Business

Gravity Forms the latest provider to move to ticket-based support

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

Gravity Forms announced today they are moving to a ticket-based support system, versus their previous forum-based setup. They cite that this will make it easier for them to manage and continue to scale. I've seen a few companies do this…

Identifying the right time to sell the rights to your commercial plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 9, 2013

Business

Daniel Espinoza tells a wonderful, and extremely personal, story of how he decided it was time to sell the rights to his most popular commercial plugins. Daniel shares that he was making $4,000-$5,000 per month of recurring revenue on these…

Known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns

Brian Krogsgard

July 5, 2013

Business

There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things…

A seller’s decision to leave Code Canyon

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

Business

Scott Evans shares why he decided to remove his plugins from Code Canyon. I'm sure each seller's mileage varies as far as their level of concern for the reasons Scott brings up, but I'm at least happy he'll be releasing…

What is the future of commercial plugins?

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

Business

Every now and then there are discussions and debates that arise to the forefront of the WordPress community. One of these discussions caught our attention: paid products based in WordPress and how they are (or are not) promoted within the…

The truth about building commercial WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2013

Business

It's not easy to make good, sustainable income selling commercial WordPress plugins. Tom McFarlin does a great job highlighting many things you should be considering if you are thinking about getting into the WordPress commercial product business.

A/B Testing in WordPress

Curtis McHale

June 25, 2013

Business

If you use WordPress for your business website or to run your business entirely, you should be split testing to improve your conversions on products, form entries, and even email lists. WP Lift has done a nice run-through with tips…

Conversion rate optimization: hypothesise first, then test

Curtis McHale

June 19, 2013

Business

Seems that conversion rates are on the mind of a few people in the WordPress community lately. Here we get some more advice about how long to run tests and what tools to use.

How much are the big WordPress companies making?

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2013

BusinessHosting

It's a question many of us have pondered. Just how much money do these "big" WordPress product companies make? WooThemes, Copyblogger (makers of StudioPress), Gravity Forms, WP Engine, Sucuri, and many more companies are clearly making significant revenues compared to…

On WordPress news sites

Brian Krogsgard

June 13, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

There has been a bit of talk about WordPress news sites recently. WPMU has done a pretty good summary of the recent DradCast podcast episode hosted by WP Tavern's Jeff Chandler. It tells the story of Jeff's journey running the…

The importance of business talks over WordCamps

Mario Peshev

June 12, 2013

Business

WordPress is the perfect product for business. It is a great framework for both small and large websites, and thousands of experts are doing full-time WordPress work whether it's in development, design, SEO, marketing -anything related to the ecosystem. That's…

Making customer service human

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2013

Business

For too long, companies have been automating customer service, but that depersonalises the relationship. It’s time to make customer service human again.

WordCamps and business

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2013

Business

WordCamp SF attendees, via Matt You've likely heard a lot about the WordPress economy over the past couple of years. Tens of thousands of people make their living with WordPress. It's likely that many thousands more work at news sites,…

Case study: Building a WordPress powered web app

Brian Krogsgard

May 30, 2013

BusinessDevelopment

Josh Kadis has written up a summary of his experience at Quartz (an excellent online business news magazine) using WordPress to build a web app. Their considerations for choosing to build their own API versus use Jetpack's, using the settings…

The biggest WordPress events of the year are just around the corner

Brian Krogsgard

May 24, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

[caption id="attachment_3250" align="aligncenter" width="752"] Photo via WordCamp Denver[/caption] WordCamp San Francisco, WordCamp Europe, and Pressnomics are all gearing up. But even if you can't make one of these, don't be disappointed, there is likely an event near you as well.…