Grow Profits in 2023
If you’re looking to grow profits next year, you’ve likely already made your plans for the new year. I get that. And it’s the last days of this year, so you’ve stopped reading blogs. I get that too. But there’s…
Chris Lema
Chris Lema has been working with WordPress since 2005. Over the years he's been a blogger, a speaker at WordCamps, a coach for WordPress product companies, and the founder of the conference for WordPress business owners, called CaboPress. Today he's the VP of Products at Liquid Web, where he manages the world's first managed platform for WooCommerce stores.
How To Navigate The Lean Years
Things are Going to Get Tough Instead of writing a post about the upcoming (or already here)”recession,” I thought I would go a bit broader and talk about how to navigate the lean years. Businesses of all sorts go into…
Premature Optimization is a Timing Mistake
In the end, your success or failure is a combination of what you control (your decision making) and what you don’t (timing). Most people aren’t really great at decision making. But that’s something you can get better at. So let’s…
When The Wrong People Quit
The Trend of Quiet Quitting You’ve likely heard of quiet quitting – the dynamic where people don’t actually leave your company. Instead, they simply stop working as hard. They skate. They put in the absolutely minimum amount of work to…
The Case for Pruning
There are two things I know about pruning. Now, you should know that I actually shouldn’t use the word “know” as if I’m a master gardener. I’m not. It’s probably more accurate to say that I read this on Wikipedia…
Do you really need a coach?
Business coaching is a great way to accelerate past predictable challenges you may not be able to see. It's also a fantastic way to get the accountability you need to help drive a culture of execution.
Creating a “How to work with me” Guide
Not Everyone Knows How To Work With You When you’re adding new people to your team, they’re stepping into a team dynamic and starting to work with a bunch of people they have no history with. In other words, they…
Self-Service is the Name of the Game
A Guy Walks into a Fast-Food Joint… Sometime in the early 1990’s I walked into a fast-food restaurant (Taco Bell) to see an ordering kiosk. This is long before we saw these kinds of touchscreens in fast-food chains (Taco Bell,…
Want Different Results? Change The Game
A couple of years ago, a group of us decided to co-work together in San Diego – a house on the beach. It was an idea my friend Justin created, called BeachPress. We rented a house with tons of rooms,…