Category: Marketing
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How to build an amazing product
Corey is no stranger to building product. In part one, we chatted about his legacy of products, and selling his WordPress plugin. Today, we’ll be back chatting about what goes into making great products. Important links Corey on Twitter Gelform Mexican Train Online Where will the WordPress middleclass go? Check out the NEW stuff from…
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Artificial Intelligence for WordPress
Hey listener, before we get started, if you’d like to support WordPress community member Andrey Savchenko or anyone else currently in the Ukraine, please donate here or here. (read his original tweet https://twitter.com/Rarst/status/1497516263597387782) I can comfortably admit that I didn’t see Artificial Intelligence as the next big thing for WordPress in 2022. The march to…
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The state of email marketing in 2022
If you found your way to this episode from my newsletter, thanks for taking part in one of the areas I lack most in: emailing my list. If you’re like me, stuck in a proverbial hamster wheel of self-doubt & content creation, today’s episode is for you. In fact, if it weren’t for today’s guests,…
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What freelancers should know about WordPress
The house that WordPress built…or will build. It can be challenging for new WordPress freelancers to get started in this industry. You have to find the right tools, the right customers, get paid and…actually build the websites! Is there a right path to take? Meet Terry Carter, Manager at Newfold Digital WordPress Live & Blue…
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Paying WordPress contributors
Welcome back to the Matt Report, where we continue our special 2-part series with Josepha Haden Chomposy. If you haven’t listened to the previous episode, I suggest you go back and learn what the WordPress Executive Director does on a day to to day basis. Today, we’ll be exploring some meatier topics that come up…
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Business of WordPress news w/ Rae Morey
WordPress news is hard. I mean, it’s hard to turn it into a real business. I get away with covering WordPress here on the Matt Report because our guests share lessons on how they built their business or spend time telling us how they navigated the community, until they found their way. But news? Well,…
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Sam Chason is reshaping the college moving experience
I typically open up my monologue with setting some tension or to attempt to provoke how a grand idea might come together in the upcoming audio. I don’t have that today. What I have is a young entrepreneur that impressed me with his story, branding, and how he’s approaching the business of…college movers. I know…
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Lemon Squeezy: Taking on ecommerce & WordPress
“Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in” a famous line from Godfather Part III and a recurring theme I’ve noticed for those of who have used WordPress for a while. No matter how much we might moan about the shortcomings of WordPress, it’s still pretty darn powerful. The core of WordPress…
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Building a theme business using Gatsby w/ Alexandra Spalato
Now that the WordPress acquisition market has cooled a bit, it’s time to stoke the fire on all things Gatsby and JAMStack-y-ness….again. Don’t let Full Site Editing steal all of the thunder, there’s still so much happening around headless WordPress and the ability to integrate 3rd party APIs to take the place of plugins. Look,…