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Our latest musings covering a wide range of agency related topics and strategy to help push your business forward.

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Damn. Gutenberg Smokes Elementor

Admittedly, page builders are my crutch. As someone who comes from a design (not a development) background, I likely couldn’t do my job if…

January 2, 2021

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How To Set-Up Global Theme Settings Inside Elementor

Setting up typography, colors, button styles, backgrounds, form field styles etc. separately on each and every webpage can be such a tedious work. Consistency…

December 16, 2020

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You don’t actually want higher paying clients.

Last week I posted a simple question to the group… “What makes your favorite client your favorite client?” If you assumed people’s answers were…

December 16, 2020

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The Best Free Opt-Ins for Web Designers & Developers

I’m a sucker for a good freebie— and who doesn’t like free stuff? I’ve been collecting opt-ins, lead magnets, and other awesome freebies ever…

December 11, 2020

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Our Tips and Tricks for Getting Your SEO on Track in 2021

People make WordPress websites for a variety of reasons: To start a cooking blog, to promote their small business, to review and rank every…

December 3, 2020

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SEOHive White-Label Content & Copywriting Examples

Most recent articles written by SEOHive: Since SEOHive launched back in April of 2020 there has been a lot of questions about their white-label,…

December 2, 2020

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Prioritizing Web Safety and Security on Your WordPress Site

Since the release of its very first version in 2003, WordPress has surely and steadily snowballed into the content management system (CMS) tycoon we…

December 2, 2020

Software Licenses

Can clients use my plugin & theme licenses?

Learn how to handle sharing plugin licenses with your clients & the one question you should ask….

November 21, 2020

ADA Compliance and Web Accessibility

ADA Compliance | Basics

ADA Compliance is a loaded topic. There’s a lot that can go into making sure a website is accessible and as of writing this there’s no “real” documentation out there that states “This is what you need to do to be compliant”. …

November 20, 2020

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Creating Page Rules in Cloudflare for Elementor

Cloudflare improves your website’s overall loading speed with additional security and performance benefits. Amongst the many features of Cloudflare is the additional settings that…

November 19, 2020

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The One Tiny Thing I Had Never Thought Of When Selling Maintenance Plans To Clients

Sometimes all it takes is a couple of comments, a little Googling, and a half hour to make a huge difference in recurring monthly…

November 9, 2020

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Add WooCommerce Customer to a Group in MailerLite

For a while now I’ve been struggling with having multiple products in my WooCommerce store, and adding customers for specific products to specific groups…

October 28, 2020

Cloudways Migration

cPanel to Cloudways WordPress Website Migration

I saw a couple of posts recently in the group wondering what the process is like when you’re migrating a site that’s hosted on…

October 5, 2020

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How to upload and use custom fonts on Elementor (Tutorial)

Have you ever suddenly got tired of using Google fonts on website projects? It has happened to me once; I had just started work…

October 4, 2020

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Is Cloudflare’s Automatic Platform Optimization Worth It?

Rich Deane recently shared a blog post in The Admin Bar Community introducing us to Cloudflare’s Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress. A sucker for…

October 3, 2020

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Best Browser Extensions for Web Designers

Recently on the podcast I mentioned the browser extension “MeasureIt!” to Matt because I thought it would save him some time. It got me to thinking…

September 24, 2020

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My Inbox-Zero Strategy

After one of the busiest and most stressful weeks of my life, I posted a status update on Facebook minutes before I turned out…

September 12, 2020

Cancel Hero

5 Tools for Tracking Your Subscriptions

I recently made a post of a meme on The Admin Bar community, the meme was about canceling free trials before they charge you,…

September 1, 2020

Designing Processes

The Two Most Important Steps to Every Process

Where most processes go sideways isn’t lost somewhere in the weeds between step 3 and 33— it’s simply setting proper boundaries for the scope…

August 18, 2020

SEOHive Website

A Sneak Peek Inside SEOHive

The Admin Bar has hired SEOHive (https://theadminbar.com/seohive) to improve the SEO of our own website. They have agreed to allow us to share the…

April 15, 2020

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Book Review: Company of One by Paul Jarvis

I’m just wrapping up reading ‘Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business’ by Paul Jarvis. I gotta say—…

February 2, 2020

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Spam Lemonade: How The Email Scammers Made My Day

I don’t know about you, but it frustrates me to no end that my clients are getting tons of solicitations from scam companies preying…

January 20, 2020

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Adding reCAPTCHA 3 to Elementor Forms

Recently there has been a flood of spam coming through Elementor  forms.  I thought it was just me until I started seeing reports in…

January 16, 2020

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How Termageddon Helps Me Win Clients

When I first started speaking with Hans and Donata, the fantastic folks behind Termageddon, my mind was racing with all the ways that I…

January 10, 2020