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šŸ«Ā Cory and partner Jeff Meziere just…

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Dan Knauss
šŸ«Ā Cory and partner Jeff Meziere just soft-launched the Business Value Academy to help entrepreneurs focus on building profitable, healthy and valuable businesses. They have a free webinar coming up on Thursday (May 7) where they'll be sharingĀ theirĀ Business Value Mindset. CORY'Sā€¦

Frontity has closed a ā‚¬1M funding…

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Dan Knauss
Frontity has closed a ā‚¬1M funding round led by Automattic. Frontity promotes its framework as "the easiest way to create lightning-fast websites using WordPress and React." āš” Reyes MartĆ­nez said the company is not developing a business model now butā€¦

Brandon Ernst at Freemius looks at…

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Dan Knauss
Brandon Ernst at Freemius looks at trends and data to get an idea of how the Coronavirus might be affecting WordPress plugin and theme shops. Brandon notes "there was a 19.84% growth in plugin downloads on the WordPress.org repository fromā€¦

Rahul Bansal and Joel Abreo of…

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Dan Knauss
Rahul Bansal and Joel Abreo of rtCamp share lessons from their fully-office to fully-remote transition. šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» "The bedrock of remote work is mutual trust.... along with async communication." If you are a business owner or agency going through a similarā€¦

Many companies and individuals ā€” both…

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Dan Knauss
Many companies and individuals ā€” both inside and outside the WordPress space ā€” recently offered reduced or free versions of their products. šŸŽ Igor Benić made his WordPress developer course for free using this link for a limited time. Theā€¦

The rubber band recession

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Brian Krogsgard
I am not a professional analyst of the economy. But even for the professionals, there are significant uncertainties. I donā€™t mean to strike fear with this post. I mean to encourage preparedness ā€” or at least as much as weā€¦

Churn

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Brian Krogsgard
Most businesses deal with churn, even the ones that don't call it that. Businesses with recurring revenue deal with churn most directly. We want to keep the customers we have. We want them to renew over and over again ā€”ā€¦

Video and podcast picks

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Brian Krogsgard
šŸ“¹ Here's my video pick of the week: There's an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has twoā€¦

My mistakes with product-founder fit

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Cory Miller
I received Matt Medeiros' second email for Business 5000 this morning and the topic was Product-Founder Fit, and it inspired me. So thanks, Matt. He talks about "new ideas fever" that we all get. In my own fever, I've madeā€¦

Post Status Club Improvements

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Cory Miller
Hey Club members, here are some highlights of what Brian and I are working on for you: The way I view business and improvements is just like software. Sometimes you have smaller releases and sometimes big releases, and always fixingā€¦

WP Fusion Drive

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Brian Krogsgard
I always enjoy annual reflections from business owners in the WordPress space, but this one went above and beyond. Going into this level of detail is a rare and valuable source of insight.
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