Michael Pollock

About the Author

Michael D. Pollock is the CEO of Solostream. He's a geek-at-heart and a small business veteran with over 12 years of in-the-trenches sales, marketing and entrepreneurial experience (he mistakenly thinks he may soon have it all figured out). You can contact Michael via email here or online here.

Join Me for a Discussion About WordPress

By Michael Pollock in WordPress

Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff invited me to be a guest on their Conversations With Experts series. We’ll be talking about WordPress, and you’re all invited. Here’s the intro for the show:

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line

WordPress 2.0: The Ultimate Small Business Publishing Platform

Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 8:30 p.m. ET (no charge, registration required)

Guest Expert: Michael Pollock, Solostream Web Studio

Register Here

In the last few years, we’ve seen an explosion of what have been called “push button publishing services;” also known as blogs. Because they’re so easy to use, hosted services such as Typepad, Blogger and LiveJournal have been the dominant players in this market.

More recently, however, a stand-alone publishing platform named WordPress has been steadily growing in popularity. Recent estimates suggest there are currently more than 1 million WordPress users across the planet. And a lot of them are small business owners just like you. During this discussion, Michael will talk about some of the reasons why the WordPress user base is growing so quickly. In particular, he’ll talk about:

  • Limitations and drawbacks of hosted services like Typepad and Blogger.
  • What you CAN do with WordPress that you CAN’T do with hosted services.
  • 5 reasons you may want to switch to WordPress.
  • 5 reasons you may not want to switch to WordPress.
  • Questions and concerns addressed.

3 Comment(s)

  1. On Sep 12, 2006, Blaine Moore said:

    I’ll be running, but will try to catch the replay of it. I already believe in word press, though! Good luck, and have fun!

  2. On Sep 14, 2006, Jennifer Fader said:

    Sounds great, but I missed it. Did you keep a transcript by any chance?

  3. On Sep 15, 2006, Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. said:

    Thanks so much, Michael for this very informative session all about WordPress. I may be tempted to test drive it in the near future. Gotta stay up with the changing blogosphere… Brian Clark over at Copyblogger.com just posted a nifty “Tubetorial” on using WordPress that is helpful.

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