All businesses start with a specific goal in mind. For most, it’s profit. Even at not-for-profit organizations – or when the main driver of a business is a personal goal, like being able to work in a more flexible way or spending more time with family – income is almost always required for sustainability. Entrepreneurship […]
Challenges In Growing A WordPress Plugin Business Without Growing A Team
My name is Milan, and I am the owner of Dev4Press, a company dedicated to WordPress and bbPress plugins development. Dev4Press was created in 2009 as a side project, and a lot has changed since then, except for one thing: it is still a team of one. In this guest post, I want to share
The Complete US-based Tax Cheat Sheet for WordPress Plugin and Theme Developers
There’s an old saying “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. While the former can be put off with exercise and a healthy diet, the latter can’t be avoided quite as easily. The United States has a number of tax laws on the Federal, State, and Local levels […]
How Two Insect-loving Entrepreneurs Built a Business on Bugs
Neil Whippey and Shami Radia, the founders of Eat Grub, are on a mission to “change the way the West eats”. With their successful eCommerce business, this London-based duo is promoting insects as a sustainable and nutritious source of food – one delicious snack at a time. Hatching a Plan A few years ago, Shami […]
How Barn2media More Than Tripled Their WordPress Plugins Sales Without Spending More Time On Support
Katie Keith and her husband Andy co-founded Barn2Media in late 2009. Initially dedicated to designing WordPress websites for clients, they envisioned building their business around selling products since early on. After a few failed attempts, in 2016, they managed to successfully shift their focus over to developing premium WordPress plugins. Their plugin business has been doing […]
How to Set Up a Coming Soon Page for WooCommerce
So you’ve made the decision to launch a new store using WooCommerce. The first few things you’ll do are choose a hosting solution and order your new domain name, then you can get started on setting everything up, and getting ready for launch. But wait! What if someone visits your site while you’re working on […]
10 Ways to Make Your Next WooCommerce Sale
Every new shop builder has the same goal: to make money from their eCommerce site. However, the first few transactions can sometimes be the most difficult to make since these are the sales that put your strategy, your store, and your patience to the test. Luckily, the early days of any business offer the perfect […]
“WordPress Security Solutions Are Still Inaccessible” – Interviewing French “Mister Security”, Julio Potier
Voiced by Amazon Polly Julio Potier is a prominent figure in the WordPress security scene. Based in France, he developed SecuPress, a plugin that makes securing WordPress websites easy. He also co-founded WP Media, the company behind popular Plugins such as WP Rocket and Imagify. Julio, thank you for agreeing to do this
After Shifting from Development, Primož Cigler Is The Perfect Technical Marketer for A WordPress Products Business
I’m finally getting to interview one of my favorite figures in the WordPress community. He’s a dev & CEO at ProteusThemes and also one of the friendliest people I got to meet, so before he becomes completely unreachable – here are my WordPress product and business-oriented questions for Mr. Primož Cigler: Primož, thanks for agreeing […]
One WordPress Plugin Developer with A Laptop – The Success Story of Joachim Jensen with Content Aware Sidebars
Today we’re going to be focusing on a serial WordPress plugins developer, most known for building the very useful “Content Aware Sidebars”, Mr. Joachim Jensen. Joachim is a full-stack software engineer and advisor from Denmark and the founder of Intox Studio. He partnered with Freemius to successfully monetize his plugins and this is his success […]