Category: Startups
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Reverse Engineer Part 2: Interviewing my target
Last week I showed you how I reverse engineer my competition in 10 minutes. Today, Nathan Wright of Theme of The Crop joins the Matt Report podcast to tell us how accurate my findings were. We’ll also explore what he’s doing to improve on the weak points I had identified in this analysis of his…
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Andrew Youderian of the eCommerceFuel podcast
I don’t recall exactly how I stumbled across Andrew’s podcast, eCommerceFuel, but when I did I was hooked. Here’s an entrepreneur talking strictly about the e-commerce market, with a strong focus on physical goods. Normally in our space, we’re hearing all about the ins and outs of digital product sales, so it was refreshing to…
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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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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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Do we need another WordPress conference?
How Josh Broton (along with co-founder Kiko Doran) came up with the the idea for Prestige Conference might suprise you. After speaking 20 conferences over the last year, Josh noticed a trend. He was bad at selecting good sessions at conferences, especially inexpensive, multi- track tech conferences. To solve that problem, the idea for Prestige…
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How he turned blogging into his business
Imagine you are working with new client and during your discovery meeting the business owner tells you they want to work with you to fix up their website, especially the area for to be used for blog posts. The business owner shares their commitment to writing weekly content to increase awareness about their new product…
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Interview with Shawn DeWolfe: Share Cluster plugin
Shawn DeWolfe, co-founder of ThoseDeWolfes Creative, reaches his hand into both the WordPress and Drupal “cookie jars” depending on the nature of the project he’s working on. With WordPress, you get the illusion that you can do something complex real fast. In early July 2014, Shawn released his product Share Cluster plugin into the WordPress…
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Go slowly as fast as you can
Ben Fox co-founder of FlowPress, WPUniversity.com and Sidekick.pro shares smart ideas about pricing, building a team and having a greater vision for his new product offering. Embrace and address the challenge of pricing your new product by talking directly to your prospective customers to fine tune your offering to the needs of your different customer…