{"id":978,"date":"2011-06-29T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.boston.wordcamp.org\/?p=978"},"modified":"2011-10-09T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T00:01:00","slug":"helping-your-small-business-client-take-on-maintaining-their-own-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/helping-your-small-business-client-take-on-maintaining-their-own-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Your Small Business Client Take On Maintaining Their Own Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so the new WordPress site you have developed for\u00a0<em>Joe&#8217;s Tax Service <\/em>is just about done.\u00a0 The site looks great, works great.\u00a0 Joe will be happy.\u00a0 Only one problem: Joe doesn&#8217;t have many clients yet, and won&#8217;t be making a profit for a while.\u00a0 So, instead of paying you to enhance and maintain the site after it goes live, he wants to try to do that himself.\u00a0 Joe is a bright guy, but has only marginal computer skills, and no experience with WordPress.\u00a0 What to do?<\/p>\n<p>You could hand over the administrator&#8217;s login name and password to Joe, grab your developer&#8217;s fee, head for the hills, and hope for the best.\u00a0 But this scenario probably won&#8217;t end well for either Joe or you.<\/p>\n<p>In this session we will explore a different approach, providing practical advice on how to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Begin the process of handing over the site to Joe when you\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">start<\/span> developing the site, not when you are ready to launch it;<\/li>\n<li>Build the site in a way that gives Joe the best shot at successfully maintaining the site on a day-to-day basis;<\/li>\n<li>Prepare Joe for the task at hand, without investing weeks of your time training Joe in &#8220;all things WordPress&#8221;; and,<\/li>\n<li>Give Joe some cost-effective options to obtain help if and when he needs it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make this a very interactive session. \u00a0Bring your problems, bring your war stories, and bring your success stories, too!<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan May is a freelance Web Marketer with <a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"YourPresenceOnTheWeb.com\" href=\"http:\/\/yourpresenceontheweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">YourPresenceOnTheWeb.com<\/a>, which specializes in helping new and small businesses to enhance their Web presence via WordPress Websites,\u00a0Search Engine Optimization, and e-mail marketing campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so the new WordPress site you have developed for\u00a0Joe&#8217;s Tax Service is just about done.\u00a0 The site looks great, works great.\u00a0 Joe will be happy.\u00a0 Only one problem: Joe doesn&#8217;t have many clients yet, and won&#8217;t be making a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/helping-your-small-business-client-take-on-maintaining-their-own-site\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Helping Your Small Business Client Take On Maintaining Their Own Site<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5220604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6846],"tags":[288,6867,6864,6863,6868,6866],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-feature","tag-consulting","tag-maintenance","tag-project-management","tag-small-business","tag-support","tag-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tTIn-fM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5220604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}