E174 - Starting a Freelance Career (Sam Smith, gsamsmith.com)

11/30/21 • 36 min

In today’s episode, we get to listen again to Joe and Sam’s conversation about joining WordPress. They discuss Sam’s stories during his firefighter days, how he stumbled upon WordPress and coding, and his approach on how he successfully managed his time to build his own business.

Sam Smith is a retired Firefighter/Paramedic, an Orlando WordCamp Organizer, and a Web Developer.

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Sam Smith is on Twitter, Instagram, and WordPress.org
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What to Listen For:

00:00 Intro
01:18 Welcome to the pod, Sam!
03:16 From a firefighter paramedic to a WordPress developer
05:50 Stories of injuries while at work
09:17 Taking little bits per day to successfully launch a business
17:24 Build on relationships and have real friends in the industry
24:59 What’s it like to organize a WordCamp?
28:23 Getting a jump on blog impressions
30:19 The Martian
33:59 Find Sam online

Sam Smith is a retired Firefighter/Paramedic, an Orlando WordCamp Organizer, and a Web Developer.

Episode Resources:

Sam Smith is on Twitter, Instagram, and WordPress.org
Leave an Apple podcast review or binge-watch past episodes
Visit the WPMRR Community

What to Listen For:

00:00 Intro
01:18 Welcome to the pod, Sam!
03:16 From a firefighter paramedic to a WordPress developer
05:50 Stories of injuries while at work
09:17 Taking little bits per day to successfully launch a business
17:24 Build on relationships and have real friends in the industry
24:59 What’s it like to organize a WordCamp?
28:23 Getting a jump on blog impressions
30:19 The Martian
33:59 Find Sam online

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E173 - Dominating the Enterprise Space (Mario Peshev, DevriX)

In today’s episode, we get to listen again to Joe and Mario’s conversation on the enterprise space. They discuss how a paid service should always focus on delivering prime and premium experience per user visit, pros and cons of different invoicing methods, different channels to hunt for potential clients, and the power of inbound sales.

Mario Peshev is a global SME Business Advisor who's been named "The next Tony Robbins" and "The best tactical strategist out there aside from Neil Patel." His technical consultancy DevriX grew past 50 people and ranked as a top 20 WordPress agency worldwide.

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DevriX
Mario Peshev is on Twitter and LinkedIn
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What to Listen For:

00:00 Intro
04:06 How DevriX started
07:39 Focused on enterprise and high-scale projects
10:07 Ensuring a huge website serves prime and premium experience per visits
14:09 The money-making KPI
17:12 A team of research and development team
22:42 Distributing resources to keep customers happy
26:26 Figure out how to contribute to the bottom line of a specific system
29:12 Client invoicing methods
31:30 Management and project roles within the company
34:31 Inbound sales reel in most of the clients
40:08 Strategic partnerships can be tricky
42:11 Spaces and channels where you can find more customers
44:48 Find Mario online

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E175 - Maintaining Your North Star (Justin Busa & Brent Jett, Beaver Builder)

In today’s episode, we get to listen again to Joe, Justin, and Brent’s conversation about building websites and applications. The beaver Builder team is big on developing products that will largely benefit their community, talent acquisition from the same circle, and what’s keeping them forward and continuously building products around new ideas.

Beaver Builder is the WordPress page builder you can trust with your business. It's a drag-and-drop page builder that lets you easily create drag-and-drop page layouts, all from a front-end view of your site and without touching a line of code. It's fast and flexible and offers lots of design options to all levels of WordPress users.

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