The $500 Website
Dan Knauss
A decade ago, Chris Butler's survey and report for Newfangled provided other agencies with the numbers that meaningfully define their market. WordPress agencies and freelancers could use something similar today.
New pricing model at Business Bloomer aims at Purchasing Power Parity
Dan Knauss
Rodolfo Melogli has changed the pricing structure at bto be more affordable to people around the globe. He's done this by calculating "Purchasing Power Parity." Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is a metric that can be used to determine the actual…
Atarim and MainWP Partner Up
Dan Knauss
Vito Peleg and Dennis Dornon have teamed up to bring MainWP's site management tool inside the Atarim agency dashboard. https://twitter.com/vitopeleg/status/1557395997973684225
LearnDash: Plugin or SaaS?
Dan Knauss
I don't think I've ever seen a WordPress plugin priced and marketed this well as both product and service.
The fastest (headless) WooCommerce on earth…
Dan Knauss
So they say. Specifically, David Mainayar said in Woo Weekly #399 that it's the fastest he's seen, and I imagine he's seen a lot.
Tech Roundup for the Week of August 22
Daniel Schutzsmith
DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways • Stop saying "Gutenberg!" • Build Mode Live with Brian Gardner and Sam Munoz • One week left to submit a style variation for TT3 • Cool Tool of the Week: Munir Kamal's Editor Plus
Is this a WordPress Acquisition?
Dan Knauss
DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways is an investment in the WordPress ecosystem with an emphasis on "digital agencies, eCommerce sites, bloggers, freelance developers and builders hosting on WordPress."
WordPress.com has changed a lot
Dan Knauss
This is managed WordPress hosting — and has been all along I've been delinquent with posting on my .blog blog on WordPress.com for about a year, so when I bought into the Pro plan after the first recent price change…
Growing as a leader and setting your team up for wins
Dan Knauss
James Giroux writes so much good stuff on his own blog, I can't keep up. I am accumulating a list of things he's tackled that are unusual to see written about in any depth in the WordPress community, especially by…
Freelancers: What are your rates?
Dan Knauss
Mailchimp & Co's 2021 Benchmark Report on freelancers using Mailchimp said "the top 10% charge $197 per hour." The 2022 Report did not post data about rates but indicated they had generally gone up. The same was true in the…
Languages of Contribution and Creation
Dan Knauss
The Creator Economy owes a lot to WordPress, but that doesn't mean WordPress is valued or even understood by Creators as an open source project and community. Are the stories we tell and the words we use compelling to newcomers and the younger generations we need to succeed us? Is the story and language that got WordPress where it is adequate to take it where it wants to go?
Overcoming Barriers to Contributing
Dan Knauss
As a followup to my earlier post on common barriers to contributing to Five for the Future — especially for small teams — I was looking through the WordCamp US schedule and noticed Chris Lubkert's session: How Your Small Business…
SaaS, Plugin, or Both?
Dan Knauss
The perennial question — to SaaS or not to SaaS? Both? WordPress-centric product and marketing, or not so much? Danielle Di-Tommaso and Josh Barling from Acsell join Vito Peleg from Atarim to talk about their experiences in these scenarios with…
Who is Winning in the Woo Marketplace?
Dan Knauss
Ellipsis has published some new data and analysis that addresses the question, "Who is winning in the WooCommerce marketplace?" Their conclusions: In comparison to WordPress, WooCommerce has been a lot stronger this year.70% commission on sales makes the WooCommerce Marketplace…
Winning Together in a Decentralizing Plugin Ecosystem
Dan Knauss
Are OrganizeWP (and Newsletter Glue) leading indicators for trends and opportunities in the plugin space?
Make It Go Viral
Michelle Frechette
It's the ultimate marketing goal: something you create "goes viral." As marketers, we watch things gain popularity quickly- seemingly overnight - and dream of anything we do having that same level of success.
