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#662 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Round Table Show   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 - Find The Right Plan For You https://elementor.com/pricing/   #2 - Amazon Paid for a High School Course. Here’s What They Teach. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvndja/amazon-paid-for-a-high-school-course-heres-what-they-teach   #3 - Looking Ahead to WordPress 6.0: The Early Roadmap https://wptavern.com/looking-ahead-to-wordpress-6-0-the-early-roadmap #4 - Spotify to remove Neil Young's music after his Joe Rogan ultimatum https://ew.com/music/spotify-to-remove-neil-young-music-joe-rogan-ultimatum/   #5 - How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs https://www.troyhunt.com/how-i-got-pwned-by-my-cloud-costs/ #6 - Google Abandons FLoC in Favor of New Topics API, a Replacement for Third-Party Cookies https://wptavern.com/google-abandons-floc-in-favor-of-new-topics-api-a-replacement-for-third-party-cookies

661 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Special Guest Nate Turner The Founder of Tenspeed Best Practices Connected to SEO & Content Marketing In 2022 Nate Turner The Founder of Tenspeed Sprout Social He was the first marketer at Sprout Social, where he built and scaled the inbound engine from $100k to $100m in ARR.He is now the co-founder and CEO of tenspeed.io, a content optimization agency helping SaaS & D2C companies create revenue-generating content and an advisor for SaaS companies and host of the Content That Grows podcast. Questions #1 - Has the content marketing landscape changed fundamentally over the past couple of years, if yes in what ways? #2 - In a world of YouTube, podcasting, and social media platforms how does content marketing fit into this new world? #3 - What are some of the consistent mistakes you see your clients (SaaS) make connected to content marketing before hiring Tenspeed #4 - What practical advice can you give to a small startup in either the WordPress or SaaS world connected to content marketing can you give? #5 - What have been some of the biggest challenges you have faced getting Tenspeed up and running and getting in a state of growth and business sustainability? #6 - What are a couple of leading figures that have influenced you the most over the last couple of years in the world of SEO and content marketing?

#660 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Chris Badgett of LifterLMS 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. With Special Guest: Chris Badgett Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS: https://lifterlms.com/   This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - WooCommerce Aims to Produce MVP of Custom Tables for Orders by Q3, 2022 https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-aims-to-produce-mvp-of-custom-tables-for-orders-by-q3-2022 #2 - Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion https://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-133637845.html?guccounter=1   #3 - What you need to know about WordPress 5.9 https://www.kadencewp.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-5-9   #4 - Backlash as US billionaire dismisses Uyghur abuse https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60045076 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbeHyN15HQE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya

As a Small Player Can You Succeed In The WordPress Ecosystem In 2022? Brian Jackson is the joint founder with his brother of Forgemedia a WordPress focus plugin shop that has a small but interesting library of commercial plugins. Also, Brian was for a period of time the chief marketing officer at Kinsta and was one of the key people in Kinsta connected to helping it grow as one of the leading WordPress managed-to-host providers in the last 5 years. Here is a list of their plugins Novashare: https://novashare.io/ Perfmatters: https://perfmatters.io/ WP-Coupons: https://wpcoupons.io/

#658 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Brian Gardner WPEngine 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. With Special Guest: Brian Gardner WPEngine: https://wpengine.com/     This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - What Are Block Themes? What You Need To Know Before WordPress 5.9 https://wptavern.com/what-are-block-themes-what-you-need-to-know-before-wordpress-5-9 The Next Generation of WordPress Theme Authors Will Design From the Site Editor https://wptavern.com/the-next-generation-of-wordpress-theme-authors-will-design-from-the-site-editor #2 - Deep Sentinel's AI now stops crime using POE cameras https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deep-sentinels-ai-now-stops-crime-using-poe-cameras-301271956.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN19gndkRK4   #3 - Acquisitions & Exits: How Much Is Your WordPress Business Worth? https://freemius.com/blog/acquisitions-exits-wordpress-business-worth/   #4 - Corner Stores Are the New Darlings of the Global Tech Industry https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/12/tech-companies-winning-over-corner-stores/620964 #5 - How I Saved My Design Agency & Tripled My Profits https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2022/01/how-i-saved-my-design-agency-tripled-my-profits/

Stephen Interview Me Plus We Look at Our Favorite Interviews of 2021 To say that 2021 was a difficult and interesting year would be a slight understatement also when it comes to the WP-Tonic's interview showwe had some amazing guests and interviews. In this our first show of 2022 I and Steven look back at our favorite interviews in 2021. #1 - #607 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Rand Fishkin https://youtu.be/mpQ3HNkF89I #2 - #593 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Morten Rand Hendriksen Chief Instructor At LinkedIn Learning https://youtu.be/c18VbdIGp0s   #3 - #585 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Ben Ritner Founder of Kadence Themes & Plugins https://youtu.be/Uc5MEA2y7dg   #4 - #579 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Adii Pienaar The Joint Founder of WooCommerce https://youtu.be/ILYs6RXaDMs

