Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers worldwide bring their dreams to life on the Internet. A leader in Managed WordPress hosting, over 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. Supporting the open source community with dedicated resources and a passionate team, DreamHost believes in the power of the Open Web and the people that make it happen. Learn more at DreamHost.com.
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DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites, and apps hosted. They sponsor all WordCamps in the Americas, including (and most importantly?) this one. We just can’t thank them enough.
GoDaddy Pro offers a robust suite of free tools to web developers & designers to help them save time managing all their clients and sites. With GoDaddy Pro, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage all their WordPress websites from one place. Exclusive time-saving tools let you update WordPress core, plugins and themes with one click, as well as automate WordPress backups, cloning and migrations. Get real-time performance, security and uptime monitoring across all your websites. Additionally, your free membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support.
Proxibid is an Omaha startup success story that connects buyers and sellers for highly valued items. Bringing together more than 4,000 unique auctioneers, asset owners, and consignors with buyers from 190 countries.
Manually copying or moving a WordPress site seems so easy, but it has some pitfalls. Abby’s presentation and discussion will include the high-level concepts of why we need staging/testing sites, how to complete a migration, helpful (and unhelpful) plugins, various gotchas, and a short discussion of managed hosting services that include staging/migration features. All types of WP enthusiasts (developer, designer, webmaster, biz owner, etc) are welcome, and hopefully there’s a little something here for all levels of expertise from the beginners who don’t even have a WordPress site yet to the experts who have done many migrations already.
WP Staging and Migration by Abby Langner
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Web developer, educator, mother, baker, bowler… WordPress saves this busy lady a lot of time and tedium as a front-end developer! Abby loves math, too, and as a former high school math teacher in Omaha, loves to create web resources for teachers to better engage students with the content.
Grow your marketing list (or your client’s) like a boss. Web design veteran, Mat Casner, will break down the power of marketing funnels and show you, step by step, how to build high-converting landing pages in WordPress using the DIVI page builder. He will show you how to connect your landing page directly to your email marketing provider, help you start attracting more clients and give you a powerful new skill to market to your customers.
Funnel 101: Create high-converting landing pages with WordPress (and DIVI) by Mat Casner
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Mat Casner is a creative business owner and freelance entrepreneur. He is a multi-disciplined creative and communication professional with over 20 years experience in web development (including WordPress), graphic design, video production and marketing. He also coaches and mentors other creatives and freelancers.
In this talk, Patrick will give 10 simple steps to set up a WordPress site for SEO Success. He will start with why SEO is important and then break down, step by step, how to set up the site for immediate and ongoing SEO success.
10 Simple Steps To WordPress SEO Success by Patrick Stevens
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Patrick lives for wisdom, sports, startups, coding cool stuff, creative marketing, mobile tech, music, and movies. He’s passionate about learning and bringing value to those around me. He has a unique background that includes the military, account management, sales, and building businesses prior to launching his career as a web developer and digital marketer.
Data Hierarchy is a web series turned (free) E-book that helps companies understand how to work with data they are collecting. As websites become the leading edge of that data collection its important for the company to know how to leverage it for future success. Working with clients to help them gather the right kind of data makes developers even more valuable, and referable.
Data Hierarchy – Collecting data thats valuable by Justin Trowbridge
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Justin is the Business Development Officer for Contemporary Analysis. Over his career Justin has worked at Fortune 100 companies connecting people to technology. In his role at Contemporary Analysis Justin acts as a “data visionary” and helps companies see what is possible with data. Justin is an actual Laird of Glencoe & Lochaber Scotland (technically). With degrees in both Industrial Design and Marketing he can “translate” concepts from the very technical elements to laymen’s terms.
People think that Marketing is synonymous with VooDoo. It’s not. Marketing is a series of well-made, precise, decisions executed in a systematic and structured way. WordPress allows for some great marketing automation tools and process that can help you grow your business WITHOUT losing your brand voice or human touch.
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