Post Status Happiness Hour Session Fifteen

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In this episode of the Post Status Happiness Hour, host Michelle Frechette interviews Ryan Logan from Influence WP, a platform aimed at fostering connections within the WordPress community. Ryan shares his background in IT and his transition to WordPress, highlighting Influence WP’s focus on partnerships and consumer benefits. The platform offers exclusive deals and a unique “bad actor bounty program” to address industry issues. An unnamed participant contributes by asking questions and providing feedback. The discussion underscores the importance of collaboration, transparency, and community engagement within the WordPress ecosystem, showcasing Ryan’s dedication to making a positive impact.

Top Takeaways:

• About InfluenceWP: InfluenceWP is a platform designed for WordPress users, businesses, and partners to collaborate and share resources. Members can create unlimited listings to showcase deals, services, or projects. The platform aims to foster connections and encourage community growth rather than focusing solely on generating revenue. Additionally, it offers features like viral giveaways and opportunities for cross-promotion among members, making it a valuable tool for collaboration.
• Membership Details: Membership on InfluenceWP caters to both consumers and partners. Partners can list their offerings, such as deals and resources, while consumers benefit from accessing these opportunities. Notifications about new listings are sent through newsletters, keeping members informed and engaged. Ryan Logan, the founder, emphasizes that members are encouraged to maximize the platform’s features, including interlinking listings for added visibility.
• Opportunities for Advertisers: InfluenceWP’s newsletter presents a unique opportunity for partners to promote their offerings through paid advertisements. This feature is especially beneficial during sales periods like Black Friday, where deals are abundant. By integrating advertising into the platform’s ecosystem, InfluenceWP provides an additional revenue stream for itself and its members, while also enhancing the visibility of partner contributions.
• Future Plans: Looking ahead, InfluenceWP aims to expand its offerings through collaborations and community-driven initiatives. Ryan envisions a future where the platform includes projects like user-generated podcasts or sponsored content. These initiatives would allow contributors to share in the success of the platform while bringing fresh ideas to its ecosystem. Ryan is committed to keeping InfluenceWP open to diverse forms of collaboration.

Mentioned In The Show:

• influenceWP
• Patchstack
• Twitter
• Bluesky
• LinkCentral
• Bug Bounty Program
• StellarWP
• WP Weekly
• WP Wonder Women
• Mark Westguard
• WS Forms

🐦 You can follow Post Status and our guests on Twitter:

• Ryan Logan (Founder, InfluenceWP)
• Michelle Frechette (Director of Community Relations, Post Status)
• Olivia Bisset (Intern, Post Status)

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Transcript

Michelle Frechette 00:00:02  And we are live. Welcome everybody to the Post Status Happiness Hour, where every week I get to talk to somebody different in the WordPress community about projects they’re working on, whether it’s something that is a passion project like we’re going to talk about today or a plugin or whatever it is, I’m excited. And today I have Ryan from InfluenceWP. And if you haven’t seen influenceWP.com yet, we’re going to take a look at that today. And we’re going to talk to Ryan about all the things that he’s trying to accomplish with that. So Ryan, welcome. Welcome to the show.

Ryan Logan 00:00:33  Thank you for having me. Appreciate the opportunity.

Michelle Frechette 00:00:35  It’s my pleasure. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I know where you’re located in the world because we’re at the same time zone, but maybe, let everybody else know where you’re from.

Ryan Logan 00:00:43  Yeah, I’m just north of Charlotte, North Carolina. So on the East Coast and the US, and from 1997 to about 2019, I was totally in information technology, working for corporate and rising up to the ranks.

Ryan Logan 00:00:59 Eventually got to the CIO level. And then I left and then started my own IT consulting firm. And then as I started that journey, I realized a couple of things. One was that I had a real passion for just helping people solve their technology, like overpaying for bills, you know, things that they streamlining their business operations. That was one thing. The other thing was I was constantly asked over and over again, do you build websites? And I probably said, I probably said no about ten times. And then I was like, there’s something here. And I’ve always been more creative, believe it or not. Like then I was analytical, so I had a chance, I realized, to scratch my creative itch, and I finally locked myself in my apartment at the time. Learned WordPress as much as I could in a weekend, and I stopped saying no and started saying, I think we can do this. So then, like as the years went on, I realized that’s where my true passion was, was with WordPress building websites.

