Thomas Umstattd is a plugin and agency owner who's has great success in crowdfunding his products. His take is a fantastically interesting one and he offers lots of great advice - so much that we even have a bonus over on Patreon. This is definitely one of my favorite conversations - I learned a ton here that I was able to immediately apply to my own crowdfunding efforts. 

Show Notes

• Thomas Umstattd
• Author Media
• My Book Table
• Thomas' original Kickstarter
• The WordPress Philosophy

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Stacy Kvernmo is a UX/UI Developer at OddBird. I met Stacy on another podcast and was really excited to talk to her about a number of tools and views she has about creating good code while working on a team. We talk about process, UX, and more in this episode. She and here team are doing some really cool things in Frontend Development, and it was very interesting hearing about all of it. 

Show Notes

• Stacy Kvernmo
• Stacy on Twitter
• OddBird
• Lunch with Brad
• Herman | on Github
• True
• Embracing Code Reviews - WP Sessions

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Evan Calkins created Hoban Press & Hoban Cards after he bought his first letterpress machine. He's a master of his craft and I was really excited to talk to Evan because I'm very interested in that creaft. He creates fantastic looking business cards and sationary, and even did my cards! We'll talk about what it's like doing a highly specialized thing in the real world - a physical product, and hear some good stories along the way. 

Show Notes

• Hoban Cards
• Evan on Twitter
• Hoban Press
• Briar Press

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Nancy Hildebrandt has a lot of experience in documentation and software systems, starting back in the Sun/Java days. In this episode, we talk all about building out a good support system and what that process looks like. We also talk about the importance of creating good documentation, listening to your customers, and so much more. It's a great conversation, and one that everyone can benefit from, no matter what the role. 

Show Notes

• Nancy
• Beaver Builder Knowledge Base
• Episode 54: The GiveWP Team
• Help Scout
• How I Built It Patreon

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Dejan Markovic and Tina Todorovic are two halves of the Social Web Suite dream team. They are some of the hardest working, passionate folks I know in the WordPress community and an absolutely joy to talk to. I love the tool and and hearing the evolution of the project and how they work was fantastic. 

Show Notes

• Social Web Suite (use code JoeLoveSWS for a discount)
• Laravel Spark
• WordCamp Toronto

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Craig Hewitt is a guy who knows podcasting, so I was super excited to talk to him about his acquisition of Seriously Simple Podcasting. He took a relatively focused WordPress plugin and turned it into a SaaS, and that's what we talk about in this episode. Lots of great advice here! 

Show Notes

• Craig Hewitt
• Craig on Twitter
• Castos
• Podcast Motor
• Interactive Advertising Bureau (IBA) Podcast Guidelines 
• Libsyn

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Beth Soderberg is a self-taught Front End Developer and speaker, and in this episode I get to talk to her about how she learned her craft. It was fun exchanging stories of our different learning experiences. Beth offers truthful and encouraging words for if you want to start on your journey to web development. 

Show Notes

• Beth Soderberg
• I Learned to Code Through WordPress and So Can You (slides)
• DCFemTech
• John Duckett's Books: HTML & CSS | Javascript & jQuery
• Joe's HTML & CSS Course
• Javascript30 by Wes Bos
• Lynda.com
• Web Hosting for Students

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Brad Williams of WebDevStudios knows a thing or two about client relationships. In this episode, We start at the beginning with finding a client, the proposal process, and touch on things like having a Discovery phase. It puts a nice cap of what we've been talking about for the last 3 weeks - the importance of building relationships. 

Show Notes

• Brad Williams
• Brad on Twitter
• WebDevStudios
• Lunch with Brad
• How Much does a Website Cost?
• Check out Brad's bonus episode on Patreon

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Jen Jamar is a marketing strategist who currently works for Modern Tribe. Jen really knows her stuff, which I loved because I learned a ton. And the best part? We talk about a strategy for marketing that won’t cost you thousands of dollars in Facebook Ads! In this episode we cover all sorts of stuff like Field of Dreams marketing, how to properly connect with people, and establishing your authority online. 

Show Notes

• Jen Jamar
• Jen on Twitter
• Modern Tribe
• Rebecca Gill & DIY SEO Courses
• Freemius
• ROI of WordCamps

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Nicole Kohler is a Growth Marketer at Automattic; most of her job revolves around building and publishing content for her team and her main product, Jetpack. So in this episode, I talk to Nicole about Content Strategy. This is something I struggle with, and usually just publish when I think of stuff. Nicole provides us with some great advice from her time at Automattic, working with both the Jetpack and the WooCommerce teams! 

Show Notes

• Nicole Kohler
• Nicole on Twitter
• Jetpack
• WooCommerce
• Buffer
• WP Tavern
• Nathan Ellering & CoSchedule

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