AJ Morris
Product Coach and Consultant
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5 Tips for Professional Growth: Essential Steps to Take for Professional Coaching
As a leader, you are always looking for ways to improve yourself as well as your team. In this digital age where knowledge is abundant and easily accessible, staying ahead of the curve and learning new skills is easier than ever. I want to share with you how you can identify areas of your career…
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Finding the Right Executive Coach For You
Thinking of hiring an executive coach? It’s natural to feel a bit daunted at the thought. After all, coaching is about personal development, and it can be challenging to put yourself on the line in front of someone you don’t know very well. How much do you trust this person to keep your secrets? Do…
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Building a Startup Marketing Team: A 10 Step Guide to Hiring Your Dream Team
In the early days of a startup, you may have to wear many different hats. Depending on your company’s size and needs, marketing tasks may fall on one person or a small group. Whether you’re leading the effort alone or with others, hiring great team members will make your work more efficient and effective. That…
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My Everyday Carry Tech
I wrote previously about my attempt at finding the perfect setup and after I’ve been using this a few days, I am feeling more confident that this was the right choice. It may not be the right choice for everyone, but for me, 99% of my time, I can complete my work whether it’s traveling…
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5 Tips for Setting Goals that Get Achieved
Setting goals is never more true, than in a startup. In our fast-paced, high-pressure world, it can seem like everyone is setting goals and resolutions. And while that’s great, what isn’t so great is that so many of those goals go unachieved. But you don’t have to be a statistic; you can set measurable, achievable…
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Deploying Your WordPress Theme with Github Actions
I’ve been on a couple of quests recently to use my iPad as my daily driver and to explore FSE theme building.. Both of those quests collided for me as I’ve been having trouble using the code editor apps that are available for iPadOS. Thankfully, the folks over at VSCode/Microsoft/GitHub have made a way for…
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Failing To Get Started with the Theme.json
Alright.. Honest truth time. I failed at about everything I tried today to get started with the Theme.json file. So much so, that you wouldn’t want to watch a video of me fumbling through documentation, etc. I think that says a lot about the level of documentation that’s still needed for the average user. At…
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Creating a Full-Site Editing Theme
Today is the day.. I’m chronicling my journey through creating a full-site editing theme. I’m going to be writing out my experience here, but if you’d rather go through it on video, I’m going through that way as well. I’m really excited about this. I think WordPress theme building is going to be a lot…
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WordPress Theme Development is Changing
When I first started bufilding WordPress themes, was fairly simple. As long as you had some basic HTML and CSS skills, you could quickly transfer that into PHP and you could have a theme in no time. I remember building my first theme. I used the WordPress theme hierarchy as my digital map of what…
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The Daily Routine
Do you ever wake up feeling like you just don’t get enough done in the day? Are you tried by mid-afternoon only feeling like your list is as long as it was when you first started the day?? I’ve been there. I even wrote about how I plan my week. But let’s talk about each…
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How to Stop Calendly from Booking your Whole Day!
I am a big fan of using Calendly to help schedule a wide range of meetings, from internal to external meetings. I may have been known to send out a Calendly link to a friend from time to time to have them schedule lunch or playtime with our kids. While it ends up being incredibly…
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How To Build A MVP Quickly
I love photography. In fact, I love using photography in my designs for websites I build. One thing we can all agree on is that stock photography is awful. And it’s expensive. It is generic and in some cases you see images on your site on others. Some other folks noticed this too. So they…
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Why You Need A Value Proposition For Your Next Product
Most products are built because they aim too solve a problem. It could be a problem that you, yourself encountered, or something a friend encountered. But it’s a problem that started us on the journey of developing a solution to. Now like other product developers out there, I have made a career solving problems. Problems…
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Why is Product/Market Fit so Important in Growing Your Business?
We all have an idea to solve particular problems we encounter regularly. Good or bad we sometimes tend to get emotionally invested in those ideas. We then go and talk to our immediate network about it and decide to put all our savings on the line. Sometimes we even start raising money from family and…
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5 Comprehensive Ways To Get Customer Feedback
You just spent the last 3 months building a product that solves a problem you encountered. All the spent your time working hard, putting in long hours, setting up a website, even getting all your social media accounts setup. It is likely youu might have even put together a marketing plan, starting blogging, and got…
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Behind the Scenes: My New eCommerce Plugin
eCommerce has been something that I’ve wanted to focus a lot of my energy on. I’ve been running eCommerce sites for the last 5 years. In an inbound or content marketing perspective, I understand the pre-sale side of eCommerce and am always looking at tools that can help earn a sale quicker and with the…
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Here are 6 Traits to Becoming a Great Product Manager
After spending a decade as a web developer, I was finding that I wanted another challenge. I felt that I was getting comfortable in my position and I wanted to find a way make a change. I wasn’t sure what that change was. But it was going to be something. I spent several weeks doing…
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Looking to Run and Organize Your Own Mastermind Group? Consider this approach
Entrepreneurship can be a challenge. And no challenge is fun going alone. If you are running a successful business, chances are you aren’t alone, you have employees. But you may be alone in how you make some of the decisions. Masterminds are a great way to get honest feedback, help refine your ideas, and share…
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What the Heck are these Masterminds people are talking about?
I read a statistic recently that 71% of people quit their New Years Resolutions after the second week. If you are like me, and just recently set some goals (or new years resolutions), then it’s time to start getting things into high gear. I had the opportunity to attend WooConf back in October. Over dinner…
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Looking To Start a Business? Here’s 15 Podcasts You Should Be Listening To
Throughout the year I spend a lot of time by myself. Between traveling, commuting, and grocery shopping, I have a lot of down time. I used to hate it, but then I realized that I could use that time to learn new things. And as a perpetual learning, I thought it was a great idea…