Web Agency Summit – https://atarim.io/summit/
Go Behind The Scenes With 30+ World-Class Web Agency Owners, Developers, Marketers & Business Owners…
FREE ONLINE EVENT MARCH 23-26, 2021
… And discover how to scale your web agency or freelance business by attracting high-paying clients and building recurring revenue.
Join us now for a FREE online event, 30 interviews and presentations from some of the top WordPress professionals, sharing their experience and best strategies.
The Biggest Online Summit in the WP Space is BACK!
Interactively Explore The Different Components Of Our Event To Learn And Engage With Other Members
Live Sessions
We’re all standing on the shoulders of giants – Join 30+ experts to learn from the best, systemise your work and grow your agency.
Networking Lounge
Grab a drink and take a few minutes away from clients to engage with other freelancers and agency owners and make some friends.
Virtual Sponsors Booths
Incredible (and free) prizes are waiting for you at the Exhibit Hall! Plus, you get to meet the makers of products you use every day.
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Ok, That Sounds Awesome. But..
What Exactly Will You Get Out Of Attending This Virtual Summit?
Here’s a small taste of what you’ll discover by joining
the free Atarim Web Agency Summit:
- Free access to all video sessions here on this website.
- Learn how to scale without drowning in projects.
- Understand how to build a brand that attracts high-paying clients.
- Get a look behind the scenes of the most successful WP businesses.
- Get a grasp on WordPress security and the risk that your clients are facing.
- Generate recurring revenue with proven systems and strategies.
- Deliver your projects on time and keep clients happy.
- Get your clients to quickly deliver content when you ask them.
- Stop working with less-than-stellar customers.
- Learn more about your mental health and well-being in these trying times.
Featured Expert Sessions
These hand-selected experts are at the top of their game. They’re running WP agencies working with 1000’s of clients, grew multi-million dollar businesses and mastered WordPress development. They’re teaching from experience, not from theory.
In the spirit of giving back to the WordPress community, they each took the time to join this event to share their best stuff. They want to give back and help you avoid the mistakes they’ve made in their own businesses.
You’re about to learn lessons on handling clients without getting overwhelmed, how to increase your profitability and attract higher-paying clients, and become a better WordPress developer & web designer to deliver projects smoothly. Every masterclass is available to watch online for free for 24h.
Our Honorable Expert Speakers
These sessions are action-driven and designed to help you build your business, whether you’re just starting in the web space or have an established agency. Learn from scratch or sharpen your skills to increase your revenue.
Clear a few days and invest in yourself. Future you will thank you. Build Expand Scale Thrive
Build
Stepping up your website delivery skills. What should you focus on when building website projects for clients, where are the upcoming revenue opportunities in our industry and how to leverage them for your business.
Marieke Van De Rakt:
CEO of Yoast
Get SEO Fit: 7 Tips To Improve The SEO Fitness Of Your Website
Websites grow and as they grow, you’ll need to do some maintenance. Otherwise, the rankings of your website in Google might deteriorate.
In this talk, Marieke will share 7 practical tips on what you can do to keep your site SEO Fit! Learn about SEO copywriting, internal linking, keyword cannibalization, Schema and much more. After this talk, you’ll know what to do to get SEO fit!
Todd Jones:
Story Teller at Copyflight
Top Reasons For Using Storytelling in Your Content
Storytelling is one of the most overlooked aspects of writing content for your own business and your clients.
Good story telling is what can make ANY online business a success and in this talk, we explore rock-solid reasons for using storytelling in all areas of your content & business.
Amber Hinds:
CEO of Equalize Digital
How to Build Accessibility into Your Website Projects
In 2021, accessibility has never been more important – and it’s importance is still on the rise. This is both because of the dramatic post-COVID increase in businesses engaging with customers online and also due to more website accessibility laws worldwide.
This session will present a case study on building an accessible website powered by WordPress. We’ll discuss how accessibility was included at every phase of the project from user journey mapping to design, development, user testing, and launch, and provide a framework that agencies and developers can follow to ensure the websites they build are accessible.
