{"id":611,"date":"2009-09-29T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T23:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.yola.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2015-04-23T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T21:38:03","slug":"announcing-the-yola-experts-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/announcing-the-yola-experts-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Yola Experts Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/yola_logo-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8301 alignleft\" title=\"yep_logo_rgb-small\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/yola_logo-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We created the Yola Experts Program to provide resources to web professionals to build their businesses.\u00a0 With Yola, a web designer can easily build customized sites for clients that are easy to update.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The Yola Experts Program provides:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Training materials on website building and sales<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Processes to facilitate the creation of quality sites<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">An exclusive forum for discussions among web designers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Marketing collateral to promote the Yola Expert<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We are pleased to announce that the Yola Experts Program (YEP) officially moves from pilot phase to public beta today. We have spent the last 3 months with the program in the pilot phase, collecting input from pilot members and their clients. Now that the program is launched in public beta, we are opening it to a wider audience. Please let us know what you think at <span style=\"color: #000000;\">yep@yola.com<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">If you are a web designer, established or recently starting out, we invite you to take a closer look at YEP. Time and time again, the Yola sitebuilder has been referred to by industry experts as an award-winning design tool, which enables quick creation of quality sites.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll find more information on our <a title=\"Join Page\" href=\"http:\/\/yep.yola.com\/join.php\" target=\"_blank\">Join page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Even with the simplicity and ease-of-use of the Yola sitebuilder, we have found small businesses often do not have the time to create a much needed website. If you are a small business looking for help with a website, or want a redesign of an existing site, please feel free to browse this <a title=\"Directory\" href=\"http:\/\/yep.yola.com\/directory.php\" target=\"_blank\">Directory<\/a>. There you&#8217;ll find the business sites of web designers whose work you can evaluate.\u00a0 Please remember that these designers are not employees of Yola, and operate completely independently \u2013 you will be going directly to them to hire their services.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Thank you to everyone who participated in the pilot phase and for helping us determine the program materials at launch.\u00a0 We look forward to continuing to expand the program resources and seeing many more high-quality sites designed by Yola Experts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We created the Yola Experts Program to provide resources to web professionals to build their businesses.\u00a0 With Yola, a web designer can easily build customized sites for clients that are easy to update. &nbsp; The Yola Experts Program provides: Training materials on website building and sales Processes to facilitate the creation of quality sites&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/announcing-the-yola-experts-program\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Announcing the Yola Experts Program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8302,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/8302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}