For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-23-craig-martin/ Craig Martin of Performance Foundry is one of the most long-standing partners of Pagely having helped to resolve performance bottlenecks and tune high-traffic WordPress sites. In this conversation Sean interviews Craig about what's involved in diagnosing performance issues and resolving performance scaling issues, Craig's long history of nomadic travel and how he's built his company t...
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 23
For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-22-katie-hess/ Katie Hess converted her fascination with the healing power of flower essences into a robust business that employs an all-female team of ten women across three countries. They are bringing transformational experiences to the masses via in-person events, online educational programs and by selling physical flower essences products. In this interview Sean interviews Katie on her entreprene...
Jan 27, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 22
For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-21-drew-olanoff / Drew Olanoff got his start in computers at a young age moderating BBS's. He was offered an internship for America Online and thus began a long and illustrious career working at companies like Yahoo!, TechCrunch, NextWeb and more. In this interview Joshua interviews Drew on his journey in tech, winning his bout with cancer through the miracle of stem cell technology, the barometer of...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 21
For links, show notes, transcription, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-20-rahul-bansal Rahul Bansal has built RTcamp from scratch to be a hugely successful WP dev agency. We were honored to have him speak this year at PressNomics 6 on the lessons learned from growing his organization. In this conversation Sean interviews Rahul about the pillars of a solid company culture, how to implement them in one's own company and Rahul's lessons from growing his dev agency. Enjo...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 20
For video, links, transcript, show notes and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-19-andy-wibbels/ Andy Wibbels was one of the first people to land a book deal from having a popular, early blog. He's been in tech marketing and product since the early dotcom days and has strong opinions on how compelling story telling should be conducted to drive consumer demand. In this conversation Joshua and Andy discuss some of Andy's key learnings in the realm of brand positioning, the evolutio...
Jan 04, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 19
For links, show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-18-francisco-dao/ Francisco Dao has served as a columnist for Inc.com, founded an exclusive adventure sports retreat company for entrepreneurs, served as COO for an AI-focused incubator and is currently bringing a caffeinated energy/nutrition bar to market. In this interview Joshua interviews Francisco on his entrepreneurial journey, the underbelly of the self-help market and his current challenge fou...
Dec 14, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 18
For links, show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-17-carl-alexander/ Carl Alexander found himself in a quarter-life crisis bouncing between software jobs unfulfilled and not sure how he would sustain his career for another forty years through to retirement. He transitioned into a freelance career and self-published a book to teach the basics of object oriented programming for WordPress and had over $11k in sales in his first week. He's since become a...
Dec 03, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 17
For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-16-dave-amirault / From humble beginnings on the east coast riding back mountains & tinkering with perl scripts to winning an Adweek award for his ingenious "one-star" ad campaign, Digidave Amirault is a marketing wizard. In this interview Joshua talks to Dave about his humble beginnings hand-coding HTML sites, to making a marketing a name for himself at multiple ski resorts, the development and ...
Nov 25, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 16
For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-15-morten-rand-hendriksen / Morten Rand-Hendriksen has made it his mission to help people understand and get the most out of the web, and contribute to the debates about ownership and democratization of information, design philosophy, and the open web. His 60+ published courses on WordPress, front end web design and development, and web standards on LinkedIn Learning have been viewed by hundreds of t...
Nov 16, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 15
For links, show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-14-gregg-scoresby / CampusLogic's mission is to help schools change lives by driving increased access, informed borrowing and improved completion of student loans. Gregg has helmed the CampusLogic ship to becoming Arizona's fastest growing software company with quadruple-digit annual percentage growth. In this interview Joshua talks to Gregg about their track record for abnormally high diversity in t...
Nov 11, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 14
For links, show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-13-jon-bickerton / Jon Bickerton is a proactive CPA specializing in corporate tax, research & development tax credit studies and cost segregation studies. His talk for PressNomics 6 covers the the major traps to avoid and opportunities on which to capitalize in corporate tax matters. In this episode we discuss strategies to avoid getting audited, common mis-steps that lead to audits, what you nee...
Nov 04, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 13
For transcript, show notes, links, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-12-gregarious-narain / Gregarious Narain has been involved in fourteen different startups over the course of his career. He was the VP of Product at Klout and his last one "Chute" was a YCombinator company and recently was acquired. In this interview Josh and and Greg talk about how entrepreneurs can better strike that balance of focused work life and family life, what entrepreneurs can do to emphasi...
