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#390 WP-Tonic Round Table Show Friday The 26th of April, 2019 At 8:30 am PST

With Special Guest Lee Blue of The DoubleStack Podcast

1 - Laraberg, a Gutenberg Implementation for Laravel, is Now in Beta

https://wptavern.com/laraberg-a-gutenberg-implementation-for-laravel-is-now-in-beta

2 - Why Trying to Be a Sysadmin to Save $20/Month Is a Bad Idea

https://kinsta.com/blog/sysadmin/?utm_content=buffer6f8f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

3 - Pausing Freelance Work to Build a $20k/mo WordPress Plugin

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/aa6b118f62

4 - Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revam

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_lawsuit/

5- The sound of justice

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18514298/nazi-germany-holocaust-records-audio-lost-saved-hitler-nuremberg-trials

6 - Why a multibillion-dollar FTC fine would barely faze Facebook

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/4/25/18515128/facebook-ftc-fine-meaningless

Products or Services of the Week

Jonathan's Steve Jobs "The Lost Interview" watch you can buy on iTunes for $10 or rent for $2,99: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs:_The_Lost_Interview

At 17, Jonathan co-founded a “young entrepreneurs” community and experienced the joy of watching my life and the life of those around me change through inspiration and education. I was hooked and have continued to pursue opportunities to inspire and teach ever since.

Jonathan has published a free course (“Four Weeks To Your First Client”) to teach aspiring entrepreneurs interested in the world of web development.

https://jonathanwold.com

1 - PluginVulnerabilities.com is Protesting WordPress.org Support Forum Moderators by Publishin#388 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show 19th of April, 2019 at 8:30 am PST
g Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

https://wptavern.com/pluginvulnerabilities-com-is-protesting-wordpress-org-support-forum-moderators-by-publishing-zero-day-vulnerabilities

2 - YouTube Premium subscribers might soon get $2 monthly to send to their favorite creators

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18484884/youtube-super-chat-premium-gift-subscription-creator-monetization

3 - This is Not the WordPress You’re Looking For

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG3e8tvzzvk

4 - The elegance of nothing

https://seths.blog/2019/04/the-elegance-of-nothing/

5 - Mailchimp Bootstraps To $600 Million Revenue

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mailchimp-bootstraps-600-million-revenue-sramana-mitra-1c/

#ZeroDayVulnerabilities
#WordPress
#CurtisMcHale

We Going To Be Discussing How to Choose A Great WordPress Agency or Freelance Developer For Your Membership & LMS Website Project & WordPress Vs Kajabi

Lee Blue founded DoubleStack, a coaching and mentoring program to help WordPress consultants earn $5,000 - $10,000 per month consistently with a workload they can handle on their own without burning themselves out.

https://doublestack.net/

We have a slightly different format to the show this week see instead of discussing the latest WordPress and online news of the week we decided to talk about how WordPress consultants, designer and developers can get quality clients and what are the warning signs connected to possible clients which are not going to be a good fit.

Also in the second half of the show we also discuss what possible clients should look for connected to hiring a possible WordPress consultant or developer.

#clientsfromhell
#WordPress
#WordPressDevelopment

You have got a great idea for an online course and you want to get it live and making money as quickly as possible! However, you want your first course to be done right so how long is all of this going to take from idea to life website. This is what we discuss in this episode of the WP-Tonic Show.

#WordPress
#LMS
#CourseBuilding

1 - Jetpack Is Promoting Paid Upgrades on Plugin Search Screen, WordPress Plugin Team Says it “May be a Violation” of Directory Guidelines\

https://wptavern.com/jetpack-is-promoting-paid-upgrades-on-plugin-search-screen-wordpress-plugin-team-says-it-may-be-a-violation-of-directory-guidelines

2 - WooCommerce 3.6 to Add Marketplace Suggestions, Despite Overwhelmingly Negative Feedback from Developer Community

https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-3-6-to-add-marketplace-suggestions-despite-overwhelmingly-negative-feedback-from-developer-community

3 - On Health, WordPress and a Tough Decision

https://www.caroleolinger.com/a-tough-decision

4 - Pipdig Update: Dishonest Denials, Erased Evidence, and Ongoing Offenses

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/pipdig-update-dishonest-denials-erased-evidence-and-ongoing-offenses/

