WordPress News

WP Elevation wants to help make you a better consultant

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2013

Troy Dean wants to help other consultants be better at what they do. He's starting a new monthly membership site he calls a WordPress business coaching program to train consultants through every step of the web development process. It's $97…

Do things that don’t scale

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2013

Business

This isn't specifically WordPress related, but Paul Graham shares some really detailed advice on why he recommends startups and entrepreneurs to do things that don't scale. Specifically, he's referencing the importance of going out of your way with a new business to…

Jigoshop announces hosted “Pro” eCommerce partnership

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Business

Jigoshop, a popular WordPress eCommerce plugin, has announced a partnership with Proxar IT Consulting, that offers a managed and hosted eCommerce platform for serious eCommerce customers. The plan levels are £300 for Silver, £500 per month for Gold, or a custom quote…

Why every new employee should do customer support

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

Business

Mel Choyce recently joined Automattic as a Design Engineer. In this post, she talks about her experience doing customer support her first few weeks on the job. This has become a well known stage of employment for those that join…

WordPress podcasts to keep an eye on

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

The WordPress podcast landscape seems to be exploding. I've been keeping my queue filled for a while now with the shows available. Let's talk about a few. The DradCast The DradCast is a carryover from WP Late Night, hosted by Sucuri CEO…

How WooThemes makes distributed team culture work

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

Business

The iDoneThis blog profiles WooThemes and their distributed work culture. The author also learns about their processes, the recruiting advantage of distributed teams, their commitment to transparency, and growing pains.

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

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

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…