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Self Employed Thanks to WordPress & An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Contracts

Elizabeth Pampalone – How to Stay Self Employed During the Appocolypse

Pricing/Contracts/Proposals for Design/Development

Whether you have just started, or if you have been around a while, pricing, contracts and proposals can be a pain in your … brain? Thing is, they are WAY less complicated than in the past. Elizabeth will take you into her pricing evolution over the past decade and share some of her stories of staying self employed through the most recent economic downturn. She will share her contract and proposal and the tools she uses to get it to the client within 30 min of a consult.

Rian Kinney – Can I Use A Template? – An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Contracts

Have you ever wondered if you can use a contract template for your business? Tired of Contracts talks that start with “I’m not an attorney, but…”

Rian Kinney is a Florida attorney here to answer your entrepreneurial questions., such as: Can I use a Template? If so, what should I look for?

In this talk you will discover what clauses are “boilerplate” and you should have in your contracts which will also help you better discern which templates are well drafted.

Can I Use a Template? – Rian Kinney’s Presentation

Rian Kinney Presenting at WordPress Orlando

https://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Orlando/events/251241010/

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Notes From the May 2018 WordPress QA Meetup

Thank you to Marcus Burnette for taking notes of URLs and resources that we mentioned at the WordPress Orlando QA last night! Check out Marcus’ post and website here: https://mburnette.com/blog/wordpress-orlando-qa-may-2018/

Here are some of the resources that we discussed while asked about choosing themes, page builders, optimizing sites, and dealing with GDPR and ADA compliance.

Site/Image Optimization & Security

Theming

Site Builders

Front-end Posting

Hosting & DNS

Support Desk Solutions

GDPR

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Getting Started with WordPress for Adults and Kids Alike!

John Hughes – My Journey as a WordPress Newbie – From Zero to Ready to Outsource in 2 Years

What began 2+ years ago as an immediate need to build a website, with zero capital, due to a loss of employment, John embarked on what became a meteoric journey to build his initial website as well as a supporting cast of landing page sites, using WordPress and its various resources. John credits WordPress and the WordPress community in building his successful golf coaching practice in Central Florida, that routinely brings clientele from around the globe.

Using the various tools and resources available through the WordPress Community, John will tell his personal story of using WordPress to go from building one basic site to now building and maintaining multiple WordPress sites, while operating a successful golf coaching practice. John will detail his failures and triumphs, as well as the items he believes are critical to his current success as he quickly educated himself in the use of themes, plugins, servers, security, SEO, using service providers, and other topics all newbie end users of WordPress experience.

John will also provide information and lessons he has learned as a WordPress user to the developers and agencies who use WordPress, specifically about how to find, service, and keep great clients. Through the best practices of his business, as well as those within the WordPress Community, there are common threads and a few overlooked details we all face as we continue on our journeys to build our businesses.

John Hughes is a PGA Master Professional, Vice President of the North Florida PGA Section, PGA National Award Winner, and avid WordPress user.

Sandy Edwards – Kids and Code: The Facts and The Future

Getting your kids involved in the WordPress world is an important step to their future. Kids are bombarded from every angle with media and created content. They should also be able to dive into the content creation world themselves.

I will be talking about why childhood content creators are necessary for our future and one specific event that will allow your child to start creating content safely online. I will also provide online resources for kids who want to dive head first into development as well.

Sandy Edwards has been working in the online marketing space for over 5 years. She started at a niche firm that utilized WordPress to create sites quickly utilizing several options frameworks. Today, she owns CESquared a WordPress focused Agency that engages in SEO, Project Management and Development. She loves to give back by teaching kids about coding, WordPress, and other technical skills. Sandy is very active in the Orlando WordPress community and is excited to see what 2016 will bring to the tech space in Florida!

http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Orlando/events/233969716/

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Analytics are Awesome!

How do you find customers and how do you tailor your offerings to the customers that you want? Our speakers discussed choosing new audience segments, listening to your existing customers and visitors, and providing the proper marketing to those visitors to help you sell the right things to the right people at this month’s meetup.

David Yarde – The Analytics of Business Decisions: Using data to build a smarter brand

Gain knowledge and understanding the fundamentals to the success of any brand strategy. Data is the key to whether a business thrives or dies. But even with its importance, how do we use it in our everyday businesses?

In this session, we’ll cover the following:

  • How do I understand all these lines and numbers?
  • How can I leverage analytics to create new products?
  • Using analytics to improve brand experiences
  • And much more.

See David’s slides and notes here

Chris Edwards – Understanding Your Conversion Funnel

Whether you’re selling items on your website or trying to catch leads, you have a conversion funnel. Understanding the path and drop off points in that path are the key to success to optimize your conversion funnel. We will talk about the easiest ways to track this funnel and how to make sense of all the data you have collected. We will even talk about methods to discover why your users are dropping off and the most effective ways to address it. This talk will also look at the different tools including Google Analytics, HotJar, Mixpanel and Kissmetrics and how each of them can help you track your conversion funnel.

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Chris’ Slides: Conversion Funnels WPORL Meetup