Divi Chat

EP54 – All About the SSL

SSL is something you've probably heard of, it's that thing that turns your http:// into https://. You may wonder if it's something you need to have on your site or need to add to your clients' sites. Our answer is yes, but let's discuss :D Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac Resources Mentioned: Better Search Replace Really Simple SSL Let's Encrypt Namechea...

EP53 – Migrating Your WordPress Website

Episode 53 (already?) brings you real life, unscripted, genuinely balanced discussion regarding what works and what doesn't when migrating your WordPress site. Is there a best way? Maybe not! It can be scary for sure. ? It might depend on what you are already familiar with... It might depend on the details of the site you're migrating. Regardless, you're sure to get some valuable insight on Divi site migration tips and best practices. We discuss experience with migration options ranging from sim...

EP52 – How to Safely Perform Divi Updates

This week we share our tips for dealing with the pretty frequent Divi updates we've been experiencing for a few months now. Divi is constantly improving but with those improvements come some frustrating quirks and bugs that can seemingly wreak havoc on our sites. How do we deal?! Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tammy Grant - Sunflower Creatives / FB / @yourblogplace Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios...

EP51 – Pricing Reveal on Websites: The Pros and Cons

To reveal or not to reveal? "Aye, Matey" or "No Way, José?" "Yes, please" or "whatchu talkin 'bout Willis?!" This week we discuss the pros and cons of putting pricing on your website for all to see. Most of us cross this bridge at some point in our business, should we or shouldn't we? Will my prices scare away potential clients, or help me get better ones? All great questions and we discuss our experiences and what we've learned. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspeng...

EP50 – The Value of Getting Customer Feedback

Customer feedback is crucial for any business to evolve and improve. Today we discuss how feedback — all feedback, not just positive but also negative or critical feedback — can help you tweak areas of your business by using the knowledge you gain from it to your advantage. Feedback can come in the form of client discussions, testimonials, facebook reviews and similar. We share what forms we have used and what we gained from them, as well as how we deal with negative feedback. Hosts Present: Dav...

EP49 – Why You Should Raise Your Rates

Pricing can be a tricky subject in general, so raising your rates can seem even trickier. We share our experiences with our rate hikes and why we think raising your rates (when it's right) is a great move for your business. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirla...

EP48 – Burnout: Recognizing, Coping, and Overcoming

Something that isn't discussed much in our industry (but probably should be) is feeling "burnt out". No matter what type of work we do it's very easy to forget to take care of ourselves and our mental health. It's important to recognize when we need to take a step back, assess, and take action when it comes to dealing with burnout. What does it mean to feel "burnt out"? How do you know the symptoms and what can you do about it? This week we discuss some symptoms we noticed in ourselves and how e...

EP47 – Marketing to Your Local Community

Marketing to your local community can be daunting, especially in the beginning of your business. You may have competition and you may not know how to get your name out there. Should you be networking in person? By phone, by email, all of the above??? We share some tips that worked for us, and some maybe not so much haha. Hosts Present: Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tami Heaton - Undeniable / FB / @undeniableSTL Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premie...

EP46 – CDNs: How They Work and What We Use with Divi

What is a CDN anyway? A CDN is a Content Delivery Network. They make it possible for your site to be accessed from multiple servers globally so that it can load faster for your visitors. We discuss our experience with them and some tips on getting started. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac Resources: Cont...

EP45 – User Experience: More Than Just Design & Development

User experience, commonly referred to as UX, is a broad and important subject. How the user is led through the site, how easy the site is to navigate, how quickly the user can find the information they are looking for -- these are all just a few things that go into tailoring the user experience on a website. On today's chat we go over some ways we keep the user experience in mind when designing, and also share what we've learned along our professional journeys that have helped with how we approa...

EP44 – Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a great way to make a bit of cash while recommending stellar products. You can also become an affiliate and others can share your products, it's a win-win. If you're new to affiliate marketing this is a great episode to help you get your feet wet. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac Corey Hammond – A2 Hosting / FB / @a2hosting Cory Je...

EP43 – Divi Solutions for a Short Timeline and Small Budget

Small budgets and short timelines, we've all had clients with those parameters :D Today we talk about our methods on dealing with these types of projects, and share some great tools to help streamline those methods. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier Jake Kramer - Artillery Media / FB / @ArtilleryMedia John Wooten - Artillery Media / FB / @ArtilleryMedia Cory...

EP42 – How to Handle Hosting for Clients

Hosting, hosting, hosting. How do you handle it for your clients? Maybe you don't yet but are interested in offering it as part of maintenance. In this week's podcast we share our experiences and how we handle it for our clients. Hosts Present: Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB Olga Summerhayes - Infinite Imagination / FB / @OlgaSummerhayes Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac Resource...

EP41 – Accounting Tips for Your Divi Business

Accounting... not something that gets most of our juices flowing LOL, but it is a very necessary topic to cover since we all run our own businesses. We hope to have a future episode on this topic again (or very similar) but with non-US based hosts so we can discuss options for our non-US listeners. Our own Shannon Shaffer has gathered a ton of useful resources for your accounting pleasure :P Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Stud...

EP40 – Managing Multiple Divi Web Design Projects

If you're handling multiple web projects at the same time you know what a pain it can be to stay organized and on top of every aspect of each project. This week we discuss some of our regular practices as well as tools we use to help us handle multiple jobs at once. Hosts Present: Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Olga Summerhayes - Infinite Imagination / FB / @OlgaSummerhayes Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremi...

EP39 – Podcasting!!

Yaaaayyy podcasting! Today we have a chat about some of the reasons you might want to get into podcasting as well as why you might want to start listening to them. They're super helpful and there are podcasts out now on just about any topic. We also touch on some tools and tips, softwares and hardwares, and of course we have to share our favorite podcasts for fun and work! Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengr...

