Why exiting solopreneurship is the right move

Matt Medeiros continues Season 8 with the roundtable format asking the question is there change in the WordPress ecosystem? John Turner and Phil Derksen are the special guests that share what significant changes they have made in their careers and what they see in the WordPress ecosystem. Listen to this episode: John Turner joined Awesome…

December 13, 2018 Matt 1

Business, Freelancers, Interview

How WordPress business owners measure success in life and business

Matt Medeiros continues Season 8 with this interview discussing changes in the WordPress community. Liam Dempsey and Tara Claeys are running WordPress businesses, they are consultants and produce a Podcast together called Hallway Chats. Listen to this episode: Liam Dempsey runs a WordPress agency called lbdesign. He and Tara Claeys started the Podcast called Hallway…

December 4, 2018 Matt 0

Business, Clients, Freelancers, Interview

Finding opportunity while WordPress is changing

Matt Medeiros continues Season 8 with the third roundtable episode talking to Naomi Bush, Brad Williams, and Rebecca Gill. Matt discusses a recent podcast with Matt Mullenweg and Kara Swisher where he says that he is staying with WordPress for the rest of his life. WordPress powers 31% of the Internet and this panel discusses how…

November 12, 2018 Matt 0

Business, Clients, Freelancers, Interview

Course creators, product makers, and community builders — oh my!

Matt continues with Season 8 with the second roundtable episode talking to Jennifer Bourn, Davinder Singh Kainth and Chris Badgett. This panel represents the thought leaders in the WordPress community and they have been working in the WordPress space for a long time by adapting to the changes in WordPress that are impacting their businesses. They…

November 2, 2018 Matt 0

Blog, Business, Interview

What does it feel like to sell your decade-old business? Cory Miller explains.

In this episode, Matt Medeiros interviews Cory Miller from iThemes and jokes with him as being his most interviewed guest on the Matt Report. The big news for 2018 is that Cory’s business (IThemes) was recently purchased by Liquidweb. Matt and Cory talk about the climate around WordPress, how they are working for different hosting companies,…

February 14, 2018 Matt 0

Blog, WordPress

The blue-collar WordPress worker and the 2,500+ websites built to grow the CMS

I’m not foolish enough to think that the entirety of WordPress’ growth is driven by our love for the software, but that we consultants are responsible for a sizeable portion of it. A portion that shouldn’t be ignored and one that should be welcome to the discussion more often. Under-represented. Perhaps. You can listen to…

November 14, 2017 Matt 21

Blog

How to disable Jetpack upsell ads

We live in a world of monetized Jetpack. Gone are the days where commercialized plugins were looked at under a watchful microscope, and leadership at Automattic felt that charging for plugins was, well, plain wrong. Today we’re seeing Jetpack as the revenue bridge between .org and .com offerings — and a very big bridge at…

September 13, 2017 Matt 11