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Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber

Heather Renze is CTO of ROCeteer, and is also known as the "Unicorn Whisperer" due to her special focus on entrepreneurs. She is a personal and professional growth expert, executive coach, author, and speaker. As a founding employee of Evernote, she oversaw the company's growth from thousands to 100,000,000 customers. She is one of the only women to have wholly programmed, designed, produced, and published a game at the company THQ. Additionally, she has worked with the U.S. Navy, NASA and state and local governments around the world. She has led the development, scalability, and reliability engineering of web sites with 60+ million unique monthly visitors, 1.7+ billion monthly page views, and 99.99% uptime SLA requirements. Among her other awards, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid selected her for a commendation in 2016 for her work in increasing STEM education in schools. Wilde's writing and speaking span social media, entrepreneurialism, startups, leadership, cybersecurity, customer experience, fundraising, and diversity issues. She writes for Forbes and hosts the "Entrepreneurial Revolution" column for Inc Magazine. Birth of a Unicorn: Six Basic Steps to Success https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Q7DTVH1/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 http://roceteer.com/ https://thedifferenceconsulting.com/ https://evernote.com/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber   This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/   #1 - What I Learned Building a Full-Site Editing Theme https://wpdevelopment.courses/articles/full-site-editing-theme-learnings/ #2 - Tech rallies behind Biden’s immigration plans https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/20/22240924/big-tech-joe-biden-immigration-bill-facebook-apple-google-executive-order   #3 - I Spell It WordPress Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XknZy3zXvo https://mattreport.com/i-spell-it-wordpress-now-automattic-selling-4900-websites/   #4 - The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/tiktok-bans-multilevel-marketing-mlm/617422/   #5 - Custom Layouts Plugin Creates a Posts Display System for Both the Classic and Block Editors https://wptavern.com/custom-layouts-plugin-creates-a-posts-display-system-for-both-the-classic-and-block-editors   #6 - Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/

Patrick Gallagher Patrick is obsessed with behavioral economics and its implications across every level of business and marketing. Every day he works to integrate those insights into his clients’ businesses and their lives. Our goals invariably are focused around driving more traffic, better conversions, and higher revenues, but what he really wants is for the people that work with him is the same thing that he wants for himself: a systematized business, built on unfair advantages, that provides autonomy and time freedom. https://gridpane.com/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber   This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/   #1 - WordPress Proposal To Align Release Cycle With Industry Standard https://wptavern.com/wordpress-proposal-to-align-release-cycle-with-industry-standard #2 - Stupid https://www.profgalloway.com/stupid #3 - Competition and positioning for WordPress products in 2021 and beyond https://getellipsis.com/blog/positioning-for-wordpress-products/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issue-196 #4 - The biggest story in tech no ones talking about is Uber discovering they’d been defrauded out of $100M - or 2/3 of their ad spend. https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345774768746852353 #5 - Damn. Gutenberg Smokes Elementor https://theadminbar.com/damn-gutenberg-smokes-elementor/ #6 - Sandhills Development 2020 Year in Review https://sandhillsdev.com/2021/01/2020-year-in-review/

We discuss building a modern WordPress plugin for WooCommerce... how to avoid the pitfalls and what WC brings to the table for so many WP users. https://launchflows.com/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber Our Special Guest Panelist is Brian Gardner - https://briangardner.com/ This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/ Our Special Guest Panelist This Week is Brian Gardner Webinar Friday the 15th at 10:30 am PST   #1 - WordPress.com Rattles Freelancer Community with New Website Building Service Launch https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-rattles-freelancer-community-with-new-website-building-service-launch   #2 - Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employees-union.html   #3 - 2020: Liquid Web Acquires The Events Calendar WordPress Plugin From Modern Tribe https://wptavern.com/liquid-web-acquires-the-events-calendar-wordpress-plugin-from-modern-tribe   #4 - The Rise and Fall of Invision https://seandexter1.medium.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-invision-dc2d58c65534 #5 - Block System Will Create More Commercial Opportunities for WordPress Theme Authors https://wptavern.com/block-system-will-create-more-commercial-opportunities-for-wordpress-theme-authors

John founded bbPress in 2005 while he was looking for GPL forum software with profile pages and hierarchical categories, BuddyPress shortly thereafter, and WordPress as a result. https://jjj.blog/ https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnjamesjacoby/ johnjamesjacoby@me.com

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber     This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/ Our Special Guest Panelist This Week is Andrew Palmer #1 -State of the Word 2020: WordPress Moves Toward Full Site Editing https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2020-wordpress-moves-toward-full-site-editing   #2 - In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet https://www.theverge.com/22177154/us-internet-speed-maps-competition-availability-fcc #3 - Introducing Learn WordPress https://wordpress.org/news/2020/12/introducing-learn-wordpress/ #4 - Death of an Open Source Business Model https://joemorrison.medium.com/death-of-an-open-source-business-model-62bc227a7e9b #5 - Own your website content to control the experience https://pixelgrade.com/upstairs/own-control-content-website/ #6 - BuddyPress 7.0.0 Adds 3 New Blocks and Admin Screens for Member and Group Type Management

The Most Effective Marketing Strategies for Increasing Online Sales In this episode, we discuss with Chris Badgett joint founder and head of marketing and sales at LifterLMS what has he and his team have found to be the most effective strategies connected to online marketing in 2020? Chris Badgett Chris started learning about online education on a glacier in Alaska. He's created courses on everything from organic gardening to woodworking. He is passionate about helping other entrepreneurial educators find success and create an impact. https://lifterlms.com/about-us/