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NextGEN maker getting into hosted solutions with Imagely

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Brian Krogsgard

At WordCamp US, I spoke with Scott Wyden Kivowitz -- the Community Wrangler for Imagely, the company behind NextGEN gallery -- about their plans to created a hosted web service for photographers. https://soundcloud.com/brian-krogsgard/scott-wyden-kivowitz-from-imagely/s-8EfHy Listen on SoundCloud Imagely is the new…

WooThemes introduces pay-for-play WooExperts program

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Brian Krogsgard

WooThemes has introduced a pay-for-play style consulting program for WooCommerce, in a similar vein to the WordPress.com VIP model. The WooExperts program has three levels: Gold: $7,500 / year Silver: $3,500 / year Standard: $1,000 / year If indeed the…

The commercial theme tides

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Brian Krogsgard
Commercial WordPress theme sales is a known business today. Folks have been selling themes since 2007 and many sellers experienced some very good years. The market commoditized itself quite significantly, and it's harder and harder each year to stand out. Of…

Entrepreneurial gaps and value pricing

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Brian Krogsgard

A post has been making the rounds, by Ellen Chisa, on the things taught at Harvard Business School that were particularly helpful. Ellen highlights a lot of things, but two stood out to me. 1) The entrepreneurial gap We also…

Forking done right

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Brian Krogsgard

I've been thinking more today about forking pre-existing code for new projects, and how Pippin Williamson was happy to see the Give team fork Easy Digital Downloads. At first, it may seem difficult to feel happy about your work being…

Segmentation and pricing

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Brian Krogsgard

Chris Lema has written a really great series of posts -- I'll call it a trilogy -- on segmentation and pricing. It all came together today where he uses Gravity Forms as an example product and segments their user base…

WordPress talent shortage versus WordPress pricing

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Brian Krogsgard

Andy Adams (a Post Status Patron!) has written a great post, where he discusses the perceived WordPress talent shortage that exists today, as well as the perception of WordPress developer skills by potential clients. Andy is a Rails developer and a…

Taking value-based pricing too far

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Brian Krogsgard

Jonathan Christopher writes about taking value-based pricing too far. He addresses the popularity of value-based pricing, as well as its tendency to be defined many ways. But he ends up focusing largely about some of the common pitfalls of not talking money…

The 99% of WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard

Mario Peshev knows a lot about the long tail of the WordPress "community". He notes that they really aren't part of a community at all. Highlighting the thousands upon thousands that offer WordPress services on freelance websites like oDesk, he…

Complexity in web development

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Brian Krogsgard

Fred Meyer has a nice post up that outlines the various complexities we face in web development. His purpose is to explain, as best as he can, just why it's so hard to estimate pricing for websites. He kindly references…

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

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Beka Rice
I'm going to take a leaf out of Chris Lema's book right now to answer whether WordPress should be used for eCommerce: It depends. There are camps of thought that think WordPress isn't right for eCommerce, and there are people…

The future of Post Status

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm tired. Really, really tired. I've been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it's been slow around here. I've only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that's three…
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