Handling social media accounts can be a real chore. There's a lot to learn, and it can be very overwhelming and time-consuming. This week we discuss our favorite tools to help make our social media workflow more efficient. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Stephanie Hudson – Sweet Tea Media / FB / @EnjoySweetTea Nathan B. Weller – Elegant Themes / FB / @elegantthemes Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @ag...
Jun 27, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Two of the most popular platforms for ecommerce are Easy Digital Downloads and WooCommerce. Which one is better for selling digital products? Does one play better with Divi? Is one easier to set up than the other? A few of us have used both so we're going to discuss questions like these and our experiences with each, and what we currently use to sell our Divi products. Hosts Present: Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Jerry Simmons - Fervent Solutions / FB Tim Strifler - Di...
Jun 20, 2018•57 min
When it comes to web development there are a TON of desktop apps, resources, softwares, etc. we all use that are detrimental to our workflow. This week we share our favorites! Woop woop! Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Stephanie Hudson – Sweet Tea Media / FB / @EnjoySweetTea Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB Terry Hale – Mizagorn Ink / FB / @mizagorn Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb Jerry Simmons – Fervent Solutions / FB Resources Mentioned:...
Jun 14, 2018•1 hr 9 min
This week’s topic: dealing with “imposter syndrome.” This topic was submitted by one of our viewers, and we’re happy to get back to a more personal subject that some people might find hard to talk about. Imposter syndrome is when you feel inadequate, not smart or capable enough, and undeserving despite evident success. This is a very commonly discussed topic in the tech world, but extends out to all professions and even students and more. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB ...
Jun 07, 2018•1 hr 8 min
On our first podcasting episode - Episode 39 - we mainly discussed how/why listening to them can help you improve your business. This time around we’re going to talk more about why you may want to start a podcast for your content marketing, and about our podcast websites that we’ve built using Divi. We'll also discuss the tools that we use and any hiccups we may have experienced with any along the way. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi ...
May 31, 2018•1 hr 2 min
How do you know when it's time to bring on help? Are you satisfied always working alone? Are you bringing in more business than you can handle? If you've asked yourself any of these questions and are thinking of expanding your business and forming a team environment then this episode is for you! A few of us regulars - and a special guest! - will be sharing our experiences in growing our companies along with any advice we can give. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspen...
May 23, 2018•1 hr 4 min
This week on the podcast we talk about jQuery and how can we use it with Divi? This will be a great discussion for anybody looking to expand their coding knowledge, and what that knowledge can help them do with their Divi websites Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc David Elster - David Elster SJ James – divi.space / FB / @sociallysteve Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Terry Hale - Mizagorn Ink / FB / @mizagorn Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac ...
May 17, 2018•54 min
WordPress page builders have revolutionized the way websites are designed and developed. They empower individuals and businesses to create visually appealing and highly functional websites without the need for coding skills. With their user-friendly interfaces, drag-and-drop capabilities, and extensive customization options, page builders have opened doors to endless possibilities for web design. Whether you're a small business owner, a blogger, or an aspiring web designer, incorporating a WordP...
May 09, 2018•1 hr
If you've ever considered building an online course website with Divi, or even a membership site, than you may find this week's episode really helpful! A few of our hosts just launched their own courses so we'll discuss what tools we used and why, and share any tips we learned along the way. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Jonathan Farley - Tools for Course Creators Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / ...
May 02, 2018•1 hr 3 min
WAHOO!! We've all been eagerly awaiting the rumored Divi Developer Edition and IT. IS. HERE!! What do we love about it, what do we think it's missing, what does this mean for the future for Divi developers and their third-party products? Those questions and more this week on Divi Chat! Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb SJ James – divi.space / FB / @s...
Apr 25, 2018•1 hr 1 min
If you're interested in learning about the benefits of running Facebook ads for your business, what kind of data you can get from them, how to go about starting your first Facebook ad, or any of the above then you're in for a treat! This week on the podcast we give actionable tips to get started, and tweaks you can try if you already do Facebook ads. Plus we have a special guest who really knows his stuff so check it out :) Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovell...
Apr 18, 2018•1 hr 12 min
Jetpack is a robust plugin that comes with a lot of features. Today we discuss our individual experience with it, and whether or not we recommend using those features. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tammy Grant - Sunflower Creatives / FB / @yourblogplace Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac Resources: Jetpack Is The WordPress Jetpack Plugin Worth The Convenience? https://www.y...
Apr 11, 2018•33 min
Competing with DIY website services -- such as Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, etc. -- might be something you've had to deal with, or may deal with at some point. A potential client might ask you why they should hire you to build a custom WordPress site, as opposed to doing it themselves with Wix or a similar DIY website builder service. Is WordPress even going to be the best option for everyone? This week we chat about it! Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory...
Apr 04, 2018•56 min
There are quite a few browsers out there nowadays, probably some you've never even heard of! This week we discuss the most popular and most widely used browsers, and which are our favorites for what and why. Hosts Present: Terry Hale - Mizagorn Ink / FB / @mizagorn 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...
Mar 29, 2018•1 hr 1 min
White label work... what is it? Should you be doing it? How do you get into it? There are several pros and cons, and lots of questions come up, so we're sharing our experiences with how we started doing it and how it's paid off. Hosts Present: Jerry Simmons - Fervent Solutions / FB David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tammy Grant - Sunflower Creatives / FB / @yourblogplace Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Sarah Oates - Endure Web Stu...
