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Mega marketing of hosted website solutions

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

Wix, Shopify, and Squarespace are marketing absolutely everywhere, and spending fortunes to do so. The 3 companies listed here are on course to spend well over $200 million on marketing in 2015. In total, the 3 companies had revenues $141…

Gaming ThemeForest

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2015

Jami Gibbs has a worthwhile take on an interesting ThemeForest controversy: the gamification of the top themes list. ThemeForest themes have a tendency to stay at the top once they reach the top. It's hard for new themes to break in.…

A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2015

Hosting

I've been doing a lot of research on the empire that Pat Flynn built. He discovered the potential for passive income after he realized a website he made to take notes for an architecture exam was getting a lot of traffic. He…

Copyblogger has launched a podcasting network on their Rainmaker platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 16, 2015

Rainmaker is a hosted website platform by Copyblogger, which I covered when it launched last year. It's a big growth area for Copyblogger -- who of course you should know owns the StudioPress brand -- and today they announced a…

It’s time to ditch download counts on WordPress.org and get real stats

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

Security

I'm grumpy today. Clickbait journalism annoys me, and WordPress security related clickbait journalism especially annoys me. Ars Technica, PC World, ZD Net, and TripWire are just a few sites that reported over a million WordPress sites were susceptible to being hacked…

Selling a lifestyle and getting personal

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2015

Business

I'm always intrigued by how companies market themselves, both to clients and potential employers. Envato has put a good bit of effort into their marketing videos, and they are definitely selling a lifestyle -- both to sellers and employees. They recently…

WP Rocket and commercial plugin value

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2015

About a week ago, WP Rocket published a post about how they believe transparency matters. I like it, and I get it. I think so too. It also doesn't hurt that it helped spark a conversation around transparency; it's a…

Matt Mullenweg talks to Tim Ferriss

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2015

Matt Mullenweg talked to Tim Ferriss on Tim's podcast for over two hours. It's got a lot of good information, and I listened to it all for you. Why should you care? Well, Tim Ferriss is a WordPress advocate, member…

Render gives a more intuitive UI to shortcodes

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

Render is a project by Real Big Marketing that attempts (and succeeds, I believe) to offer a more intuitive UI for handling shortcodes in the WordPress admin. The video to see how Render works is 7 minutes, but I think…

New journalism

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Bloggers and journalists are experimenting with new models of monetization and independent publishing. One of the pioneers of subscription-based independent blog-based journalism just called it quits, but we should still laud his pioneering effort, not call blogging dead (again).

WooCommerce is going after photography

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WooThemes announced a new product today, aimed at selling photography with WooCommerce. This is a good first step, and I'm excited to see an eCommerce product target the photography super-niche. That said, there is a ton of room in this market, and WordPress isn't really solving photographers' problems yet.

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2014

BusinessDesign

Pagely is celebrating their fifth year of business right now. They have just launched their newly designed website (note to early readers: it's in process of launching at this moment, so some links may not work until later today) to…

WordPress.com is very mobile centric with their first video ad

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2014

Business

WordPress.com has released what appears to be their first ever video ad, and it's quite mobile centric. The ad portrays a number of users using the WordPress mobile app to snap and blog pictures. It's only 16 seconds, and is…

Audit WP to become part of WP Site Care with acquihire of Rob Neu

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Audit WP had a short, but interesting life span. Started by Rob Neu and Jacob King, the site launched in February, and today it's been acquired by WP Site Care. They made an early splash after their launch when Jacob…

Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner

Brian Krogsgard

August 4, 2014

DesignPlanet

Welcome to the sixth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Unfortunately, I haven't posted since the last week in review. Trust…

The case for doing small website projects

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

Last week I posted about how much custom WordPress websites should cost. If you read that post, you know that it depends. Generally the feedback was fantastic, but many readers took from that post that they should raise their prices.…

Mega marketing of hosted website solutions

Gaming ThemeForest

A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

Copyblogger has launched a podcasting network on their Rainmaker platform

It’s time to ditch download counts on WordPress.org and get real stats

Selling a lifestyle and getting personal

WP Rocket and commercial plugin value

Matt Mullenweg talks to Tim Ferriss

Render gives a more intuitive UI to shortcodes

New journalism

WooCommerce is going after photography

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

WordPress.com is very mobile centric with their first video ad

Audit WP to become part of WP Site Care with acquihire of Rob Neu

Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner

The case for doing small website projects

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