Business

Bill Robbins runs the WordPress theme shop, Organized Themes. In this post, he explains many common myths about running a theme shop. Bill's a great guy, and his honest depiction of running a theme business is refreshing. Also, it turns out our…

Thomas Griffin is in the midst of transitioning his mindset from that of a developer to that of a marketer. In his most recent post, he describes some relatively simple methods he used to sell his plugin at four times…

Thomas Griffin, developer of the Soliloquy Slider for WordPress talks about his transition from developer to marketer.

Recently, Adii Pienaar appeared on The East Wing podcast. Adii is a cofounder of WooThemes. I've always enjoyed this podcast, and Adii's interview provides great insight into WooThemes and Adii's perspective on business and the WordPress community. Definitely give it…

Chris Lema shares a story that is all too common. However, web development work is like voodoo for our clients. They just don't know how much custom development should cost, or how long it should take. So we have to…

Copyblogger media, the partner/parent company of well-known WordPress brand StudioPress, has released a new service called Site Monitor. It monitors your website for downtime, offers update monitoring for WordPress sites, plenty of built in notification methods. Looks pretty nice, with…

A new hosted platform has arrived called, ChurchPr.es. WP Daily goes into more detail of their setup, but I'm a bit surprised they are calling it hosting. I'd think they'd market themselves as website providers. Either way, surely just one of many…

Pete Davies is a growth engineer for WordPress.com. That basically means he uses many tools to help analyze data so they can better market the platform for more people. This post on Pete's personal blog is a fantastic description of…

Matt Medeiros has been doing a number of good video interviews on his site, Matt Report. His latest is with Jose Cabeller, and they discuss how to grow your web consulting business. They key seems to be focusing on your…