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All My Web Needs changes business model to help small business owners
Starting and operating a small business is both exciting and intimidating. There are so many different things to consider, perhaps the most important of which is expense. Often times, the imagination and joy behind a business venture can be dashed by the reality of how much it costs to get things off the ground. Not only are there things we would generally plan for in some way, such as rent or other operating costs for brick-and-mortar companies, there are also those associated with competing in this highly web-based economy, regardless of whether or not your company has a storefront or solely operates online. Even if you have an existing business, sometimes there are expenses associated with expanding, re-branding, or simply revving up your presence amongst the competition. One of these expenses, which you may not have thought about, is your company’s website.You probably imagined or thought about your website in one way or another, whether it was spending hours dreaming up a visually stunning representation of your business, down to every click and detail of the web design, or simply remembering in passing that you needed one at some point to compete. Regardless of which category you fall into, or if you are somewhere in between, web development and design can be costly. Even a very small business may require a multi-page, complex site, costing thousands upon thousands of dollars. All of the flourishes, bells, and whistles you had in those dreams can add up quickly. Even if you want a basic site and aren’t picky, getting a website that is functional, fits your needs, represents your business appropriately, and will attract clientele, can cost more than you had thought. In many cases, this is not something you budgeted for, but it is so important to your company’s success.
Once upon a time All My Web Needs was just a one-man operation and an idea, so we understand all of the excitement, fears, and unexpected costs that arise when starting out and those that happen along the way. Because of this, and because we know exactly how much is at stake for you, we now offer a solution to those who did not plan for or simply cannot afford the upfront costs of website development to get their virtual presence up and running. With our subscription plan, you can pay by the month for your website in its entirety, much like you would any other operating cost, like rent or shipping. That way, not having all the money needed to put towards the best site your company can have, won’t hinder you from having that site.
It is so important in today’s fast paced and ever growing virtual marketplace for all businesses to be able to compete on a level playing field. The internet, in many ways, is such a venue. But having a professionally designed, constructed, and managed site, as well as a team behind you who knows how to optimize and promote that site, is crucial. While it may seem tempting to go to a domain hosting site that will give you a generic platform branded as yours, these services usually have little to no follow up support, if they even manage to get your site up and running correctly at all. With our subscription and services, you won’t have to worry about a thing. What we do is right there in our title… We do it all! Website design, website development, search engine optimization, social media, graphic and logo design, writing, and more. We even offer hosting and domains. If it has to do with the web, it has to do with us.
Whether you are based in and around the Nashville area or you are all the way across the country, our team is here to help. As a member of our subscription service, or if you opt to pay upfront for our services, you will have the benefit of an actual human being to talk to about your concerns and questions. No speaking to a million people before getting to the right department. You will have an individual web specialist assigned to you who will know you and your business by name, as well as exactly what your site looks like, how it is doing, and what you are referring to when you call. Your satisfaction and success is tied to ours, so all of your needs, are our needs.
If you have been struggling with the idea of how to get your business the online presence it needs without starting out in the red, or if you need a new or re-imagined site for your existing business, give us a call today. We can discuss what you want and what your options are, and provide you with an upfront and affordable quote.
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WordCamp Volunteer Signup
It is that time of year again! WordCamp Nashville planning has begun, and we are looking for a solid group of organizers to make it happen! This is the perfect time get involved with the Nashville WordPress community. This is also the easiest way to involved and meet new peers.
Looking for 5-6 leads + helpers
We need enough people on the organizing team for everyone to take charge of 1-2 areas of responsibility. Each lead should have 1 primary helper (buddy system) and more if necessary.
- Venue logistics (including insurance)
- Fundraising
- Budget/money handling
- Speaker recruitment, selection
- Food/beverage
- Swag
- Volunteer wrangling
- Printing
- Design (web, programs, shirts, signs, screensaver)
- Website maintenance
- Publicity
- A/V
- Afterparty
- Speakers’ dinner/reception
- Beginner courses
- Transportation and travel details
Prerequisites
- Agreement among WordCamp Organizers, Speakers, Sponsors, and Volunteers
- A heart for community
- A little spare time
To busy but want to follow along?
- Subscribe to the Community site
- Join the meetup group
- Follow the @WordCampNash on twitter
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2014 Was a great year for Nashville WordPress!
As Nashville continues to grow at a steady pace our group continues to with it! Our meetup is a diverse array of WordPressers who expanded last year by 277. We had 23 meetup spanning topics of Themes, Plugins, Security and How-To’s as well as having Q&A, Developer breakfasts and HelpDesks.
We had another successful WordCamp in May with a turnout of 220 people. There were 23 speakers and a HelpDesk staff full of top notch WordPress experience! It was by far the most WordPress focused day of the Nashville year.
