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Blue Oceans. Notes on Joshua Strebel’s WCPHX Keynote presentation (Part 2)
This is part two of a series on my recent keynote for WordCamp Phoenix, where I took the stage in front of my local business and WordPress community to share some insights and lessons learned. The video is embedded below and in this post, I will unpack a couple of the concepts and ideas from…
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Bias and Self Delusion. Notes on Joshua Strebel’s WCPHX Keynote Presentation (Part 1)
I had the pleasure of being a keynote speaker at WordCamp Phoenix this winter. I used the opportunity to share some hard-earned insights and lessons-learned from my 10 years as CEO of Pagely. The video is embedded below. In this post I’ll unpack a couple of the concepts and ideas from my talk. These are…
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To WWW or Not to WWW? How to Add WWW to Your URLs in WordPress
There are a number of reasons you might need to change the URL of your WordPress site. Say a change to the brand, or the required switch from HTTP to HTTPS for security purposes. Then, of course, there’s the matter of updating a website from www to a naked (non-www) URL. In the following tutorial,…
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Lead Generation Campaigns: As Told by 19 Top Agencies & Makers
Do you know where your last lead came from? While the basics of lead generation remain the same, new technology and methodologies are changing the way agencies gather leads for their clients and forcing them to assess their own lead generation strategies. With the market saturated, marketers are doubling their efforts at measuring the success…
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A Guide to Using Lead Magnets
Having a solid business model and offering isn’t always enough to convert visitors on their first, second, or even third visit to your website. But how do you ensure that a visitor will return to your site and go from being a random window shopper to becoming a customer? You could cross your fingers and…
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7 Useful Enterprise WordPress Plugins for 2019
WordPress is an open-source content management system with a secure core and large support community with nearly 60% of the market share for content systems; the closest competitor is Joomla at 6.3%. A large portion of that market is made up of enterprise users, like Visa, Disney, and Time Inc. and as a result, new…
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Boost Customers’ Post Holiday Spending with Your WordPress Site
Between November 1 and December 31 of 2017, e-commerce businesses racked up a total of $108.15 billion in sales, according to Adobe. 2018’s holiday season sales are estimated to reach $124.1 billion, which is an impressive leap and one that’s sure to delight e-commerce companies everywhere. Smart targeting of the 4 different kinds of…
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Gutenberg and WordPress 5.0: What You Need to Know
As of December 6, 2018 WordPress 5.0 Bebo has been released, making Gutenberg now the defacto editor on WordPress applications. Pagely strives to keep all applications up to date, ensuring that the latest version is available to and being utilized by our customers. Given the magnitude of this update we wanted to address some steps…
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Pagely Security Research, and Disclosure Policy
This post is about the realities both good and bad that come with the responsibility of reporting vulnerabilities. The long days of summer are gone, fall has faded away and winter is upon us… reflecting back over the past months the Pagely security team spent some of those days uncovering and reporting a number of…
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eCommerce Tips: Black Friday & Cyber November
Black Friday has traditionally marked the start of the holiday shopping season, but in recent years spending has taken a dive as consumers snub physical stores to shop online. In fact, two-thirds of Americans find holiday shopping stressful and would rather shovel snow, visit their in-laws, go to the dentist, text their boss or even…