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Jesse Petersen
April 13, 2013
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Building More Profit Into Your WordPress Business
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Transcript
Building More Profit Into Your WordPress Business You can do
it! Jesse Petersen @jpetersen petersenmediagroup.com
know your abilities married since 2006 using WP since 2005
business owner since 2009 foster dad since 2012 geek since 1978 @jpetersen 2 the 411 on jesse petersen “doing the ordinary extraordinarily well every day”
KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS
coding 4 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
site analysis http://www.johninge.com 5 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
customer acquisition 6 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
design 7 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
project management 8 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
BE HONEST. . . REALLY
don’t promise the moon and give them 10 @jpetersen Jesse
Petersen WordSesh 2013
know your abilities know your abilities know your abilities know
your abilities know your abilities know your abilities 11 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
CHARGE APPROPRIATELY
skill > speed 13 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
without skill, you will lack respect 14 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen
WordSesh 2013
without skill, you will lack confidence 15 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen
WordSesh 2013
without skill, you will lack sales 16 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen
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get the work, then work on speed 17 @jpetersen Jesse
Petersen WordSesh 2013
speed should not dictate pricing 18 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh
2013
speed should not dictate pricing ...not entirely How I Made
$14,400/hr Fixing WordPress link: http://jkp.me/SAgTgz 19 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
*never lose money *unless you screwed up so bad, the
client shouldn’t have to pay for it 20 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
integrity > skill 21 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
a lack of integrity will kill your business 22 @jpetersen
Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
CARE ABOUT CLIENTS
it’s not about the sale 24 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh
2013
it’s not about the sale it’s not about the site
25 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
it’s not about the sale it’s not about the site
it’s about the client’s success 26 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
CLIENTS ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT
you’re the expert 28 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
clients are a dime a dozen 29 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen
WordSesh 2013
good clients are rare 30 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
THE IDEAL CLIENT
compete on value not on price 32 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen
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you do not want cheap clients 33 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen
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you can have it soon you can have it cheap
you can have it awesome you can only have two of those 34 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
the Golden Rule applies 35 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
the truth in love 36 @jpetersen Jesse Petersen WordSesh 2013
QUESTIONS? @jpetersen contact me if you are stuck or need
help in a bad client situation petersenmediagroup.com