Thesis Theme, Inside & Out. Starts at 7pm EST / EDT (New York time)

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1 Thesis Theme, Inside & Out Starts at 7pm EST / EDT (New York time) Send a message to presenters introducing yourself (name and location)! Slides:

2 Today s Program (~ 75 min. + Q&A) About WordPress Webinar Marathon (~ 1 min) Recommended Themes, Why Thesis? (~ 3 min) Thesis Theme Styling Demonstration (~50 min) WP Academy Courses Presentation (~8 min) Q&A

3 Most Popular Theme Frameworks Free: Weaver 2, Atahualpa StudioPress WooThemes Thesis ithemes

4 Attractiveness out-of-the-box Theme Functionality Grid Theme Sweet spot circle Elegant Themes WooThemes StudioPress (Most Free Themes) Weaver (free) Atahualpa (Free) ithemes Thesis Headway Power (Flexibility)

5 Why Thesis? Understand Theme framework vs Theme A Developer s theme (extremely flexible and extensible), yet intuitive / easy to use High-performance theme + Do whatever you want with it A lot of styling options inside the theme options panel Ultimate Thesis Options plugin: add footer widgets, html text in the header, etc Thesis OpenHook Manager plugin: easily add html text or php calls anywhere on the page Not the most flashy of themes you will likely need to work it a bit $87 from DIYThemes.com

6 The WordPress for Business Course - Who the course is for Small-business, self-employed anyone who wants an attractive website that generates leads and/or sells. WordPress Professionals Virtual Assistants, Social Media Consultants, Traditional Webmasters, etc. Passion sites and Millionaire Messengers

7 Brendon Burchard and Millionaire Messenger Fastest way to wealth generation on the planet (and to a nice quality of life) Marc s summary of Millionaire Messenger : 1. Work from your passion 2. Create a product or service that is valuable to somebody 3. Create a (cheap) web sales and marketing platform 4. Find your tribe (Affiliate)

8 WP Academy Training in 5 minutes Beginner Start Monday October 1st, 7-9pm EST for 10 Weeks Other s Start Monday October 8th, 7-9pm EST Lecture Monday nights (7-9pm) hours weekly of drop-in Group Practice sessions Lectures are recorded & Downloadable Course for all time zones (practice sessions morning, afternoon and night EST time zone) Student/Instructor ratio < 6:1 on coaching calls 40-hour /wk Skype access to our WordPress VA for tearing your hair out issues Course for business people, not developers No other WordPress or Web Technology course on the web covers the range of subject matter, or provides this level of support - The information you need, when you need it nothing more and nothing less Direct access to the instructors in small-group coaching sessions, ticket support, theme downloads worth $900, stock photos on request

9 Why Pay for a WordPress Course? Your time is valuable (there is simply too much information out there) You need more than a pretty website, you need to understand the foundations of marketing, SEO, payment systems, membership systems, video production, social media, etc You will also probably need commercial themes Money-back guarantee: Attend first 3 classes at no risk If you can t do it for yourself, we ll do it for you no kidding

10 Weeks 1-6: WordPress Web Design Week 1 ( Beginner s Week ): Hosting WordPress; navigating cpanel hosting; WordPress as a CMS; navigating the dashboard Week 2: WordPress What and Why; Domains & Hosting; WordPress userinterface & basic layouts; Configuring static site, mixed sites, & permalinks; WordPress Data Elements: Posts, Pages and Links; Using the Visual Editor; Sidebar Widgets; Installing plugins Week 3: Image management / Banner design with Paint.net; WordPress menus and navigation bars; Links; Using the media library, posting images; Advanced Visual Editor (TinyMCE), entering tables, and heading levels; The all-important Text Widget: posting forms and images to your sidebar; Windows Live Writer; File Transfer Protocol (FTP): downloadable pdf s etc; Week 4: Themes & Theme frameworks; Styling a Weaver site; Styling a StudioPress site; Image sliders; Sales-letter style themes Week 5: Styling an ElegantThemes theme; Styling a WooTheme; styling Thesis theme; Embedding audio & video; Commenting & moderation; Backup and security; Week 6: No lectures this week, just coaching groups (time to rest or work on your site)

11 Weeks 7-10: Advanced Web Design, WordPress in Business Week 7: Social media integration; Facebook comments; Facebook fan pages inside iframes; HTML and CSS introduction (the 5-6 HTML and CSS commands that do 90% of the work) Week 8: Search-engine optimization: traffic sources; meta tags; keyword analysis (using free Market Samurai); Google analytics Week 9: Newsletter/autoresponder systems; RSS-to- systems; Payment systems & Shopping carts; Membership systems Week 10: Online video; equipment choices; shooting & lighting; editing; publishing

12 Course Registration and Cost Course starts Monday Oct. 1st, at 7pm EST x 10 Weeks (or Monday Oct. 8th if you have some previous experience) Just $597! (or 3 payments of $214) Includes: Live webinars (18 hours) hours coached individual & group practice drop-ins + Lifetime access to all our content with no additional fees + the new WordPress LMS 90 days of ticket & live support, renewable after 90 days for just $10/mth (includes hosting & WordPress backup solutions), free hosting for 90 days $900+ worth of commercial theme downloads (StudioPress, WooThemes, ElegantThemes, ithemes, Sales letter themes) 10 Million+ Professional stock photos on demand (some restrictions) You can repeat the course anytime in the future for $100

13 WordPress Learning Management System The Do It Yourself version of WordPress for Business Just $97 before Oct. 8th (and then $147) The World s first true WordPress & Web Technology Help System Contains all of the content of the WordPress for Business Course (and more), but No support, no coaching groups, no theme downloads, no stock photos Purchase from

14 The End (or maybe the beginning?)