Meeting

Local Jungle - Current

Feb 10 · 4:40 AM

Gist

Chris talked through website build process with Gavin Taylor of Local Jungle, focusing on standardizing template setup (colors, fonts, spacing controlled in a settings panel) so new sites can be 90% finished by one person quickly. Gavin raised concerns about their current outsourced developer (E2M) dropping the ball and wanting to hire a senior dev, and Chris offered to connect him with an agency partner who has had success finding overseas developers. The bulk of the call turned into Chris explaining WordPress multisite as a solution for Local Jungle to rapidly spin up PPC landing pages for clients like Duncan's Auto, using subdomains off each client's existing domain, which Gavin said would solve a major bottleneck for launching ads quickly.

Distilled from the transcript by claude-sonnet-5 · Jul 25

What came out of it

Decisions3

Local Jungle will pursue a WordPress multisite setup on their SiteGround account to standardize PPC landing page creation
Local Jungle will use subdomains off each client's existing domain (not a shared ad domain) for PPC pages to preserve customer trust and simplify SEO
Local Jungle already purchased and is using Marker for QA

Risks and blockers4

E2M, Local Jungle's current outsourced dev team, is dropping the ball and may not work out long term
A newly hired junior developer from OnlineJobs.ph underperformed
Marker QA tool is not yet successfully connected to ClickUp
All sites on a shared multisite server fail together if the server goes down, though traffic volume was noted as manageable

Open questions3

Why isn't Marker connecting to ClickUp — access issue or something else?
Will using a subdomain for PPC ads impact SEO traffic to the primary domain?
Should Local Jungle hire a full-time in-house developer or continue outsourcing with a better process?

Next steps5

MeConnect Gavin with Chris's agency partner who has had success finding overseas developers via OnlineJobs.ph
VendorSet up a WordPress multisite instance on Local Jungle's SiteGround account with a shared template (colors, fonts, spacing settings)
VendorDiagnose why Marker isn't connecting to ClickUp
ClientGavin to recap the multisite/PPC solution to Craig
MeChris to send Gavin a written checklist/list of technical items needed from clients (contact form email, CRM connections, etc.) for the initial site handoff process

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