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Main Topic How To Us Affiliate Marketing Successfully To Grow Your Business In this week show we discuss affiliate marketing and we have a special guest Brian Jackson Chief Marketing Officer at Kinsta Wordpress Hosting https://kinsta.com/. Brian https://brianjackson.io/ also runs two successful WordPress plugin businesses with this brother Perfmatters https://perfmatters.io/ and WP-Coupons https://wpcoupons.io/ Also Brian runs a highly successful WordPress and marketing information website that gets over 40 visitors per month Woorkup https://woorkup.com/deals/ We in the second half of the show discuss all things affiliate marketing from what are the best plugin platforms connected to WordPress and affiliate marketing to what works connected to building up affiliate network that really works. This Weeks WordPress News and Main Discussion Topics For This Week Friday 8th of December 2017 1 - Matt Mullenweg “State of the Word 2017” https://wordpress.tv/ 2 - Gutenberg and The Impacts It’ll Have on the WordPress Business Ecosystem By Tony Perez https://perezbox.com/2017/12/gutenberg-impacts-itll-wordpress-business-ecosystem/ 3 - You Shouldn’t Put All Your Eggs In The WordPress Basket – Interviewing CreativeMinds CEO, David Rashty

This week, host Jonathan Denwood and co-host Kim Shivler discussed learning management systems including fully-hosted third party platforms like Thinkific and Kajabi and WordPress Learning Management System (LMS) plugins like LearnDash and LifterLMS.   In other show episodes, Jonathan and Kim have interviewed Justin Ferriman of LearnDash and Chris Badgett from LifterLMS to discuss their products. This time they ventured beyond self-hosted platforms into fully configured and hosted options including Kajabi, Thinkific, Teachable, and Udemy. For many people, a self-hosted plan is a better option. It does provide the limitations of working in someone else’s platform and provides the freedom to create content without worrying about building and maintaining a platform.   KAJABI https://newkajabi.com/   Udemy https://www.udemy.com/   Thinkific https://thinkific.com   Teachable https://teachable.com   ——————————   WordPress Plugin Solution   LearnDash https://www.learndash.com/   LifterLMS https://lifterlms.com/   Sensei https://woocommerce.com/products/sensei/   WP Courseware http://support.wpcourseware.com/  

On today’s roundtable, Sallie Goetsch and John Locke joined the show’s co-host Kim Shivler to share tips for making your websites mobile friendly along with recent news stories. While mobile responsive design has been around for many years, and you would think everyone was designing this way by now, we find that many people still ignore it. From large background videos that don’t load well on phones to content that is designed for a print layout not online layout, we still see major issues trying to access websites from a mobile device. John Locke’s top tips included: Pay attention to the typography. He finds many sites with small fonts that are not legible on mobile. He recommends font sizes of at least 16 pixels. Tap targets, those buttons you must tap with your finger on a mobile device, need to be big enough to tap on.

We Interview With Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS Chris Badgett Chris Badgett went from managing a dog sled tour company in Alaska to the joint creator of LifterLMS; a software company that allows users to have complete control over the creation of their online courses. He’s also the host of the LMSCast podcast and is dedicated to empowering people to generate more impact, and income, with online education https://lifterlms.com/

Bill Conrad Founder of National Association of Podcasters We Interview founder of National Association of Podcasters Bill Conrad who also was my co-host of the WP-Tonic show for its first 90 episodes. Bill is now the founder of the National Association of Podcasters and has done a number of presentations at WordCamps on how to use podcasting to build your business and reputation online. Also bill offers a number of inexpensive courses connected to helping people get into podcasting. https://podcastershome.com/membership/ The National Association of Podcasters, NAOP.US is a trade association and is organized, founded and funded by new media businesses and members. We are in the process of creating bylaws, forming a board of advisors & directors and hiring an executive director. The NAOP.US participates in public relations activities, advertising, education, political donations, lobbying, and publishing.… https://naop.us/about/

This Weeks WordPress New & Discussion Topics (first half of the show) 1 - Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem https://poststatus.com/interview-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-ecosystem-draft-podcast/ 2 - WordPress 4.9 Released with Major Improvements to Customizer Workflow, Updated Code Editors, and New Core Gallery Widget https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-released-with-major-improvements-to-customizer-workflow-updated-code-editors-and-new-core-gallery-widget 3 - The blue-collar WordPress worker and the 2,500+ websites built to grow the CMShttps://mattreport.com/growth-of-wordpress/ https://mattreport.com/growth-of-wordpress/ Second half of the show’s main topic “Extending WordPress Using ACF (Advanced Custom Fields)”  

Chris Rogers is the Co-Organizer of WordCamp Las Vegas 2017 and 2014 and Co-Organizer & Frequent Speaker of the Vegas WP Meetup Group. He has a degree in MultiMedia from West Los Angeles College. Chris is a professional actor with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting & Minor in Voice from University of Louisville and started his dance training at the Louisville Ballet. Yesterday, he launched CraftYada teaching people in the Entertainment Business how to create websites for their career. He got the idea from Kim Shivler’s inspiring presentation at WordCamp 2015.

#244: WP Tonic Show We Interview Adam Fout We Discuss The World of Online Content Marketing Does It Really Work? Adam Fout Blue Steele Solutions https://bluesteelesolutions.com/ This is Adam Fout, lead content writer for Blue Steele Solutions and an unabashed content marketing nerd. His articles have been featured on a variety industry sites, including PostFunnel and The Layout, and he'll be speaking this weekend at DFW WordCamp on the topic of content marketing. WordCamp Dallas https://2017.dfw.wordcamp.org/ Key Discussion Point During The Interview 1 Content Marketing Strategy 2 - Style Guilds 3 - How to Delegate, Automate your Content Marketing 4 - Editorial Calendar 5 - Killer Content Research Tactics 6 - Lead Magnets 7 - SOP Standard Operating Procedures  

We have a great round-table show here. Our main topic this week is “How Do You Write Great Content For Your WordPress Website?” which is a subject I personally have been focusing on in the last couple of months. We also have some great WordPress news stories which we discuss in the second half of the show.   Main Topic “How Do You Write Great Content For Your WordPress Website?” This Week’s News Stories 1 - The WordPress product market is completely different now By Scott Bolinger https://poststatus.com/wordpress-product-market-completely-different-now/ 2 - User Testing Gutenberg https://yoast.com/dev-blog/user-testing-gutenberg/   3 - GDPR for WordPress Project Seeks to Provide a Standard for Plugin Compliance https://wptavern.com/gdpr-for-wordpress-project-seeks-to-provide-a-standard-for-plugin-compliance

Main Topic “Does The Genesis Framework Have a Future in a World of Theme & Page Builders?” This Weeks New Stories 1 - Gutenberg Contributors Explore Alternative to Using iframes for Meta Boxes https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-contributors-explore-alternative-to-using-iframes-for-meta-boxes   2 - Provide plain language outline of project scope, direction, and goals for Gutenberg https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/3354 3 - From €21,000 to €44,000/monthly: The company rises http://blog.weglot.com/