Member Spotlight: Tim Monner

Tim Monner is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at BigScoots, a fully managed WordPress hosting and services company. Tim is responsible for direct engagement with WordPress and web hosting communities to share the “story” of BigScoots and to build positive relationships and opportunities with clients, partners, and solutions providers.

Over the last 20 years, Tim built and supported different corporate, brand, and product marketing teams at various technology companies focused on data center software and hardware infrastructure services, SaaS and Cloud services, web hosting, and more.

Tim started his career his tech career working for larger corporations such as Panduit, Corp, where he launched the company’s first data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system, helped to manage Panduit’s first tech company acquisition, and developed global go-to-market plans for Panduit Data Center Solutions portfolio.

Tim found his true passion working for small to mid-size hosting companies that were approaching the growth stage of their organization. This list includes ServerCentral (now Deft), Steadfast, OpenMetal, and now, BigScoots.

His years of experience in both start-up and corporate roles have given him a unique perspective when building marketing and sales teams, implementing new marketing technologies, and supporting community-driven, open-source technologies in the marketplace, such as OpenStack, WordPress, and others.

What do you enjoy most about working in WordPress?

I spent several years working with clients and service providers in the open-source infrastructure community. And, I fully embraced the notion of organizations coming together to contribute code, software, and platforms, such as OpenStack, that are freely accessible to others to inspire and drive innovation. The WordPress community operates under that same ethos of supporting others for the greater good. There is no better example of this than at WordCamps, Meet-Ups, and other events. I have had the benefit of not only meeting great supporters of WordPress first-hand, but I have witnessed this community put aside personal and professional differences to support one another towards the common good. It’s inspiring.

What do you love most about your Post Status membership?

Post Status brings members of the WordPress community together, that might not otherwise have connected. Aside from the great content that comes from Post Status News, I have found the member Slack channel to be the greatest asset for our team. Post Status has enabled us to build amazing rapport with clients and partner members of the community, which has developed into in-person meetings at live events. It has allowed us to introduce BigScoots to the market and get to know others in turn.

What business/web/WordPress advice do you have for others in our industry?

Reach out and get to know at least 1-2 new members or providers in the Post Status and WordPress community every week. You never know who may have expertise, services, or advice that could change your world. BigScoots has been in business since 2010. Yet, when we were first introduced to the Post Status community, many members reached out to me saying that they had never heard of us before. Their questions gave me the chance to meet and build relationships with several members. In turn, many members have become more familiar with our teams and the client services that we deliver, leading to new professional engagements. It never hurts to reach out and get to know new members or providers supporting Post Status.