Oct 28, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 12
For show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-11-brad-williams / Brad Williams is founder and CEO of one of the more respected WordPress agencies, WebDev Studios. They work with clients like Microsoft, Viacom, Campbell Soup Company, Starbucks and the NBA. In this interview Matt and Brad talk about their ten-year journey growing a 40-person company, how they retain the in-person feel as a fully remote, distributed company, trends Brad has seen in the ev...
Oct 21, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 11
For links, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-10-devin-walker / Devin Walker is the creator of several highly-rated and award-winning software products with his company Impress.org . Their flagship product, GiveWP, is in it's fifth year and has secured its position in the nonprofit sector as a powerful WordPress-based platform for handling donations. In this interview Josh and Devin talk through his journey creating his company, challenges they overcame in ...
Oct 14, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 10
For transcript, links, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-9-mike-roberts Mike Roberts started SpyFu back in 2005 and has managed to grow it to become a healthy, profitable, entirely-bootstrapped company having never taken investment. This has given him a lot of freedom in terms of how he runs things and latitude to maintain a course with the business that closely aligns with his values. In this interview (of which Mike’s side is conducted from his beach hou...
Oct 10, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 9
For transcript, links, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-8-chris-brogan / Chris Brogan has spoken for or consulted with the biggest brands you know including Disney, Coke, Google, GM, Microsoft, Coldwell Banker, Titleist, Scotts, Humana Health, Cisco, Sony USA, and many more. He’s appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, interviewed Richard Branson for a cover story for Success magazine, and once even presented to a Princess. In this interview Matt Medeiros intervie...
Oct 06, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 8
For links, transcript, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-7-brooke-siem After a traumatic event in childhood Brooke Siem spent the next half of her life on antidepressants. Upon turning thirty she committed to weaning herself off the medication and began a long climb out of the fog back to a world she describes of "<em>complexity & intensity with all its details and noise.</em>" In this interview we dig into Brooke's journey getting off anti...
Oct 03, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 7
For transcript, links, video, show notes and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-6-brian-dean / Brian Dean is one of the foremost experts on Search Engine Optimization. His site Backlinko.com gets over 200k monthly unique visitors and he's been dubbed by Entreprneur.com as "an SEO genius." In today's episode Brian shares his process for analyzing a site, what he knows about the Google Rankbrain algorithm, featured snippets, FAQ schema, content pruning, his advanced "ghost post" t...
Sep 28, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 6
For transcript, links, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-5-chris-lema / When it comes to B2B SaaS companies Chris has been around the block more than a few times. He's performed various roles ranging from product development, strategy & software engineering for Liquid Web, Crowd Favorite, Emphasys, AutoTradeCenter, Integranova, QuantumShift, ICE Wireless, Pagoda and Berkeley Lab. In today's episode Josh and Chris talk about pricing strategies, dark pat...
Sep 22, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 5
For transcript, links, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-4-hiten-shah / Hiten Shah is a pillar of the startup ecosystem having founded and run a handful of successful companies himself and having advised over 120 different startups. Hiten is incredibly generous with his time teaching valuable lessons to help startup founders advance their respective causes. I had the opportunity to sit down with Hiten for a full hour and talk through: - His latest Remote W...
Sep 15, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 4
For transcript, links, show notes, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-3-tessa-kriesel / Tessa Kriesel is the Community Manager for CircleCI and founder of Outspoken Women and Coders of TMRW. She wears many hats but the consistent theme of her work is empowering under-represented minorities to learn to code and transition into rewarding & high-paying careers. In this interview Tessa shares her public speaking experience, how she copes with impostor syndrome, a beaut...
Sep 10, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Find video, transcripts, links, show notes and more here: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ ep-2-brian-krogsgard / Today Josh Strebel interviews Brian Krogsgard, founder of Post Status. Post Status provides top tier industry analysis, an excellent community chat for WordPress professionals, a high quality WordPress job board, exclusive deals for subscribers, and more. Their goal is to cater to people that know and love WordPress so they can do what they do better and more informed. In today's...
Sep 09, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Find transcript, show notes, links, video and more for this episode here: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-1-jake-goldman-and-zach-brown-of-10up/ Today we have Jake Goldman and Zach Brown of 10up. Jake is President, owner and founder of 10up and Zach is their Director of Systems Engineering. 10up is a company that makes the Internet better with consultative creative & engineering services, innovative tools, and dependable products that take the pain out of content creation and manageme...
Aug 30, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
