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Bruce Chamoff

New York City, NY

Call me for WordPress training, DIVI theme assistance, website conversion, website redesign, public speaking coaching, reading your Google Analytics, Javascript ReactJS and Redux training.
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HELPING ENTREPRENEURS MAKE MONEY ONLINE THROUGH WordPress, Public Speaking, Fiverr, Udemy, and streaming TV.

Founding member of Hot Web Ideas, a web re-design firm where we not only re-design websites and social media marketing campaigns for profitability.

WordPress trainer and assistance in the Divi theme, WordPress Theme Development, WordPress Gutenberg, WordPress plugin development.

ReactJS developer: I will teach you ReactJS, which is Facebook's popular Javascript framework as well as Redux.

WEB RE-DESIGN CONSULTING AND COACHING

We will not only redesign your website, but we are experts in website conversion: converting your website visitors into customers through simple design changes. Let me show you how to improve your website.

PUBLIC SPEAKING COACHING

Do you fear public speaking, but still need to do it? I can help. I love to speak publically and am not afraid to present. I have presented to audiences from 50 to 1,000 and have spoken at the United Nations in New York City in the summer of 2016. I have also spoken in St. Louis, CIncinnati, Kansas City, Boston, and Jacksonville on podcasting, web design, web development, and social media marketing.

If you need help developing a presentation or someone to help you overcome public speaking shyness, I can help.

TEACHING WEB DEVELOPERS and VIDEO PRODUCTION ON UDEMY (Expert on ELearning)

I have 6 successful Udemy courses on web development, WordPress and helping songwriters and musicians produce music videos. As a singer/songwriter, I have written over 150 songs and once I found success with my music video for Pianoland, I created a free Udemy course on how to produce one on a shoestring budget. eLearning is one of my passions and I love helping people succeed this way.

BLOG MARKETING

Also, I market bloggers and show them how to make money with their blogs as well as use social media to get more blog subscribers. Also, a founding member of LatestBlogPosts.com, a blog network that promotes blog posts.

FIVERR GIG CREATION AND SALES

After 4 successful years on Fiverr, I have encouraged many sellers to join Fiverr and to help them make money while earning them new leads for their businesses.

TRAINING PEOPLE HOW TO MIX AND MASTER MUSIC

I also help musicians become home recording engineers and offer advice on music recordings. I have 4 rock albums as well as one smooth jazz album with the saxophone.

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Social Media Marketing Training and Consulting

Although a lot of people perform social media marketing, but we actually know how to target the right customer and audience. Let's schedule an appointment to speak about who you want to reach, what demographics, etc and I will help set up your social media marketing plan.

Voiceover for Videos & Commercials / Podcast Consulting / Podcasting

I will help you with your audio and voiceover. Please call me if you need assistance with these items. I have produced commercials, MTV-style/VH1-style music videos, written voiceover scripts, and video production including editing. If you need help with scripting, feedback, sound quality, I am here to work with you. I will even help you select the right software and microphone.

Agile Product Management Consulting and Training, Jira, and Scrum

Let's make an appointment to help manage your project using agile, scrum, sprint planning, and user story setup. I have experience with project management tools and ticketing systems including Jira, Taiga, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, and Asana.

If you need help setting up the sprints, handling the daily stand up meetings, calculating/estimating points, and writing the user stories, I would love to work with you.

Sprint planning, scrums, and agile project management can be daunting, but I have the experience you need.

WordPress Theme Development, Plugin Development, & Divi Theme Assistance

I have been a WordPress theme and developer since 2008 and have developed over 200 WordPress themes and plugins for everyone from small companies to Fortune 500 corporations including National Enquirer, NBA, Radio City Rockettes and more.

I also teach 9 successful Udemy courses on WordPress which also includes plugin development and making money with your WordPress website.

Themes built are both desktop compatible and responsive for mobile devices. My experience also includes converting static Twitter Bootstrap websites into fully functional responsive WordPress themes that look awesome on any mobile devices.

If you need help and assistance with WordPress theme development, I would love to work with you either:
- training you
- performing the work

I have been a WordPress plugin developer for 9 years and have developed over 50 WordPress plugins for businesses of all sizes from small companies to Fortune 500 corporations.

I have built plugins of all types from:
- custom post types
- content modifications
- social media marketing applications
- ecommerce apps
- and more.

I have built over 30 websites with the WordPress Divi theme and am ready to train you on Divi and other WordPress theme development.

We also specialize in website conversion and redesign to convert your visitors to customers.

If you need help with Divi modules, layouts, or just general web development and web redesign, please call me today or let's set up an appointment on Clarity..

Public Speaking Coaching and Preparation: I Will Be Your Test Audience

Let's schedule an appointment if you need help preparing for a presentation or designing one. I also assist with Powerpoint and GoToMeeting.

If you need someone to critique your upcoming presentation and provide professional and honest feedback, I will be your test audience.