Mar 22, 2018•58 min
If you develop, design, or maintain a website then you've probably heard of the GDPR privacy requirements that affect websites globally as of May 25, 2018. In this episode of Divi Chat, we're discussing GDPR compliance, what it means for us and our businesses, and hopefully help you get a better understanding of what it is and how to implement GDPR best practices into your Divi website. In this episode we also discuss a few things that are confusing when it comes to GDPR. For example, it doesn't...
Mar 14, 2018•1 hr 1 min
So many hosting questions come up along the web development journey. Should you host client’s sites for them? Should you use reseller hosting? What company should you host with? Are some really better than others and are all the good ones expensive? All pretty common questions we have to face at some point, so today we're talking about our hosting ups and downs and who we use and why. We’ve covered hosting in the past but this is the interwebs, and things are constantly changing and evolving ;) ...
Mar 08, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Sprichst du CSS? Habla usted JavaScript? Você fala PHP? This week’s topic is coding languages for web development. What languages should you learn to get into WordPress development (e.g. CSS, JS, frontend vs backend languages). We all have different skill levels in different languages and will be sharing our experiences and recommendations. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life /...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr
On today's show we talk recurring revenue (aka passive income)!! Who doesn’t want money steadily coming in, right? We’ll talk about ways we’ve made it happen for us and hopefully spark some ideas of how you can do it for your web design business. Hosts Present: Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Stephanie Hudson - Sweet Tea Media / FB / @EnjoySweetTea Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac Resources Mentioned: ...
Feb 22, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Are you trying to grow your email list? Are you wondering if you even need an email list to grow your business, or how to go about starting with email marketing if you're new to it? That's what we'll be talking about this week so be sure to watch! 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: Bloom The Div...
Feb 14, 2018•1 hr 17 min
The sometimes not-so-fun side of business is dealing with the "paperwork". Contracts, terms and conditions, privacy policies, disclaimers, etc. -- it can be overwhelming knowing what you should or shouldn't be using, and where do you find these documents if you're just starting out on your own? We're gonna help you with that, and share our experiences so you can (hopefully) avoid some of our pitfalls and mishaps. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenk...
Feb 08, 2018•56 min
At some point in your web design career you may have felt like it can be really easy to “over-design”. How do you know when your design is simple enough not to confuse users, yet creative enough to keep them on the site, and ultimately, convert them into a customer? Today were going to discuss this and other points related to designing for conversion. We'll pay special attention to landing/squeeze pages since conversion is the core purpose they serve. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove ...
Feb 02, 2018•1 hr
If you do anything involving WordPress chances are you've heard of Gutenberg by now. It's the new WordPress publishing experience (that's in beta at the time of this posting) and today we discuss our experience with it so far, and what we think it means for the future of WordPress, Divi, our businesses, etc. This will be the first of a few Guten-focused talks, we're pretty excited! Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB /...
Jan 25, 2018•59 min
Setting up email accounts for your web clients can be one of the more confusing areas of web design. Should you use the hosting account or a separate cloud service? How do you know which service to choose? Today we'll discuss how we set up email accounts for our clients and why. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Resources Mentioned: G-Suite Office 365 AWS ...
Jan 19, 2018•36 min
If you sell products online then your sales may reach a point where you need to hire help to handle customer support. And then if you decide to do that what tools are out there to help you with this? Today we discuss that, what tools and services we use to handle support for our customers. This is a great topic for anyone venturing into selling products in a Divi Marketplace (and WP marketplaces in general), and also anyone who is already in the space but might be interested in learning what oth...
Jan 11, 2018•58 min
Happy new year and welcome 2018!! Today we discuss what's on the agenda for the new year for our businesses and for Divi Chat. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac https://youtu.be/ltA8gxAXNL4
Jan 04, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Today we have year in review-type chat and talk about what happened in 2017 with Divi, WordPress, our businesses, stuff like that... super casual :) Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB Tim Strifler - Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler Sarah Oates - Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb Leslie Bernal - A Girl and Her Mac / FB / @agirlandhermac https://youtu.be/JEZKZIz_yXA
Dec 20, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Landing pages and longform sales pages are a great conversion tool for any business, and they absolutely can be created in Divi. This week we discuss some characteristics of successful landing pages, some dos and don'ts we've learned over the years, and go over some great tips and practices that are easily actionable to anyone new to creating landing pages. Hosts Present: David Blackmon - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Tim Strif...
Dec 14, 2017•44 min
Balancing your personal life and your work life can be a challenge. Especially if you are a freelancer, solopreneur, or a member of a small team and your work schedule is pretty much left to however you slice it up. Being able to leave work at work in order to to keep your sanity is not as easy as it may sound, and something we probably all constantly evolve and improve over time. Today we chat about our struggles and successes when trying to achieve this in our lives. Hosts Present: David Black...
Dec 07, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Too many options can actually cause someone to self-doubt and hesitate because there are so many options. An "abandoned cart" kind of thing, when you're so unsure you give up and don't choose anything. We talk about this from the perspective of a web designer and how we lay out the options for visitors, and as well as from the perspective of the client who is overwhelmed with options. Hosts Present: Cory Jenkins - Aspen Grove Studios / FB / @aspengrovellc Josh Hall - JoshHall.co / FB Tim Strifle...
Nov 29, 2017•58 min
