Go Behind The Scenes with 30+ world-class WordPress Agency Owners, developers & Marketers...
FREE ONLINE EVENT
December 6 - 16, 2019
… And discover how to scale your WP agency or freelance business by attracting high-paying clients and building recurring revenue.
In their video sessions, they’ll teach you how to earn more money with your agency or as a freelancer, without overloading yourself with projects, burning out, or working 12h days. You can view all sessions for free until the event is over!
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WHAT EXACTLY WILL I GET OUT OF ATTENDING THIS VIRTUAL SUMMIT?
Great question and I’m glad you asked …
Here’s a small taste of what you’ll discover by joining the free WP Agency Summit:
- Free access to all video sessions here on this website
- Get a look behind the scenes of the most successful WP businesses
- Learn how to scale without drowning in projects
- Understand how to build a brand that attracts high-paying clients
- Get a grasp on WordPress security
- Generate recurring revenue with proven systems and strategies
- Deliver your projects on time and keep clients happy
- Get your clients to quickly deliver content when you ask them
- Stop working with less-than-stellar customers
With your free ticket, you'll also receive...
Discover the 10 most common mistakes shared by the experts speaking at the WP Agency Summit. Knowing these mistakes immediately gives you a head-start against your competition!
Featured Expert Sessions
These hand-selected experts are at the top of their game. They’re running WP agencies working with 1000’s of clients, grew multi-million dollar businesses and mastered WordPress development. They’re teaching from experience, not from theory.
In the spirit of giving back to the WordPress community, they each took the time to join this event to share their best stuff. They want to give back and help you avoid the mistakes they’ve made in their own businesses.
You’re about to learn lessons on handling clients without getting overwhelmed, how to increase your profitability and attract higher-paying clients, and become a better WordPress developer & web designer to deliver projects smoothly. Every masterclass is available to watch online for free for 48h.
Below is the full speaker schedule and session topics:
Jan Koch
December 5th @ 3:00 PM EST | 12:00 PM PST | 7:00 PM GMT
WP Agency Summit Kick-Off Party: Join Us to celebrate the wP Community
In this live kick-off party, I'll be joined by some of the speakers for this event. We'll share our experiences of growing our agencies, building our brands to attract our ideal clients, and scaling with recurring revenue.
Day 1 - Dec 6th, 2019
Sujan Patel
December 6th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Building and Scaling Your Agency To Multiple 6-Figures
Sujan drove 8.2 million visitors to the sites of his clients last year, which include, amongst others, LinkedIn, Sales Force, and Mint. He'll explain how he grew his agency to this extraordinary level in this masterclass and will break down growth barriers along the way.
Oliver Sild
December 6th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
keeping hackers away from the sites you Create
Oliver's software WebARX protects 3,000+ WP agencies from countless attacks every day. He knows what measures agencies need to take to protect their customer's websites. And he'll share those insights with you in this masterclass about WP security.
Lee Jackson
December 6th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Building your agency as a media brand
In this masterclass, Lee teaches you how using media helps him attract stellar clients and build authority in his market. He covers podcasting, YouTube, hosting local events, and establishing credibility and trust with potential customers long before they sign the contract.
Day 2 - Dec 7th, 2019
Kim Doyal
December 7th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Using Content Marketing to Attract High-Paying Clients
Stop working with less-than-stellar clients who wreck your nerves. Kim will show you how you can create content that attracts your dream clients and lets you work on projects with a healthy profit margin.
Gareth Daine
December 7th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Using Recurring Revenue to grow your business without the hustle
Gareth built his digital agency on recurring revenue, providing SEO and paid traffic services to his clients. In his masterclass, he breaks down how he is scaling Daine Media with predictable monthly income.
Mor Cohen
December 7th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Why Agency Owners Need To Understand Design
Mor is a designer on the mission to educate agencies and developer on building beautiful websites. She's a Thinkific instructor and runs her own courses. In this masterclass, she'll make design principles easy to understand for WP agency owners.
Day 3 - Dec 8th, 2019
Adam Sewell
December 8th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Keynote: leave hackers in the dust.
In his masterclass, Adam will teach you the most important security threats against WordPress websites and how you can counter-act them. Especially for non-developers, knowing and understanding how to protect your client sites is crucial.
Puneet Sahalot
December 8th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Keynote: Coding Tips That WP Developers Should Know
Puneet runs his own successful agency, organizes WordCamps, built and maintains plugins like WPFomify and has created extensions for Beaver Builder. In his masterclass, he'll share important tips that help WP developers write better code in less time.
Wil Brown
December 8th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
How You can start a full-Service WordPress agency
In his masterclass, Wil shares how he built his full-service WordPress agency that now tackles projects anywhere from $5k to over $30k budget. Benefits from the lessons he learned the hard way, so that you don't have to make similar mistakes in your own business.
Raya Stoilova
December 8th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Resell or affiliate? Choose the right strategy to boost your revenue.
