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A video showing the rebuild of the Long Beach Wedding Guide home page using the Kadence WordPress theme and plugins. I was not happy with the performance of the site using Divi WordPress theme, so I went in and made a similar design using Kadence. It’s not exactly the same. I also did not add…

I find Divi a fun theme / page builder to use and in the following videos I do a little optimization of a template site I’m using for Long Beach Wedding Guide. Divi is a paid premium pro theme / page builder. By the way Long Beach Wedding Guide dot com is available and for…

One of the most common problems with template sites is that they use heading elements and tags as design elements. This makes the page less accessible than it should be. Optimizing the Landscape Long Beach website. This site is for sale. In this video I use the Google lighthouse test to find problems with heading…

I Provide Employer and Employee Spotlight Business Videos That Plus Your Social Media Videos With Trust Building Interviews Employer / employee Spotlight and workplace Social Media Video Interviews Equals Business Stars. Use an employee spotlight to turn your staff into social media stars with video interviews. Video lets customers see and get to know the…

A quick little video I did at the REignite Real Estate meeting mini seminar on Friday April 24 2023. I had a chance to attend and get a feel for how these events are managed. There was also a chance to meet a lot of interesting people. Many of the presentations did provide useful information….

I have been writing blog posts for some time and writing in general even longer. I remember writing my first little book with illustrations when I was in third grade. I don’t know if I am a good writer, but apparently I like to write. After writing two very different blog posts I thought it…

Kick.com is a new video streaming service that looks and feels a lot like Twitch. It has been called the Twitch clone. Kick is in the early days, so there are not a whole lot of people using it at this time. On my first Kick stream my fast internet was not so fast. While…

Verbal Art As Performanceby Richard Bauman Verbal Art As Performance review and insight. I have been wanting to read this book for years. When I first started reading it I thought the book was fairly difficult. So I put it aside for many months. After six months I did get around to picking it back…

I started this post to talk about all the improvements to Vimeo. However, it turned into something of an investigation when Vimeo refused to answer a question about their next tier pricing. While my writing is usually geared towards small businesses, recently I’ve been considering problems and solutions from a larger or enterprise perspective. I’m…

The Effortless Experience Book Review, it’s Episode 3 of Commerce and Coffee. I am looking for a good book review format and experimenting with doing them in multiple sections. These are as much notes for my future reference as they are for others. Let’s get on to the Effortless Experience book. Chapters 1 and 2This…

This little Kadence vs Divi test was interesting although not definitive. The Kadence vs Divi test set out to compare two of my favorite WordPress website builders. For the past couple of years I have primarily used the Divi builder. However, within the last several months I’ve switched to primarily using Kadence WP. This website…

In this post we are looking at two thought provoking books. Both of which I highly recommend. Here are two books that make me think about changing and implementing new daily rhythms and systems into my business and life. The first book, The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty by Mathew Dixon,…