Chip Edwards:
Technologist and Teacher
What does Amazon Alexa mean for Website Design?
Smart Speakers and Voice Assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are being adopted by consumers across the world. As users ask for content, products, and services, how can you make sure that you are part of the conversation?
In this session, Chip demonstrates how companies are currently engaging clients using #VoiceFirst technology. How UI/UX is changing to VUX. And he’ll talk about why you need to protect your (and your clients) brand on Voice Assistant platforms.
Tanya Quintieri:
Web Designer at Mrs. Divi
Designing Better Websites for Global Audiences
Tanya wants nothing more than to share her experience as marketing translator gone web designer with the community.
We all agree that it is always best to design a website with the target audience in mind. But are you allowing for scalability in terms of translation and localization? She highlights some pitfalls to look out for, what to look for in a suitable translator for your project, and share her favorite tools to get the job done.
Aleksandar Savkovic:
WordPress Community Manager at Cloudways
Are your website’s web vitals good, and why not?
When a person lands on a website for the first time, their attention is held for a maximum of 10 seconds before they either resonate with what’s on the page, or leave and never come back.
That’s 10 seconds WITH a website that has amazing performance, how many of those precious seconds are being wasted due to bad performance optimization on your website (or your client’s)?
Aleksander is an expert in WordPress and in his session, he’ll demonstrate that your website might not be as healthy as you think and if it isn’t, how you can make sure it’s up to scratch.
Miriam Schwab:
Co-Founder and CEO of Strattic
A Static-First Approach To WordPress For Greater speed, Security, Scalability and Peace Of Mind
WordPress continues to be the world’s leading CMS, but in order to ensure its future we need to innovate and bring modern web development approaches to the industry.
In this talk we’ll discuss the opportunities and limitations of going static with WP, and how to plan your development process so your site is static-ready.
Paul Goodchild:
Founder, Lead Developer of iControlWP & Shield Security
How To Maximize Your WordPress Security and That Of Your Clients
WordPress Security is a critical component in the life and work of every WordPress professional, but it’s often a confusing and difficult aspect when building a website.
Not just for you, but also for your clients. In this talk we’ll discuss strategies and tips to help you approach security within your own work, and also how to better communicate the importance of security with your clients.
Donata Stroink-Skillrud:
President of Termageddon
The 3 Things All Web Professionals Need To Know About Privacy
Clients trust web professionals to guide them to a website that generates leads. An unfortunate side effect of lead generation is the collection of personal information.
Clients often look to web professionals to answer the questions “do I really need a Privacy Policy, and why?” The fact is that most web professionals should have some knowledge of why privacy is important, what kind of websites need a Privacy Policy, and should be the ones speaking to their clients about the topic.
In this talk, Donata will answer all of the above questions and empower web professionals to be true advocates for privacy and protection for their clients.
Patrick Gallagher:
Co-Founder and CEO GridPane
Cheat To Win: 4 Secrets to How the Fastest and Most Profitable Sites Pull It All Off
Do you find yourself always looking for that extra twist on the dial to speed your clients sites up just a bit further? Are you constantly struggling to control your hosting costs? Is your recurring model a recurring nightmare?
Then join Patrick (and a special guest) as they share insights gleaned from helping clients in over 85 countries build enterprise WordPress environments that power insanely high traffic websites. Along the way you’ll also learn how to flip the tables on the biggest players in the hosting game, while gobbling up all the margin.
Expand
Create sustainability and increase your profits. Through completing services, improved positioning and proven systems thought by the top experts, each spent years learning and making the mistakes so that you won’t.
David Vogelpohl:
VP of Growth at WP Engine
Monthly Recurring Revenue for Freelancers & Agencies
Are you looking for ways to exponentially grow your freelance and agency business? Are you tired of worrying about making payroll for yourself or your employees? Are you tired of living project to project?
Driving monthly recurring revenue (MRR) in your freelance or agency business can be one of the best ways to drive exponential growth and reliable streams of income that can help your business thrive. In this session, David Vogelpohl of WP Engine discusses the strategies you can use to create growth-boosting MRR in your freelance and agency business.
