If you’re looking for ideas for possible speaking topics, our St Petersburg group had a meeting in February where we discussed all the things we wanted to talk about and learn about this year. Get inspired & Speak!
Finding Your Niche
- How to make your business model unique
- How to find the job that’s going to make you happy (wake you up in the morning)
- Start with Why
Working with Special Website Cases:
- Membership Sites
- BuddyPress
- Multisite
- eCommerce +++
Working Efficiently/ Site Turnover
- Performance Tuning (Images, Pages, Speed, etc.)
- Speed & Caching Tricks
- Image Optimization / Plugin Optimization
- Site Checklist for Healthy Sites
- Too Many Plugins
- Choosing Healthy Themes
Fixing Broken Sites
- Troubleshooting CPANEL, PHP & DB Issues
- Malfunctioning Plugins & Themes
- White Screen of Death (How to recover)
- Effective Triage -> Get Back to Live (Recover the heartbeat first)
Finding Inspiration
- Stealing, (ahem), “Modeling” Great Sites for Design & Functionality
- Minimum Viable Product, or MVP
- Theme vs. Development: Choosing Themes & Plugins
Speaking Client
- Ethical Pricing Strategies
- Contract Negotiation
- Finding your Burn Rate and Pricing to keep you happy
- The Project Lifecycle, Discovery and Handling Scope Creep
- Explaining Technical Things to Non-Technical People