Chris Lema

Chris Lema talks about the sunk…

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Dan Knauss

Chris Lema talks about the sunk cost fallacy and the power of freebies. Trial periods, testimonials, coupons, and onboarding for your products all work because "We're wired to want to finish what we start. And it's something you can leverage…

🏆 Chris Lema shares why Liquid…

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Dan Knauss

🏆 Chris Lema shares why Liquid Web "built him a better review plugin" for WooCommerce: "We built a WooCommerce extension that would help store visitors evaluate the reviewer and understand the context. And that's what makes the plugin better than…

Built by WordPress — .com that is

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David Bisset
Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its "premium website building service" (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for "websites starting at $4,900 USD." The announcement describes a turnkey…

Chris Lema shares his evaluation of…

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Dan Knauss

Chris Lema shares his evaluation of WordPress caching plugins. He lists his top three after a close look at this crowded field, including Cache Enabler, Comet Cache, Hyper Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, and WP Super Cache. 🔌

Chris Lema nails it again: how…

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Dan Knauss

Chris Lema nails it again: how to respond to the question "Is that your BEST price?" from potential customers to your proposal. Chris reminds us that someone out there will always present a cheaper price, so don't race to the…

Chris Lema is hosting a virtual…

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Dan Knauss
Chris Lema is hosting a virtual summit for companies "trying to hit the one million dollar milestone" on June 18th. He is joined by Carrie Wheeler (COO, Liquid Web), Nathan Ingram (iThemes), Chris Teitzel (Founder/CEO, Lockr), and others. đź’˛

Chris Lema has a good reminder…

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Brian Krogsgard

Chris Lema has a good reminder that even leaders make mistakes, but he also asks a more important question: how do you handle things when others make mistakes? "Our job as leaders is to have empathy, humility, compassion and contingency…

Liquid Web has acquired iThemes

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Brian Krogsgard
Liquid Web has announced the acquisition of iThemes in an all cash deal that includes the entire iThemes team moving over to Liquid Web as an independent unit, and iThemes products will be included in various Liquid Web offerings.

Speaking of WooCommerce, Liquid Web has…

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Brian Krogsgard

Speaking of WooCommerce, Liquid Web has announced "Managed WooCommerce" hosting. As Chris Lema explains, "it's a total solution, not a single plugin." It isn't public yet, but they are accepting signups from interested parties. It does several things to help…

Speaking of Gutenberg, you can download the…

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Brian Krogsgard

Speaking of Gutenberg, you can download the Gutenberg plugin from the plugin repo as well and try it out yourself. Some are already sharing their first impressions. Matt Cromwell notes it's flexible, but also mentions some weaknesses and concerns. Chris Lema…

Chris Lema is back to blogging,…

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Brian Krogsgard

Chris Lema is back to blogging, and a recent post of his covers how you can get free users to subscribe to paid memberships. The entire post is a good read for anyone trying to make it with subscriptions. Some…

Here are some of my favorite…

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Brian Krogsgard

Here are some of my favorite podcasts you can catch up on this weekend:: Joe Casabona has wrapped up season one of How I Built It. This is one of the more promising new WordPress podcasts, as Joe is a…

Chris Lema has a follow up…

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Brian Krogsgard

Chris Lema has a follow up post to his in-depth analysis last year of the top WordPress membership plugins. It's a shorter post -- this time offering up his top three recommendations -- and he compares them based on features he believes are most…

The content in WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard

One of Pippin Williamson's repeated concerns during his review of page builders was over data loss. He praised the plugins that, when deactivated, maintained HTML markup and content in the_content() so the site owner could still use their content without the…

Page builder plugins: the good, bad, and ugly

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Brian Krogsgard

Pippin Williamson did a pretty epic, nearly 10,000 word review of thirteen WordPress page builder plugins. He didn't include page builders built into themes, but tested most of the popular plugins out there. I highly recommend you read it. Even…
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