Freelance

The Decline of Speed Booster Pack

Barış Ünver

July 21, 2022

WordPress success stories are great, but this time, you’re going to read about a failure. It’s about the Speed Booster Pack plugin and the depressing, constant decline of its active installs.

Maddy Osman on Writing for Humans and Robots — Post Status Draft 119

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2022

BusinessDesign

In this episode of Post Draft, Post Status Editor Dan Knauss is joined by Maddy Osman. Maddy is the founder of The Blogsmith, a well-known brand in the WordPress space for quality writing that appeals to your target audience and search engines. Maddy has a new book out that can teach you some of her finely-honed skills. It's called Writing for Humans and Robots: The New Rules of Content Style.

Market Size and Market Shares: Thinking Bigger About the WordPress Economy

Dan Knauss

July 15, 2022

BusinessFeatures

$635.5 billion…That’s "billion," with a “B.” Let's look at the size of the universe inhabited by our market of markets of cathedrals and bazaars: the WordPress ecosystem. How should we think about WordPress's market share or, maybe more accurately, its shares? Are we selling them short and dampening growth?

How Can We Increase Qualified Applicants for WordPress Jobs?

Courtney Robertson

February 17, 2022

BusinessCareers

Despite having such a vast market share, we lack a common set of competencies for the people working and hiring in the WordPress space.

Expand Your Business to Another State — Nellie Akalp on Post Status Live

Dan Knauss

August 27, 2021

BusinessPost Status Live

Learn about business expansion, legal compliance, and intellectual property issues facing business owners and freelancers.

🤝 WordPress Jobs: The Post Status…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

WordPress Community

🤝 WordPress Jobs: The Post Status Job Board 💼 There are currently 22 Active Job Listings on the Board. We don't have space for them all here, so be sure to check online too. ☀️ Employers: Get your job opening…

Footnotes #456

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

BusinessDesign

Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

Beth Livingston on WordPress Project Management

Dan Knauss

April 20, 2021

DesignDraft

Beth Livingston of WP Roadmaps talks about project management for WordPress professionals from designers and developers to agencies.

Built by WordPress — .com that is

David Bisset

January 8, 2021

BusinessDesign

Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its "premium website building service" (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for "websites starting at $4,900 USD." The announcement describes a turnkey…

The 2020 WordPress Annual Survey is…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

The 2020 WordPress Annual Survey is open — please take it. ☑️ The results from the 2019 survey have been shared, and there's a lot to learn from them. What is striking is that very few people took the 2019…

Making a living without client work, with Carrie Dils — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 6, 2017

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Brian interviews Carrie Dils -- a self-employed entrepreneur -- about using multiple channels to make a full time living, and giving up client work.

Itamar Turner-Trauring writes about why working…

David Bisset

August 18, 2016

Itamar Turner-Trauring writes about why working fewer hours is better for you. It's certainly a delicate balance, especially for freelancers. Working longer hours for an extended period of time will eventually result in burnout or mistakes (or both). Freelancers can…

Freelancers and the self-employed are ignored by the government

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

BusinessSecurity

Sara Horowitz -- who is the founder and executive director of the Freelancers Union -- makes a compelling argument for how important freelancers are to the American economy. She highlights just how big the freelancer economy is: For better or…

Freelance WordPress writers, and other tips for promoting products

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2015

A recent post on WPKube goes fairly in-depth on how to promote new WordPress products. Overall, it's a pretty thorough guide, even if I don't think every aspect of the guide is the best route. What I found interesting was…

Quick tip: Freelance toolkit by Modern Tribe

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2014

Business

I found the Freelance Toolkit landing page on Modern Tribe's website today thanks to a Tweet from Tom Willmot: https://twitter.com/tomwillmot/status/444143641569660928 It's apparently been around for a while, but this was the first time I've seen it. The toolkit is a…

Running a Viable Freelance Business

Curtis McHale

August 2, 2013

Business

After talking with many small business owners over the years there is one constant, many are good at what they do but bad at business. This book as aimed at helping you be good at business.