Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Bryce Adams is creator of one of my favorite tools, Metorik. Bryce tells us about the path the led him to making Metorik, his view on e-commerce, GDPR, and how he’s using some cutting edge tools. We also talk engagement and stats. Be sure to stick around until the end of the episode - I have a new show I want to tell you about! Show Notes Bryce Adams Bryce on Twitter Metorik WooCommerce And be sure to check out my new show, Creator ...
Aug 07, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Tessa Kriesel is a developer, community advocate, and educator. In this episode we get into our approaches to teaching, why it’s important, and the importance of giving opportunities to underserved areas and groups. We also discuss our “aha” moments – that time where programming suddenly clicked for us. Show Notes Tessa Kriesel Pantheon Outspoken Women Coders of Tomorrow Coder Dojo CodePen W3Schools Josh Koenig and Pantheon Sponsore...
Jul 31, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Jennifer Bourn is the founder of Bourn Creative and creator of the Profitable Project Plan. She's also a freelancer who’s doing it right. She has worked out the perfect system to get and manage client projects; in this episode we're going to talk all about how she built it. Show Notes Jennifer Bourn Profitable Project Plan Bourn Creative Jen's A/V Setup Blair Williams and MemberPress Episode 18: Pippin Williamson & Restrict Cont...
Jul 24, 2018•28 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Abbey Perl started the Diverse Gaming Coalition to help combat online bullying through video games and modern pop culture. In this episode, I talk to her about why she started it, how she went about starting a non-profit organization, and much more. Show Notes Abbey Perl Diverse Gaming Coalition Twitch.TV @Ninja Sponsored by: Creator Courses | Pantheon ———— Streamlined Solopreneur is the podcast for solopreneurs who want to automate...
Jul 17, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Seth S. Scott's story is an interesting one. He up and moved to New York City to pursue a career in game development. He tool a game design boot camp and left with his first commercial game, Membrane. In this episode we talk about risk and how he built a video game. Show Notes Seth S. Scott Seth on Twitter MEMBRANE MEMBRANE on Twitter Unity Sponsored by: Creator Courses | Pantheon ———— Streamlined Solopreneur is the podcast for solo...
Jul 10, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Scott DeLuzio is a WordPress plugin developer who likes to scratch his own itch on some pretty heavy topics, and his latest is no exception. We talk about one of this summer’s hottest topics: GDPR. Scott and I spoke about this just days before the regulation took hold, so we were working through what it is, how it affects us, and of-course how his plugin can help. I should remind you that we are not lawyers. Show Notes Scott DeLuzio...
Jul 03, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Rachel Cherry is a front end developer and lead organizer of WPCampus, a WordPress conference focused on Higher Education. In this episode, we talk about what goes into putting on this conference, from scouting a location to day-of logistics. Show Notes Rachel Cherry WPCampus Chris Lema on How I Built It Liam Dempsey on How I Built It CrowdCast Sponsored by: The Events Calendar | Pantheon ———— Streamlined Solopreneur is the podcast ...
Jun 26, 2018•45 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe So we just wrapped up Season 4 a couple of weeks ago and it was my favorite episode for a lot of reasons. I got to talk to great people, the sponsors were fantastic, and we even had a miniseries on starting your own business. Plus, there were a lot of takeaways. I got a lot of immediately actionable advice from my guests. So hopefully you did too. Here’s some my favorites. Sponsored by: WordSesh | Jilt | Liquid Web ———— Streamlined ...
Jun 13, 2018•20 min
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Closing out Season 4 is Beka Rice, Head of Product at Jilt! After an entire season about hearing about Jilt, Beka and I dig deep into how it was built, how to be effective with your abandoned cart emails, GDPR, and much much more. It's a great way to close out the season and I'm very excited to have her on the show! Show Notes Beka Rice Jilt SkyVerge Product Cart Titles Memberships Prospress GDPR Sponsored by: WordSesh | Jilt | Liqu...
May 29, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Thomas Umstattd is a plugin and agency owner who's has great success in crowdfunding his products. His take is a fantastically interesting one and he offers lots of great advice - so much that we even have a bonus over on Patreon. This is definitely one of my favorite conversations - I learned a ton here that I was able to immediately apply to my own crowdfunding efforts. Show Notes Thomas Umstattd Author Media My Book Table Thomas'...
