{"id":1329,"date":"2016-08-30T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.la.wordcamp.org\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2016-08-29T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:58:34","slug":"speaker-interview-cody-landefeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-interview-cody-landefeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Interview: Cody Landefeld"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we’re talking with\u00a0Cody Landefeld<\/a>,\u00a0Senior web strategist and founder at modeeffect<\/a>. Modeeffect\u00a0helps technology companies & non-profits build powerful web solutions on WordPress.<\/p>\n

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What should we know about you that you haven\u2019t included in your brief, third-person, professional biography?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a husband and father of 3.\u00a0 I enjoy music, sports, and comics.\u00a0 I started dabbling in WordPress around 2007 because all other CMS options at the time were awful.\u00a0 Was a fan of WordPress and was\u00a0pleasantly\u00a0surprised to find it was and is suitable for most small business websites.<\/p>\n

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You’re on a desert island and\u00a0your only hope of survival is launching\u00a0a WooCommerce store, what’s your goto secret tactic?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Setup Stripe first thing so we can get the money we need to pay the rescue boat to come and get us!<\/p>\n

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Tell us a little more about Modeeffect.<\/strong><\/p>\n

codyL is a WordPress consultancy I started around 2005. In 2013 we re-branded to become Mode Effect. The name choice was nice so I didn’t appear to be such an ego maniac \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I moonlighted up until 2010 when I was able to fulfill the dream of focusing on our company full time. It’s been quite a journey. One of the things I am most excited about is leading and nurturing a team who can help our clients grow their business and reach their goals.<\/p>\n

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With so many e-commerce solutions — even within WordPress — why choose WooCommerce?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ve used other e-commerce systems such as Magento and even other solutions built on WordPress. We started using WooCommerce in 2013 due to it being the most useful and well built e-commerce system we had used for WordPress.<\/p>\n

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What\u00a0have you learned about working with non-profits that you wouldn’t have known otherwise or was surprising to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How much they value their web presence. Non profits are fantastic organizations and certainly have their shares of challenges but they definitely are organized when it comes to funding a resource that’s important to their core funding and existence.<\/p>\n

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Cody’s talk at WordCamp Los Angeles,\u00a0Build a WooCommerce store that can rival Amazon<\/a>, will be in The Dunbar on Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 3:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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