Page speed is a big deal. Every second of load time is an excruciating eternity of pain for your site's visitors which slowly bleeds revenue out of your funnel and away from your bottom line. In one study from 2016 Google reported that the average U.S. retail mobile site loaded in 6.9 seconds, but, according to their then most recent data, 40% of consumers will leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load. Ouch!

Site owners are painfully aware that slow load times cause high bounce rates and thus creating site visitors who aren't buying, aren't clicking on ads, and aren't becoming advocates for your brand or the brands you serve as an agency or freelancer. Page speed has a direct impact to your ability to grow!

In this episode of PressThis, we interview the world-renowned Patrick Meenan of Cloudflare and founder of the uber-popular WebPageTest.org about what you can do to help make your WordPress sites faster and more profitable. As part of his new role at Cloudflare, Patrick has been working on technologies that help make WordPress faster including a newly released plugin called Cloudflare Page Cache.

We're super excited to have Patrick back on PressThis to help explore how you can improve your page load times and drive even more value from the experiences you create. Don't miss this opportunity to drive more value from the traffic you already have. Listen to this episode of PressThis now!

Are you running your own development-focused freelance or small agency business? Have you mastered the skills to sell your services and close the right kind of clients to keep you growing? Selling your services can often be an uncomfortable or even often overlooked area when managing a development focused freelance or small agency businesses. Of course, these are some of the very skills you'll need to keep your billable hours full and money adding to your bottom line!

In this episode of PressThis we interview popular WP community contributor John Housholder as he talks about his trasition from a developer centric role to one focusing on helping to drive growth. John explores the challenges of shifting contexts, getting around the fear of talking to people, and coming to terms with the important role of sales in helping a business move forward.

As a former freelance developer, John has been in the trenches and his insights into how to approach sales conversations in efficient and effective ways are a must hear for any freelance developer wondering.. "How am I going to do this sales thing?!".

If you're struggling with how to up your sales skills to support your growing freelance or agency business, don't miss this episode of PressThis!

Ecommerce platform provider BigCommerce recently released an ecommerce plugin for WordPress with a really unique approach. The plugin leverages the BigCommerce platform to offload many of the workloads required for ecommerce sites in order to let WordPress focus on delivering great content with awesome performance.

This was big news in the WordPress community and was even featured during the State of the Word talk at WCUS. For this episode of PressThis, we've invited Topher DeRosia of BigCommerce to share how their solution works and how they think about the opportunity of offloaded ecommerce to help WordPress ecommerce sites.

We're super excited for the chance to chat about this exciting development in the world of WordPress ecommerce. If you're looking for new ways to use WordPress to generate revenue from direct sales or on how you can help customers of your freelancer or agency business win with WordPress and ecommerce, listen to this episode of PressThis now!

As you spend time thinking about how you'll be able to deliver new audiences and revenue to your business or the businesses you serve as an agency or freelancer, you've likely thought quite a bit about creating mobile apps. For many organizations the investment in creating and maintaining mobile apps on iOS and Android can be quite daunting.In this episode of PressThis we interview the infamous Brian Messenlehner of AppPresser about strategies you can use to leverage WordPress to build mobile apps. Brian explores creative ideas around your technology strategy, how you can use the native experiences you build to unlock new audiences and revenue, and why you shouldn't be leaving money on the table by not addressing this valuable channel for growth. If you're an agency or freelancer, you'll love hearing Brian's tips and how they can help you increase billable hours with your clients.

Help scratch your growth FOMO itch, listen to this episode of PressThis, and learn how to drive growth by creating native mobile experiences with WordPress!

In this episode of PressThis we are joined by founder of Atomic Blocks, Mike McAlister as we revisit his journey in creating new WordPress products in a post-Gutenberg world. With the release of WordPress 5.0, product makers in the WordPress ecosystem are now faced with the challenge of learning new Javascript technologies and new editorial markets. Listen in as we explore Mike’s best strategies and tips for creating innovative products in this new era.

Original Air Date: January 23, 2018

Join us for this episode of PressThis as we interview crazy-smart Karim Marucchi of Crowd Favorite on the future of WordPress and open source for the Enterprise. Will Enterprise brands continue to adopt WordPress and open source? How will views on the scale, security, and reliability of open source change in the future? Karim is uniquely positioned to answer these questions as his agency serves enterprise brands like X, Y, and Z. If breaking into the enterprise is part of your plan for your agency or WP product business, don’t miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!

 Original Air Date: March 6, 2018WordPress is growing at a mind bending pace and so are the businesses that support and rely on the ecosystem. If you’re wondering how you’ll grow your WP-focused team while defending your quality, lifestyle, and culture, check out this episode of Press This. In this episode we’ll be interviewing the super-popular and insightful Shane Pearlman to hear about the challenges and successes he’s had growing his business Modern Tribe. Tribe is a force in the WordPress community and Shane will share his thoughts on scaling a WordPress focused business while honoring the open source roots and culture that has made WordPress such a phenomenon and helped fueled the growth of his business. Don’t miss this episode.

In this episode of PressThis we do a recap of all the things you missed at WordCamp US in December 2018 in Nashville. Get the latest on the State of the Word, happenings from around the show, and the best content at WCUS. Scratch your FOMO itch, and get relive WCUS on this episode of PressThis.

In this episode of PressThis we interview lead developer of the Genesis Framework for WordPress Nathan Rice. Nathan will be sharing what he and the rest of the newly expanded Genesis engineering team and core contributors are working on for the future of Genesis. Nathan will cover exciting new updates for Gutenberg, a partnership with Google, and audits the team is doing into the digital marketing features within Genesis. Don't miss your chance to learn about how the framework that revolutionized WordPress, will continue to do so with Gutenberg and beyond! Listen now!

The slower your ecommerce site is, the less money you or your clients make. That's just a fact. If you're not spending time to invest in performance as a product, you're leaving money on the table. Join this episode of PressThis as we interview the super smart Zach Stepek of Mindsize around how you can optimize WooCommerce for speed and reliability. Mindsize and Zach are leaders in WooCommerce performance and Zach will be sharing his best tips for improving performance and reliability. Don't miss this chance to boost performance, boost your conversion rates, and boos your revenue. Listen now!

Are you at your whit's end servicing clients? Are you overworked, frustrated, and struggling to grow? Running an agency or freelancing business is hard. There is a never ending sea of things to do between you and growth. The hardest part of running an agency business is that the more you grow, the list of things to do exponentially increases! In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super smart Sara Dunn of 11WEB as she shares her ideas around achieving growth by doing less. Sara will share how focusing the services you offer can help you deliver more value to your customers and more value to your business. You'll learn how to think about your business in ways that can help make your life more livable, your employees happier, your customers delighted, and your bank account full. Drop the hamster wheel for a bit and take some time to learn how to to use less as a driver of growth on this episode of PressThis!