Chris Lema:
Vice President, Products & Innovation at Liquid Web & Nexcess
The Single Paradigm Shift You Need To Experience To Help You Add $100k – $300k To Your Income
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a single freelancer, or running a digital agency – everyone wants more revenue. But what if the problem isn’t getting more leads?
What if the problem is how you’re thinking about your offerings? What if a single paradigm shift will enable you to drive more revenue to the bottom line?
That’s what we’ll look at in this talk – with real-world examples of agencies that drove hundreds of thousands of dollars to their bottom line once they made the switch.
Ovi Negrean:
CEO and Co-Founder of SocialBee
Increase Your Web Design Agency’s Recurring Revenue with These 5 Marketing Services
Find out the secrets behind successful agencies that are looking to expand the range of services that they offer – without overwhelming themselves or the team.
You’ll get actionable tips and tools on how to streamline the work, how to increase your agency’s profitability and recurring revenue.
The strategies that Ovi will share with you have helped scale SocialBee’s Concierge Services and grow their customer base substantially.
Sam Mulaim:
Founder and CEO of FixRunner
How To Sell WordPress Care Plans
Having recurring monthly/yearly revenue in your Agency is paramount for success. Waiting for that next big project to keep you a-float is a surefire way to either stop you from growing or at the worst you shutting your doors.
In this interview, Sam will provide some tips and advice on how to sell care plans and how to run this type of business remotely to ensure you always have the revenue to keep growing your Agency.
Nicole Osborne:
Marketing coach for digital agency owners
How to get noticed by your dream clients on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is THE biggest B2B social media platform – yet many digital agencies really struggle to get any leads from this rapidly growing and evolving platform. If you’re ready to get more high-quality leads for your agency via LinkedIn (the organic way!), join Nicole’s interactive LinkedIn masterclass. You’ll learn, how to:
- Decide if you need a company page for your agency
- Optimise your personal profile as agency owner
- Come up with content ideas your dream clients will love
Yes, LinkedIn might be seen as boring, but the platform has changed so much that it’s worth taking another look! Join this masterclass to walk away with a doable plan for your LinkedIn marketing and tons of practical tips.
Ben Pines:
Head of Web Creator Program at Elementor
Elementor Features and Hacks For Agencies
Elementor has become the leading website building platform in the last couple of years and with good reason, it provides a plethora of features to make building top quality websites a simple task.
In this talk, Ben will take you through the hidden gems and features within Elementor to not only guide you through using the platform to build better websites, but also how it can be used as a great business tool to streamline your agency workflows.
Chris Badgett:
CEO of LifterLMS
How to Become a High Value WordPress LMS Consultant
In this session, Chris teaches us the way to become a high-value WordPress LMS consultant.
Learn about the five rapidly expanding online education niches that WordPress consultants can focus on to increase agency success.
You’ll also learn: How to maximize your WordPress LMS agency service package offering, how to choose specific high value sub niches, how to become a high value consultant in the remote learning industry…and more!
Martin Krcho:
Senior developer at WP White Security
Website security is not a one-time fix
WordPress security goes way beyond installing a security plugin or subscribing to a firewall service. Hardening your website is just one piece of the puzzle. It’s just the start.
As websites grow and change to meet business requirements, their security state changes as well. So you need to stay on top of the game to keep your website secure for months and years.
That’s exactly what we’ll talk about during this talk. We’ll highlight the strategies you can use to stay ahead of the game and constantly improve the security posture of your website as it grows and changes, so it is protected against the ever-evolving attack vectors.
Mike Demo:
Lead Hand Shaker at Web Ventures
Invoicing and You: Getting Paid, WordPress Tools, and Making Happy Clients
Are you using your website to spearhead your freelancing business? In this session, Mike Demo shows you how to get the most out of WordPress to make clients happy.
You will learn how to tell the difference between estimates and quotes. This includes the aspect of determining the price of your services. You’ll also learn the importance of getting an upfront deposit for your work.