5 - Why Google+ Failed

https://onezero.medium.com/why-google-failed-4b9db05b973b

#WordPress
#Jetpack
#WooCommerce

The Tips, Reviews of the Week

Jonathan - Affinity Photo: https://affinity.serif.com/

Morten - The Royal Art of Poison: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36447149-the-royal-art-of-poison

Chris - TinyPNG: https://tinypng.com/

Spencer - Robot Ninja: https://robotninja.com/

Sallie - Stop JetPack Promotions https://github.com/JayWood/stop-jetpack-promotions

Main Topic Growing Your eLearning Online Business Through Sales Funnels

Lyndsay Phillips is a serial entrepreneur; client-appointed task master
plus project ninja and warrior content marketer for life & business coaches,
accountants and other online entrepreneurs across the globe. CEO & Founder
of Smooth Sailing Business Growth, she leads a rock star team to support
entrepreneurs who are seeking fast-paced business growth but finally have
come to the realization that they can’t do it alone, do it all, and do it well.

She is also the host of Smooth Business Growth Podcast, plus Smooth Business
Growth Flash on Alexa– - and loves sharing practical tips, business building &
content marketing strategies. An expert in all things content marketing, she
and her team focus on leveraging content to attract and convert customers
faster and build stronger relationships along the way

Have a sales ladder/ funnel created (some call it an ascension ladder) - I can share examples and why

Ensure the topics/ subjects flow in that funnel and why
Nurture - how to nurture during the course and after they sign up to increase conversions to what's next.

What to do if they don't take you up on the 'next' offer right away
How to optimize your course to prime them for your next offer
What next steps to take after their course is over.

Lyndsay Phillips

https://www.smoothbusinessgrowth.com

Cindy Nicholson

https://www.thecoursewhisperer.co

Lyndsay Phillips

Mobile Number: (416) 455-9403

[email protected]

https://www.smoothbusinessgrowth.com/

Cindy Nicholson

[email protected]

https://www.thecoursewhisperer.co/

1 - WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 Released: Help Test New Blocks, Block Manager, and Improved Fatal Error Protection

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-2-beta-1-released-help-test-new-blocks-block-manager-and-improved-fatal-error-protection

2 - Family Tree DNA offers to trade privacy to catch criminals

https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/28/family-tree-dna-asks-customers-to-share-dna-to-solve-crimes/

3 - Blue Oceans. Notes on Joshua Strebel’s WCPHX Keynote presentation (Part 2)

https://pagely.com/blog/wcphx-keynote-2/

4 - An Unpopular List of Marketing Trends for 2019

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-unpopular-list-of-marketing-trends-for-2019/

5 -Startup branding: how much does it really cost?

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/28/startup-branding-how-much-does-it-really-cost/

OUR PICK'S OF THE WEEK?

Morten Rand-Hendriksen: https://growinwp.com/ecosystem-plugins/
Morten Rand-Hendriksen: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/scripts
Spencer Forman: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wedocs/
John Locke: https://bokeh.pics/
John Locke: https://www.saclibrary.org/
Jonathan: ImageOptim: https://imageoptim.com/mac

We Interview one of the founders of Cozmoslabs who are authors of the popular multilingual plugin TranslatePress

Adrian is the co-founder of Cozmoslabs, a company focused on building premium WordPress plugins since 2011. Their products are used on over 120,000 websites.

Lately he's mostly focused on marketing and business development, however nothing feels better to him than actually coding a feature.

Their most popular plugins Profile Builder and Paid Member Subscriptions are targeted on membership sites, offering things ranging from building user profiles & advanced front-end forms to creating subscription plans, restricting content and accepting payments.

Their newest product, TranslatePress is a WordPress multilingual plugin that lets you translate your entire site directly from the front-end using a really intuitive interface. It works out of the box with any theme or plugin, including WooCommerce and site builders.

Sure, we can offer a free TranslatePress business license and a Paid Member Subscriptions Pro license to the person who leaves a comment indicating the missing feature he would love to see developed next in these plugins.

If this is too much, I'm open to ideas on your side as well :)

Adrian Spiac

https://www.cozmoslabs.com/

Cindy Nicholson

https://www.thecoursewhisperer.co/