Category: Sponsors

WP Top Hat brings something unique to WordCamp Fayetteville this year. As one of our first ever Media Sponsors, Top Hat Owner and Founder Wolf Bishop will be offering a live stream broadcast of our event, including interviews with attendees, sponsors, and speakers. This is the first time we’ve had a live stream so this is pretty big!

Wolf has been blogging a bit about WordCamp Fayetteville and he recently provided the update that the live streams can be found here.

So what does WP Top Hat do when not live streaming WordCamp Fayetteville? They help you plan, build or improve your WordPress site.

Specifically, according to their website:

• Design and Development
• Site Security
• Security.

Have something you need to sell? Our gold-level sponsor WooCommerce provides a solution for you and your WordPress site. Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise level e-commerce business – WooCommerce will get you set up and selling fast and scale securely as you grow.

Founded in 2008, WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution that allows you to sell directly from your site, thus giving you ultimate control compared to if you had to redirect your sales page to a different online platform.

For Developers, WooCommerce provides easy-to-create store-front that was designed through the collaborative effort of 350 contributors. WooCommerce uses plugins, extensions, and other developer tools to design the store you want with the documentation you need.

For Store Owners, WooCommerce provides a “one-stop shop” as it includes the ability to feature a variety of digital and physical products, as well as offering a full cart and checkout experience. You can choose themes, colors and other features that blends your online marketplace into the rest of your branding. The ease of adding products and managing the built-in payment process makes WooCommerce an easy choice for more than 28 percent of the world’s e-commerce merchants. What’s more, WooCommerce is a tool that does not take any transaction fees like other online merchant providers.

A company with useful products is made even better with a strong mission in mind. According to the WooCommerce website, they “want to be the ultimate WordPress toolkit provider to empower people to build greater things with WordPress.”

WooCommerce as a company celebrates these ideas:

• People are at the heart of all they do, both inside the company and their customers
• Innovation in all forms helps people do great things
• Global thinking with the open-source philosophy in mind
• Growth in all things including influence, skills, services, market share, and thought leadership
• Fun in all things.

Doomsday Coffee is a veteran-owned business in the Evelyn Hills shopping center in Fayetteville. They’ll be sponsoring WordCamp Fayetteville this year, helping to keep everyone fully caffeinated.

Owner Jason Collins donates a percentage of profits on all beans sold to veterans’ causes. Of particular interest — and the starting point for this business — is the problem of veterans’ suicide. This nationwide problem inspired the name of the business.

Collins and his wife roast beans, largely sourced in South America. They love to serve the community, and we’re thankful for their support!

SimpleMachine is a local company engaged in digital and print marketing. They’re a family outfit, and enthusiastic members of the local WordPress community.

“We love WordPress!” says Sean Morrison. “We aren’t able to speak again this year, but would like to be a part of the event. We would love to help sponsor the event to help keep this wonderful event running, to help promote the wonders of WordPress, and to help businesses and individuals learn more about the power of WordPress in NWA. It’s one way we can give back to the platform that runs our business and our client’s businesses.”

We appreciate SimpleMachine’s support of WordCamp 2018!

WordCamp is a valuable experience. If you send your team members to WordCamp, you can expect a high level of inspiration and increased information. WordCamp Fayetteville 2018 will have sessions on the REST API, business strategy, social media, SEO, analytics and data-driven decisions, online reputation, blogging, and much more.

On a personal level, you’ll have fun, meet new people, and hear great new ideas. Andrea of the Central WordCamp team says that one of the most common terms people use to describe WordCamp is “life-changing.”

There are also parties, prizes, and amazing networking opportunities.

Yet the tickets are super inexpensive — about 10% of what you’re used to paying for local conferences. So how does all this WordPress goodness get paid for?

Sponsorships, for one thing. Local, national, and global sponsors cover a lot of the costs. This year, we’re offering microsponsor opportunities, too. Get all the details at our Sponsors page.

But we’re also having a fundraiser.

This is the first ever fundraiser in WordCamp history. It’s happening this Saturday, May 12th, from noon to 4:00 p.m., at the Gallery on Fourth in Bentonville.

WordPress experts will be on hand to answer your questions and assist with your website.

Yes, that’s correct. Walk into the Gallery on Fourth on Saturday afternoon and ask us anything you want about your WordPress website.

This is first-come, first served, and we’ll be making tweaks and giving advice rather than redesigning websites, but you’ll save hundreds of dollars by getting this WordPress goodness absolutely for free.

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