First Website
Owner, Pam Mullavey, is an organizing dynamo. That’s why her estate sales are so successful. Another part of the success is promoting the sales from her website and supporting estate sale sites. YCL built a simple site that Pam can update herself. She uploads photos each week for the upcoming sale. She then emails her special list of interested shoppers to give them the highlights of the sale.
WordPress sites aren’t going anywhere. Here are some more interesting statistics about it.
“A 2012 survey revealed that the average rate for a WordPress project clocks in at $50/hr. It’s nothing to write home about, but $50/hour is a decent sum for most.
Desk, one of the most popular outsourcing sites in the world, lists WordPress development as the fifth most-requested skill. Freelancer.com, a similar website, has thus far recorded over $3.5M in revenue for WordPress developers.
WordPress development is clearly a valuable skill to learn — one that can definitely pay off in the future. The need for it won’t be going anywhere for a while.
Without doubt, the number one feature that sets WordPress apart from any other CMS is their plugins. Plugins extend and capitalize on the functionality of WordPress — removing access to them would cripple WordPress users (and that’s one of the reasons why WordPress.com falls second to Blogger).
Fortunately, nothing of the sort is happening. On the contrary, WordPress.org’s database of plugins has recently hit 29K and a new one is added nearly every hour. In total, these plugins have been downloaded 286,000,000+ times. Give it a few years and all you’ll be hearing is “there’s a plugin for that”.”
Statistics found on https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage
“The total number of worldwide email accounts is expected to increase to over 4.3 billion accounts by year-end 2016. – Radicati Group
Employees spend 13 of their working hours each week in their email inbox (on average). – McKinsey & Company
92% of online adults use email, with 61% using it on an average day. – Pew Research”
Statistics found on https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/2016/01/70-email-marketing-stats-you-need-to-know/
Every website needs regular maintenance and updating. That is especially true when the company moves from Arizona to Texas! Lea and Tom Porter relocated to Waco, Texas. The move was a perfect opportunity to update her site. Lea added photos of new projects, deleted photos of out-of-date styles and improved the page content.
Your Computer Lady recommends reviewing every page of your site at least twice a year. Read the content. Check each link and form to ensure they are functioning.
Everyone has lost count but there are been many versions of the LUA linecard. This is a growing company! YCL has done each update. Sometimes with a tight deadline in order to have fresh linecards for a trade show or architectural presentation. As needs have changed, the design of the linecard has changed from two 8.5×11 pages to two 11×17 pages and back. Your Computer Lady works to make each project productive and cost-effective for each client.