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Creative Services to Offer Custom WordPress Design
May 1st
I’m pleased to announce our new web design services division named Creative Services by iThemes and led by our newest team member Ty Carlson.
I began my entrepreneurial journey first as a freelance web designer in WordPress before I started iThemes full-time in January 2008 (and still get random requests for custom work which I don’t do anymore).
As such we’ve endeavored to build tools and offer training to help others become web designers and build high-quality sites for their clients.
I continue to be amazed at the opportunities for good, quality web designers all over the world, but none of us should be amazed at it. (Google with over 30,000 people and almost $30 billion in revenue didn’t even exist 15 years ago!)
Dependable and able designers and developers are hot commodities right now. There is more work than able and/or available people to do it!
Through our Creative Services division, we want to serve a different and unique kind of client who doesn’t fit our iThemes “ideal” customer, but wants more custom, hands-on consulting and design services.
Often I say that iThemes is like the Home Depot of web design. You come to our store, pick out the tools and templates you want to use and you do-it-yourself. We offer a great support forum backed by knowledgable and helpful moderators, but ultimately, you build your sites yourself.
Made by Wheat will serve customers who want to pay someone else to just do it for them.
So with this introduction, I wanted to offer some details about Made by Wheat and what you can expect.
WHAT IS CREATIVE SERVICES BY ITHEMES EXACTLY?
It is a team (or company within a company) we started to offer custom, high-quality web design services using and showcasing all of our products — from iThemes Builder to BackupBuddy and everything in between.
It is led by Ty Carlson, a veteran web designer / developer from Oklahoma City.
This is our custom services division. We will work hard to keep the brands separate, except for showing off work done through it that illustrate what you can do with our products. Made by Wheat will market and find its own clients.
WHY ARE WE DOING IT?
We decided to push forward with this for a number of reasons, including:
1. To give our customers what they have been asking for – which is custom services for our products, primarily, iThemes Builder. We’ve long had a services page on iThemes and have gotten an increasingly large volume of requests, but to date have been referring to other outlets. We will continue to refer most of those services out to others, but this will give us an outlet for custom sites. And we’ve actually done client services before. Almost two years ago, we were doing all client work through WebDesign.com before we unveiled our training membership. We ultimately shut that down as it was bad timing on our part.
2. To be a showcase for our products – We want to show what’s possible with our products through our services division, in particular, iThemes Builder. You can see Ty’s work on my personal site here at CoryMiller.com, built with iThemes Builder.
3. To be a shining example of how a custom web design shop can be run – I anticipate us using the things we’re learning, almost every day, with this team through our WebDesign.com training division and other venues. As such, it will serve to be an actual R&D lab. My hope is we can share tips, tricks, ideas, trends and more to our community.
4. To give input to our dev teams on how to make our products better – having a custom shop in our company allows our dev teams from iThemes and PluginBuddy to hear from and see how the Made by Wheat team is using it, what needs to be improved, and what gaps we have in our product offering.
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There’s a little bit about Creative Services by iThemes.
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Four More Referral Sources to Tap into for Business Growth
Apr 30th
A week ago today, I outlined a brief description of each of the first four of the eight referral sources. I encouraged blog readers to spend the past week taking action in developing at least two of those referral sources and promised that this week I would explain the last four referral sources. * Remember, the more you learn about each referral source, the more referral sources you will develop; the more referral sources you develop, the more referrals you will get and the more your business will grow! The Eight Referral Sources: Sources …
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Business Networking and Sex: Survey Says . . . Transactional vs. Relational
Apr 26th
In this short video, I share a portion of the results from the survey of 12,000 businesspeople on which my most recent book, Business Networking and Sex: Not What You Think, is based. The results I discuss here indicate that men and women act differently when it comes to the VCP Process®, transactions, and relationships. Based on your experience, would you say these results jive with what you’ve found to be true in the networking world? Please share your thoughts in the comments section–I’d love to hear them!
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The Eight Referral Sources–Learn More, Get More
Apr 23rd
Last week I posted a video blog featuring Referral Institute Trainer Cheryl Hansen talking about the opportunity to significantly increase the number of referrals you receive by developing more than just one of the eight referral sources. The fact is, the more you learn about each referral source, the more referral sources you will develop; the more referral sources you develop, the more referrals you will get and the more your business will grow! Since last week’s video blog, I have received requests via social media to explain each …
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How to Get Paid Well To Do What You Love: Free Ebook
Apr 22nd
My post on How to be a Professional has been by far the most popular post at Startup Sofa.
So I thought I’d expand on that after getting asked to speak to high school students at our local career tech recently and repurpose for you in ebook form (there’s the slideshow below too).
I’ve got five basic keys to share that I believe if you do these things, you’ll be successful in your WORK, whether you go to work for someone else or start your own business.
[ DOWNLOAD THE FREE PDF EBOOK ON GETTING PAID WELL TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE HERE ]
The Short & Sweet Slides Version
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Only Focusing on ONE Referral Source Equals Missed Opportunity!
Apr 19th
In this video, Cheryl Hansen, a Trainer and Franchisee with the Referral Institute, explains that most people tend to focus only on existing clients as their main source for business referrals and they neglect the seven other referral sources which they could be developing simultaneously to generate unlimited opportunity for new referred business! Cheryl highlights community service organizations and casual contacts as just a couple of commonly untapped referral sources and urges businesspeople to start developing all eight of the referral sources which are outlined in the book The World’s Best Known Marketing Secret and listed below . . . …
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Too Much Visibility?–”Navigating the VCP Process(R) to Networking” Series
Apr 16th
TR Garland (pictured with me in the photo below) is a friend of mine and co-author of one of my most recent #1 best-selling books called “Building The Ultimate Network.” He’s also considered a top trainer for the Referral Institute. For some time now, we’ve both observed a need to drill down on one of the most important and foundational concepts to networking – The VCP Process®. Two months ago, we started a much-anticipated 12-part monthly series of blog posts which addresses this and contains some very timely information for networkers across the globe. Today, we’re proud to share with …
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Business Networking and Sex: Survey Says . . . Networking Skills
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Apr 11th
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Work Positive in a Negative World
Apr 9th
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