[E4C11] WordPress Essentials for Small Business – Efficient WP

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Today we’re joining Doug Yuen, a location independent WordPress developer who runs a managed WordPress hosting service called Efficient WP.

Doug is one of my old friends from the Dynamite Circle community. A pod of us, roughly 35 digital nomads migrated up to Chiang Mai after the first Dynamite Circle conference in Bangkok in 2012. We took over half of a full service luxury condo and proceeded to co-work from various wifi cafes in the neighborhood.

Now I’ve helped a number of clients with creating WordPress sites for their business and even though WordPress is considered to be one of the easiest content managements systems on the market, for a lot of technologically challenged business owners, it’s still too complicated.

If you are considering starting a business website using self-hosted WordPress software – I encourage you to be honest with yourself – if you are too technologically challenged to Google how to fix something online or in YouTube, or if you don’t know how to upload a photo to Facebook and don’t want to figure it out on your own, managing a self-hosted WordPress.org might be more than you bargained for.

How do you decide whether you should invest in a hosted website solution with monthly fees, such as SquareSpace.com, or use self-hosted Wo rdPress to power your business website?

Doug will share with us a complete overview of what business owners need to consider when maintaining a self-hosted WordPress site. He’ll discuss:

• The 3 main areas you need to be concerned about when managing a self-hosted WordPress website
• Why having a WordPress friendly webhost matters, and how to evaluate which web hosting service is best for your business
• The benefits of managed WordPress hosting and the risks of not maintaining regular WordPress updates
• The magic bullet service that will save you time, money, risk, and frustration if you need fixes , tweaks, and updates to your self-hosted WordPress website
• Our top recommended WordPress plugins for small business owners

And much more!

Mentioned in this Podcast

• WordPress.com
• WordPress.org
• Dynamite Circle
• Genesis Framework by StudioPress
• oDesk.com
• ELance
• SquareSpace
• Majestic SEO
• Shopify
• ZenCart
• Rackspace
• Hostgator
• Bluehost
• Synthesis
• WP Engine
• Page.ly
• GoDaddy
• WP Curve
• Dan Norris
• Sucuri
• Back WP Up
• Gravity Forms
• Amazon S3
• DropBox
• W3 Total Cache
• Socialize
• WordPress SEO
• Woo Framework

Where to Find Doug Yuen

• Check out the Efficient WP Facebook Page
• Visit the EfficientWP Website
• Follow Doug on Twitter
• Hangout with us on Google+

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