Full-service marketing agency co-founder. Tweeting about WordPress, AI, marketing and other tech. Husband to 1, dad to 4, child of God.

Joined October 2010
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I've been building websites for 19 years. I used to think that those who don't build their WordPress sites from scratch and used templates cheated. Each site was taking 3 months to develop, and when I started getting more clients than I could handle, I had to find a better way
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I had the best day of work this week! My marketing agency partnered with a fly fishing outfitter to film social media content. This rainbow trout is my personal record!
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One of my 2025 goals is to get healthy. Peaked at 275 lbs around Christmas with high BP. Logging <1800 cal/day for one month, now at 261 lbs. Started cardio and strength training, feeling sore but better already!
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Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ retweeted
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Comic Sans is the Nickelback of fonts.
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WooCommerce updates are once again wreaking havoc on my client’s subscription site (pulling in 5 figures a month). Today, payments were failing or kicking customers back to the home page after checkout. Huge thanks to @blogVault for the quick rollback. Backups saved the day. 🙌
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This isn’t isolated either — just last month, a WooCommerce update wreaked havoc on the same store. Currently, I’m building a new project with @my_surecart. If it performs well, I may have to migrate all my Woo stores. Not to mention… WooCommerce is quite expensive
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Thai is my new favorite!
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We have a subscription for a primary care doctor for our family of 6. It costs us $206/mo. Texting the doctor questions, 1 hour appointments with my doctor to take care of all my needs, unlimited visits… it’s amazing!
I pay for a concierge doctor. Best investment I make all year. $2400/year and access to private doctor who accepts health insurance. At a conference and losing my voice? Send a text and a steroid is sent to the local CVS. Same day sick appointment when my wife caught the flu. Tamiflu picked up on the way home. His office is 10 minutes away. Usually responds in under 10 minutes. Subscription includes dexa scan, V02 testing, advanced blood tests, and regular annuals. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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TikTok is back. Along with the TikTok ban, CapCut was banned too. Our agency uses CapCut to edit 12 clients social media videos which caused me to search for a replacement that. Here was my email to my team that I sent out this week… 1/6
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If you have questions about features, please do a quick Google search first. I’m happy to help as well.” Fast forward to 12 hours after the ban, TikTok and CapCut are both back. We didn’t know it would be back this soon, or at all for that matter. 5/6
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But as the leader of my team, it was important to be prepared, have a backup plan that was well thought out. How would you have handled it? 6/6
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Is it just me or is Elementor so slow? I've been developing websites using Bricks, and went to update an old site built with Elementor and the builder is just so dang slow!
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Having employees is both the toughest and most rewarding part of running a business. In just six months since acquiring a business, I’ve faced theft, d0mestc volence, and the challenge of transforming the culture.
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A friend once told me, "Joe, don’t have employees." Some days, I get it. But employees are essential to achieving my business goals, creating opportunities for others, and building something bigger than myself.
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Where are you SEO agencies buying your backlinks from these days? I need wholesale pricing. @ezsmith397 @_toddanderson @theseoguy_
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Wordpress devs! What is a great alternative for WooCommerce subscriptions? Thanks!
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Help me understand why @bluehost gets to use the word "WordPress" in their marketing but @wpengine gets sued for their use of the same word? #wordpress #WordpressDRAMA #WP
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