Business

🤝 Joining some recent #club conversations…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

🤝 Joining some recent #club conversations in Post Status' Slack, Matt Mullenweg responded to a question involving acquisitions: "Automattic is also an active buyer and investor — happy to bring the entire team on if the best path is acquisition,…

🎯 Eric Karkovack explains why focusing…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

BusinessDesign

🎯 Eric Karkovack explains why focusing on long-term goals is so difficult: "Running a business often means dividing your focus... The irony is that long-term goals are what ensures that your design business will still be around years from now.…

The WP Buffs has made its…

Dan Knauss

January 28, 2021

Business

The WP Buffs has made its first acquisition: WP EZI. 👏 Allie Nimmons explains how this came about and what's next: "...WP Buffs purchased WP EZI for 5-figures. This included 65 active subscriptions and 343 total customers... WP Buffs won’t…

Hitting 6 Figures in eCommerce Sales…

Dan Knauss

January 14, 2021

Business

Hitting 6 Figures in eCommerce Sales in 9 Months In a Pandemic It can be done — it has been done — by Ana Nunez, founder of TheVidaBars.com. Come listen in as Cory talks to his business partner Ana about…

Will Automattic compete with WordPress freelancers?

David Bisset

January 8, 2021

BusinessDesign

A new service from Automattic will build sites on WordPress.com for customers starting at $4,900. How will this impact WordPress freelancers?

Built by WordPress — .com that is

David Bisset

January 8, 2021

BusinessDesign

Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its "premium website building service" (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for "websites starting at $4,900 USD." The announcement describes a turnkey…

Joe Buffs posted a year in…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Business

Joe Buffs posted a year in review for WP Buffs covering "biggest screw-ups of the past year" as well as the "biggest successes." The company had total revenue of $1,031,928, up almost 300% from around $376,000 in 2018. It's great…

Anything involving the open-source business model…

Dan Knauss

December 9, 2020

Business

Anything involving the open-source business model makes interesting reading — and this piece from Joe Morrison (Aazavea) about the end of Mapbox GL JS as open source didn't disappoint. ⚰️ Joe claims open core is dead: "I still believe open…

Upcoming Events There is a call…

Dan Knauss

November 24, 2020

Business

Upcoming Events There is a call for speakers for WordFest Live 2021 which happens online on January 22, 2021. The deadline for speaker submissions is November 18 at midnight UTC. Selected speakers will be notified by December 2. 📅 On…

📅 Conference and Event Updates Join…

Dan Knauss

October 9, 2020

Business

📅 Conference and Event Updates Join Virtual CFO Jeff Meziere and his partner, Cory Miller, on October 13th as they talk about a framework to better forecast your business cashflow. This webinar is especially timely and relevant for agencies looking…

Cory Miller shares his sympathy for…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

Business

Cory Miller shares his sympathy for people "starting new projects or businesses," which he compares to "rolling a snowball uphill." It's hard work to maintain patience and focus in a "grind" or struggle state without seeing big results. ❄️ "We…

SkyVerge & GoDaddy

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2020

BusinessHosting

The team at SkyVerge is joining GoDaddy in a full company acquisition. All SkyVerge extensions and Jilt will go under the GoDaddy umbrella. In the announcement from SkyVerge, they gave a hint as to what is next: "While we’ll be…

📅 Conference and Event Updates Google…

Dan Knauss

September 3, 2020

Business

📅 Conference and Event Updates Google Open Source Live is a new monthly recurring event “focused on different open source technologies." The kickoff event theme is "The new open source: Leadership, contributions and sustainability." WordSesh is happening on September 2nd.…

iThemes has acquired Restrict Content Pro from Sandhills Development

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2020

BusinessDraft

In this exclusive interview, Pippin Williamson and Matt Danner discuss the acquisition of Restrict Content Pro by iThemes.

📅 Conference and Event Updates WordSesh…

Dan Knauss

August 28, 2020

Business

📅 Conference and Event Updates WordSesh is back and happening on September 2nd. Registration is free! Take a close look at the schedule — it might start very early if you live in North America. This time around there will…

In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks,…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Business

In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks, a long-time WordPress developer, shares his thoughts on how to stay relevant in a "quickly shifting WordPress landscape." Ben says (1) avoid selling themes because it's a "really hard business to get into, and…