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Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Rob Walling has been building online businesses for years. His latest venture, Drip, an e-mail marketing automation SaaS, has been the standout win within his portfolio of seemingly smaller projects. That’s not to say Rob’s other companies weren’t special, or less profitable, or even less fun to work on for the serial entrepreneur. G...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe For me, and hopefully for you, this episode opens you up to two areas of WordPress interest: Learn what it’s like to be the Lead Engineer at The Wirecutter. Hear all the fancy things they do with WordPress. Learn what the REST API is, what it can do, and kinda-sorta grasp why we don’t have it yet. Let me get this out of the way first...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe What’s the secret to freelancing success? Deliver. Good. Shit. Let’s be honest, Megan Gray’s work deserves more than that paltry summary, but there many freelancers who forget the foundation of a sustainable business. They often get lost in how to create bigger profits, rather than putting out respectable work. Some time has passed s...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe What does being a freelancer mean to you? In today’s episode, I’m joined by Paul Jarvis, or as I like to call him — the epitome of a freelancer. That is, if you define a freelancer to be one not only engaging in work for hire, but also creates product, has recurring revenue services, and staking claims in the hot software as a servic...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Marketing sucks for (most) WordPress developers. Two major issues being there’s not enough time to do it, and there’s a certain stigma that it becomes to  sales-y.   Throughout my travels, I’ve noticed a lot developers that have successful products — still — are afraid to really build up the marketing arm of their business. Even when...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Today I’m joined by my enemy, I mean friend — frenemy? — Brian Krogsgard. All joking aside, I have an enormous amount of respect for what Brian has created over at Poststatus and for his outlook on the WordPress space.  If you don’t know who Brain is, he’s the publisher behind Poststatus. Poststatus is a mix of WordPress and industry...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe WPLift, a popular WordPress blog/review site, was recently acquired for $205k USD through a sale on Flippa. It’s one of the few WordPress blog sites that was able to “stick around” and survive the noise of this crowded publishing market. One reason being Oli, the creator of WPLift, put in the effort and dedication to publishing conte...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Can you believe it’s been nearly three years since I last talked to Chris Lema? Just like last week’s guest, Brad Williams , many years have gone by since we last checked-in and there’s a lot to talk about. Chris is well-known in the WordPress space for providing tremendous insight for us product and service owners. He recently exite...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Nearly three years ago, I sat down with Brad Williams, CEO of WebDevStudios, to talk about his journey in the WordPress business world. A lot has changed since our last discussion , and today he’s here to review where his business has grown and the lessons he’s been able to learn. Season 3 Episode 2 – Brad Williams On larger WordPres...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe 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 jus...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe I’ve been in the business of serving web clients for well over a decade, and I can say with resounding confidence: it’s not getting any easier. Digital service businesses are not exempt from the same challenges that traditional businesses face. There’s always a need to find more customers , the market is increasingly competitive, all...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe 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, transl...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe WordPress has allowed me to kickstart and foster my own career in the digital age and I’m betting it has for you too. That’s the beauty of such a highly-adopted open source web publishing platform, there’s always a layer of service or support that the market needs. Sure it’s free, but we all know what that really means. Over the year...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe 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 experi...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe 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 we...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe 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...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe 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 prog...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Rachel Carden is a web developer & designer within the student affairs division at the University of Alabama. Carden is also the driving force behind the latest WordPress conference, WPCampus. In today’s episode, we discuss the different challenges of managing web projects at large universities and the challenges that come with s...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe I’ve only geeked out a few times when booking someone on the show – this was one of them. I was excited for the opportunity to sit down and dive deep into learning how Justin approaches his work-life balance, because with, Marketing for Developers , and countless other products for sale, he also holds down a day job. Crazy, right? On...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Who knew that getting married and going on honeymoon would take up so much time? Devin and I are back to recap where we’ve been and what we’ve accomplished over the last month. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned? Business and  life are going to constantly challenge you — sometimes at the same time. Give yourself some breathing r...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe I turned to Facebook ads this week in my quest to grow the Julep beta list to 100 subscribers. If you’ve been following along, I’m actively developing a new plugin that will make your WordPress images a little more fun for readers. The plugin hit a bit of a snag these last 2 weeks, with a critical bug that is stopping me from shippin...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe This isn’t your typical how-to select a WordPress theme tutorial. Instead of comparing and contrasting features, we’re comparing and contrasting the expectations of a theme buyer and a theme seller. This article should serve as a guide for buyers to understand where they should invest their money and for sellers to ease the pain poin...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe We’re back with Season 2 Episode 2 documenting the launch of my latest product, Julep . This week I’ve invited returning guest, Troy Dean of WP Elevation , to talk about the fears of launching a product. We also get into providing some advice for growing your e-mail list for a product launch. Sit back, take a sip of your favorite sum...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe Launching a product isn’t easy. I announced a new plugin called, Julep , which is going to help make your WordPress images more fun and engaging. Unlike my other digital products, Julep was born from a nagging frustration I have with manipulating my own blog post images. No market research, no client pain ponts — just my own. I’m sic...

Follow my WordPress newsletter https://thewpminute.com/subscribe “I created a WordPress plugin and sold $4k of licenses in the 1st hour of launch.” We’ve heard it all before and you probably tuned into this very podcast to learn how someone went from eating ramen noodles, to living on the 4-hour work week island. As entrepreneurs, we’re not just looking for a big payday, but also to see our produc...