My background in public speaking: I have spoken at over 50 events in the past 10 years including WordPress conferences (Wordcamps), media outlets, and local meetups and networking groups in US cities including New York, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City, Jacksonville, St. Louis, Boston, and Chicago.

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Bruce Chamoff answered

directEdit is a WP plugin for webdesigners to build easy-to-maintain websites. I am looking for a business model to make it Open Source. Any Ideas?Tnx

I also build Wordpress plugins, so this is a great question for me to answer.

I think building an API to add open source code like PHP and HTML 5 would be great. Using a Restful API is the best way to go so web designers can simply send their data to the directEdit plugin and it will dynamically create the website.

I would be glad to speak with you on ideas for offering an API.

Bruce

I always look for open source APIs to allow me to modify the data

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Open Source Software

WordPress

Startups

Bruce Chamoff answered

Does anyone have any insights on scaling a web development/design firm using freelance help? Everyone says its dangerous any tips or things to avoid?

What has worked for us in my firm is analyzing your bottom line. Keeping your best, most productive, and most cost efficient co-workers is the key. Period. It does not matter whether they are consultants or employees.

The questions I ask before deciding on scaling employees or consultants are these:

1. Who is more productive, the employee or freelancer?
2. Who is more cost efficient, the employee or freelancer?
3. Who will give me a better return on investment (ROI)?

There is nothing wrong with scaling employees for freelancers as it always happens in today's economy as long as those freelancers give you a better return on investment. If not, then keep your employees and maybe have one freelancer for the really technical stuff.

I can show you some of my documentation on this if you'd like if we do a call.

Bruce

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Web development

freelancing

Bruce Chamoff answered

I would love to hire a proven expert (2-4 hours) at the start/middle/end of my projects—paid mentoring essentially. Anybody doing this already?

I have experience in both Wordpress and Advanced CSS, but the more important CSS these days is for responsive web design.

Responsive web design forces websites to fit in all devices including smartphone and tablets as well as regular computer monitors and laptops.

For Wordpress, I can show you theme development and plugin development and how CSS works into those tools.

Bruce

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Web development

WordPress

Advanced CSS

Bruce Chamoff answered

We're creating a platform for photographers to sell their work on our site & we need to build a lean custom CMS. Any ideas of devshops? Thanks!

I think Wordpress is definitely your best answer and I would be glad to show you how easy it is.

Photo Gallery - Photographers can easily upload their work:

With a few Wordpress plugins (which are easy to use), there are plenty of photo galleries out there for your photographers.

Photographers selling their work:

I can show you how to add a simply ecommerce plugin on Wordpress to easily help the photographers sell their work online.

I would love to show you how on a call.

Bruce

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Web development

Outsourcing

WordPress

Bruce Chamoff answered

Since being away from the technology, what are some of the best practices of today? Backend, front end. php, asp, off the shelf dev tools?

The best practices and technologies are these:
1. Language: PHP - Almost everyone is using PHP, if not Ruby.

2. Content Management Systems including Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress.

A lot of my clients use content management systems which give non-technical people easy ways of managing their website.

MVC Frameworks (model-view-controller)
MVC frameworks like CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and Symphony and very popular since web designers can design and programmers can develop without overwriting each other.

I hope this answers at least part of your question.

I would be glad to take you through some of these technologies on a call if you'd like.

Bruce

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Backend Development

Web Applications

front-end development

Bruce Chamoff answered

If you could ask each of your employees a question each day, what would you ask?

I would ask open ended questions to get them really talking like:
1. How can we improve your work environment?

2. What do you find can be improved with our medical benefits?

3. What other job tasks would you be interested in performing for your role here?

Open ended questions are questions that are not answered with one word like "yes", "no", "maybe". Make employees open up, hence "open ended questions".

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Human Resources

Team Leadership

Business Coaching

Bruce Chamoff answered

How can I ensure my site will not have bugs before it gets hit with massive traffic?

I have been in this situation as well as almost every other web application developer and I learned my lesson along the way.

You said you and 3 others tested, but I feel that 4 people may not be enough. I think at least 50 to 75 people is a much more sufficient number and here is how I do it with my own web apps:

I think that is what alpha and beta versions are for. If an app is just released without it being in beta version, there will be problems, but putting something in beta tells the public that there will be bugs and that those bugs can be tested, so releasing a Beta version prior to your actual release date is one way to go.

Also, when testing for bugs before releasing to massive traffic, all scenarios need to be tested and it is possible that 4 people will not test all of those scenarios or even contemplate them.

I suggest to companies who release software and websites to test in all platforms including, but not limited to:
1. different web browsers including IE, Firefox, chrome, safari
2. different mobile devices including smart phones and tablets
3. operating systems
4. various times of the day where internet traffic may vary and even different days of the week
5. different screen sizes and resolutions

Since every has a different version of all of these factors, testing is needed for more than 4 people.

