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Mike is the joint co-host with Rob Walling “Startups For The Rest Of Us” podcast and co-founder with Rob of the MicroConf which is the leading yearly conferences for individuals who are looking to start a Startup or already running a successful Startup company. Mike started his career with a brief, 3 month stint at a start up multimedia company called 2K Innovations Corporation in North Carolina in 1998. He was invited to join full time as a principal, but declined after seeing how the company was being run. Later that year, he moved to Buffalo, NY to work for a wireless ISP startup called Clearwire Technologies. He bailed a couple years before it went under and sold its name, but learned a lot about working at a small company.

With Special Guest Panelist Matt Medeiros from Matt Report 1 - State of the Word 2018: WordPress Embraces the Block Editor https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2018-wordpress-embraces-the-block-editor 2 - Internal Google Docs Warn Not to Gift Contractors Shirts in Case They Start Thinking They're Employees: Report https://gizmodo.com/internal-google-docs-warn-not-to-gift-contractors-shirt-1831064335 3 - Interview with Rachel Cherry: Automattic Pledges to Fund WPCampus’ Accessibility Audit of Gutenberg https://wptavern.com/interview-with-rachel-cherry-automattic-pledges-to-fund-wpcampus-accessibility-audit-of-gutenberg 4 - Trends for 2019: Innovation will become faster and more flexible https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/12/12/marketing-trends-2019-innovation-faster-more-flexible/ 5 - Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture https://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/8974435/switzerland-work-life-balance  

#353 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Adam Preiser of WPCrafter and the Joint Co-Founder of CartFlows Did you know that the majority of eCommerce websites make it hard for customers to simply checkout? The process is filled with unnecessary steps and unnecessary questions. It's no surprise that nearly 70% of people who start the checkout process end up abandoning it all together. And the worst part is, if you are using the world's most widely used eCommerce platform, WooCommerce, you have zero control over any of this. Sure you can hire an expensive coder to make you an unmanageable / inflexible solution that is prone to breaking, but for the majority of us, spending tens of thousands of dollars is just not an option. https://cartflows.com/

Our main story is recent interview of Matt Mullenweg by Adam of WP-Crafter who also joins the panel this week. 1 - WordPress 5.0 Public Release? Interview on Gutenberg and Future of WordPress https://ma.tt/ 2 - The long, tortured quest to make Google unbiased https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18125879/search-neutrality-google-bias-seo-rigged-sundar-pichai-congress-eu 3 - WordPress eCommerce, Past, and Future https://tommcfarlin.com/bigcommerce-ecommerce-for-wordpress/ 4 - “The Commodity of Authenticity” with Jamie Cohen https://medium.com/s/teamhuman/the-commodity-of-authenticity-with-jamie-cohen-9e7835a7d4cb 5 - Content Management is Design https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/12/content-management-is-design/  

Chris started learning about online education on a glacier in Alaska. He's created courses on everything from organic gardening to wood working. He is passionate about helping other entrepreneurial educators find success and create impact. These are the main point that we discuss during the show. #1. WordPress LMS and Gutenberg #2. Different types of WordPress LMS implementations #3. Different types of feedback #4. Course PLUS concept https://lifterlms.com/our-team/

1 - WordPress 5.0 Release Candidate https://wordpress.org/news/2018/11/wordpress-5-0-release-candidate/ 2 - Seth Godin: His New Book “This Is Marketing.” https://www.sethgodin.com/ 3 - Jetpack 6.8 Adds Gutenberg Blocks for Payment Buttons, Forms, Maps, and Markdown https://wptavern.com/jetpack-6-8-adds-gutenberg-blocks-for-payment-buttons-forms-maps-and-markdown 4 - Mark Ritson: Gary Vaynerchuk is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong about media https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/11/16/mark-ritson-gary-vaynerchuk/ 5 - 10 Problems Plaguing Influencer Marketing https://sparktoro.com/blog/10-problems-plaguing-influencer-marketing/  

Nathalie Lussier is an award-winning entrepreneur, international keynote speaker, and author who has been making web sites since she was 12 years old. She graduated with a degree in Software Engineering and a job offer from Wall Street, but she turned down this job to start her own business right out of college. Her bootstrapped startup AmbitionAlly, has been featured in Entrepreneur and is inspiring a culture of intuitive small business marketing software across the globe. Nathalie has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, Mashable, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, and Under 30 CEO. She's the creator of the hit 30 Day List Building Challenge. https://accessally.com/

Elementor is one of leading new bread of WordPress page builders on the market in 2018 which Is a great tool for building your new WordPress powered membership/LMS website. We have a great interview here with Ben Pines CMO of Elementor and discuss the history of the company and how he see Elementor dealing with Gutenberg project. It really amazing to see that free version Elementor has been downloaded 1 million times! https://elementor.com/

How about - how to engage your students in courses….I can talk about it from my side but also you can talk about the tech options that can help people stay engaged in the learning….

1 - Matt Mullenweg Addresses Controversies Surrounding Gutenberg at WordCamp Portland Q&A https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-addresses-controversies-surrounding-gutenberg-at-wordcamp-portland-qa 2 - The Problem with Easy Technology https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-problem-with-easy-technology 3 - WordPress Developer Salary: The Average, Plus How to Increase Yours https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-developer-salary/   4 - Recovering SEO traffic and rankings after a website redesign https://searchengineland.com/recovering-seo-traffic-and-rankings-after-a-website-redesign-308081   5 - Couple and Homeless Man Said to Have Made Up Story Behind $400,000 GoFundMe Campaign https://gizmodo.com/couple-and-homeless-man-said-to-have-made-up-story-behi-1830460690