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. In this episode, we’re talking with Brian Sooy. Brian has a successful agency called AESPIRE…
What is the Most Affordable Storage for Your Website Backups?
One of the most important services Watchful can provide for you is reliable site backups. No matter what happens, if you have trustworthy site backups, you can recover. So it’s a big advantage if you can find an affordable place to store a good number of backups for your sites. We looked around at over…
Episode 19 – Kimberly Lipari
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. In this episode, we’re talking with Kimberly Lipari. She’s the CEO of Valet, an agency…
10 Ways to Improve the Work-Life Balance of Your Agency
2020. That’s all you need to say now. As you soon as you say “2020” people immediately start shaking their heads and sighing. 2020 means stress, uncertainty and a bumpy road ahead. We started the Watchful podcast in February, so we’ve been talking with agency owners throughout the pandemic. We’ve heard the questions and the…
Take a Vacation from Managing Your Websites With the Update Scheduler
I’ve been in this situation, and I know you have too. It’s late on Friday night and your customer has to talk with you right now. They decided to make one last change for the week. One final update before going offline for the weekend. And it blew up the whole site. The customer calls…
How You Can Use Watchful to Manage Test and Staging Sites
Many of you work for web agencies. You want to do the best for your customers, so you have test and/or staging environments. This helps ensure that you catch any potential problems before they go into production. Generally, the bigger and more complex your site is, the more test and staging sites you’ll have. We’ve…
Episode 18 – Teresa Smith and Jennifer Marriott
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. In this episode, we’re talking with Teresa and Jennifer from Red Sage Communications. They are…
You Can Now Test Watchful With Joomla 4
At the end of May, the Joomla world enjoyed JandBeyond. Normally, this is the big annual Joomla event that’s held in Europe. This year, it became a huge, online conference that ran for 24 hours. All the presentations were streamed on YouTube and you can now watch the all on the JandBeyond channel. One presentation…
Episode 17 – Andrew Palmer
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 talking with Andrew Palmer. Andrew manages over 300…
How Van Laarhoven Uses Watchful to Manage Over 150 Sites
We love talking with customers here at Watchful. There’s always so much to learn from the creative agency owners out there. This week, we were talking with Hugo, who works with a Dutch agency. They are doing amazing Joomla and WordPress projects. They’ve also built a very useful screenshot comparison tool that complements the Watchful…