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Beyond SEO: How AI Is Changing What Websites Need to Be

Episode 18 explores how AI search is reshaping what websites need to be, from why discovery no longer starts on Google to how brands stay visible when 85% of citations come from outside their own domain.

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Reshaping Events in the WP Industry

Episode 17 explores what’s shifting in the WordPress event landscape โ€“ why WordCamps are losing sponsors and attendees, and what business-focused formats like PressConf and CloudFest are doing differently.

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How to Scale an Agency Without Hiring More People

Episode 16 explores how agencies can scale without growing their headcount โ€“ from shifting mindset around client value and delivery structure to the role of tooling in closing the gap between design and implementation.

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Building Sales That Actually Scale

Episode 15 explores how companies can build sales that actually scale โ€“ from defining real customer value and ICPs to creating structured sales processes and avoiding common pitfalls with AI.

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Modern WordPress Architecture โ€“ Agency Essentials

Episode 14 explores what modern WordPress architecture actually means for agencies today โ€“ from balancing stability and innovation to evaluating headless setups, Full Site Editing, and the real impact of AI on agency workflows.

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The Hidden Cost of Weak Security: Agencies Best Practices

This episode explores the hidden costs of weak security and shows agencies how to move from reactive fixes to scalable, resilient security practices.

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Turning a Guess into a Plan – Analytics & Conversion Tracking

This episode explores how smarter tracking turns data into direction. Derek Ashauer and Sandra Kurze discuss analytics, privacy, and real-world clarity.

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Hosting for Hundreds: What Agencies Need to Know Before They Grow

This episode explores how agencies can scale hosting across hundreds of sites without sacrificing performance. Jessica Lyschik and Zach Stepek discuss common pitfalls, the importance of reliable partners, and how to manage costs, caching, and WooCommerce performance at scale.

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Good for Users, Great for Business: Accessibility

This episode is all about what the European Accessibility Act means for agencies, why many still struggle to make it part of everyday workflows, and how quick fixes like overlay plugins can hurt users and revenue. The conversation shares proven strategies, lessons from a transparent accessibility journey, and a practical toolbox with AI assistants, plugins, […]

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AI & WordPress

This episode features a discussion on the role of AI in the WP ecosystem. The conversation explores current trends, how agencies and customers are adapting, and what the future might hold for building, managing, and scaling websites with AI tools.

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Multisite – Hidden Champion for Large Website Projects

Jakob discusses with Robert Windisch, CIO of Syde, how WordPress multisite is a must-have for any agency to tackle large-scale web projects. They share their thoughts on multisite myths, discuss its limitations and possibilities and share hands-on advise for agencies.

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Leveraging E-Commerce Websites

Our co-founder Thomas speaks to e-commerce expert Greg Zakovicz (Omnisend) about holistic strategies to leverage e-commerce sites. They take a look at it both from a marketing and technical perspective and share valuable insights and strategies for shop owners and agencies.

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Building upon WordPress Core

Jessica Lyschik talks to Ollie Co-founder Mike McAlister about their mutual approach to building products based on the WordPress Block & Site Editor.

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Tech-driven productivity boost for web agencies

Three renowned CEOs of the WP ecosystem discuss how in today’s market, efficiency and automation aren’t just nice-to-have features – they’re survival tools for web agencies.

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Switching from a pagebuilder to FSE

In this episode, Rosanne van Staalduinen shares why and how her agency switched cold turkey from Elementor to Full Site Editing. Learn about how it went for them and what their recommendations are for other agencies and freelancers.

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How to build a WaaS business

In the third episode of Greyd Conversations Jessica Lyschik speaks with Jakob Trost and Sandra Kurze of the Greyd team about Website as a Service.

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Profitably speed up your pagebuilding process

In the second episode of Greyd Conversations Thomas Koschwitz talks to Mark Szymanski about how to become more efficient in the process of building websites for clients. They discuss topics like how to leverage dynamic data and make assets reusable across various projects.

