EP030 – Using #WordPress for Your #SmallBiz /w @sereedmedia – #WPblab

This week on WPblab Bridget Willard & Jason Tucker speak with Sé Reed of Sé Reed Media about how small businesses can use WordPress. There is much ranting and raving about the difficulties of getting small businesses to choose WordPress over companies like Wix and Squarespace. Sé shares her perspective on educating new users to WordPress and her quest for making the entry level of self hosted WordPress easier for small businesses.

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423 responses to “EP030 – Using #WordPress for Your #SmallBiz /w @sereedmedia – #WPblab”

  1. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @VeriousSmithIII Hi Verious

  2. Mario Silva Avatar

    Is everyone lagging or just me?

  3. Verious Smith III Avatar

    @YouTooCanBeGuru Hi Bridget!

  4. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @noncasus Do you mean personally or technically?

  5. Verious Smith III Avatar

    Ha ha @sereedmedia !

  6. Mario Silva Avatar

    @YouTooCanBeGuru you guys keep getting cut off… it might be me though

  7. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @noncasus It could be blab.

  8. Iris Messina Avatar
  9. Iris Messina Avatar

    Hey @VeriousSmithIII I think I sat in front of you at last week’s SoBay WP Meetup!

  10. Iris Messina Avatar

    I used to be a lawyer; hire one don’t download your contracts

  11. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @tashan Are you the Mayor of WPblab? 😀

  12. Verious Smith III Avatar

    @ListingVideosLA Nice!

  13. Cemal Tashan Avatar

    i will be. soon. ate you?

  14. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @tashan LOL Add it to Foursquare

  15. Ben Meredith Avatar

    it is past my bedtime. you people better keep this interesting 😉

  16. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @benUNC We try. 😀

  17. TechnoSiren Avatar

    I think it goes both ways – sometimes clients seem savvier than they are and it’s a surprise to a dev at the end of a project when there’s no content ready, etc. etc. Experience! Devs need to walk clients through the WHOLE process

  18. Bridget Willard Avatar
  19. TechnoSiren Avatar

    Second only to not getting content is social media strategy – as a dev, I am most often expected to provide copy and photos, and complete social media strategies. So I do that now, but I didn’t WANT to do that for a long time, I just wanted to build sites.

  20. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @techno_siren oh wow

  21. TechnoSiren Avatar

    THIRDLY if you are offering agency style services and you don’t have your support packages figured out, do that. Right now.

  22. Bridget Willard Avatar
  23. Cemal Tashan Avatar

    @youtoocanbeguru. just addediy

  24. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @tashan ha haha hahahahahaha

  25. David Bell Avatar

    Early day tomorrow. Glad I got to drop in for a few. Rock on.

  26. Bridget Willard Avatar

    @Cape_Dave Good night! 😀

  27. Tara Claeys Avatar

    on boarding forms for clients should include this type of worksheet

  28. Jonathan Perlman Avatar

    This example contract is in French for Quebec and it’s made open source. It also went through a lawyer already. A WordPress dev put it out there. https://www.docracy.com/0ph6k9b6pnr/entente-de-service-de-developpement-web

  29. TechnoSiren Avatar

    I interrogate clients on their business model so I can figure out what can be handled by the site. I get confused looks when I ask about things that aren’t happening on a computer – yet.

  30. TechnoSiren Avatar

    We are Beatles fans.

  31. Mario Silva Avatar

    @techno_siren hope you don’t use waterboarding

  32. Verious Smith III Avatar

    Design + Developer. 🙂

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