[wp-pro] Coach/Consultant/Training needed

Tue Mar 30 14:19:36 UTC 2010

This is my first post to a mailing list as well :)
And wow that's quite a story, lol, but understandably so.

One thing that makes Wordpress so great is the incredibly insane amount of
Free resources, tutorials, themes, plugins, etc etc etc. If you were to just
Google whatever it is that you want to know how to do, you would most likely
find more than enough results posted on any one of the million sites that
post things on WP, many which will be posts listing things like "*TOP 10
tips for ____ in Wordpress*", for example.

That's one tip I highly suggest, Google anything you need. And here's some
invaluable links to get you started:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

I can't even choose from all the links I found for Wordpress just in quickly
searching to get the url for these links, so I will just stop there, too
many to pick from lol.

On my site, New2WP.com, there is information posted about Wordpress
categorized based on level of experience from beginner, intermediate,
advanced. You may find some useful things there as well.

(shameless plug :P)

Good luck, though shouldn't need it. Wordpress is extremely easy to learn,
and use, once you understand it. Just takes a bit of reading about it.

--
Jared
http://new2wp.com
http://tweeaks.com

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Robert Hocking <robertjhocking at gmail.com>wrote:

>  This is my first post, so I apologize in advance if I am not following
> any mailing list protocols here that I am not aware of.  I have a web site
> that is hosted by powweb.com.  I have had it for about two years now.  I
> have my domain name registered at namecheap.com, and I also subscribe to
> their whois protection.  My web site is for my mobile computer repair
> business that I started about two years ago.  My first web site was designed
> by myself using powweb’s templates, and it wasn’t a blog.
>
>
>
> I hired a web designer in my local area that convinced me to get good SEO,
> that I needed to have him build me a blog web site, and he used Wordpress.
> My web site address is: www.mobilecomputertechs.com.  I paid him to design
> me a template that looked good, and would get me good SEO.  He explained to
> me that once he built the template, and got the web site functional, that I
> would have to add content to the web site several times a week, so that the
> web crawlers that search the internet each night, looking for web sites that
> have new content, they would find my web site, with updated content, and
> raise me up in the search engine’s results displayed when someone was
> searching for me.
>
>
>
> Well this hasn’t worked very well for me, mainly because I am so unhappy
> with the look of my web site, that I completely lost interest in adding
> content to my web site, to increase my SEO.  Because six months have gone by
> since my web site was created for me, the person who created it won’t make
> any changes to make it look like what I would call a professionally designed
> web site, and he wants to charge me to redesign it again.  The problem I
> have with that is I paid him once to design what I thought was going to be a
> professionally designed web site, and if I didn’t get what I wanted in the
> first place, I’m thinking I most likely won’t get what I want again.
>
>
>
> I decided to do some research on creating, or modifying my existing
> Wordpress theme, and I stumbled upon what appears to be a great piece of
> software called Artisteer.  A lot of web sites that reviewed it gave it high
> reviews, so I bought it yesterday.  I installed and within several hours I
> had a theme that I feel that I would be happy with.  I had a couple of
> glitches creating the theme that I thought looked good, and I contacted the
> technical support department, and they answered most of my questions,
> although a couple of them I answered myself, even though I wasn’t able to
> find the answers in the user manual, or their online forums, or searching
> Google.
>
>
>
> So I figured that this was going to be really easy, I got this theme saved,
> and I can just simply upload it to wherever and plop it in place, and I’d be
> good to go.  Well I did some research how to upload the theme and apply it,
> and now I’m finding that it is not as easy as I thought it would be.  When I
> activate the theme, it doesn’t look like it does when it is in Artisteer.
> After doing several hours of research and digging into the wp-admin panel
> for my web site, I am finding that there is a lot in there that I have no
> clue what it does, or how to use it.
>
>
>
> My wife does programming for Ford, and she works with web sites there, and
> she has been trying to help me get my web site cleaned up, and looking good,
> and then eventually she is either going to start adding content to my web
> site that I provide for her, or she will show me how to add content to my
> web site myself.  She is a basic to intermediate user of html, and I thought
> she would be able to get my web site straightened around in a short period
> of time.  She went out and bought a Wordpress book, and has been working on
> the web site for about a month now, and hasn’t got very far with getting it
> finished.
>
>
>
> About a week ago, the person/company who I paid to design my web site had a
> training class on how to use Wordpress, in regards to the web sites that he
> designed for his clientele.  I signed my wife up for this four hour class,
> and I thought in that four hours she would have a good start on getting my
> web site redesigned, and content finally added to it.  The class ended up
> running over four hours, because each person in the class had issues with
> their own web site/blog, and by the time he tried to answer each person’s
> issues, he was all over the place, and there really wasn’t an syllabus that
> was followed, to guarantee that all the content that he wanted to teach, got
> taught.
>
>
>
> So I decided to jump into this project.  I am a Systems Administrator for
> Chrysler (yes I still have a job) and I work on computers for a living.
> Many years ago, I decided that I wasn’t going to do web sites, because I had
> so many people asking me for help with theirs, that I already had the area
> of IT established that I was interested in working in, and working on web
> sites was not on that list.  Maybe now I’m seeing that was a mistake to
> choose not to learn basic web site creation and maintenance.
>
>
>
> So now that you got a background of where my wife’s experience are, and
> what I need help with, here is my request.  I want to hire someone to
> remotely train us how to use Wordpress, how to create themes, how to get a
> web site working using Wordpress, how to add content, how to do all of this,
> and end up with a professional looking web site, that gets good SEO.  I’d
> love to find someone local to us, but I definitely consider doing this
> remotely, where the coach/consultant would remote control my desktop, while
> my wife and I watch, and then conversation is done using phone.  I have the
> remote control software we can use.
>
>
>
> My primary goal is to get my web site redesigned and looking professional,
> and then for us to understand how to add content, so I can get good SEO for
> anyone in my local area looking for computer repair.  It would be great if
> my wife walked away with the basic knowledge on how to create a Wordpress
> theme, and deploy a new web site for someone, as I have had my clients ask
> if I could create a web site for them, and so far I have turned them down.
>
>
>
> I envision this training taking a while, and not having any clue how long
> something like this would take, I could see it being ten or more hours,
> spread out over several sessions.  I’m really not looking for someone who
> does this as their full-time business, my perfect coach/consultant would be
> someone who is very familiar with all the ins and outs of creating a
> Wordpress blog web site, because they do it at work, or they just love doing
> it, and they are looking to make some extra income.  If I had to pay what
> the person who designed my web site to train me, I would not be able to
> afford the training, as it would not be cost effective, because it would be
> cheaper to just have him redesign the web site for me.
>
>
>
> We are in the Detroit metropolitan area, and if you would prefer to do this
> in person, and you are a reasonable driving distance away, we would consider
> driving to you, otherwise I think the remote connection solution would work
> out well.  I hope this is the right forum to ask for the coaching/training
> that we are looking for.
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
> Robert Hocking
>
>
>
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Thank you,

Jared Williams
Web/Graphic Designer
Tweeaks.com  |  New2WP.com
Portfolio:
http://Tweeaks.com/portfolio
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