Yesterday and today we went Live on a ProteusThemes FB page. I’ve tried it a couple times before on my personal fb account, just to see how it works.
I’ve decided to write down my experience while it’s still fresh and I remember everything.
Two days ago, I sent a newsletter campaign to about 5,000 newsletter subscribers. I usually use the ‘Replicate’ MailChimp feature. The problem is that the feature leaves the original links in the content of your campaign as well. My first advice would be that you always send yourself a test email and click through all the links. But because you are reading this, most probably it’s too late.
After sending the newsletter I’ve realized that the CTA link is pointing to the wrong URL (to the blogpost instead of the pricing page).
This is me realizing what I did:
Today I want to share a little business trick with you. You can start using it today if you are a WordPress business owner, but it can be applied in many other cases as well.
It’s about the small victories you need in order to win on a long run.
At my company, we send monthly updates reports to our clients. They are keen to know which WordPress themes got updates in the last 30 days and what was updated. This means that I have to manually go through all our themes and manually check if the there were any updates for a given theme. We follow semantic versioning and the official theme releases are always tagged in git.
At the beginning of this January, I had no idea that by the end of it I will be opening my professional blog and write a year in review for ProteusThemes. But as the month was passing by, lots of people I admire and look up to published their retrospective and shared the vision they formed for themselves and their businesses for the future.
git grep is amazing! You should start using it right now.
Here are several reasons why:
css/js files, vendor/ by composer, bower_components/ by bower, node_modules/ by npm …)git help grep.