#656 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Special Guest Tom Fanelli of Convesio 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. With Special Guest: Tom Fanelli of Convesio https://convesio.com/       This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - Yoast Moves Outside of Open Source Platforms to Launch SEO App for Shopify https://wptavern.com/yoast-moves-outside-of-open-source-platforms-to-launch-seo-app-for-shopify #2 - U.S. jury finds Theranos founder Holmes guilty of fraud https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jury-theranos-trial-cannot-agree-verdicts-all-charges-2022-01-03/ #3 - Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet? https://www.protocol.com/matt-mullenweg WordPress founder lays out the debate over the future of the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaacWgrCX3Y   #4 - Starboard acquires stake worth $800 mln in GoDaddy https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/starboard-acquires-stake-worth-800-mln-godaddy-wsj-2021-12-27/

Looking for advice connected to the best WordPress translation plugin what are the best way to have your WordPress website available in multiple languages?   With Special Guest Tanya Quintieri From MrsDivi Main Topic - How Internationalization is Affecting WordPress & The Internet? Sub Questions #1 - Tanya can you give some more details based on your quick intro on how you got into the crazy world of translation and WordPress? #2 - How has Covid-19 changed the world of the translation industry has it just quickened quite general trends or has it made a dramatic difference? #3 - Before choosing one particular WordPress translation plugin/service what are some of the basic things does a developer or client needs to understand? #4 - What are some of the leading and best translation plugins in this space and can you give us some insights for the audience of their particular strengths and weaknesses. #5 - How is AI changing the translation industry and in your opinion have these trends been for the good or bad? #6 - What are a couple of the key points you like the listeners and views to remember from this interview connected to translation?

#654 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech 17th of December, 2021 at 8:30 am PST #654 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Special Guests Chris Brogan & Robert Jacobi this is going to be our last live.show for 2021 way don't you join us? https://youtu.be/-mloAcObt_Q@chrisbrogan @RobertJacobi 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.   With Special Guests Chris Brogan & Robert Jacobi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Brogan https://chrisbrogan.com/ Robert Jacobi Director of WordPress at CloudWays https://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-evangelist-robert-jacobi-joined-cloudways/   This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - State of the Word 2021 https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/state-of-the-word-2021 State of the Word 2021: WordPress Passes 43% Market Share, Looks to Expand the Commons Through Openverse https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2021-wordpress-passes-43-market-share-looks-to-expand-the-commons-through-openverse #2 - OSHA opens investigation into fatal Amazon warehouse collapse in Illinois https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22833012/amazon-fatal-warehouse-collapse-osha-investigation-illinois-tornado Amazon employees speak out against controversial phone ban after deadly tornado kills at least 6 warehouse workers in Edwardsville, Illinois https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-workers-speak-out-against-phone-ban-tornado-warehouse-deaths-2021-12 Sonmi-451 Papa Song's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e4eP_g2E7w Niander Wallace Jr Blade Runner 2049 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ   #3 - Elementor: WordPress’ secret growth driver? https://joost.blog/elementor-wordpress-secret-growth-driver/ #4 - Saagar Enjeti: Tim Cook CAUGHT Capitulating To China In Secret Deal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLFGybONAM   #5 - Wrestling with Capitalism https://accessally.com/blog/wrestling-with-capitalism/

The Title of the Interview "Community-Owned Headless Checkout for E-commerce Platforms" Main Interview Questions #1 - Maybe you can give the audience some background history info connected to founding CartHook and your new company Rallyon? #2 - Your company CartHook ingrates with Shopify and you have been quite public on the "good, bad and ugly" parts of semi relying on somebody else's eco-system can you give the audience some quick insights connectedto this? #3 - Can you give some 2 to 3 of the most important lessons you have learned connected to founding CartHook which would be the most important to share with our audience? #4 - Your new company Rallyon you state that it's a "Community-Owned Ecosystem" what does this really mean and why should people care? #5 - How hard was it to raise $6 million for the project and what are some of the things you have learned from the process? #6 - Can you give us three people of books that have influenced you the most in your business or personal journey?     More about Jordan Gal and Rallyon We're excited to announce that we've raised $6m in seed financing to build a world-class eCommerce checkout and a community-owned eCommerce ecosystem. You can read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/g55-u8BR A very big thank you to our investor group. The round was led by Rainfall Ventures with participation from Felix Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Afore VC, Commerce VC, and some extremely helpful angel investors. If you're a merchant on BigCommerce or WooCommerce, sign up for early access here: https://www.rallyon.com/ https://www.rallyon.com/ https://jordangal.com/