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H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik / August 18, 2019

Proposed 2019 WCDFW Presentation — Project Management For WordPress Professionals

This session will discuss how effective project management can help WordPress Professionals Improve their bottom line. Mastering basic project management skills can make the difference between successfully managing your WordPress business or your clients running you ragged. Sandi Batik will share project management tips to help you deliver WordPress projects with a greater likelihood of […]

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik / August 18, 2019

Proposed 2019 WCDFW Presentation — Delivering a Better eCommerce Solution to Your Clients

This session will focus on how to use an eCommerce Discovery Process to evaluate your client’s existing business operations and help define what questions to ask about their proposed eCommerce project.  We’ll address how a detailed project /client discovery helps develop an accurate Scope of Work that allows the developer/designer/content strategist to give a reliable […]

Hosting Server

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik / July 12, 2012

Website Hosting

Pleiades WebCenter no longer provides Hosting for our clients’ sites… However, we are happy to recommend Hosting solutions to our clients based on their site requirements. For clients with high value WordPress sites, for whom security, scalability and performance are critical, we recommend hosting by WP Engine. Their architecture is hand-tuned to deliver reliability and […]

Take Action

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik / January 28, 2009

Taking Definitive Action

Confessions of a Perfectionist Procrastinator In search of the perfect words… If one is called to teach what one needs to know more fully — taking quick, definitive action is the topic of my soul. Analysis-Paralysis has been the abiding sin of my adult life, right along the need for perfection. My official, Pleiades Publishing […]

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik / May 16, 2008

Getting Published

YouPublish is Mark Victor Hansen’s Latest Publishing Innovation Last night’s Peak Potentials Ambassador program teleconference was lead by Manny Goldman. It was OUTSTANDING! At the beginning of the call he mentioned that all the suggestions he intended to discuss would be applicable to any business venture. Manny referred listeners to several social networking sites as […]

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik / January 21, 2008

Why Viral eBooks Fail

Your Viral eBook Campaign There are two key “pieces” missing from nearly all viral eBook campaigns… and if YOUR eBook is missing either of these, you’ll be settling for a fraction of the results you could be getting! Here’s the problem: Most marketers who write viral eBooks format these as text files, Microsoft Word documents, […]

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik / January 18, 2008

7 Topics For a Killer Viral eBook

Information — in the form of eBooks — is THE best thing to sell when you are starting an Internet business After all, when you sell an eBook you can make countless duplications of it at NO additional cost. Your manufacturing, stocking, packaging AND delivery costs are non-existent. That means your profit margin is 100%! […]

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik / January 16, 2008

Why Viral eBooks Work

If you’re currently running a business — whether it’s online, offline, or both you’re definitely aware of the costs of letting potential customers know about your business. Maybe you simply purchase advertising space in the Yellow Pages every year. Or maybe you print flyers to distribute, or take out ads in newspapers or magazines that […]

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik / June 6, 2007

Buying a “Targeted” eMail list

4 Questions You MUST Ask Before You Open Your Wallet By Andrew Mallory [Ed. note: Andrew Mallory is one of our top Internet Entrepreneur Club experts. To learn more, click here: A subscriber named Tony recently wrote us to ask if buying targeted email lists is a good way to drive traffic to a site. […]