Category: Interview

  • How to increase creative agency profits

    How to increase creative agency profits

    Today’s guest is my good friend Lisa Sabin-Wilson. She shares her blueprint for increasing profits and client buy-in at WebDevStudios. This is a “lost” episode from a pre-recorded Season 6 of the Matt Report that I was producing during the summer of 2017. Lots of great lessons here for anyone running a 1 or 40…

  • Peer into the future of Simplenote w/ Dan Roundhill

    Peer into the future of Simplenote w/ Dan Roundhill

    In this episode, Matt Mederios is winding down the December holiday season with this interview with Dan Roundhill. Dan is a mobile engineer for Automattic and is the project lead on Simplenote a note-taking product which Matt uses and highly recommends. Automattic acquired Simperium and Simplenote in 2013. Dan shares the ins and outs of Simplenote and discusses upcoming…

  • How Tom McFarlin manages a product & services business

    How Tom McFarlin manages a product & services business

    In this episode, Matt Medeiros continues the impromptu Season 6 with his interview with Tom McFarlin. Tom is a developer and business owner in the WordPress community but is not solely dependent on WordPress. He balances his consulting and development business along with teaching and blogging with a focus on  Object Oriented Programming (OOP) encouraging…

  • Stop chasing products w/ Peter Kang

    Stop chasing products w/ Peter Kang

    In this episode, Matt Mederios interviews Peter Kang, the partner, and co-founder of Barrel. The Barrel agency has been in business in NYC for about 10 years and works on a diverse range of projects, from helping startups get their businesses up and running to implementing large-scale digital solutions for corporate clients.

  • Creating information products w/ David Hayes of WPShout

    Creating information products w/ David Hayes of WPShout

    Matt Medeiros is continuing with Season 6 by interviewing guests as he connects with them in the community. In this episode, Matt interviews David Hayes from WPShout, a premier source for WordPress learning. David along with his partner Fred Meyer also run an agency called PressUp. It is a boutique web consultancy that partners with businesses to…

  • What consultants need to know before they open for business with Nathan Allotey

    What consultants need to know before they open for business with Nathan Allotey

    In this episode, Matt Medeiros interviews Nathan Allotey, a digital marketing strategist, web designer and freelancer who has the experience building websites for customers that are not necessarily dependent on WordPress.  He and Matt discuss how the project drives the framework for website creation.

  • Alex Denning & Ben Gillbanks of the MasterWP WordPress newsletter

    Alex Denning & Ben Gillbanks of the MasterWP WordPress newsletter

    In this episode, Matt Medeiros interviews Alex Denning and Ben Gillbanks who have started the newsletter MasterWP.    MasterWP weekly is the newsletter for WordPress professionals. Each week you can get a collection of apps, tools, and links that will make life better and provoke thought.  The newsletter provides a good mix of web standards…

  • How to build an online community with Troy Dean

    How to build an online community with Troy Dean

    In this episode, Matt Medeiros interviews Troy Dean, the founder of WP Elevation and RockStar Empires. They touch on teaching entrepreneurs how to productize their businesses. Matt and Troy discuss the differences of WPElevation and RockStar Empires and the challenges of balancing two businesses.  They wrap up the conversation with a discussion of where WordPress…

  • S5B: E12: Brian Casel on building Ops Calendar

    S5B: E12: Brian Casel on building Ops Calendar

    On today’s episode Corey and Sam interview Brian Casel about his passion for productized services and how you can launch a SaaS product quickly.  They discuss  Brian’s newest product, Ops Calendar and how that naturally evolved from Audience Ops.