Ryan Logan 00:02:08  But I could also leverage the IT side. So the security, the the best practices, the procedures, all of that stuff. So I eventually just shut down the IT business, which is just crazy to say for me and all in on my WordPress agency, which is still running today. And I started another agency five years ago, which is in a very niche space building directories. So here I am today. I was trying to think of what could I do to give back to the WordPress ecosystem the best way that I knew how. And that was to bring my directory building skills, my online business building skills, all of that IT stuff, connecting people. I love connecting partners with consumers and vice versa. And that’s, that’s kind of where we’re at.

Michelle Frechette 00:02:58  Nice. And so influenceWP is kind of a gift to the community, if you will, similar to some of the projects that I have running. I signed up for, I, I don’t know why I hadn’t before, but I think it was last week.

Michelle Frechette 00:03:11  I signed up for an account there, and I haven’t done much with it yet. So I’m assuming there are other people like me who have signed up and not done much with it yet. So what I’d love for you to do is talk about the project a little bit, maybe even like we’ve got your I know we’ve got your screen share to maybe walk us through it a little bit, talk about what your hopes and goals are with it, how you think it can serve people who sign up for a profile, and how do we get connected in there? Like how do we create a profile? How do we sign up all of the things. So, is now a good time to bring your screen up so you can talk through it there or.

Ryan Logan 00:03:47  Yeah, definitely. Definitely.

Michelle Frechette 00:03:48  Okay.

Ryan Logan 00:03:49  Trying to think here. Are you able to see it.

Michelle Frechette 00:03:51  Yep.

Ryan Logan 00:03:54  Okay. So there’s a few components here. I could break it down by like partners and and then consumers if we can do it that way.

Michelle Frecehette: Sure. 

Ryan Logan 00:04:00  And then there’s obviously you see a Black Friday component. But if we go under partners and the main thing I want to highlight here is if you, you can click on the partners page. And the idea here is this is one of the main things I want to drive home is that this is a passion project. This is nothing more than that. It’s not a moneymaker for me. If this project goes away, it doesn’t hurt me in any way. But I am running this thing like my life depends on it. So that’s that’s the passion that’s behind it. And I’m trying my best to get the point across that it’s extremely lopsided in the partner’s favor. So if you roll through this, you see all the things I’m going to do. And this is basically the way that I like to sum it up, is imagine having one of your best affiliates that doesn’t charge you anything, so there’s no affiliate links anywhere. I’m not looking for a payout. It’s just relationships. And that’s literally all it is.

Ryan Logan 00:05:01  And, as you scroll down through here, there’s one simple ask and that is provide an exclusive deal that’s at least equal to the best deal you offer anywhere on the web. And what this is trying to do is solve a consistency problem in WordPress. So you can go to one website that offers deals and see 20% off. You can go to another one, it’s 40, you go to another one. It’s not actually a deal. It’s just they’re inserting their affiliate links to try to get that quick payout. But there’s no relationship at all with the partner. Okay? And then the rest is just optional. You know, it’s it’s in the partner’s best interest to show value for value and help spread the word about what it is we’re doing. And then if you want me to help with ongoing marketing, like do videos, just speak to your products or your community or whatever it is. Simply, I just need access to it. This used to say lifetime right here, literally before today, like, as of this morning.

Ryan Logan 00:06:00  Okay, I took it off because I was it really rubbed people the wrong way. And I was really just trying to say, like, you could cancel lifetime any time, but I, I just don’t want to chase access to a year out, you know, year after year.

Michelle Frechette 00:06:15  I don’t blame you.

Ryan Logan 00:06:15  So I make it really, really simple. Like, literally if you go to the pricing page, it says at the very top, like, don’t give us money. Just, you know, just go through the free membership. Right. And if you don’t want to do that, that’s absolutely fine. Like it’s less than a cup of coffee that you pay per month for what I’m doing. And it’s a lot of stuff. So that’s, that’s basically the partner side in a nutshell. So then we come over to the consumer side and again $0.50 a month, it’s just to weed out the tire kickers. And you get those exclusive deals that the partners are offering. Hopefully the partners will let us run some giveaways.

