Divi Chat

Facebook groups can be a great way to create a community around your business, service, or product. You may have found our podcast through a Divi fb group and probably know from experience how beneficial they are, but how can we apply that community aspect to our businesses? This week we discuss!

 

Hosts Present:

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB

Tammy Grant - Sunflower Creatives / FB / @yourblogplace

Stephanie Hudson – Sweet Tea Media / FB / @EnjoySweetTea

Resources Mentioned:

Focus On Your Biz Facebook Group

 

https://youtu.be/_huwO1XV7iM

Some clients are very tech savvy, some are not. Some know that a logo doesn’t come with a website build, others think they get social media marketing, a logo, a website, and built-in customers from the get-go.

Bottom line is it’s up to us to inform them of all the details, the scope, the process — everything involved, and when we don’t communicate that well enough it can cause issues. Today we’ll discuss what we’ve learned and any tips we can share to keep it smooth sailing when communicating with clients.

 

Hosts Present:

Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

Resources Mentioned:

Divi Business Expert Course

WP Elevation

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIKdJbnadY

This week on DC we’re discussing marketing strategies for your Divi products, like courses, plugins, child themes, etc. We’ve been in the “Divi biz” for a while so we’ll share our marketing tips.

 

Hosts Present:

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB

Tim Strifler - Divi Plugins / Divi Child Themes / Divi Layouts

Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb

 

https://youtu.be/M3Uh3GFjE8o

How to get remote and/or local clients, this is something we discussed early on in our DC days on one of our first episodes. Back then we had silly graphics to play with in Google hangouts lol, you can view it here.

Enough time has gone by for a topic revisit we think so this week we’ll be discussing how we find clients, both remote and local. Be interesting to see what’s changed (or not changed) and what we’ve learned along the way.

 

Hosts Present:

Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Stephanie Hudson – Sweet Tea Media / FB / @EnjoySweetTea

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

Resources:

Google My Business

10 free places to find your next remote web development freelance project

Facebook Ads

How To Create A Facebook Ad 2019 - From Start To Finish

Moz Local

SEMrush

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiZPcxgFpMQ

This week we’ll be discussing our steps for creating a Divi website. There are a lot of steps someone can go through but we think we can narrow it down to a pretty good overview on the basic steps applicable to most sites.

 

Hosts Present:

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / Divi Child Theme Guide

Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb

Resources Mentioned:

Loom

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

 

https://youtu.be/7ZKeuaKqMtY

This week we'll be discussing the dreaded scope creep and ways to avoid it.

What’s scope creep you ask?

It’s when a client starts to ask for additional work that is “out of scope”, work that was *not* part of the agreed upon job in the beginning. Sometimes it can come in the form of seemingly simple change requests, and small requests can start to snowball into entirely new features.

It’s very easy to jump to the conclusion that your client is trying to take advantage of you but that’s not always the case (although sometimes it is lol). Oftentimes it’s just their lack of knowledge of web design in general and what it takes to accomplish certain things, so we have to be educators in some capacity as well when it comes to avoiding scope creep.

We’ll share some proven tips and to-do’s to keep scope creep from happening on your projects (hint: contract, contract, contract).

 

Hosts Present:

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

SJ James – divi.space / FB / @sociallysteve.

Resources:

Where To Find Web Design Contract Templates For Web Design Projects

Client Documentation - Full Series

Contract Killer

5 Free Web Design Contract Templates You Should Keep Handy

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SJY3o57Dk4

We're back for our first episode of 2019!! Woohoo!!

We decided our first topic should be about the latest updates, both with WordPress and Divi. WordPress 5.0 was released just before the end of 2018 and Divi was updated as well with a slew of new features, and the new WP editor - dubbed Gutenberg - has been the talk of the community for some time.

Nothing too technical in this chat, just a general overview of any hiccups we've come across plus any tips we can share on working in your Divi site after updating to the latest WordPress version.

 

Hosts Present:

Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Stephanie Hudson – Sweet Tea Media / FB / @EnjoySweetTea

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

Resources Mentioned:

ET Blog - Gutenberg articles

Divi and WordPress 5.0

An Overview of Divi 3.18 and WordPress 5.0

Classic Editor Plugin (you don't need this if you have the latest Divi along with Gutenberg, go to Divi theme options > builder > advanced > enable classic editor)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgUxST52xbM

There’s a lot to cover when it comes to Google Analytics so we’re going to be touching on some basics of GA and data tracking. It's not as scary as it seems to add to your site and you definitely SHOULD add it to your site.

 

Hosts Present:

Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb

Resources Mentioned:

Google Analytics 2018 Beginners Tutorial

How to Set Up Google Analytics in Divi (without a plugin)

How to Make Your Divi Website GDPR Compliant Plus 4 Myths Debunked (GA discussed)

Monster Insights

WPBeginner articles on GA

The Beginner’s Guide to Google Search Console

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_3B9ombck

As 2018 comes to a close we thought we'd take a look back on some lessons we've learned, what we've achieved, what changes we went through (good and bad), what we've enjoyed most (and least!), and touch on our plans for the future and share any advice we can give to our amazing listeners.

 

Hosts Present:

David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb

SJ James – divi.space / FB / @sociallysteve

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUXCLC4zR8

While Divi isn’t technically a framework for all intents and purposes it kind of is, it’s certainly as powerful as one anyway, so this week we’ll be discussing some reasons it may be beneficial to choose and stick with one WordPress theme framework such as Divi.

 

Hosts Present:

Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc

Tammy Grant - Sunflower Creatives / FB / @yourblogplace

Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler

Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uszpOaAAC_A