Category: Blog
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Cash Rules Everything Around Me
Are you running your business strictly for the money? Let me put it this way: If we’re building a business for financial freedom that affords us the opportunity to enjoy life — should we focus on the money? Why not, right? Money pays off the mortgage, which in turn allows us to spend more money…
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What’s next?
So it’s been one amazing year already and you’re asking, what’s next? You might remember a while back I asked for early stage WordPress startups to apply for my next project. Well phase 2 is underway and if you were one of the lucky applicants, you will be hearing from me in phase 3 🙂…
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You’re selling it wrong – Part 1
The #1 question I get when consulting other WordPress entrepreneurs is, “How do you sell WordPress websites and not label yourself a developer or designer?” The quick answer is, “because my role is to squash the the unknown fear for my client.” The longer answer is, I pitch support, incorporate technology, I base projects on…
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Matt Report 1 year later & the state of podcasting
Yesterday I published episode 52 of the Matt Report exactly 1 year to the date of the first episode. Honestly, I didn’t even realize it until recording another show I host, Week in WordPress. How time flies when you’re having fun. I want to take a moment to reflect on the past year, where I…
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Don’t just stand there with your hands out
The greatest reward from starting the Matt Report podcast are the new relationships I’ve made. I get e-mail’s like this all the time: “Are you getting qualified leads from the podcast?” “How is the conversion rate to your newsletter?” “What’s it like being a WordPress celebrity?” Humbled by the 3rd, but I reserve that for…
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Early stage WordPress startups apply here
There’s some changes in the works for The Matt Report podcast. I’ll have more announcements coming soon, but in the meantime I’d like to find a few good candidates. If you’re an early stage WordPress startup or entrepreneur, tell me more about what you’re up to. So, how do I define early stage? You have…
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Episode 48: The Godfather of Freelancing
If there were ever a mob or “Family” of WordPress freelancers, it’s a safe bet that Shane Pearlman would be head of the family. I had always known about Modern Tribe and their successful plugins, but I never knew much about their progressive take on the WordPress service business. Now that I’ve had the chance…
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Episode 47: What every freelancer needs to know
How long have you been freelancing? Long enough to think you’re the man? Brian Richards is one of the keenest entreprenerus that I’ve interviewed. The funny thing is, he never set out *expecting* to be one. See like most of us starting out in WordPress, we did some favors, got paid a little bit and…
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Episode 46: The benefits of failure
What goes up must come down or in our case, what went down came back up?! You be the judge in my latest interview with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains and WP Migrate Pro plugin. Before Brad was helping you migrate WordPress databases, he had visions of bringing an app store like experience to WordPress.…