The WordPress Manual Plugin first evolved because we wanted to both provide our clients with the best experience of using WordPress as a CMS, and just as importantly we wanted to reduce the costs of managing the education of our clients in using their CMS.
Over 20,000 WordPress consultants have downloaded the eBooks and some of them have left testimonials about how much they love them. Read their comments here.
We also have evolved other techniques which have helped both of these goals, and have decided to share them with you. The following is the culmination of over 6 years worth of experience.
It offers advice to businesses on how to streamline their processes while giving their clients a better impression of their brand though a smoother handover.
A Better WordPress For Clients
- How to customise the WordPress dashboard to give your clients the best (non-confusing!) experience.
- Using a WordPress setup checklist will make your installations more efficient.
- How to move menu positions in WordPress.
- Implement basic Search Engine Optimisation techniques to give your clients better results
- How to get the most out of the WordPress Manual Plugin
A Better Business For Developers
- How to qualify leads
- Sending proposals
- Payment Terms
- Client sign off
- Lots more!
How To Sell WordPress To Clients
- How to explain WordPress to clients in one page.
- What to focus on in your sales pitch.
- An interview with Tammy Hart, about her WordCamp presentation “WordPress & Working With Clients”
- How to handle questions for your clients in an efficient manor. (cut your maintenance costs)
Got Any Tips Of Your Own?
We would love to get your feedback on some of our recommendations, please let us know what you think.
About: A Better WordPress For Clients
When making WP sites in the past, I often sighed *** If I just could customize the Dashboard *** And here it is! This is all so practical and easy to setup.
This is one of the most intelligent and comprehensive approaches to using WP as a CMS. Thank you very much for this extremely valuable information!
Great, fast read. I was disappointed that Desk is no longer free, but no biggie. I had so many “aha” moments. Can’t wait to get my Video User Manual sub!
Just re-read this eBook after 2 years and it is still as germane as ever. What I like even more is the WP Elevation course that significantly expands upon the eBook.
Really good tips on simplifying WP – but it would be even better if you gave some advice on cutting back the post/page editor which gives way too much flexibility and doesn’t guide clients to stay within a “house style” for fonts, headings, etc.
Yes you make good point Peter. Truth is I use Advanced Custom Fields (http://advancedcustomfields.com) on most client sites these days and I’m guessing it’s only a matter of time before this is wrapped into the WordPress core. We will update the e-book soon to reflect this.
Excellent read a great reminder to build a great process!
Thank you for this very useful e-book
I’ve just nearly finished reading. It is a well written guide and focuses very well on an area of the market where very little documentation exists currently.
Good job Troy. Really some interesting elements.
Thanks for the hard work
Thank you for this very useful e-book everyone involved in the WordPress business should read..
Excellent report. We have done something similar to make our Drupal sites easier for clients to edit and there are some great ideas here for us to implement in our WordPress solutions. Cheers guys.
Just wanted to say, anything that saves me time and makes life easier for my clients is a plus for me. Your video’s, white label manual and ebooks do all of this … they help me give my clients a better wordpress experience whilst save me time and them costs… i’m a monthly subscriber simply because it makes sense and helps me retain customers as I add to their experience.
thanks
Steve
You don’t want a real review. I can see that by reading the other comments here. The CONTENT of the e-book is excellent, but it looks like every other e-book out there–even down to the white-on-black. Oh, well. I guess if it works for the competition, it’ll work for you. Besides, the people who are tasked with explaining/implementing WordPress have their work cut out for them and need all the help they can get. I won’t be paying for a subscription to information I can find on my own by reading everyone else’s me-too e-book–but that’s because I’m just getting started and broke, not because I’m cheap 🙂
Keep up the good work, guys!
Hey Melody – actually we do want real feedback. We thrive on it.
I’m not sure (nor do I really care) about our competition and that’s not why we wrote this ebook. This ebook is really our own intranet turned into something readable. These are the processes we follow with every project we build and we figured it would be helpful for other consultants to follow the same process.
If the content is excellent as you say then we have done our job.
Thanks for stopping by.
Truly quite amazing. I’ve been working with WP for so long I had no idea others might find it so intimidating. You are clearly dead right and this is an invaluable support system to help clients and friends get over the initial learning curve jitters.
Brilliant.
I have received A Better WordPress For Clients and it is a great book. I am really looking forward to receive the next in the series 🙂
You folks have such a clear and concise vision of what it takes to keep a client informed, but not overwhelmed.
Thanks for sharing this report.
Troy, just like to ask have you covered a reference to Security and Back-up of a wordpress site using a plugin?
Try BackupBuddy Trev. The only one I use – http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/
Awesome guide! I’m just starting out going from the occasional WordPress install plus customization for friends to actual traditional clients, and I went through the entire thing with my client’s site to make sure to add the little bells and whistles. Thank you so much!
Excellent. I found all of the information very helpful, well written, and very useful. Good stuff. I will likely look into some of the e-books as well.
Have just finished reading through this report and watching your Melbourne presentation.
I could really relate to your comments about client support and training and the overhead this generates – enough said about that!
Already offer videos via a competitor service but there is no manual and, from what I have seen, the video selection is not as extensive as yours so I will be changing service provider when current subscription ends.
Already tweak the dashboard using WP functionality BUT your White Label CMS plug in is going to make all of that a whole lot easier and much more professional looking.
Your ideas and resources are really going to make it much easier to ‘up my game’ without increasing my workload and I thank you for that.
What a find! Thank you for “A Better WordPress For Clients”, your sophisticated marketing ideas and for the coming follow-ups, you’re so generous.
We’ll be subscribing to the videos….I just have to get my partners on board and it won’t be hard to get their go ahead.
Nice one Ros.
Glad you found the follow up eBooks helpful too.
We got more in the pipeline.
Enjoy!