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Envato is getting into hosting WordPress websites with Pressed partnership

Brian Krogsgard

December 22, 2015

Envato has been testing a pitch for hosting since December 1st, and plans to roll it out on a broader scale in the new year. Two theme shops are running the hosting pitch now, Qode and Select-Themes. Buyers can see…

NextGEN maker getting into hosted solutions with Imagely

Brian Krogsgard

December 11, 2015

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

Brian Krogsgard

October 12, 2015

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

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2015

Business

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

Brian Krogsgard

May 22, 2015

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…

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BusinessHosting

OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.

Forking done right

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2015

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

Brian Krogsgard

March 19, 2015

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…

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.

WordPress talent shortage versus WordPress pricing

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2015

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

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2015

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

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

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

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2015

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?

Beka Rice

October 6, 2014

HostingPlanet

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

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2014

DesignPost Status Team Blog

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…

iThemes to partner with Crowd Favorite to take their products to the enterprise

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Today, iThemes and Crowd Favorite are announcing a partnership where they will collaborate to take iThemes products to a more enterprise-level market. Practically, this means that Crowd Favorite will contribute developers and other resources to help iThemes better structure and…

Envato is getting into hosting WordPress websites with Pressed partnership

NextGEN maker getting into hosted solutions with Imagely

WooThemes introduces pay-for-play WooExperts program

The commercial theme tides

Entrepreneurial gaps and value pricing

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Forking done right

Segmentation and pricing

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

WordPress talent shortage versus WordPress pricing

Taking value-based pricing too far

The 99% of WordPress

Complexity in web development

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

The future of Post Status

iThemes to partner with Crowd Favorite to take their products to the enterprise

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