Help cultivate your meetup experienceAs we grow it’s important for everyone one to voice their ideas! Please take this opportunity to voice your ideas and help grow the community.
Take a quick survey to help make our/your WordPress Meetup better! »
Did you know there are Podcast of WordCamp 2014Thanks to Clark Buckner & TechnologyAdvice we have a hand full of podcasts from WordCamp 2014. Listen to them all »
Some of our top pics of the year.See more on the flickr account ».
WordCamp Nashville 2014
WordCamp Nashville 2014
WordCamp Nashville 2014
Developer Breakfast
Developer Breakfast
AthleticsNYC at Deavor
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November 2014 Meetup Q&A Link Notes
This months meetup was terrific despite the sudden cold. We took a fair bit of link notes which you will find below.
Please do your home work on any of these links, be sure to use a WordPress sandbox installation (testing installation) to check out any plugins or themes.
### Plugins
– https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/
– *https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpmandrill/
– http://tri.be/shop/wordpress-events-calendar-pro/
– http://calendarize.it
– https://ithemes.com/security/
– Advanced Custom Fields Pro
– *Akismet
– *Force Strong Passwords
– Google Analyticator
– Gravity Forms
– http://ninjaforms.com/
– Limit Login Attempts (old plugin)
– Members
– WordPress Backup to Dropbox
– WordPress Database Backup
– WordPress SEO### Themes
– http://www.woothemes.com/
– https://creativemarket.com/search?q=wordpress
– http://yithemes.com/
– http://www.photocrati.com/demos/
– *http://underscores.me/
– http://themes.simplethemes.com/skeleton/### Sliders
– http://codecanyon.net/item/slider-revolution-responsive-wordpress-plugin/2751380
– http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/
– http://bxslider.com/### Hosting
– https://www.getpantheon.com/
– http://wpengine.com/### Other
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September Meeting Recap & a shout out to Athletics and NSS
The September meetup was a great event, hosted at Deavor, curated by Athletics and co-sponsored by Athletics and WPEngine. With three great speakers, it was no wonder we had an attendance of around 60 or 70 Pressers!
Blogging, Content Management and Beyond: Redefining the Limits of WordPress- Jameson Proctor, Partner, Athletics
- Dale Liszka, Rockhouse Partners
- Mark Kelnar, Director of Engineering for WP Engine Labs
If you missed out, we are happy to say that the team at Deavor were able to record the speakers and are currently editing the video for the web. We will do a followup post when the videos are ready.
Taking a minute to say Thanks!We want to take a minute and say thank you to the team at Athletics for putting on such a great night of speaking. They put a lot of effort into the meetup in a very short amount of time. In addition to curating the venue, the speakers and a sponsor, they also took the extra funding, matched it and gave it as a donation to the Nashville Software School (NSS). If you have not heard of the NSS, please check it out. They are a non-profit software school with great professors, focused classes and high success rate! The final total donated was $600, and we want to give a huge thanks to Athletics and WPEngine for that. Education is a key component to a healthy community!
The future of the Nashville meetup groupWe have high hopes that other businesses or individuals would be interested in curating WordPress meetups of their own. Whether large or small, community interaction is the primary reason we like to come together as a group! If you would like to know more please read up on how to schedule an event with the Nashville WordPress meetup on our how to page.
From the crowd“I found the format of multiple speakers for different topics to be really great – I hope there are more of these in the future.” – Beth Downey
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BarCamp Nashville Saturday, October 18th
BarCamp Nashville on Saturday, October 18th. BarCamp is an annual tech conference that covers hardware, software, marketing, content and social media.
BarCamp is looking for speakers from all technologies, and we encourage you to submit a session proposal! BarCamp is also looking for sponsors, if you have any interest in sponsoring there is information below.
Register by October 13 at http://barcampnashville.org to be eligible for a t-shirt and FREE lunch. Be sure to complete your profile, select your t-shirt size, mark your preference for lunch, and “favorite” the sessions you want to see.
As an unconference, everyone is encouraged to fully participate by speaking, asking questions, networking or volunteering. It takes a lot of people to make a great BarCamp, so if you’d like to help make it happen, please contact our volunteer coordinator, Deanna Vickers, at volunteer@barcampnashvilÂle.org about volunteering on the day of the event. It’s a great way to meet people and get connected!
If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
For the latest info, follow them at:
Facebook http://fb.me/barcampnahville
Google+ https://plus.google.com/102194173990537202441/
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WCN14 Podcast Interviews Available on SoundCloud
WordCamp Nashville 2014 was nearly four months ago but the goodness hasn’t stopped.
Clark Buckner at the WordCamp Nashville podcast booth We’ve been working with Clark Buckner of TechnologyAdvice to get podcast interviews from the event organized and published. They are assembled on SoundCloud for your listening pleasure.
