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WordPress Workshop

Find out how WordPress can help your business.

Maybe you’ve been hearing some buzz around WordPress, maybe you’re needing to update your website or maybe you’re just curious about the world’s #1 content management system. In any case, you should attend this free workshop on WordPress.




Workshop Details

  • Learn why WordPress is so powerful for any business
  • Get answers on how to get started with WordPress
  • Suitable for entrepreneurs, real estate, professionals and business owners
  • Q & A Session

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Companies using WordPress

Companies using WordPress



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1. Start a Q & A Site About Your Industry

Quora.com, StackOverflow.com and other Q&A sites are have become extremely successful. These Q & A sites have a ton of traction in-part because people want answers from real people. Why not start a Q & A site about your industry and let the people who care about your niche help each other out? With WordPress you can. Take a look at this Q & A solution:

Q & A Site

Q & A Site

 

2. Host a News Aggregator About Your Industry

Sites like PopURLS.com and AllTop.com are extremely popular new aggregators. With WordPress you could make a news site full of current info about your industry. This is exactly what I did with www.SteamboatDaily.com

News Aggregator

News Aggregator

3. Start a Paid Membership Site

Maybe you have an idea to start a paid membership site. With WordPress it’s a snap especially with a plugin like member.wishlistproducts.com/
WishList Member is a powerful solution for creating an online membership site – all built using WordPress as the core content management system.

Membership Site

Membership Site

4. Host an Auction

Be it a charity fundraiser, corporate or personal event, WordPress can be used to hold an online eBay style auction. These guys have built a fantastic plugin to create a full e-commerce enabled online auction: http://www.wpauctions.com/

Auction Site

Auction Site

5. Project Management

Looking for a low-cost, high quality solution for project management? Well, you guessed it, WordPress. CollabPress is an all in one project and task management plugin for WordPress. Transform a standard WP installation into a full featured project management application in a single click! Easily create unlimited projects, task lists, and tasks with all of the features you would expect.

Unlimited projects, task lists, tasks, and comments
Easily edit/delete projects, task lists, tasks, and comments
Email notifications for new tasks and comments
Task due dates with a calendar view
Uses built-in WordPress user accounts
Activity log tracking all activity
Multisite compatible
100% GPL and Free!
http://collabpress.org/

Project Management

Project Management

6. Start a Discussion Group

Create a dynamic discussion with P2 for WordPress!
P2 is a theme for WordPress that transforms a mild-mannered blog into a super-blog with features like inline comments on the homepage, a posting form right on the homepage, inline editing of posts and comments, real-time updates so new posts and comments come in without reloading, and much more. Here’s a quick video tour of the best features:

7. Sell Stuff

WP e-Commerce is a free bolt-on shopping cart that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online. They make setting up shop incredibly easy.
http://getshopped.org/

8. Coming Soon

Have an idea that’s not quite ready? There are a number of killer coming soon WordPress apps that allow you to show a countdown timer and collect info from interested people.

Coming Soon Page

Coming Soon Page

9. Launch an Online Community

WordPress has an add-on component called BuddyPress allowing you to create a full-blown online social website.

Community Site

Community Site

10. Event Registration

Sure there’s plenty of event registration services out there but you can set up your own with Event Espresso. I used an early version of Event Espresso for a conference last year and had great results.

Event Registration

Event Registration

As you can see, WordPress is an incredibly powerful platform and one that every business should be looking into.
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