Ryan Logan 00:06:55  The bad actor bounty program I’d love to talk about. and then I’m going to spin up a community assuming this thing, you know, gets enough traction. You know, we’ll have a community and that sort of thing. And that’s just the beginning ideas that I have for that. So if we scroll down here to the Bad Actor Bounty program. Think of this as kind of what Patchstack is done for vulnerability reporting.

Michelle Frechette 00:07:23  Okay.

Ryan Logan 00:07:24  So the idea here is and this is based off of my, I don’t know, 10, 11 years, years of experience running an agency where I’ve seen myself. I’ve seen bad actors, but I’ve also seen my clients really treated poorly. And this isn’t like, hey, you hurt my feelings or, you know, whatever. This is, like, like stuff that we can prove that’s really bad and maybe make an effort on there. And then I put this tracker in here. And so far this is kind of where we’re at. And I’ve made change. Positive change so far it’s minimal.

Ryan Logan 00:08:01  But this thing is literally like just kicked off. So I got, I had and it helps these people too because they had privacy policies that were broken in terms of conditions that were broken. Some of this stuff may not even be intentional. So kind of like the vulnerability disclosure I responsibly disclose these things. So I go behind the scenes and I email them and I say, hey, like let’s talk about what’s going on here. Do you have any comments? You know, before we take, you know, we escalate this. And one of my current partners, I, I had to go to them unfortunately because of a report. And if I had had a situation where they were paying me anything that’s a problem. Right? It could be a problem. But because I have no like bias or anything in this game, I can go to them and say, hey, like this. This. They’re not your clients. Your customers are not happy about this. You know, and if it doesn’t work out and they just say, hey, I just don’t want to be your partner anymore, that’s fine, you know? But if I was, like, taking sponsorships and stuff from those folks, like, it could be.

Ryan Logan 00:09:06  Could be dicey. 

Michelle Frechette: Yeah. 

Ryan Logan: The idea here is that I’m just impartial. I’m not biased. I’m just trying to help people, you know, and influence positive change. And it could just be that this thing just goes away. It doesn’t get legs and people don’t really care. But it’s something I wanted to try to do because I’ve just I’ve always wanted to protect people from this stuff. And as part of trying to generate, you know, interest in reporting, I thought, maybe the sponsors could come on board and say, hey, you know, you know, kind of like with Patchstack, like, we want to encourage you to report this stuff, and we can help Ryan InfluenceWP sweeten the sweeten the pie if you do report it. It’s an idea.

Michelle Frechette 00:09:51  Yeah. As somebody who’s worked with plug ins for the last six plus years, almost seven years actually one of the heart, the most heartbreaking things is to have to tell somebody who thinks that they have bought your software legitimately, that they don’t have an account with you and they don’t have access to support or a, you know, upgrades, updates.

Michelle Frechette 00:10:13  And so something like this that helps, you know, keep people from purchasing those things. I mean, they’re always going to be out there, right? But but every every one we can shut down is, is we’re all better off for.

Ryan Logan 00:10:25  Yeah. Just as far as I know, this doesn’t exist. And I think it could be something. Again maybe it just maybe it’s not. Maybe people just don’t care that much. And maybe I care more than others do, I don’t know.

Michelle Frechette 00:10:38  I’m pretty sure most of us care. I know.

Ryan Logan 00:10:42  But do you care enough to report it? Because it’s not like. It’s not like. Like if you go on Twitter, for example, and you just say, hey, somebody did me wrong, it’s it’s real time and it it’s out of anger and it can kind of like go away. But if you have something that’s kind of like evergreen, then, you know. 

Michelle Frechette 00:11:00  I think not having had a place to report it before, you know, this is this is great.

Michelle Frechette 00:11:05  And getting the word out about this will be really helpful, I think, to a lot of people, because if you’re going to post it on Twitter or Bluesky or any of the places, you know, put it in here also, so that maybe something more will get done of it. And, you know, other than just complaining.

Ryan Logan 00:11:22  Yeah, exactly. Exactly, exactly. Yeah. But I like that they’ve even get a chance to respond because I went to a real just be honest, a really big name in WordPress. And I said this was reported it, they sent me eight paragraphs explaining. And it was just beautiful, like we squashed it. But it was it was an educational experience, and they were just transparent and said some cool stuffs coming to fix this. We’re going to be more transparent, like there’s some good stuff happening. They didn’t just shut me down and say, who? Who the hell are you?

