WordPress and the 3 Bears: Themes, Widgets and Plugins

Can't wait! :)

Bob- I've been living back home in Boston for almost 2 years. I also have a disabling condition and am not looking for work.

I've been off Biznik and other social media to save my energy, but I haven't found an unsubscribe button on any of your missives.

Please take me off your mailing list. I wish you the best.

Chris Radant

I found Bob's last workshop, which I attended in November, to be extremely helpful in setting up my first WordPress blog. Thanks!

Can't wait to learn more!!

I missed the last one due to life craziness, but I am going to be at this one if I have to camp out the night before!

It's good to see such a great turn out for such a great event. Any chance you'd be interested in repeating it on the eastside anytime soon?

Blessings!

Feeling like a Phil Collins song. ("Missed Again") The email advertising this workshop arrived in my inbox at 3:00 AM today and it's already full. That's twice.

Yes, it would be nice to have it on the eastside too.

Bob, I'm happy to be able to attend your workshop. I rearranged my schedule so I can glean your wisdom. I'm in the process of trying to create a blog/website and am in dire need of your help. Debby

Well, since your last free work shop I have started four more blogs. I put up one for a buddy of mine last summer about house painting and he got two jobs from it within a month. He has now doubled his work force, and it's winter.
For less than $150 he has three years of blog service at godaddy. I just wanted to say I feel lucky to have gotten a seat, and will be early. Thank you so much for what you are doing.

David, That is great and encouracing news. Would you mind sharing your buddy's blog link? I'm very interested in using blogs to drive traffic for businesses. Thanks.

I bought the domain names for Jeff Amsberry, Amsberry Painting, and Jeff Amsberry Painting to go along with my domain name at www.SeattleHousepainting.com

Jeff started as a sub domain of www.SeattleRealEstateFixer.com better known as FixerFixer, at www.AmsberryPainting.com I wrote a couple of posts about house painting mentioning Jeff Amsberry Painting. The first two contacts came through the Fixer fixer sites plugin for "Contact Me."

At some point I put up a one page web site for Amsberry Painting and wrote posts on my blog sites directing people to Amsberry Painting, and a link to the one page site on my blog roll.

He got results so he bought a domain name web package from Service Magic that they charged him for, and also charged for the referral, even though it's his site. They also bought the domain name for him, at a premium, of www.AmsberrysPainting.com

I hadn't paid any attention to what he was doing. If he got an inquiry through my plug in I would forward it on to him. When it was clear that Service Magic was charging him per lead, I think, I don't really know how it works, he contacted me to ask what I was doing.

So what I am encouraging him to do is to get his own account, set up his own site, I'm transferring his domain names to him, no charge, I just bought them as an experiment, so he can control his own marketing.

I referred him to Bob for when he gets to that point.

My site at www.SeattleHousePainting.com will have a link to Jeff.

As another aside, I put up a blog at www.aspringcleaning.com and and at one time both were on the first page of a Google search for house cleaning with our stagnant site at

For about a week we got an inquiry a day for service.

Let me also say that my Real Estate site at www.davidLosh.com was a hosted site through a national company with all the SEO in the world and I was stuck back on page 18 or 20 for years. If you paid them they could "move you up."

I converted, after a lot of agony, to Wordpress and now hit first page from time to time, but have steadily moved up, organically, with absolutely very little content other than maybe weekly posts.

David, Thanks for sharing. I just love hearing success stories such as yours.

Sorry, I just found out that I would have to work at my office Monday. How I wish to be able make it and learn more from you! Have a happy holiday and give a big hug to Judy for me. :)

Bob,

I send my sincerest apology for not making it to your workshop. I tried, I really, really tried. It's a long ridiculous, frustrating story and I won't bore you with all the details. Finally gave up and came home.

I'm totally bummed to have missed it. I was looking forward to meeting you and gleaning knowledge to help me create a Wordpress website.

Debby

This was a great event. Thank you for keeping it all on topic, and to the point.

I will say that it would pay to get, and we will sign up for, help with WordPress now that I know how reasonable your program is.

Today you provided enough information to make me realize we have only scrathched the surface of what is possible.

Hi Bob... Thanks for a great event today. I got a ton of take-a-ways. I'm thinking "Headway" is the one for me. I love the drag & drop 'leaves'... A little more homework to do. And thanks for the list of widgets/plugins you prefer.

Bob - This was absolutely a great class for me as I learn what to do next and how to make the best of the resources out there. I'll keep on the lookout for more of your classes and take another look at my blog/website goals for 2011. You may be hearing from me! Ann

Hi Bob, Thanks for a superb event and, like your other events, I took away some great content. Looking forward to the upcoming Headway class.

Another great class, Bob. If I come to enough of these, I know I'm eventually going to start blogging in spite of myself! Thanks for your extreme generosity (traveling about 2-4 hours each way to give a free class?!), and for making WordPress so much more accessible. Just having you confirm that Headway themes are often a good way to go, sets my mind so much more at ease.

I always take away at least one little 'gem' that I would otherwise have not known about. Thanks for the great information. Love your banter. And your 'tell-it-like-it-is' commentaries.

Always good stuff in your classes Bob. Thanks! Mike