The SDM Show

Rob Cairns sits down with Laura Adamonis and talks about her WordPress journey.

Show Highlights:

1. Laura's WordPress origin story.
2. Laura's take on the WordPress ecosystem.
3. Challenges with WordPress.
4. Thoughts on the community.

Rob Cairns talks to Dan Knauss about WordPress Security and Solid WP.

Show Highlights:

1. General WordPress Security.
2. Why you should not have a built-in Malware Scanner?
3. Why rebarnding to SolidWP?
4. Where SolidWP is going.

Rob Cairns and Jeff Brown talk about social media trends.

Show Highlights:

1. Why Social Media?
2. Issues with X(Twitter).
3. Meta and what is going on.
4. Do we need Tik Tok?

Rob Cairns talks about why clients need to have realistic expectations.

Show Highlights:

1. Why Expectations Matter.
2. Clients need to do cost research.
3. Costs have gone up.

Rob Cairns talks to Ryan about the WordPress Dumpster Fire on Twitter,

Show Highlights:

1. Why .com and ,org need to be separated?
2. Why a CEO can not be a bully.
3. The impact on the community.
4. Accusations of people fabricating plugin downloads.

Rob Cairns talks to friend of the show Bridget Willard about Launch With Words.

Show Highlights:

1. What is Launch With Words?
2. The new Launch With Word Web Dev Pack.
3. Why Launch With Words over AI.
4. Some of the books Bridget is working on.

Rob Cairns talks about why he moved to Fastmail.

Show Highlights:

1. Why Fastmail.
2. Privacy Matters.
3. Features of Fastmail.

Rob Cairns talks to Ryan Waterbury about Copyright.

Show Highlights:

1. What is copyright?
2. How copyright matters.
3. What to think about when using digital assets.
4. How to manage copyright.
5. Who is responsible for purchasing the correct licenses for digital assets?

Rob Cairns and Nicole Osborne talk all things marketing.

Show Highlights:

1. Nicole's Marketing Journey.
2. Pricing in Marketing.
3. Thoughts for agencies,
4. How to stand in the world of Ai.

Rob Cairns talks about lessons learned during his 57 years.

Show Highlights:

1. Lessons Learned.
2. How Rob's life is better,
3. How life has changed.

Rob Cairns sits down with WPCS.IO co-founder Roger Rosweide.

Show Highlights:

1. What is WPCS.IO?
2. Features in WPCS.IO .
3. Roadmap for WPCS.IO .

Rob Cairns talks about networking events.

Show Highlights:

1. Why Networking Events.
2. Meeting People at Networking Events.
3. How to prepare for networking events.

Rob Cairns and Ryan Waterbury talk about Ethics in handing over digital assets.

Show Highlights:

1. Tips for clients to protect themselves.
2. Clients should own their digital assets.
3. The proper way to manage digital assets for clients.

Rob Cairns talks to Arpit Shaw about his product WP Sync Sheets.

Show Highlights:

1. What are Wp Sync Sheets.
2. Product Roadmap,
3. Why you should get this tool.

Rob Cairns shares his thoughts on AI.

Show Highlights:

1. AI is a Tool.
2. AI makes our work life easier.
3. AI does not cost jobs.

Rob Cairns talks to Warren Laine-Naida about his two new books:

Show Highlights:

1. Warren's Book: Digital Skills For Smart Seniors.
2. How seniors can make better use of the Digital World.
3. SEO All You Need to Know - 2nd Edition.
4. Is SEO still relevant in the world of AI?

Rob Cairns talks about why you need to communicate with your care plan clients.

Show Highlights:

1. Why communication is important
2. Not Communicating is a bad thing.
3. What happens when you renew your care plan without communication.

Rob Cairns talks about why you need a WordPress security expert.

Show Highlights:

1. Why do you need a security expert?
2. You can not DIY security anymore.
3. The year of the vulnerability.

Rob Cairns talks about eCommerce and WordPress with Ryan Waterbury,

Show Highlights:

1. Why WordPress for eCommerce.
2. Is Woo the only answer?
3. Other options for eCommerce and WordPress.

Rob Cairns talks about setting boundaries in your agency.

Show Highlights:

1. Why you Need Boundaries.
2. The Dog Ate My Homework.
3. Why You Should Stick To Your Boundaries,

Rob Cairns talks to Courtney Robertson about the open-source community and the open-source summit.

Show Highlights:

1. Why Open-Source?
2. What is the Open-Source summit?
3. Why collaboration matters.

Rob Cairns talks to James Giroux about TotalWP.

Show Highlights:

1. Trends in the WordPress Space.
2. What is TotalWP?
3. Why does culture matter?
4. The WordPress ecosystem.

And so much more.

Rob Cairns talks about Mental Health in this episode.

Show Highlights:

1. Why Mental Health Matters.
2. How to Take Care of Yourself.
3. What to do when having mental health issues.

** Disclaimer Rob Cairns is NOT a doctor. Please consult one if having mental health issues

Rob Cairns talks to Ryan Waterbury about picking your ideal client.

Show Highlights:

1. What makes an ideal client.
2. What to watch for when picking a client.
3. Things clients do to make a great partnership.

Rob Cairns talks about why just being on Twitter is not enough.

