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Why Are Your Possible Customers Choosing The Competition, Even When Your Product Or Service Is Clearly Superior? Simon's approach is methodical, thorough and thoughtful and it does not always follow the status quo. He rigorously handpick the best of marketing thinking that many never get access to and simplify it for small businesses (even if it goes against popular click-bait headlines). Above all, he make sure that his customers get thinking that comes from his direct experience, working for 214 small and large businesses (including Coca Cola, Honda and Vodafone and Saatchi & Saatchi). https://thebrainwheel.com/

This week we have a special guest panelist and friend of the show Carrie Dills 1 - WORDPRESS: USERS, STAKEHOLDERS, AND KNOWN UNKNOWNS https://mor10.com/wordpress-users-stakeholders-and-known-unknowns/   https://wptavern.com/gatsby-wordpress-themes-project-partners-with-theme-shops-to-port-popular-themes-to-gatsby 2 - We Analyzed 13 Billion Log Entries – Here’s What We Learned https://kinsta.com/blog/analyzing-log-entries/ 3 - Gatsby WordPress Themes Project Partners with Theme Shops to Port Popular Themes to Gatsby 4 - This Remarkably Agile Robot Hand Teaches Itself How to Handle Objects https://gizmodo.com/this-remarkably-agile-robot-hand-teaches-itself-how-to-1832960417 5 - AR WILL SPARK THE NEXT BIG TECH PLATFORM—CALL IT MIRRORWORLD 6 - We Need Chrome No More https://redalemeden.com/blog/2019/we-need-chrome-no-more

How To Get More Clients For Your Course/Membership Website Liston works directly with hundreds of freelancers, consultants, and small agency owners. So far 100% of the people he has spoken to, coached, or consulted didn’t set out to become a master salesperson. Eventually, though, they realized that the lack of a quality sales process was holding them back. If you’re reading this, I will venture to guess that you have expertise that’s valuable to your clients. That means there are others out there who need your help, too. https://liston.io/

We Have Two Special Guest Panelists On This Week's Show Marieke van de Rakt CEO of Yoast and Heather Wide co-founder of Roceteer Marieke van de Rakt: Marieke is the founder of Yoast Academy, the SEO training portal of Yoast. She joined the company in 2013 after obtaining her Ph.D. in Social Sciences and after working also at various universities. https://yoast.com/new-ceo-marieke-van-de-rakt/  Heather Wide:Unicorn Whisperer Heather was a founding employee of Evernote, she oversaw the company's growth from thousands to 100,000,000 customers. https://roceteer.com/crew This Week Discussion Stories 1 - Yoast CEO Responds to #YoastCon Twitter Controversy, Calls for Change in the SEO Industry https://wptavern.com/yoast-ceo-responds-to-yoastcon-twitter-controversy-calls-for-change-in-the-seo-industry 2 - Zuckerberg to meet UK minister after damning ‘digital gangsters’ report https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/21/18234439/zuckerberg-meet-uk-minister-jeremy-wright-regulations-platforms 3 - Alex Mills Ends His Battle With Leukemia https://wptavern.com/alex-mills-ends-his-battle-with-leukemia 4 - Make no mistake: The Samsung Galaxy Fold is a big deal https://medium.com/bobs-economics/make-no-mistake-the-samsung-galaxy-fold-is-a-big-deal-a6ff463cc079

The Power of Webinars to Promote Your Membership Website! This week's guest, Joel Erway, chief strategist for the Webinar Agency and host of the popular “Sold With Webinars Podcast.” We discuss how to us the power of webinars to promote your course and membership website! The goal of The Webinar Agency is to educate its visitors, users, and customers on how to leverage webinars, funnels, sales messaging, and marketing techniques in their business for growth and success. We specialize in sales messaging, funnels, and conversion. We have helped our clients achieve 7-figure growth exclusively with webinars. Let us help you expand your business with our dynamic marketing strategies, unique focus and techniques. https://thewebinaragency.com/ https://soldwithwebinars.libsyn.com/

We have a special interview with David Cohen who is the leading self-confessed troll who started the Twitter storm over #joostdevalk and #yoastcon. Should Joost de Valk be the new marketing head and public face of the WordPress community? We also discuss these other leading other web news stories of the week. 1 - The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable 2 - Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company https://medium.com/s/story/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-a-billion-dollar-company-b0c31d7db0e7 3 - Make it Boring https://jeremy.codes/blog/make-it-boring/

John Nemo is an author, speaker, 1-on-1 business coach and consultant, John Nemo helps individuals, organizations and businesses boost their brand, generate sales leads and increase revenue. The son of two English teachers, John grew up in a home where the basement walls were lined floor-to-ceiling with books. A lifelong love of story led him to a career in journalism, where he started his career in 1997 as a reporter for The Arizona Republic and later The Associated Press. John later worked in talk radio as a producer and on-air talent at KTIS-AM radio in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He also served as a freelance writer for hundreds of different magazines, newspapers and websites, covering topics ranging from Fantasy Football to Norwegian Architecture to Rock Music. https://linkedinriches.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/hirejohnnemo/

didn’t know what to make of the post and the Twitter storm linked to this article. I usually try and keep my distance from Twitter and its drama because I don’t need the negatively in my life. So I tend to dismiss these type of stories. However, I think I was wrong about this because with some personal reflection I think there are some disturbing parts to this story connected to how Joost de Valk views/see woman and does his behavior almost ten years ago means that he is unsuitable to be the head of Marketing and Communications Lead of the WordPress project? 1 - YoastCon Overshadowed by Twitter Storm: Joost de Valk, SEO Industry Leaders Called Out for Objectifying Women https://wptavern.com/yoastcon-overshadowed-by-twitter-storm-joost-de-valk-seo-industry-leaders-called-out-for-objectifying-women 2 - On the Corporate Takeover of the Cathedral and the Bazaar https://mor10.com/on-the-corporate-takeover-of-the-cathedral-and-the-bazaar/ 3 - I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194 4 - How to Create a Multi Language WordPress Site https://blog.weglot.com/create-multi-language-wordpress-site/ 5 - Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor in podcast push, earmarks $500M for more deals https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/spotify-doubles-down-on-podcasts/  

We Interview Successful Online Female Entrepreneur Who Plays Big and Means Business! Are you looking at producing an online course using the power of WordPress but don’t know how you’re going to successfully market your course don’t worry Ashley has some actionable insights and answers Ashley Ryan is a female entrepreneur who plays big and means business. She has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, bringing in 6 and 7-figure revenue for her clients through simple, un-complicated, savvy marketing systems. https://hersmartmarketing.com/about/

We have interesting WP-Tonic round-table show here with Adam Silver KitchensinkWP Podcast joining us as a special guest panelist our main story we discuss is the interview that the WordPress Weekly podcast recently did with Morten Rand-Hendriksen (who part of this panel ) and Rachel Cherry to discuss WordPress Governance project. Here's a list of the other stories we discuss during the show. 1 - WPWeekly Episode 344 – Introduction to the WordPress Governance Project https://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-344-introduction-to-the-wordpress-governance-project 2 - Apple’s power over Facebook ought to worry the rest of us https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18204559/apple-facebook-feud-market-research-platform-power 3 - The Great Divide https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide/ 4 - My other life as a Kickstarter scammer https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/31/my-other-life-as-a-kickstarter-scammer/