Business

10 Step Guide To Doing Your Own Thing (With WordPress)

I’ll share the 10 most important things I’ve learned since I started to use WordPress and the experiences faced in starting a WordPress-focused web development agency. I’ll share stuff on how focusing on a single path and managing your ideas, risks, fears and failures will make you better at what you do. I’ll also include my own personal mantra about why I chose to go 100% WordPress, quite simply: “You’re either a genius or an … Continue reading

Fired Up For Business

Your energy and productivity are crucial for business success. Health is fundamental to your energy and productivity. • Feel like you’re living in the fast lane? • Energy levels on the floor? • You’re surviving rather than thriving? Rachel demystifies the mire of confusion about health, and shares her own “4 Pillars of Vitality” that are essential for living a healthy lifestyle.

Crossing the bridge from corporate comfort to start-up solitude

Corporate life does not prepare you for the day you set out on your own. For many creating a new business or consultancy whether by choice or no choice is a frightening leap into the unknown. Quentin talks about the highs and lows of being your own boss. In particular, he tackles the unique start-up challenges of: isolation, minimal resource, team building, choosing business partners (or not), delegation, cash flow, multi-tasking, planning as well as off and online … Continue reading

Learn more than the average Web Developer

Steve is going to teach the 10 things that people MUST know BEFORE they Build a Website. It’s focused around the strategy and covers the following 10 topics: http://onlinemastery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/10-STEPS.pdf Steve will also explain how Web Design is Dead and how WordPress specifically has created a new industry and why its important to understand the foundation on either your own project or a clients.

Catering for WordPress

Building an online integrated information and support system for the catering / hospitality sector. The catering industry has very few tools available to help them create/store recipes, plan menus and work out costings that can be shared with members of staff and other branches of a chain. This talk would cover one solution to this, showing how WordPress has been used as an intranet for businesses in the restaurant/catering industry. Features include working as a … Continue reading

Improvisation – A Vital Tool for Business Success

The ability to ‘think on your feet’ is not only valuable but vital to your business’ success. Without the confidence to do so, you can be really limiting your business growth. We improvise everywhere- conversations, meetings, interviews, presentations, sometimes without realising it. All we need to do is develop these everyday skills further to see positive, measurable change in the success of professional interactions.

Is WordPress always the right tool for the Job?

A case study of how we have used WordPress in creative ways and a few of the bumps we have had along the way.

Building Products using WordPress

In his session, Noel will talk about how WordPress can be used to build web applications. He’ll draw on examples using Happytables, a SaaS built on top of WordPress.

Smart tips and tricks for managing freelancers

Freelancer is the ‘new employment’. Most organisations use freelancers for some tasks but some even build an entire business model on using freelancers. It’s not all ‘legal free’. Freelancers in the UK have a whole range of rights – and some, despite their label are not really freelancers at all but turn out to be employees. How do you plot your way through this territory and arrive at profitable and reliable relationships with the freelancers … Continue reading

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