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Timothy Jacobs, of Iron Bound Designs,…

October 14, 2015

Timothy Jacobs, of Iron Bound Designs, has created a third party iThemes Exchange plugin to enable group membership buying, and calls it Umbrella Memberships. This is a great, great feature (that I'm confident is coming to WooCommerce), but if you're…

Weekend edition

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2015

Hosting

Friday was a bit slow so I figured I'd wait for a weekend edition. We're going to pack it all into one Note. Jetpack had two vulnerabilities: one in the contact form (technically explained by Sucuri) and one limited to…

Someone asked for folks’ opinions on…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Someone asked for folks' opinions on Post Status membership on WP Chat, and after a number of you commented (you rock) I couldn't help myself and said some things that y'all might be interested in. But mostly, I heart you.

Paid Memberships Pro unveils business model from 2012 to now

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2015

Business

Paid Memberships Pro has a somewhat unique monetization method for their plugin. They largely monetize by selling support and custom work, versus selling any kind of extension or functionality. All Paid Memberships Pro features are free. A few years ago,…

WooCommerce Memberships released

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

The WooCommerce Memberships extension has been released, and was developed by the team at SkyVerge. Memberships have historically not been very easy with WooCommerce, and this will undoubtedly be a popular extension. I'm using Memberships on Post Status already to manage…

A straightforward guide to create an online course

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Paul Jarvis has written an excellent and thorough post about how he built an online course that has generated well over $100,000 in revenue in the last year. He walks through using WordPress, Memberful, and Mailchimp to build a membership…

A six figure side project

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

Tommy Griffith has a pretty thorough case study for how he created ClickMinded as a WordPress-based course / membership website, which in 2014 crossed into six figure revenue as a side project. It's worth reading in general, but I really…

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…

“Friends of Pods” is a program to help keep Pods active and free

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2015

Scott Kingsley Clark announced a program today called Friends of Pods. It's a donation system (one time and recurring) that aims to raise support to keep Pods active and free. They already have a partnership for funding with Automattic, but…

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2015

BusinessDraft

This interview is with Jonathan Williamson, co-founder of CGCookie. He’s going to talk to us about running a real world membership website on WordPress. Jonathan is Pippin Williamson's twin brother, and he has years of experience running membership websites. There is much that we can learn from him.

Interviews to read / listen to / watch this week

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2015

I want to take a moment to link up a few interviews you might be interested in this week. AMA with Tom McFarlin In the second WP Chat Ask Me Anything, Tom McFarlin takes the stage. Tom is a great…

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).

I ripped off PressNomics

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2015

Business

Fresh and rested after PressNomics, today I'm reflecting on the WordPress business event that's made such a name for itself. After finally making it myself, on its third iteration, I can tell you that I now know what all the fuss is about. Here are just a few of my takeaways.

Let’s Grow: Introducing the Post Status Membership Club

Brian Krogsgard

January 21, 2015

BusinessDesign

Today marks two years since I launched Post Status. It's been an incredible two years. Today, I'm thrilled to announce that the Post Status Membership Club is open.

A new look and a new domain

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

BusinessDesign

The new Post Status design is an alpha, but I wanted to show readers as soon as I could. Also, the site has a new domain and utilizes HTTPS everywhere. A lot has gone into it so far, and there is much left to do.

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Postmatic is a new WordPress plugin that I think is quite promising. It's aim is to eventually change the way you utilize WordPress email in many ways, but its comment functionality is what intrigued me immediately. Postmatic currently allows users…

Timothy Jacobs, of Iron Bound Designs,…

Weekend edition

Someone asked for folks’ opinions on…

Paid Memberships Pro unveils business model from 2012 to now

WooCommerce Memberships released

A straightforward guide to create an online course

A six figure side project

A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

“Friends of Pods” is a program to help keep Pods active and free

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

Interviews to read / listen to / watch this week

New journalism

I ripped off PressNomics

Let’s Grow: Introducing the Post Status Membership Club

A new look and a new domain

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

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