Our Thoughts.
A collection of missives and messages, along with nerd talk and company carryings-on.
How to Engage with Your Customers Online (so they don’t forget you!)
By Megan JonesIf your business is still closed, or your physical premise remains temporarily shut, then you may be worried about the impact this will have on customer retention. To put it bluntly – will your customers remember you?
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A Case Study: How Gravity Forms Uses Gravity Forms and Gravity View to Power the Community Platform
By Megan JonesGravity Forms is a feature-rich and highly extendable plugin. As a stand-alone plugin, you can create beautiful, stylish, and advanced forms. However, working in conjunction with other third-party plugins, Gravity Forms can quickly become the backbone of any website. In this case study, we look at how Gravity Forms uses Gravity Forms and GravityView to power our community platform. We discuss how the plugins work together to collect and display data on the front end of the Gravity Forms website. And we also consider some of the form features used to ensure a smooth submission process.
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Give Your Online Infrastructure an Upgrade While Business is Quiet
By Megan JonesDuring the last few months, many businesses have been feeling the strain, seeing contracts and sales affected. However, if you are finding that business is quiet, now is a good time to make all those improvements you’ve been meaning to do for ages – especially upgrading your online infrastructure.
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3 Strategies to Promote your Business’s Services Online (and secure future work)
By Megan JonesDuring these difficult times, many people are looking to take their business online. There have been lots of articles written helping people to move business processes online and instructing readers on how to start selling products and services through their websites. But, what do you do if you run a strictly offline, in-person business?
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How Gravity Forms Uses Gravity Forms: A Job Application Form Case Study
By Megan JonesGravity Forms is an advanced form builder, and its many features and integrations enable customers all over the world to use the plugin in a wide assortment of ways. Today we are going to share how we ourselves here at Gravity Forms use Gravity Forms!
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Need to move your products or services online? Gravity Forms can help…
By Megan JonesIn the past few months, we have seen communities locked down, households isolated, and businesses forced to close their doors. But when one door closes another opens, which in the case of many businesses is the opportunity of selling online.
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How to Beat Procrastination While You WFH – Top Tips from the Gravity Forms Team
By Megan JonesStaying on task and ensuring productivity while working from home can be challenging. If you find procrastination is getting the better of you then it might be time to introduce new strategies and tools, helping you to alter your habits and improve your concentration.
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Working Remotely the Gravity Forms Way (Top Tools from the GF Team)
By Megan JonesMost businesses have seen some major changes over the last couple of months, and those that have been lucky enough to survive this roller coaster ride are still be adjusting to the new norm – mainly working remotely. After the initial disruption, most people have managed to settle into a personal routine, and have adapted well to their new ‘work from home’ situation. However, although your employees may have become more settled, by now it’s probably becoming apparent that your organization is lacking some key tools and strategies that are needed to ensure maximum productivity while remote working.
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Struggling to work from home? Our remote team here at Gravity Forms share their expert advice…
By Megan JonesChris Hajer (Support Engineer) … “My #1 recommendation for anyone new to remote working, or new to working from home, would be: stick to your routine. Get to sleep and get up at the same time of day as when you commuted for work. Work out at the same time. Get dressed in the same way as if you were going into the office. Keep a semblance of a schedule, so you are not easily distracted by “all the things” that could also be done.” In the last couple of months, millions of people across the globe have had to adjust to the challenges of working from home. For some this has been harder than others, and as time moves on, many may find different issues or setbacks emerge. Change on this scale is never easy, but luckily the Gravity Forms team is here to help.
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Say Hello to ‘Adderley’ – All You Need to Know About WordPress 5.4
By Megan JonesOn the 31st March, the newest version of WordPress was released – WP 5.4. Named after the famous American jazz trumpeter, Nat Adderley, WordPress 5.4 has some exciting additions and enhancements that focus on improving the block editor as well as privacy tools and the developer experience.
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