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WordPress Performance Revealed

In our very first episode of the Greyd Conversations vodcast, Felix Arntz from Google joins our CTO, Jakob Trost, to dive into what performance really means for websites, beyond just page speed and what agencies can do to optimize the sites they deliver to their customers.

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When Every Team Has Its Own Version of Your Brand

Brand fragmentation across enterprise divisions is a predictable architecture output.

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A Commercial Co-Founder Isnโ€™t Something You Add Later

Technical founders are told to study something scientific, because the commercial side is something you can teach yourself along the way. That advice holds up right until the company has to sell something.

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Why brand compliance reviews always happen too late

Compliance checks at the end of production catch problems the delivery process created; the later the check, the more expensive each finding.

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Why a global design change takes six weeks and three departments

Long deployment timelines in enterprise digital estates are a direct readout of the platform architecture underneath them.

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A Campaign That Takes Three Weeks to Launch is Not a Campaign

Franchise campaign velocity is a structural problem. When each location requires a separate manual update, rollout time scales with location count, not with team effort.

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You are billing for work that should have been automated

When agencies bill clients for repetitive content production, they are converting a structural inefficiency into a revenue line and calling it work.

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#19 How Can Product Companies Grow in WordPress Right Now?

How Can Product Companies Grow in WordPress Right Now?

Episode 19 explores what it really takes for WordPress product companies to grow today, from what Elementor’s layoff signals to pricing maturity, ICP focus, and why chasing the customer matters more than staying loyal to a platform.

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Beyond SEO: How AI is changing what Websites need to be

Beyond SEO: How AI Is Changing What Websites Need to Be

Episode 18 explores how AI search is reshaping what websites need to be, from why discovery no longer starts on Google to how brands stay visible when 85% of citations come from outside their own domain.

Read more
Greyd Conversations #17 Reshaping Events in the Wp Industry

Reshaping Events in the WP Industry

Episode 17 explores what’s shifting in the WordPress event landscape โ€“ why WordCamps are losing sponsors and attendees, and what business-focused formats like PressConf and CloudFest are doing differently.

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Greyd Conversations #16 - How to Scale an Agency Without Hiring More People

How to Scale an Agency Without Hiring More People

Episode 16 explores how agencies can scale without growing their headcount โ€“ from shifting mindset around client value and delivery structure to the role of tooling in closing the gap between design and implementation.

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Greyd Conversations #15

Building Sales That Actually Scale

Episode 15 explores how companies can build sales that actually scale โ€“ from defining real customer value and ICPs to creating structured sales processes and avoiding common pitfalls with AI.

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Modern WordPress Architecture: What Agencies Should Actually Care About

Modern WordPress Architecture โ€“ Agency Essentials

Episode 14 explores what modern WordPress architecture actually means for agencies today โ€“ from balancing stability and innovation to evaluating headless setups, Full Site Editing, and the real impact of AI on agency workflows.

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We Need Better Commercial Events

Most sponsorship decks answer every question except the one that matters. Who will actually be in the room?

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Featuring Mark Weisbrod and Sandra Kurze from GREYD, on cards announcing their attendance at PressConf 2025 in Tempe, Arizona.

We went to PressConf

For us, PressConf was more than an event. It was a turning point. We came back with more than new business opportunities and insights.

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WordCamp US 2024: A recap

Attending WordCamp US turned out to be a monumental event for us. Partnerships were formed, new connections were made, and we presented our franchise showcase.

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Five members of team Greyd, two women and three men, in yellow t-shirts around a white hostess desk with the Greyd logo.

WordCamp Europe 2024 Recap

With the event fresh in mind, choosing which highlights to describe is a challenge this year! There were so many. It was a successful week with our team in Turin, Italy.

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Thank you, WordCamp Vienna!

WordCamp Vienna has a special place in our heart. In 2022, it was the first WordCamp we attended and sponsored. Itโ€™s so great to see how much the event has grown since our first time!

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Greyd at the CloudFest Hackathon 2024

As we recently announced on LinkedIn, weโ€™re excited that weโ€™re sponsoring the CloudFest Hackathon.

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