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This week’s WP-Tonic Roundtable (Jason Marlowe, Mendel Kurland, Kim Shivler and leader Jonathan Denwood), considered different types of Marketing Automation. While many people think of Email Automation, Marketing Automation covers more than email. As Jason pointed out, it’s taking any process in your business and automating it. Mendel likens automation to a trash compactor. It condenses the time you have to manually spend on tasks so that you have time to do other things within your business. We discussed several Email Automation tools including Drip https://www.drip.co/ and Active Campaign http://www.activecampaign.com/ along with MailChimp https://mailchimp.com/ which now includes automation services in their free accounts. Text options and text messaging automation were also highlighted since these are growing in popularity. Mendel has been actively tracking his traffic and email options for his site https://hikingwithgeeks.com/. He considers how visitors interact with the site and measures the effects of his email campaigns. Big takeaway is to set a goal and measure your results. “Don’t spend money or time, indiscriminately on something you haven’t set a goal for and can’t measure.”

In this episode and, in this corner, weighing in at an undisclosed weight, the WordPress Wrangler, the Marketing Magician, the Digital Demagogue - Jason Marlowe. Haha. Does that work? If not, you can use this: Jason Marlowe is a WordPress consultant, digital marketer, co-host of the LunchBreak Marketing podcast, and 16-year website design veteran. He's also a husband.

We have a great Friday round-table show with two great special guests Chris Badgett, joint founder of LifterLMS &. Dave Kiss founder of LunchBox. We also have some really interesting news stories which we discuss in the first half of the show. Then in the second half, we go into some detail on the main subject of the show “Creating An Online Video Course Using WordPress.” https://lifterlms.com/ https://wplunchbox.com/

 Special Interview With Kimberly Shivler + How To Get New Clients   In this episode of the show, we interview Kim Shivler who has agreed to be my new co-host. We discuss Kim involvement with WordPress and its community. Kim has spoken at some WordCamps and WordCamp USA. Kim is an expert on LMS (learning management systems), and we discuss this subject in the interview. In the second half of the show, we discuss my latest blog post “The Complete Guide to Customer Acquisition” and all the things I have learned over the past couple of years connected to getting new client online. https://www.wp-tonic.com/blog/complete-guide-customer-acquisition/  

This week’s, WP-Tonic Roundtable (Lee Jackson, Sallie Goetsch, Adam Preiser, Jason Marlowe, Kim Shivler and leader Jonathan Denwood) discussed the different things people mean when they talk about Membership Websites. We covered meanings from content restricted areas to business directories and social networking platforms. With so many different meanings of the term, we delved into the importance of discovery calls with clients when they ask for a membership website. When the requirement is content restriction, the group covered plugins including RestrictContent Pro and MemberPress, and Lee Jackson explained how in many circumstances, restricting content may be better handled with simple coding than the complexity of a membership plugin. Other Videos to Link to in the YouTube Description WP-Tonic Membership Plugins The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOKCizr5ryA&list=PLnNCF8qoG7xvt6DCyXNpaS9XbrbzoW-Z0&index=47 WP-Tonic Planning Large Scale Web Projects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql7DwpUsvOA&index=14&list=PLnNCF8qoG7xvt6DCyXNpaS9XbrbzoW-Z0 WP-Tonic Mike Morrisson of The Membership Guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTKl3_B9Dqc

Tracey Halvorsen is a consultant, designer, painter, author, and speaker. Her background in visual art and computer-based technology and her hands-on style of leadership has helped Fastspot consistently create award-winning and industry recognized websites, applications and marketing campaigns.

We had a great round-table show here we really did have some great new stories and a really interesting discussion than in the second half of the show we want to some detail connected to our main topic “Tools For Understanding Your Site Visitors “ We also had a great special guest Jason Marlowe co-host of the LunchBreak Marketing Podcast. Go to WP-Tonic's website for a full set of show notes and links.   Main Topic 215 WP-Tonic Round Table Show :Tools For Understanding Your Site Visitors This Weeks Discussion Stories 1 -  SiteLock Acquires Patchman’s Malware and Vulnerability Detection Technology, Expands WordPress Customer Base to 4 Million https://wptavern.com/sitelock-acquires-patchmans-malware-and-vulnerability-detection-technology-expands-wordpress-customer-base-to-4-million 2 - Adobe to Discontinue Flash Support and Updates in 2020 https://wptavern.com/adobe-to-discontinue-flash-support-and-updates-in-2020 3 - Envato has too much cash, so its staff will share its riches http://www.afr.com/technology/envato-has-too-much-cash-so-its-staff-will-share-its-riches-20170717-gxd8qe hotjare 4 - Marketo’s domain expired (Lessons to learn) http://jasonmarlowe.com/marketo/ There you go Marketo couldn’t afford a 5 year auto renew GoDaddy account! https://zoom.us/webinar/register/178fe6befd1fd59c8c34be5db4a05ad8 5-  GoDaddy Launches WordPress Premium Support To Provide Small Businesses With 24x7 Expertise https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/news-releases/news-releases-details/2017/GoDaddy-Launches-WordPress-Premium-Support-To-Provide-Small-Businesses-With-24x7-Expertise/default.aspx P.s I just love it was published on an ASPX page!!! 6 - Beaver Builder: A WordPress Developer’s Perspective https://wpshout.com/beaver-builder-wordpress-developers-perspective/

We have a great interview here with Dave Kiss founder of both Vimeography & WPLunchbox. https://vimeography.com/ https://wplunchbox.com/ http://davekiss.com/develop-wordpress-sites-like-a-goddamn-champion/

We have an exciting show here for you folks with a great panel of WordPress experts and thought leaders in the WordPress community. We covered a load of territory in this round-table episode. We had some interesting stories and the main one being “ Inside WordPress.org Theme Review Team: Money, Abuse and Inconsistent Leadership.” Then in the second half of the show, we went on to discuss our most important subject “Speeding Up WordPress Development” with the panel giving some excellent tips and tricks connected to some of the things that have to help them increase the speed of the development.