Michelle Frechette 00:11:56  That’s awesome. Yeah. That’s great, I love that. 

Ryan Logan 00:12:00 Yeah. I mean, that’s it in a nutshell. I mean, there’s obviously there’s a directory component. You can see some names in here, you know, Alex and Marcus and stuff like that. So there’s a directory component. Maybe over time the directory component is not really a thing. You know. It’s just we’ll just see how it shakes out because as you’ve you’ve said like you signed up but you didn’t really do anything. I’m finding that’s kind of the case here is I’m adding listings on behalf of people. Which is fine. Which is fine.

Michelle Frechette 00:12:30  Yeah. No, I’ll get to it, I promise. I just like I signed up for it. I asked you to be on the show and that I hadn’t gone back to it yet, so.

Ryan Logan 00:12:37  Yeah. And a lot of this stuff, you know, I follow a lot of people and I’ve got like real quotes from real people. And it just really drives home that what I’m doing is to me, it makes sense. 

Michelle Frechette: Oh, yeah.

Ryan Logan 00:12:48  Based on what everybody is saying, you create a plug in, like how do you get it out there? And I’m not saying I’m going to be  the world’s best marketer for you. I’m just saying I’m one more voice for you, you know? And the whole thing.

Michelle Frechette 00:13:04  And I assume that, like, SEO works. So it’s like one of the things I’ve noticed on the Post Status Black Friday sale page, which we can look at yours in a minute because you said there’s something about Black Friday and yours too. Is that people either do a really good job writing what their deal is, or they only put 30% off and that’s it. Like, the whole description is just 30% off. And I’m like, that has like no value. I mean, yeah, people are looking specifically for you and you know, and sometimes I even have to put the name of the product in because they forget to include the name of their own product. So like, we need to get better at doing those kinds of things, but when we do, there’s more opportunities for us to be found across the places so.

Ryan Logan 00:13:46  Absolutely, absolutely. I’m a little late to the game. It’s probably more of an extra thing. But I do approach Black Friday differently than what I see other people doing. Again, there’s no extra cost. Maybe there’s sponsorships in the future, but right now there’s not. There’s zero commissions as part of this whole thing. And the other thing is it’s evergreen. So with a lot of Black Friday sites, the deals are there and they’re gone. But imagine if you go into, let’s say like a plug in here and let’s say we go into Lynx Central, which is a new partner, and we can go to their Black Friday. And we’ve got this card right here. So this will sit here. And then after the Black Friday season ends, I literally go in the back end and I flip a switch and it’s gone. But next year, if they offer the same thing, for example, we flip the switch and it’s all back.

Michelle Frechette 00:14:39  Nice.

Ryan Logan 00:14:40  So it’s you know, obviously we can adjust the dates and stuff, but.

Michelle Frechette 00:14:44  And the code that we use some so many times we use the code with the year in it, that kind of thing.

Ryan Logan 00:14:50  Yeah. Like right now I manage it all. But hopefully over time, you know, listing owners will will manage all of that themselves. right now it’s just getting the traction and, the interest and stuff like that. But I offer that as a service. If you want me to manage all that, just shoot me the data and I’ll. I’ll punch. I’ll punch it in. I call it listing concierge and concierge. Whatever. And, yeah.

Michelle Frechette 00:15:18  Are things held in moderation, you know, for moderation before you, before they’re published? So like in some of the things I’ve run in the past and the Post Status one for sure, I’ll have people entering Black Friday deals for things that are not WordPress related at all, like this toy or that blanket and those kinds of things. So that’s held in moderation. I do not publish anything until I have a chance to look at it first.

Ryan Logan 00:15:41  Yeah, that’s that’s a great thing. The listings are held in moderation in general, but yeah, the Black Friday thing is, after the listing is already published. 

Michelle Frechette: Perfect. 

Ryan Logan: I do get I can edit, moderate the edits. So I can set that up to be completely transparent. I’ve been doing the Black Friday deal entries so far.

Michelle Frechette 00:16:02  I understand there’s a lot of places that are, putting those all together every year, so I have quite a few that have come in in the last few days that I have to go and turn the switch on for, for Post Status as well, so I understand.