May 22, 2018•45 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Stacy Kvernmo is a UX/UI Developer at OddBird. I met Stacy on another podcast and was really excited to talk to her about a number of tools and views she has about creating good code while working on a team. We talk about process, UX, and more in this episode. She and here team are doing some really cool things in Frontend Development, and it was very interesting hearing about all of it. Show Notes Stacy Kvernmo Stacy on Twitter Odd...
May 15, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Evan Calkins created Hoban Press & Hoban Cards after he bought his first letterpress machine. He's a master of his craft and I was really excited to talk to Evan because I'm very interested in that creaft. He creates fantastic looking business cards and sationary, and even did my cards! We'll talk about what it's like doing a highly specialized thing in the real world - a physical product, and hear some good stories along the wa...
May 08, 2018•38 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Nancy Hildebrandt has a lot of experience in documentation and software systems, starting back in the Sun/Java days. In this episode, we talk all about building out a good support system and what that process looks like. We also talk about the importance of creating good documentation, listening to your customers, and so much more. It's a great conversation, and one that everyone can benefit from, no matter what the role. Show Notes...
May 01, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Dejan Markovic and Tina Todorovic are two halves of the Social Web Suite dream team. They are some of the hardest working, passionate folks I know in the WordPress community and an absolutely joy to talk to. I love the tool and and hearing the evolution of the project and how they work was fantastic. Show Notes Social Web Suite (use code JoeLoveSWS for a discount) Laravel Spark WordCamp Toronto Sponsored by: Jilt | Liquid Web ———— S...
Apr 24, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Craig Hewitt is a guy who knows podcasting, so I was super excited to talk to him about his acquisition of Seriously Simple Podcasting. He took a relatively focused WordPress plugin and turned it into a SaaS, and that's what we talk about in this episode. Lots of great advice here! Show Notes Craig Hewitt Craig on Twitter Castos Podcast Motor Interactive Advertising Bureau (IBA) Podcast Guidelines Libsyn Sponsored by: Jilt | Liquid ...
Apr 17, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Beth Soderberg is a self-taught Front End Developer and speaker, and in this episode I get to talk to her about how she learned her craft. It was fun exchanging stories of our different learning experiences. Beth offers truthful and encouraging words for if you want to start on your journey to web development. Show Notes Beth Soderberg I Learned to Code Through WordPress and So Can You ( slides ) DCFemTech John Duckett's Books : HTM...
Apr 10, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Brad Williams of WebDevStudios knows a thing or two about client relationships. In this episode, We start at the beginning with finding a client, the proposal process, and touch on things like having a Discovery phase. It puts a nice cap of what we've been talking about for the last 3 weeks - the importance of building relationships. Show Notes Brad Williams Brad on Twitter WebDevStudios Lunch with Brad How Much does a Website Cost?...
Apr 03, 2018•45 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Jen Jamar is a marketing strategist who currently works for Modern Tribe. Jen really knows her stuff, which I loved because I learned a ton. And the best part? We talk about a strategy for marketing that won’t cost you thousands of dollars in Facebook Ads! In this episode we cover all sorts of stuff like Field of Dreams marketing, how to properly connect with people, and establishing your authority online. Show Notes Jen Jamar Jen o...
Mar 27, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Nicole Kohler is a Growth Marketer at Automattic; most of her job revolves around building and publishing content for her team and her main product, Jetpack. So in this episode, I talk to Nicole about Content Strategy. This is something I struggle with, and usually just publish when I think of stuff. Nicole provides us with some great advice from her time at Automattic, working with both the Jetpack and the WooCommerce teams! Show N...
Mar 20, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Rian Kinney is an intellectual property lawyer and today we talk about the legal side of starting a business She's been on Office Hours to discuss contracts so I wanted to talk about IP - copyright and trademark. How it works, what the process for getting a trademark is, what the right text for your footer is, and more! It was a very educational episode for me and I hope it is for you too! Show Notes The Kinney Firm Rian on Twitter ...
