Services

1 hour of 1:1 consulting about one or any of the following topics:

- Wordpress setup

- Wordpress design

- RSS Feed Optimization

- Email Marketing

- Create an e-newsletter

- Social Media Strategies

- Syncing your blog with social websites

- Branding your site

- Adding a Shopping Cart

- Backing up your site

- etc. etc.

This package includes:
- Wordpress site installation and setup
- hosted on my virtual private server for 1 year
- a free Wordpress theme to support your goals and match your branding
- the latest plugins to enhance and protect your wordpress site including: stats, security, super cache, spam blocker, auto database backup and more.
- one set of revisions after your review
- email subscription with valuable wordpress and social media tips to optimize and monetize your site
- a 1-hour 1:1 training on how to use your site

This package includes:
- Wordpress site installation and setup
- hosted with your hosting service or with my shared hosting service (Dreamhost)
- a free Wordpress theme to support your goals and match your branding
- the latest plugins to enhance and protect your wordpress site including: stats, security, super cache, spam blocker, auto database backup and more.
- one set of revisions after your review
- email subscription with valuable wordpress and social media tips to optimize and monetize your site
- a 1-hour 1:1 training on how to use your site

A custom Facebook page with your branding and custom html code so it will match your website.  May include:

- your email list sign-up form

- RSS feed/s from your blog

- photos of your work

- Your YouTube Channel

- audio of your work

- custom HTML landing page

If you have a favorite image or photograph you would like to use in your header, I can make a custom header for you.  Please provide the highest resolution image possible so I can size it to fit.

For an example of a custom header image, see http://sunsoundstudios.com/cms

Use your Wordpress blog to publish your e-newsletter instead of paying monthly fees to email marketing services.  This package includes:

- a custom branded email template to match the look and feel of your site

- setting up the process

- importing your contacts

- test publish

- training on how to use this feature

A flash slideshow of your most recent content displayed prominently on your home page.  For an example, see http://drmillerblogs.com.

For an example of this, see http://sunsoundstudios.com/cms/artists/catherine-scholz/ and notice the rotating images in the right sidebar.

All images will need to be sized to fit the gallery dimensions and uploaded to the server.

I can add Forums to your site where folks can discuss your products and services.

This package includes:

• installing and configuring the best Wordpress plugins to optimize your search engine rankings
• discovering the best keywords for you to add to your tag collection and adding them
• optimizing your home page content for SEO
• implementing other SEO techniques I have picked up along the way

Objective:

to provide students with the tools they need to optimize their presence on the internet using Wordpress

Materials:

notebook and pen or laptop to take notes

Pre-requisites:

• admin access to an existing Wordpress website
• payment via PayPal

Topics covered:

• What is Wordpress and how can using it benefit my business?
• What is an RSS feed and how are RSS feeds used for internet marketing?
• How do I publish a post or a page with Wordpress?
• What are tags and how do they relate to SEO (search engine optimization)?

Add an audio player to stream your MP3’s on a page or post.  Here is an example: http://blog.catherinesmusic.com/wordpress/

I can equip your Wordpress site to podcast audio and/or video and have your podcasts listed in the iTunes podcast directory.  This package includes:

• configuring the best Wordpress podcasting plugin to work with your theme
• adding a podcast player to your sidebar so visitors to your site can browse your podcasts
• burning your podcast feed with Feedburner and submitting to iTunes
• adding your existing branding to your feed, to your site, and to the Blubrry podcast community
• adding subscribe links for iTunes to your site

This package includes:

- installing the best shopping cart plugin for Wordpress
- setting up your product pages
- adding your product information and images (you supply)

This add-on package for your existing Wordpress site includes the following services:

- prominently displayed social media icons that link to your social media sites (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) so people can connect with you on those sites easily
- syncing your blog posts with your existing Facebook Page (I can make your Facebook Page if you need one) so your fans get an excerpt of your content which leads them back to your Wordpress site
- syncing your blog posts with your Twitter account so your twitter followers are aware of the title and link of your latest blog posts
- adding a Twitter widget to your Wordpress site sidebar so visitors to your Wordpress site can see what you’ve been tweeting on Twitter
- adding a Facebook fan box to your Wordpress site sidebar so visitors to your Wordpress site can see how many fans you have and what’s happening there

A custom stylesheet to match your business branding.  You supply your images or show me where to grab them from your existing site.

This laptop is in good condition and needs a little maintenance to get it running smoothly.  It has fully upgraded RAM and wireless internet.  If you know how to maintain Windows XP, this machine is a great deal.