Category: Sponsors

DreamHost returns as a global silver sponsor for WordCamp Fayetteville.

Since 1997, DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers worldwide bring their dreams to life on the Internet.

A leader in Managed WordPress hosting, over 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. Supporting the open source community with dedicated resources and a passionate team, DreamHost believes in the power of the Open Web and the people that make it happen. Learn more at DreamHost.com.

The folks at DreamHost believe in a world where people have the freedom to choose how their digital content is shared, and they foster their success by providing an open web platform of choice.

We appreciate La Huerta providing us with a delicious taco bar for our Saturday Night After Party! They are a bronze-level sponsor this year.

Since 1994, La Huerta’s restaurants have been bringing delicious, authentic Mexican food to Northwest Arkansas. Now with four locations (2 in Fayetteville, 1 in Siloam Springs, and 1 in Gentry), La Huerta can be found in both Benton and Washington counties.

Follow them on Facebook and check out their huge menu!

GreenGeeks Web Hosting is new to WordCamp Fayetteville this year and we are pleased to have them as a bronze-level sponsor this year.

GreenGeeks was founded in California but they have a global reach and approach. They offer a web hosting platform that is specially engineered to perform while being environmentally friendly.

The GreenGeeks management team has more than 40 years of experience in providing high quality, affordable website hosting, according to the company’s website. GreenGeeks client accounts will have a positive energy footprint on the environment as they replace, with wind power credits, three times the amount of energy most websites will use.

Thanks to GreenGeeks Web Hosting!

Beautiful Websites That Work ® is what Sharp Hue is about. Their form and function approach to websites is the reason they trademarked the phrase!

They are a silver level sponsor at WordCamp Fayetteville and various members of their staff have been involved with WordCamp Fayetteville throughout the years we’ve been around!

Founded in 2006, Sharp Hue designs, builds, maintains, and hosts: websites, web applications, and custom software.  They are a boutique software development firm with significant expertise in design and usability. Along with supporting clients and their businesses, they are entrepreneurs at heart and use their expertise to build their own products such as Agent SITE, RegWiz, and SecureMyWebsite.

They’ve helped more than 400 businesses and small business owners save time and money on their web presence and marketing. Your mission is to help you Get Work Done and Go Home Happy!

Here’s how it works: They assess your pain points and implement technology solutions that will automate processes, reduce inefficiencies, and increase productivity. They also teach you how to be in the driver seat.

Adopting technology is fundamental to growing your business. Let them help you move your technology infrastructure into the cloud to enable the next level of communication and collaboration for your business.

BoldGrid is a website builder designed to work with WordPress. Its goal is to make WordPress easier for beginners to use — but also more efficient and effective for power users.

With more than 200 themes and a full ecosystem of integrated plugins, BoldGrid gives you drag and drop functionality without compatibility worries.

BoldGrid is a Global Sponsor for WordCamp, and WordCamp Fayetteville appreciates their support!

Arvest Bank operates more than 250 locations in the tri-state area, and has been serving the people of our region since they started in Bentonville in 1961.

The president of Arvest Bank once explained very passionately why he believed that all students should take accounting, no matter what their major might be. He believed that gaining control of your personal finances is essential to a happy life. “People helping people find financial solutions for life,” is truly the mission of Arvest.

For WordCamp Fayetteville 2018, Arvest is providing something else that brings happiness: a popcorn machine to support our carnival theme. The scent of popcorn wafting through the Big Top should guarantee a festive feeling!

The Savoy Tea Company has a location in downtown Fayetteville just off the square. There you’ll find a wide range of tea and tea ware for sale, plus a full menu of specialty teas and coffees, sandwiches, soups, and salads. Watch for special desserts, too. You can even set up a tea party for your favorite child’s birthday.

Their website includes lots of loose tea, from Gentleman and Scholar to Caramel Buttercup. matcha making accessories, and more.

In addition to providing a civilized meeting place for the organizing committee, Savoy Tea is also fueling WordCamp Fayetteville with iced tea in the Big Top. Take a refreshing break between sessions!

Jamie’s Notebook, a writing services agency based in Northwest Arkansas, gives small businesses, new entrepreneurs and organizations “a voice with the written word.” When businesses and organizations can share their story, it gives them a voice.

Through working with the team at Jamie’s Notebook, clients gain a better understanding of who they are as a company and how to express that identity through their various marketing and communications efforts.

Founded in 2009 by Jamie Smith, Jamie’s Notebook’s services now include:

• Company blog writing
• Website writing
• Feature writing
• Personal bio writing
• Press release writing (and distribution)
• Brochure writing
• Advertorial writing
• Website audits
• Seminars about blogging for business and better online writing practices
• Coaching on blogging for business and better online writing practices
• Other possible small business-related topics (just ask!)

Jamie has been involved with the WordCamp Fayetteville community since 2010 and Jamie’s Notebook is funding various food and other in-kind donations for the 2018 event. The company is a Bronze level sponsor. 

With Jetpack, self-hosted WordPress users gain access to all of the most powerful and popular WordPress.com features. Many consider JetPack to be a “one-stop” plugin because it has such diverse features that include social sharing, security, design, and more.

JetPack is a global community, gold-level sponsor for many WordCamps, including WordCamp Fayetteville!

According to the Jetpack website, Jetpack allows you to do all these things (and more!):

• Keep visitors interested with automatic links to your related content as well as other traffic-boosting tools.
• Install more than two dozen popular plugins with one click (and update them all the same way).
• Keep website secure from spammers, hackers, and malware.
• Engage millions of WordPress.com users, allowing them to interact with your site
• Boost your site’s performance by taking the load of these features off your servers.
• Count on regular updates, enhancements, and troubleshooting from the same folks who build WordPress.com.
• Enables Photon (a global CDN for images)
• Uptime monitoring
• Single sign-on capabilities
• Multiple site management

JetPack also offers an affiliate program. Refer.WordPress.com is a program whereby you can promote WordPress.com and Jetpack to your clients and earn referral rewards for your loyalty. The folks at Automattic (the creators of all thing WordPress) created it for WordPress professionals, including site and plugin developers, designers, and theme creators.

Thank you to Jetpack for being a gold-level sponsor of WordCamp Fayetteville!