We’re delighted to announce that Watchful has acquired the XCloner plugin for WordPress. XCloner is one of the top 10 most popular WordPress backup plugins. Ovidiu Liuta has been the lead developer of XCloner for over a decade. In that time, he has built a great plugin, with over 40,000 active users. A few months ago,…
Episode 7 – Mike Herchel at Lullabot
On the Hot Air podcast, we talk with people involved with digital agencies. We discuss business models, strategies, and tools for making your agency successful. And along the way, we hope to have a little fun and make some friends. On this episode of the pod, we’re speaking with Mike Herchel. Mike is a senior…
Episode 6 – Deb Cinkus at Polished Geek
On the Hot Air podcast, we talk with people involved with digital agencies. We discuss business models, strategies, and tools for making your agency successful. And along the way, we hope to have a little fun and make some friends. On this episode of the pod, we’re speaking with Deb Cinkus. Deb runs a conversion…
You Can Now Add Multiple Google Analytics Accounts to Watchful
Here at Watchful, the vast majority of our customers are web agencies. That probably means you! If you’re reading this post, there’s over a 90% chance that you work at a web agency. Our aim is to listen carefully to you, and build the features your agencies need. This week, we’ve launched one of your…
Episode 5 – Sander Potjer and Martijn Boomsma at Perfect Web Team
On the Hot Air podcast, we talk with people involved with digital agencies. We discuss business models, strategies, and tools for making your agency successful. And along the way, we hope to have a little fun and make some friends. On this episode of the pod, we’re speaking with Sander Potjer and Martijn Boomsma. Sander…
Watchful Supports Updates for Joomla Extensions from Simplify Your Web
We’re happy to say that you can now use Watchful to update Joomla extensions from SimplifyYourWeb.com. This is the third new extension provider we’ve added in recent weeks, following on from Weeblr and Tassos. If you’d like to see us support a particular developer, please let us know. You can email us, or log in…
Episode 4 – Matt Schwartz at Inspry
On this week’s pod we’re speaking with Matt Schwartz. He runs an agency called Inspry from Atlanta. Matt thrives as part of big network of contractors and sub-contractors. He deals with WordPress, Joomla, Magento and more. With many diverse work requests moving into and out of his office constantly, we talk about his challenges with…
Five tough lessons I learned managing remote teams
I grew up in the 1970s on a remote island in the North Atlantic ocean. The climate was harsh, we struggled to pay the bills, and life always seemed a little harder than it had to be. At the start of each school year our “new clothes” were a mix of hand-me-downs and hand-knit items…
Watchful Supports Updates for Joomla Extensions from Tassos
We’re happy to say that you can now use Watchful to update Joomla extensions from Tassos.gr. These extensions are developed by Tassos Marinos, and they are some of the most popular choices in Joomla. You may have heard of EngageBox, Convert Forms, or some of his exciting work with Joomla fields. We’ve recently added support…
Episode 3 – Donata Kalnenaite & Hans Skillrud at Termageddon
On today’s pod we’re speaking with Donata Kalnenaite and Hans Skillrud. Hans ran and then sold a web agency in Chicago. We talk about how he built and prepared his agency for a successful exit. Then we talk about what came after the sale: teaming up with Donata to launch a privacy-focused service called Termageddeon…