Category: WordPress for Business
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What Companies Can Learn From Google’s Quest to Create the Perfect Team
What does it take to build the perfect team? Like many companies, Google executives believed that the best teams were made up of the best people. In the words of Julia Rozovsky, an analyst in Google’s People Operations division, “Take one Rhodes Scholar, two extroverts, one engineer who rocks at AngularJS, and a PhD. Voila.…
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How to Find the Best WordPress Business Themes
These three steps will help you determine the best WordPress business themes for your website. In this article I’ll dive deep into each step so you know exactly how to go about evaluating and understanding your needs and options. Evaluate your WordPress Business Site’s Needs Understand the Risks of Using WordPress Business Themes Evaluate the…
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6 Leadership Lessons from Phil Knight, Co-Founder of Nike
Two companies IPO’ed on the same day in December of 1980. They would go on to change industries and redefine advertising. And buying stocks that day in either of these corporations would have made you enormously wealthy. Their names? Apple and Nike. While they started off on the same day, three decades later Apple dwarfs…
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8 Effective Ways to Stay Ahead of the Holiday Sales Slump
For B2B companies, the holiday season can have a major impact on your revenue. In fact, research shows that the last quarter of the year is considered a slow period for B2B sales. Prospects are less likely to commit to a purchase and focus time on, say, their fully managed WordPress hosting. When you see…
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40 Must-Read Blogs for Leadership & Entrepreneurs
Countless entrepreneurs have written about their personal experiences — their wildly successful ventures and stunning failures. Some are so transparent that they publish their financials for others to dissect and comment upon. These 40 blogs for C-suite, executives and entrepreneurs are must-reads, so browse through and add your favorites to your morning repertoire. This collection…
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How to Enable Default Featured Images in WordPress
Despite strong branding being at the heart of your company’s marketing, there are many ways it can get lost on your website. Featured images are one such example, and neglecting to set them up properly means a branding opportunity missed. Featured images are visual representations of the posts and pages on your WordPress website. These…
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Are Conversational Interfaces the Future of Websites?
A few years back, I was surprised when I turned on my PlayStation to settle in for a night of marathoning horror movies on Netflix. It wasn’t that they had changed the interface of the platform or anything. Instead, what they did was introduce a chat bot named Max. Does anyone else remember him? This…
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5 Key Takeaways from Jeff Bezos’ Leadership Style
Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, is soon to become the world’s richest person. And, if we are to believe him, he’s just getting started. He’s not the only one who thinks so. RBC Capital’s managing director, Mark Mahaney, estimates Amazon is on track to become the world’s first trillion dollar company. And if…
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Our Lean Startup
There are a lot of misconceptions about lean startups. This is a great introduction to the nuances of the topic, with concepts we subscribe to. However in the context of this post, I’ll equate “lean” practices to bootstrapping – or the efficient use of resources. How did Pagely evolve from a Managed WordPress Hosting company…
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What is Managed WordPress Hosting?
There’s no denying that WordPress is one of the most powerful website hosting platforms on the market today. It offers extensive SEO capabilities, robust security, and all the customization features a website owner might need. WordPress also has a worldwide community of developers, bloggers, and experts dedicated to growing and improving the open-source platform. However,…