{"id":330089,"date":"2013-09-26T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=330089"},"modified":"2013-09-21T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T23:54:52","slug":"featured-speaker-richard-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/featured-speaker-richard-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Richard Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d4365c98b85145da74d1a3f1d51fdafb?s=100&amp;r=pg&amp;d=mm\" \/>Richard is an online entrepreneur focused on health services. Once he started to use WordPress, his online business took off and continues to grow at a robust clip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He wants people to know that if they want to succeed online, then WordPress needs to be part of their online strategy. He is a WordPress evangelist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Presentation:\u00a0How Video Can Boost Your Traffic<\/h3>\n<p>I will be speaking about how video can drive quality traffic to your WordPress site\/blog.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>What do you want people to learn from your presentation?<\/h3>\n<p>My talk will leverage three years of using video to generate high quality traffic to my site and my goal is to share lessons-learned and best practices for creating, producing, distributing, and promoting video.<\/p>\n<h3>What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?<\/h3>\n<p>Blogging is essential promoting our business and WordPress is the best blogging platform out there.<\/p>\n<h3>What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n<p>This is my fourth WordCamp Toronto and will be my second time presenting at this specific event. I am looking to seeing people I have met in prior WordCamps and meeting new people. I am especially looking forward to the new location and format that the Toronto team has selected.<\/p>\n<h3>Why did you decide to speak?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a great opportunity meet people involved in WordPress and see what they are doing.<\/p>\n<h3>What is your favourite plugin or theme, and why?<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Video SEO for WordPress by Yoast\" href=\"http:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/video-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yoast Video SEO.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard is an online entrepreneur focused on health services. Once he started to use WordPress, his online business took off and continues to grow at a robust clip. He wants people to know that if they want to succeed online, then WordPress needs to be part of their online strategy. He is a WordPress evangelist. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18001],"tags":[168055],"class_list":["post-330089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speaker","tag-richard-martin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330090,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330089\/revisions\/330090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}