Business

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

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional

15 years in the Hosting industry. Rackspace from 100x growth in 10 years. Why I believe in WordPress. Gartner’s view of WordPress. My vision for WP Engine in Europe

Use WordPress to Find Clients

Rob Cubbon discusses how he uses WordPress to find clients.

The Business of WordPress

My business uses WordPress a lot to help meet client’s website needs. This talk is not techy but, instead, will touch on the business side of building & selling WordPress websites. Aside from discussing lessons learnt along the way, Joel will also drift off into his (probably wrong) predictions about the future of WordPress and web publishing. Joel’s company makes websites & he’s been in the game for a long old time. He was wrestling … Continue reading

Tips and tricks for using WordPress as an application platform

Dan Westall (http://www.dan-westall.co.uk/) will share tips and tricks for using WordPress for application prototyping, covering recommended plugins and some tricks that he’s found along the way.

Writing blogs and articles – lessons from writing for newspapers

Peter Curtain gives a talk on writing blogs and articles, his lessons from writing for newspapers.

Tips, tools & techniques for making a living from WordPress

Code for the People co-founder Simon Dickson will talk a bit about the development of the UK ecosystem, the interplay between freelancers & agencies, and the variable concept of WordPress ‘expertise’.

Team Genes

Nathan Roberts will discuss team genes at the WordPress London Meetup.

NDEP Case Study

Keith Devon gives a 5 min. lightning talk covering a case study of NDEP.org at the WordPress London Meetup.

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