Writing About WordPress: Helping Yourself, by Helping Others -- WordCamp Orlando 2014
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The document discusses strategies for writing about WordPress to help others and advance one's career. It recommends writing to teach skills, promote products, or evangelize the platform. Suggested places to write include one's blog, company blog, or product blog. The document also discusses getting paid for writing directly through paid posts or indirectly by using posts to sell one's services. The overall goals are to share knowledge, make the world better, and benefit one's WordPress career through strategic contributions online.
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Writing About WordPress: Helping Yourself, by Helping Others -- WordCamp Orlando 2014
- 1. Writing About WordPress: Helping Yourself, by Helping Others Josh Pollock -- @Josh412 -- WordCamp Orlando 2014
- 2. Hi, I'm Josh I Do A Lot Of Things
- 3. What I Do HoloTree Team Decision Making Pods Custom Content Types & Fields The Big Two
- 4. What Else I Do ● Professional Blogger ○ Torque, Tuts+, WPMUDEV, WPBeginner, Elegant Themes, etc. ● Freelance Developer ○ Specializing in data architecture, Pods integration & REST API work. ● Wrote A Bunch Of Other Stuff ○ https://profiles.wordpress.org/shelob9/ ○ https://github.com/shelob9 ○ https://packagist.org/shelob9 I Do Lots of WordPress Stuff
- 5. I Got Where I Am Today By Helping People That's It
- 6. Goals For This Talk ● Get better at what you do. ● Make more money doing what you do. ● Teach others about what you're best at. ● Share your gifts. ● Make the world a little better.
- 8. Don't Just Read… Read The Best..
- 9. & Know Why They Are The Best.
- 10. Aligning Pragmatism and Idealism Just like the GPL...
- 11. What This Talk Will Cover ● Writing Strategically ● Where To Write ● Getting Paid To Write Or Getting Paid By Writing
- 13. Writing Strategically What Do You Want People To Think You Are Good At?
- 14. Write To Learn
- 15. Write To Show Off
- 16. Write To Promote A Product
- 18. Write To Kiss Ass
- 19. Write To Reuse
- 20. Write So You Do Not Have To Repeat Yourself
- 21. Where To Write? Part 2
- 22. Where To Write Define Your Goal Then Figure Out How You Can Reach Your Goal By Helping Others?
- 23. Your Blog? Your Company's Blog?
- 25. For Pay?
- 26. Getting Paid Part 3
- 27. Getting Paid Whether It's Direct or Indirect, What Defines Conversion? Whether you Write For pay or not your posts should be creating work for you.
- 28. Sell Your Posts
- 29. Have Your Posts Sell You
- 30. Important Takeaways Wrapping Up
- 31. Before You Can Do Any of This ● Know what you have to offer. ● Know who needs it. ● Know what they read.
- 32. Give Back Strategically What's Your Return On Contributing To WordPress? ● Fix what you need fixed. ● Contribute to what you use.
- 33. Give Back Strategically This isn't just about maximizing personal gain, it's about maximizing your contribution.
- 34. Questions? Ask Now or Ask Later Josh@JoshPress.net @Josh412