How to Build a Podcast Membership: Looking at the Creator Crew

How to Build a Podcast Membership: Looking at the Creator Crew

There are a lot of aspects to consider when creating a membership site. Aside from the tech stack, you need to determine what you’re going to offer and why it’s compelling. In some cases, like a monthly subscription box or access to education resources, the offer is clear. But what about for content creators? Well, I just rolled out my membership and here’s everything I put into it. Plus, in Build Something More, I tell you how I evaluated membership plugins, and what further benefits can look like.

Better Audience Engagement for Your Content with Taylor Waldon

Better Audience Engagement for Your Content with Taylor Waldon

Before we get too deep into this season, I wanted to make sure you and I have a good baseline for creating content and engaging with the audience. Taylor Waldon, the Content Strategist for GiveWP, does a fantastic job of this. We talk about how they are expanding their niche and why creating the right content is crucial. This is a must list for anyone who’s creating content for their small business, no matter what you do.

Growing Your Network through Community Involvement with Vito Peleg

Growing Your Network through Community Involvement with Vito Peleg

Vito Peleg runs a very popular WordPress plugin called WP Feedback, but did you know he also runs a community under the same name? In this episode we talk all about the importance of community in growing your business. Now, during this episode we talk a lot about in-person events, and as I record this intro, there aren’t a whole lot of events going on right now. But digital communities are on the rise and they can be just as powerful. Take Vito’s advice to heart because it’s good, and important!

Using Social Proof to Improve Your Sales with Tevya Washburn

Using Social Proof to Improve Your Sales with Tevya Washburn

Tevya Washburn reached out to me over the summer and asked if I might be interested in having him on the show – it turns out his timing was great. See Tevya created a WordPress plugin to help gather and display social proof, and I had just finished read a book that talks about the importance of social proof. So we chat about how he came up with the idea, why he built it, and of-course, how. This is a pretty traditional episode of the show, and I hope you enjoy it!

Building Better Marketing Automation through WordPress with Adrian Tobey

Building Better Marketing Automation through WordPress with Adrian Tobey

Adrian Tobey is a young, energetic entrepreneur who’s build a pretty cool WordPress plugin in Groundhogg – something to help with yout marketing automation. On top of creating the plugin we talk quite a bit about college and higher education. He talks fast and offers some great advice so be sure to pay close attention (or slow the episode down!)

Building the State Department’s Website with Tracy Rotton

Building the State Department’s Website with Tracy Rotton

Tracy Rotton is a longtime friend of mine from the WordPress space – we met because we happened to be writing similar books around the same time! Well, Tracy has gone on to do some very cool things – one of which is leaning a WordPress development team for the Federal Government – specifically to completely redesign state.gov – the State Department’s website. We talk about lots of stuff, from the actual development, to working for such a huge organization, and how to handle working with different corporate cultures.

Coaching Entrepreneurs with Alex McClafferty

Coaching Entrepreneurs with Alex McClafferty

Alex McClafferty has a wealth of business experience to share with us this week. Not only did he build a successful business within the WordPress space – WP Curve – he ended up selling it to GoDaddy. That experience showed him that the number of resources for selling your business were scarce, and now he’s doing that – completely embracing the “teach what you know” mentality.

Staying Physically Healthy While Freelancing with Michelle Schulp

Staying Physically Healthy While Freelancing with Michelle Schulp

Michelle Schulp is a fantastic web designer in the WordPress space – you make have seen her work on the WP Hierarch chart. Recently she’s launched a new initiative talking about fitness and freelancing. Last week we touched a bit on mental health. This week we’re going to dive into physical health, especially when running your own business.