Ryan Logan 00:16:14  Yeah, I just, I hold no illusions that I’m not going to be doing a lot of this management like it’s, it’s it’s fine, it’s fine.

Michelle Frechette 00:16:22  Yeah. So the difference between being a consumer and a partner, can you go into that a little bit deeper.

Ryan Logan 00:16:30  Yeah. So consumers just I need a go back to that one. I need a I want to find a plug in a theme or whatever.

Ryan Logan 00:16:38  And I’m looking for a deal. One of the things that makes what I’m trying to do that solves a problem with deals, you can be guaranteed. I don’t really want to go to this page because I just noticed an issue.

Speaker 3 00:16:49  Oh.

Ryan Logan 00:16:50  I need to fix. I need to fix some alignment issues, but.

Michelle Frechette: No worries.

Ryan Logan: Basically the deal is I want people to be able to go here and just trust that it’s at least equal to the best deal on the web, and they can stop searching. I one of the reasons for this is I my clients, they you know, some of them are, you know, not really savvy when it comes to security and stuff like that. So they get down these rabbit holes with these, some of these deal sites. And the next thing they know. Ryan, I’ve got like viruses on my computer and malware.

Michelle Frechette 00:17:20  Yeah, it’s terrible.

Ryan Logan 00:17:21  And it’s just pop ups everywhere and it’s just garbage. So part of my thought here is, imagine if I could just provide a spot that stop looking like, here it is. And it’s, it’s legit.

Ryan Logan 00:17:33  So when I sign up partners, I there’s a line item that says you have to guarantee that it’s at least the best deal. And I’m not saying, you know, I don’t want special treatment. That’s not what we’re doing here. I’ll just show you, down here. Where’s it at? here we go. I’m sure the deals are at least equal to the best deal you offer your other partners. And then on your website, make sure you’re not trumping what you’re giving me. Superseding. unless it’s like Black Friday or you’re running a special promotion, but, like, just on a typical day, don’t render our partnership, you know, useless. Like, don’t do that. I’ve had some partners in the past do that. Offer me 20% and I go to their website or a client says hey man, they’re offering 50% on their own website. Why, why should I even mess with your site anymore.

Michelle Frechette 00:18:24  Right. Yeah. Now, what about those places that aren’t offering deals all the time, you know, so like, it’s StellarWP, for example, we have a summer sale and we have a Black Friday sale, but we don’t have discounts the rest of the year.

Ryan Logan 00:18:37  Oh yeah. So that’s just that would fall under here. Like if they don’t want to do that there’s a link that just takes them. Says we offer super low cost option if you want to skip the requirement. So if you don’t have a deal you can go here. Pays less than a cup of coffee per month to get all of this stuff.

Michelle Frechette 00:18:53  Gotcha. Okay, cool.

Ryan Logan 00:18:55  That’s that’s that’s listed there. Yeah. The idea is to make it. Sorry. Go ahead.

Michelle Frechette 00:19:00  I was gonna say you can still be a part of it if you’re not offering a lifetime type.

Ryan Logan 00:19:05  100% this. All this is for is the free. Maybe I can make this clear. I’m definitely open to feedback is for the free membership. And we’re talking lifetime. That’s it. That’s the only reason I’m asking for this. So it’s I’m giving you a lifetime free membership that that’s what I’m asking for. And again, it’s the solve a problem. It’s not for me. Like I can afford to buy my own software and sure, like all of that stuff. This is for the public. The consumers. 

Michelle Frechette 00:19:33  Yeah. So when you have a small amount to have to participate otherwise then it’s really a no brainer anyway, right. So be listed in the directory. If you’re not offering deals, it’s $24 a year or whatever. It was a year?

Ryan Logan 00:19:47  Yeah. Yeah that’s what it is right now. So I don’t anticipate it being much more. I don’t want it to be that much. It’s basically just the weed out the tire kickers. That’s all it is.

Michelle Frechette 00:19:56  Yeah, exactly. It makes perfect sense, right?

Ryan Logan 00:19:59  This stuff does take a lot of time. And, you know, you think about the Bug Bounty program that’s. That took me hours so far to to do the communication back and forth and to set it up.

