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The Precursor to Greatness
It’s that time of year again where everyone is setting out to achieve some new goal. Be it health and fitness or reorganizing their business aspirations. Noise will fill the twittersphere of blogging challenges (we’re doing in the Pro membership) and personal fitbits will be alerting us of our friend’s step count. But here’s what I’m worried about, to…
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People you should follow in 2015
Anyone that inspires you. Anyone that does great work. Anyone that is starting from the bottom. Anyone that is generous with their knowledge. Anyone that teaches you a lesson, everyday. Anyone that makes you laugh. Anyone that makes you cry. Anyone that helps others become better at what they do. Someone like you. Someone like…
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Clint Warren: How WordPress Saved His Career
Update: It’s with heavy-heart that I mention Clint’s passing. He will be missed. Think about why you ventured into client services. Did you quit your cushy day job for extravagant visions of the 4 Hour Work Week? Perhaps you are purposely driven to help others accomplish their goals through consulting and technology. Whatever might be at…
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Turn your consulting service into a product
I invited my good friend, Brian Casel, to return to our airwaves and teach us a new lesson — productizing. Brian, like most of us, started as a “web designer” then made the shift to product via Restaurant Engine. This is not — let me repeat — not an easy task. If you’ve been following me…
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Leadin plugin: Finding growth within Hubspot
Leadin is a project that was conceived and continues to be nurtured at the Hubspot headquarters. While there is a plugin to integrate WordPress with the Hubspot system plugin, Leadin was expressly created to use as a standalone WordPress marketing automation plugin for small businesses. The creators, Nelson Joyce and Andy Cook, were given little…
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Growing a $40k+ monthly recurring WordPress support business
This is not the first time Dan Norris has been featured on Matt Report. In November 2013 Dan applied and was accepted as one of the 4 business contestants featured in the first Matt Report WordPress Startup challenge. In this interview Dan gives a glimpse into the progression at WPCurve and his other active projects.…
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Explosive Business Growth with Zoe Rooney
Zoe Rooney’s business niche has evolved into being known as the designer’s developer. Shaping a narrower focus has helped Zoe’s business grow in a sustainable way and has allowed her to work on the problem solving part of website projects she really enjoys. Zoe’s primary specialty is websites for eCommerce product sales. While most of…
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How Blogo secured funding for a WordPress publishing app
Several years ago Amure Pinho started as a Blogo user and now is the CEO @GetBlogo. Amure shares his experience with growing Blogo and provides insights for you to include as you fine tune your product offering. Invest in yourself before going after investors for your product. Get a good team together and produce a…
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How to make it in WordPress
If you’ve been following me for a while, you might catch an undertone of hustle and hard work are at the core of my message. It might be because I started working at the family business during the 5th grade or that launching a product any business aint easy. I do what works for me and…