Mar 13, 2018•33 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Continuing our series on How You Build a Business, today I get to talk to Sara Dunn about niching down. She’s been pretty public with her process, starting a YouTube channel to discuss her decision making. I loved chatting with her about this because it can be tough and scary to decide to limit your potential client pool, but I think Sara is doing it the right way. Show Notes Sara Dunn Sara on Twitter | Instagram Sara's YouTube Chan...
Mar 06, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe This is Part 1 of our mini series, "How You Build a Business" In today’s episode, I get to talk to Dr. Sherry Walling. She’s kicking off our miniseries on how to build a business and she helps us answer a very important question: “Am I ready to start my own business?” Sherry is a fantastic person to talk to and a wealth of knowledge. We talk self-publishing, self-knowledge, podcasting, and much more. Show Notes Zen Founder Zen Found...
Feb 27, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Josh Koenig is the founder of Pantheon. He is energetic, passionate, and knowledgable in his field. That’s a killer combination you love to see in company leaders. We talk all about the technologically cool stuff Pantheon is doing, so if you’re a developer, you don’t want to miss this one. Show Notes Josh Koenig Pantheon Mythical Man Month Think with Google Fastly Course: Hover & the DNS Sponsored by: Beaver Builder | Jilt | Liq...
Feb 19, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe In today’s episode, I chat with Blair Williams, a WordPress veteran with lots of great plugins. We’ll talk specifically about MemberPress and what it’s like creating that, the decision making that went into their pricing, wp-cron, and lots more. Show Notes: MemberPress Blair's other plugins wp-cron() COBOL Tutorials Pledge on Patreon Sponsored by: Beaver Builder | Jilt | Liquid Web ———— Streamlined Solopreneur is the podcast for sol...
Feb 13, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Peter Hollens is an incredible artist and creator. You may have seen some of his videos on YouTube. Today we’re going to talk about what goes into making them, as well as his online courses at Hollens Creator Academy. Peter’s incredibly passionate about this project and it shows. I feel like we’re both cut from the same cloth (minus the singing - I wish!) so this is a great (albeit it slightly longer) episode. Show Notes Peter Holle...
Feb 06, 2018•50 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Patrick Rauland is a WooCommerce expert who joins us today to talk through everything you need to think about when setting up an e-commerce site. So this is less asking, “how did you build that,” and more, “how would you build that?” It’s a great conversation and Patrick offers some great advice and insights when making an online store, especially with WooCommerce. We discuss building trust, content marketing, conversion rates, and ...
Jan 30, 2018•32 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Brady Dowdy is a podcast, manufacturer, and most important, pen addict. I’m a big fan and Brad and everything he does, and in this episode, we’re wading into very non-techie waters. Brad and I talk about what it’s like building a physical product – from prototyping to manufacturing. It’s a fantastic conversation and I definitely learned a lot. I like it so much, that we did a bonus episode, for Patrons only. Hear more about that in ...
Jan 23, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Cody Landefeld is the co-founder and director of Mode Effect, a company that specializes in WooCommerce. In this episode we talk about how he and his company built those Disney quizzes that are so addicting. On top of that, we discuss working with Enterprise level clients like Disney and of course, e-commerce. This episode kicks off a 5 episode set of e-commerce-based episodes! Show Notes Cody on Twitter Mode Effect Disney Quizzes o...
Jan 16, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe In this very special live episode, I had the opportunity to interview WordCamp US attendees and ask them 3 questions: What advice for Frontend Development optimizations do you have for us? How do you level up your skills? If you could go back in time and tell your younger self one thing, what would it be? Special thanks to everyone I interviews, and to Pantheon for sending me to WordCamp US and making this episode possible! Sponsore...
Dec 22, 2017•51 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Register for my free workshop with Ecamm: https://ecamm.com/joe Morten Rand-Hendriksen is an incredible developer and teacher who brings it all to his online courses. In this extra long Season 3 Finale, Morten and I run the gamut on topics, including courses, empathy, technology, WordPress, and more. I strongly recommend you give this one a good listen because it's a great episode. Thanks so much for a great Season - see you in January! Show Notes Morten Rand-Hendriksen Morten on Twitter Lynda M...
Nov 28, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 61
