They say the first step in addiction recovery is to admit you have a problem. So ok, I’m admitting it, I’m a WordPress junkie. But I’m a WP junkie for good reason.
Me & Matt Mulleneweg, Founder of WordPress
If any aspect of your marketing touches the web you should be using WordPress. WordPress is an incredible platform that’s gained tremendous traction over the past few years.
Let’s look at some facts:
- WordPress is the #1 open-source Content Management System in the world
- WordPress.com has more than 30 million accounts.
- Microsoft just closed it’s blogging service and migrated millions of accounts to WordPress.com
- WordPress is free.
- More freelance jobs are being done on WordPress than any other platform.
- Major companies like NTY, eBay, Time, Mashable.com, techCrunch.com and CNN all use WordPress
Interested? I hope so.
The fact is, you can out-distance your competitors, connect with customers and make more money using WordPress.
WordPress Workshop Details
This workshop is for you if:
* Your business is on the web but know your site could be better
* You’ve never used WordPress and want to get started
* You’ve been using WordPress but know you could be using it better
* You have an existing site but your online marketing needs have grown
While I’m still working on the agenda some topics will be:
* Why WordPress is better than other solutions
* How WordPress can help and business even if you already have a website
* Proven techniques using WordPress to enhance sales
* Why WordPress is GREAT for getting your site to the top of Google
Tentative Timeframe is late April
The workshop will be about 2 hours and you’ll leave with a clear understanding of how WordPress can help you make more money and where to start. This will be VERY limited — like 6 to 8 people. If there’s a lot of interest I’ll consider a second session.
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Ok, maybe you’re still not convinced. I get it – so I present to you 10 ways to use WordPress other than a blog.
1. Start a Q & A Site About Your Industry
Quora.com, StackOverflow.com and other Q&A sites are have become extremely successful. These Q & A sites have a ton of traction in-part because people want answers from real people. Why not start a Q & A site about your industry and let the people who care about your niche help each other out? With WordPress you can. Take a look at this Q & A solution:
Q & A Site
2. Host a News Aggregator About Your Industry
Sites like PopURLS.com and AllTop.com are extremely popular new aggregators. With WordPress you could make a news site full of current info about your industry. This is exactly what I did with www.SteamboatDaily.com
News Aggregator
3. Start a Paid Membership Site
Maybe you have an idea to start a paid membership site. With WordPress it’s a snap especially with a plugin like member.wishlistproducts.com/
WishList Member is a powerful solution for creating an online membership site – all built using WordPress as the core content management system.
Membership Site
4. Host an Auction
Be it a charity fundraiser, corporate or personal event, WordPress can be used to hold an online eBay style auction. These guys have built a fantastic plugin to create a full e-commerce enabled online auction: http://www.wpauctions.com/
Auction Site
5. Project Management
Looking for a low-cost, high quality solution for project management? Well, you guessed it, WordPress. CollabPress is an all in one project and task management plugin for WordPress. Transform a standard WP installation into a full featured project management application in a single click! Easily create unlimited projects, task lists, and tasks with all of the features you would expect.
Unlimited projects, task lists, tasks, and comments
Easily edit/delete projects, task lists, tasks, and comments
Email notifications for new tasks and comments
Task due dates with a calendar view
Uses built-in WordPress user accounts
Activity log tracking all activity
Multisite compatible
100% GPL and Free!
http://collabpress.org/
Project Management
6. Start a Discussion Group
Create a dynamic discussion with P2 for WordPress!
P2 is a theme for WordPress that transforms a mild-mannered blog into a super-blog with features like inline comments on the homepage, a posting form right on the homepage, inline editing of posts and comments, real-time updates so new posts and comments come in without reloading, and much more. Here’s a quick video tour of the best features:
7. Sell Stuff
WP e-Commerce is a free bolt-on shopping cart that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online. They make setting up shop incredibly easy.
http://getshopped.org/
8. Coming Soon
Have an idea that’s not quite ready? There are a number of killer coming soon WordPress apps that allow you to show a countdown timer and collect info from interested people.
Coming Soon Page
9. Launch an Online Community
WordPress has an add-on component called BuddyPress allowing you to create a full-blown online social website.
Community Site
10. Event Registration
Sure there’s plenty of event registration services out there but you can set up your own with Event Espresso. I used an early version of Event Espresso for a conference last year and had great results.
Event Registration
As you can see, WordPress is an incredibly powerful platform and one that every business should be looking into.
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Ok, the best thing to do now is sign up for a priority invite. By signing up, you’ll get an invite before the general public and you’ll help me gauge interest & venue size.
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Jay is creative, dynamic, thoughtful and full of passion for new technology and helping businesses to reap the benefits of the platforms and tools available today. It's an honor to be able to assist a businessman who dedicates an incredible amount of time and his skills to charitable organizations within the community as well, including cancer fundraisers, churches, disabled sports and more. I would not only highly recommend working with Jay, I would thoroughly encourage it!”
This is a great resource Jay. I had no Idea WordPress could be used for all these things.
This rocks! I signed up. Did you get my email? Thanks Jay
Yup – You’re in, Thanks James.
Jay, Great idea, I’m looking forward to getting the inside scoop from you. Maybe a slight exaggeration on the “i’m a pro”. Joanne
Great – I think you’ll dig it.