Thibaud Guerin:
Web Marketing Manager
Multilingual Websites: How To Generate Additional Revenue For Your Agency
Diversifying the services that your agency offers means you can attract various different types of clients. One of the most overlooked service is multilingual websites.
Why is this? It can be tricky creating a website that supports multiple different languages, especially if it’s a ecommerce store or large website with huge amounts of info.
In this talk, Thibaud will demonstrate how you can integrate this service into your business model, how to charge for this type of service and how to create a “Multilingual website development package”.
Scale
As you scale, every small spark can become a wildfire. Learn how to keep track of your profitability, keeping clients in check, productise where you can and create repeatable processes within your growing business.
Marcus Ohanesian:
Founder & Designer at Perfect Evolution
Proactive Project Management
In this session, you’ll learn how to approach your projects with a value-driven mindset while improving the client relationship.
We’ll approach Project Management from the lens of UI/UX Design, Development, and Feature road mapping. Join us to create your own pro-active project management strategy.
Melissa Rachel Love:
Founder of The Design Space & The Marketing Fix
Turn Your Website Into A Marketing Machine
Struggling to generate leads, book new clients and grow your web design business? Agency-owner turned WordPress theme designer, Melissa Love, will walk you through the exact steps she took to grow her own web design business to 6 figures and how she transitioned to a recurring income model.
As a marketing expert, she will help you put together your own actionable marketing plan and give you an action list to help you put your new strategy in motion.
Vito Peleg:
Founder of Atarim
The 3 Main Bottlenecks of Every Website Project & How To Avoid Them
Nearly every single project follows the same framework from start to finish (with the odd exception). These are gathering content, design approval & providing support.
There are bottlenecks at each of these stages and almost 99% of agencies suffer from at least one. This delays your client projects finishing on time, hurting your profitability and your sanity. In this session Vito go throughs each bottleneck and what you can do to completely eliminate them.
Chase Buckner:
Director Of Content & Education for HighLevel
Why Smart Agencies Are Pivoting To A SaaS + Services Model
When you build your clients websites, are you tying their forms to a CRM for them? Are you setting up webchat? Installing and configuring call tracking? Setting up a system to build and manage positive reviews?
If not, you should be. And if you are, it’s time YOUR AGENCY became the provider of those services instead of the big players in the space.
In this talk we’ll show your agency can compete directly with Podium, ActiveCampaign, Infusionsoft, ClickFunnels, CallRail, etc. without actually having to build or maintain software.
Beth L Livingston:
Director of The WP Project Manager’s Academy
The Magic of the Change Budget
Experts all agree that a successful project is one that is completed on time, within budget, with an end-product whose features meet the client’s business requirements, without sacrificing profit. They also agree that the major enemies to project success are always scope creep and project delays.
In this session, Beth will discuss how using a change budget along with a solid change control procedure can ensure that each and every project meets the criteria for success – on time, within budget, while retaining your project profit margin. It’s MAGIC!
Davinder Singh Kainth:
Website Creator & Coach
Make Yourself Stand Out in the WordPress Space
The WordPress ecosystem is huge, and getting the right attention from the right people to your product or service can be an overwhelming process for a lot of creators.
In Davinder’s session, you’ll find a practical roadmap for visibility in the ecosystem, which is engaging, productive, and profitable for your Agency.
Natasha Golinsky:
Founder of On Purpose Project
How To End Scope Creep Forever
Most website projects do not make a lot of money (or even lose money) because the scope of work was not clearly outlined before the project begins leading to confusion, conflicting expectations and scope creep.
Learn how to make your website projects more profitable starting today by learning how to COMPLETELY eliminate profit-killing scope creep!
Adrian Tobey:
Creator of Groundhogg
How to design, build, and deploy CRM & Marketing Automation projects faster than ever before!
Do your client projects turn into never-ending technical nightmares when implementing a CRM + marketing automation? Adrian has worked with 100s of clients using SaaS-based CRM software, and it was never as easy and straightforward as it was promised to be.
