5 tips you can learn from a car salesman

ByBrian Krogsgard Posted onSeptember 6, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

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Matt Medeiros shares some common sense sales wisdom for making the experience for potential and existing customers better.

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Awesome Motive has sold Soliloquy and Envira Gallery in a multi-million dollar sale

ByBrian Krogsgard January 19, 2018August 17, 2022

Awesome Motive — the company behind OptinMonster and WPForms — has sold two of their products in a multi-million dollar deal. Soliloquy and Envira Gallery were first products by Thomas Griffin, who partnered with Syed Balkhi and is now the CTO of the Awesome Motive organization. Soliloquy and Envira have continued to thrive under the…

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Mandrill ditches free plans, stacks onto paid Mailchimp

ByBrian Krogsgard February 26, 2016

Most of you know this by now, as it’s been all over the web and a hot topic in Slack, but Mailchimp is ditching free Mandrill plans for transactional emails, and stacking Mandrill onto paid Mailchimp plans. But even if you already have a paid Mailchimp account, you’ll still have to pay $20 per month…

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Automattic has acquired Cloudup

ByBrian Krogsgard September 25, 2013January 31, 2015

Matt Mullenweg recently teased a large acquisition for Automattic, and today they’ve announced the acquisition of the Cloudup service. Cloudup is a file sharing service that’s still in beta. However, it looks like a promising project with a lot of potential for WordPress integration. Read more on the WordPress.com blog and Techcrunch. According to Techcrunch,…

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📆 Upcoming Events Gutenberg Full-Site Editing:…

ByDan Knauss July 23, 2021August 15, 2022

📆 Upcoming Events Gutenberg Full-Site Editing: Unlocking Agility for Enterprise WordPress: WordPress VIP is holding a webinar on Full Site Editing on July 29th (10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM UTC) led by Tess Needham, David Bowman, and Jameson Proctor. The goal is to demonstrate Full-Site Editing as an asset to…

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Interview With Product Lead Tiffany Bridge Of Nexcess — Post Status Draft 137

ByCory Miller January 19, 2023February 9, 2023

In this episode, Tiffany Bridge joins Cory Miller to talk about the latest innovations she and her team at Nexcess have created for beginner online store owners, simplifying WordPress for users, and the ongoing battles between centralization and decentralization.