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”
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Hopefully starting again soon
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I have a lot of WP implementer friends who are too daunted by WordCamps
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I have been working on something for the beginners in my paused Saturday Schools.
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who said WordCamps are supposed to be for beginners? isn’t it supposed to be a spectrum novice to advanced?
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What would that be aboput?
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which breaks my heart because let’s make this inclusive!
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@techno_siren SAD.
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@techno_siren yes!!!!!!!!!!
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anyone who is not familiar with anything feels intimidated… this is not WP exclusive
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I deal with lots of beginners in my meetup group
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lets wrap up
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Small business owners who know little to nothing
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we need to make the web easy. if getting content is a pain point but your client is on Twitter all the time – boom, there’s your content. WP is so flexible, let’s put it in the service of small biz and creators
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instead of in the service of devs
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They cannot teach they MUST be taught.
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who want to learn it!
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Great convo.
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@techno_siren so smart!
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@techno_siren that
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good talk!
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you guys rock!
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@techno_siren Thanks hopping on.
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Yaaaaassssss!
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Great convo.
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unleashed the TRUTH
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Yes
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True.
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yes
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That’s an interesting proposition.
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@kevinwhoffman it’s a maybe right? unknown
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old =/= broke
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@YouTooCanBeGuru Sink or Swim!
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@kevinwhoffman yeah, true. It’s easy for those immersed in the tech to not realized there are those who have never been exposed to it.
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@kevinwhoffman true
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I don’t think it’s because they are too aware of Woo and other stuff. I think it’s because they just don’t know about WordPress period.
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just updating the Readme to indicate the latest version of WP it’s compatible with would keep it updated
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@techno_siren oh wow
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I remember that. It sucked!
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He broke millions of websites’
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old left-pad
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yeah I remember that
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took his ball and went home
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yes left-pad
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yep 301 redirect. Yoast used to do that. ?
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update the Readme!
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it was 11 lines of code.
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so what’s the alternative? hide or remove a functional plugin because it’s old?
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plenty of devs have moved on
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