CommPress Podcast

Rand Fishkin is best known as the CEO of Moz (formerly SEOMoz) the analytics marketing software used by thousands. He is also an energetic entrepreneur and has a great story of building a company from scratch, the trials and traumas of raising capital and what it's like to elevate up to CEO and loosen his grip on the day-to-day stuff. Rand is also co-author of The Art of SEO. For your chance to win a copy of the book and some SEO Moz swag, leave a comment below this video with a suggestion on a feature you would like to see in the Moz software. Rand will be back in one week to award the prizes. Update: The CommPress podcast has been replaced with the WP Elevation podcast. Subscribe in iTunes here.

Adii Pienaar is an entrepreneur, husband and very new father; the combination of these roles resulting in an epic & challenging journey. Unlike the bio’s of most “serial” entrepreneurs, Adii is (as at the time of this going to press) a one-hit wonder with his role as co-founder of WooThemes. That status isn’t for a lack of trying either; it’s just that the other attempts lost more money than they made… In this interview Adii talks openly and honestly about building the Woo brand, taking criticism, Richard Branson and wanting to be a cool kid. For your chance to win a developer membership to the WooThemes theme club currently valued at over $700, leave a comment below this video with a suggestion on a feature you would like to see in future editions of the Woo Framework. Adii will be back in one week to award the prizes. Update: Adii Pienaar has just released a new book called Brandiing. You can get it here: Get Brandiing. Links WooThemes WooCommerce Rockstar Business Svbtle

Sorry some of the audio gets a bit funky at times. Cristian Antohe is part of the team that built Profile Builder Pro, a front end registration, login, edit profile and user listing plugin for WordPress. He’s a WordPress developer, web designer and Open Source fanatic. A couple of years ago he co-founded Reflection Media, a "custom WordPress solutions" company and every Thursday curates wpMail.me, the free weekly WordPress newsletter. In this interview he talks openly and honestly about getting premium WordPress plugins to market and the challenges of managing client work. For your chance to win $148 worth of premium plugins, including the WordPress Creation Kit and the Profile Builder Pro, leave a comment below this video with a suggestion on a feature you would like Cristian to include in a future version of either of the plugins. Cristian will be back in one week to award the prizes. Links WordPress Creation Kit Profile Builder Pro Cozmos Labs Reflection Media WPMail.me

  About George Gill (https://www.udemy.com/google-analytics-mastery/) The founder of GILL Media, and GILL Solutions Management Group of Companies, George over the last 20 years has developed multiple companies into successful businesses always focusing on the utilisation of technology, the best people and marketing to spearhead growth. George's greatest passion is understanding businesses, challenges and the needs required to be successful. Through this passion over the last two decades with his hands on approach, application of technology and love for helping people succeed, George has applied what he has learned into helping thousands grow and develop their own successful businesses.

Ben Hunt is a web designer and author who specialises in designing websites that convert. His books include Save The Pixel, Convert and his brand new book How To Be #1 (Your Complete Handbook to Niche Domination). In this interview, Ben talks about designing websites for conversions. For your chance to win a copy of Convert and How To Be #1 (Your Complete Handbook to Niche Domination) including 12 months support via a members-only website valued at a total of $217, simply leave a comment below and tell us the one thing you have done that increased conversions the most on your website. Ben will announce the winner in a couple of weeks. In this video, I also mention the following resources: Ben Hunt's Website Modern Tribe Canvas Theme from WooThemes (sorry it's not free as I mentioned - it's $70). Venturi Web Design NB: I do apologise for the poor quality vision of myself in this interview, the Call Recorder software I use from Ecamm for Skype had a bad day. It is usually outstanding. PS. You should also check out this article by Ben Hunt about how 123reg almost ruined his business - it's a lesson for us all.

Gary Pendergast is transcoder with Automattic - the company that makes WordPress, BuddyPress, VideoPress, VaultPress and Akismet. In this interview, Gary talks about his journey into computer programming, the web and ultimately how he discovered WordPress and ended up working for Automattic. He also talks about the VideoPress, the commercial video hosting service offered by Automattic and what it's like beiong part of a distributed workforce with colleagues all over the world. In this interview I also mention this: Getting Started Contributing to WordPress Handbook. Tell us what you enjoyed most about this interview by leaving a comment below.

Justin Cutroni is Analytics Advocate at Google. That's right, he works for the big "G". He's also a published author () has designed components that are still used on Satellites orbiting the earth and is an all-round nice guy as I found out during this interview. In this video, Justin Cutroni spends 45 minutes chatting about Google Analytics, how to use it as a small business owner and how web developers can use it to differentiate themselves from their competition. You can also win a copy of his excellent book "Google Analytics". Watch the video for full details. Here are the resources I mention in the video. Google Analytics Google Tag Manager Justin's books:   To win a copy of Justin's awesome Google Analytics book, suggest a feature you'd like to see in Google Analytics below and Justin will swing by in a couple of weeks and judge the best contribution.

Joost de Valk is undoubtedly the WordPress SEO champion of the world. His WP SEO plugin has been integrated into the WooThemes framework and his new Video SEO plugin is a truly remarkable piece of work. In this interview, Joost talks candidly about WordPress, SEO, releasing premium plugins and dealing with criticism online. For your chance to win a copy of the Video SEO plugin valued at $89, simply submit a bug fix for any of his plugins. Describe the bug fix below and include your Pastebin URL. Joost will announce the winner in a couple of weeks. In this interview I also mention this: Getting Started Contributing to WordPress Handbook as well as this article from 1st Web Designer.

Vladimir Prelovac is CEO of ManageWP, author of the  and author of many free WordPress plugins including the awesome Plugin Central. For your chance to win a 1 year business plan at ManageWP, leave a comment below with your best idea for a feature that you would like to see in ManageWP.