Category: Interview
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Episode 54: Brian Gardner of Copyblogger founder of StudioPress
Well, it’s finally happened. I interviewed Brian Gardner. If you don’t know who Brian is, where the heck have you been? He’s the first WordPress entrepreneur to pioneer the premium theme business as we know it today. He started StudioPress over six years ago as a passion project and soon became the de facto site to…
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Episode 53: Josh Strebel of Page.ly, PressNomics and Matt Report Pro
Just getting back from PressNomics and flipping through my Rolodex of awesome new connections. Oh and catching up from jet lag — sorry Rebecca. 🙂 If you’re interested in attending PressNomics or learning what it’s all about, check out my review here. Loads of good comments there too. So what’s up in episode 53? I…
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Episode 52: A startup, some themes, a bit of freelancing and a full-time job
You’re an entrepreneur still trading time for dollars — how do you get out of that? You launch a new WordPress website for a client and everyone is excited to go live — but wait, they wanted you to upload their 1,000 pages of content. It wasn’t your responsibility. Months later you realize you’ve been…
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Episode 51: A true WordPress entrepreneur
I can’t believe it took 51 episodes to get the guy who puts the hustle in being a WordPress entrepreneur. Meet Syed Balkhi the man behind WPBeginner.com, one of the world’s largest free WordPress resources. How does he manage this publication, monetize and build a team around it? He’s also spearheading a new SaaS app built on…
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Episode 50: Systemizing your way to more revenue
A while back I said Shane Pearlman is the Godfather of Freelancing. If that’s true, than Bill Erickson is a made man. I’ve been a fan of Bill since I stepped on to the scene of WordPress some time ago. From a distance, he has a really lean and mean service product. “Your WordPress website…
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Episode 49: 2.2 million downloads w/ $35k monthly theme sales
Roughly 2.2 million total free downloads across 9 themes and monthly revenue upwards of $35k a month. Meet Trent Lapinski, CEO of CyberChimps themes. I invited Trent on to the show to tell us all about what it’s like to earn a living selling premium themes and supporting such a large install base. Aside from…
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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.…