Informal Coffee - 8:00am in Parkside

We're meeting at Jam Parkside (https://www.jamparkside.com/) on Thursday, July 17 at 8 am and we can chat all things WordPress ...or not, as we see fit. This is an informal gathering to get to know one another and talk shop.

We had a big group at WP Buffalo’s Meetup July 3 at The Coffee Bean on Hertel, including myself, Josh, Noah, Sandra Ham, Martin, Sandra, Sophie, Bill, and camera-shy Becky (of CraftologyWNY https://www.craftologywny.com/). Among other things we discussed:

• Events calendar and tickets
• 501c3 credits with Google
• Updating websites from DDS to WP
• Corazones of Courage Foundation
• Using AI to create content
• Clients who don’t know where to start when creating their content
• What to use to process charitable donations on websites (Stripe was the overall favorite)
• Give Butter
• What are the first steps to creating a landing page? Some answers were: define scope, use ChatGTP to generate content in sections for a landing page, and using the old fashioned way of writing copy yourself.
• One week after launch, Sandy has a client on the line!
• How to price for consultations
• Using Lighthouse to measure site performance
• Virtual assistants
• Sophie has moved from 12 Clients to 20 since January 1 and has hired her own VA
• Bill is learning about AWS and Duck DB for his music recommendation project
• Becky and Bill conferred about craft shows
• Google merchant center for products

I schedule these events at different venues around WNY so everyone can join if they want (and don't want to drive half an hour first thing on a Thursday). If there's another neighborhood or coffee house you'd like me to plan for, put it in the chat. I'm always up for finding new local coffee places.