Jason Coleman

A Visit from the Good Idea Fairy

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2022

Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org • Are Active Install Counts Relevant to Your Business's Success? (Even if they are accurate? And they haven't been.) • Let's Fix What's Broken (The Plugin Repo) Not What Isn't (The Freemium Model) • Follow Leaders, Adopt Standards • Tools and expertise from rtCamp • Some great and "doable" ideas for the future of plugin business metrics on the .org repo. Could some of them help put an end to intrusive and manipulative dark patterns in the WordPress Admin dashboard and notifications?

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Coping With Downward Market Trends

Dan Knauss

July 1, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Post Status members discuss declining revenue — and how to offset it. How will the market slump affect acquisitions and sale prices?

Post Status Notes #501

David Bisset

June 3, 2022

BusinessDesign

Elementor acquires Strattic • WP Engine acquires Delicious Brains' plugins 🧠 • When the Cathedrals own the Bazaars and Shopping Centers and you're in a strip mall with a fruit stand... • Jetpack decouples • InstaWP gets seed funding from Automattic 🌱 • Automattic hire #2000 • World-class FSE, how? 🌐 • WCEU by the numbers • Weglot gives back • RoleUp rolls out • Tadlock exits WP Tavern 🍺 • Why 'why' matters most • The Big 2-0 next year • All there is to know about core WordPress email notifications, documented ✉️ • System font stack check • Do not follow by default • Museum of Block Art opens 🎨 • Meet Yvonne Doll • Mostly modest WordPress wishlists • WooCommerce Experts to go global • How to do well in a downturn 📉 • Some things we don't — but ought to — talk about. 🐘 Silent no longer about Sustainability.

The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Elusive WordPress Way

Dan Knauss

April 29, 2022

BusinessDesign

There are significant differences in the ways plugin owners think about and operate their businesses. This is an opportunity to learn and grow together.

WordPress Podcast Picks for the Week of March 27

David Bisset

March 31, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Here's David's weekly roundup of recent WP and web biz/tech podcasts worth listening to. Also: Ukrainian startup Lemon.io on work in wartime and Sherry Walling on grief.

Jason Coleman was interviewed by Starter…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Business

Jason Coleman was interviewed by Starter Story. Their conversation focused on how Paid Memberships Pro averaged $100k per month in revenue and is on track to grow an additional 25-50% this year. Over 100,000 sites run Paid Memberships Pro, but…

Jason Coleman posted an update about…

Dan Knauss

March 6, 2020

Jason Coleman posted an update about his growing Paid Memberships Pro business, which raked in $810,000 last year and is currently at $3,000,000 in all-time sales. 📈 "By sharing our story, I hope others can learn what to expect when…

Jason Coleman shares a script that…

Dan Knauss

September 4, 2018

Jason Coleman shares a script that has the potential of speeding up searches by email or a specific user meta field when you are looking for a specific user in the WordPress dashboard.

Jason Coleman followed up a summer…

November 10, 2015

Jason Coleman followed up a summer transparency report for Paid Memberships Pro, with another one that highlights how his price increases have gone. The answer is that they've gone swimmingly. No pushback and a lot of growth ahead. The PMPro…