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Rand has a book coming out April 24 called "Lost and Founder" about the biased thinking of Silicon Valley startup world and how founders/entrepreneurs/early stage teams can avoid those pitfalls. We also discuss SEO in 2018 and Rand give some insights connected to his many years helping individuals and companies work:

This weeks stories that we discuss during the show 1A- Facebook's Not Listening Through Your Phone. It Doesn't Have To https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-listening-smartphone-microphone/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories 1B - The Ethos of Big Tech On L2inc YouTube Channel Discussion With John Battelle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvtOCKJnZBY ———————————————————— 2A - Plugins Hosted on WordPress.org Can No Longer Guarantee Legal Compliance https://wptavern.com/plugins-hosted-on-wordpress-org-can-no-longer-guarantee-legal-compliance 2B - Pulling the plug on legal compliance plugins http://webdevlaw.uk/2018/04/17/pulling-the-plug-on-legal-compliance-plugins/ 2C - Everything You Wanted to Ask a GDPR Expert but Were Afraid to Ask https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/everything-you-wanted-to-ask-a-gdpr-expert-but-were-afraid-to-ask/ ———————————————————— 3 -Design Thinking Is B.S. https://www.fastcodesign.com/90166804/design-thinking-is-b-s ———————————————————— 4 - BuddyPress 3.0 Beta 2 Released https://wptavern.com/buddypress-3-0-beta-2-released ———————————————————— 5 - Divi 3.1 Has Arrived! Introducing The New Divi Developer AP https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/theme-releases/divi-3-1-has-arrived-introducing-the-new-divi-developer-api  

We Discuss Why Its so Important To Find Your Niche! We have an old friend of the show and former co-host John Locke back on the show to talk about why its so important as an freelancer or business owner in the WordPress or technology sector to find your individual niche. Here are the main topic we discuss during the show. 1 - Why its so important to find your niche. 2 - SEO (search engine optimization) for membership/LMS websites. 3 - We discuss why just publishing great content won’t get you the results that you are really looking for.  

In this weeks WP-Tonic round-table show we have a great panel of WordPress experts where we discuss this weeks must interesting article we have found connected to WordPress, development, online marketing or the web in general. Here a list of the stories we discuss this week 1 - Theme Review Changes Place More Onus Onto Theme Authors https://wptavern.com/theme-review-changes-place-more-onus-onto-theme-authors 2 - Google Fights Businessman's Attempt to Erase Conviction Links https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-27/google-fights-businessman-s-attempt-to-erase-conviction-links 3 - The Blogger’s Guide To Choosing The Perfect Niche https://www.wpsuperstars.net/choose-a-niche-for-your-blog/ 4 - WordPress plugin looking for a new owner: from Rachel Cherry https://bamadesigner.com/2018/04/wordpress-plugin-looking-for-a-new-owner/ 5 - How to Optimize Google My Business and Leverage It For More Sales https://neilpatel.com/blog/optimize-google-my-business/ 6 - 5 Reasons Developers Are Switching To Vue.js https://www.heartinternet.uk/blog/5-reasons-developers-are-switching-to-vue-js-from-other-frameworks/ 7 - The 8 WordPress Plugins That Will Change the Way Your WordPress Site Looks and Performs https://torquemag.io/2018/04/the-8-wordpress-plugins-that-will-change-the-way-your-wordpress-site-looks-and-performs/

From Being A Clinical Psychologist To Running A Highly Successful Web Agency Here’s The Three Main Areas We Cover During This Great Interview. 1 - How To Become An Effective WordPress Website Designer/Developer 2 - How Much Work Is Necessary To Develop An Online Training Course? 3 - Website Pricing Trick and Tips Judi was formally a clinical psychologist who was in private practice for years before starting a medical records software company for psychiatric hospitals. After selling that company, Judi knew that I didn’t want to practice psychotherapy again but she had no idea what she was going to do instead. Even so, she decided to let her license go so she wouldn’t be tempted to “fall back on it.” While trying to figure out her next move, she be sitting in her neighborhood coffee shop, showing friends how they could use WordPress, along with the new and emerging social media tools that would help them grow their businesses. People sitting around would overhear her talking and ask me for my business card. I would tell them, “ she don’t have a card”, and they would reply, “I don’t care! I want to work with her!”

We going to have a guest “Patrick Rauland” it’s also my Birthday. I'm dedicate this show to the memory of my father “Captain Douglas Denwood,” My father “Captain Douglas Denwood” of the Grenadier Guards who fought at Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain (defending Hornchurch Aerodrome) he also fought at the British people’s glories victory at ‘El Alamein’ and at D-Day. holder of the French medal “Croix de Guerre” he gave his first spot back home at Dunkirk to a serious wounded French solider without the knowledge that he would be offered a second opportunity to get back to England. Also the holder of the (MC) Military Cross he was awarded this honor because when his tank was semi destroyed and on fire hit from a shell from a German/Nazi Tiger tank and suffering from a serous injured leg he decided to go back into the burning tank to recuse his driver. This Weeks Stories 1 - From Humble Beginnings to Internet Dominance: The Rise of WordPress https://pagely.com/blog/wordpress-internet-dominance/ 2 - Facebook says it will not extend GDPR privacy protections beyond EU https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17194504/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-gdpr-privacy-protections-europe 3 - The Truth About GoDaddy WordPress Hosting: It's Not What You Think https://wpsmackdown.com/godaddy-wordpress-hosting-review 4 - 14 Common Technical SEO Mistakes and How to Fix Them https://imfromthefuture.com/technical-seo-issues/ 5 - Do podcasters really need to beg for ratings and review https://blog.pacific-content.com/do-podcasts-really-need-to-beg-for-ratings-and-reviews-d162564007dd 6 - The Impact Of The AI On The Education In The Future https://torquemag.io/2018/03/impact-ai-education-future/ 7 - Lead Generation Leaders: Rand Fishkin on User Acquisition  

