This Week Online Today - With Ahmed Khalifa

In this episode, I talk to Dan Ellis and Ryan Ogilvie from Theme Park Trader, a site where they discuss everything related to their passion; theme parks. Not only are they passionate about this topic, but they are very clever guys from the inbound marketing and web development background. I know Dan and Ryan from my time working at a digital marketing agency and have quickly seen how passionate Ryan is about Disney, whilst Dan has an interest in Universal Studio. Together, they have decided to combine their passion and knowledge one lunch together and created Theme Park Trader, where they are building and growing a community of like-minded people to share their knowledge. I have asked the guys to come onto the show and we have talked about the following: how their passion came about and the process to coming up with the idea of Theme Park Trader the idea of picking your niche passion to create a website and building a community how

In this episode, I talk to Nate Wright from Theme of the Crop; a WordPress theme business that he owns that solely caters for restaurants. I first met Nate at the WordPress Edinburgh Meetup, which he co-organises and started to work with him on his theme-based business. I have asked to appear on the show and to give us his insights on the WordPress themes and plugins business. Some of the things we talk about are: how he first started using WordPress how first came up with the idea of WordPress restaurant themes and why he specifically chose this particular industry the challenges that he faced and advice for those who are looking to start or currently their own WordPress theme-based business what you should look out for if you want run your own theme business, but applies to everyone who is running some kind of business "I can say 'look, buy with me because I'm the person who is rea

In this episode, I interview Omer Eltigani from The Sudanese Kitchen who is in the middle of preparing the first ever Sudanese recipe book in English. We talk about: his background and how came up with the idea of creating his own recipe book how the idea was validated with a number of people, Sudanese and non-Sudanese people, as well as after setting up a pop-up restaurant in London why Omer chose WordPress and he got started with it how he overcome the challenges when he first started using WordPress what Omar envisions of how he wants the website to grow what can you learn from Omar's experience if you want to put together your own recipe book "You need to stand out. You need to show something that other people aren't showing so people will take notice of you. And it's all about getting noticed and getting attention. You need to be able to stand out very clearly from the be

Hello and welcome to The IgniteRock Podcast, a show where I interview inspiring entrepreneurs, companies and brands who uses WordPress. My name is Ahmed Khalifa and I am the host of The IgniteRock Podcast. This is episode 0 where I say hello, welcome you and briefly explain the reasons behind IgniteRock; both the website and podcast. In this episode, I would like to say hello and welcome you to the IgniteRock Podcast. This is where I want to explain to you why I have started this podcast and what I plan to do with it. WordPress can be used by anyone; entrepreneurs, musicians, marketers, artists, chef, bloggers, fashion stylists, make-up artists, property agents, stockbroker, writer. Literally anyone. So I plan to interview those who have used WordPress and totally rocked it with WordPress to show you their journey, why they use WordPress and how they use it.