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Daniel has a background in Direct Response advertising (PPC ads etc), but ironically, its his Content Marketing that people know him for He's had the top 10 content of all time on inbound.org and Top content of 2017 + 2018 on GrowthHackers (He even had one viral post generate $3 million in client requests in 2 weeks) Spend my spare time in the ocean or in the mountains, or nerding out with some good sci fi He teaches people how to write less often, but get more traffic, at www.ampmycontent.com

- WordPress Explores Proposal for New Block Directory to Host Single Block Plugins https://wptavern.com/wordpress-explores-proposal-for-new-block-directory-to-host-single-block-plugins 2 - Mark Ritson: For the first time big tech faces a credible threat of breakup https://www.marketingweek.com/2019/03/13/mark-ritson-big-tech-credible-threat-breakup/ 3 - My 5 Biggest Failures as a Marketer and Entrepreneur (Cost Me 15 Years) https://woorkup.com/internet-marketing-failures/ 4 - The web we broke. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-web-we-broke/  

We’re Travis and Amanda Northcutt. We work with membership sites of all shapes and sizes and have a long track record of success in helping people plan, grow, optimize, and scale their memberships. Amanda was the Director of Sales for a multi million dollar membership site for 10 years. She took an early retirement to refocus her life and pack her family up to start traveling full time in 2015 before joining Travis at Member Up. When Amanda started working for the aforementioned membership site, it was grossing less than 6 figures annually. She played a key role in increasing revenue by more than 40x. Travis has specialized in the membership space for over 5 years now. He started out building membership sites for clients, and has evolved into providing strategic input on all areas of running a membership site. We traveled the world full time for a few years, and just recently settled down in Fort Collins, Colorado. You can learn more about our crazy life on our personal blog: https://northcutt.life We believe in entrepreneurship and making your financial goals align with your lifestyle goals. We’re a living, breathing example of this. https://memberup.co/

We had a great show here with special guest this Friday Show John James Jacoby co-host of WordPress Weekly podcast. 1 - Pantheon raises $40 million to manage Drupal and WordPress websites https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/05/pantheon-raises-40-million-to-manage-drupal-and-wordpress-websites/ 2 - Mark Zuckerberg outlines a ‘privacy-focused’ revamp of Facebook https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/06/mark-zuckerberg-outlines-facebook-privacy-rethink/ 3 - Talking to Michael Hebenstreit about WordPress after selling MHThemes.com https://www.ilovewp.com/blog/interview-michael-hebenstreit-wordpress-mhthemes/ 4 - Why People Don’t Get Wealthy? hhttps://calacanis.com/ 5 - WordPress Contributors Propose Shorter, Time-based Release Cycles https://wptavern.com/wordpress-contributors-propose-shorter-time-based-release-cycles 6 - How My Brain-Damaged Mother Changed How I Look at Interface Design https://magenta.as/how-my-brain-damaged-mother-changed-how-i-look-at-interface-design-9d2a06f042a1

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/