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 marketing.
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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.
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The talk will be about how to scale WordPress in Amazon web services and which plugins help you achieve this. The main aim is to let the audience know how to interoperate with cloud based services to really enhance their WordPress experience and achieve performance boosts but offloading core tasks to SaaS/PaaS/IaaS services where possible.
Using AWS to super charge your WordPress site and scale to 100,000s of users.
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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 tool to itemise ingredients, help plan and budget dishes and menus, work out costings for bulk recipes down to individual portions and include other factors such as VAT and a variable gross profit.
All of this has been set up using a combination of WordPress MU, custom plugins, custom post types, custom fields and a bespoke theme with all of the necessary maths functions built in. There will be some knowledge of PHP, theme development, plugin development and jQuery assumed for this talk.
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A LeanCoffee style panel discussion covering accessibility and vulnerability within WordPress.
If you’re not familiar with BuddyPress, it helps you run any kind of social network on your WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more. Find out more on https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/.
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The way WordPress was created is very “forward-centric” – you click in the admin area and the changes are applied immediately. It would be often useful, though, to roll back the change if it caused any sort of trouble (broken plugin update, human mistake, etc.). The talk discusses how a technique of version control can help with that, what are the challenges when applying it in the world of WordPress, and what approaches and tools are available today.
The Internet has made the world a much smaller place. Your website can reach practically anywhere on Earth. Wouldn’t it make sense to immediately serve your visitors the relevant, accurate content that they’re looking for, versus making them select their geographic location from a pulldown menu or a map? Not knowing the physical location of your visitors can limit you to only serving generic content that may not be relevant to visitors coming from different locations. That can kill engagement and negatively impact sales – just watch your bounce rate climb! In this session, learn about the uses of GeoIP, a technology that gives you the ability to create a “just for you” feeling by presenting geographically-specific content from WordPress sites based on a visitor’s physical location.
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.
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