Raya is managing SiteGround’s Hosting Affiliate Program with an annual payout of more than 6 million USD and hundreds of web agencies as stakeholders, whom she has helped significantly boost revenue through the program. In her talk, she explains how to identify the best ways to complement your agency business and generate more revenue from your clients through smart partnership strategies for affiliation and reselling.
Day 4 - Dec 9th, 2019
Ahmad Awais
December 9th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Keynote: VS Code Power-User Workflows
Ahmad is a popular WP Core Contributor, renowned Google Dev expert, TEDx speaker. His Open Source software gets used by 1.4 million developers around the globe. In this masterclass, he shares power-user workflows in the free editor VS Code, that'll help you save hours in writing code every week.
Joe Howard
December 9th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Building a Maintenance business from scratch and scaling it to 6-figures in Yearly revenue
WP Buffs provides maintenance services for hundreds of websites and offers white-label services for digital agencies like yours. In this masterclass, Joe shares how he grew his business from scratch - even without knowing how to code. Discover how to go from $0 to over $100k in monthly recurring revenue by selling care plans.
Aaqib Gadit
December 9th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Why Cloud Hosting Is Made for agencies (and Reselling)
In this masterclass, Aaqib will explain the boom around cloud-based WordPress hosting. He covers the in's and out's of finding the right host for your agency and your customers. We discuss the crowded hosting space and how to resell hosting for recurring profits.
Day 5 - Dec 10th, 2019
Ned MacPherson
December 10th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
running profitable growth-campaigns for your customers
Ned and his team help businesses reach massive growth online, through targeted campaigns on multiple levels. In this masterclass, you'll learn how you can identify growth potential for your clients, run profitable growth campaigns, and sell your services to add recurring revenue to your bottom line.
Piccia Neri
December 10th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Keynote: Designing with Empathy
Piccia excels in building websites with a stellar UX and branding. In this masterclass, she teaches you how to design websites that elevate your clients' brand & deliver sales. After completing her keynote, you'll understand how websites can guide visitors on the best possible journey.
James Rose
December 10th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Keynote: Work Less By Becoming a Zapier Automation Wizard
In his masterclass, James will teach you how to automate recurring processes in your daily agency life. He'll break down what can be automated and how you can leverage Zapier to win back time every single day. Especially when you have no idea of what to automate, this keynote will be highly beneficial for you.
Kyle Van Deusen
December 10th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Building Care Plans Clients Actually Want
Recurring revenue is the lifeblood of any agency— but most clients aren't exactly excited about plugin updates & backups. By taking the focus off those features and speaking directly to my client's concerns I've increased my prices AND conversion rates (and you can too).
Day 6 - Dec 11th, 2019
Akshat Choudhary
December 11th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Security, Website Maintenance at Scale & Serving 40k customers
In this masterclass, Akshat walks you through what it takes to protect your clients from hackers and data-loss. Especially when selling care plans, this knowledge is fundamental. He serves more than 40k customers with his security and backup solutions, so he has to share vast experiences.
Maedah Batool
December 11th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
WP Coding Standards Explained & Leading FOSS projects
In this masterclass, Maedah teaches you coding lessons she learned in building workflows in 50+ open sources projects that are used by 20k developers globally. She taught thousands of girls how to code and regularly speaks at tech & open source conferences.
Todd E. Jones
December 11th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Getting Content From Your Clients Without Headaches
In this masterclass, Todd will teach you his framework to get contents from your clients on time. Finally there's a remedy for clients not delivering what you need to finish the project! This masterclass will save you weeks of hunting down content.
Michael Short
December 11th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Automate and Scale Your Business By leveraging Websites as a Service (WaaS)
The Websites as a Service (WaaS) business model allows you to create your own site builder and offers your prospects a way to easily subscribe to your services and get setup with a website through a niche focused template system.
Day 7 - Dec 12th, 2019
Vito Peleg
December 12th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Managing Client Communications & Feedback Loops Without The Hassle
Vito built hundreds of websites with his agency and has launched the popular WP Feedback plugin, growing to $100k MRR in the first month. In his masterclass, he explains how agencies can handle customer expectations and communications without wasting hours of back-and-forth. As a bonus, he gives detailed insights into his WP Feedback launch.
Ivica Delic
December 12th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Building Raving WordPress communities in FB Groups
Ivica manages highly engaged Facebook groups in the WP community, some with more than 10k members. In his masterclass, he'll break down what goes into building active groups that are true business assets.
Michael Killen
December 12th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Keynote: How to scale your income, influence and audience while staying small
In his masterclass, Michael breaks down how he and his clients build profitable agencies building sales funnels for customers. Even if you have no experience, you can leverage this masterclass and start selling funnels to your customers. That works as additional service or as main offering for your agency, totally up to you.
