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What year did you begin using WordPress?

"I believe it was late 2009. That's when I started The Happypreneur website."
Did you have a standard website before this, or one hosted on a different platform?

"I was using Blogger. I'd had numerous blogs on there and a couple on a free builder site, can't even remember the name of it."
What were your primary dislikes about it?

"Realized my business was reflecting my "free''philosophy and needed to get serious in the way I presented myself. These sites were very unprofessional. It looked like I was playing at being in business but hadn't really make the commitment. I disliked the inability make the changes to the sites I needed and the lack of functionality."

What were your primary reasons for choosing WordPress?

"It's what the successful entrepreneurs were using or were in the process so switching to. I figured if it was good enough for them... Also, I'd heard it was easy to learn and maintain and the flexibility and functionality were 2nd to none."

Do you use Wordpress primarily for business or personal websites?

"I only have business websites, so for business. If I did have a personal site, it would be WordPress as well."

Overall, what impresses you the most about WordPress?

"The ease of learning how to build and maintain a WordPress . Anyone can do it with good instruction. No tech skills required at all. In my coaching business, I mentor new solopreneurs who are just getting started or have been at it a while and have gotten stuck (usually on technology). I teach them the basic nuts and bolts of how to set up the back end of their businesses so they can get out front where the money is. WordPress makes it easy to teach simple solutions to allow them set everything up quickly and easily so they can go from working in their business to actually doing business. It's the simplicity I love the most about WordPress. It empowers not-techie people like me to have complete control over our business."

Have you ever dealt with WordPress support, support forums, or open source theme developers? What was your experience?

"Some good, some not so good. The support and forums are pretty helpful. The developers of free themes and plugins, not so much. Some are really great at responding to your questions and some don not respond at all."

Did you choose a free WordPress theme, purchase a pre-built theme, or have one developed especially for your website?

"I started out with free themes, but became dissatisfied because I needed more functionality. Some things you just can't change. I wanted more freedom to take control of the little things on my both for functionality and ascetics. I now use Genesis framework and premium themes for WordPress and am able to make my site do whatever I need it to with no need to hire a webmaster to manipulate my theme."

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