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Joe Casabona is an accredited college course developer and professor.

He also has his Master's Degree in Software Engineering, is a Front End Developer, and hosts multiple podcasts.

Joe started freelancing in 2002, and has been a teacher at the college level for over 10 years. His passion in both areas has driven him to build Creator Courses, a school for those who want to create online businesses.

As a big proponent of learning by doing, he loves creating focused, task-driven courses to help students build something. When he's not teaching, he's interviewing people for his podcast, How I Built It.

https://casabona.org/

1 - Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/08/07/proposal-auto-update-old-versions-to-4-7/

#2 - After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost

https://ghost.org/blog/5/

#3 - Jetpack 7.6 Improves AMP Compatibility, Adds Preview and Upgrade Nudge for Blocks Only Available on Paid Plans

https://wptavern.com/jetpack-7-6-improves-amp-compatibility-adds-preview-and-upgrade-nudge-for-blocks-only-available-on-paid-plans

#4 - Adblocking: How About Nah?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah

#5 - Google puts playable podcast episodes in Search

https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/08/google-podcast-episodes-search/

#6 - WordCamp Long Beach to Debut a “Future of WordPress” Track

https://wptavern.com/wordcamp-long-beach-to-debut-a-future-of-wordpress-track

This Weeks Panels Recommendations

Jonathan Denwood's YouTube Film "Dominion" The truth about industrial farming and why it's slowly killing you and your children! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko

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Kurt von Ahnen was a precocious young man raised in a Philadelphia suburb. A non-conformist of sorts, he announced in third grade that he wanted to author a book. He was told that since he didn’t even do his language arts work, it would never happen.

In 7th grade, Kurt had a paper route. When one boy failed to arrive to get his papers for the route – he took the route over, then another, then another. What the newspaper branch manager didn’t place together was that Kurt had franchised the paper routes and was paying other boys only a portion of the routes as he was covering the collecting and accounting.

In High School he was told with the rest of the class to write a report on where he’d go to college. Having already been made the manager of a local furniture store, he said he’d pass on college as he was already making more than the teacher. After all, in the 80’s, more than 80% of the people making more than $50,000.00 per year were in retail. So why go to college.
In his senior year, he was invited to leave his high school and told he would never amount to anything.

Finally, in 2007, he made the leap and followed through on the dream from 3rd grade. He published Service Writing in Black and White changing the trajectory of his career. He’s gone on to become a John Maxwell Certified Leadership Speaker and Coach. He’s managed the training departments for two of the most prestigious Powersports companies and grown his own Leadership Academy. He speaks to youth whenever possible – urging them to chase their dreams. Never let someone tell you can’t do something

Kurt von Ahnen

http://manananomas.com/

#! - Ninja Forms Parent Company Saturday Drive Acquires CalderaWP

https://wptavern.com/ninja-forms-parent-company-saturday-drive-acquires-calderawp

#2 - Update: Sanctions and Open Source

https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2019/07/30/update-sanctions-and-open-source/

#3 - WP Engine Acquires StudioPress: A Year Later

https://studiopress.blog/one-year-later/

#4 - There's An Underground Economy Selling Links From The New York Times, BBC, CNN, And Other Big News Sites

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/links-for-sale-on-major-news-wesbites?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#5 - Artificial Intelligence and Norwegian Gender Quotas

https://medium.com/@alexmoltzau/artificial-intelligence-and-norwegian-gender-quotas-11d8d9bf114a

#6 - Proposal: a WordPress Advisory Board

https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2019/07/23/proposal-a-wordpress-advisory-board/

Micah Mitchell is the founder of Memberium which allows anyone to build powerful, automated membership sites with WordPress and Infusionsoft.

https://memberium.com/

Infusionsoft Training & Membership Software for Infusionsoft Users

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WBYRkaBaBI

#1 - WPCampus 2019 to Livestream Sessions Thursday, July 25 – Saturday, July 27

https://wptavern.com/wpcampus-2019-to-livestream-sessions-thursday-july-25-saturday-july-27

#2 - Should Tech Companies Be Worried About DOJ’s Antitrust Review?

https://medium.com/the-guardian/should-tech-companies-be-worried-about-dojs-antitrust-review-8bd0e29ec097

#3 - WPGraphQL for Advanced Custom Fields Now Available for Free

https://wptavern.com/wpgraphql-for-advanced-custom-fields-now-available-for-free

#4 - The CMS war between Vox Media and The Washington Post is heating up

https://digiday.com/media/cms-war-vox-media-washington-post-heating/

#5 - A Tale Of Two WordPress Hosts

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/tale-two-wordpress-hosts/

#6 - Blade Runner star Rutger Hauer dies at 75, but his monologue will live forever

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20708804/blade-runner-rutger-hauer-dead-tears-in-rain-replicant-roy-batty

"I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

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Panel's Recommendations

Jonathan Denwood: WPCore - https://wpcore.com/

Sallie Goetsch: https://visualsitemaps.com/

John Locke: Google Natual Language - https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/

Chris Badgett: Resources for LMS Websites - https://lifterlms.com/recommended-resources/

Adrian Tobey: Trello https://trello.com

This Show's Main Discussion Topics

#1 - The biggest thing a newbie to Google Ads has to know?

