This is an updated presentation from the 2014 WordCamp Philly. I presented 10 lessons learned from moonlighting with Wordpress. This was presented at WordCamp Philly on 6/13/2015 at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, PA.
19. THE END
Any Questions? Erica Sterling Bush
• Teknique, LLC
• Websiteplant, LLC
CONTACT
@ericawebmaster
ensterling@gmail.com
www.ericasterlingbush.com
Notas do Editor
Hi my name is Erica Sterling Bush
Show of hands,
Who has 1 job?
Who has 2 jobs or more?
Who is a freelancer?
Who is not working at all?
Security
Hidden Benefit
Test out careers or business ideas
Stumble on your passion
Use signed contracts, proposals and/or statement of work
Don’t give refunds, it must be stated
Gave money back – annoying client, micro manage the project, called everyday
Refuse to give money back - client asked for a website with no photos – newspaper.. I gave 3 different themes with limited text. She wanted her money back and I said no.. I am supposed to get paid for my work I gave you what you asked for.
Obtain all of the details before you agree on price
# of photos, #videos, # of forms/questions
www.wufoo.com
Underselling..over selling
Get real specific
Obtain all of the details before you agree on price
# of photos, #videos, # of forms/questions
www.wufoo.com
Underselling..over selling
Get real specific
Obtain all of the details before you agree on price
# of photos, #videos, # of forms/questions
www.wufoo.com
Underselling..over selling
Get real specific
Obtain all of the details before you agree on price
# of photos, #videos, # of forms/questions
www.wufoo.com
Underselling..over selling
Get real specific
Collage – Big Feature theme
Normal graphic designer – mac died
Luckily I knew other graphic designers
Use signed contracts, proposals and/or statement of work
Don’t give refunds, it must be stated
Gave money back – annoying client, micro manage the project, called everyday
Refuse to give money back - client asked for a website with no photos – newspaper.. I gave 3 different themes with limited text. She wanted her money back and I said no.. I am supposed to get paid for my work I gave you what you asked for.
Use signed contracts, proposals and/or statement of work
Don’t give refunds, it must be stated
Gave money back – annoying client, micro manage the project, called everyday
Refuse to give money back - client asked for a website with no photos – newspaper.. I gave 3 different themes with limited text. She wanted her money back and I said no.. I am supposed to get paid for my work I gave you what you asked for.
Use Online Storage for backups – (themes, db files, wp files content folders, client logins tc)
Keep a log for all Client Logins file
Gave money back – annoying client, micro manage the project, called everyday
Refuse to give money back - client asked for a website with no photos – newspaper.. I gave 3 different themes with limited text. She wanted her money back and I said no.. I am supposed to get paid for my work I gave you what you asked for.
All hosting is not equal
Wpengine, site ground, hostgator,
Bluehost, godaddy, networ
Downtime
Memory Limit Error
Security Hacks
I told my client to not use network solutions hosting
php memory limit ini_set error
Malware attacks
Bad Seo
1 and 1 hosting – no 1 click install and they use old versions of WP