Category: WordPress for Business
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How the World’s Top CEOs Stay Productive All Week Long
Anyone can be busy, but being busy doesn’t necessarily mean you’re using your time wisely or effectively. As Tim Ferriss advises in his best-selling book The 4-Hour Work Week: “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” Why? Because emails and meetings might help you check off items on your to-do list, but are really just…
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The 7-Step Approach Pagely Used to Systematize Sales
Whatever your industry, mission or role, your ultimate success will be determined by how well you: Identify the activities that move the needle for your cause. Establish repeatable playbooks and systems for executing those activities. Automate and delegate your way out of the muck. At Pagely we embrace the practice of systems thinking and prefer…
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How 5 Emotionally Intelligent CEOs Handle Their Power
The idea that CEOs are demanding and even ruthless Machiavellian types has become something of a cliche in American cinema. From Montgomery Burns on The Simpsons to Bobby Axelrod on Billions, the belief that CEOs will stop at nothing to get their way has become an entrenched stereotype. Yet, in the modern workplace, the reality…
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The Complete Guide to Running a WordPress Forum
Forums and message boards are one of the oldest forms of online community, pre-dating social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. They’re also still the most popular means for asking and answering questions, not to mention a sure-fire way to grow an engaged community around your business. WordPress is the perfect platform for creating an…
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Put Your House in Order with CrazyEgg
Over the last few years, we’ve undergone a complete rebranding of the Pagely website. It was a total re-do of everything. Our primary goal was to not just improve the aesthetics of our site, but the sales performance of it as well. Get more people seeing the information we want them to see, and ultimately…
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These are the Biggest Headaches in WordPress for 2018: Survey & Results
WordPress has officially surpassed powering 30% of the Internet, dominating all other content management systems available to webmasters. With growth trends continuing on a steady incline year-on-year more of the top 10 million websites online are using WordPress than ever before. With growth comes opportunity, and today there is an entire ecosystem of businesses thriving…
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4 SaaS Trends to Watch in 2018
It wasn’t all that long ago that you bought software on a CD-ROM and someone from IT had to install it on your computer for you. In recent years, however, more and more businesses have moved away from this on-premises software model in favor of web-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. In fact, according to BSCG research,…
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How to Evaluate Freelancers for Your Growing WordPress Business
I was reading something the other day about the differences between entrepreneurs and solopreneurs. Basically, solopreneurs build a business based on their passion and are completely content with handling the workload on their own. Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, might build a WordPress business based on their passion, but would rather serve as the face…
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From Humble Beginnings to Internet Dominance: The Rise of WordPress
WordPress has officially taken over the internet. Actually, that happened a while ago, but with W3Techs reporting that WordPress is powering 30% of the Internet, there can be no doubt. The report goes on to indicate that WordPress owns a whopping 60.3% market share, almost 10 times more than their closest competitor, Joomla, which came…
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10 Beautiful WordPress Business Themes for 2018
When it comes to building or updating your WordPress website in 2018, there are certain questions you absolutely need to answer. For example: Is your website going to have a modern look that’s elegant and beautiful? Is your current or proposed WordPress theme for 2018 a functional and intuitive design? Will it present your business…