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If you're running a freelance web development business or a small agency, you might be asking yourself how you can find bigger clients with bigger budgets. Taking on bigger clients can be a bit scary, but can also come with incredible professional and financial rewards.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Amber Hinds of Road Warrior Creative as she shares her journey of growing her freelance into a agency servicing some of the biggest brands in the US.

Amber shares her struggles along the way, tips for a successful transition to servicing the enterprise, and ways you can start to supercharge your freelance business or small agency.

If you're looking for new ways to grow big in 2020, listen to this episode of PressThis now!

Listen to "How I grew my freelance business into an agency servicing enterprise clients with Amber Hinds of Road Warrior Creative" on Spreaker.

"Many of us who build WordPress sites often tout that we deliver amazing user experiences, but we often might not even know what that means. We'll use instinct or ""best practices"" to create what we believe to be a good user experience; however, those promises are often not based on a method and are thin in terms of delivery. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Jackie of UX All The Things about 10 usability heuristics you can use to build sites that are not only beautiful but a joy to use! Jackie shares her thoughts on the UX considerations you should take into account when building sites, and how you can incorporate those considerations into your process. If you're worried your UX promises are a bit empty, listen to this episode of PressThis and up your UX game now!"

"For those of us building and optimizing websites, we often fret over how we're going to convince visitors to take an action that drives value. We tweak designs and messages to get visitors to complete an eCommerce checkout, fill out a lead form, or view more pages to drive more ad revenue. Did you know that you can also drive substantial value by convincing visitors to do nothing at all? In this episode of PressThis we explore how you can embrace the concept of un-conversion rate optimization to reduce cancels, alleviate refund requests, reduce your support costs, and any number of other ways to encourage valuable inaction. If you're focusing all your time on the normal aspects of CRO, you're missing out on huge ways to grow. Quit leaving money on the table, and listen to this episode of PressThis now!"

Listen to "Press This 2019 Rewind: 10 Usability Heuristics And Un-Conversion Rate Optimization" on Spreaker.

One of the key powers of the WordPress ecosystem are the over 50,000 plugins you can use to build your next experience FASTER. In a sea of options though, how do you know which plugins are best and which plugin might cause you big headaches down the road?In this episode of PressThis, show host David Vogelpohl and WordPress engineer Judy Anderson discuss how you can go about picking the best plugins for your site. David details how to audit a plugins' wordpress.org listing, asses the code quality of plugins, and go about auditing the team and company behind plugins you may use.

Choosing a plugin is like choosing a partner in your business, so learn what you can do to help choose amazing plugins that help drive amazing results. Listen to this epiosde of PressThis now!

Listen to "Perfectly Practical Tips for Picking Plugins" on Spreaker.

It's been about a year since WordPress 5.0 was launched which introduced the new block editor (Gutenberg) to the world. Despite much anxiety about the change, the release was successful and the Internet didn't blow up. Yay!With that being said, have you ACTUALLY been using the block editor to build more valuable sites for clients?

In this episode of PressThis, we interview Travis McAshan of Glide Design as he discusses his experiences using the new block editor to empower client content strategies. Travis shares how he and his team drives value for clients by providing them a powerful WordPress digital experience that allows for agile content strategies.

At the end of the day, brands hire agencies to grow. Supporting agile digital content strategies for your clients allows those brands to iterate on their message and drive growth faster, thus making your work more valuable.

If you're looking for more ways to deliver joy and growth to your hard-earned freelance or agency clients listen to this episode of PressThis now!

Listen to "Using Gutenberg to Empower Client Content Strategies with Travis McAshan Jessica McDaniel of Glide Design" on Spreaker.

Listen now to our monthly series "Word Around the Campfire" where we discuss the latest updates to WordPress itself as well as news from around the community.In this episode, we discuss a wide range of improvements in WordPress 5.3 as well as huge updates in the Gutenberg plugin which is a precursur to big changes yet to come in WordPress #core especially around how your themes might work.

