Freelance vs agency work in WordPress
Jesse Petersen has a strong opinion about what it would cost for him to leave freelance WordPress work to go back to an agency.
Jesse Petersen has a strong opinion about what it would cost for him to leave freelance WordPress work to go back to an agency.
It’s amazing to think that in only seven years, Envato has grown to 200+ employees and helps so many thousands of people in their community distribute their work. That work, as announced for the first time in Collis Ta’eed’s 2013 wrap up, exceeds $140,000,000 in lifetime earnings. Incredible.
Shawn Hesketh runs WP101, a WordPress tutorials membership site. He recently received a question about how he markets his site, and his answer is thorough and insightful, and definitely worth a read for anyone trying to grow their product or service audience. I especially enjoyed reading his experiences on what types of advertising and marketing…
Brad Touesnard shares the story of his WP App Store project, with a sobering but super insightful account of why it failed. This is a great read for anyone that’s got “a great idea” and is ready to pounce on it. Brad’s honesty and openness about his experience isn’t something you see every day, and…
WordPress.com VIP has a fancy new stats page. Of course I immediately wanted to know how it stacks up to WordPress.com stats as a whole. Here’s the math: WordPress.com VIP: 2,441,299,137 pageviews in the last 30 days All WordPress.com: 14,512,740,573* pageviews in the last 30 days My incredible math skills tell me that means 16.82%…
Ben Thompson does excellent analysis. In his latest post he talks about the big problems facing journalism and publishing online. Here’s my favorite part: It is easy to feel sorry for publishers: before the Internet most were swimming in money, and for the first few years online it looked like online publications with lower costs…
On the Post Status job board, like many others, most of the WordPress employers who use it donβt include salary ranges on their job listings. Should they? Piccia Neri asked them all why they do or don’t practice salary transparency. She also put the question to agencies, freelancers, the WordPress community, developers, and designers on Twitter. Find out what Piccia learned and why she thinks salary transparency should be a universal practice where it hasn’t yet become a legal obligation.