Michelle Frechette 00:20:09  Yeah.

Ryan Logan 00:20:10  And, and as I said in a, in a Twitter post, like I’m upside down on this as far as operating cost, time and all that. And I absolutely love every second of it. Like it’s awesome.

Michelle Frechette 00:20:23  Yeah. Isn’t that fun? When you have a passion project like that? That’s like you’d like to make a little bit of money off it if you could at least cover your costs. And, and putting some hurdles in, just like you said, keeps it from being just a free for all. And you don’t have to moderate memberships that aren’t really, you know, good faith memberships, for example. It just kind of keeps that down a little bit. Yeah. It’s great, I love it. I love when you can feel passionate about something like that for sure.

Ryan Logan 00:20:50  Yeah. Yeah. That’s, that’s that’s the hard thing like on social media and stuff and just trying to get that across. So that’s. That’s why I’m doing this with you right now is so valuable to me. And, just extremely grateful because it’s until you hear somebody’s voice like, I feel like you can’t get the passion.

Michelle Frechette 00:21:08  Yeah, no, for sure. I think it’s great. So if people are interested, I actually, I made a banner.

Michelle Frechette 00:21:15  Hold on. I’ll show you. If people are interested. All they have to do is go to influencewp.com. To read all the things that we can’t necessarily see on on a podcast screen.

Ryan Logan 00:21:25  Yeah, yeah.

Michelle Frechette 00:21:26  All the, all the, all the little bits and pieces. Learn more about it and sign up for their membership, whether it’s through as a consumer or as a partner. That’s, that’s right there. And I think one of the things I think people didn’t understand because I was talking about this, you know, with some people the other day, is what partnership meant, right? And what you were trying, what you were asking for. And so that that makes perfect sense. Like, for example, I have lots of things that I can share there. All of them are free. So like I don’t have any deals, right? Like you could you could become a member of post of a WPSpeakers or have your job board listed on WP Career Pages, those kinds of things. I could still participate just in a different way here.

Ryan Logan 00:22:09  Yeah. And and honestly, like, the last thing I’ll say about that is if, if Michelle came to me and said, Ryan, like, we’re going to do this for you just to help spread the word. And we’re not going to offer a deal. We can’t offer deals, and we’re not going to pay your pricing. Like, I would be fine. I would say, here’s a membership. Let’s let’s work together.

Michelle Frechette 00:22:30  Yeah.

Ryan Logan 00:22:31  That’s what this thing is all about. It’s it’s it’s not about the revenue at all, period.

Michelle Frechette 00:22:37  So if somebody has more than one project like I do, is there a way to accommodate that or is that separate accounts for the every single thing. 

Ryan Logan 00:22:43  Yeah. So when you go it’s unlimited listings. So once you get it, once you get in there go nuts. Yeah.

Michelle Frechette 00:22:47  All right. And then you can put all my stuff in there.

Ryan Logan 00:22:50  Yeah. And then you can interlink them all together with what’s called related listings.

Michelle Frechette 00:22:54  Oh very cool.

Ryan Logan 00:22:54  Yeah, yeah. All interlinked. Yeah.

Michelle Frechette 00:22:58  So what’s your goal? I don’t know how many. How many members do you have right now?  How quickly do you want to grow it? Like, what are you looking at?

Ryan Logan 00:23:07  It’s I don’t really have any goals as far as how how fast to grow it. I mean, I kind of want to ride the momentum. There’s a there’s a momentum currently, I want to just, you know, ride that momentum. So I think it’s 50, 50 members right now, but I full transparency. I count partners as members too, because.

Michelle Frechette 00:23:26  Sure. Well, they are.

Ryan Logan 00:23:28  They can, they can get the deals themselves. there’s the giveaways. They’re allowed to enter the giveaways, they’re allowed to give stuff away. So that’s another big aspect of this. I would like to run giveaways. I’ve had a lot of success in the past running viral giveaways for partners. It helps everybody, bring awareness.

Michelle Frechette 00:23:48  Will you have like a newsletter component at some point. Sharing the deals out that way. Is that already in the works?