Clark chatted with diverse members of the region’s WordPress and technology communities, including Randy Hicks, John Housholder, Mitch Canter, Jeremy Rivera Pamela Coyle, Cal Evans, Sue Anne Reed, Luke Stokes, James Ashenhurst, Paul Schatzkin and Bryan Huddleston (of the Nashville Technology Council).
Click here for the full list of recordings from the pop-up podcast booth at WordCamp Nashville 2014.
The tracks on SoundCloud are edited interviews. TechnologyAdvice.com donated time and equipment as an in-kind sponsor to set up the podcast booth at WordCamp Nashville 2014, record interviews and produce show notes.
Hearty thanks to the company and Clark for pulling it together.
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WPNashville Site Update
As you can see we’ve made a major update to the look and feel of the wpnashville site. We went simple, clean and easy to update! The goal of the update was to simplify the site and open it up to be more of a utility to the community.
The “Community”The Community portion of the site is where organizers of Meetups and WordCamps can publicly collaborate on current events and ideas for events. The goal is to keep group management and organizing open to the public. Anyone can subscribe to the community feed, follow the conversation and/or comment on the posts to give their feedback.
The idea is to follow the example of make.wordpress.org/community. As one of the leaders of the web WordPress is definitely doing something right and it’s our belief that community is the key.
How can you get involved?Join the meetup group, come out to a meetup event and meet some new people from the area. If you have done all of that and you want more, take the plunge and become an organizer! Have a question or want to chat send us an email [email protected] or use the form on the Questions page.
For those who want the nuts and bolts of the updateThe primary goal of this update was to give the site the ability to connect the community and not just publish too the community. First thing we did was update the install to WordPress Network installation in order to allow us to host different themes and plugin packages at different urls. The first of such tools is the community section.
The community site runs on the P2 Theme by Automattic. The goal is to offer a separate thread for organizers to communicate to the community with out mixing it in with the news and presentation posts.
We used the P2 Theme specifically because it has a handful of customizations that have been specifically designed to help interaction between authors. Here is a short list of p2 plugins that have been very helpful!
P2 PluginsAll our other plugins- advanced-custom-fields
- akismet
- force-strong-passwords
- google-analyticator
- gravityforms
- jetpack
- limit-login-attempts
- mailchimp
- members
- re-send-welcome-email
- wordpress-backup-to-dropbox
- wordpress-importer
- wordpress-seo
- wp-db-backup
- wp-pagenavi
- wp-whos-online
- wpmandrill
If you have question or you find a bug please let us know!
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Meetup: Any member may suggest an event!
Hello Fellow Meetup WordPressers!We are excited to announce that the meetup group management has shifted! The group will now be more in line with the official WordPress Chapter. Since our meetup was started in 2010 before the WordPress Chapter program was created we’ve been doing it old school, but that is all changing and we hope that some of you will take advantage of this!
So what has changed?Any member of the meetup group may now suggest and/ or schedule an event through the WordPress meetup site. When a new event is suggested/ scheduled a message will be sent to all group members telling them of the new event and allowing them to join the event or not.
In the past, only group organizers could schedule events. This was limiting the group to a single event a month on a single day with a single topic. By opening the group and allowing any member to schedule an event we are hoping the availability of events will grow.
More organizers = more events on different days, times and topics! Everyone wins!
What does this mean? See below for some examples!Example 1: Sally and Laura
Sally is a coder and Laura is an educator. They are both very enthusiastic and love to blog and they are both looking for a way to give back to their local community. Sally and Laura team up to offer monthly WordPress advice! They find a free venue and work together to set a time and date. Sally and Laura post a new event to the WordPress Nashville meetup group. Fifteen, twenty or thirty people show up and great conversation is had by all!Example 2: Billy
Billy just launched his personal site and it was a success! Now he’s looking to do a site for his business, but doesn’t want it to look like a blog. He’s looking for some advice, but would rather talk to his peers in person. Billy posts a new event to the WordPress Nashville meetup group. Five or six people show up and great conversation is had by all!Example 3: Jane
Jane has been building WordPress sites for two years. Like many developers, Jane is looking for peers to discuss some mind numbing code! Rather than post on a forum, she’s looking for ways to meet with people in person. Jane posts a new event to the WordPress Nashville meetup group. Five or six people show up and great conversation is had by all!We’re excited and we hope you are too!We hope that those of you who are excited about education and have a passion for community will jump on board! Scheduling an event does take a little work. However, to help expedite the process we created an FAQ that will hopefully guide you past some of the issue you might encounter.
Check out the FAQ here: http://www.meetup.com/NashvilleWordpress/about/
We will also be holding a meetup in August to discuss what this means for all the members of the group! RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/NashvilleWordpress/events/194669582/
