Successful Plugin Launch The Shows Hosts Jonathan Denwood & Andrew Palmer More About Lesley Sim Lesley Sim has been a government employee, an ad agency suit, and a freediving instructor... and then she found WordPress. She built sites on WordPress as part of her digital marketing agency and moved on to building plugins last year. Now, she focuses on Newsletter Glue, a plugin that connects your email service provider to WordPress and turns the block editor into a newsletter builder so you can build and send newsletters directly from WordPress.   https://newsletterglue.com/ https://lesley.pizza/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleysim/ Main Questions of the Interview #1 - Can you give the audience some background information connected to yourself and what lead you to lunch Newsletterglue? #2 - The building and the sending out emails is a large but very competitive market, what was your process connected to deciding to build a plugin in this particular sector? #3 - What have been some of the major lessons you have learned in the process of getting the Newsletterglue launch and what things would you do differently? #4 - Where would you like Newsletterglue to be in a year's time? #5 - You are based in Singapore by your LinkedIn profile so what are the WordPress and SaaS startup communities like in Singapore?

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.

Katie Keith Joint Founder of Barn 2 a Leading WordPress Plugin Shop How To Run A Highly Successfully WordPress Plugin Company Remotely As Semi Digital Nomads 'm Katie Keith - Director and Co-Founder at Barn2 Plugins. I started the company back in 2010 with my husband Andy, and we now have a team of about 12 people and sell WordPress and WooCommerce plugins to website owners and agencies in over 140 counties worldwide. Our bestselling plugins are WooCommerce Product Table (https://barn2.com/wordpress- plugins/woocommerce-product-table) and Document Library Pro (https://barn2.com/wordpress- plugins/document-library-pro). I'm from the UK and am currently living on the sunny island of Mallorca for a year, enjoying the flexibility of running a WordPress company which I can operate from anywhere in the world.I have a 10-year-old daughter called Sophia and enjoy hiking, yoga and eating out   Main Questions of the Interview #1 - Katie can you give the WP-Tonic's tribe your's and Barn 2 background history? #2 - I'm right in saying that you and your husband are digital nomads and if yes how has this directly affected how you run Barn 2? #3 - Like a lot of founders of successful WordPress plugin shops your origins seem to be serving clients as a traditional digital agency if this is correct and can you give some key tips, connected to successfully moving into the plugin shop space? #4 - Can you give the tribe one or two key lessons you have personally learned connected to building up Barn-2? #5 - I get the impression from a lot of theme and plugin shops have had a difficult couple of years connected to dealing with a large increase of support tickets linked to the fragmentation of the WordPress market linked to the number of page builders out on there and also dealing the constant changes linked to Gutenberg, would you agree with this statement? #6 - What do you see as some of the key opportunities in the WordPress ecosystem at the present moment?   https://barn2.com/

#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/