Day 8 - Dec 13th, 2019
Matt Kohn
December 13th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Helping agencies automate to scale quality of life & impact
In Matt's masterclass, you will learn how to implement automation into your daily agency business to generate 2-5 new clients every single month. It's about time you add predictable income from a reliable lead generation process!
Anthony Tran
December 13th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Scaling Web Agencies & Building Websites With The Director of marketing at Beaver Builder
In this masterclass, you'll learn how Anthony scaled his own WP agency to a sustainable income. He grew it from zero to a level where he could hire a team and hand over the agency to his wife, now that he's working as Director of Marketing for Beaver Builder. He's all about setting up processes, systemizing and scaling!
Phil Morrow
December 13th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
A look at mental health for wP Devs & Agency Owners
In this masterclass, Phil shares how dealing with the stress of running an agency can impact mental health and what you can do about it. Especially since he runs an eCommerce-focused agency, the pressure he's dealing with day-to-day is quite high. He helps you stay sane in the exhausting roller coaster ride of running an agency or freelance business.
Day 9 - Dec 14th, 2019
Chris Castillo
December 14th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Keynote: Building Faster Websites Faster with Elementor
In this masterclass, Chris shares the development workflows he came up with in working with Elementor. His agency serves Toronto business owners by building websites optimized for a solid Return-on-Investment for his clients. Being efficient in developing has been a huge competitive advantage for his agency - and can be for yours too.
Shane Rielly
December 14th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Keynote: Designing Brand Materials that build a raving fanbase
In this masterclass, you'll learn what it takes to create exceptional brand materials for your clients. Your work should create a raving fanbase for your customers, so they come back to you for repeat services. Shane will cover step-by-step how you achieve this ambitious goal in your own agency.
Gregory Karelitz
December 14th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
*Really* Getting To Know Your Website Visitors
In this masterclass, Greg will show you can build deep connections with your customers using forms, chat & tracking. We will do a 30-minute interview on strategy and techniques for getting to know your visitors and then Greg will do a screencast on the implementation.
Day 10 - Dec 15th, 2019
Andrew Palmer
December 15th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Keynote: Why use a page builder when you can code?
Or, in other words, why not give yourself a better chance? Andrew Palmer is the Owner of Pagebuildercloud dot com, Elegantmarektplace dot com and Layoutscloud dot com - he is a firm believer in making things faster, more cost effective and easier for web developers of all levels.
Michael Moore
December 15th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
Protecting your customer's Websites from Hackers & Data-Loss
In this masterclass, AJ walks you through providing security as a part of care plans and building sites that are hardened against attacks. You'll also learn what goes into a data-loss recovery plan and on which levels you should protect your customer's websites.
Troy Dean
December 15th @ 9:00 AM EST | 6:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM GMT
CLOSING KEYNOTE: The Blueprint For Growth
In the closing keynote, Troy Dean, founder of WP Elevation, shares the exact blueprint he teaches his students on growing their agencies. With thousands of graduates, Troy refined this blueprint to an unrivaled level. No matter if your agency already earns $20k/mo or if you're just starting, you don't want to miss this keynote!
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It’s about time you stop drowning in client work, learn how to attract high-paying clients, deliver your projects smoothly and add recurring revenue to your bottom line.
What to expect from this event
Why Should I Sign Up for the WP AGENCY SUMMIT?
Once-in-a-lifetime content & Interviews
For the first time, world-class experts are brought together, sharing knowledge on growing WP agencies & freelance businesses.
All you need to know
The masterclasses cover everything you need to know to grow your existing agency without burning out. Or to start from scratch.
Access From Your Browser
No need to travel or even to leave your home. Save thousands of dollars, unpaid work leave, and time away from your loved ones.
Add Multiple revenue streams to your agency
Learn proven strategies to generate monthly recurring revenue by selling care plans, productized services, and additional offerings.
Discover Proven Ways to sell wP Services
WordPress agency owners reveal their proven strategies
Your journey of building and scaling your WordPress service business could go one of two ways.
Long & Difficult way
You could spend thousands dollars and countless hours trying to implement “OLD” outdated agency growth strategies you’ve learned from “so-called experts” that aren’t that effective anymore (or worse… don’t work at all!) if you’d like to get results fast.
Discover Proven Ways to sell Scale your WP Agency while avoiding burnout
You could sign up for the WP Agency Summit and discover the path to grow your agency, attracting stellar clients like honey attracts bears, and earning predictable recurring revenue, you’re in the right place.
Meet Your Host
Jan Koch
Hi, I’m Jan Koch.
Since 2012 I’m working with WordPress, my agency serves customers all across the globe. Having experienced the feast and famine circles of running an agency, I decided to put together this virtual summit.
Scratching my own itch, this free event is designed to guide WordPress agency owners and developers.
The speakers share actionable, real-world systems and strategies on scaling your agency by attracting high-paying clients, getting the content and feedback you need on time, and adding recurring revenue to your bottom line.
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