That’s why he developed a new way for Agencies to quickly deploy CRM and marketing automation right on WordPress.
In this session you will learn:
- Why using a self-hosted CRM and marketing automation suite saves $1,000s per year.
- What tools are now at your disposal to deploy a client CRM project in hours, not months.
- How you can productize your strategies and resell them to your clients at scale.
Matthew Rodela:
Co Founder of Key Press Media
Why Every Agency Needs A WaaS
With the rise of cheap and free website builder platforms like Squarespace and Wix, websites are being seen as a commodity and something that should be cheap and easy to produce.
Instead of fighting this trend, why not embrace it? One way you can do this is by building your own WaaS (websites as a service) platform. In this talk you’ll learn how to offer your own version of a WaaS to your customers in order to get them in the door where you can then continue to sell them the more valuable services you offer.
Thrive
Agency – Check, Team – Check, Brand – Check. Now, let’s iron out the kinks. Whether you’re on track to creating a big agency or paving your path to an exit. Perfect your systems and operations to reduce future unknowns.
Adam W. Warner:
Global Field Marketing Sr. Manager for GoDaddy Pro
GoDaddy Pro – Listen, Learn, Deliver
Have you wondered why brands get involved with the WordPress project and the community and events surrounding it? It may seem obvious, but it’s not for the all the reasons you might think.
In this session, Adam Warner will share his experience representing various brands in his WordPress and web designer and developer advocacy career, the reasoning behind why they get involved with open-source software and communities, and the outcomes that community support and participation provide for both end users and the companies themselves.
Kristina Romero:
Founder of WP Care Market
Measuring the Value of Your Web Agency
Every business has value, and it’s understanding its value that provides you with the knowledge to either scale or sell.
In this session, we’ll review ways to measure three areas of value –
- The value you bring to your clients
- The value your clients offer you
- The how others (buyers) would value your business.
The key focus of this session will be around website care plans and other types of recurring revenue that act as a strong foundation for determining value.
So…what’s your agency worth?
Jimmy Rosén:
CEO at Angry Creative
What I Would & Wouldn’t Do Again When Building a 50+ Employee Agency
Are you thinking of growing your agency? Are you worried about hiring your first employee or your 10th?
In this session, Jimmy outlines exactly what actions he would take and ones he would completely avoid if he had to build his 50+ agency again.
He will outline the success factors and the largest failures and how they led him to his current 60 employee agency.
Colleen Gratzer:
CEO at Gratzer Graphics
How Ignoring Accessibility Costs You and Your Clients
Many web developers and agencies think accessibility doesn’t apply to them. But even if accessibility is not a legal requirement for your clients, ignoring it can still cost your clients not only financially but reputation as well.
Developers and agencies do their clients a disservice by not creating accessible websites and may be putting themselves at risk too. Learn how to consider accessibility and avoid these costs!
Topher DeRosia:
Senior WordPress Strategist at Camber Creative
5 Tips To Make Your Employees Raving Fans
In his career, Topher has seen a number of agencies with policies that made him think “Wow, that would be so nice!”.
Some of them he has worked for, some of them he didn’t, but he was still a raving fan. In this talk he’ll talk about 5 of the things that will make employees happy and proud to work for your agency.
Marcel Petitpas:
CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto
How to Run a More Profitable Agency
In this talk you’ll learn the 4 step framework to baking profitability into the DNA of your agency. Empowering your team to make your agency more efficient all on their own, using the data your agency creates every day.
These are the same principles we’ve used with consulting clients to help them triple their profit margins in as little as 60 days and maintain world-class profitability.
Michelle Frechette:
Head of Customer Success at GiveWP
Building Community to Build Your Brand
What if Michelle told you that your customers are your best sales reps? That by encouraging sharing and self-promotion by your customers, you can grow your brand. It’s true. (And you don’t even have to pay “influencers” if you don’t want to.)
You can build your brand (and boost sales, referrals, and loyalty) by building a community around your products, services, and agency. In this talk Michelle will share some of the best practices in building community.
