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I always enjoy learning from markets…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

I always enjoy learning from markets I'm not familiar with, and balloon artists are certainly one of the most unique I've come across. Ziv Raviv used WordPress and LifterLMS to build a course on balloon art that brought in $11,000.…

Selling Your Business Crash Course June 30

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2020

Business

Most business owners have never been through an exit and don’t know what to expect. They don’t have confidence when talking to potential buyers and don’t feel like their business is prepared and ready for an exit. In this two-hour…

Maddy Osman shares some of the…

Dan Knauss

May 20, 2020

Business

Maddy Osman shares some of the most interesting COVID-19 business pivots she has noticed lately "in hopes that they give you some ideas to help you prosper during this time." 🦠 I can speak from personal experience that I have…

On static WordPress, with Miriam Schwab of Strattic

Brian Krogsgard

May 13, 2020

BusinessDraft

Miriam Schwab is the co-founder and CEO of Strattic, a company that has raised $6.5 million in an effort to blend the flexibility of WordPress with the speed and security of static websites.

An article from AdAge asks some…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

Business

An article from AdAge asks some business leaders what brands should be doing in such uncertain times, especially when many organizations are struggling to stay profitable. Syed Balkhi had this to say: "In these times, it's important to lead by…

DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Podcast Picks 🎙️…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

Business

DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are some podcasts I've listened to recently that I enjoyed: Women in WP: I really enjoy this podcast, and the latest episode features Sheree Chambers on her transition from building sites with Joomla…

🏫 Cory and partner Jeff Meziere just…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

Business

🏫 Cory and partner Jeff Meziere just soft-launched the Business Value Academy to help entrepreneurs focus on building profitable, healthy and valuable businesses. They have a free webinar coming up on Thursday (May 7) where they'll be sharing their Business Value Mindset. CORY'S…

Frontity has closed a €1M funding…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

BusinessHosting

Frontity has closed a €1M funding round led by Automattic. Frontity promotes its framework as "the easiest way to create lightning-fast websites using WordPress and React." ⚡ Reyes Martínez said the company is not developing a business model now but…

Brandon Ernst at Freemius looks at…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Business

Brandon Ernst at Freemius looks at trends and data to get an idea of how the Coronavirus might be affecting WordPress plugin and theme shops. Brandon notes "there was a 19.84% growth in plugin downloads on the WordPress.org repository from…

Rahul Bansal and Joel Abreo of…

Dan Knauss

March 27, 2020

Business

Rahul Bansal and Joel Abreo of rtCamp share lessons from their fully-office to fully-remote transition. 👨‍💻 "The bedrock of remote work is mutual trust.... along with async communication." If you are a business owner or agency going through a similar…

Many companies and individuals — both…

Dan Knauss

March 23, 2020

BusinessHosting

Many companies and individuals — both inside and outside the WordPress space — recently offered reduced or free versions of their products. 🎁 Igor Benić made his WordPress developer course for free using this link for a limited time. The…

Taking care of your mental health in uncertain times, with Dr. Sherry Walling

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2020

BusinessDraft

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Cory Miller does a live Q&A webinar with Dr. Sherry Walling on mental health in uncertain times.

The rubber band recession

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2020

Business

I am not a professional analyst of the economy. But even for the professionals, there are significant uncertainties. I don’t mean to strike fear with this post. I mean to encourage preparedness — or at least as much as we…

WooCommerce Payments offers a more unified eCommerce experience, better feature parity with Shopify

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2020

BusinessPlanet

WooCommerce Payments offer an in-dashboard, single-account experience for WooCommerce store owners to manage all transactions.

Churn

Brian Krogsgard

February 21, 2020

Business

Most businesses deal with churn, even the ones that don't call it that. Businesses with recurring revenue deal with churn most directly. We want to keep the customers we have. We want them to renew over and over again —…