It is now four days since I arrived back from my trip to Paris for WordCamp Europe 2017. The weather was amazing, the drinks were flowing, and I met a lot of great people at the event. How could I not have fun in one of the most beautiful cities …
There are a lot of great WordPress blogs that focus on the WordPress platform. These blogs report on news, the latest WordPress themes and plugins, publish tutorials and code snippets, and much more. This page lists some of the best WordPress blogs on the internet. aThemes Launched by Charlie Livingston …
My YouTube journey started a little over four years ago in January 2013. I was travelling around South America at the time so my upload schedule was sporadic, but even when I stopped travelling it would be another few years before I took YouTube more seriously. Today I upload videos …
WordCamps are an opportunity for those who work with WordPress to meet up, listen to talks from experienced WordPress users, and get to know each other better. The first WordCamp I attended was WordCamp Europe in Seville in 2015. I enjoyed it so much I went to the next European …
Rise Forums is the internet community I launched in 2013. It focuses on many topics including affiliate marketing, WordPress, website development, hosting and domains, video and audio, and more. As with any website, over time that good looking website design you once loved will start to look old and dated. …
Live chat provides a quick and user-friendly way for website visitors to ask a question and get a response immediately. It is a nice addition to email ticket support as live chat is mainly used to answer questions from potential customers, not address questions from existing customers. There are a …
My discussion forums Rise Forums is a great place to get support for hosting related issues from myself and many other experienced website owners. Owners of hosting companies also hang out at the forums. Whilst I do love the community we have at Rise Forums, I also know that there …
If you check the discussion forums of forum software such as vBulletin, Xenforo, and PHPBB, you will see a lot of discussions about hosting. Online communities can take a lot of resources to manage due to the large number of users that are browsing a website at the same time. …
The start of the year is traditionally a time to reflect on the year that has passed, evaluate your life and see what changes you want to make. You may be a little tired of everyone talking about their new year resolutions, however the time we all take off in …
Email list not growing? Many great bloggers have only the vaguest of ideas on how to grow their subscriber list. Maybe you need more community features like private web conferencing. Stupendous Sign-Up Incentives On every blog I visit I am tired of seeing yet another tired old single page PDF …