If you haven't had time to keep up on everything happening in the world of WordPress, listen to this episode of PressThis now!

Listen to "Word Around the Campfire (December 2019) - News Updates From Around the WordPress Community" on Spreaker.

As many of us in the WordPress ecosystem know, finding the right talent located in your home town is often very difficult. In order to get around this, agencies and brands build remote teams filled with people from all around the world. While this gives us an advantage by allowing us to attract great talent, building a powerful culture with far flung team members is a huge challenge!

In this episode of PressThis, we interview Joe Howard of WP Buffs around building a powerful remote workforce culture. Joe shares his thoughts on the strengths weaknesses of remote teams, how to ensure you build a powerful culture, and what you can do as an individual if you find yourself on a remote team.

Joe runs WPBuffs which is a WordPress services based business that helps business maintain and optimize their WordPress sites. The WPBuff's partially remote-workforce must run at maximum efficiency and collaboration in order to keep customers happy.

Listen now to hear Joe's working-remote war stories and learn advice on building a powerful remote workforce culture!

Listen to "Building a Powerful Remote Workforce Culture with Joe Howard of WP Buffs" on Spreaker.

"For those of us building and optimizing websites, we often fret over how we're going to convince visitors to take an action that drives value. We tweak designs and messages to get visitors to complete an ecommerce checkout, fill out a lead form, or view more pages to drive more ad revenue. Did you know that you can also drive substantial value by convincing vistors to do nothing at all?

In this episode of PressThis we explore how you can embrace the concept of un-conversion rate optimization to reduce cancels, alieviate refund requests, reduce your support costs, and any number of other ways to encourage valuable inaction.

If you're focusing all your time on the normal aspects of CRO, you're missing out on huge ways to grow. Quit leaving money on the table, and listen to this epiosode of PressThis now!"

Listen to "Unconversion Rate Optimization (uCRO) - Making Money from Visitors Who Do Nothing" on Spreaker.

Many of us who build WordPress sites often tout that we deliver amazing user experiences, but we often might not even know what that means. We'll use instinct or "best practices" to create what we believe to be a good user experience; however, those promises are often not based on a method and are thin in terms of delivery.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Jackie of UX All The Things about 10 usability heuristics you can use to build sites that are not only beautiful but a joy to use!

Jackie shares her thoughts on the UX considerations you should take into account when building sites, and how you can incorporate those considerations into your process.

If you're worried your UX promises are a bit empty, listen to this episode of PressThis and up your UX game now!

Listen to "10 Critical UX Heuristics You can Use to Build Better Websites with Jackie D'Elia" on Spreaker.

In this episode of PressThis, we cover all the amazing happenings from WordCamp US 2019 including interesting updates from Matt's State of the Word talk, insights from the community, and other fun happenings in St. Louis.

If you're still suffering from WordCamp FOMO, join us for this episode of PressThis for a recap of WordCamp US!

Listen to "WordCamp US 2019 Recap - Word Around the Campfire" on Spreaker.

If you have a team of WordPress developers or if you're thinking about growing your team, creating a unified approach to your workflows can save time, increase stability, and help avoid profit and deadline zapping mistakes. In this episode of PressThis we interview Geoff Thibeau of Deep Fried about his thoughts on setting up an optimized workflow for teams.

Geoff discusses considerations for the technology in your workflow stack, how to keep code/deploys organized across groups and people, and what you can do to make sure you not only have a solid foundation across your workflow, but one that helps you move FASTER!

If you're lost in the world of cowboy coding and snowflaked (different) workflows across your team, learn how to give yourself peace of mind and listen to this episode of PressThis now!

Also, check out this handy GitHub repo that Geoff uses to keep his non-org plugins automatically updated https://github.com/YahnisElsts...

Listen to "Optimizing WordPress development workflows across your dev team with Geoff Thibeau of Deep Fried" on Spreaker.