Category: Business

WordPress Business: Agency Operations, Client Management & Automation

VegasGeek covers the business side of running a WordPress agency including client relationships, automation, and the decisions that don’t show up in a changelog. This includes pieces like talking a client out of a project that wasn’t right for them, and finding the “vision gap” that keeps business owners from spotting automation opportunities in their own workflows. If you run a service business on top of WordPress, this is the operational side of that work.

  • Crawled – Currently Not Indexed: What It Means and How to Fix It

    Crawled – Currently Not Indexed: What It Means and How to Fix It

    You log into Google Search Console, pull up the Indexing report, and there it is. A status you have probably seen before and quietly worried about: “Crawled – currently not indexed” If you have pages sitting in this bucket, you are not alone. It is one of the most common and most misunderstood status messages…

  • How to Say No to a Client

    How to Say No to a Client

    Saying no is not a failure to sell. On a long enough timeline it is most of the job. Nobody hires a WordPress shop because the shop agrees with them. They hire it because they want the thing to work, and sometimes the fastest route to that is a conversation where somebody says the plan…

  • Do You Hide Features to Stop Clients from Breaking Their WordPress Sites?

    Do You Hide Features to Stop Clients from Breaking Their WordPress Sites?

    This week, while answering questions in a WordPress forum on Facebook, somebody asked: What is the best way to give my client access to update content but not give them full control of the WordPress Dashboard? I’ve been asked this question many times in the past, and here is how I typically answer it: Rather…