Nate Wright crafts unapologetically human emails for a living. Since bootstrapping Small Biz Triage 9-years ago, he and his small team have delivered thousands of successful campaigns across nearly every industry vertical, generating tens of millions in sales for their clients. In 2018, Nate created Inbox Attack, a business writing ‘gym’ and series of bootcamps to apply concepts of mental fitness to the art and craft of sales & marketing. His training & work has been featured by Pitch Anything, The Arts Alliance and MailChimp. In our Interivew we going to discuss these main subjects * Email marketing * Unapologetically human business * Passive vs. active training in digital media * Building LMS (Learning Management Systems) * WordPress form plugins https://inboxattack.com/bootcamp/ Get any Inbox Attack live training products for 25% Off using coupon code: WPTONIC20 https://www.smallbiztriage.com/  

Listen to this week's hard-hitting WP-Tonic Round-table show we discuss the most interesting WordPress and web stories of the week. This Weeks Stories 1 - Using Ethics In Web Design https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/ 2 -WordPress Design and Development Pricing, Structure, and Services Survey Results https://serverpilot.io/blog/2018/02/26/wordpress-design-and-development-pricing-survey-results.html 3 - European MPs are pushing for an even more extreme ‘link tax’ https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/03/28/european-mps-pushing-even-extreme-link-tax/ 4 - Call for Speakers ( WPCampus) https://2018.wpcampus.org/call-for-speakers/ 5- WPForms Turns 2 Years Old – What’s New & What’s Coming Next https://wpforms.com/wpforms-turns-2-years-old-whats-new-whats-coming-next/ 6 - What I Learned Interviewing 10 WordPress Security Experts https://wpshout.com/wordpress-security-experts/

Carrie Dils joined Jonathan Denwood and Kim Shivler for Episode 279 of the WP-Tonic Podcast. A long-time, successful WordPress freelancer, Carrie has launched a platform to help other freelancers find success in business. In this episode, Carrie shares her top tips for creating a successful freelancing business including Small Business Administration Resources and using clarity.fm to charge for consulting phone calls. Carrie Dils began working at Starbucks. She had a vision open her own coffee shop, and thought why not learn the ins and outs of how to make coffee and get paid to do it. But soon, she realized she didn’t want to depend on others for success. Not that her team wasn’t great, but she was done trading hours for dollars. For her birthday, Carrie’s dad signed her up for an annual subscription to Lynda. She started taking classes taught by Morten Rand-Hendriksen which is where her career started rolling as a freelance web developer. Now, she’s been consulting and educating for 3-4 years. Working for Lynda, she travels to California to record lessons around 3 times a year. She began blogging tutorials on her website as a way to give back to the community. The WordPress community is very generous with learning, and the positive affirmations and people she is able to help through teaching are strong motivators for her. https://carriedils.com/ https://twitter.com/cdils https://www.lynda.com/Carrie-Dils/965233-1.html

Sallie Goetsch, John Locke, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Chris Badgett, Mendel Kurland, John Locke, Adam Preiser and Tom McKraken joined host Jonathan Denwood for episode 278 of the WP-Tonic roundtable March 23, 2018 This show is brought to you by our sponsor IntelligenceWP. IntelligenceWP is a plugin that helps you make actionable sense from the information Google analytics provides. 1st: Story Is “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” (John Locke) a fair statement? Should your data be collected and used without your knowledge or approval? Should privacy be a given or should the user expect their data to be used elsewhere? Listen in to the discussion for pointed discussion on both sides of the argument. 2nd: Story Google analytics getting data to help your business – conversion tracking Ninja forms. Is this necessary? Is this useful? Does A.I. really know what you need/want before you do? 3rd: Story Does your site look good on all devices? According to Adam Preiser your site should be updated every 2 years. Listen in for the latest on mobile responsive websites and discussion regarding algorithms. This Weeks Discussion Stories 1 - A Plea For Plugin Developers to Stop Supporting Legacy PHP Versions https://wptavern.com/a-plea-for-plugin-developers-to-stop-supporting-legacy-php-versions 2- Facebook Fallout Scott Galloway, NYU Stern School of Business, discusses what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be doing as a leader in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Mark Zuckerberg Sheryl Sandberg Cambridge Analytica https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/03/20/nyu-professor-facebook-scandal-is-a-textbook-case-study-of-how-not-to-handle-a-crisis.html 3 - Preparing Your WordPress Site for the Upcoming Google Mobile-First Index https://kinsta.com/blog/google-mobile-first-index/ 4 - Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certificates Are Now Available https://wptavern.com/lets-encrypt-wildcard-certificates-are-now-available 5 - How BBC Interactive Content Works Across AMP, Apps, And The Web https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/bbc-interactive-content-amp-apps-web/