Discovery

Do Your Clients a Favor and Require Paid Discovery

I recently moved my agency to a paid discovery model and shared the framework I use. ...

Kyle Van Deusen

7 Privacy Mistakes

Top 7 Privacy Mistakes That Web Designers Make

Think your privacy practices are solid? You might be surprised. From 'Accept-only' cookie banners to pre-checked opt-ins, these 7 common mistakes could leave your site (and clients) exposed.

Trevor Willingham

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How to Fix Interaction to Next Paint (INP) and Total Blocking Time (TBT) Issues

Learn how to improve INP and TBT to boost your website's speed with practical tips and strategies.

Brian Jackson

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How to Fix Website Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Issues

Understand Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), its impact on user experience, and practical tips to measure and improve your website's performance.

Brian Jackson

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How to Fix Website First Contentful Paint (FCP) Issues

Discover the importance of First Contentful Paint (FCP) in enhancing user experience and learn practical tips to optimize your website's FCP for better perceived performance and faster load times.

Brian Jackson

Sales Process Blog

How I Sell Websites: A Look Into My 3-Step Sales Process

Learn how my step-by-step sales workflow has helped me weed out tire-kickers, identify the best prospects, and even get paid for project discovery!

Kyle Van Deusen

Vitality Lcp

How to Fix Website Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Issues

Learn how to solve the most common WordPress LCP issues.

Brian Jackson

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How to Fix Time to First Byte (TTFB) Issues

Learn how to improve Time to First Byte (TTFB) and boost your website's speed with practical tips and strategies.

Brian Jackson

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How to Respond to Privacy Rights Requests

Learn what a privacy rights request is and how to fulfill it in a timely and efficient manner.

Trevor Willingham

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Configuring SMTP for WordPress for Reliable Email Deliverability

Discover how to configure SMTP for WordPress to enhance email deliverability and ensure your messages reach the inbox.

Mark Westguard

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Copywriting Tips and Tricks: How to Speed up the Copywriting Process and Save Money

No two projects are ever the same. On one hand, it’s part of what makes the ...

Abby Wood

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Effective Spam Defense for WordPress Forms

Use a combination of these layers to provide yourself with the best line of defense against spam from WordPress forms.

Mark Westguard

How to Create a GeneratePress Child Theme

Dive into WordPress child themes! Learn why they're cool and how they save your custom tweaks.

Kyle Van Deusen

Create Pages Faster Than Ever (with TextExpander)

Paste entire layouts into the WordPress editor using TextExpander snippets!

Kyle Van Deusen

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Build it with Blocks — WaveApps.com

In this live event, I shared my process for building (or in this case, rebuilding) sites ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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Writing Processes & SOP’s (A Real-Life Example)

An over-the-shoulder look at me writing up processes and standard operating procedures for client website builds.

Kyle Van Deusen

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Agency Sales Framework (with Cliff Almeida)

Cliff Almeida joins us to share his Agency Sales Framework and how he’s used this exact ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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The Pipeline is Key: Here’s Why Being Reactive is Not Enough

Struggling to keep your pipeline filled? Learn why reactive marketing might be holding you back, and what you can do about it.

Kyle Van Deusen

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Charging for Discovery (S.O.P.)

A full breakdown of why you should be charging for project discovery, and exactly how to do it!

Hans Skillrud

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The Orderly Inbox

The Orderly Inbox, a.k.a. “inbox zero” isn’t about always being caught up on all of your ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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How To Build A Checkout Page That Converts

To deliver a great shopping experience to online consumers, you have to be able to build a checkout page that is simple, easy to use, and is ultimately built with one thing in mind: conversions.

Nick Butler

Tuesday

What’s the best day to launch a website, and why is it Tuesday?

According to the web development community, the best day to launch a website is Tuesday — and there's a good argument for it.

Kyle Van Deusen

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How To Sell Copywriting Services To Your Clients

How you can make a profit from outsourcing copywriting.

Abby Wood

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Creating “Burner” Email Addresses for Setting Up Client Accounts

Setting Up & Accessing Accounts for Clients is a Pain Through the process of developing websites ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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My Experience Getting a Fraudulent Google Review Removed

A couple weeks back I must have made someone local upset. Perhaps I flipped them the ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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How Do You Manage Clients Who Are In The Same Industry?

One day you’re going to get a request from one of your clients’ competitors to work ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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Help Your Clients Promote Their Website Post-Launch (Free Email Template)

After noticing clients not updating their social media profiles or directory listings with their website address ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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7 Reasons I’ll Only Invoice Care Plans Monthly

Now and then a client will ask if they can pay for their care plan for ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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You NEED This Free Website Policies Waiver (to protect yourself AND your clients)

Privacy laws are no joke — just ask the companies getting sued for not having the ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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How to hire a great copywriter (and avoid the bad ones)

Hiring a copywriter is a long and difficult process. I’ve been working as a copywriter for ...

Abby Wood

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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 ...

Dapo Babarinde

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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 ...

SEOHive

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".

Matthew Sebert

Cloudflare Rules For Elementor

Creating Page Rules in Cloudflare for Elementor

Cloudflare improves your website’s overall loading speed with additional security and performance benefits. Amongst the many ...

Dapo Babarinde

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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 ...

Donna Cavalier

Mailerlite Woo

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 ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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My Inbox-Zero Strategy

After one of the busiest and most stressful weeks of my life, I posted a status ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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— ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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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 ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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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 ...

Kyle Van Deusen

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The 1 Year Anniversary (of a HUGE mistake)

They say mistakes are like assholes, everyone’s got one but no one likes to talk about ...

Kyle Van Deusen