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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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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

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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

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Want to charge more for websites? Here’s a start.

When we offer to “design” or “build” a website for potential customers, we’re using a pretty generic term that doesn’t actually articulate all the…

December 20, 2019

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38+ Services to Increase Your Website Care Plan Recurring Revenue

Recurring revenue is what helps me sleep like a baby at night. Getting to the point in my business where I had a reliable…

December 12, 2019

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Using Elementor’s Request Parameters for a Personalized Thank You Page

Back when Elementor released the request parameters feature to Elementor Pro, I picked up a little trick that I get comments on all-the-time. It’s…

December 12, 2019

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Pre & Post-Launch Checklist for Successful Website Go-Live’s

When it’s finally time for go-live, I don’t know about you, but I get anxious just to get a project complete and out the…

December 8, 2019

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How My Business Will Succeed in 2020

This post (and worksheet) are for those of you out there who aren’t super into planning. The ones who “have it all in your…

December 4, 2019

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New Website UX & UI

If you’re reading this and you’ve been to our website before, you might be noticing things look a little different around here. The truth…

December 1, 2019

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A Solopreneur’s Guide: Course Review

It took just a little over 48 hours for me to make my way through the entire “A Soloprenuer’s Guide” course by Jim Galiano….

November 16, 2019

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A Unique Way to Say “Thanks”

Ever since we had Jason Resneck on the show a while back talking about “pro-active word of mouth marketing” I’ve been putting a lot…

November 6, 2019

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Quit Asking Prospects What They Want Their Website to Look Like.

Newer agency owners and freelancers always seem to ask questions about how to get higher paying gigs. This typically leads them to ask questions…

October 2, 2019

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New Funnel Pack Released: Once again, pure brilliance!

The folks over at Funnel Packs just released the latest in their family of pre-built funnels for your digital agency: The Reviews Funnel Pack…

September 27, 2019