#2 - Can Google AdWords be used as an effective tool to promote a new course in 2019?

#3 - Your thought on Udemy and how it helps a course builder to build a personal brand

#4 - How online courses can help you get big clients

#5 - What is the most exciting marketing platform for you in 2019?

Isaac Rudansky Bio

Isaac Rudansky, CEO of AdVenture Media Group, is widely considered to be an industry-leading expert on all matters related to pay per click advertising, online traffic acquisition and conversion rate optimization.

As an educator, Isaac has over 91,000 paying students enrolled in his full-length online courses, and his beginners guide to Google AdWords has been watched by over 850,000 students.
Isaac founded AdVenture Media, a digital advertising agency based in Long Island, NY, in 2013. Since then, Isaac and his team have consulted with over 450 companies around the world, ranging in size from small mom and pop ecommerce boutiques, to multiple, publicly traded companies. Isaac and his team manage the digital advertising campaigns for well known companies like Forbes, AMC Networks, Karrass Negotiating, The International Culinary Center and many more.

https://www.adventureppc.com/

https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?ref=home&src=ukw&q=isaac%20rudansky

We discuss the latest WordPress news stories of the week and also anything else that we feel our audience would find interesting which has been published online during the week. Also this week we also have a special guest panelist Jason Resnick.

#1 - Newspack Opens Up Application Process for Phase Two

https://wptavern.com/newspack-opens-up-application-process-for-phase-two

#2 -FaceApp is back and so are privacy concerns

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20697771/faceapp-privacy-concerns-ios-android-old-age-filter-russia

#3 - How Yoast Can Become an Attack Vector for Hackers, and How to Stop It

https://www.joeyoungblood.com/wordpress-tips/how-yoast-can-become-an-attack-vector-for-hackers-and-how-to-stop-it/

#4 - Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20697123/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-reading-thread-robot

#5 - The Last Frontier

https://harpers.org/archive/2019/08/the-last-frontier/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#6 - SiteGround Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary!

https://www.siteground.com/blog/siteground-15th-anniversary/?utm_source=twitter

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About Billy

To the outside world, it didn’t make any sense why I was leaving my career.

I had an MBA and a thriving career as a consultant in the energy industry.

I was working with important clients like the Department of Energy, Native American tribes, and Fortune 500 companies.

I led the financial modeling for industrial-scale, cutting-edge energy projects. Think solar power, wind power, and that sort of thing.

It was an interesting and rewarding career, but deep down, I was looking for something more. I wanted to do something I was passionate about. Something of my own.

So I did.

After I came home from those long days in the office, I started a blog around a fun hobby of mine: brewing beer at home. To my surprise, beer drinkers from all over the world began to discover it. The web traffic grew and grew.

Before I knew it, I had built one of the top beer blogs in the internet.

My readers particularly loved my home-brewing tips.

So, one day, I decided to try something crazy and sell an online course.

People actually bought it! Yes, they actually paid me money over the internet for something I created. And they loved it.

https://linchpin.media/

#1 - What is based on your experience the major key marketing tool or technique that leads to success connected to membership website?

#2 - So an email list is really important connected to success have you got some key tips connected to how you can build an effective list?

#3 - What are some of the key mistakes you see your clients making consistency before you start working with them?

#4 - You're not a big fan of Udemy way?

#5 - Do you feel that the learning market is getting more competitive if yes, is it still possible to build a successful membership website from the ground up?

#6 - Have you got any tips and tricks that you like to share with the audience?

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This week starting story is about how WordPress stopping obtrusive admin notices

#1 - WordPress Theme Review Team Initiates New Long Term Plan to Make All WordPress.org Themes Accessible

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-theme-review-team-initiates-new-long-term-plan-to-make-all-wordpress-org-themes-accessible

#2 - Road-tripping with the Amazon nomads

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20687434/amazon-sellers-nomad-merchants-products-malls-walmart

#3 - The Future of Websites: Headless CMS

https://scotch.io/bar-talk/the-future-of-websites-headless-cmss

#4 - What two big studies tell us about the state of local marketing

https://searchengineland.com/what-two-big-studies-tell-us-about-the-state-of-local-marketing-319176

#5 - Facebook’s Libra could be dead on arrival, if India stands by its proposed ban

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/india-proposed-ban-facebook-libra-threatens-cryptocurrency/

#6 - What happened to Utrip? Abrupt end to Seattle travel startup blindsides investors and clients

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/happened-utrip-abrupt-end-seattle-travel-startup-blindsides-investors-clients/

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