Bounce Gvng, the international collective of music makers assembles talent from across the globe each Saturday to come through and play 4 records over 2 rounds. We call this assembly of talent “The Pull Up”. Grab a beverage, tune in to your favorite social media/media outlet and enjoy the show!

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Featuring: Ice Tr3, JC The Great One, Bentlee

Produced by: Smart Boy, Lawless, Hakujin

Engineered by: Cedric Mosley

Video by: Shots By Sayyid

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At last years (2018) WordCamp Dallas/Forth Worth, Kyle Van Deusen and Matt Sebert from The Admin Bar literally grabbed me as I was on my way out to catch a ride to the airport. They sat in on a presentation I gave related to a nonprofit I volunteer with called 48in48.

The presentation was related to the process and technology we use to build 48 websites in 48 hours for 48 nonprofits.

At the end we had a bit of extra time and I mentioned we could talk about ‘pricing’.

No one bit…or so I thought!

Kyle and Matt told me about their podcast and invited me to talk about pricing with them.

It was an awesome conversation!

Pricing is a topic I think all business owners struggle with at some point, if not the entirety of their journey, myself included, since there are many different types of businesses, including investing in sites like VT Markets or selling products online, which make pricing a really important subject. You may also want to know about what is the stock price of met here and what it can offer you!

I certainly do not have it all figured out, and I’m doing everything in my power to work with larger organizations with larger needs and budgets, but I enjoy talking about it.

Enjoy!

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At WordCamp Atlanta 2018 earlier this year, I had the opportunity to speak about Pricing.

Given my role at WordPress Websites Atlanta, a digital marketing agency, I felt I had a really good grasp on the subject and was ready to monotonously talk to the audience for 45 minutes non stop about it! After spending some time putting together a presentation where I would talk to everyone about my thoughts, I decided it would be better to include more people into the conversation.

I needed a few folks that were doing the same type of work, at different price points, and with different backgrounds.

WordCamp allowed me to host a panel and I called in my friends Judi Knight owner of New Tricks, Victor Victor Ramirez owner of Abstract Agency, and Danny Peavy from One Week Website.

Each of these people has been running successful “service based” businesses building websites, and have unique viewpoints on how to package and price their services. I appreciate the opportunity to host this topic. I’m confident we could have spent an entire day on it.

If you find this to be helpful, share it with someone that could use a boost in owning their value and upping their prices.

Thanks for watching!

Click here to download the presentation in PDF format.

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A few months ago the fine folks at WP Elevation asked if I would be a guest on their podcast for the Meet the Elevators series.

Of course, I said yes!

This program and community have had a huge impact on my business and my life in the last few years.

I could talk all day about the different parts of the Blueprint and how effective they are, but this 30-minute snippet touches on some of the key things.

Thanks to Troy, Ray, and the whole team at WP Elevation for the opportunity!

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Calendly was the tool that I chose. Seemingly so simple, this tool alone has helped me streamline my days.

This was written towards WordPress agency’s, but I think most of these tools will be helpful for anyone that is active online.

10 Helpful Tools to Boost Your Agency’s Productivity in 2018
Enjoy!

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He release two albums last year called Auroras (australis) and Auroras (borealis).

Using the exact same instruments and sounds on each, one album is very much soundscapes, while the other is more traditional (if you can even call psychedelic hip hop that).

Auroras Experiments is an album featuring remixes of those songs.

The one I did was Amida ft. Dyver. I chose not to stick with the theme of the first two albums and only work with the existing sounds/tracks that were available.

Enjoy!

Remix

Original

Soundscape

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600 or so people spread across two days and almost 50 sessions that could be attended.  I was lucky enough to present on a topic myself the last day. Wash each day down with an after party and the amount of people you come across is sky high.

From March 21st through 26th I was in Miami. First for a mastermind with around 20 folks from a professional group I’m a part of called WP Elevation (a bunch of nerds building websites ) and then into another Saturday/Sunday for WordCamp Miami, similar to Atlanta, except with more people.

I’m still trying to digest everything I learned, was inspired by, and wrote down to revisit later.

The gist of this is that I met and talked with an enormousness amount of people for such a short period of time.

One person said something to me in passing that struck me the most, and later proved to be walking that walk, not just talking the talk. If I had to choose one specific take-away from the entire week it would be this:

“Treat everyone you meet like it could be their last day on Earth”

I don’t know where he picked this up but when I heard it, it was powerful.

Don’t be a d*$@

As I get older I am continuing to work on my balance between staying focused and completely losing my ____.

There are so many opportunities in a single day where I could let myself get riled up and angry.

People don’t know how to drive…

Client work coming in from all customers at once…

Stepped in dog … …

Traffic!

When I was a child I understand I was a bit obnoxious. My family would ignore it until someone couldn’t take it any more. All I know is that I could have been better, but I was so young that I don’t blame myself

Now that I am fully aware, there is no one else to blame but myself so it’s much more important that I continue to check myself.

I try to live under the golden rule as much as I can.

“Treat others as you would have them treat you.”

It’s not as hard as people seem to make it. Keep your cool and be respectful of those around you. Especially if something is completely out of your control (ie. anyone that has not yet learned what ‘yield’ means).

You get to choose how you react.

You also get to choose how you interact with others.

Be proactive with kindness

Going back to the title of this post, I want to touch on being more proactive with kindness.

It’s one thing to be passive and not let other peoples ridiculousness get you all crazy, but it’s another to really push out the positive vibes without the desire for reciprocity.

The day after this person shared this quote with me the whole group parted ways.

A few hours later we see a Live video in our Facebook group with him sitting next to a new friend he had made at the local Starbucks.  In chatting he found out that his new friend ran a Non-Profit that goes out once a month with “Love Bags” full of food, soap, toothbrush/paste, water, etc. They pass these out to homeless, prostitutes, underprivileged children, etc.

They have about 80 people that go out and are growing fast.

Most of the Love Bags contents are purchased out of pocket by the volunteers.

They did not have a website or a way for interested parties to donate…at least not for long.

Without hesitation, and in just over 12 hours time, the crew from WP Elevation that had just met up in Miami for a mastermind to work on their own business threw together a full site for M28 Missions.

Talk about being proactive.

One day at a time

Remembering to treat everyone with a bit more sensitivity isn’t always going to be easy. I definitely want to push some negativity when people are being dumb, that’s just human nature.

I will however do my best to continually be conscious of my actions and how they will effect others.

I will also make a push to be more proactive with kindness with my time and ability.

Thanks Colin!

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