Category: Interview
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Chris Lema on pricing, product, and perserverance
A top-to-bottom discussion with Chris Lema about pricing products, servicing customers, and persevering through the business world.
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Brad Williams on running WebDevStudios and Pluginize products
Brad Williams joins us to talk about Pluginize a new premium product offering from his company, WebDevStudios. We’ll learn how he grew his company to service brands like Microsoft and Discovery, while uncovering the new challenges ahead for the product space.
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How to start a WordPress theme business w/ Mike McAlister
With so many WordPress themes available on the market, it might sound crazy to even try and start a business selling your own. There are super-huge, multi-purpose themes selling $100k worth a week with option panels the size of their revenue charts, others with big passionate communities supporting them, and countless other shops just as…
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Kronda Adair on the business of websites
When I wrote the blog post about WordPress *not* being easy for small business owners, Kronda reached out and said we should connect. I thought her material would be perfect for the show, and boy was I right. Kronda takes us down the path of servicing small business website needs and what it really takes…
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Pioneer of creative accounting, Jason Blumer
Creative accounting. Have you heard that phrase used before? I certainly didn’t until I met today’s guest, Jason Blumer. Jason runs a virtual accounting practice specifically designed for creative agencies and development firms. I love this business idea because it focuses on a specific vertical, with a specific customer type, translating to a better level…
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How to start a WordCamp
Are you part of a local WordPress meetup and you’re interested in growing that into an annual WordCamp? Or maybe you’re generally interested in what goes on behind the scenes for our heroic organizers? If so, I’ve brought on David Bisset and Ptah Dunbar, part of the organizing team for WordCamp Miami 2016 to chat about their experiences…
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WordPress business website teardowns
What is a website teardown? A common practice in which someone evaluates a website “line-by-line” and provides feedback to the website owner within a given context. For instance, in today’s episode, Devin and I teardown four unique commercial WordPress plugin websites submitted by listeners. We’re looking through the lens as if we were landing on…
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11 Ways to support your WordPress theme or plugin
With so many tools and communication channels available to us, choosing how you support your WordPress product can be a real head-scratcher. Luckily, in today’s episode, Devin and I are here to explain the best methods we’ve found that work in our respective businesses. If you’ve been in the WordPress product business for a while now,…
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S2 E7: Are WordPress themes a viable business?
Can authors still make money selling WordPress themes? In today’s episode, Jonathan Atkinson an Envato Exclusive Author, joins Devin and I to discuss the current state of affairs in the WordPress theme marketplace. Atkinson shares some deep insights into Envato’s recent corporate restructuring, impact of multipurpose themes, and progressive competition in the space.