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In addition to running her own highly successful online business, Julie is also a head coach and Clickfunnels working with Russell Brunson. We discuss how to build and run a successful membership website and what are the best strategies in building an audience for your first online course. Julie Christine Stoian https://juliestoian.com/the-digital-gangsta/

I have a great and detailed discussion with my new co-host Cindy Nicholson of The Course Whisperer about why doing some basic pre launch research is so important if you going to avoid market fit mistakes connected to your great course idea! Cindy Nicholson of The Course Whisperer https://www.thecoursewhisperer.co/workwithme/

#316 WP-Tonic’s Friday round-table Show 3rd of August, 2018 at 8:30am PST In this weeks show our main starting story is from WP Tavern concerning Easy Digital Downloads and its decision to reduce company’s extension passes prices plus a statement on the company’s blog from its CEO Pippin Williamson which basically says that the company got it pricing structure wrong. Here’s This Weeks Stories 1 - Easy Digital Downloads Substantially Reduces Prices for Extension Passes https://wptavern.com/easy-digital-downloads-substantially-reduces-prices-for-extension-passes

We discuss with Nathan how he got into web design and what has he learnt that he can share with the audience connected to being effective freelance web designer. We then go into what he has learnt connected to building a number of successful online courses and how he effectively marketed theses courses. I you want to get some real insight connected to being a freelancer and also how to build your first online course this is a great episode for you.

This Weeks Articles That We Discuss During The Show 1 - Google Chrome Rolls Out “Not Secure” Warning for Plain HTTP Sites https://wptavern.com/google-chrome-rolls-out-not-secure-warning-for-plain-http-sites 2 - Facebook Just Learned the True Cost of Fixing Its Problems https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-just-learned-the-true-cost-of-fixing-its-problems/ CRTV host Allie Beth Stuckey Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 3 - Why Learning WordPress Development is Hard https://wpshout.com/why-learning-wordpress-development-is-hard/ 4 - Digital Disruption Disrupted http://www.winwithoutpitching.com/digital-disruption-disrupted/ 5 - WordSesh 2018: What Clients Really Want https://www.lireo.com/wordsesh-2018-what-clients-really-want/ 6 - ACLU says Amazon facial recognition associated Congress members with mugshots https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/aclu-says-amazon-facial-recognition-associated-congress-members-with-mugshots/  

We’re going to be introducing Cindy “The Course Whisperer” as the new co host of WP-Tonic Show plus we going to be discussing these four main areas, see below. The 4 Fatal Flaws in Your Online Course Project & How to Avoid Them!   How to build a pre-launch audience. MVC (minimum viable course). Speed is really important. Security is boring until your course gets hacked.

Hi folks here’s the list of articles that we during the show we also have a special guest Spencer Forman of WP Launchify 1 - iThemes Enters the Hosting Space mainwp iThemes Sync Pro https://wptavern.com/ithemes-enters-the-hosting-space 2 - Amid the 20th anniversary of open source, Tim O’Reilly warns that platform companies built on open-source software have lost their way https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amid-20th-anniversary-open-source-tim-oreilly-warns-platform-companies-built-open-source-software-lost-way/ 3 - WP Site Care Joins Southern Web https://www.wpsitecare.com/wp-site-care-joins-forces-with-southern-web/ 4 - Don’t feed the trolls, and other hideous lies https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17561768/dont-feed-the-trolls-online-harassment-abuse 5 - Linkbuilding: The Citizen’s Field Guide https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/linkbuilding-the-citizens-field-guide/ 6 - Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Don Norman https://www.fastcompany.com/90202172/why-bad-technology-dominates-our-lives-according-to-don-norman  

FIVE REASONS YOU NEED MARKETING AUTOMATION FOR WORDPRESS TODAY 1) One-directional marketing is dead 2) A CRM is the brain and WordPress is the body of your business 3) Your business should be modular, not locked into a closed platform 4) Tags & Custom Fields are the “glue” that hold all components together 5) Ignoring Marketing Automation will not make it go away   THE MARKETING AUTOMATION GOLDRUSH: SaaS Platforms v. WP+CRM (+API) How plugins such as WPFusionPlugin.com are making it possible to use WordPress (plus one's favorite CRM) to take on the multitude of SaaS "platforms" that have arisen lately for marketing automation. Business owners today MUST use MA in order to survive...it's not enough to have a simple website and do things manually. How does a WP site owner get the best of all worlds Spencer Forman https://wplaunchify.com/

310 WP-Tonic’s Round-Table Show July the 13th LIVE at 8:30am PST Matt Medeiros of the Matt Report podcast joined us on the panel this week. This Episodes Sponsor is WPFusion   This Weeks Stories 1 - Gutenberg Articles of the Week Video: A Quick Introduction to Gutenberg and the New WordPress Block Editor from LinkedIn Learning https://wptavern.com/video-a-quick-introduction-to-gutenberg-and-the-new-wordpress-block-editor-from-linkedin-learning 2 - Matt Medeiros Matt Report Latest Video WordPress is changing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdT6L5GFJdg 3 - SparkToro Raised a Very Unusual Round of Funding & We’re Open-Sourcing Our Docs #287 WP-Tonic Show With Special Guest Rand Fishkin Former CEO of Moz https://sparktoro.com/blog/raised-a-very-unusual-round-of-funding-were-open-sourcing-our-docs/ 4 - Tech journalist and Chairman Mom founder Sarah Lacy on the power of being polarizing https://www.geekwire.com/2018/tech-journalist-chairman-mom-founder-sarah-lacy-power-polarizing/

Phillip helps companies convert their static websites into lead-generating marketing platforms. In 2005, knowing little about web development, Phillip made a promise to a business owner that he wasn’t sure I could keep - to build a website. https://seoforgrowth.com/about-the-authors/phil-singleton/ https://kcwebdesigner.com/about/ Phillip self-studied and painstakingly created a simple one-page site for him. Two months later, the site achieved top search engine rankings and leads starting pouring in for his business. Soon after, he called and said “you’ve not only changed my business, you’ve changed my life.” It was the most rewarding moment of my professional career and ignited a fire in me that rages to this very day. That ugly little Microsoft Front Page website has snowballed into a thriving digital agency that has partnered with hundreds of businesses. Phillip have since written several award winning and best-selling books on lead generation, search engine optimization and web design. Forbes named my book SEO for Growth (seoforgrowth.com) as the #1 SEO book to read for entrepreneurs. It’s been endorsed by over 50 of the world’s top marketing experts, and listed as a top marketing book by Inc., Mashable, Oracle and The Huffington Post.