Show Highlights:

1. Why being on Twitter is not enough.
2. How to manage your brand on Twitter.
3. Should you look at other social media avenues?

Rob Cairns sits down with Dustin Stout and talks all things AI and Magai.

Show Highlights:

1. Why AI?
2. How AI is making a difference in the world.
3. What is Magai?
4. Features of Magai.
5. Roadmap for Magai.

In this special episode, Rob Cairns wishes WordPress a Happy 20th Birthday and talks about what WordPress means to him.

In this Episode, Rob Cairns talks to Brian Gardner about Modern WordPress.

Show Hights:

1. What is Modern WordPress?
2. Why is Build Mode?
3. Changes coming to WordPress.
4. Why we should embrace FSE.
5. Changes to Frost.

Rob Cairns sits down with Kristen Wright and talks about journaling and the Day One App.

Show Highlights:

1. Why Journal?
2. Types of journaling?
3. Benefits of journaling.
4. What is the Day One App?

Rob Cairns talks about the difference between a Hack and a Spoof.

Show Highlights:

1. What is a Hack?
2. What is a Spoof?
3. What is the difference between the two.

Rob Cairns talks to Dennis Dornon about MainWP.

Show Highlights:

1. What is MainWP.
2. Why you should use MainWP.
3. Features in MainWP.
4. What is coming in MainWP.

Rob Cairns talks about Stunning Digital Marketing's Security Stack.

Show Highlights:

1. Hosting is part of your security stack.
2. What is our agency's security stack?
3. We used a layered security approach.

Rob Cairns sits down with Ryan Waterbury and talks t why you should fire a customer.

Show Highlights:

1. Are there bad customers?
2. When is it time to let go.
3. How to fire a customer nicely.
4. Boundaries and more boundaries.

Rob Cairns sits down with Todd Jones and talks about how AI impacts copywriting.

Show Highlights:

1. The impact of AI on business.
2. How does AI impact copywriting.
3. Does AI impact jobs?
4. What is the future of AI.

Rob Cairns talks about if you should be on Twitter.

Show Notes:

1. Should you be on Twitter?
2. What Twitter is really good for.
3. Where do your customers go?

Rob Cairns talks to Spencer Forman about using WordPress as a lead generation tool.

Show Highlights:

1. Why WordPress.
2. Why you do not want to only use rented land for lead generation.
3. The benefits of WordPress.
4. The WordPress community.

Rob Cairns talks about changes to the Podcast.

Show Highlights:

1. Changes that are coming.
2. Why the changes.
3. Video is coming.

Rob Cairns talks to Vito Peleg about the Atarim Summit.

Show Highlights:

1. What is the Atarim Summit ?
2. What types of talks are at the summit?
3. Two big names coming.
4. Some surprise breaking announcements.

Rob Cairns and Ryan Waterbury talk about what you should not just use rented land to promote your business.

Show Highlights:

1. You do not own rented land.
2. The only thing you truly own is your website and your email list.
3. Rules on rented land provider can change.
4. Remember on rented land you are the product.

Rob Cairns talks to Adam Silver about podcasting.

Show Highlights:

1. Why Podcasting?
2. Benefits of Podcasting.
3. Some suggestions on how to setup your Podcast.

Rob Cairns talks about why conferences, masterminds and meetups matter.

Show Highlights:

1. Why these matter.
2. It is all about the people.
3. A great network opportunity,

Rob Cairns sits down with his friend Andrew Palmer to talk AI and Bertha.AI .

Show Highlights:

1. Will AI replace jobs?
2. Some great uses for AI.
3. What is Bertha.AI?
4. Some of the new features of Bertha.ai

Rob Cairns talks about how to get over Imposter Syndrome.

Show Highlights:

1. What is imposter syndrome?
2. How to get over imposter syndrome.
3. Practice and being prepared helps.

Rob Cairns sits down with Stephanie Hudson.

Show Highlights:

1. Why AI?
2. Does AI matter?
3. Changes coming in WordPress.
4. Why outsourcing can help your business

Rob Cairns talks about why people are human and that people make mistakes.

Show Highlights:

1. Why people are human.
2. No one is perfect.
3. We need to forgive people.

Rob Cairns talks to Ryan Waterbury about how to grow your agency business.

Show Highlights:

1. How to grow your business.
2. What steps you need to do to scale your business,
3. What types of marketing help in scaling your agency.
4. The biggest issue is business owners trying to do to much

Rob Cairns talks about what happens to your Digital Assets after death.

Show Highlights:

1. Access to the deceased smartphone.
2. Password access.
3. 2FA.

Rob Cairns talks to Bridget Willard and Warren Laine-Naida about there book The Only Marketing Book That You Need For Your Small Business.

Show Highlights:

1. Why this book?
2. Marketing tips to help your small business.
3. Actionable Tips.
4. Why SEO still matters.
5. Email marketing still matters.

Rob Cairns sits down with Adam McLaughlin to talk project management in WordPress.

Show Highlights:

1. Why Project management.
2. Processes to follow.
3. What happens to projects when they are not managed well.

Rob Cairns talk about why Tik Tok should not be banned.

Show Highlights:

1. Privacy Issues With Tik Tok.
2. We Should Ban All Tech From China.
3. Charge Cards Are The Worst For Privacy.