Join Us At The After Party!

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WordCampers are invited to join us at Zillicoah Beer Co. by the beautiful French Broad River after Saturday’s sessions on August 18 from 5:30 until 8:30. In addition to the tasty local brews, there will be non-alcoholic options as well as light appetizers and a taco truck.

Due to limited parking at Zillicoah, we have arranged a shuttle from the nearby Grainger Industrial Supply parking lot. Campers should arrive at the Grainger lot and look for the Zen Tubing shuttle, which will run between Grainger and Zillicoah from 5:30 to 8:30. Many thanks to Zen Tubing, a local Asheville business, for providing the shuttle service.

The parking situation at Zillicoah tends to improve after the early evening rush, so for those wishing to stay at the party past 8:30 it should be feasible to shuttle to your car and then drive the short distance back to Zillicoah.

Grainger & Zillicoah are located about 4 miles north of the conference venue.

Grainger Industrial Supply
834 Riverside Dr.

Zillicoah Beer Co.
870 Riverside Dr.

Bronze Sponsor Highlight: Status Forward is Helping Brands that Do Good

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What is your name and what do you do for your company?

I’m Laurel Scherer and I’m the managing director at Status Forward.

What is the mission of your company?

We help mission-focused companies and nonprofits do well while doing good.

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Bronze Sponsor Highlight: Cutting Edge Speed and Dependability with Kinsta

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Who are you?

Kinsta was founded in 2013 with a desire to create the best WordPress hosting platform in the world. We are veteran WordPress developers strive to provide every customer with reliable WordPress hosting built on cutting-edge technology with a focus on speed, security, and stability.

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Silver Sponsor Highlight: GOWP Provides Exceptional WordPress Support

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WordCamp Asheville is about to begin and we could not have planned such an excellent event without our sponsors. Our sponsors not only believe in supporting WordPress’s open source community, they also believe in sharing ideas, supporting one another, and making WordPress the very best it can be. GoWp is one of these companies and we were lucky enough to get one of their staff to share some information about GoWP’s story.

What does GoWP do?

GoWP provides complete subscription WordPress support, including a white-label plan for agencies. For a low monthly fee, you get automated WP core and plugin updates, regular backups, security monitoring and help from real people. They can keep your site secure, up-to-date and provide WordPress support, assistance, and guidance when you need it most.

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Gold Sponsor Highlight: BlueHost Helps Businesses Succeed Online

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Once again, the planning committee for WordCamp Asheville can not thank our sponsors enough. Without the support of all our Gold sponsors we would not be able to make WordCamp Asheville happen every year. If you haven’t checked out our sponsors yet make sure you visit their websites and when you attend WordCamp Asheville be sure and stop by their vending tables and booths. In an effort to feature everyone who makes WordCamp Asheville a success we will be sharing interviews with new sponsors on the blog each week. So, without further ado…we would like to introduce Bluehost.

What does Bluehost do?

Bluehost offers online solutions for SMBs. We specialize in hosting but provide other services such as site design, optimization and SEO assistance.

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Bronze Sponsor Highlight: WP Buffs is Leading the Way to WordPress Excellence

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Meet Head Buff Joe Howard

WP Buffs is not only a great company that provides exceptional customer service, it is also a group of really cool people who love what they do. According to the WP Buff’s website they “want to be the very best technical support partner for any individual, business or organization with a WordPress website.” They promise to be a dependable WordPress developer and to keep client websites happy and healthy.

WP Buffs is also launching WPMRR this fall. It’s 2018 and the time of simply building WordPress websites and handing them over to clients is long gone. The WP Buffs team will teach you to implement, sell and execute ongoing care plans for your WordPress clients and increase your revenue every single month.

We had the chance to ask Joe Howard, Head Buff, some questions about the company and his team’s vision of the future of WordPress. Here are his answers:

 

PS. Sarah sends a special thanks to Joe for doing such a great job on this video : ).

Learn to Level Up Your Game with Our Keynote Speaker Rachel Cherry

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Who is Rachel Cherry?

Rachel Cherry is a freelance software engineer and consultant with with over ten years experience in back and front-end web development and digital design. Her main areas of focus include accessibility, higher education, and WordPress.

Previously, Rachel was a Senior Software Engineer for Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media and helped build a variety of Disney websites on various platforms, including shopdisney.com. Before Disney, she spent over nine years working in higher education and is the Director of WPCampus, a community and conferences focused on using WordPress in the world of higher education.

We are thrilled to have Rachel joining us this weekend as our keynote speaker and recently we had the pleasure of asking her a few questions about why she loves WordPress and what she’ll be sharing with everyone at WordCamp Asheville 2018. Here are her answers:

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Gold Sponsor Highlight: Building a Better World and Better WordPress Sites with WooCommerce and Jetpack

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What is your name and what do you do for your company?

Stephen Quirk, Events Wrangler with a focus on WordCamps!

What is the mission of your company?

WooCommerce’s roadmap starts with our mission, which is our steadfast commitment and purpose as a company. It serves as the standard against which we weigh our actions and decisions; helping you publish and sell online, with tools we use ourselves

From day one, Jetpack’s mission has been to bring feature parity between WordPress sites hosted on WordPress.com and those hosted elsewhere. Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that bundles together a range of tools that give you the power to design, secure, and grow your site.

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Gold Sponsor Highlight: Reliability, Scalability, and Speed with A2 Hosting

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Who are you?

My name is Jay Al-Qalyuby, I am the Director of Support at A2 Hosting. I oversee our Support, Sales, Billing, Migrations and Abuse teams.

What is the mission of your company?

Our mission at A2 Hosting is to deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and most importantly fast hosting solutions to our clients. We believe everyone’s voice should be heard, we provide the building blocks that allow that voice to be heard. We work with clients from all around the world. Some sell goods online, some teach, some blog, regardless of who the client is or where they are from, we want them to focus on their work and let us worry about the hosting infrastructure.

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Silver Sponsor Highlight: Create My Voice Innovates with Voice Technology

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Who are you?

Hi, I’m Pam, the owner of Create My Voice. My husband, Chip, and I enjoy running Create My Voice so that bloggers can put their content on Alexa and have it read aloud.  Our roles pretty much match our personalities.  Chip, the detail oriented technologist, loves everything to do with computers and technology, while I enjoy interacting with people, researching, and marketing. Chip calls me the big picture person, thus my title is CBPO, Chief Big Picture Officer. He is the CVO, Chief Voice Officer. We tend to balance each other and together we make a pretty good team.

What is the mission of your company?

We really believe smart speakers are going to change how everyone interacts with content. A study done by NPR and Edison Research interviewed smart speaker owners and said 71% of them listen to more audio than they did before, 30% of them said they are replacing time spent with other electronic devices with their smart speakers, and 92% said that they listen along with others in their household.  With Alexa already in homes, cars, hotel rooms, laptops, and phones, having content available on a smart speaker is becoming essential. Create My Voice creates personalized Alexa skills for bloggers so they can join the smart speaker community.

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