Ryan Logan 00:23:54  Yeah, the newsletter already exists. I just haven’t done like like those newsletters like the WP Weekly and those I haven’t done anything like that. It’s more just this is what how things are being built currently. And this is the number of memberships we have, you know, letting partners know like these are the consumer members were bringing in. So there’s actually an audience. But eventually, you know, maybe that newsletter turns into more of something else. But there’s also one that goes out that that shows you all of the new listings, so you don’t have to go check those out.

Michelle Frechette 00:24:28 Oh great.

Ryan Logan 00:24:29  So once you add ten listings, everyone’s going to know about it.

Michelle Frechette 00:24:33  Oh that’s awesome.

Ryan Logan 00:24:34  Yeah.

Michelle Frechette 00:24:34  So there’s also then if the newsletter an opportunity for you to do some paid advertising, for example, with some of your partners if you wanted to.

Ryan Logan 00:24:44  100%. And I, I have no experience with that, at all. So looking forward to learning how that all works and all that.

Michelle Frechette 00:24:52  Yeah. 

Ryan Logan: All my new newsletters in the past have always just been, hey, this is like stuff within what I’m building, and.

Michelle Frechette 00:25:01  Yeah. I just recently started a newsletter this year called WP Wonder Women. And, we have our first advertiser, so I have a tiny bit of experience now with how to.

Ryan Logan:Oh, that’s awesome.

Michelle Frechette: To do some advertising. So if you ever want to chat. I can share my very limited knowledge with you.

Ryan Logan 00:25:21  Yeah. The other oh there’s other. One more thing. The collaboration piece, I think, like I’m open to pretty much any collaboration. I don’t see this just being me behind the scenes. I’ll just give you one example. If somebody wanted to create a podcast for InfluenceWP and run with that. I would be willing to say, like whatever sponsorships you come up with, whatever XYZ, that’s all yours. You do that, you do whatever. I’m open to anything like that where I, you know.

Michelle Frechette 00:25:56  Yeah.

Ryan Logan 00:25:57  Any kind of collaboration like this, I just don’t want this, you know, to be about me necessarily.

Michelle Frechette 00:26:01  So yeah that’s great. Yeah. The more people you get involved in something like InfluenceWP, the greater it will become for sure.

Speaker 3 00:26:08  Yeah 100%.

Michelle Frechette:That’s awesome. Yeah, I love it.

Michelle Frechette 00:26:12  So like I said, if anybody’s interested, just go to influencewp.com. Great opportunity to create your profile. Take a look around see if there’s any deals that work for you. I know with Black Friday coming up, we have a lot of, really deep deals. So but this will still be live with deals after Black Friday and after Christmas and after the holidays and all of those different things. So this is a great place to kind of keep your eye on. Especially if people have lifetime deals and they’re offering them in there and that kind of thing. You can definitely, save some, save some money going forward for sure.

Ryan Logan 00:26:47  Yeah. And I have probably another 100 deals that I just haven’t had time to put up. So there’s.

Michelle Frechette 00:26:51  I completely understand.

Ryan Logan 00:26:53  There’s more coming. 

Michelle Frechette 00:26:55  So put your own deals in. So all he has to do is say yes, that one’s approved.

Ryan Logan 00:26:59  Yeah. Yeah.

Michelle Frechette 00:27:00  So much faster. Absolutely. Anything else you’d like to share before we wrap up for today?

Ryan Logan 00:27:07  No. Like I said, just very appreciative of the opportunity to talk on it.

Michelle Frechette 00:27:12  Oh, it’s my pleasure for sure. Next week we do have Mark Westergaard of WS Forms coming in. He is going to be displaying some new things he’s put in with WS Form. He just teased it out today with ways that you can easily apply different CSS type things and style your forms. I did get a sneak peek because he sent me the video at like 2 a.m. and I saw it when I woke up this morning. But he’s got some good stuff happening there. So next week we’re going to talk to Mark Westergaard. But in the meantime, Ryan, thank you so much for spending some time here today. I learned a lot more. Now I know what I’m going in and creating a profile for. And, let’s keep the conversation flowing between the two of us, because I’m sure that there are some things we can help each other out with in the future.

Ryan Logan 00:27:54  Awesome. Thank you. Michelle.

Michelle Frechette 00:27:56  My pleasure, everybody else. We’ll see you next week on the Post Status Happiness Hour. In the meantime, have a great day.

Ryan Logan 00:28:03  See ya.