I said that 50 to 75 people is efficient testing and you may think that is overkill, but it really shows you bugs that you never would have thought of. For that many people, give away something for free as an incentive like a free product or ebook. You will get many people willing to help out for just the incentive.Works for me.

Bruce

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Web Applications

Quality Assurance

Bruce Chamoff answered

What offers can attract advertisers to my website?

What works for me is the deal I have on my blog. I offer to actually blog for my advertisers and for an extra fee, I tweet them to my 40,000+ Twitter followers.

If you offer advertisers more than just an ad, they will see the value and pay you handsomely.

Offer advertisers more than just an advertisement:

Since most websites just offer an advertisement or a banner ad, those ad deals are a dime a dozen on the internet. Go over and beyond like I do and add a small blog post about their business. You can even save yourself time and tell the advertisers to write the blog post themselves and you make the same money either way.

I would be glad to share more advertiser-value ideas with you. I would love to schedule a call with you and I will show you many more advertiser-revenue strategies.

Bruce

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Online Marketing

Online Advertising

Bruce Chamoff answered

Wondering how to find a mentor that's correct for me?

That's fine. How can I review your web app? Is there a web address where I can download it or should we do it on a call?

I have developed over 50 web and mobile apps, so I can provide the guidance you need.

I would be happy to schedule a call with you to review your web app.

Bruce

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Entrepreneur

Social Media

Bruce Chamoff answered

When will I be able to use Clarity to call potential customers? Because what they think matters most

I use Twitter for Customer Development as well. You'd be surprised how well Twitter can be for finding potential customers and you can reach out to them by a simple direct message.

I can share with anyone on how I use Twitter to connect with my target market.

Bruce

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Customer Development

Customer Acquisition

Customer Engagement

Bruce Chamoff answered

Are we in a tech bubble?

I think we are only in trouble is we do not ride the tech bubble for what it is worth and presents.

The tech bubble success comes and goes. It blows up and then grows again. I believe there is no other cause than true internet marketing and social media.

If people engage others in their social media, the tech bubble will never burst. Obviously, that did not happen in the early 2000s.

Bruce

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Entrepreneurship

Business Strategy

Financing

Reviews

Was thrilled with Bruce's two decades of web development knowledge and his passion for constantly finding better ways to bring value and innovate!

Ozzie Burnham Source: Clarity

I had the opportunity to meet with Bruce at a local networking event. I was incredibly excited when Bruce informed me he is a musician. Although these days many people with little to no skills title themselves as musicians, so of course I was not expecting much. After speaking with Bruce he presented me with a CD of his music to give a listen to. Expecting to hear nothing more then a amateur Karaoke type sound track, I was immediately amazed and impressed with the true artistry that I heard. Each composition was well organized and true radio quality sound. I would consider Bruce a true asset for his musical abilities and look forward to developing a long term relationship with him!

Jason Reis Source: LinkedIn

Bruce and I met at a networking event, where I found him to be an enthusiastc and energetic business person. He has offered demos of the next wave in marketing your business or talents, so I suggest you check him out.

You Go Bruce!

Sharon Millard Source: LinkedIn

Bruce is a hard working, enthusiastic, team member. He is a creative thinker who contributed to the organization in many ways. Bruce would be an asset to any team.

Mark Altchiler Source: LinkedIn

Bruce helped me create a podcast for a new home listing I am marketing. His ideas and professionalism are outstanding.
Podcasts are a great marketing opportunity for all businesses.
Give Bruce a call to see how a podcast can be created for your biz

Paul Dougherty ePRO Home Marketing Specialist Source: LinkedIn

Ever heard the term Bo knows...(Football or Baseball)?
Well...
Bruce knows interactive media!
Bruce knows Web 2.0!
I am more than happy to have him a part of team!

Fred Atanasio Source: LinkedIn

Bruce is a great marketer with great ideas. Hi Podcaster’s Who’s Who was instrumental in helping me increase subscriber base at two of my podcasts and getting me a very big mention in local press. His is knowledgeable and very easy to work with.

Lon Cohen Source: LinkedIn

Bruce was a huge help to me, I hired him as a tutor to teach me HTML/CSS - he was very personable and goes at your pace. I was able to build my own portfolio website for my photography after just a handful of times with him. I would recommend him to anyone that needed help with web development or wants to learn!

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Bruce is innovative and a tireless worker in the pursuit of the perfect product or service. He is an honorable person in both business and his personal life.

Louis G. Savinetti Source: LinkedIn

Bruce is man with a vision and the necessary drive to pursue his goals. I have always found Bruce to be a man who tells you what he is going to do for you and then follows through. Dr. Gurr

Howard Gurr Source: LinkedIn

Bruce is a constant source of inspiration especially in the arena of 'Social Media'. My knowledge and beliefs are constantly being challenged and expanded by him.
For anyone wishing to 'get out there', he's your man, with new ideas, technical savvy and on-going contests to benefit all of us to 'get the word out' about ourselves.

Alison D. Gilbert Source: LinkedIn

Member since October 2013