Running Your Own Race
This week I saw a tweet by Mike Oliver that stopped my scrolling pretty quickly… “Maybe someone besides myself needs to hear this. Don’t…
January 7, 2022
The Website Owner’s Manual: A Complete Walkthrough
Everything you could possibly want to know about The Website Owner’s Manual…
January 7, 2022
5 Tips to Improve Your Block Building Experience
5 ways to improve your experience using Generate Blocks and the default block editor….
January 7, 2022
5 Reasons They’ll Pay You More
It’s not uncommon that someone in the group asks how they can get clients that are willing to pay higher prices, so today I…
December 31, 2021
How To Create A Content Strategy
With clients slowly going quiet over the holidays and with the new year fast approaching, you’re probably thinking about your marketing strategy to get…
December 27, 2021
CSS-Only Modal with GenerateBlocks
After posting about making a simple tooltip in GenerateBlocks, I guess my new quest is to figure out how to do everything I need…
December 27, 2021
Creating Animated Tooltips in GenerateBlocks
I recently found myself in a position where I needed to add some tooltips for more context to a row of buttons. Unfortunately, there’s…
December 26, 2021
How I got a ???? as my email address
As a designer, developer, or just through the entrepreneurial spirit, I bet you’ve had some random ideas for fun little projects. Perhaps it’s an…
December 17, 2021
Build it with Blocks — WaveApps.com
In this live event, I shared my process for building (or in this case, rebuilding) sites using blocks! We cover: GenerateBlocks, the GeneratePress theme,…
December 17, 2021
Voted The Best WordPress Community!
It’s official — the results have been tallied, and The Admin Bar has been voted The Best WordPress Community! To say I’m proud would…
December 16, 2021
15 Free Hidden Gem Design and Development Resources
As designers and developers, we use a lot of tools — and we especially love the free ones! Of course, we’re all running our…
December 13, 2021
I’m telling myself “NEVER AGAIN!”
How many times have you said to yourself “I’ll never make that mistake again!”, only to find yourself in the same pickle just weeks…
December 10, 2021
Accountability is the Catalyst for Progress
If you’re like most agency owners, you have a laundry list of things you know you need to get done for your business… Narrowing…
December 3, 2021
Scrolling Image Effect with GenerateBlocks
The full-length screenshots of websites we’ve created are great — but having a giant, skinny image on a page is a bit of a…
November 26, 2021
“Done Today”
This week I added a new “view” inside my Airtable base I use for managing all my to-dos and projects. This view just has…
November 12, 2021
Don’t try to sell me a car
I drive a hunk of junk. The check engine light constantly comes on and goes off randomly. It’s covered in hail damage. The door handle…
November 5, 2021
How Much Does A Copywriter Cost?
Learn how much you should expect to pay for written content from a freelance copywriter or a copywriting agency. …
November 3, 2021
Easily Grab Photos from Word Docs
This is a trick I find myself using pretty often when clients send me copy in a Word doc that also contains the images…
November 1, 2021
What’s on the menu?
The more I think about having “packages” for website builds, the more it makes sense — especially from a business perspective. In order to…
October 29, 2021
If I Won the Lottery
I don’t buy lottery tickets often, but every now and then (when the jackpot is big enough to make the news), I’ll buy a…
October 22, 2021
Recurring Revenue: How To Sell A Learning Management System To Your Clients
I’ve owned an eCommerce-focused agency for the last 10 years, and I’ve always been keen on exploring different avenues for increasing our recurring revenue….
October 20, 2021
It’s really easy to undercharge
Blanket statements about pricing (eg. “You should charge a minimum of $X for a website”) have always annoyed me. There are hundreds of factors…
October 15, 2021
How To Increase Recurring Revenue By Selling A Content Creation Service
Monthly blogging is a treasure trove for recurring revenue, it’s easy to implement, and it has results you can track….
October 5, 2021
Email Triage: How to Create An Effective Price Increase Email
In business, the use of the word triage usually means assessing the nature and urgency of the problems being experienced and sorting out the priority of…
October 1, 2021
