{"id":756,"date":"2016-10-21T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/?p=756"},"modified":"2016-10-20T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T17:16:32","slug":"wordcamp-focuses-on-business-freelancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wordcamp-focuses-on-business-freelancers\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp Focuses on Business &amp; Freelancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we we <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/10\/18\/meet-the-bloggers-power-users-speakers\/\">introduced you all to the Track 01 speaker lineup<\/a>. Today, we want you to meet the speakers coming into Birmingham and leading the sessions for<a href=\"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\">\u00a0Track 02 aimed at Businesses and Freelancers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much practical and real world experience listed below. No matter what stage you find yourself &#8211; a 10-year freelance veteran or simply\u00a0dreaming of the day someone would pay you money to do some WordPress work\u00a0&#8211; the folks listed below are the ones you would want to buy a cup of coffee with and pick their brains.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-a4fceeeb8eaf66abe406e4ce8b538220-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a4fceeeb8eaf66abe406e4ce8b538220?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>NATHAN INGRAM<\/strong> &#8211; Nathan\u00a0is a regular instructor at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-b76ce96e92b343d5e3fffde235aead86-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b76ce96e92b343d5e3fffde235aead86?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>ELIZABETH PAMPALONE<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0In 2007, Elizabeth started her first company, Jax Computer Chic. She started out making house calls for sick computers and branched out into teaching classes at the local High School.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-c942ee663e0eb9a930d4fb8bf33a9d7b-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c942ee663e0eb9a930d4fb8bf33a9d7b?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>BRIAN KROGSGARD<\/strong> &#8211; Brian is\u00a0the editor of Post Status, a news and information website for WordPress professionals. It\u2019s a community-centric project with more than 700 members doing incredible things with WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-aed9c19a97a4d9370fcd3b77426342b0-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aed9c19a97a4d9370fcd3b77426342b0?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>KRISTI L. OLIVER<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Kristi is a serial entrepreneur, public speaker, and professionally known as The Brand Visibility Expert\u2122. Like many of her fans and clients, she is passionate, results-oriented and operates her brand and businesses in a spirit of excellence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-64f3e061ab730b6ee3078ee740c7ff52-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/64f3e061ab730b6ee3078ee740c7ff52?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>ADAM WARNER<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Adam \u00a0discovered the world of WordPress in 2005 and has been working within the community ever since\u00a0founding\u00a0several WordPress-focused businesses providing education, plugins and consulting services for online business owners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-fcc1e56f679c3435cf322c4fcbf6f2e6-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fcc1e56f679c3435cf322c4fcbf6f2e6?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>KYLE JOHNSON<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Ninja Forms Senior Developer and host of the Plugin Architect Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">buy your ticket today<\/a> and come on out to WordCamp Birmingham 2016 to learn from their successes, failures and bags of tricks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wcorg-speaker-kyle-johnson\" class=\"wcorg-speaker wcorg-speaker-kyle-johnson wcorg-track-business-freelance\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"wcorg-speaker-adam-warner\" class=\"wcorg-speaker wcorg-speaker-adam-warner wcorg-track-business-freelance\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we we introduced you all to the Track 01 speaker lineup. Today, we want you to meet the speakers coming into Birmingham and leading the sessions for\u00a0Track 02 aimed at Businesses and Freelancers. There is so much practical and real world experience listed below. No matter what stage you find yourself &#8211; a 10-year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wordcamp-focuses-on-business-freelancers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WordCamp Focuses on Business &amp; Freelancers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15059817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,917150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","category-wordcamp-birmingham-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7pEJ8-cc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15059817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}