In this episode of Post Status Draft, I talk to Syed Balkhi about Awesome Motive’s acquisition of All In One SEO, the long-running SEO plugin by Michael Torbert, which boasts more than 2 million active installs.
RafflePress is an upcoming product from Awesome Motive (makers of OptinMonster) that promises to provide a method “to easily create giveaways, contests and rewards” in WordPress. 🎫
SeedProd, owned and operated by John Turner, has joined Awesome Motive. John initially applied for the WP Beginner accelerator fund, but CEO Syed Balkhi worked out an acquisition deal instead: After several conversations, we decided that a full acquisition makes more sense for SeedProd given the synergies between our brands and existing products. … SeedProd…
Syed Balkhi and Awesome Motive have acquired Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress, which according to Syed is the second most popular analytics plugin in the WordPress.org repository. Its new name is ExactMetrics. The move fits within the goals of Awesome Motive to expand into product lines that fit into their broader line of business to…
Awesome Motive — the company behind OptinMonster and WPForms — has sold two of their products in a multi-million dollar deal. Soliloquy and Envira Gallery were first products by Thomas Griffin, who partnered with Syed Balkhi and is now the CTO of the Awesome Motive organization. Soliloquy and Envira have continued to thrive under the…
Building a WordPress-based product business is a much different process than it used to be. People have to do something different and better than what has come before.
The Awesome Motive team (the same people behind Envira Gallery, OptinMonster, and other plugins) created SupportAlly – a page meant to give tech support teams better ways to confirm a client’s web environment (browser, etc) and thereby able to provide better support. It offers common information like browser type, dimensions, and operating system info. This has been…
WPForms is the latest project under the Awesome Motive umbrella. Syed Balkhi is partnered up with Jared Atchison, and Thomas Griffin is serving in an advisory role. Syed posted the backstory on his blog about where WPForms came from. It’s easy to think, “Forms… really?” But according to a survey Syed did on WP Beginner,…
Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin first partnered together when they created Floating Social Bar, a free WordPress social sharing plugin. They decided to collaborate after meeting and getting along at WordCamp Raleigh. From there, their relationship blossomed, and they decided to create a second product together. Syed specializes in marketing and business development, and Thomas…
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