a WordCamp Toronto 2013 talk on how building a WordPress consulting career let the speaker step out of conventional employment — the 2013 update of the same Make-a-Living thesis first delivered at WordCamps Detroit and Toronto in 2011, brought to a different audience two years on.

Where and when

  • Event: WordCamp Toronto 2013
  • Date: October 5–6, 2013 (event dates; exact session day not confirmed)
  • Venue: Humber College, Lakeshore Campus
  • City: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Slides

The 46-slide deck is on SlideShare: “WordCamp Toronto 2013” (posted October 8, 2013, two days after the event).

What the slides covered

Recovered from the deck description:

  • Using WordPress as the platform of choice for building paid websites
  • Hosting and management stack recommendations of the era — WP Engine, Bluehost, ManageWP
  • Specific opportunities: updating outdated WordPress sites for security, building blogs to grow audience, selling products and services through WordPress, providing WordPress support services
  • The role of community: asking for help, contributing back through code, documentation, and forum support

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This session was not recorded for WordPress.tv. The slide deck above is the canonical archive of what was covered.

Christopher Ross

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Christopher Ross

I've been the person event organizers call when they want someone who's actually doing the work, not just speaking about it. Twenty-two years building, a few hundred talks across WordCamps, conferences, and client teams — the talks come from real delivery, not from last year's slide deck.

  • Nineteen years building with WordPress; twenty-two delivering the underlying web work.
  • Talks at WordCamps and conferences across the publishing, education, and public-sector arc.

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