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My Musings On Lead Magnets

I’ve been musing about lead magnets lately and if they are worth while for my business.  My conclusion is NO. At present if you visit my site there is no email signup to get a download or drip email course, and this is intentional because lead magnets don’t appear to generated much business for me. What Are lead Magnets Lead magnets are free giveaways that a site owner gives you in exchange for your email contact details. The thinking is that the site owner can build up rapport over a period of time, send out email newsletters proving their expertise, […]

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Gravity Forms Dynamic Content

Gravity Forms Dynamic Content

Last week I wrote about a client project where I setup gravity form routing, today I want to write about gravity forms dynamic content. We can dynamically pass data into a form to add to an entry, this is how you can do this. What Is Dynamic Content? Dynamic data is content that changes each time the form is loaded, it can be used on the display of the form or on the notification sent out when the form is completed. An example; my client has a single form but wants to send a different PDF to form completors based […]

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Routing Gravity Forms Notifications A Case Study

I was working on a client project recently where they wanted to send notifications to different teams depending upon a selection made in the form, in this post I want to talk about routing gravity forms notifications. The client is a property developer and they need to route emails to the sales team of each scheme   This is where we are two countries divided by a common language, I think this would be described as a housing sub division in USA speak.  When I read route it sounds like root in my head not rowt. What Is Routing? Routing […]

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Managing Holidays When You Work Globally

A big US holiday is bearing down on us next week and it has prompted me to write a post about managing holidays when you work globally. I’m based in the UK, the majority of my clients are from the US and Canada.  My team are based in the Philippines, there are a lot of holidays to manage. Know When The Holidays Happen I was tripped up on Monday this week it was a an End of Ramadan holiday in the Philippines. I was sending over project updates when a very polite response came in along the lines of “You […]

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Compressing Images For WordPress

A lot of my clients have been getting reports from Google about page speed performance recently.  This tells me Google are taking site performance as an increasingly important factor in their ranking algorithm. You can get a feel for your site performance by running a test from Google Page Speed Insights. One of the indicators nearly every site is being flagged with is image optimisation or image compression.  In this post I’ll talk about some options you have to compress your images. Compression Types There are two types of image compress lossy and losslessly.  These are not real words I’m […]

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Help Scout Review: How I Use Help Scout As A Project Management Tool

I migrated my help desk away from Groove last year with a deep heart, it was great, but the mobile support was shocking.  Here is my Help Scout review. If my team and I were not on a desktop it was almost impossible to update tickets. I thought it was time to write up a review about the replacement system I now use Help Scout. Why I Use A Help Desk I’ve tried a number of solutions to manage the work at WP Dude. Project management software like Basecamp and Trello, email systems like Sortd, task managers like Asana, but I […]

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