WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of November 14
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress Sparked by Magne Ilsaas's ideas in The WordPress Enterprise Paradox, Tom started a Twitter thread and hosted a live discussion with Magne and others at enterprise WordPress agencies this week.…
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A Visit from the Good Idea Fairy
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of October 17 Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to record an episode of The Excerpt to talk about the…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Skip to Transcript ↓ This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the three top WordPress stories on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections! It seems the temporary loss of…
Over, Under, Around, and Through
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
WordPress Business News Roundup for the Week of October 3 Why the WordPress.org Growth Charts Don't Matter Alex Denning pointed out in the Ellipsis newsletter that in 2019-20, only four plugins entered the space and broke into the upper tiers.…
Why the WordPress.org growth charts might not matter
Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
Why lament the loss of a declining statistic? Writing in the Ellipsis newsletter early this week, Alex Denning floated the idea that "WordPress.org growth charts might not matter." Why? Alex writes: Our experience is that freemium is an inefficient and…
Business Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Dan Knauss
BusinessThe Week in Review
Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership Vito Peleg, Atarim's cofounder and CEO, explains how he “cracked” the partnership problem to find alignment with other companies that can help them all accelerate their growth. Vito explains what Atarim's latest partnership with Rocket.net brings…
The Ellipsis Weather Report is Live
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
A few weeks ago, Alex Denning shared a preview of Ellipsis' Weather Report, a representation of data from their FALCON AI that is now serving up a live view of the WordPress industry. "We’ve never had this insight before, and…
Ellipsis Reports a Change in the Weather of WordPress
Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
In a preview of a tool slated for future release "as a publicly available resource," today Ellipsis Marketing shared "some headline stats on the WordPress industry" in their newsletter based on their analysis of data they've been collecting in 2022:…
Does Market Share Matter?
David Bisset
PlanetPost Status Team Blog
This week brought some attention to WordPress's market share, at least as it gets reported by W3techs. For the first time, the WordPress market share appears to have declined — by 0.4% since February this year. David noticed this as…
Post Status Comments (No. 9) — The State of WordPress Market Share
David Bisset
CommentsPlanet
“In order for WordPress to win, the rest of the competition doesn’t have to lose.” — David Bisset How should the WordPress community react to the first recorded dip in market share? Is a small decline something to be concerned…
Alex Denning took a deep dive…
Dan Knauss
Business
Alex Denning took a deep dive into the advertising campaigns of some WordPress businesses, inspired in part by recent events involving Elementor and Bluehost. Alex looks at the different ads WordPress businesses are running and considers why they might be…
📈 Based on search volume data…
Dan Knauss
📈 Based on search volume data from 2020, Alex Denning found some significant growth indicators in the WordPress space: WordPress keywords increased by 14.0% Plugin keywords increased 17.8% WooCommerce keywords increased 44.3% Theme keywords increased 8.7% While it was a…
Alex Denning has a prediction I…
Dan Knauss
Alex Denning has a prediction I feel is insightful: "competition for WordPress products is going to get significantly more intense, and we need to start looking at product categories with much more sophistication." I tend to agree with his assessment…
If you have a product or…
Dan Knauss
If you have a product or service company and are thinking about promoting a Black Friday deal, Alex Denning has some good advice and offers some suggestions.: Alex suggests focusing "on putting together a great sale package, rather than a…
Alex Denning noticed searches for “WordPress”…
Dan Knauss
Alex Denning noticed searches for "WordPress" went up 52% in April, compared to the previous month." Alex also notes there's been about a 20% "bump in WordPress searches with high purchase intent in the last month." 📈
Alex Denning takes on the topic…
Dan Knauss
Alex Denning takes on the topic of "Risk and reward at Black Friday with WordPress products" by drawing on this year’s round of holiday sales to "pull out some key insights for the future." 🛍️