EP38 – Pros & Cons of Selling Premium Divi Child Themes

EP37 – Lead Magnets

Lead magnets. What are they? Can I have them on my Divi site? What's so great about 'em anyway? We'll cover these q's and more on this week's podcast! Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac Resources: Opt-in Laws in North America and Europe https://youtu.be/UgJ93MU0nlc

EP36 – Marketing Your Divi Website

In this episode we talk about how to market your Divi site, aka get eyeballs on it! Of course SEO is one way but there's more you can do to drive traffic. This topic can really be broken down a lot more so we'll be adding more episodes that go more in depth based on industry, target audience, etc., but this is a good start. Hosts Present: Tammy Grant - Sunflower Creatives / FB / @yourblogplace David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler...

EP35 – Custom Post Types and Custom Fields with Divi

Custom post types! What the heck are they anyway?! We go over them in great detail and boy have we gathered some ace resources for you! Róbey Lawrence of Australian-based WordPress podcast WP Bosses joins us, prepped with slides and all -- a Divi Chat first folks! Check it out and see how using custom post types can really help you get the most out of Divi and WordPress. Hosts Present: Róbey Lawrence - Bearded Friend / FB / @robeylawrence Jerry Simmons - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier ...

EP34 – Creating Divi Plugins as a Business

We're pretty excited about today's topic on building a business developing Divi plugins. Some of our hosts have done just that and would love to share their experiences in this growing market. As an added bonus Terry Hale of Superfly and creator of Image Intense has kindly offered to share some of his resources and tips on how he got started. While Divi Plugins are essentially WordPress plugins that extend the functionality of Divi, there are some certain specific things that make them different...

EP33 – Divi Nation Attends WordCamp Orange County 2017 Recap

This week is a casual, kickback recap of the awesome time some of us had at WordCamp Orange County 2017. It was the second year in a row for most of us and we came away feeling encouraged, inspired, recharged, and brimming with ideas! We think all WordPress users can benefit from attending WordCamps and WP Meetups as often as possible. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB /...

EP32 – Favorite WooCommerce Plugins & Extensions

WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform in the world. It's not just the most popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress, it's literally the most popular tool to build eCommerce websites with overall! It's more popular than Shopify or any other 3rd party system. WooCommerce powers over 30% of all online stores. 🤯 So because WooCommerce is so popular, there are thousands upon thousands of tools, extensions, themes, child themes, and so much more, to help you build better WooCommerce websit...

EP31 – Our Favorite Contact Form Plugins

Aaaahh contact forms, a necessary on practically every website these days. We discuss our favorite contact form plugins we use on our Divi sites and some of their best features. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb Tammy Grant - Sunflower Creatives / FB / @yourblogplace Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac Adam Inlay – AdamInlay.com / FB / @Ada...

EP30 – Expanding Divi with CSS

Is knowing CSS necessary to make a stellar Divi site? We don't think so but it certainly helps. Maybe you purchased Divi thinking you'd never have to touch a line of code but have found otherwise, or have found that it got you interested in learning and now you've been bit by the learning-to-code bug! Today we'll talk about how each of us get the most out of Divi and if it involves using more than what the modules offer. Hosts Present: Adam Inlay – AdamInlay.com / FB / @AdamInlay Tim Strifler - ...

EP29 – eCourses for Learning Divi

On this week's chat we had the pleasure of welcoming two newcomers to the show, Melissa Love of The Design Space Co and Michelle Nunan of Divi Soup. As two of the leaders in the training space for the Divi community it was great to have them on along with our regular hosts to discuss Divi ecourses. In this chat we try to cover the ecourses from two perspectives: from the user who may be interested in taking a course but may be unsure of which is right for them, and from the user who may be inter...

EP28 – Tools We Use Outside of WordPress

Tools! Tools! Tools! We'd be nowhere without them right? Of course we all use Divi and WordPress but we wouldn't be able to properly run our businesses without so many other great products and services out there. Today we discuss some of our favorite tools, from project management to screencasting and more. We'll probably revisit this and break it up into specific categories since we realized halfway through the chat that there are just so many great resources out there to cover. Resources Menti...

EP27 – All About the Extra Theme

We've decided to give a little love to the Extra theme even though this is a "Divi" chat podcast. Many in the Elegant Themes community are familiar with it as it is a very robust theme, but we find there's still a lot of questions surrounding it. Several on the panel have used Extra so today we share a bit about our experience with Divi's little brother (haha) AND ... ... drumroll pleeeease ... We have an exciting announcement about an upcoming product called Extra Module Mate that brings all of...

EP26 – Blogging with Divi

Many of us Divi Chat hosts blog ourselves and, of course, on our Divi sites. It's a great theme to set up a blog on, no matter the size. On today's podcast we talk a bit about how we got into blogging and share some tips we've learned along the way. Resources Mentioned: Default Page Builder Layout (For Blogs) Hosts Present: Geno Quiroz - Monterey Premier / FB / @montereypremier SJ James – divi.space / FB / @sociallysteve David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Shannon Shaffer ...

EP25 – Using The Divi Library

This week we discuss the Divi library and how awesome it is!! If you're new to Divi you'll definitely want to hear how some of our hosts use it in their workflow, and if you're not new to Divi you may find new ways to use it. As an extra added bonus we've got a real treat - A FREE 4 PAGE LAYOUT!! Olga Summerhayes of Infinite Imagination was kind enough to donate her time and skills and designed this beautiful layout to get you started on your Divi library import journey :D VIEW DEMO Download Her...