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We Discuss How Better Emails Can Drive More Revenue For Your Membership Website Val Geisler is ridiculously obsessed with email. An Email Marketing Conversion Copywriter and Strategist, Val spent over a decade on the inside of companies from non-profits to 7-figure businesses to tech startups. She brings her background in content creation, customer experience, and digital strategy to her incredible clients every day. Email isn't dead, and Val is here to help you bring yours back to life. You can find out more about Val at www.valgeisler.com or follow her on Twitter at @lovevalgeisler.

1 - Gutenberg Accessibility Audit Postponed Indefinitely https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-accessibility-audit-postponed-indefinitely 2 - Ticketmaster buys a blockchain company to guard against ticket fraud https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/18/ticketmaster-buys-blockchain-ticketing-company/ 3 - ACF 5.8 Beta 1 Introduces Blocks Feature, Release Slated for November https://wptavern.com/acf-5-8-beta-1-introduces-blocks-feature-release-slated-for-november 4 - Gmail add-ons like Dropbox can now be easily accessed while writing emails https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/18/17993576/gmail-compose-actions-update-dropbox-box-atlassian-egnyte 5 - 2018 Search Market Share: Myths vs. Realities of Google, Bing, Amazon, Facebook, DuckDuckGo, & More https://sparktoro.com/blog/2018-search-market-share-myths-vs-realities-of-google-bing-amazon-facebook-duckduckgo-more/ 6 - Despite moral and ethical concerns, Google CEO Sundar Pichai defends company's potential re-entry into China. https://searchengineland.com/opinion-google-cant-resist-chinas-800-million-internet-users-306708

We Going To Be Discussing How To Use YouTube To Market Your Course or Online Business Sean Cannell is a YouTuber, international speaker, and coach that helps entrepreneurs build their influence and income with online video. Sean's YouTube channels have over 700,000 subscribers, his videos have been viewed over 43 million times and he has been featured in the "20 Must Watch YouTube Channels That Will Change Your Business" by Forbes. Check out new weekly content that will help you grow your influence with online video on Think Media and Video Influencers! https://www.seancannell.com/  

This Weeks Stories 1 - Gutenberg A - Gutenberg 4.0 RC 1 Released, Testing Ramps Up Amid Critical Accessibility Concerns https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-4-0-rc-1-released-testing-ramps-up-amid-critical-accessibility-concerns   B - WordPress Accessibility Team Lead Resigns, Cites Political Complications Related to Gutenberg Rian Rietveld https://wptavern.com/wordpress-accessibility-team-lead-resigns-cites-political-complications-related-to-gutenberg 2 - Google Plus Will Be Shut Down After User Information Was Exposed https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/technology/google-plus-security-disclosure.html 3 - 5 Actionable Ways To Improve Your WordPress Site With Artificial Intelligence (AI) https://torquemag.io/2018/10/5-actionable-ways-to-improve-your-wordpress-site-with-artificial-intelligence-ai/ 4 - What marketers are saying about Facebook’s new Portal video chat devices https://marketingland.com/what-marketers-are-saying-about-facebooks-new-portal-video-chat-devices-249595 5 - Why Green Dots in Yoast Aren’t Moving Your Rankings https://www.lockedownseo.com/yoast-green-dots-ranking/ 6 - Leaked Google research shows company grappling with censorship and free speech https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17961806/google-leaked-research-good-censor-censorship-freedom-of-speech-research-china

Sangi is founder of Mindful & Ruthless, a weekly podcast & community for lifestyle-driven new-world entrepreneurs. Sagi is a User Experience Designer and Entrepreneur. He is the founder of Mindful & Ruthless, a weekly podcast & community for lifestyle-driven new-world entrepreneurs. Sagi also now works with some top entrepreneurs, boosting their digital designs & brand to the next level. He has one hell of a story too, coming from a failing business and debt to building a vision and crushing his goals, and just recently was also featured on SPI by Pat Flynn.

In this week WP-Tonic episode we have a great panel and interesting discussion. Well the big day is coming WordPress 5.0 is slated for public release on November 19, 2018. This is going be one of most important moments in the history of WordPress so we have a bit of chat about it at the beginning of the show. 1 - WordPress 5.0 Slated for November 19, 2018 https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-0-slated-for-november-19-2018 2 - What Have We Learned From Google? https://medium.com/s/story/what-google-teaches-us-2613711712de 3 - WP Simple Pay Joining Sandhills Development https://wpsimplepay.com/joining-sandhills-development/ 4 - 50 million Facebook user accounts hacked https://marketingland.com/50-million-facebook-user-accounts-hacked-249197 5 - Do You Need to Know React as a WordPress Developer? https://torquemag.io/2018/10/do-you-need-to-know-react-as-a-wordpress-developer/

We Discuss With Peter Investing In The Knowledge Education Economy of 21st Century Peter worked at Red Herring magazine from June 1999 to May 2001, first as Associate Editor then as a writer. He was co-founder and Editorial Director of Gizmodo from July 2002 until March 2004, leaving to co-found Engadget. Two months later he also founded the video game blog Joystiq. Both were part of Weblogs Inc., a blog network that was purchased by AOL in 2005. Along with Josh Deutsch of Downtown Records, Peter launched the online record label RCRD LBL in 2007. In July 2008 Peter left Engadget to start the consumer electronics social networking site GDGT.The site premiered in 2009 and was co-founded with Ryan Block, Peter’ successor as Engadget editor-in-chief. In February 2013 GDGT was purchased by AOL. As of July 2018, he is a partner at Betaworks Ventures.  

We have a great show here with some interesting stories starting with WordPress 4.9.9 and what’s the real story about this released of WordPress and then we talk about Android plus we have three to four other really interesting topic in this week show. 1 - WordPress 4.9.9 Release May Shift Focus to PHP 7.3 Compatibility, Gutenberg Merge Proposal Timeline TBD https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-9-release-may-shift-focus-to-php-7-3-compatibility-gutenberg-merge-proposal-timeline-tbd 2 - Android at 10: the world’s most dominant technology https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/26/17903788/google-android-history-dominance-marketshare-apple

We Discuss How To Avoid The Major Mistakes Connected To Building a Online Course

We got a great show here with some great stories that we discuss during the show, see the articles and links below. I was on holiday in the UK visiting family and friends so I appear at the beginning of the show however, I have to leave after a couple of minutes however my friend John Locke does a a great job of being the main host of the show In this episode of the WP-Tonic round-table show we discuss Gutenberg community library of custom blocks. We then discuss Nike's choice of Colin Kaepernick as the face of its 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign. Then we move on and talk about Gutenberg and Genesis.   1 - Gutenberg Cloud: A Cross-Platform Community Library for Custom Gutenberg Blocks https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-cloud-a-cross-platform-community-library-for-custom-gutenberg-blocks 2 - The Gangster Marketing Move of 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLXzPDteFks&t=84s 3 - The Future of Gutenberg and Genesis https://studiopress.blog/the-future-of-gutenberg-and-genesis/ 4 - The anti-Google documentary The Creepy Line is a conspiratorial playbook for right-wing tech backlash https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878332/creepy-line-anti-google-facebook-conservative-censorship-documentary-review-right-wing 5 - How to Create Custom Post Types in WordPress https://elementor.com/wordpress-custom-post-types