Today I’m interviewing David Braun, the CEO & co-founder at TemplateMonster: one of the leading marketplaces in the WordPress products ecosystem. If you have ever considered starting a marketplace for WordPress themes and plugins, or you are just curious to learn about some of the challenges in running a successful marketplace business – I have […]
My Experience Submitting A Theme to ThemeForest – Challenges & Rejections
Building your own Multi-Purpose theme from scratch can be a very tough project to take on. Getting it approved on ThemeForest? That’s a whole other layer of challenges that you’ll need to tackle. In this guest post, I’m going to share my entire experience of submitting a theme to ThemeForest’s marketplace. In February 2017 I
The Freemium Business Model In The WordPress Ecosystem [+Video] – A Tool For Increasing Sales?
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Can the freemium business model benefit your commercial product in the WordPress ecosystem, i.e. help you sell more premium licenses? This article looks into the 3 most popular business models in the open-source ecosystem and specifically breaks down the arguments for and against the freemium business model in WordPress. Let’s try to understand if freemium […]
Should You Sell A Premium WordPress Theme Or A Free WordPress Theme With Paid Add-ons?
In this post, I am going to share the benefits and drawbacks I considered, and the lessons I have learned in my journey of selling a free theme with paid add-ons, instead of selling a premium theme. When I started out a year ago in the highly competitive WordPress theme business, I was contemplating on how […]
10 WordPress Themes for Entrepreneurs: New and Popular
So, my task was to choose clean WordPress templates (free and premium, new and popular) for entrepreneurs. The biggest challenge of this task is that the variety of entrepreneurship areas is so diverse, so it’s hard to choose universal designs to meet the needs of every entrepreneur. That’s why I decided that it’s better to […]