VegasGeek covers the business side of running a WordPress agency including client relationships, automation, and the decisions that don’t show up in a changelog. This includes pieces like talking a client out of a project that wasn’t right for them, and finding the “vision gap” that keeps business owners from spotting automation opportunities in their own workflows. If you run a service business on top of WordPress, this is the operational side of that work.
A few weeks ago I was on a call with a client who wanted us to build them an AI tool. They’d heard about AI. Everyone has. They wanted some of it on their site, and that’s a completely reasonable thing to want right now. So we started talking through what it would actually do….
I love teaching. There, I said it. Over the years, I’ve provided one-on-one training in person and via Zoom. I’ve organized a local meetup, I’ve spoken at conferences across the country, and I’ve even created webinars. But the one method that I hadn’t done was to create an online course. It’s something that I’ve wanted…
This week, while answering questions in a WordPress forum on Facebook, somebody asked: What is the best way to give my client access to update content but not give them full control of the WordPress Dashboard? I’ve been asked this question many times in the past, and here is how I typically answer it: Rather…
A few months back I was at a conference called Pressnomics. It’s an absolutely fantastic event not only for the solid presentations, but the hallway conversations had at this event are better than any I’ve at any other event ever. At the end of one of the days of presentations there was an after party….
This is the 14th and final post in a series called Y U No Tell me; Lessons learned from building a WordPress development business. For a list of all posts in the series, please start here. I work a lot. I always have. I also have an obsessive personality, so if there’s something I like…
This is the 13th post in a series called Y U No Tell me; Lessons learned from building a WordPress development business. For a list of all posts in the series, please start here. This post could also have been titled “The Control Freak Syndrome.” When we were getting started with 9seeds, we were trying…
This is the 12th post in a series called Y U No Tell me; Lessons learned from building a WordPress development business. For a list of all posts in the series, please start here. WordPress is not the Golden Hammer. There. I said it. Even though we specialize in WordPress development, we always keep that…
This is the 11th post in a series called Y U No Tell me; Lessons learned from building a WordPress development business. For a list of all posts in the series, please start here. When you’re first starting a company, something that you need to spend some time on is coming up with a company…
This is the 10th post in a series called Y U No Tell me; Lessons learned from building a WordPress development business. For a list of all posts in the series, please start here. At 9seeds we have a team of about 10 people. At any given time, each of us will have 1-5 projects…
This is the ninth post in a series called Y U No Tell me; Lessons learned from building a WordPress development business. For a list of all posts in the series, please start here. Let’s do a couple quick math problems together. 5 + 1 = 6. I think we both agree on that. How…
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