Customers loved these franchises once before. New owners are betting they will again. View original post at Entrepreneur…
23 Best CRM Tools for WordPress to Boost Your Business
John Russell, the President of Harley Davidson, once said, “The more you engage with customers the clearer things become and the easier it is to determine what you should be doing.” But when you have random sheets of paper, Excel spreadsheets, and Rolodexes of customer info to contend with, this wasn’t always a realistic goal for some businesses. Luckily these days, …
Shiny Updates Approved for Partial Merge Into WordPress 4.6
The Shiny Updates project was approved for partial merge today during an additional meeting designated for reviewing improvements added within the last week. A decision was expected last week but was delayed after contributors discovered that the plugin required three more audits to be ready for merge. Drew Jaynes completed a documentation audit and Dominik Schilling completed a security review …
Startups: Here's How You Craft Your Own Definition of Success
Business owners measure success in many different ways. Use these three tips to help benchmark what success looks like for you. View original post at Entrepreneur…
5 Dead-Simple Ways to Spring Clean Your WordPress Site
Spring cleaning. I picture perspiring ladies in full-skirted dresses and pearls, beating a rug thrown over a clothesline with clouds of dust puffing into the sky. But spring cleaning is vital for your WordPress site. You use the concept all the time, but you’re essentially doing a hit and run version, eager to complete the few tasks necessary to move …
How to Let a Client Preview Their WordPress Site Before it Goes Live
So you’ve built a beautiful WordPress website that fits your client’s needs, wants, and requirements to a t. There’s just one hurdle left: Your client doesn’t want the site going live until they’ve signed off on the finished product. Presenting a finished site–or, at least, a supposedly finished site–is one scenario in which you may need to come up with …
How to Install WordPress on a USB Flash Drive
Did you know you can install and run a WordPress site from a USB flash drive? Well, you can, and this little-known fact is more than just a neat trick. A portable WordPress installation can actually be quite useful. Why in the world would you ever need to run WordPress from a flash drive? Shouldn’t this be filed away under …
Finding WordPress in the Post-Print News Era
photo credit: Alexis Doyen For the first time in history, more Americans are working for online publications than for traditional print newspapers. In his report on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, NiemanLab’s Joseph Lichterman succinctly summarizes the slow death of the American newspaper: It’s safe to assume that newspaper jobs will continue to evaporate. Most small and …
What's in a Name? In Branding, Pretty Much Everything.
Entrepreneur Network partner Salma Jafri explains how naming your ideas can help them stand out in a crowded market. View original post at Entrepreneur…
The Ultimate Guide to A/B Split Testing with WordPress
Does the thought of your website keep you up at night? Do all the “what ifs” have you worrying about the design, the functionality, the calls to action, the wording and, ultimately, your conversions?? You could have your designer/developer make changes based on what you think might help with improving the number of site visitors, the time they spend on …